Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults overweight, at least 300 million of them clinically obese. Obesity is a major contributor to the global burden of chronic disease and disability. Obesity is not restricted to industrialized societies; the increase is often faster in developing countries than in the developed world. Obesity often coexists in developing countries with under-nutrition. Obesity is a complex condition, with serious social and psychological dimensions, affecting virtually all ages and socioeconomic groups.
“In recent decades, obesity has increased more than anyone could imagine,” said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The rate of obesity among adults has doubled and tripled in children in recent decades”, said Dr. Peace.
Obesity continues to increase dramatically for Americans of all ages according to the data collected and analyzed by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A third of Americans are obese, and another third count as overweight by the Federal Government’s definition, including at least 1 in 5 children.
“Overweight” is defined as any weight in excess of your ideal range.
“Obesity” is defined as an excessive accumulation of body fat causing one to be at least 20 % heavier than their ideal body weight.
Obesity is considered a chronic (long-term) disease, like high blood pressure or diabetes. It is the second leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States (tobacco is the first).
How many deaths is Ronald McDonald responsible for? He should be burned in effigy!
The likelihood of developing Type 2 diabetes and hypertension rises steeply with increasing excess body weight. Approximately 85% of people with diabetes are type 2, and of these, 90% are obese or overweight.
Obesity has many causes. The reasons for the imbalance between calorie intake and consumption vary by individual genes, sex, age, and environment. Obesity runs in families caused by both genes and shared lifestyle. Men have more muscle than women, which burns more calories than other types of tissue, even at rest. Muscles atrophy and metabolism slows as one ages both of which lower calorie requirements.
The commonly held Myth is that the best way for people who are overweight or obese to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more. Obesity is on the rise NOT simply because food is abundant and physical activity is optional as they would have you believe. They blame you (the victim) and label you as having a weak will, while at the same time corrupting the food supply and limiting your mobility! They force children into desks for nine hours a day and adults into cubicles! Our communities, towns, and cities are not designed to accommodate walking and bicycling as a means of commuting! We are required to have an automobile or utilize mass transit sitting throughout our commute!
What is over eating?
Overeating is consuming more calories than one requires for one’s body to function and perform required tasks.
What is the cause of this over eating?
The modern global food market bombards us with excessively energy dense foods with high proportions of trans fats, saturated fats, and sugars with low nutritional value. Our bodies need nutrition and crave sweets therefore we consume more.
You may have been lead to believe that one need only estimate how many calories you consume in a typical day and simply eat less to lose body fat, which is FALSE! Your body will go into starvation mode, holding onto your fat with an iron grip while your body cannibalizes your muscles. Muscle is the last thing you want to lose when attempting to lose body fat because muscle burns calories.
If you have over eaten throughout your life, which is difficult not to do when your mobility is limited and you’re surrounded with crap! The extra calories have most probably turned to fat and been stored in our fat cells. If we overeat regularly, our fat cells increase in size. When fat cells can no longer increase in size, they increase in number. If we continue to gain weight, we become obese. If you lose weight, the size of the fat cells decrease, but the number of cells does not.
Recognizing the problems linked with simply lowering your calorie consumption and you have will power of steel you can choose to eliminate all fat and minimize carbohydrates from your diet. Increase protein intake and begin a progressive resistance muscle development program to build muscle. But your fat cells will forever be waiting to horde fat derived from fatty foods or high carbohydrate foods you consume. You will NEVER again be able to eat even in the slightest excess!
One’s objective should be to maximize the nutritional value and protein of the food one consumes while eliminating fats and minimizing carbohydrates. Overeating has much less to do with the amount one eats opposed to what one eats. One can eat an unlimited amount of spinach and not become overweight whereas if one sat and ate a cup of Crisco a day one will probably steadily gain weight regardless of how active you are.
What is working against your success?
Each year, Americans spend billions of dollars on dieting, diet foods, diet books, diet pills, and the like. Another $45 billion is spent on treating the diseases associated with obesity. Americans recognize that being overweight is bad and have made a huge effort to change. We have spoken with our wallet but all that has proven to do is inform opportunists that obesity is a profitable industry, a cash cow they have no intention of killing.
Hello my name is John Smith. I’ll endeavor to make my description and the description of the woman I want as concise as possible. I’m a single, healthy, 30 year old, 175 lb., 6’1 ft. tall, college educated, non-smoker, non-drinker, mentally and financially stable, drug, disease, and debt free white man with no kids or ex-wives, who is looking for a woman sharing similar traits. The attached photos are current. I will provide recent medical records to verify my health and I will require your medical results. If a white man is not your first choice, please move on.
