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Yoga alone not enough to be fit
Last updated: Friday, December 14, 2007
Yoga has a multitude of proven health benefits, but it probably won't give you the workout you need to keep your cardiovascular system in shape, a new study shows.
"Yoga's definitely going to be an intervention in which we have to look at the whole package to see how it conveys its benefits," said Dr Marshall Hagins of Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, a researcher on the study.
Current physical activity guidelines recommend people get at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise at least five times a week, and state that these 30 minutes can be broken into 10-minute sessions, Hagins and colleagues note in the journal BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
They sought to determine whether a traditional Hatha yoga session might help people meet these requirements, which are considered the minimum for improving and maintaining health and cardiovascular fitness.
How the research was done
Hagins and colleagues had 20 intermediate to advanced yoga practitioners work out in a special chamber that measured the amount of oxygen they consumed, while wearing heart rate monitors.
During the 56-minute yoga session, study participants burned an average of 3.2 calories a minute - about the same as they would taking a leisurely walk.
But during the sun salutation portion of the session - a series of linked exercises performed at a faster tempo - their exertion did meet standard criteria for moderate exercise.
The findings show that if people can make sure their yoga sessions include at least 10 minutes of sun salutation practice, they may help them maintain their cardiovascular health and fitness, Hagins said.
But, he added, people shouldn't expect to meet full physical activity recommendations through yoga alone.
More research is needed to discover just how yoga does confer its health benefits, which include reducing cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and osteoporosis, without making people break a sweat, he said. Breathing exercises, which can help balance the nervous system, are likely a key element, according to Hagins. – (Reuters Health)
Ok Yogaheads, before you start sending me yogamats with nasty messages.I am all for yoga, as a part of your weekly exercise program.Yoga is a great flexibilty and mind meditating exercise.But to shed the kilos and improve your cardiovascular system, I'm afraid people, yes you have to get out of your comfort zone and get that butt moving.That means MOVING exercising at a level where the breathing increases along with body movement e.g walk,run,hop,skip,jump,bike,tennis,frisbbe ANYTHING similar that is fun and energetic.Stretching alone aint gonna do it.
Make it a part of your fitness and health week, but include more rigorous activities to improve your health.source Fit Australia
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Pharmacies are changing in Fit Australia
Pharmacies in the country of Fit Australia are now changing. Gone are the days where you go to your local pharmacy to seek medication for just about anything to cure your problem.Quick fix weight loss pills,potions and other products that promise unrealistic results are in over supply.People are voting with their feet literally.Instead of listening to chemists that are mainly interested in selling you these products, people are now taking it upon themselves to EXERCISE and eat healthier, yes that is right, exercise and improving their diets.The results are amazing.Depression,headaches,joint aches,blood pressure,osteoporosis,flu's,colds and other illnesses caused by sedentary lifestyles are becoming less frequent.
A spokesman for the University of Fit Australia, Professor Tonednsexy, said it was a matter of time when people got fed up with pumping themselves with chemicals, and realised that regular exercise and healthy eating was the only answer to improving most illnesses and conditions.
Chemists are now promoting more books,cd's,dvd's,gym memberships and even exercise shoes and equipment.
Sadly people in neighboring Australia are continuing to ignore these results and remain sedentary choosing wealth before their health.
source www.fitaustralia.com
A spokesman for the University of Fit Australia, Professor Tonednsexy, said it was a matter of time when people got fed up with pumping themselves with chemicals, and realised that regular exercise and healthy eating was the only answer to improving most illnesses and conditions.
Chemists are now promoting more books,cd's,dvd's,gym memberships and even exercise shoes and equipment.
Sadly people in neighboring Australia are continuing to ignore these results and remain sedentary choosing wealth before their health.
source www.fitaustralia.com
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Fit Australia Election Time
**THE ELECTION ISSUES**
Citizens of Fit Australia go to the polls this month.One of the hottest topics that everyone seems to be talking about is, what the candidates will be spending out of the budget, to educate and provide the population on health and fitness programs.
Talk back radio is inundated with callers wanting to improve their health and fitness.It has taken priority over monetary issues.
The population of Fit Australia realise their health is more important than their wealth, and want to know what the leaders have planned.
The opposition leader faces a hard battle to beat the president of Fit Australia.
Already Fit Australia boasts reduced health costs providing the tax payer with cuts.
People are getting fitter and healthier everyday and are relying on the health system less and less.
Heart Attack,stroke,diabetes 1 and 2, osteoporosis and cancers are coming down in record levels. This is directly attributed to the governments all out approach to healthier lifestyles through regular exercise and healthier eating choices.
People are encouraged to exercise and are given tax rebates if they participate in some kind of regular exercise activity.
Citizens of Fit Australia go to the polls this month.One of the hottest topics that everyone seems to be talking about is, what the candidates will be spending out of the budget, to educate and provide the population on health and fitness programs.
Talk back radio is inundated with callers wanting to improve their health and fitness.It has taken priority over monetary issues.
The population of Fit Australia realise their health is more important than their wealth, and want to know what the leaders have planned.
The opposition leader faces a hard battle to beat the president of Fit Australia.
Already Fit Australia boasts reduced health costs providing the tax payer with cuts.
People are getting fitter and healthier everyday and are relying on the health system less and less.
Heart Attack,stroke,diabetes 1 and 2, osteoporosis and cancers are coming down in record levels. This is directly attributed to the governments all out approach to healthier lifestyles through regular exercise and healthier eating choices.
People are encouraged to exercise and are given tax rebates if they participate in some kind of regular exercise activity.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
U.S schools starting to improve fitness and nutrition
Schools found improving on nutrition and fitness
By KEVIN SACK
Published: October 20, 2007, New York Times
ATLANTA, Oct. 19 — Spurred by the growing crisis in child obesity, the nation’s schools have made “considerable improvements” in nutrition, fitness and health over the last six years, according to a new government survey that found that more schools require physical education and fewer sell French fries.
The cafeteria offers salad, fruit and yogurt, and nearly an hour of physical education is required daily.
The survey, which is conducted every six years, shows that more schools than six years ago offer salads and vegetables and that fewer permit bake sales. More states and school districts insist that elementary schools schedule recess and that physical education teachers have at least undergraduate training. More states have enacted policies to prohibit smoking at school and to require courses on pregnancy prevention.
