Doing Sports or Eat First??

Jakarta, There are people who choose to eat a new sport or otherwise. Which is correct before exercise or eat first? The following scientific explanations.

According to health experts, the correct behavior is to exercise first. But that does not mean someone should exercise without eating any food, because these people will not have the energy to exercise but not in the form of heavy food.

Why after eating may not directly exercise?

Because once a person eating a heavy meal, the blood will automatically flow into the stomach. Meanwhile, in the stomach was going on absorption of nutrients from food that is consumed. Body also are dumping leftover food into a specific body part and deliver oxygen throughout the body.

Some people feel cramps when exercising after eating caused by a stomach full of food were forced to pull ligaments . It also raises uncomfortable feeling in the stomach and in some people can cause vomiting.

As quoted from Yourtotalhealth, Saturday (20/11/2009), how long will it take to wait before doing exercise depends on what is consumed.

Usually takes between 30 minutes to 2 hours just to exercise. But if you eat foods that are more severe then the waiting time even longer. But if you only eat a light snack or a few low-fat crackers, do not require a long time to exercise.

What foods can be consumed before exercise? Good food consumed before exercise depends on the time when we will do excercise.

If exercising in the morning to eat fruit, juice or water is sufficient. If working out in mid-morning and a high carbohydrate breakfast is enough to provide energy. But if you exercise before lunch to eat enough alone and snacks for the afternoon exercise can consume yogurt or cookies.

But this is a general guideline for anyone who does not have a problem with the digestive system or health. Someone should find out what food does not interfere with the body's health.

If you want to get the full benefit of the sport, should avoid eating heavy meals just before exercise and adequate water consumption to replace lost body fluids.

Snacking While Watching Movies Popcorn Hide Much Fat

Los Angeles, Snacks popcorn is often regarded as a low-calorie snacks. But the researchers found that eating popcorn snacks with drinks in the cinema, especially in the United States has the equivalent calories 3 three-quarters the size of a hamburger.

From the results of research by the Center for Science and Public Interest (CSPI) found that medium-size popcorn and drink on average companion has 1160 calories.

This amount is high enough for the popcorn snack is not a staple food. While the caloric needs of adults on average 1800-2000 calories.

Imagine eating popcorn and drink, almost three-quarters of the caloric needs are met when the food was not filling. Even popcorn is also sharing the equivalent of taking a full day's saturated fat.

CSPI senior nutritionist Jayne Hurley said the little habits of the American public does in fact make them difficult to maintain weight.

"Who would notice when just watching a movie and eat popcorn filled calorie value very much," as reported by Jayne rich from the Telegraph, Friday (20/11/2009).

The study, published in the Nutrition Action Healthletter also found that Reese's snack that many movies sold in the U.S. has 1160 calories and 35 grams of saturated fat equivalent of eating 16 ounces of steak and baked potato butter.

Popcorn as a mandatory meal while watching a movie. High calories for sweet and salty taste that is used plus the use of coconut oil to cook it. Not to mention the addition of butter or margarine high contribution of calories and fat.

5 elements that greatly affect our health

1. Morning Sunshine:
How can the benefits of sunlight to humans? Energy analysis of 5 elements, the sun was an important role on human health with the energy contribution of 25%. Direct sunlight is very beneficial for the health of the energy in the human element 5.

Human beings can directly receive the energy from the 5th element of sunlight through the five elements of human beings, namely the element Ether, the Air element, fire element, the element Water, and the element Earth. This is one man advantage compared to other creatures on this earth.

Own plants receive the sun's energy through the Earth element, and then circulated to the other elements.

When it has a relationship with the effectiveness of the health of sunlight 5 elements. The most useful sunlight between pk. 05.30 - 09.00 am. Optimal time we can use to receive the 5 Elements of energy from the sun is approximately 15 minutes. These are discussed below:

1. 05.30 - 06.30 a.m: Elements of Awareness, healthy frequency 1 / 6 Hz
2. 06.30 - 07.00a.m : Element Ether, healthy frequency 1 / 5 Hz
3. 07.00 - 07.30 a.m : Air Element, healthy frequency 1 / 4 Hz
4. 07.30 - 08.00 a.m : Element of Fire, the frequency of a healthy 1 / 3 Hz
5. 08.00 - 08.30 a.m : Water Element, the frequency of sound 1 / 2 Hz
6. 08.30 - 09.00 a.m : Elements of Earth, the frequency of 1 Hz healthy

Because the benefits of solar energy is very large for human health, then we need to take advantage of morning sunlight well. We have more kids happy to be in air-conditioned room. Therefore, to improve health, children need to be socialized to sunbathe in the morning.

