...Exercise or Diet Pills? There is a battle going on in America that does not seem to be going away; obesity. In a time where society is shouting out “looks are everything!” this problem, you would think, would cease to exist; yet it does. There are countless ways to lose weight, but the following approaches are at the top of the list: exercising or absorbing diet pills. Exercising and eating healthy are the best ways to lose weight, although, some people take the easy way and consume pills. Diet pills are attractive. Who wouldn’t want to put any effort in exercising and lose weight as if you did? In a day in age where almost everything is available at the snap of a finger, or the click of a mouse, instant results are highly desired. What about being fit inside and out? Diet pills may make you look magnificent on the outside, but what about feeling remarkable on the inside? Which approach is most beneficial in the long run? For the most part, everyone wants to be healthy, but at what cost? Here is an overview to help you decide. It is fair to say that everyone knows in order to be successful in everyday life; you need to participate in some kind of physical routine. Walking to your car, house, or job is a physical activity. Although, it may not be enough to maintain a healthy physique, it is putting your body in motion. The greatest reason to exercise, and we all know this, is to have overall health development. The benefits of exercising are unlimited, but there are some...
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...Healthy Lifestyle vs Fad Diets Lynda Schreiber Com/170 June 2, 2014 Linda Boyer Healthy lifestyle vs fad diets Introduction I. Calorie Count A. Healthy Calorie Count. 1. Body calorie needs to function B. Unhealthy Calorie Count 1. Effects of low calories on the body II. Exercise A. Exercise with diet 1. Effects on weight B. No exercise with diet aids 1. Effects on maintaining weight loss III. Diet Aids vs. Healthy Choices A. Hormone/ Chemical based Aids B. Healthy Lifestyle What is the best way to lose weight and is there such a thing as a miracle diet? I have asked myself this question many times over the past sixteen years. All though school I was considered the skinny girl then when I started gaining weight it just kept coming. Diet fads are all the rage, and I have tried most of them that are on the market with some results but they never stay. So I started asking myself what is the best way to lose weight and keep it off. I had to come to the realization that there is no overnight miracle and it all takes hard work. In order to achieve a goal weight and maintain weight, miracle diets are less effective than making healthy lifestyle changes. The first thing I have learned along my weight loss search is that calories are an important factor. All diets are based on a calorie count but what is the correct calories a body needs. The calories the body consumes in a day is different for each person. To figure out how many calories a body needs to function...
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...Fad Diets: Positive or Negative? Keith Daugherty DeVry University Fad Diets: Positive or Negative? Chad, a middle aged man, goes to work every day of the week to provide for his wife and three children. He wants nothing more than to live a full and healthy life and to always be there for his family, just like his father was there for him and his mom, growing up. Chad attended his annual check-up with the family care provider that he has seen for many years. He has always felt fine and thought he was as healthy as can be. While Chad was with his family care provider, he was told that his cholesterol levels were high, that he has high blood pressure, and that he has an increased chance of experiencing a myocardial infarction, also known as a heart attack. His family care provider decided that Chad needed to lose some weight and start eating healthier in order to lower his blood pressure, lower his cholesterol levels, and decrease his chance of suffering a myocardial infarction. Chad agreed to make his doctor’s recommended lifestyle changes because he wanted to be there for his family no matter what the cost. After leaving his family care provider’s office and speaking with this wife about the bad news, he realized that he did not have a plan of action as to how he was going to lose the extra weight that was the source of his health problems. He didn’t know many things about eating healthier or maintaining a healthy lifestyle so he was unsure of where to begin. Later that...
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...Diet and Exercise vs. Weight loss surgery Stacy Butler Com/155 May 19, 2013 Tiziana Omta Diet and Exercise vs. Weight loss surgery America has become known for having the largest population of obese people. Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States today, however, weight gain is common as people get older and have less time to prepare healthy meals, and exercise on a regular basis. The smallest changes can make the biggest impact when losing weight. Choosing which option that will be most effective for an individual can be hard. Diet and exercise is a way for many people to lose weight, however, others many have to resort to weight loss surgery. Weight loss by dieting and exercise is the method most people use to lose weight. Limiting calorie intake and changing eating habits will help accomplish weight loss goals. When considering healthy eating, fruits and vegetables is a good start to getting proper nutrition and healthy eating habits. In addition, having a structured fitness plan is one way of keeping oneself active, which is a large part of the weight loss process. In order to accomplish weight loss, it may be necessary to consult a personal trainer to meet your weight loss goals. Nevertheless, it is recommended to exercise at least three times a week for twenty minutes at a time. Weight loss and a proper diet and exercise program will improve a person’s health, and energy level. This will enable more physical activity, which that...