Perhaps most striking, 30 percent of school districts have banned junk food from school vending machines, up from 4 percent in 2000. Schools offering fried potatoes in their cafeterias declined, to 19 percent from 40 percent.
The results of the survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention elicited cheers on Friday from public health and education officials, as well as warnings against complacency.
In some instances, the officials pointed out, progress toward healthier living and learning was notable only because so many schools had started from such low points.
The percentage of districts that require elementary schools to teach physical education increased, to 93 percent last year from 83 percent in 2000.
But just 4 percent of elementary schools, 8 percent of middle schools and 2 percent of high schools provided physical education each school day, as is recommended by the disease control agency. One-fifth of schools did not require physical education at all.
Although the researchers found that the proportion of schools selling bottled water grew, to 46 percent from 30 percent, they also said three-fourths of high schools sold soft drinks and that 61 percent sold potato chips and other high-fat snacks.
“What we’re seeing is that the nation’s schools really are making progress in addressing the obesity crisis and teenage tobacco use,” said Howell Wechsler, the director of the division of adolescent and school health at the disease agency and an author of the study. “But large numbers of schools are still not implementing recommended policies. We need all the nation’s schools to have environments that make it easy for children to make healthy choices.”
In some instances, Mr. Wechsler said, states set policies that districts and schools do not immediately embrace, particularly when mandating physical activity.
“It takes a while for the policies to go down,” he said. “Local school districts just haven’t been able to figure out how to make time for physical education in the school day.”
The overall picture, however, suggests a nationwide response by school administrators and elected officials to concerns about children’s weight and inactivity.
A recent national survey determined that 17 percent of children from 2 to 19 could be classified as overweight. The prevalence of overweight children for all age groups is nearly double that of a decade ago.
In 2004, Congress passed a law requiring each school district to develop a “wellness policy” to promote the students’ health by setting goals for nutrition education and physical activity. Those policies are just now taking effect, and some school administrators predict that the next survey will show more marked improvements. Some schools have set out to place health education on a par with academics. In Los Angeles County, Sepulveda Middle School has banned soft drinks and eliminated unhealthy snacks from the school store. Salad, fruit and yogurt are always available in the cafeteria, said Patricia J. Pelletier, the principal.
Nearly an hour of physical education is required daily, the school offers after-hours training in distance running, and it has started a class on healthy cooking for parents.
“If kids are healthy and have healthy lifestyles, they’re going to be better students,” Ms. Pelletier said. “They’re going to be in school, and they’re going to be connected with the teachers in a better way.”
Dr. David K. Appel, director of the Montefiore School Health Program, which provides health services to 15 schools in the Bronx, said the improvements noted in the study “show that we are now in the early stages of a comprehensive societal response to what could be the greatest health challenge the U.S. has ever faced, which is pervasive childhood obesity.”
Dr. Appel said much more needed to be done, particularly in educating families and gaining the support of marketers of fast food and soft drinks.
The survey found that nearly two-thirds of schools prohibited tobacco use in all locations, including at off-campus functions, up from 46 percent in 2000. Another finding was that the proportion of states that require middle schools to teach human sexuality grew, to 59 percent from 46 percent.
The report found a variety of indications of healthier cooking in school cafeterias. Fifty-five percent reported that they had removed the skin from poultry before cooking, up from 40 percent, and 46 percent now use low-fat cheeses, up from 31 percent. But 12 percent of elementary schools, 19 percent of middle schools and 24 percent of high schools offer students brand-name fast food from businesses like Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
By KEVIN SACK
Published: October 20, 2007, New York Times
ATLANTA, Oct. 19 — Spurred by the growing crisis in child obesity, the nation’s schools have made “considerable improvements” in nutrition, fitness and health over the last six years, according to a new government survey that found that more schools require physical education and fewer sell French fries.
The cafeteria offers salad, fruit and yogurt, and nearly an hour of physical education is required daily.
The survey, which is conducted every six years, shows that more schools than six years ago offer salads and vegetables and that fewer permit bake sales. More states and school districts insist that elementary schools schedule recess and that physical education teachers have at least undergraduate training. More states have enacted policies to prohibit smoking at school and to require courses on pregnancy prevention.
Perhaps most striking, 30 percent of school districts have banned junk food from school vending machines, up from 4 percent in 2000. Schools offering fried potatoes in their cafeterias declined, to 19 percent from 40 percent.
The results of the survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention elicited cheers on Friday from public health and education officials, as well as warnings against complacency.
In some instances, the officials pointed out, progress toward healthier living and learning was notable only because so many schools had started from such low points.
The percentage of districts that require elementary schools to teach physical education increased, to 93 percent last year from 83 percent in 2000.
But just 4 percent of elementary schools, 8 percent of middle schools and 2 percent of high schools provided physical education each school day, as is recommended by the disease control agency. One-fifth of schools did not require physical education at all.
Although the researchers found that the proportion of schools selling bottled water grew, to 46 percent from 30 percent, they also said three-fourths of high schools sold soft drinks and that 61 percent sold potato chips and other high-fat snacks.
“What we’re seeing is that the nation’s schools really are making progress in addressing the obesity crisis and teenage tobacco use,” said Howell Wechsler, the director of the division of adolescent and school health at the disease agency and an author of the study. “But large numbers of schools are still not implementing recommended policies. We need all the nation’s schools to have environments that make it easy for children to make healthy choices.”
In some instances, Mr. Wechsler said, states set policies that districts and schools do not immediately embrace, particularly when mandating physical activity.
“It takes a while for the policies to go down,” he said. “Local school districts just haven’t been able to figure out how to make time for physical education in the school day.”
The overall picture, however, suggests a nationwide response by school administrators and elected officials to concerns about children’s weight and inactivity.
A recent national survey determined that 17 percent of children from 2 to 19 could be classified as overweight. The prevalence of overweight children for all age groups is nearly double that of a decade ago.
In 2004, Congress passed a law requiring each school district to develop a “wellness policy” to promote the students’ health by setting goals for nutrition education and physical activity. Those policies are just now taking effect, and some school administrators predict that the next survey will show more marked improvements. Some schools have set out to place health education on a par with academics. In Los Angeles County, Sepulveda Middle School has banned soft drinks and eliminated unhealthy snacks from the school store. Salad, fruit and yogurt are always available in the cafeteria, said Patricia J. Pelletier, the principal.
Nearly an hour of physical education is required daily, the school offers after-hours training in distance running, and it has started a class on healthy cooking for parents.