2. Healthy Fresh Air:
Healthy fresh air that has a healthy frequency 1 / 4 Hz, which is very useful for the four elements, namely air elements. Air healthy energy contribution of 25%. Therefore, very important for us to maintain the freshness of the air by planting trees around our house. In addition to improving the freshness of air, the trees can also prevent global warming.

In addition, we also can increase the freshness of the air by not smoking, clean room, and with clean air conditioned regularly. We can also use the Ionizer to improve the freshness of air in the room.

3. Healthy Fresh water:
Healthy fresh water well has a frequency of 1 / 2 Hz, so useful for the element Water. Healthy water is essential for our health, because healthy energy contribution of 25%. Organs in desperate need of water is the blood and kidneys, organs of the element Water. Drinking water will be healthy enough blood circulation, clearing toxins in the blood, nourish the kidneys, and aid digestion.

Therefore, very important for us to drink enough healthy water as many as 8 glasses a day. Drinking sweet drinks or carbonated drinks should not be construed as a substitute for healthy water.

Currently we have more and more difficult to obtain healthy water. Generally healthy water from clear springs in the mountains. One way to obtain healthy water is to use a Reverse Osmosis or RO.

4. Healthy and Fresh Food:
Healthy food healthy energy contribution of 20%. Healthy food composition based on the elements are as follows:

* Element Awareness: 1%. Healthy food for the element has a frequency of consciousness is a healthy 1 / 6 Hz and contains many enzymes.
* Element Ether: 5%. Healthy food for the Ether element that has a healthy frequency 1 / 5 Hz and contains many antioxidants.
* Element Air: 5%. Healthy food for the Air element is having a healthy frequency of 1 / 4 Hz.
* Element of Fire: 3%. Healthy food for the Fire element is having a healthy frequency 1 / 3 Hz and contains lots of unsaturated fatty acids, and vitamin A.
* Element Water: 3%. Healthy food for Water is the element that has a healthy frequency 1 / 2 Hz and contains lots of carbohydrates, protein, B vitamins and vitamin C.
* Element Earth: 3%. Healthy food for the Earth element is having a healthy frequency of 1 Hz and contains many minerals, vitamin D, and vitamin E.

Healthy diet should be a combination of healthy foods each element. This will balance and nourish the energy of all elements. For example, if the lack of healthy food element of Earth, people can suffer from ill mineraldan osteoporosis because of calcium deficiency. If healthy food shortages Water element, people can suffer from diabetes and gout because of lack of healthy carbohydrates and healthy proteins.

5. Moving and Exercise:
Movement and exercise contribute to healthy energy by 5%. So we also need a healthy exercise regularly.

5 Things Cause Fat

Keep in mind that obesity is not just due to how many calories intake that comes into your body, but also influenced by several factors. There are at least 5 factors that helped support the weight crept up.

Sleep Deprivation
Metabolism process can work well if your body enough rest. If less rest, the body can lead to stress that the chemical reactions in the body increases, this will stimulate the emergence of appetite. Some people believe that eating before bedtime will make sleep more soundly, but the truth is you are saving your body fat. Therefore, sleep about 8 hours a day.

High Stress
Stress was also a factor supporting weight gain. If experiencing stress, some people have a tendency to run on food. This is because food, especially those containing elements of high carbohydrate, can increase levels of serotonin in the brain, causing a calming effect. Therefore, if the stress hit, find other activities to ease, for example with exercise.
Drug Influence
The effect of each drug is different for consumers. There are effects that can cause drowsiness, increased appetite, change blood sugar into fat, and so on. Therefore, do not forget to always consult with your doctor or specialist about medication you consume vitamins.

Health Problems
One other reason why the body is easily stretched hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism is a disorder of the body caused by lack of thyroid hormone production in the body of a person. Thyroid deficiency causes the body's metabolism is less smooth, decreased appetite, and increased body weight. Symptoms of people with this disorder are easily tired and weary, raspy voice, simple flu, easy sleepy (so much sleep), or a simple headache. If you experience symptoms above to see a doctor immediately.

