Three Tips to Get Fit and Stay Fit

Weight loss occurs when an individual is in a state of negative energy balance. Weight loss plateaus are a fact of life for most dieters so you might as well get used to the fact that you actually stop losing weight at some point. This is nothing to worry about; just the opposite, it is quite normal. Once you reach a plateau you stay there a while and then start to lose more weight if you follow the same routine as before.

"Energy balance is the difference between calorie intake (from food & drinks) and calories out – through our metabolism & energy expended during daily activities."

"Any change in body weight is the result of an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure. People gain weight gradually because most days they’re in a state of positive energy balance (more calories in than body requires) and any excess is stored until the individual eventually realizes they’ve gained a few pounds."

I would recommend the following three tips to help you get fit, stay fit and lose weight at the same time.

Obesity Surpasses Smoking as Top Health Threat: U.S. Study

By Allison Cross, Canwest News Service

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Obesity is now a bigger overall threat to people’s health than smoking, according to results of the longest ongoing health study of adults in the United States.

Obesity causes as much or more disease than tobacco, says the study, conducted by researchers from Columbia University and the City College of New York. It adds that while smoking rates are starting to decline, obesity now shortens as many or even more healthy lifespans than tobacco use.

How to Dodge Germs in the Time of H1N1

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent

CNN) — On a recent flight from San Francisco, California, to Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Julie Gerberding was thrilled to get bumped up to first class. The thrill, however, quickly disappeared: As she did her victory walk to the front cabin, she noticed that the woman in the seat next to hers was hacking up a lung.

“She was on her cell phone, saying, ‘I feel miserable. I just know I have swine flu,’ ” Gerberding remembered. “I thought to myself, ‘Oh, great.’ “

For the duration of her transcontinental flight, Gerberding played viral roulette as she sat shoulder-to-shoulder next to Ms. Sneezy in a confined space.

Gerberding, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had a few strategies for avoiding this woman’s germs, some of which you can use on planes, trains, automobiles and anywhere else if you get stuck next to Typhoid Mary — or, in this case, H1N1 Mary.

College Students Encouraged to Get H1N1 Vaccine

By Sally Holland, CNN
December 4, 2009 1:36 a.m. EST

Washington (CNN) — Chris Edwards’ fever spiked at 104 degrees this fall before he was sent home from Frostburg State University in western Maryland to recuperate from the H1N1 flu.

“It scared most of my family more than it scared me,” the freshman information technology major told CNN in a telephone interview Thursday. “For me, it was regular sick.”

He is one of many students at U.S. colleges who have tested positive for H1N1 — also known as swine flu — in recent months. To help cut down on the spread of the disease, the U.S. Department of Education has begun encouraging college students to get vaccinated.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that officials would like to see college students inoculated before they head home for Christmas break. And if exam schedules make that impossible, students should try to get the vaccine while they are at home, he said.

Benefits of Mangosteen

Here is information that will help you understand some of the use of mangosteen. It also gives examples about mangosteen working in food which are good antioxidants these will help promote circulation and immunity to common ailments. This subject will give helpful tips when picking out products using the fruit.

Mangosteen fruit grows in South East Asia. It grows only in tropical areas. The general population knows very little about this fruit. The most of the benefits are received from the outer skin or rind that is used in the processing of the many supplements derived from this product. Some of the more recognized benefits of mangosteen is the quantity of antioxidants in the fruit. These compounds produce antioxidants that slow down the aging process, giving an increase in higher energy levels. Antioxidants are considered to be a natural cure all.

Some Morbidly Obese Missing Genes That Could Affect Weight: Study

03/02/2010 5:52:00 PM

THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL - Researchers have discovered that a small proportion of morbidly obese people are missing a chunk of their DNA, and that genetic deletion may be dramatically affecting their weight.