“If kids are healthy and have healthy lifestyles, they’re going to be better students,” Ms. Pelletier said. “They’re going to be in school, and they’re going to be connected with the teachers in a better way.”
Dr. David K. Appel, director of the Montefiore School Health Program, which provides health services to 15 schools in the Bronx, said the improvements noted in the study “show that we are now in the early stages of a comprehensive societal response to what could be the greatest health challenge the U.S. has ever faced, which is pervasive childhood obesity.”
Dr. Appel said much more needed to be done, particularly in educating families and gaining the support of marketers of fast food and soft drinks.
The survey found that nearly two-thirds of schools prohibited tobacco use in all locations, including at off-campus functions, up from 46 percent in 2000. Another finding was that the proportion of states that require middle schools to teach human sexuality grew, to 59 percent from 46 percent.
The report found a variety of indications of healthier cooking in school cafeterias. Fifty-five percent reported that they had removed the skin from poultry before cooking, up from 40 percent, and 46 percent now use low-fat cheeses, up from 31 percent. But 12 percent of elementary schools, 19 percent of middle schools and 24 percent of high schools offer students brand-name fast food from businesses like Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Mens and women discard old clothes
Today in the state of Energised, in the country of Fit Australia, there was an extraordinary chain of events taking place.
Men and women of all ages were donating their old clothes to charity.
With the fit and healthy epidemic hitting Fit Australia, people are handing in clothes that do not fit them any more.
Some dresses are now being used for tents. Shirts as shade cloth and belts getting chopped up and made smaller.
This is due to the country's new trend towards regular exercise and healthy eating.
Charities are excepting the clothing but have no one to give it to.
A spokesman from one of the charities stated, that even low income earners are finding it costs nothing to get outside and get healthy again. Therefore do not need the large fitting clothes so kindly donated.
Men and women of all ages were donating their old clothes to charity.
With the fit and healthy epidemic hitting Fit Australia, people are handing in clothes that do not fit them any more.
Some dresses are now being used for tents. Shirts as shade cloth and belts getting chopped up and made smaller.
This is due to the country's new trend towards regular exercise and healthy eating.
Charities are excepting the clothing but have no one to give it to.
A spokesman from one of the charities stated, that even low income earners are finding it costs nothing to get outside and get healthy again. Therefore do not need the large fitting clothes so kindly donated.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Positive and sensible eating!
Country Fit Australia applauds sensible eating for its citizens
Limit Intake of Starches for Effective Weight Loss?
Posted by EditorsChoice
Sunday, 07 October 2007
Starches are fattening and should be limited when trying to lose weight is a myth.
Many foods high in starch, like bread, rice, pasta, cereals, beans, fruits, and some vegetables (like potatoes and yams) are low in fat and calories. They become high in fat and calories when eaten in large portion sizes or when covered with high-fat toppings like butter, sour cream, or mayonnaise. Foods high in starch (also called complex carbohydrates) are an important source of energy for your body.
A healthy eating plan is one that emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products. Includes lean meats, poultry, fish, beans, eggs, and nuts. Is low in saturated fats, trans fat, cholesterol, salt (sodium), and added sugars.
Limit Intake of Starches for Effective Weight Loss?
Posted by EditorsChoice
Sunday, 07 October 2007
Starches are fattening and should be limited when trying to lose weight is a myth.
Many foods high in starch, like bread, rice, pasta, cereals, beans, fruits, and some vegetables (like potatoes and yams) are low in fat and calories. They become high in fat and calories when eaten in large portion sizes or when covered with high-fat toppings like butter, sour cream, or mayonnaise. Foods high in starch (also called complex carbohydrates) are an important source of energy for your body.
A healthy eating plan is one that emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products. Includes lean meats, poultry, fish, beans, eggs, and nuts. Is low in saturated fats, trans fat, cholesterol, salt (sodium), and added sugars.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
GETTING THE HEAD TO THINK - EXERCISE!
GETTING YOUR HEAD AROUND POSITIVE THOUGHTS AND EXERCISING
The New Visualization Breakthrough: Mental Training Tactics for Health and Fitness Success
Posted by EditorsChoice
Sunday, 07 October 2007
Understanding the mind's role in motivation and behavior is one of the most critical elements in fitness success. If you struggle with changing habits and behaviors or if you can't get motivated, then even the best training and nutrition program is not much help.
A fascinating fact about your subconscious mind is that it's completely deductive in nature. In other words, it's fully capable of working backwards from the end to the means. If you "program" only the desired outcome successfully into your "mental computer," then your subconscious will take over and help you find the information and means and carry out the actions necessary to reach it.
Many people are familiar with affirmations and goal-setting as ways to give instructions to your subconscious mind. But perhaps the ultimate mental training" technique is visualization. In one respect, affirmation and visualization are the same, because when you speak or think an affirmation first, that triggers a mental image, being as the human brain "thinks" in pictures.
You can use visualization to plant goals into your subconscious mind. You simply close your eyes, use your imagination and mentally create pictures and run movies of your desired results. If repeated consistently with emotion, mental images are accepted by your subconscious as commands and this helps with changing habits, behavior and performance.
Although there are some new and creative ways to use visualization, (which you are about to learn), this is not a new technique. Visualization has been used formally in the fields of sports psychology and personal development for decades and philosophers have discussed it for centuries:
"If you want to reach your goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal."
- Zig Ziglar
"The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you."
- Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Perhaps the most effective method of bringing the subconscious into practical action is through the process of making mental pictures - using the imagination."
- Claude Bristol
"There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking."
- William James, 1842-1910, Psychologist and Author
Despite these glowing endorsements and a long track record, some people can't get past feeling that this is just a "hokey" self-help technique. Rest assured, however, that visualization is an effective and time-tested method for increasing personal success that has been used by some of the highest achievers the world.
The Soviets started to popularize visualization in sports psychology back in the 1970's, as detailed in Charles Garfield's landmark book, "Peak Performance." They dominated in many sports during that period, which validated visualization anecdotally.
In the last 10-15 years, there has been some groundbreaking new brain research which has validated visualization scientifically. Here's something that was written recently by Dr. Richard Restak, a neuroscientist and author of 12 books about the human brain:
"The process of imagining yourself going through the motions of a complex musical or athletic performance activates brain areas that improve your performance. Brain scans have placed such intuitions on a firm neurological basis. Positron emission tomography (PET) scans reveal that the mental rehearsal of an action activates the prefontal areas of the brain responsible for the formulation of the appropriate motor programs. In practical terms, this means you can benefit from the use of mental imagery."