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...Diet/Exercise vs. Diet Pills Krystal Chancey There are many ways concerning losing weight nowadays with so many new things out on the market. With no right or wrong way of doing this you have to find one that works with your daily routine and lifestyle, whether it is on Weight Watcher, Jenny Craig, diet pills, surgeries, or with diet and exercise or any other one of the methods out there. Instead of using diet pills that only work when a person is taking them, the healthiest and safest way to lose weight is with diet and exercise. The most important thing is how these things can make life healthier for anyone who wants to lose weight. When trying to lose weight on diet plans and pills can be very pricey when there are other people around to help you. One main thing when concerning these two is the cost of them. Diet and exercise is something anyone can do that is less costly than if you were to purchase diet pills every month. You can change your diet and find healthier food for you to eat instead of sugar and carbohydrates which aren’t good for you. Also starting a daily exercise routine that doesn’t cost a thing if you are doing it at home will make your mind and body feel and act so much better. When concerning diet pills they can be very costly without knowing if they’re going to work or not. It can end up costing you an arm and a leg buying diet pills every month. Spending all of this money on something...
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...upbringings are variables that are considered to gain a basic understanding of the community framework. The purpose of this paper is to discuss three nursing diagnoses related to AL and his family living in a suburban community in Staten Island, New York. Interventions and outcomes will be expected for each diagnosis and will be integrated into the care plan and educational program specially designed for the chosen family. Family Assessment AL is a 65 year old man with an Italian ethnic background. He is a smoker who has been recently diagnosed with Type II Diabetes Mellitus, mild obesity, and a history of coronary artery disease with one stent last year. His physician stated he is borderline diabetic that could be managed through diet and lifestyle modifications, and could not advance if he is compliant with suggested regimens. He lives in a two-family residence with his wife, and his father who lives in the side apartment downstairs. He has two adult children who live within close range and visit several times a week. Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring When caring for a special population group within a community, the nurse must integrate clinical thought to assimilate specifically designed interventions for patients. Nurses must be conscious of their responses and actions that may inadvertently affect the patient’s response. Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring uses a contemporary, holistic framework designed by using multiple disciplines to care for individuals...
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...Natural Weight Loss vs Weight Loss Surgery Brandy Cherry COM/155 June 02, 2013 Paul Howell Millions of people around the globe have been taking risk of reducing calories by undergoing surgery, while others prefer to burn fat the natural way. There are so many natural weight loss benefits to consider before agreeing undergoing a painful and costly surgery that has no guarantee. Too many people are seeing these weight loss surgeries as the easy way out instead of as a last option. Many Surgeons have become popular for satisfying their clients while many manufacturing companies have introduced new products for weight loss. According to Timothy B. Curry, MD of the Mayo Clinic, almost 2/3 of Americans are overweight or obese, and that number continues to rise. Many people want to lose weight, but for those who have become very large, surgery may be the only way to successfully do this. Others may take the weight off by making diet and exercise changes. Natural weight loss benefits are so much more motivating than those of surgery. With natural weight loss you are not shocking your body into starvation with an intensely reduced stomach. Instead you are retraining your body to appreciate the right foods that provide the nutrients you need to be healthy. Other natural weight loss benefits include the introduction of better habits into your life style. By taking the time to learn to eat well, to learn to appreciate and enjoy regular exercise, and to learning how to overcome...
