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Nutritionally FitQuestion: fit through pregnancy? looking for books, videos...any source of information that would provide good solid medical up to date medical knowledge about staying fit both muscularly and cardiovascularly (nutritionally too!) through a pregnancy. thanks! :)
Question: How to actually lose weight..? I have been wanting to know the answer to this question for a very long time now. It kinda confuses me, only due to the fact that many people say "you must burn more calories than you consume". It's pretty hard to believe that because how can you be nutritionally fit, but STILL lose weight?
Say I eat a yogurt that is 100 calories, a rice patty that is 50 calories, a baked chicken breast with no seasoning or ANY unnatural insertions, for about 100 calories, and so on and so forth..(numbers are estimations, not based on fact)
How is it possible to burn that 250 calories, plus burn an additional, let's say, 500 calories in one day? Maybe I don't work out enough to understand it, but it just seems hard to understand.
I am a male, 16 yo, 5'7", 150 pounds. I tend to work on my upper body, and legs, but not my abdominal because it is ridiculously challenging to burn the little fat I do have there.
What are the easy ways to burn fat, the truth about burning fat, and some personal experiences anyone has had would be nice to hear.
ANY INFORMATION RELATED TO THIS TOPIC WOULD BE HELPFUL AND APPRECIATED!
Thanks in advance.
- Daniel.
Question: Which job will I be most happy with? I like playing computer games. (Esp Football Manager)
I got a Science Degree in Microbiology and History and philosophy of Science.
I hate to have to do paperwork or formulas or work with graphs/tables. I dont like numbers or calculations.
So why do I have a Science degree?
Who knows.
Im keen on keeping extremely fit and happy though.
So thats why a sports person job would be ideal like a footballer but some ppl are telling me my age isnt quite right cos Im 26 now.
What about golfer though?
I really hate to have to study some more but will do if it will land me a happy job for life.
I want to have enough funds to support my needs (Healthy and nutritionally complete and balanced diet ;Gosh I sound like I feeding my pet) plus a few desires like getting the fastest laptop every year.
Other needs - Decent inexpensive wardrobe and health and dental cover. comfortable shelter and transportation.
Question: Is corn a vegetable, grain or what? Now regarding if it is a grain, vegetable or whatever, what category does it fit best nutritionally? I.e. I bought a lot of corn recently and have 2 servings a day. I bought it with the stalk covering still on it(i.e. raw) and all I do before eating it is peeling back the stalk to reveal the corn. No cooking, butter or salt. Does this mean I can eat less vegetables per day(as I meet the serving suggestion) or less grain? It's cheap, comparatively and I know the Harvest is coming soon so prices will drop even more. :o so I want to know what part of the food pyramid, recommended servings I should include it in.
Question: How to maintain your weight? How do I maintain my ideal weight.
I've had the toughest time taking off just 1 pound. I'm thinking I wasn't doing enough of my tread climber. I'd do only 25 minutes or 30 if I was up to it. Either I'm too tired to do more or I don't have enough time.
Nutritionally, I eat very healthy. I do like sugar, so I try to have as little as possible during the week. Its no different on weekends too. I've never ever binged.
This is weird, people don't usually get motivated after being minorly ill. But losing that 1 pound due to some bad food made a nice difference. I look fitter.
I'm a petite woman (5'1)
Usually 103...thanks to my metabolism
I don't want to gain or lose more....I don't want to look starved.
How do I keep my 102 figure?
but if I can't keep my new weight
I'm still comfortable being a 103...even a 4.
Question: What to expect with weight loss? Here's the history:
- under the age of 30
- obese
- currently stay-at-home mom with two small kids (under 4)
After being laid off in early December, I decided to change my bad habits. I don't have any excuses anymore. I didn't want to mope around, so I went off on the job search while watching my kids and made sure to hit the gym with my husband three times a week.
It's not great, but it's more than I did get. I have about 80 pounds to lose. I didn't gain it by just hitting the gym!
Nutritionally I'm also making strides - no more fast food, no more coffee (esp. Starbucks fraps!), no more boredom snacking - I've increased my fruit intake alone from once a week to seven servings a day. Not too shabby!
Well, it's been a few weeks now. I'm looking at the potential of interviews in January/February and would like to make a great impression. In other words, I would like to buy a new outfit I can wear.
Here's my dilemma - do I buy them in a size that fits now or do I buy them in a size that is one size smaller?
On one hand, I did run for 30 minutes once a week for a few weeks and lost 3-5 inches off my body after 6 weeks or so (this was earlier this summer). If I actually continue this and start doing at-home exercises during naptime,there's no reason I shouldn't be seeing results.