So much for being a "cheesy" self-help technique.
Although visualization is widely used today, even people who are familiar with it often don't realize its many applications. Arguably the most common use of visualization is by athletes, musicians and other performers as a form of "mental rehearsal." Research shows that "practicing in your mind" is almost as effective as practicing physically, and that doing both is more effective than either one alone.
A common use of visualization in the fitness context is "goal visualization." In your mind's eye, you can see yourself having already achieved your physique goal or your ideal goal weight. You can also visualize a specific performance goal such as completing a difficult workout or a heavy lift like a squat or bench press.
One creative way you can use mental imagery is called "process visualization." Once you've set your goals, it's easy to come up with a list of the daily habits, behaviors and action steps necessary to reach your goal. So write down the action steps and visualize them - the entire process, not just the end result. See yourself food shopping and grabbing fruits, vegetables and lean proteins, ordering healthy foods from restaurant menus, saying no to sodas and drinking water instead, and going to the gym consistently and having killer workouts. Some people visualize their entire "perfect day" as they would want it to unfold. When you do this as vividly, emotionally and in as much detail as you can, you will be neurologically priming your brain to carry out those behaviors.
The least known of all mental imagery techniques is called "physiology visualization." An example would be picturing the fat burning process in your body or seeing the muscle fibers growing larger and larger. Using this technique, could it be possible that you might be giving subconscious instructions to your body's cells, organs and tissues?
Well, consider the work of Dr. Carl Simonton, a physician and cancer researcher who taught his patients (as one part of a comprehensive program), how to visualize powerful immune cells devouring the cancer cells. I'm not suggesting that you can cure cancer or materialize a lean and muscular body just by visualizing, (there's a step in between thought and manifestation - it's called action - a step that many self help
The New Visualization Breakthrough: Mental Training Tactics for Health and Fitness Success
Posted by EditorsChoice
Sunday, 07 October 2007
Understanding the mind's role in motivation and behavior is one of the most critical elements in fitness success. If you struggle with changing habits and behaviors or if you can't get motivated, then even the best training and nutrition program is not much help.
A fascinating fact about your subconscious mind is that it's completely deductive in nature. In other words, it's fully capable of working backwards from the end to the means. If you "program" only the desired outcome successfully into your "mental computer," then your subconscious will take over and help you find the information and means and carry out the actions necessary to reach it.
Many people are familiar with affirmations and goal-setting as ways to give instructions to your subconscious mind. But perhaps the ultimate mental training" technique is visualization. In one respect, affirmation and visualization are the same, because when you speak or think an affirmation first, that triggers a mental image, being as the human brain "thinks" in pictures.
You can use visualization to plant goals into your subconscious mind. You simply close your eyes, use your imagination and mentally create pictures and run movies of your desired results. If repeated consistently with emotion, mental images are accepted by your subconscious as commands and this helps with changing habits, behavior and performance.
Although there are some new and creative ways to use visualization, (which you are about to learn), this is not a new technique. Visualization has been used formally in the fields of sports psychology and personal development for decades and philosophers have discussed it for centuries:
"If you want to reach your goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal."
- Zig Ziglar
"The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you."
- Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Perhaps the most effective method of bringing the subconscious into practical action is through the process of making mental pictures - using the imagination."
- Claude Bristol
"There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking."
- William James, 1842-1910, Psychologist and Author
Despite these glowing endorsements and a long track record, some people can't get past feeling that this is just a "hokey" self-help technique. Rest assured, however, that visualization is an effective and time-tested method for increasing personal success that has been used by some of the highest achievers the world.
The Soviets started to popularize visualization in sports psychology back in the 1970's, as detailed in Charles Garfield's landmark book, "Peak Performance." They dominated in many sports during that period, which validated visualization anecdotally.
In the last 10-15 years, there has been some groundbreaking new brain research which has validated visualization scientifically. Here's something that was written recently by Dr. Richard Restak, a neuroscientist and author of 12 books about the human brain:
"The process of imagining yourself going through the motions of a complex musical or athletic performance activates brain areas that improve your performance. Brain scans have placed such intuitions on a firm neurological basis. Positron emission tomography (PET) scans reveal that the mental rehearsal of an action activates the prefontal areas of the brain responsible for the formulation of the appropriate motor programs. In practical terms, this means you can benefit from the use of mental imagery."
So much for being a "cheesy" self-help technique.
Although visualization is widely used today, even people who are familiar with it often don't realize its many applications. Arguably the most common use of visualization is by athletes, musicians and other performers as a form of "mental rehearsal." Research shows that "practicing in your mind" is almost as effective as practicing physically, and that doing both is more effective than either one alone.
A common use of visualization in the fitness context is "goal visualization." In your mind's eye, you can see yourself having already achieved your physique goal or your ideal goal weight. You can also visualize a specific performance goal such as completing a difficult workout or a heavy lift like a squat or bench press.
One creative way you can use mental imagery is called "process visualization." Once you've set your goals, it's easy to come up with a list of the daily habits, behaviors and action steps necessary to reach your goal. So write down the action steps and visualize them - the entire process, not just the end result. See yourself food shopping and grabbing fruits, vegetables and lean proteins, ordering healthy foods from restaurant menus, saying no to sodas and drinking water instead, and going to the gym consistently and having killer workouts. Some people visualize their entire "perfect day" as they would want it to unfold. When you do this as vividly, emotionally and in as much detail as you can, you will be neurologically priming your brain to carry out those behaviors.
The least known of all mental imagery techniques is called "physiology visualization." An example would be picturing the fat burning process in your body or seeing the muscle fibers growing larger and larger. Using this technique, could it be possible that you might be giving subconscious instructions to your body's cells, organs and tissues?
Well, consider the work of Dr. Carl Simonton, a physician and cancer researcher who taught his patients (as one part of a comprehensive program), how to visualize powerful immune cells devouring the cancer cells. I'm not suggesting that you can cure cancer or materialize a lean and muscular body just by visualizing, (there's a step in between thought and manifestation - it's called action - a step that many self help
Thursday, October 4, 2007
APP.COM - DAY OF SMART TIPS | Asbury Park Press Online
Another part of the world like Fit Australia!
Families doing something about it!