I’ve decided to seriously pursue marriage with kids. If you are a game player that uses sex and the promise of sex to toy with minds, please move on. If you use internet dating sites as a means of validating that you are a desirable woman, with no intention of actually meeting anyone, please move on.
Your character is very important to me. I’m looking for a woman of quality. Marriage is a contract and any agreement made with a person of low character is not worth the paper it is printed on. It is not my intention to waste your time and it is certainly not my intention to waste my own. Please review the following statements and questions then act accordingly.
I will not engage in pointless months of e-mails, texting, and telephone calls prior to scheduling a sit down where-in we can have an honest adult discussion. If you do not consider yourself an honest person, please move on. If you have more than one cat, are fans of tiny yip-yap dogs, or dress your pets, please move on. If you have a long list of assumed responsibilities a man should fulfill in a relationship where-as you have none, please move on. If you feel that it is more important that a man be entertaining than honest, please move on.
If you feel you have the right to judge, critique, complain, and argue with a man, please move on. If you feel that drama equals excitement and without “excitement” a relationship is dead boring, please move on. Let me make myself very clear, “you don’t have the right to challenge me or any man but you do have the right to stop interacting with me and any man at any time.”
Financial hardship is the leading cause of divorce. If you often times find yourself in desperate financial circumstances, please move on. I will not assume responsibility for your car loan, school loan, home loan, medical expenses, or credit card debt. If you have credit card debt exceeding $3,000.00, please move on.
I have no intention of making a commitment to a woman that is unable to cope with life’s adversity. If your world is spinning out of control and you view yourself as a victim, Woman-up and deal with it, or please move on. Do you mark your past with tragedy dwelling on problems? If so, please move on. When thinking about your past your accomplishments spring to mind, Great! If you feel it is a man’s responsibility to ensure your happiness, please move on. If you feel as a mature adult you are responsible for what you do and how you feel, Great! If you have an aversion toward planning your future, please move on. If you see how making plans and following through or failing to do so has lead to your present place in life, Great!
I have no intention of making a commitment to a woman that does not respect me. If you want my respect be decisive, starting with your choice to be with me or not. If you are unable to define “common respect” and are only polite to people when you’re having a good day, please move on. If you recognize that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity regardless of how you might feel or think about them, Great! If you have no respect for men, please move on. If you do respect men, Great! If you have issues with your father, the foundation for your view of men, please move on. If you have a positive relationship with your father, Great! If you have unresolved on-going issues with an ex, please move on. I’m not interested in getting between you and him. If you have kids, please move on. I have no intention of taking responsibility for another man’s kids. If you were abused or sexually assaulted, please move on. I’m not your therapist! If you interrupt conversations with people you’re with to answer your cell phone, please move on. If we were speaking or even if we’re just sitting having a meal and you answered your cell phone and started a conversation I will regard that as a deliberate act of disrespect.
The primary purpose of marriage between a man and a woman is to provide a safe and secure environment to raise children. If you feel it is so each person can dedicate themselves to making the other happy forever and ever la la la get a clue and please move on. Prior to making the commitment of marriage, which empowers women in the U.S., I require a meeting of the minds in regards to what each of us is willing to provide, and to eliminate false assumptions to protect myself. If we don’t schedule a sit-down now I’m confident we will schedule several during the divorce proceedings.
I want several children. If you want two or less children, please move on. If you want at least three, Great! At each birth a paternity test will be conducted. I will only take responsibility for my children. If any child proves not to be mine I will immediately file for divorce and act to attain full custody of all my children. If you feel having illegitimate children is o.k., please move on! If you feel putting our children through a divorce and custody battle is justified if you decide you’re unhappy, please move on.
If you recognize the necessity for a division of responsibilities between the man and woman in a family unit, Great! If you recognize and appreciate the role of the mother as the primary caregiver and the father as the provider, Great!
I have observed that many young women want children but during pregnancy and thereafter forget why, behaving as if their actions had no effect on the result, then blame the men that impregnated them. Many young women seem to have less and less interest in their children as they become less and less cute. I think it is criminal that they make no plans to educate their children to be independent successful adults. If you feel that as a mother you alone have the right to dictate how the children should be raised, please move on. If you feel that the course our children’s lives take should be unfettered by a plan or discipline, please move on. I’m not suggesting a rigid framework but I do feel guidelines and expectations of behavior should be established.