On the other hand, I don't want to be ill-prepared in case I need to go to one tomorrow. While I have clothes that fit, they aren't anything that is particulary WOW. My old job was very casual and my wardrobe shows it.
So, in general, this is a two part question:
1) When do you think I should start to see my body really change?
2) Do you think I should buy clothes now in my current size or a smaller size?
Question: I am thinking about keeping my rabbits outside....? we are building a new barn and my parents have given me one corner for my rabbits. i'd like to install a cat door that gives them access to a small pasture, i'd let them out during the day and lock them in at night, but i had a few questions.
how big does the "pasture" need to be so that they have enough grass to last all summer?
if i provide them with pellets and salt/mineral wheels, will they be nutritionally fine?
will fencing with 4"x2" holes be secure enough? my rabbits can comfortably fit in two arms, if you put a small dog harness on them (like you can get at farm and fleet or walmart), it has to be about half way extended. They are angora/english spot crosses.
how high would you go with the fencing? mine have never jumped out of their playpen, which is about 3' tall, and i've left them in there all day without a problem, but i want some more opinions.
what about digging it down into the soil? i've left them out all day and they will nose the bottom of the fence but they have never tried to dig out, or quite frankly dig at all. I want to make they are secure, but if the fence only goes an inch or two into the soil, will it be a problem?
i really want to give them to room to roam that they love, but i want it to be safe for them, without being crazy expensive for my parents. any and all responses are appreciated.
thanks,
Ayshaya
~sorry about it being so long
i will keep them locked in at night and the whole winter, plus they'll have a heated pad for winter, or go into the garage if its too bad. so raccoons and temp. isn't a problem. I would really like for them to have enough grass to live off, although i will still provide them food.
Question: Making my own Jenday Conure bird food? I've found the store bought foods to be lacking, many don't have the vitamin K conures need to avoid conure bleeding syndrome and I'm getting a new Jenday conure and I want to make sure he has the best and healthiest.......My sun conure, Vergil (Rest in Peace baby bird....), passed due to conure bleeding syndrome, it wasn't until inspecting his foods that we found the store bought diets didn't have enough vitamin K (their nutritionally complete claim is false, learn from my mistake, always read every ingredient, "source of vitamin K activity" does NOT mean real vitamin K!) so, to make sure this mistake never happens again, I plan on making my own bird food for the new conure to make sure they have real vitamin K and that the nutrients they get are the real deal and not chemically altered junk.
Does anyone know any sites that list bird friendly foods along with the vitamins and nutrients those foods contain? Or does anyone know what vitamin K containing foods could be added to a conure diet to avoid conure bleeding syndrome? I had never lost a bird before Vergil and I don't want to face this heartbreak again nor lose the life of such a loving creature due to false bird food company claims again! I want to make sure they have the very best foods that fit their needs perfectly instead of putting my feathered kid's health in the hands of companies making false claims to get a sale!
Please, I've been searching the net and having a hard time finding the info I need, does anyone know any resource sites I can use that tell me what vitamins and nutrients are in what bird safe foods that I could use in the diet for the new Jenday Conure?
Question: Why am I so exhausted? I get plenty of sleep (about 8 hours a night). I drink a lot of water (about 3 bottles a day), and I eat a very healthy nutritionally balanced doctor prescribed diet (all organic, mostly made from scratch, no junk food or heavily processed food or caffeinated drinks). I take a woman's multivitamin, probiotic supplement, digestive enzymes, silica, apple cider vinegar shot and cod liver oil every day (as per the doctor). And I walk 2 miles every day. I don't drink alcohol and I don't take any medications at all (otc or prescriptions) so that's not what could be making me drowsy. By all means I should feel great, but instead I'm so tired I can barely get out of bed in the morning and feel like I'm half asleep all day. I will also have "episodes" during the day where everything starts sounding weird and the room begins "shifting" and my vision goes in and out until I cannot stay awake no matter how hard I try, and just fall over asleep. When I wake up after a few minutes, I feel totally fine. I'm baffled as to what is causing this, so is my doctor.