Menopause
When entering menopause, women no longer as nimble as when I was young. The process slows down your metabolism and hormonal system changes (diminishing estrogen hormone), causing excessive appetite, depression, and even less sleep. It is therefore recommended that from now on, before it even reached menopause arrives, so that every time a woman has a routine exercise. Besides good for health, fitness, keeping body weight remained stable, diligent exercise can also strengthen your bones.

So let's live a healthy life from now on! Think positive and keep exercising while keeping your diet healthy.

America's Children Are Dying To Lose Weight

Wasting away, Katie died weighing only 58 pounds. And she was sixteen. That just doesn't seem possible to me when I look at my seven-year-old daughter who weighs in at about 55 pounds. Anorexia is a medical enigma. Although there is little concrete evidence of what actually causes anorexia, most experts agree that there are several contributing risk factors. We believe that awareness of these risk factors can reduce the odds that they will be triggered so we are hopeful that this information will save lives. If you're a parent or a teacher, you need to read on…

Word has it around town that Katie had been told by a high school teacher that "she needed to go on a diet." So she did. Certainly this one comment didn't cause this young lady to spin out of control with dieting but it might have been the straw that broke the camel's back. Negative comments about body type and size from authority figures, teachers, coaches and parents, can have a big impact on an adolescent child's self-esteem and are implicated as possible triggers in studies on anorexia. Never underestimate the power of the spoken word to heal… or kill…

Eating disorders (bulimia and anorexia) have historically been considered a girl problem but the pendulum is swinging. Anorexia is being diagnosed more frequently in boys, too. Young boys are becoming more body image conscious than in previous generations. Case in point: my nine-year-old son has come home from school upset on several occasions because kids have called him fat. He is far from fat; in fact, he has cystic fibrosis so we are grateful for any extra padding he has and work very hard to keep his weight as high as possible. His diet is exactly the opposite of what everyone else is eating, filled with high fat, high calorie foods. Jacob understands the importance of complying with his dietary requirements but it can be hard for him to go against the norm.

With the emphasis on childhood obesity and diabetes, children are thankfully becoming more aware of the necessity of good nutrition and weight control. But I wonder if there is a price to be paid by children who are predisposed to eating disorders. With the media, parents, doctors, schools and peers emphasizing being thin and high achieving, it will be unfortunate if the numbers of children diagnosed with anorexia accelerates.

The difficulty lies in knowing which children are predisposed to eating disorders. As our society addresses the obesity issue, are we unknowingly putting some children at risk for eating disorders? How can we address the very real, very troublesome problems associated with the alarmingly increasing body mass index of our young children without triggering other children's potential for becoming anorexic?

This is a problem every parent of every child should consider. Research shows that about 6% of young people suffer from an eating disorder and this figure is thought to be low. The next time you are at a school assembly, look around. There are likely to be at least 10 kids there who have an eating disorder. One of them may even be your own. It is thought that the "anorexic mentality" is in place long before there is physical evidence of the disease. Has your thirteen -year-old been on a diet lately? Stats say that there is an 80% likelihood that she has been. Dieting at a young age puts children at risk for anorexia.

The cause of an eating disorder in any one child is unclear because multiple factors appear to play a role. Genetic factors, family interaction patterns, and the individual's own character and personality have all been implicated. But to summarize the problem in a single sentence, it appears that the illness is a response to coping with stress in genetically predisposed children who are filled with denial about their feelings and weight. There! Quick, short, concise, and anything but simple. This single sentence has many implications for parents and parenting. Let's take a brief look at each of these contributing factors individually and provide parenting responses that might be helpful in combating eating disorders.

1. The Genetic Factor in Eating Disorders

Eating disorders, like many other behavioral illnesses, appear to run in families. Not only does the illness itself run in families but the predisposing temperament seems to as well. The one good thing about illnesses that run in families is the fact that children can be prepared to recognize warning factors prior to the onset of the problem. When children are forewarned, they are forearmed. This forewarning is best carried out in a heart-to-heart discussion about possible future problems. A loving parent, relative, or counselor can initiate dialogue before the child is an adolescent, in an informative, non-hand-wringing and factual manner that indicates a hopeful outlook for a healthy future.

