This is an order of Outback’s Aussie cheese fries with ranch dressing. It has received the honor of the #1 position on the list of the 20 worst foods in America. It contains nearly three thousand calories, far more than an adult is supposed to have in a whole day. And this is what you eat before your dinner even arrives. I thought it would be a good idea to check the list to see if I was eating anything that made the top 20. To my dismay, the Quiznos Classic Italian sub came in at #14, winner of the worst sandwich category at 1,370 calories. So good, yet so bad. However, that was for a large, which is enormous. Even the regular size is really big. The Quiznos website lists the large at 1,220 calories, not 1,370 like Men’s Health says. Nearly a third of the calories and more than half the fat come from the red wine vinaigrette dressing. A regular size Italian sub without dressing is 630 calories. But it would be pretty miraculous if an American only had 630 calories for lunch. They’d be more likely to get a large sub with dressing and wonder why they can’t lose weight. Contrast this with Hira Ratan Manek, who has gone for 411 days without food, living on only sunlight and water. However, his site says that “Occasionally, for hospitality and social purposes, he drinks tea, coffee and buttermilk.” Wait a minute! Buttermilk is 100 calories per cup. That’s like saying that Winnie the Pooh has gone for years without food, living on only sunlight and water. Then the fine print says he occasionally has honey for hospitality and social purposes. Just how much buttermilk are we talking about?
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Teenage Smoking: Huff, puff, blow friends away
Smoking was the way for teenagers to show their parents that they were too old to live by their rules anymore. Teenagers took to smoking by the dozens because it was cool, especially because their favourite Bollywood heroes smoked, both on and off-screen. These were the days when tobacco companies could advertise freely, especially in films, and not many were aware of the ill-effects of tobacco.
A lot has changed after smoking was banned in public places. The government and numerous NGOs have undertaken various campaigns to educate people — especially teenagers — about the ill effects of smoking. Has any of this done anything to change the popular notion among teenagers that it’s cool to smoke? Anul Jain, a TYBA student of St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, says, “I think that these days, it is ‘cooler’ to not smoke than to smoke, because there is more awareness about the ill effects of smoking.”
Namrata Gandhi, another TYBA student endorses this view. “Teens have a false idea that they can quit whenever they want to. Also, a lot of college-going students who live in hostels tend to start smoking, mainly because there’s no family around to tell them to stop. Personally, I don’t mind being friends with people who smoke, but I can’t stand it when they smoke around me,” she says.
However, Saumya Vaishnava, a smoker herself, begs to differ. She says, “When teenagers move out of the school atmosphere into the hostile environment of college, it’s very intimidating, especially when you don’t know anyone. Smoking in a group makes it so much easier to socialise, because that is when people let their guard down.” However, soon, the teen becomes addicted, and then, “they have no option but to convince themselves it’s cool, because they themselves are doing it!” says Saumya. “Nobody wants to admit that what they’re doing is stupid, so they say it’s cool!” she adds.
Even though the opinions are divided (as always) between smokers and non-smokers, there is an agreement among teenagers about awareness of the detrimental effects of smoking.
Women Health: Workouts to Stay Young
30-60 Age Women group start obsessing about their workouts to stay young
If you thought being obsessed with your daily fitness routine meant a healthy lifestyle, then you are mistaken. Exercise addiction is a disorder, often working in conjunction with a more familiar eating disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia.
Working out at the gym everyday could lead to exercise addiction, according to a study. The flip side to this is called ‘exercise obsession’. Psychologists feel exercise addiction needs attention too. Running on a treadmill for hours and climbing stairs that lead nowhere, exercise addicts may have lost their physical, emotional and spiritual balance. To the common eye it may appear that these people are committed to good health but the scene is different.
These people have a fear of putting on weight and hence they push themselves too hard and end up injuring themselves.