I’m not religious but I do feel that religion and local church communities is a useful tool in raising children. Church communities provide guidelines outlining beneficial behavior that young minds require until they can make decisions based on enlightened self interest. There are so many negative messages streaming toward young people from every media source it is important to find an external source of positive reinforcement.
While pregnant or with a small child I’ve observed women acting to try to secure their situation during their time of greatest need by being domineering. If you try that with me, I’m gone! I have Zero Tolerance! If you treat me with common respect I will do all I can to make you comfortable. If you feel that pregnancy and child rearing is a trap which robs women of their independence and any man that is unwilling to do 50% of the child care is a lazy bum, please move on. I don’t plan to do 50% of the child care. I plan to do only 10% and I’m not joking.
I’m looking for a partner not an adversary. Do you view every interaction as a competition in which you must dominate to control and be a winner? If so, please move on. Do you view your sarcasm, the fact that you “tell it like it is”, “never back down”, and “keep it real” as your best traits? if so, please move on. I’m not interested in fighting with you and I refuse to be dominated. I have no tolerance for verbal abuse. I will not engage, I will simply leave regardless if you are six months pregnant with my child with a toddler in tow, file for divorce and act to attain full custody of the kids. I am open to constructive conversation for the purpose of making positive changes which is not the same as insults spoken in a low tone.
Let’s get real; there is a finite amount of time left for you to have children. Children given birth to by women beyond the age of 30 have a much greater chance of having Downs Syndrome and a variety of other problems. Don’t get me wrong I’m not interested in putting up with some whiny, barely legal, brat. But, if you’re in your mid-twenties, hopefully beyond your game playing stage, wanting at least three kids then you had better start sooner rather than later. Let’s use 25 years of age as a starting point with a 2 year break between births and conceptions foregoing any problems. After 9 months the first healthy child is born. A 2 year break ensues then at the age of 28 the second pregnancy begins. After 9 months and 2 years the third pregnancy begins during your 31st year and concludes during your 32nd year. Following the same pattern a 4th pregnancy begins during your 34th year and concludes in your 35th, Dangerous.
You’re unable to change your age. To minimize the danger to you, the child, and have additional kids we should choose to reduce the duration between pregnancies. Yes, I did write we, because I will be having a say in every aspect of our children’s upbringing. If you feel that you as the mother can and will dictate all matters concerning our children, PLEASE move on!
I refuse to have our children dumped in a day care. If you don’t recognize the pointlessness of returning to work in-between births, then please move on. By choosing to have at least three children with me you are choosing to leave the work force for a minimum of 10 years and I in turn am choosing to be the sole provider. If you expect that after working all day and arriving home that you will leave the children with me to change diapers, do feeding, bathing etc., please move on!
What can you do to ensure you get what you want? Getting what you want in life is dependent on you making the right decisions. The best option enables you to get what you want expending as little time, money and effort as possible. You’re not limited by your choices but your choices can limit you. In order to attain what you really want it is necessary to know yourself.
In order to know yourself you must first understand your motivations.
Many live for the fight and are only motivated to act to compete and win. Only understanding conflict, their only motivation is to control. Some people are preoccupied with pleasing others to attain acceptance. If you empower others to determine your worth you will be cursed to live your life in a roller coaster of happiness and depression. Your desperate attempts to validate your self esteem will inevitably lead to broken relationships and substance abuse.
The “Golden Path” is one of enlightened self-interest. An individual can’t hinder you from attaining your wants, for there are many roads to success. Nor are you dependent on any one person to insure your happiness. There are many tactics of manipulation others can use against you, think rather than react. Your decision to interact with others should be a balance between your need for acceptance and rationally recognizing if particular people will contribute or hinder you in life.
If you choose an education or career path and the road is rough, it is unlikely to get easier. You can choose to view the hardship as a challenge to be overcome and yourself as a failure if you’re unable to succeed. While things become more and more difficult it is likely to cause you to view your abilities and therefore options as fewer and fewer. Eventually you desperately cling to the job you hate, resenting those around you, living in stress, while your health suffers.
A more enlightened “Zen” view would be to view the difficulty you’re experiencing as a helpful sign post in life, indicating to you to choose another path. No one is going to reward you for enduring anything. Choose the path of least resistance by always leading with your strengths toward your wants. Your greatest obligation is to yourself; always look out for # 1.