2. Anorexia and Bulimia as a Way of Coping with Stress

Food and emotions are closely linked. Over- and under-eating change brain chemicals that affect anxiety and depression. They are both often unhappy and ineffective ways of coping with stress. An authority on anorexia recently noted that a child's inherent vulnerabilities "load the gun," and environmental stresses "pull the trigger." So, assuming inherent vulnerabilities like genetics are unchangeable, how can we avoid pulling the trigger? Is it possible that we can use parenting techniques that will reduce the odds of pulling the trigger?

We believe the answer is yes. We can easily use parenting techniques that excel at raising children who effectively learn to cope with stress in healthy ways. Such techniques include guiding children to solve their own problems rather than solving them for them, allowing children to experience the consequences of their decisions, and responding to children's mistakes with empathy and understanding rather than anger, frustration, and criticism. These are great immunizations against the use of food as a dysfunctional coping response. The experience of coping and overcoming difficulties with good problem-solving skills leads to the ability to confront feelings and issues in a healthy manner, rather than displacing them with changes in food intake. Also, the child's history of successfully coping with painful outcomes of poor choices makes denial much less likely. And, when a child's mistakes are met with empathy and understanding rather than anger and frustration, a child feels!
supported and understood rather than criticized, demeaned and alone.

3. Psychological Factors in Eating Disorders

Two personality factors have often been reported to be present in eating disorders: perfectionism and high, unrealistic expectations of self. Even when anorexic adults have achieved success, deep down they report feeling insecure and inadequate. There is a tendency to see things only in extremes without shades of gray:

"I'm good or I'm bad."
"I'm pretty or I'm ugly."
"I'm successful or a complete failure."
"I'm perfect or defective."
"I'm fat or I'm thin."

Healthy parenting techniques discourage this type of thinking. Parents: don't over-reassure your children. Over-reassurance actually validates the child's negative thinking and may lead to unhealthy "either/or" black-and-white thinking. Responding with, "Gee, honey, I see it differently, but tell me how you are no good," allows for less manipulation, more acceptance of responsibility, and a child's far more accurate self-examination. Using encouragement rather than praise is also an important parenting technique to increase children's self-awareness. Encouragement gives them experience in viewing themselves, their responses, and their creations realistically, rather than simply trying to please an authority figure. With this simple tool, parents can easily help children learn how to feel good from the inside out rather than looking for approval and self-worth from authority figures.

4. The Role of the Family

There are a number of family factors that are thought to play a role in eating disorders. As we look at some of these interaction factors, it is safe to say that while healthy parenting patterns certainly will not cause or aggravate the problem, they may not be able to alleviate the problem either. Loving, effective parents are known to have had children suffering depression, suicide, and eating disorders. Also, this discussion on parenting styles should not be used as a source of parental guilt but instead provide motivation for change if change is needed. Parents do the best they can, under the circumstances they experience, to raise their children with the love they are able to show. The problem in examining family patterns lies with the fact that all sorts of dysfunctional patterns have been reported. These form a long list:

- Smothering and over-protective families
- Controlling and critical parents
- A chronic feeling of being abandoned and misunderstood
- Having parents or a family that overemphasize appearance and achievement
- Having rigid parents who don't model good conflict resolution skills

The effect of unintentional, yet unhealthy, parental responses cannot be ignored. Again, good parenting techniques do not guarantee success, but at least they are unlikely to contribute to the problem. So rather than focusing on what is speculatively wrong, it is more effective to focus on doing what is right by using healthy parenting skills rather than the unhealthy ones that contribute to dysfunctional family patterns. Whether or not an eating disorder is present, or may be present in the future, it will never hurt for parents to show healthy responses and good parenting techniques.

5. Societal Influences

Finally, there are possible societal factors that influence eating disorders. Big drinks and big burgers have enticed the population into a diabetic frenzy. While most of the population is downright overweight, the females that populate the media (those who model prettiness and good looks) are generally thin to the point of appearing anorexic themselves. Talk about image confusion! On the male side of the equation, we have the same issue with buff men cavorting playfully with thin, pretty women.