APP.COM - DAY OF SMART TIPS | Asbury Park Press Online
Families doing something about it!
APP.COM - DAY OF SMART TIPS | Asbury Park Press Online
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Medical News: Exercise Boosts Joint Health as It Builds Cardiovascular Fitness - in Primary Care, Exercise & Fitness from MedPage Today
Another positive message for Fit Australia Herald readers.
Medical News: Exercise Boosts Joint Health as It Builds Cardiovascular Fitness - in Primary Care, Exercise & Fitness from MedPage Today
Medical News: Exercise Boosts Joint Health as It Builds Cardiovascular Fitness - in Primary Care, Exercise & Fitness from MedPage Today
Friday, September 28, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Game Show Contestants look fantastic
Fit Australia National TV is astounded by the number of 30 plus year old game show contestants, looking fantastic on screen.
More and more average people are exercising and eating healthier.
Gone are the days when overweight ladies and gents come onto game shows and look older than they actually are.
It shows people are taking care of themselves they way they look and feel,says talk host Serry Jinger.
Double chins have gone and guts.All from simply moving and chosing less fatty food options.
Game shows are now getting more people tuning in to see the fantastic changes of the contestants.
One show that has emerged is the biggest winner.This show provides a message that anyone can do it,without someone yelling at you.All contestants are winners just for starting to exercise, no one is voted off and lose the weight as a group.
The show encourages and educates the viewers to join in and have fun while exercising.
The Fit Australia government has applauded this program.
More and more average people are exercising and eating healthier.
Gone are the days when overweight ladies and gents come onto game shows and look older than they actually are.
It shows people are taking care of themselves they way they look and feel,says talk host Serry Jinger.
Double chins have gone and guts.All from simply moving and chosing less fatty food options.
Game shows are now getting more people tuning in to see the fantastic changes of the contestants.
One show that has emerged is the biggest winner.This show provides a message that anyone can do it,without someone yelling at you.All contestants are winners just for starting to exercise, no one is voted off and lose the weight as a group.
The show encourages and educates the viewers to join in and have fun while exercising.
The Fit Australia government has applauded this program.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Workplace Smoking to Exercise Breaks
Work place breaks
The country of Fit Australia released from Parliament, a survey conducted in all cities. The survey asked all employers what type of breaks their employees were getting throughout the day.
Startling results showed employers were now replacing smoke breaks with exercise breaks.
Previously, employers paid its employees to go outside and have a smoke for 10-15 minutes, at any given time. Some employees would times that by 8 - 10 breaks per day.It was seen as the norm at the workplace.Pay the worker to smoke.
Today employers are encouraging workers to get away from their computers and get moving. This is done by a walk up the stairs to the next floor, or 3 laps around the floor they work on, a walk outside or a walk on the floor treadmill.
This has led to more productivity,less stress and happier workers.
Smokers now have to clock off if they smoke in work time. They are rewarded if they exercise.
The Country of Fit Australia does it again.
The country of Fit Australia released from Parliament, a survey conducted in all cities. The survey asked all employers what type of breaks their employees were getting throughout the day.
Startling results showed employers were now replacing smoke breaks with exercise breaks.
Previously, employers paid its employees to go outside and have a smoke for 10-15 minutes, at any given time. Some employees would times that by 8 - 10 breaks per day.It was seen as the norm at the workplace.Pay the worker to smoke.
Today employers are encouraging workers to get away from their computers and get moving. This is done by a walk up the stairs to the next floor, or 3 laps around the floor they work on, a walk outside or a walk on the floor treadmill.
This has led to more productivity,less stress and happier workers.
Smokers now have to clock off if they smoke in work time. They are rewarded if they exercise.
The Country of Fit Australia does it again.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Rival Country Fat Australia still going backwards!
Bosses weigh up fat workforce
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Overweight workers are costing Australia billions in lost productivity. Now employers are starting to weigh in. By Katherine Fleming.
Each day, thousands of Australians drive to the office, catch the lift to their floor and sit down at their desk. They switch on the computer and stay glued to it for most of the day, maybe getting up to sit in a meeting room or grab lunch, a soft drink or calorie-laden snack from the office vending machine.
The modern workplace is often not conducive to a trim figure. A recent Australian study confirming the link between a worker's weight and time spent sitting at a desk labelled it a "potentially hostile environment in terms of overweight and obesity". But now, the office is emerging as a key battleground in the war against Australia's ballooning waistline, as employers begin to realise the impact of poor health on their bottom-line.
The economic cost of obesity was estimated at $21bn a year, including $1.7bn in lost productivity, by Access Economics late last year. Another study, by Medibank Private, puts the cost of unhealthy workers at $7bn a year.
Professor Don Iverson, from the Health and Productivity Research Centre at the University of Wollongong, says the mounting evidence provides economic rationale for businesses to help employees manage their weight. "If you're overweight, you have significantly more days off, you have a much higher risk of having disability - lower back pain for example - and while you're at work your productivity on average tends to be around 15% to 20% less than people who aren't overweight," Iverson says. "It costs the company money, if you want to be brutal about it. But good workers are an asset and companies want to maintain them."
The statistics on Australia's battle with the bulge are staggering despite being oft-repeated: almost 63% of women and more than 72% of men are overweight or obese, putting them at higher risk of conditions like diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.
Australians have gained on average 10kg each in the 15 years to 2005, with women's waists expanding 16cm and men's 12cm. The World Health Organisation estimates that if we continue at current rates, overweight levels will reach 70% for women and almost 80% for men by 2015. In the US, one of the few countries with more overweight people than Australia, corporations take a keen interest in programs to reduce employees' weight and the subsequent risk of developing disease as they pay for health insurance. In Australia, the incentive is not as clear-cut, and business has been slower to catch on.
Boyd Swinburn, professor of population health at Deakin University, says the impact on cost and productivity has seen obesity prevention and management "get a guernsey" here. "The direct financial impact is not as great as it is in the US but, nevertheless, companies have realised a healthy workforce is very important to increased productivity," he says.
Several large companies have "wellness programs" for workers, including some banks, the Australian Taxation Office and Energy Australia, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. Strategies include bike racks, walking challenges and subsidising exercise programs.
Weight Watchers runs a workplace program, with clients including Commonwealth Bank, Star City Casino and Zurich Financial Services. "Employers realise [health] influences the positiveness of their employees, as well their bottom line," says program director Belinda Dimovski.