Women Health: Exercise Addiction is a Disease of the Mind-1
Women Health: Exercise Addiction is a Disease of the Mind-1
Amita Agnihotri, director(Communications) of Fitness One India Ltd, says
“When you exercise your happy hormones get released, so you tend to get addicted to it. More than 30-45 minutes of exercise four to five times a week is not recommended. Body does not respond beyond 45 minutes. Overdoing of weight training leads to muscle pulls and rapture of ligaments.”
Too much exercise and the body can break down. Bones suffer, as do tendons, ligaments, even muscles. People become more susceptible to colds and flu.
Osteoporosis may set in. In extreme cases, the menstrual cycle may cease, feel doctors. “I have seen women whose menstrual cycle has become irregular due to over-exercise.” Says Dr.Ambarish Warty, gynaecologist. “But this is just temporary. Once you lower the empact of exercising, the cycle becomes normal.”
Health for Women: Addiction of Exercise -2
Health for Women: Addiction of Exercise -2
Most fanatics are women aged between 36 to 60, who are afraid of aging in a youth –oriented society. Then they tend to over do their workout regime. “Exercise addiction is an eating disorder like anorexia and bulimia”, says Dr. Anjali Chabria, psychologist. “They aren’t willing to compromise on their workout schedule even if good jobs came to me to say that his wife works out for three to four hours a day and has no time to talk to him. Her fitness schedule is affecting their marital life.” Dr.Chabria also recalled a young girl who got upset with her mother’s fitness obsession. “ Every day when she wakes up in the morning she sees her mother take out all her dresses from the wardrobe, trying to fit into them,” says the psychologist. Deanne Pandey, Fitness expert, admits that exercise addiction is a problem in cities.
“The young crowd is hooked to Bollywood and Hollywood stars and the cities are also flooded with gyms,” says Pandey.
Exercise addiction is a disease of the mind, which needs to be treated.” Pandey says that the best way is to consult a psychologist and your fitness instructor.
Health tips:news- Gestures help child learn to talk
LONDON: An advice for parents - gestures like waving arms and making funny faces can help your tiny tot learn to talk fast, a new study has suggested.
An international team has carried out the study and found that boys and girls whose parents gesticulate a lot have bigger vocabularies when they start school, according to a new report in the 'Science' journal.
Researchers claimed that simple gestures from nodding and shaking of the head to indicate yes and no, to flapping of the arms to indicate flying, could make all the difference - when it comes to teaching kids to talk.
"For example, in response to a child's point at a doll a mother might say 'yes, that's a doll', thus providing a word for the object that is the focus of the child's attention," the researchers said. They have based their findings on an analysis of the actions and gestures used by 50 toddlers and their parents as they played together.
All the boys and girls, aged around 14 months, used an average of 21 different gestures and 13 different words. Their parents used 40 different gestures and more than 350 different words in the experiment.
Health tips news: India, China to top dementia cases by 2020
dementia, a disease relating to mental deterioration of organic or functional origin, T S Srinivasan Charitable Trust Chairman Venu Srinivasan said on Saturday.
In his address at the 25th T S Srinivasan Endowment Oration, he said that dementia was clearly linked with aging. "It is estimated that by 2020 the top five nations with elderly populations will face the problem with China and India topping the list", he added.
He said according to Alzheimer's disease International (ADI) there were 24 million people with Dementia worldwide. "While Dementia has received much attention in developed world, few recognize that an epidemic of dementia looms over developing nations like India", he claimed.
He said until now the care of the elder in India had traditionally remained with the extended family. "However, important sociological changes pervade urban India today, with nucleus families becoming the norm, and consequent isolation of the elderly", he added.
C Morris, Professor of Neurology, Washington University, said in US alone five million people were affected by dementia and it would double in 2025. "The disease is likely to grow in lesser developed countries including India", he added.