With so much emphasis in our culture on athletic performance and good looks, it is not too surprising that some predisposed children take things too far. And, although on the surface it seems reasonable enough to blame society for the self-destructive choices of an individual, this is ultimately self-defeating when dealing with individual situations. Blaming society or others simply removes individual responsibility and accountability and actually increases the likelihood of the negative behavior.

In conclusion, when all is said and done, nobody, at this point, can say with any certainty the exact cause of an eating disorder in any one particular child. But we can say with absolute certainty that all the speculation, studies, reports, and conjecture do not implicate the healthy family interaction patterns taught by Love and Logic. It would appear the personality of the anorexic person is not that of children who have grown up in a home advocating honest acceptance of personal responsibility and where children are:

- Lovingly supported by parents who view mistakes as learning experiences,
- Allowed to make choices and share control,
- And encouraged to cope with the stresses of life in healthy ways.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure particularly where eating disorders are concerned. At this time, there is no cure for anorexia. And America's children are dying to lose weight.

Healthy Holiday Eating Tips

The holidays pose a difficult time for those trying to maintain healthy eating habits. The sheer quantity of food favorites available from mid-November through the first of January is a challenge, even for those with the strongest willpower. So how do you strike a happy balance between the holiday smorgasbord and your desire to keep the pounds at bay?

Clearly, the holidays are not a time to diet. But you can take steps to lessen the impact on your waistline.

Never go to a holiday event on an empty stomach. Fasting ahead of time to leave room for that BIG MEAL or extra trips to the buffet is a no-no. Be sure to eat a snack or light meal before leaving home; foods like chicken or cottage cheese which are high in protein help you eat less later.

Offer to bring a dish to holiday parties. Make it a low-calorie version of a favorite, insuring at least one safe choice. Don’t stand near the buffet where you might be tempted to fill your plate again, and again.

If the event is at your house, do yourself and your guests a favor by including healthier items such as salad, fruit and vegetables on the menu. Provide low-calorie and fat-free salad dressings, dips and condiments. When preparing dishes, look for healthy ingredient substitutions such as low-fat or skim milk instead of whole milk and swap applesauce for oil in baked goods. The dishes can be just as tasty without all the added fat and calories.

Watch your portion sizes. This becomes especially important at a buffet, where there are so many choices, each looking so inviting. You can still have a large variety of food; just eat a small portion of each.

Slow down. Don’t eat as if you’re at an eating competition. Choose your food carefully and then eat slowly, savoring the flavor of each bite. Most people eat so quickly, their stomach is full long before the signal reaches their brain; which usually leads to overeating and that bloated, miserable feeling.

Do your best to stick with an exercise program. Exercise not only helps keep away the pounds but also helps to reduce the stress which often accompanies family get-togethers and social events. After the meal, take the socializing outdoors for a nice walk around the neighborhood or to a nearby park.

Don’t fall into the fast food trap. The holiday season can be hectic and leave you with little time to prepare healthy meals. Plan ahead; prepare meals ahead of time and freeze them so they are handy when you need them.

Be realistic. Holidays are a time for fun and you will want to join in. Instead of dieting, try aiming for maintaining your present weight by making smart eating choices and staying active. Pat yourself on the back for all of your efforts!

Diet food

Diet food (or dietetic food) refers to any food or drink whose recipe has been altered in some way to make it part of a body modification diet. Although the usual intention is weight loss and change in body type, sometimes the intention is to aid in gaining weight or muscle as in bodybuilding supplements.

In addition to Diet other words or phrases are used to identify and describe these foods including Light or Lite, Low Calorie, Low Fat, No Fat, Fat Free, No Sugar, Sugar free, and Zero Calorie. In some areas use of these terms may be regulated by law. For example in the U.S. a product labelled low fat must not contain more than 3 grams of fat per serving; and to be labelled fat free it must contain less than 0.5 grams of fat per serving.

The process of making a diet version of a food usually requires finding an acceptable low calorie substitute for some high calorie ingredient. This can be as simple as replacing some or all of the food's sugar with a sugar substitute as is common with diet soft drinks such as Coca-Cola. In some snacks, the food may be baked instead of fried thus reducing the calories. In other cases, low fat ingredients may be used as replacements.