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...Dieting and Exercise vs. Cosmetic Surgery COM/155 June 09, 2013 Dieting and Exercise vs. Cosmetic Surgery It has been said that the generation we live in, is becoming known as the “popcorn generation.” Many have expressed that we are in the: “I need it now, I want it now era.” The advancement of technology is to blame some say, and others blame the advancement of science. Either way, a significant amount of people in this day and age have the desire to lose weight. Some people prefer the old fashion method of dieting and exercising and others, cosmetic surgery. Weight loss trends have transcended time from diet and exercise to cosmetic surgery. Despite any method of losing weight, diet and exercise remains most effective. Dieting Dieting according to (Encyclopedia Britannica 2013) is, “regulating one’s food intake for the purpose of improving one’s physical condition, especially for the purpose of reducing obesity, or what is conceived to be excess body fat. Time has revealed that image and other health factors are important. Dieting is now commonly promoted as a healthier way of losing weight. Personally, I am astonished that dieting has a lucrative selling market. For years, diets have been displayed as ineffective, unappealing, and unappetizing and torture. Dieting is not all about starving yourself to lose weight. Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia defines dieting as: the practice of eating food in a regulated fashion to decrease, maintain or increase body weight. ...
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...hypertension, being overweight, not being physically active, tobacco and alcohol use increases ones risk, as well as high levels of stress (Matteucci, Caple, & Pravikoff, 2011). Larry Garcia, a 45 year old Hispanic male, was recently diagnosed with hypertension during a physical exam for work. His risk factors include; being slightly overweight, does not exercise regularly, and his mother has hypertension that is not medically controlled. Larry is married and has four children. He supports his elderly mother and father financially, and his wife provides transportation to appointments and shopping for them. Larry has a high pressure position as a sales representative, which has been his career for 10 years. Larry has an associate’s degree in business, and has thought of returning to school for his bachelors, but his family obligations keep him from pursuing this. Larry states that his preferred method of learning is to read the material himself, but if he finds the information invaluable, he will not read it. When he was diagnosed with hypertension, he was not educated about the importance of managing it, information regarding diet and exercise, and stress reduction strategies. As Larry is 45, he is considered middle age. Medical issues...
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...Ways of Losing Weight: Healthy vs Unhealthy To look good, the main important feature is a beautiful figure for both men and women. Nowadays people don’t have time to cook at home and as a result they depend on fast food. Generally fast foods have too many calories from butter, fat, sugar and preservatives which are very bad for health. Consequently, day by day people are becoming overweight. Thousands of people, who are now struggling to lose weight, can choose either a healthy or a dangerous way of losing weight. Both of these will help you to drop weight, but unlike the dangerous way, the healthy way has the long lasting benefit. The dangerous way of losing weight is easy and fast, whereas the healthy way takes time and lots of motivation and patience Some people take weight loss pills which is the shortcut way of losing weight. But these pills have many side effects. These kind of pills reduce the appetite and can destroy the metabolic system permanently . The healthy way does not recommend taking pills, rather it encourages people to eat five small servings throughout the day and drink lots of water. Some people do excessive exercise which is considered to be dangerous for losing weight because too much exercise can cause harm to the muscle and sometimes it causes muscle pull. On other hand, regular and slight exercises are a must for those who choose the healthy way of losing weight. Regular exercise can burn calories and make muscle slowly which is...
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...Heart Disease among African American Women Ciatta Jones, RN Excelsior College Abstract Heart Disease remains the number one killer among women. However, African American women have a higher rate of heart disease than any other ethnic group or demographics and subsequently have an increased mortality rate among other nationalities. They are disproportionately outnumbered when it comes to the obesity rate, stroke and diabetes amongst other groups such as the Caucasians and Asian’s. Contributing factors are decreased awareness and knowledge of heart disease, a low self perception regarding risk factors, ongoing behaviors that are not modified such as smoking, alcoholism, eating fried and salty foods and sometimes the inability to get to medical facilities and clinics. With more education about heart disease and an increased perception of risk, people’s minds will become transformed and will be motivated to modify risk factors related to heart disease. Differences in knowledge and comprehension levels are greater amid those that have a higher educational level. Continual health promotions, fairs, seminars and preventative efforts must continue for us to see positive outcomes associated with a desired behavior change. Keywords: African American, heart disease, women, risk factors, education Heart disease among African American Women The death threat of heart disease is greater than that of AIDS and breast cancer collectively. It is the number one killer of women...