I do have Crohn's disease, but neither my doctor nor I think it is the cause of my tiredness. I have had no symptoms of a flare up, and have felt really very good for the past 2 years since I adopted a specialized diet/exercise/sleep routine recommended by my doctor when medications weren't helping me (which I have not broken or slipped up on). This exhaustion thing only hit me a few months ago, but it's been getting progressively worse. They ran blood tests and urine tests, and I don't have anything that appears abnormal or too high/too low and I don't have any infections. I had a colonoscopy, MRI, and a abdominal and transvaginal ultrasound, and there is nothing that appears wrong or abnormal inside either. I'm really worried. My gastroenterologist is out of ideas for tests, and he doesn't really know who to refer me to since they can't find anything medically wrong and my only symptom is exhaustion and those weird episodes. He ruled out chronic fatigue syndrome because the episodes I'm having don't fit the bill, they're just a mystery. I am worried that whatever it is may set off my crohn's if I don't take care of it, and then I'd really have problems.
Have any of you had anything similar to this happen to you or have any ideas on what might be going on?
Question: Fruit can make you fat, are there ANY foods that are not BAD for you? As an individual who likes to keep in shape, eat a good clean diet and compete in sports I'm just wondering what health professionals and nutritionists make of this article.
I'd also like opinions from anyone who has even a moderate interest in keeping fit and healthy.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91251-1320125,00.html
My personal take on this "study" is that its a pile of steaming shit.
Fruit is fine. End of. If your daft enough to get worked up about eating a an apple you need slapping.
That sort of article is irresponsable because there will now be fat mongs all over turning to mars bars instead of fruit as a snack, simple because SKY said fruit can make you fat.
Why oh why, in this climate of poor nutrition, would an ethical media compnay wish to put a negative slant on someting nutritionally good like fruit?
What good can this serve?
This sort of rubbish annoys me, and the journalism there is poor,very poor.
Why don't people read the additional details and not just the headline?
Question: Why do a lot of anorexics seem to eat non-nutritiously? I keep reading a lot of postings from anorexics that say they are eating crackers and other such stuff that in my opinion has a lot of calories and no nutritional value. It perplexes me a bit that anorexics are eating un-nutritionally when they do eat, just seems a bit odd. I also see a lot of posts from anorexics that say they don't even exercise.
Any insight or thoughts on this? I am ednos on the anorexic side, I'm slender and muscular despite my ways, but I keep myself extremely fit and I take vitamins and herbs and eat nutritious foods if and when I do eat, so I think I am healthy enough and think my aging pattern is perfectly fine to above normal, but I can't understand why people starve themselves and then eat non-nutritional food such as crackers while so doing.
Question: High/low quality cat foods? I've noticed that so many more people in the cat section feed low quality cat foods whereas in the dog section many more people are aware of what they are feeding their dogs. In the dog section, if someone asks a pet food question, there's like ten people in there explaining about higher quality dog foods. In the cat section, it feels like I'm alone with another two or three people while all the other answerers are recommending low quality foods like Meow Mix, Purina, Iams etc. and recommending feeding dry instead of wet.
My cat food writeup:
Not all pet food is made equally. A lot of it is full of corn, by-products, dyes, unhealthy preservatives, filler grains and all sorts of nasty stuff. A lot of pet food companies are perfectly happy to the dump cheap leftovers and things that aren't safe for human consumption (from human food processing plants) into their foods. Will it kill your cat? No, it has to be nutritionally complete and safe to even be marketed. Is it healthy? Not by a long shot.
Corn is a low quality ingredient you never want to see in your pet food. Corn and low quality grains are two of the biggest culprits when it comes to food allergies in our pets.
Thankfully, there are some excellent cat foods being made these days that include organic, human grade ingredients rather than trash not fit for human consumption.
Examples of low quality foods to avoid: Anything you can find in a grocery store will be low end, Purina, Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Royal Canin, Whiskas, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Meow Mix.
Examples of high quality foods to look for: Innova, Wellness, Solid Gold, Felidae, Fromm Four Star, Merrick, GO Natural, Nature's Variety Prairie, Nature's Logic, Artemis Fresh Mix, Timber Wolf Organics.
Although the high quality foods are more expensive, you're getting what you're paying for. Less filler material means more concentrated nutrients... this means you typically need to feed far less of the high quality food than you would of the low quality one. Which also means less poop!
Before following your vet's food recommendation, keep in mind that vets get /very/ little nutritional training during their schooling. Besides that, what training they /do/ get is usually sponsored or taught by the crappy pet food companies! They also often get paid to sell some of their products at their clinics (Science Diet, Royal Canin etc.)
A great option is to go with an entirely grainless diet. Diets high in grain have been attributed to problems with diabetes in cats. Cats are obligate carnivores, so why should there be grain in their diet? Many of the high quality foods now put out grainless formulas. Some good grainless diets include: Innova EVO, Wellness CORE, Blue Wilderness, Nature's Variety Instinct, Orijen, Horizon Legacy, Merrick Before Grain, Fromm Surf & Turf, Now!, and Sold Gold Indigo Moon, Taste of the Wild.
