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An avid proponent of stopping childhood obesity and obesity in humans, is an independent distributor for a major health and wellness company.
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- Baby Boomers Become Entrepreneurs
[Home-and-Family:Baby-Boomer] Research being done today shows more and more baby boomers are becoming entrepreneurs. The answer for this group today is possibly owning a home base businesses. There is no need to run amok looking for one of the brick and mortar businesses to become an entrepreneur. Just put your expertise to work for you from the comfort of your own home.
- Baby Boomer's Future
[Home-and-Family:Baby-Boomer] The future for baby boomers looks much more gloomy in the current state of the economy. Baby Boomers are faced with several challenges as they reach the age of retirement. Several of these challenges can be faced successfully if proper preparation is put into place.
- Unhealthy Dieting Could Lead to Death!
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] This article will look at the pitfalls of unhealthy dieting and what you should do before starting any diet plan. This article will also briefly list some of the medical issues that lends an ear to dieting and what you should do to prevent an untimely death as a result of unhealthy dieting.
- Home-Based Business - Alternative to Rising Gas Prices
[Home-Based-Business] Are the escalating gas prices putting the "bite" on your finances? Are you struggling to keep up the pace with rising gas prices to get to work just to make a decent living? Have you been thinking about how hard you are working to make the gas companies richer?
- Women Over 50 - STOP!
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] This article is written specifically for women over 50. Those classy ladies who feel they have reached the peak of their existence. Those sophisticated ladies who feel they are now less attractive for one reason or another.
- Women Over 50 - Why Weight Loss?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Women over 50 have several reasons for wanting to lose weight. Look at this list to see if you fit in one of these situations.
- Part II - Stomach Stapling Surgery
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] As stated in Part I of this five-part series, Stomach Stapling Surgery is a very major and serious procedure. This procedure should only be performed on severely obese people who have tried and failed at all other attempts of weight loss and if it is a medical emergency. Only your physician can determine if it is a medical emergency. To be categorized as a medical emergency, you would have to have other underlying medical conditions that are detrimental to your health and the procedure is the only method of treatment for your condition.
- Stomach Stapling Surgery Part I
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] I will begin this five-part series on weight loss surgeries with Stomach Stapling Surgery. First of all, we need to know who is a candidate to have this procedure done. Stomach stapling is major surgery and should not be contemplated lightly.
Have you ever considered surgery for your weight loss situation? Have you researched the pros and cons of this type of surgery? Do you know anyone personally who has undergone this type of surgery? Did they share their experiences with you?
- Motivating Kids to Exercise
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] When looking at the startling facts about child obesity, parents and others are wondering what they can do to actively combat the spread of obesity. First and foremost, we must determine what created this situation. Once we get this determination, we can further pursue a plan of attack.
Research shows that physical activity is a combatant for obesity as well as good nutrition.
- Five Things to Avoid While Trying to Lose Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Do you know the things you should avoid when you are trying to lose weight? As your weight escalated up, you were probably eating all of the wrong foods. Foods that were a far cry from nutritious and totally unhealthy. Do you know that exercise is a major component to any weight loss program?
- What Every Person Should Know Before Starting a Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Before starting a weight loss program, you should know why losing unwanted pounds is so much harder than gaining. You should focus more on your health than the loss of pounds alone.
Just before you start any diet or weight loss plan, you should set your weight loss goal. Make sure your goal is realistic, one that you can stick to until you reach that goal.
- Five Healthy Ways to Lose Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Losing weight is the activity of choice in today's society. Focusing on healthy weight loss has to be the utmost concentration. Determining the reasons for weight loss is important. Have you decided why you want to lose weight? Have you decided how much weight you want to lose?
- Effective Nutrition The Key To Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness] Education is the foundation for any weight loss plan. Knowing the basic essential nutrients will help you to plan an effective nutritional program for your weight loss goals.
The three primary nutrients your body needs for peak performance are: fats, proteins and carbohydrates.
- How Did Oprah Fight the Obesity Battle?
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Much emphasis is placed on Child Obesity but the obesity battle does not begin nor does it end with child obesity. American people today are plain and simply eating too much and the physical activity is way too low. The big question is what can we do to fight the obesity battle? Have we let our weight get out of hand to the point where we cant fight the obesity battle? Can we find the armor it takes to fight the obesity battle? Do we have what it takes to meet the obesity battle head-on and win? What did Oprah Winfrey do to fight the obesity battle?
