Obesity Now - Exploration & Explanation

To explore such a topic takes effort and time, and as an investment it makes good sense to do what you need to do. Obesity today, how apparent it has become and what are some possible solutions to make the quality decision to change, to focus forward in extending health.As well, urban sprawl means that people no longer walk or bicycle to their choice of destination, but drive.

People are working full-time jobs that force them to sit in front of a computer all day. Women, in particular, are entering the workforce and it is speculated that this new focus on career has led to obesity rates in women being higher than for men. Moreover, Americans today are lured into fast food restaurants by aggressive advertising campaigns. As well, urban sprawl means that people no longer walk or bicycle to their choice of destination, but drive. So in a society where food is abundant but physical activity is hardly encouraged, obesity can really blossom.
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These claims seems to be pretty uniform, each believes there is only two specific indicators of the cause of this epidemic of an overweight society. One of which is the balance or imbalance of Calories to Activity, whether there is more input then output is just another way to put it. There seems there is much more to the story. The most basic explanation is Calorie Input to Calorie Output, if there is no balance then it is possible to reach one extreme or the other. It really is dependent on the person.

Obesity today, a result of calorie overload and lack of exercise . The convenience of fast food, in a world that goes at twice the pace it once did. The ability to take your work with you no matter the place or location. The mobile workspace in the careers of today's new pace. This dependence on oil because, it has long been promoted that everyone should have a car and drive it everywhere. In times past, it was clearer that there was more options beyond that. Walking was a great way to get what you needed to pickup from the local stores. Today, for so many generations those simple facts were put aside and then promoted to get a car and drive like everyone else. This is one of the main reasons the active life has almost been forgotten. Interpretively speaking that can play a part in this epidemic.

It is easy to organize the information of this epidemic as it has been in the news many times over, the thing that is often not mentioned or promoted for that fact is that we each can make a change in that circumstance. Seems it could be a very simple process merely a matter of starting and continuing. Sounds simple doesn't it? It does because it really can be, and it falls in line with another article I am working on Alternative Transport where an excerpt can be found. It details the additional possibilities of stepping away from the car and explore alternates to burning gas that you can scarcely afford, and offers you other ways to both improve your overall life and exploration of the journey in living life fully and in it's entirety.

Now is the perfect time to make a change, in your life and your kids lives. To start taking steps it is merely a matter of exploring that article on Alternative Transport and following through on it. Beyond even that to start making a change you can just start taking the steps in the right direction, by understanding in the suburbia of today most things are in walking distance from your home so take those steps. Starting small and noticing the differences when you get back home. As you progress through those early steps. Continue by taking those same steps anytime you need to go to the store or pick something up. It will become easier as you continue and in each of those steps you are improving your overall health while providing an example for your children to follow, in that example they can also start making changes. In being the springboard by taking the steps yourself you make a wonderful difference, both in your own life expectancy and for those who follow your example. Each taking steps to explore the alternatives while improving your overall health and more years to enjoy.

As we each take steps we can help the other in improving overall wellness in the world today, and the excitement of a better world in the future ahead. It starts in the present, this moment, right now, to start taking the steps great things are bound to happen. The journey of success always begins with that first step.

If the only thing that is stopping you is that person in the mirror the two of you should have a real good talk. It is in that consensus you both must reach that the excitement becomes apparent.

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Tea & its Benefits

14-May-2002 - Long-term consumption of black, green or oolong tea can help strengthen bones, according to researchers from the National Cheng Kung University Hospital in Tainan, Taiwan.

People who drank an average of nearly two cups a day of these three tea varieties over a six-year period were shown to have a significantly higher bone density than people who did not drink tea, or who drank it in smaller quantities.

Writing in the 13 May edition of Archives of Internal Medicine, the researchers said they had surveyed 1,037 men and women aged 30 and older about their tea-drinking habits, as well as testing their bone-mineral density. They also accounted for other factors such as gender, age, body-mass index and lifestyle which could affect bone density.

Almost half of those taking part in the study were habitual tea drinkers, who had drunk tea on a regular basis for at least a year. Most of them drank green or oolong tea without milk, which contains calcium, itself used to strengthen bones.

Both green and oolong teas are common in Asia, although black tea is the more popular variety in the West. All three varieties come from the same plant, but are processed differently.

The researchers discovered that people who said they had consumed tea regularly for more than ten years had the highest overall bone-mineral density. In fact, their hip-bone density was 6.2 per cent higher than in non-habitual tea drinkers. Habitual drinkers over a six to 10 year period had hip-bone density 2.3 per cent higher than in non-habitual tea drinkers.

There were no significant differences between tea drinkers of one to five years and non-habitual drinkers. Similar results were found regardless of type of tea consumed.

The varying findings "may result from different study designs, inconsistent definition of tea intake categories and incomplete adjustment of the confounding effects of lifestyle characteristics such as exercise, alcohol intake and smoking", according to Dr Chih-Jen Chang, one of the study's authors.

He stressed that further research was necessary to discover whether it was in fact the flavanoids in tea which helped increase bone density, or whether it was other factors in the lifestyle of habitual tea drinkers which affected bone strength.

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