I am a journalism student who had an assignment covering the selection of Richland College’s website as one example of “9 Examples of Effective College and University Websites.” Having used Richland College’s website many times before, I can say that it is an awesome website, from which I and any other students can do all that might need to be done. Applying online was the easiest things in the world to do and registration online is just as simple. I hope that I am not alone in these sentiments and other students have found it to be just as easy a task as I did.
In talking with the college’s web team, I talked with Mark Murray who told me that the web team researched such issues as accessibility and a user - friendly interface. The organization who did the selecting was searching for websites that contained easy navigation tools and calls to action. Making doing business with the college or university was another major point in the selection criteria. From what I have seen of the website, it accomplishes all these goals quite easily.
I was also told that social media services and tools would have a big impact in the future, with much attention being paid as to which of the media would last and the abandonment of those that don’t pan out as useful or effective. I hope to see the website evolve and change to become even better in the future.
By now everyone has probably heard of the JetBlue flight attendant that quit his job after an altercation with a passenger, then grabs a beer from the beverage cart, inflates the emergency slide and slides off the plane and makes his way to a train station. Many people regard him as a hero for quitting a terrible job. I myself feel that the guy was little less than a hero, but it was a gutsy way to quit a job that he could not handle anymore. Although he is charged with automatic felonies for the operation of the emergency slide and reckless endangerment, he could be praised for quitting before it became something that would have led to more danger and possible violence against future passengers.
I am sure that there have been many people out there who would have loved to quit a job they were suffering in in such a dramatic way that their employers would never forget, or at least, would not be able to forget quickly. I have not worked a real job before but I’m sure many readers have had such experiences. I hope their final exit from those companies was not as dramatic as the flight attendant’s. I hope that the job never gets so tough for me that I quit so dramatically. But i still think it was an interesting thing to do. He simply felt that he could not handle the job and he quit before everything got out of hand, although he did briefly put people in danger, he did what he felt was the right thing to do for himself. I could only hope for myself that things never get that bad where ever I work and that I could have the courage or the creativity to quit like that when things get that bad.
If you’re an ego maniac who has always been a star yet people just didn’t know it, perhaps it’s time for you to start your own television production company. With a few easy steps you can be an “A” Lister or a media mogul with a huge number of unstable obsessive fans clamoring to get a glimpse of you morning, noon, and night.
In order to attain advertiser’s revenue you have to provide a product which differentiates itself from its competitors, appeals to the largest possible demographic, while keeping overhead down, and avoiding the pitfall of empowering a few “stars” with the destiny of a series. Recently programs have been designed to be interactive giving your audience the illusion of participation. By increasing audience participation with the use of e-mail and web-cams (Skype) you can provide viewers the perception that they have control over the outcome.
The mainstream shows being presented now can be categorized into Talk Shows, News Shows, Game Shows, “Reality” Shows, Dramas, and Documentaries. All have their positives and negatives. Talk Shows present the audience with information, interviews, and debates in which they can participate and requires only one set and minimum equipment. Unfortunately, a Talk Show hinges on the host or hosts. One cannot easily exchange one host with another without drastically changing the appeal of the show to the audience. Talk Shows don’t require script writing with intricate plotting, conflict, and resolution with every show, nor skilled actors working together in perfect unison to create an emotional response, as in Dramas.
I think that presenting a News Talk Show which illustrates how the actions of big business, our government, and other governments affect the individual American is a great idea. I also feel it would be a perfect platform for establishing a political base.
News Shows require more rapid and active news gathering than Talk Shows. A News Show competes with other News Shows most with greater assets.
Game Shows don’t provide the audience with information, interviews, and debates in which they can participate but they do offer them the opportunity to throw people out or allow them to progress. Only one set and minimum equipment is required. Game Shows hinge less on their hosts than Talk Shows. Game Shows don’t require scripts, skilled actors, or research. Unfortunately, I feel Game Shows are on their way out, replaced by more physically demanding contests with greater drama.