- Starting a Healthy Diet Plan
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The diet plans on the market today focuses on your emotional senses thinking that you are so obsessed with your weight, that you will purchase their product. Most of them give you a false perception of quick weight loss. I have not found any statistical data indicating to me that there is substantial or even the slightest amount of fat lost in a quick weight loss program. It is this writer's opinion that any quick weight loss program will prove to be an unhealthy outcome.
- Children and Nutrition
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] In the fight for prevention of child obesity, our children must be taught about nutrition. Parents know that the day will come when their child will "leave the nest," so it would be wise to teach the child all there is to know about nutrition.
- The Road to a Healthier You
[Health-and-Fitness] There are so many diet plans on the market today, how do you choose the right one that will provide all the vital and essential nutrients your body needs? Perhaps it would be best for you to focus on motivating yourself into a healthy weight program without the aid of any of the diet plans on the market.
- Five Methods To Easy Fat Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The number one method for easy fat loss is motivation. Motivation is the driving force for your wanting to lose weight. Think about this for a few moments. Do you want to lose weight so you will be able to fit into that dress (for women) or new suit (for men) you have been eying all winter? Do you want to lose weight because your significant other is unhappy or displeased with your weight gain? Do you want to lose weight because you have a medical issue dictating the weight loss?
- Fasting For Quick Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] First and foremost, there are a lot of diet plans on the market today that profess quick weight loss. In most instances, you should avoid these diet plans like the plaque. Most people who have decided to begin a weight loss plan have lots of pounds they want to lose. If this is the case, quick weight loss should not be an option. You should place your emphasis on a long-term, well-structured diet regime.
- Causes of Weight Gain
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Cellular telephones and computers have made communication very easy. There was a time that you only saw the wealthy or "well-to-do" individual with a cellular telephone. Nowadays, everybody has them. Everywhere you turn you see someone with a cellular telephone attached to his or her ear (or it seems to be attached).
- Four Fun Exercises for Children
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Children are our greatest and most precious assets. We must take an active part in insuring the successes of our children. Their academic success is very important but their physical success is even more important. A healthy child is a child on their way to becoming a well-rounded citizen of our society.
- Exhaustion at Work Don't Make the Same Mistake Imus Did
[Business:Workplace-Communication] Exhaustion at work comes about as a result of several factors. The main reason for exhaustion at work is not enough sleep the night before. As with anything in life, our bodies need several things in order to function properly. Sleep is one of them. Deprivation of sleep can cause the sluggishness you feel during the day at work. The lack of sleep keeps you from concentrating and staying focused on the tasks you are expected to perform. Perhaps this was Don Imus' problem exhaustion - when he 'accidentally' used those unkind words for the Rutgers Girls' Basketball team.
- Obesity in Children
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Recent research has uncovered interesting and startling information regarding child obesity. Children today are eating way too much and their physical activity has gone way down. We can blame technology on this startling turn of events. Most children only get any type of physical activity at school. When they reach home, it is off to the television, the playstation, the computer, or the most recent PS2. All of this technology has made children live sedentary lives at such early ages.
- Is Your Diet Plan Healthy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Most of the diet plans on the market today require you to reduce or restrict certain foods. Can this be healthy? Will your body function properly on reduced nutrients vital to your body's performance?
The diet plans on the market today prey on a person's sense of quick weight loss. Trying to lose weight quickly will present unsuccessful results.
- Five Physical Activities to Reduce Love Handles
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Love handles are very difficult to remove but there are physical activities that will reduce love handles. Some of the physical activities are already in your daily routine or if they are not, they can easily be implemented.
The five physical activities to do daily that are possibly already in your daily routine are:
- Summer Slim Down
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Now that the winter holidays are over with the delicious food, summer is approaching and you need to lose those pounds you amassed during Thanksgiving and Christmas. You want to make the beach scene in that new bikini you bought on sale during the after-Christmas sale at the mall.
- Five Ways To Lose Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Based on an article I read recently, "one of the best ways to lose weight is with a low calorie diet."
A low calorie diet does not necessarily mean that you should starve yourself nor does it
- Motivating Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Over the past several years, I have been high strung in the weight loss game and motivation was never a factor that I considered. Motivating weight loss was so far removed from my mind. Without motivating my weight loss, I was on a roller coaster ride of up and down weight loss and weight gain. It was not until the recent past that I realized I needed motivation to be successful in my quest for losing my unwanted pounds. I have since discovered what was missing from my mission of losing weight and wished that I could have discovered this fact a lot sooner.
- Controlling Your Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Over the last century, changes in society have contributed greatly to controlling our weight. Between these technological changes and the changes in our eating habits, we have learned to live sedentary lives. Days of eating home-cooked meals are passe with the rise of the fast food chains and those great advertisements that depict eating out as the "thing" to do.
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