In a major report released late last month, PricewaterhouseCoopers concluded there were "quantifiable benefits from using wellness programs to attract and retain talented healthy employees ... The economic case for prevention is overwhelming."
But Queensland cardiologist Dr Geoff Holt, medical director of Wesley Corporate Health, which provides health services, including weight management, to businesses, says many organisations still refuse to treat workplace health in a strategic way.
"I have been personally surprised that some major companies [in Australia] don't have a serious, significant and strategic interest in employee health," Holt says. "I've been observing these trends for 17 years. Things are better, but it depends on the leadership of the organisation. I am always astounded when companies don't champion health as a priority.
"With full employment, you need to be the best employer. Most employers know that. I don't know how to challenge them further. If boards of companies in Australia don't have wellness high on their agenda, I think they're letting their shareholders down."
But Dr John Lang, managing director of workplace health company Good Health Solutions, believes the mood is changing. Lang's clients include ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and Boral. "The big issue for us has been the move from the warm and fuzzy space. We used to talk to companies considering themselves employers of choice or considering it good corporate citizenship to assist their employees to live a healthy life," Lang says.
"There has been a massively accumulating bunch of data here in Australia and in the US linking health to productivity. Now instead of just dealing with that employer of choice, we are dealing with hard-nosed bean-counters who say, 'if we spend this much, what will we get?'
"Ten or 15 years ago, it was common for companies ... to say personal health is not the responsibility of the organisation. Now they're saying if health impacts on productivity, illness and absence and those key business outcomes, it is the responsibility of the company."
Lang's company's research shows that high body mass index (BMI), a measurement of overweight, is the best overall predictor of poor health. Results of its recent survey of more than 3000 employees from 22 organisations, released exclusively to The Bulletin, found male managers are most likely to be overweight, at a rate of 68%. It also found many workers are in denial. Only 12% believe they're overweight, but when height and weight data is collected, the actual number is 50%.
Not only are those employees at higher risk physically, the survey found they're less likely to see a career path, feel less committed to work and less satisfied in their job.
Professor Ian Caterson is a leading obesity expert and head of the newly established Institute of Obesity, Nutrition and Exercise at the University of Sydney. He says tackling the overweight problem will require a multi-pronged approach, including changing urban planning so people have places to exercise, simplifying food labelling and making fresh food more affordable.
Caterson also rates highly the introduction of financial incentives to promote good health. "One thing that is important, and treasury [departments] are realising this, is encouraging healthy workplaces, like having tax breaks for companies that put in a gym and then encourage you to use it," Caterson says. For example, companies could give workers flexible hours or some free time to use the gym and receive a tax break for putting it in if a certain number of staff use it regularly.
"Invariably, some people will need to lose a lot [of weight] but most of us need to lose that 5kg, by having either work incentives or making it easier to get public transport or walk to work or having fresh fruit available," Caterson says. "My personal [preference] would be economic incentives to put in healthy eating in workplaces but there are a whole range of practical things."
Steve Pratt, co-ordinator of nutrition and physical activity at Cancer Council WA, says while some companies have the "Rolls-Royce" of workplace health programs, including gym memberships, "there are changes that can be made that cost nothing".
A UK study published recently in the American Journal of Health Promotion showed that posting signs saying "Take the stairs" or "Seven minutes of stair-climbing protects your heart" on shopping centre stairs led to a 190% increase in people using them over six weeks. It's an example Pratt uses to show simple things can be effective.
"It is about those structural barriers and enablers, like having the stairs open. There are a range of things that an organisation can do that encourage staff to be healthier, like flexible working hours if people do want to exercise in their lunch break, or nutritional and catering policies if you're providing lunch or morning tea," he says.
Experts agree that office vending machines for soft drinks and junk foods have to go. Holt says it's akin to having one for cigarettes. "Those vending machines should supply water and nutritious foods. There should be fruit available. Nutritious lunches should be available, not this fast, fatty food you find in the majority of canteens," he says. "You only need an extra 100 calories a day - a slice of bread - to put on 5kg to 10kg in a year.
"It is what we eat that's killing us ... we are more affluent and living in this so-called 'cafe society' where everywhere you go, you have takeaway food options that are often dense in calories. We can't just continue to do the same amount of exercise that we did. We, as a nation, have to do more because I don't believe we are likely to reduce our food intake."
Swinburn says literature on current workplace health programs shows the impacts are "modest, which is disappointing". He believes changing office eating habits is more likely to be effective than trying to dramatically alter work patterns. "There may not be a lot of room to move in reality. The increasing level of inactivity in the workplace is largely to do with the mechanisation and computerisation and automation of the jobs we do.
"We're at work for a fair chunk of our lives and, if that is increasingly sedentary, that is one of the major drivers of the [overweight] epidemic. But drivers are not always solutions. There is no way in reality we are going to pull back on automation in the workplace. The more potent thing companies can do is about food policies and what they have in vending machines or in the cafeteria, or having some nutritional guidelines on the food served if they have work functions."
Lang argues the key is making healthy choices easy, saying it is harder than ever for someone to be healthy and lean. "It's only the zealots who are able to keep it going. The barriers to healthy behaviour are becoming so high that it requires a high level of motivation and commitment to maintain good health. Year by year, people fall off the perch and become one of the unhealthy ones."
In an editorial in The Medical Journal of Australia last year, International Diabetes Institute director Professor Paul Zimmet made a blunt assessment of Australia's efforts to curb obesity. "We are facing a seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of obesity and diabetes," he wrote. "This epidemic is guaranteed to continue, unless we accept that the decades-long reliance on health promotion and intense media coverage of obesity have had virtually no effect."
To continue as we are is not an option. If left unaddressed, Zimmet says, Type 2 diabetes - the fastest growing epidemic in human history - will bankrupt entire nations. The associated renal disease alone will cripple our health system, adds Ian Caterson. Already, expanding waistlines are thwarting hard-won medical advances. Recent results from the EUROASPIRE study found a substantial increase in key risk factors for heart attacks, including high blood pressure and poorly controlled diabetes, despite effective drugs.
Still, Zimmet is optimistic we're on the right track. The weight epidemic has become an important political issue in recent years. Both the government and opposition have policies to tackle it, including matching pledges last week to consider subsidising weight-loss programs. "If anything, there has been a lot of momentum," Zimmet says. "There are self-interest groups - I call them the food Taliban - who are totally obsessed with the idea of changing [junk food] advertising on TV without looking at the big picture. It is not a single issue that is causing the crisis."