“Reality” Shows also don’t provide the audience with information, interviews, and debates in which they can participate but they do offer them the opportunity to throw people out or allow them to progress. Only one set and minimum equipment is required. “Reality” Shows don’t require scripts, skilled actors, or research. “Reality” Shows don’t hinge on the hosts’ popularity. The audience has the opportunity to preserve those they like and make them into champions while excluding the less popular contestants. You can later employ the most popular contestants as hosts or have a Battle of the Champions. In order to promote drama you need only inform the contestants of their stereotyped role and tell them to behave within those boundaries: Nerd, Jock, Slut, Loud-Mouth, etc. It will be a great opportunity for aspiring unemployed actors.
I checked my MCAT scores yesterday three times. There was no score and I was getting nervous. Once class was done, I went home to check my scores again. There was no score still. My MCAT teacher from the summer called me to ask how I did and I told him that I had not received a score yet. He asked me to check again. I was not looking forward to it. I hung up the phone and checked my score. I navigated my way through the MCAT website and clicked on the link for score reports. I anxiously entered my username and password and pressed enter. Oh my gosh. I was shocked. I couldn’t believe it. I had made a 30 on my MCAT. I was shrieking and shouting and thanking God for all the things he had done for me. I knew it was divine. I could never have made a 30 even if my life depended on it. I immediately called my MCAT teacher to notify him of my score and we were both celebrating over the phone. I then called my mom and girlfriend to break the news to them. I was still on cloud nine and couldn’t get off. I was too overjoyed and even still in disbelief of my score. I am set and on my way to medical school!
My weekend was awesome. I had fun with my girlfriend and enjoyed watching Despicable Me with her. I thought that the parts of the movie that were the best were already seen through trailers and teasers. I was a little disappointed. I was expecting to be blown away by the movie, but was just amused. My girlfriend actually fell asleep during the end of the movie, but I think it was because she was jet lagged and not because she didn’t like the movie. She had come back from Vietnam after a month. She arrived last Saturday and was still feeling the effects of the time difference. The time we had was awesome though. It was good to see her face and hug her after a month of being alone. She and I shared stories of what we had been up to the whole month and exchanged jokes and laughs. It brought back old memories of when we hung out during the school year.
The weekend was bitter sweet. I had to wait through the traffic and crawl on I-635. It was a very awful experience. I learned my lesson and will never drive during traffic hours. I recently got a car and have never been aware of traffic times because I never had to deal with it until now. I feel that I am a newbie on the car scene and will be learning pretty fast. I have yet to figure out how to take care of a car and hopefully after this week I can get some check ups done.
For me this will be an introductory blog. My name is Breanna Deck and I have been a student here at Richland College for three semesters now. I have been enjoying my time here, after having moved here to Texas from Apple Valley, California. There have been some pleasant differences between Richland and the college that I attended before. Here at Richland the campus is lush and green and beautiful. It’s the largest community college campus that I have been on. The disability services on campus are good, at my old college they were fair.
Taking classes has been a breeze, registering online through the college website was easy and fast. This college has some really good instructors and the classes that are offered are challenging.
What really has me excited is that I am now a real journalism student and I am able to find classes available in the daytime, at my old college the only classes available were all offered at night, when the local buses had stopped running and I had no way to attend. Sometimes having to rely on public transportation can be a pain. Otherwise everything about taking classes here has been great. I have wanted to be a journalist and study journalism for a long time. Journalism, to me, is about providing people with information that informs them about the events in their communities, the nation, and the world and to deliver this information in ways that help people shape their world and guide them in decisions that guide them in their daily lives. To me this is a great thing, with awesome responsibility to be accurate and truthful and to guard integrity of the reporters and the publications or broadcasts. Those whose integrity has been comprimised put the reputation of the organization at risk and the public may never trust them again. For me it is important to avoid this situation for the future of journalism.
To conclude I will say that my experience at Richland College has been amazing so far and I am looking forward to more. Journalism is my major and a big part of my future, so I hope to go really far in that direction. I look forward to big changes in my life and a better experience.
I got a private screening of a new indie suspense thriller called “The Disappearance of Alice Creed”
The film is about two kidnappers Vic and Billy, who kidnapped a young rich girl named Alice Creed to hold her ransom for her fathers money.
The cast is that of Gemma Arterton(Alice Creed), Martin Compston (Billy), Eddie Marsan(Vic), and is directed by J Blakeson.
The movie has twists and turns all through it. Alice turns out to be a smarter victim, then they thought. She tests the kidnappers throughout the film, with her relentless fight to break free.
I liked the movie for it’s grittiness, and edge of your seat suspense. The characters were well played, and the story never strayed away from excitement.
Check out The Disappearance of Alice Creed
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