In diet foods which replace the sugar with lower-calorie substitutes, there is some controversy based around the possibility that the sugar substitutes used to replace sugar are themselves harmful. Even if this question is satisfactorily resolved (which remains unlikely at this time), the question still remains as to whether the benefits of caloric reduction would outweigh the potential harm.

In many low-fat and fat-free foods the fat is replaced with sugar, flour, or other full-calorie ingredients, and the reduction in caloric value is small, if any.

info : wikipedia

DIET (Nutrition)

In nutrition, the diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat. Although humans are omnivores, each culture holds some food preferences and some food taboos. Individual dietary choices may be more or less healthy. Proper nutrition requires the proper ingestion and equally important, the absorption of vitamins, minerals, and fuel in the form of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Dietary habits and choices play a significant role in health and mortality, and can also define cultures and play a role in religion.

Cultural dietary choices

Some cultures and religions have restrictions concerning what foods are acceptable in a diet. For example, only Kosher foods are permitted by Judaism, and Halal/Haram foods by Islam, in the diet of believers.^[1] In addition, the dietary choices of different countries or regions have different characteristics. For instance, Americans eat more red meat than people in most other countries, and Japanese eat more fish and rice. Rice and beans are typical parts of a diet in Latin-American countries, while lentils and pita bread are typical in the Middle East. This is highly related to a culture's cuisine.

Concerns about foodborne illness have long influenced diet. Traditionally humans have learned to avoid foods that induce acute illness. Some believe that this is the underlying rationale behind some traditional religious dietary requirements.

Individual dietary choices

Many individuals choose to limit what foods they eat for reasons of health, morality, or other factors. Additionally, many people choose to forgo food from animal sources to varying degrees; see vegetarianism, veganism, fruitarianism, living foods diet, and raw foodism.

The nutrient content of diets in industrialised countries contain more animal fat, sugar, energy, alcohol and less dietary fiber, carbohydrates and antioxidants. Contemporary changes to work, family and exercise patterns, together with concerns about the effect of nutrition and overeating on human health and mortality are all having an effect on traditional eating habits. Physicians and alternative medicine practitioners may recommend changes to diet as part of their recommendations for treatment.

More recently, dietary habits have been influenced by the concerns that some people have about possible impacts on health or the environment from genetically modified food. Further concerns about the impact of industrial farming on animal welfare, human health and the environment are also having an effect on contemporary human dietary habits. This has led to the emergence of a counterculture with a preference for organic and local food.

Diets for weight management

A particular diet may be chosen to seek weight gain, weight loss, sports training, cardio-vascular health, avoidance of cancers, food allergies and for other reasons. Changing a subject's dietary intake, or "going on a diet", can change the energy balance and increase or decrease the amount of fat stored by the body. Some foods are specifically recommended, or even altered, for conformity to the requirements of a particular diet. Foods intended to help produce weight loss are frequently labeled "diet foods". These diets are often recommended in conjunction with exercise. Recent findings strongly suggest that one's environment can have a dramatic influence in how much they unknowingly eat. These findings also suggest that a good deal of weight can be easily or "mindlessly lost" by making small changes in our environment that enable us to eat less and enjoy it more.

Dietary health

Imbalances between the consumed fuels and expended energy results in either starvation or excessive reserves of organ tissue, known as body fat. Poor intake of various vitamins and minerals can lead to diseases which can have far-reaching effects on health. For instance, 30% of the world's population either has, or is at risk for developing, Iodine deficiency. It is estimated that at least 3 million children are blind due to vitamin A deficiency. Vitamin C deficiency results in scurvy. Calcium, Vitamin D and Phosphorus are inter-related; the consumption of each may affect the absorption of the others. Kwashiorkor and marasmus are childhood disorders caused by lack of dietary protein. Obesity, a serious problem in the western world, leads to higher chances of developing heart disease, diabetes, and many other diseases.

An eating disorder is a mental disorder that interferes with normal food consumption. Eating disorders often affect people with a negative body image. There is growing evidence that making small changes in one's environment is showing to gradually improve such disorders and return people to a more healthy pattern of eating.

Diet table

Food Type	Carnivore	Omnivore	Vegan	Vegetarian	Halal	Kosher
Vegetables
Poultry
Fish (scaled)
Seafood (non-fish)					*
Beef
Pork
Dairy