Some pretty decent foods can even be found in common pet stores. Petsmart carries Blue Buffalo products (such as the excellent grain free diet Blue Wilderness). Petco carries Wellness, Solid Gold, Natural Balance, Eagle Pack Holistic, Blue Buffalo, Castor & Pollux Organix, Pinnacle, and Halo. If you can't find a food, most of the high quality food brands have websites with store locators on them.
Another option, if you can't find anywhere around you that sells good foods, is to order your pet food online. Here's an excellent place to do so: http://www.petfooddirect.com/store/
Remember that foods should be switched gradually (mixing new slowly in with the old over about a two week period), especially when switching to a higher quality one, so as not to upset tummies.
Another option for feeding cats is to feed raw. This is something that should be thoroughly researched before being attempted:
http://www.barfworld.com/
http://www.rawfedcats.org/
http://www.rawfed.com/
http://www.wysong.net/controversies/rawmeat.shtml
Now the question is, do you feed wet or dry? Wet is the correct answer. The reason is, in the wild, cats normally get most of their water content directly from their prey items and drink very little. Domestic cats are no different, and because of the fact that they are designed to take in water with their meal, they have a very low thirst drive. Cats often just don't drink enough. This leads to urinary tract infections and crystals. The bit about dry food being better for teeth is a myth and has not been proven in the least (cats barely even chew their dry food and, really, does a pretzel clean /your/ teeth? Cats should have their teeth brushed with cat toothbrushes and cat toothpaste at least a few times a week as well as see the vet for dental cleanings when necessary /regardless/ of what they are being fed). Canned/wet food is better because it more closely mimics the cat's natural diet. More on why canned food is best:
http://www.catinfo.org/ (Excellent cat nutrition information by a vet)
http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/cann
Blah. Question cut off.
http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/canned_food.htm
http://www.littlebigcat.com/index.php?action=library&act=show&item=whycatsneedcannedfood
http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/bpo_ch4.php
Another option to get cats to drink more would be a cat fountain. Cats tend to like to drink from running water and cat fountains see to that need, encouraging cats to take in more water.
More:
http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews/ (Dog food reviews. It's for dogs, but most of the high quality brands also put out excellent cat foods. Four stars is a decent food, five stars is a great food, and six stars is an excellent food.)
I guess my question is, why do cat owners seem so far behind in terms of cat nutrition?
Another question, does my write up change your view on what you're feeding your cat at all?
Really? So you think I should type all that up every single time I want to answer a question? I may be copy pasting but I'm copy pasting /my own words/, it's not like I'm copy pasting something from another website.
It's /insanely/ frustrating JC, you're right. It drives me bonkers!
Thank you, Ken, it makes me feel better to think we are starting to make a difference :)
Brian, I do include some links for raw feeding but I don't know much about it myself so I kind of just left it up to the individual owner to follow the links and educate themselves. I only know that it's an excellent diet option when done correctly :)
Question: Want to join boxing, suggestions/help? The issue here is that I'm a 5 foot 2, 17 year old girl that weighs roughly 125 lbs., in addition to being a vegetarian- and not the most nutritionally-conscious sometimes.
I have really strong leg/thigh muscles, almost no upper body strength. Fun stuff.
I wasn't going to start anything too difficult, maybe start with a class at the Y or something, but I know I'm not in the shape required to get into this full-out. Still, I want to get something out of this.
My question is:
1.) what would you suggest to someone fitting my description? Are there other classes I should begin with first [I've had yoga shoved at me a few times and considered it]?
2.)Do I need to make any changes before going in to start a class or should I just wait and go with the flow?
3.)What should I expect from this? How much strain will it be, am I making it out to be more than it is or I in for an even bigger surprise? x3
Haha thanks ahead of time. :)
Question: How to maintain your weight? How do I maintain my ideal weight.
I've had the toughest time taking off just 1 pound. I'm thinking I wasn't doing enough of my tread climber. I'd do only 25 minutes or 30 if I was up to it. Either I'm too tired to do more or I don't have enough time.
Nutritionally, I eat very healthy. I do like sugar, so I try to have as little as possible during the week. Its no different on weekends too. I've never ever binged.
This is weird, people don't usually get motivated after being minorly ill. But losing that 1 pound due to some bad food made a nice difference. I look fitter.
I'm a petite woman (5'1)
Usually 103...thanks to my metabolism
I don't want to gain or lose more....I don't want to look starved.
How do I keep my 102 figure?
if I can't keep my new weight
I'm still comfortable being a 103...even a 4.
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