Caterson says the problem is that everyone, including governments, want to know what's proven to work. "We have to say that very little has been tried but education doesn't work, so if you're telling us you're going to put out another pamphlet, that doesn't work."
Despite the enormity of the issue, Caterson is upbeat. "Yes, it's a problem. But we're better off than we were five years ago and I hope we'll be better again in another five years."
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Overweight workers are costing Australia billions in lost productivity. Now employers are starting to weigh in. By Katherine Fleming.
Each day, thousands of Australians drive to the office, catch the lift to their floor and sit down at their desk. They switch on the computer and stay glued to it for most of the day, maybe getting up to sit in a meeting room or grab lunch, a soft drink or calorie-laden snack from the office vending machine.
The modern workplace is often not conducive to a trim figure. A recent Australian study confirming the link between a worker's weight and time spent sitting at a desk labelled it a "potentially hostile environment in terms of overweight and obesity". But now, the office is emerging as a key battleground in the war against Australia's ballooning waistline, as employers begin to realise the impact of poor health on their bottom-line.
The economic cost of obesity was estimated at $21bn a year, including $1.7bn in lost productivity, by Access Economics late last year. Another study, by Medibank Private, puts the cost of unhealthy workers at $7bn a year.
Professor Don Iverson, from the Health and Productivity Research Centre at the University of Wollongong, says the mounting evidence provides economic rationale for businesses to help employees manage their weight. "If you're overweight, you have significantly more days off, you have a much higher risk of having disability - lower back pain for example - and while you're at work your productivity on average tends to be around 15% to 20% less than people who aren't overweight," Iverson says. "It costs the company money, if you want to be brutal about it. But good workers are an asset and companies want to maintain them."
The statistics on Australia's battle with the bulge are staggering despite being oft-repeated: almost 63% of women and more than 72% of men are overweight or obese, putting them at higher risk of conditions like diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.
Australians have gained on average 10kg each in the 15 years to 2005, with women's waists expanding 16cm and men's 12cm. The World Health Organisation estimates that if we continue at current rates, overweight levels will reach 70% for women and almost 80% for men by 2015. In the US, one of the few countries with more overweight people than Australia, corporations take a keen interest in programs to reduce employees' weight and the subsequent risk of developing disease as they pay for health insurance. In Australia, the incentive is not as clear-cut, and business has been slower to catch on.
Boyd Swinburn, professor of population health at Deakin University, says the impact on cost and productivity has seen obesity prevention and management "get a guernsey" here. "The direct financial impact is not as great as it is in the US but, nevertheless, companies have realised a healthy workforce is very important to increased productivity," he says.
Several large companies have "wellness programs" for workers, including some banks, the Australian Taxation Office and Energy Australia, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. Strategies include bike racks, walking challenges and subsidising exercise programs.
Weight Watchers runs a workplace program, with clients including Commonwealth Bank, Star City Casino and Zurich Financial Services. "Employers realise [health] influences the positiveness of their employees, as well their bottom line," says program director Belinda Dimovski.
In a major report released late last month, PricewaterhouseCoopers concluded there were "quantifiable benefits from using wellness programs to attract and retain talented healthy employees ... The economic case for prevention is overwhelming."
But Queensland cardiologist Dr Geoff Holt, medical director of Wesley Corporate Health, which provides health services, including weight management, to businesses, says many organisations still refuse to treat workplace health in a strategic way.
"I have been personally surprised that some major companies [in Australia] don't have a serious, significant and strategic interest in employee health," Holt says. "I've been observing these trends for 17 years. Things are better, but it depends on the leadership of the organisation. I am always astounded when companies don't champion health as a priority.
"With full employment, you need to be the best employer. Most employers know that. I don't know how to challenge them further. If boards of companies in Australia don't have wellness high on their agenda, I think they're letting their shareholders down."
But Dr John Lang, managing director of workplace health company Good Health Solutions, believes the mood is changing. Lang's clients include ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and Boral. "The big issue for us has been the move from the warm and fuzzy space. We used to talk to companies considering themselves employers of choice or considering it good corporate citizenship to assist their employees to live a healthy life," Lang says.
"There has been a massively accumulating bunch of data here in Australia and in the US linking health to productivity. Now instead of just dealing with that employer of choice, we are dealing with hard-nosed bean-counters who say, 'if we spend this much, what will we get?'
"Ten or 15 years ago, it was common for companies ... to say personal health is not the responsibility of the organisation. Now they're saying if health impacts on productivity, illness and absence and those key business outcomes, it is the responsibility of the company."
Lang's company's research shows that high body mass index (BMI), a measurement of overweight, is the best overall predictor of poor health. Results of its recent survey of more than 3000 employees from 22 organisations, released exclusively to The Bulletin, found male managers are most likely to be overweight, at a rate of 68%. It also found many workers are in denial. Only 12% believe they're overweight, but when height and weight data is collected, the actual number is 50%.
Not only are those employees at higher risk physically, the survey found they're less likely to see a career path, feel less committed to work and less satisfied in their job.
Professor Ian Caterson is a leading obesity expert and head of the newly established Institute of Obesity, Nutrition and Exercise at the University of Sydney. He says tackling the overweight problem will require a multi-pronged approach, including changing urban planning so people have places to exercise, simplifying food labelling and making fresh food more affordable.
Caterson also rates highly the introduction of financial incentives to promote good health. "One thing that is important, and treasury [departments] are realising this, is encouraging healthy workplaces, like having tax breaks for companies that put in a gym and then encourage you to use it," Caterson says. For example, companies could give workers flexible hours or some free time to use the gym and receive a tax break for putting it in if a certain number of staff use it regularly.
"Invariably, some people will need to lose a lot [of weight] but most of us need to lose that 5kg, by having either work incentives or making it easier to get public transport or walk to work or having fresh fruit available," Caterson says. "My personal [preference] would be economic incentives to put in healthy eating in workplaces but there are a whole range of practical things."
Steve Pratt, co-ordinator of nutrition and physical activity at Cancer Council WA, says while some companies have the "Rolls-Royce" of workplace health programs, including gym memberships, "there are changes that can be made that cost nothing".
A UK study published recently in the American Journal of Health Promotion showed that posting signs saying "Take the stairs" or "Seven minutes of stair-climbing protects your heart" on shopping centre stairs led to a 190% increase in people using them over six weeks. It's an example Pratt uses to show simple things can be effective.