Health tips News: Fresh fruits trigger food poisoning
LONDON: Beware of fresh fruits and vegetables - they can trigger food poisoning outbreaks, latest research shows. A review co-authored by several experts has highlighted the fact that fresh fruits and vegetables are increasingly recognised as a source of food poisoning outbreaks in many parts of the world. Recent outbreaks in Europe have revealed new and unexplained links between some bacteria and viruses that cause food poisoning and imported baby corn, lettuce, and even raspberries. Similarly, in the US, outbreaks of E Coli infections have been linked to bagged baby spinach, and salmonella to peppers, imported cantaloupe melons and tomatoes as well.
"This research confirms that raw fruit and vegetables can cause food poisoning. Raw fruit and vegetables out of season... are transported many thousands of miles from growing areas, and outbreaks can affect many widely dispersed countries simultaneously," said Norman Noah, professor and editor-in-chief of Epidemiology and Infection, which published the study.
Health tips News: Myths > sugar and health
Replacing sugar with other sources of carbohydrates does not necessarily make you lose weight, according to a scientific review study.
Busting such misconceptions about the impact of sugars on health, the study observes that what appears more important is the total amount of energy intake, the energy density of the foods and the quality of the diet.
The evidence shows that added sugars do not necessarily compromise a person's intake of micronutrients. The "micronutrient dilution" myth that eating added sugars dilutes the nutrient density of a person's diet appears mostly due to misreporting and methodological constraints.
Finally, although sugar consumption has traditionally been associated with poor dental health, the experts pointed to the importance of the frequency, more than the amount, of consumption of all sugars and fermentable carbohydrates.
The combined impact of many dietary and lifestyle factors such as physical activity, excessive calorie intake and weight gain, and their interactions, have to be taken into account.
Obesity and low physical activity are causally related to the development of insulin resistance and its progression towards type 2 diabetes.
There is convincing evidence from randomised controlled trials (RCT) that weight loss and moderate physical activity are beneficial in improving insulin sensitivity and preventing type 2 diabetes, said a Comité Européen des Fabricants de Sucre (CEFS) release. CEFS represents all European sugar manufacturers and refiners among European Institutions.
Health Tips News: Passive smoking to Dementia
Passive smoking appears to significantly raise a person's risk of dementia and other forms of cognitive problems, British and U.S. researchers said on Friday.
Their report published in the British Medical Journal found a 44 per cent increased risk for people exposed to high levels of second-hand smoke, and is the first large-scale study to show the association between the two.
"Our results suggest that inhaling other people's smoke may damage the brain, impair cognitive functions such as memory, and make dementia more likely," David Llewellyn of Britain's University of Cambridge, who led the study, said in a statement.
Research has tied passive smoking to a range of conditions including lung cancer and heart disease. More than half of children worldwide are exposed to second-hand smoke in their homes, according to the World Health Organization.
Previous studies have also identified smoking as something that increases the chances of dementia and other forms of cognitive impairment but it was not as clear whether the same held true for second-hand smoke. Llewellyn and colleagues examined saliva samples from nearly 5,000 non-smoking adults over the age of 50 using data from three separate British health surveys.
Then they tested the saliva for cotinine -- a product of nicotine found in saliva for about 25 hours after exposure to second-hand smoke - to measure exposure to cigarettes. Tests aimed at gauging brain function such as verbal memory and keeping track of time showed an association between exposure to second-hand smoke and cognitive impairment.
One possible explanation is that exposure to second-hand smoke increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, conditions known to boost the odds of dementia and other cognitive problems, the researchers said. "Given the ongoing international policy debate on exposure to second-hand smoke, this is a topic of major public health significance," the researchers wrote.
Source: TimesofIndia news paper
Addiction Tips
Addiction:
Addiction is a dependence on a behavior or substance that a person is powerless to stop.
The term has been partially replaced by the worddependence for substance abuse. Addiction has been extended, however, to include mood-altering behaviors or activities. Some researchers speak of two types of addictions: substance addictions (for example, alcoholism, drug abuse, and smoking); and process addictions (for example, gambling, spending, shopping, eating, and sexual activity). There is a growing recognition that many addicts, such as polydrug abusers, are addicted to more than one substance or process.
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