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...University of Phoenix Evelyn Holcombe August 8, 2013 COM 155 Dieting vs. Exercise: The trip to weight loss success While losing weight from dieting and exercise have distinct differences, the similarities make using both more effective in the weight loss process. Many people take the easier route, which they believe is dieting. The statistics for the long term success of dieting alone is poor so you need to consider dieting and exercise. Statistics say only about 5% of dieters are successful in keeping weight off, and re-gain is very common. Usually one-third of weight lost is regained within one year. In three to five years all the weight has been regained along with some additional weight. If you start exercising to lose weight, you won’t succeed with the mentality of “I can eat anything because I’ll burn it off later.” You will have better results if you choose a healthy diet of whole grains, fruits and vegetables, lean proteins and healthy fats while exercising. Healthy dieting can be effective for losing weight and keeping it off. One beneficial way to achieve this is through a diet that minimizes starches, sugars and animal fats from meat and dairy. The fact is, losing weight is time consuming. If you want to lose weight quickly, the approach is simple. Minimizing your sugar intake as well as starches is the first step. Sugar is addictive, highly fattening and is a leading cause of obesity and cardiovascular disease. While most of us on a weight loss mission concentrate...
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...Beautiful, a term defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “a combination of qualities such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight”, is a term that most people want to be perceived as (“Beauty”). Celebrities who fit this definition act as role models for women who want to look like they do, and magazines and television advertisements are constantly telling women how they too can be “beautiful” by selling them weight loss products, exercise programs, and other image enhancers. The constant exposure to the media’s version of beautiful is not something that is often thought of as negative. However, their portrayal of what is beautiful has become distorted over the years, to the point where achieving this “thin-ideal”, which will be defined later, is nearly impossible for women if done through healthy means. Because of this, many women develop body dissatisfaction, which can lead to serious and dangerous consequences, such as the development of eating disorders, in order to be “beautiful”. While there are many factors that can be linked to eating disorders, research has found that the media’s influence on society’s portrayal of extremely thin females as the ideal body is directly correlated to the increase in body dissatisfaction, eating disorders and other harmful conditions found in women. By analyzing this from a feminist perspective, it can be argued that not only does the media’s influence on the idealization of thinness effect females physical...
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...Theme: Health and Wellness Topic: Fad Diets 1. What is your possible topic? Fad Diets: how dangerous can be fad diets to your health in short and long term? If fad diets are dangerous why are they so popular? If I want to lose weight which is the best way to do it? Are there any record of illnesses cause by this type of diet? Are some of these diets true and the mainstream are saying us that they are dangerous for our health? 2. How is the topic important to you and how does it affect you? What do you personally hope to gain or accomplish by writing about this topic? I pick this topic because I study medicine when I was in my country, and I always believe in the occidental medicine, but working in a coronary ICU unit I saw a good amount of people with cardiac problems but I never thought about diet, and I do believe in exercise; now I have been reading about diets for a year and I am pretty sure that a great percent of all the diseases are created for us in the desmesurable way that we eat. Then we gain weight in the same way that we eat, afterwards we want to lose all that weight to fast, and some of us decide the easy way Fad diets. I was affected because I use to play sports (basketball), one day playing with my kids I had a meniscus tear I passed like 8 month taking pills for pain and nothing, started a physical therapy exercises and nothing help me to feel free of pain, at that point I decided to reduce the amount of carbs on my diet drastically, eat more fat and moderate...
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...Eating healthy vs. Prescription weight loss pills Amy Kelley COM/155 June 16, 2013 Jessica Ptomey Eating healthy vs. Prescription weight loss pills The World Health Organization estimates that nearly two-thirds of all American adults are overweight. The National Center of Health Statistics recently found that 34% of Americans are clinically obese (10 Weight Loss Statistics, 2013). Those are very shocking statistics to hear about our nation. What we do with that information is up to us. We can accept the weight that we have as a nation or chose to lose it. Eating healthy and exercise are important for losing weight but there are some advantages and disadvantages to prescription weight loss pills. Here are some facts that can help you make the choice. Proteins are nutrients that your body needs to stay healthy. Protein is recommended at the absolute minimum of ½-gram per pound of bodyweight per day for people who do not get exercise and 1 full gram of protein per pound of bodyweight for people who are active in any way (How much protein do you really need to eat every day?). But do not forget about the b\vegetables. Vegetables, also, play an important role in losing weight. Put out a vegetable platter. A body of research out of Pennsylvania State University finds that eating water-rich foods such as zucchini, tomatoes, and cucumbers during meals reduces your overall calorie consumption (Easy ways to lose weight: 50+ ideas, 2013). If you eat fewer calories than you...
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