"It is about those structural barriers and enablers, like having the stairs open. There are a range of things that an organisation can do that encourage staff to be healthier, like flexible working hours if people do want to exercise in their lunch break, or nutritional and catering policies if you're providing lunch or morning tea," he says.
Experts agree that office vending machines for soft drinks and junk foods have to go. Holt says it's akin to having one for cigarettes. "Those vending machines should supply water and nutritious foods. There should be fruit available. Nutritious lunches should be available, not this fast, fatty food you find in the majority of canteens," he says. "You only need an extra 100 calories a day - a slice of bread - to put on 5kg to 10kg in a year.
"It is what we eat that's killing us ... we are more affluent and living in this so-called 'cafe society' where everywhere you go, you have takeaway food options that are often dense in calories. We can't just continue to do the same amount of exercise that we did. We, as a nation, have to do more because I don't believe we are likely to reduce our food intake."
Swinburn says literature on current workplace health programs shows the impacts are "modest, which is disappointing". He believes changing office eating habits is more likely to be effective than trying to dramatically alter work patterns. "There may not be a lot of room to move in reality. The increasing level of inactivity in the workplace is largely to do with the mechanisation and computerisation and automation of the jobs we do.
"We're at work for a fair chunk of our lives and, if that is increasingly sedentary, that is one of the major drivers of the [overweight] epidemic. But drivers are not always solutions. There is no way in reality we are going to pull back on automation in the workplace. The more potent thing companies can do is about food policies and what they have in vending machines or in the cafeteria, or having some nutritional guidelines on the food served if they have work functions."
Lang argues the key is making healthy choices easy, saying it is harder than ever for someone to be healthy and lean. "It's only the zealots who are able to keep it going. The barriers to healthy behaviour are becoming so high that it requires a high level of motivation and commitment to maintain good health. Year by year, people fall off the perch and become one of the unhealthy ones."
In an editorial in The Medical Journal of Australia last year, International Diabetes Institute director Professor Paul Zimmet made a blunt assessment of Australia's efforts to curb obesity. "We are facing a seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of obesity and diabetes," he wrote. "This epidemic is guaranteed to continue, unless we accept that the decades-long reliance on health promotion and intense media coverage of obesity have had virtually no effect."
To continue as we are is not an option. If left unaddressed, Zimmet says, Type 2 diabetes - the fastest growing epidemic in human history - will bankrupt entire nations. The associated renal disease alone will cripple our health system, adds Ian Caterson. Already, expanding waistlines are thwarting hard-won medical advances. Recent results from the EUROASPIRE study found a substantial increase in key risk factors for heart attacks, including high blood pressure and poorly controlled diabetes, despite effective drugs.
Still, Zimmet is optimistic we're on the right track. The weight epidemic has become an important political issue in recent years. Both the government and opposition have policies to tackle it, including matching pledges last week to consider subsidising weight-loss programs. "If anything, there has been a lot of momentum," Zimmet says. "There are self-interest groups - I call them the food Taliban - who are totally obsessed with the idea of changing [junk food] advertising on TV without looking at the big picture. It is not a single issue that is causing the crisis."
Caterson says the problem is that everyone, including governments, want to know what's proven to work. "We have to say that very little has been tried but education doesn't work, so if you're telling us you're going to put out another pamphlet, that doesn't work."
Despite the enormity of the issue, Caterson is upbeat. "Yes, it's a problem. But we're better off than we were five years ago and I hope we'll be better again in another five years."
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Parents concerned in Country Fit Australia
Parents have aired there concerns in the country of Fit Australia. Parents are getting more worried each day as kids are wanting to get outside and exercise.
Parents are trying to prevent this by buying the latest game or dvd for them to sit down and watch. This is most prevalent during sunny clear days.
They cannot explain the fact that kids are wanting the latest ball to kick and throw.
Kids are wanting to know what a Frisbee is. This toy was made obsolete by the inactivity of the last generation.
Latest studies show that parks,swings and back yards are full of children running,skipping,hopping and happy.
Parents groups say its out of control and kids are getting healthier everyday.
Parents are trying to prevent this by buying the latest game or dvd for them to sit down and watch. This is most prevalent during sunny clear days.
They cannot explain the fact that kids are wanting the latest ball to kick and throw.
Kids are wanting to know what a Frisbee is. This toy was made obsolete by the inactivity of the last generation.
Latest studies show that parks,swings and back yards are full of children running,skipping,hopping and happy.
Parents groups say its out of control and kids are getting healthier everyday.
Monday, September 17, 2007
The Country of Fit Australia Goes Berserk!
Reports just coming in from the country of Fit Australia show an alarming increase in healthy avtive people. A study of the countries population show walkways and bike paths are packed everyday.
The steady rise of the health of the population is costing the fast food industry 2.1billion per year.
A representitive from the Golden Arches fast food chain stated they have banded together with other fast food oultlets including the Generals CFK. She went on to say it is a major concern to the population that they are not eating fast food throughout the week anymore.
We must act now to stop this epidemic they call health and fitness. It is costing the fast food industry millions of dollars.
'People are choosing to eat healthier and cooking healthy meals for their families, she said. We have got to get the population to realise that eating our fried fatty foods will give you more time to watch TV and play computor games.'
She added the Big Arch burgar burgar fries fries deep deep fried mega boost cop the lot chicken original recipe is the best way to eat dinner.And the kiddies love it!
Dubbed the silent life saver this regular exercise thing is out of control and will see health and fitness levels rise 50% in 10 years.
The steady rise of the health of the population is costing the fast food industry 2.1billion per year.
A representitive from the Golden Arches fast food chain stated they have banded together with other fast food oultlets including the Generals CFK. She went on to say it is a major concern to the population that they are not eating fast food throughout the week anymore.
We must act now to stop this epidemic they call health and fitness. It is costing the fast food industry millions of dollars.
'People are choosing to eat healthier and cooking healthy meals for their families, she said. We have got to get the population to realise that eating our fried fatty foods will give you more time to watch TV and play computor games.'
She added the Big Arch burgar burgar fries fries deep deep fried mega boost cop the lot chicken original recipe is the best way to eat dinner.And the kiddies love it!
Dubbed the silent life saver this regular exercise thing is out of control and will see health and fitness levels rise 50% in 10 years.
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