You can spend hours at the gym, but just as important are those hours of gardening, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, and strolling around the block after dinner, that help you keep your diabetes in control. ... Also test periodically at 3 A.M. and two hours after meals. ... Acceptable Blood Glucose Levels A normal blood glucose is 70-110 mg/dl before a meal and less than 120 mg/dl 2 hours after a meal. ... Patients with chronic disease, complications, or hypoglycemia: 80-160 mg/dl before meals; less than 200 mg/dl 2 hours after meals; A1C within 1% of normal. Pregnant women with...

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I do kickboxing, spinning, step aerobics, running etc. for about an hour. ... Since building muscle increases my metabolism, I try to lift about an hour. ... I usually sleep about 6-8 hours. For this week, I slept about 6 hours on average, but I took naps when I got home from class. ... I studied about 3-4 hours this whole week. ...

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According to Felts, Tavasso, Chenier and Dunn, children have "fewer hours of strenuous exercise in physical education classes, and more hours spent viewing television on school days" (1). ... As observed, Billy and Brian Rusiewicz, ages 9 and 10, spend nearly 25 hours a week either playing video games or computer games. ... Technology is being used for hours both by adults and children. ... After a long day, we as a society become lazy, and that is when adults sit and watch the television while children spend hours playing video games. ...

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Families, due to the lack of time or convenience, allow children to be in front of the television as many hours as they want, instead of taking them to the park or any other activity that would satisfy their physical needs, indicated by American Psychological Association (APA) "In very young children, research has found that for every one-hour increase in TV viewing per day, there are higher intakes of sugar-sweetened beverages, fast food, red and processed meat, and overall calories (48.7 kcal/day). ... Outdoor games, sports, outings, etc., every day are being replaced by sedentary acti...

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The American Heart Association reports that, on average, children watch 17 hours of television a week. ... One study found the odds of being overweight were nearly five times greater for youth watching more than five hours of television per day compared with those who watched from zero to two hours per day. ...

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It is estimated that children in the United States are spending at least twenty five percent of their waking hours watching television and statistically children who watch the most hours of television have the highest incidence of obesity. ... Children in the past did not have to worry so much about parents being divorced and remarried, mothers that worked long hours or fathers that traveled for most of the week. ...

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It is recommended that children should participate in at least one hour daily in activities of moderate-intensity physical activity. ... Appropriate time should be set by the parents on the number of hours that the children spend watching television. ...

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According to "Body Image & Advertising," the average woman sees up to six-hundred advertisements every day. Many people have become unaware of advertising's presence, because it is so banal and ingrained in American's everyday lives. Not only do people not notice it when something is being markete...

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In most households, both parents work and have late hours, leaving children home alone. ... To increase your child's activity level parents need to limit recreational computer and TV time to no more than 2 hours a day. A surefire way to increase your child's activity levels is to limit the number of hours he or she is allowed to watch television each day. ...

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There are many factors that influence a person's food selection. These factors include: economic, social, psychological, and physiological considerations. Physiological factors affect the body's need and desire for food. Hunger can be defined as the feeling of emptiness, weakness or pain caused by ...

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that children who watch more than two hours of TV a day at age 12 weight more than children who at the same age watched less than two hours of TV. ... This study found that adolescents are watching an average of 26 hours of television per week. ...

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Bouchard's research is one of many that relate back to having an hour of physical activity each day will help people stay healthy. ... He says, "Just one extra can each day can add as much as 15 pounds to your weight over the course of a single year" (Mercola).When a person drinks a bottle of coke, they have to run a hour and a half to burn of the calories from the drink. ...

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Introduction Obesity has emerged as the most pressing nutritional problem facing the developed world. This trend has occurred over a relatively short period of time; in the United States, it appears to have begun in the last quarter of the 20th century. The epidemic in children followed shortly ther...

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Relay races, dodgeball, crab walks, kickball, and about a hundred different versions of tag; this is what I lived for when I was ten years old. I would stare at the hands moving along the clock, seconds seemed like hours, hours felt like days, and I felt like I was going to grow old before it was ti...

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I exercised every day for two hours, counted calories and weighed myself morning and night. ... It also establishes a 24-hour, toll-free hotline that sufferers and their families can call to receive referrals for services or other information about eating disorders (apa.org/ppo/nita.html). ...

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Janet, like most entertainers and television/movie stars, has costly personal trainers and exercises her body for hours to obtain the look she wants. ... It's no wonder why each year millions of women spend countless hours and dollars on beauty products, try rigorous diets just to lose that extra ten pounds, or even go through painful and dangerous surgery just to achieve their goal of being "beautiful". ...

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Introduction Generation Obese is symbolic to the current generation increase in the prevalence of overweight children and adolescents in America. Childhood obesity around the world, particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that has received much attention lately. Government offici...

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., within any 2-hour period) an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat during a similar period of time and under similar circumstances (p.755). 2. a sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating), (p.757). ...

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In one study mentioned in Aven's article stated that "obesity was highest in children who watched four or more hours of television per day these children also tended to consume more calories per day... In this day and age, the majority of Americans do not have the ability to just take hours out of their schedules to workout, especially if it has a negative connotation for them. ...

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When I was younger, we hardly ever got the opportunity to go out to eat. It was a rare occasion because my family didn't think it was a responsible idea to spend money going out to eat when we had plenty of food in our refrigerator. Another strong reason was because of how unhealthy eating at restau...

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Everyday people look in the mirror and take a few moments to see how they look. Whether it is for trying on clothes, or just looking at their body, one can either like what they see or dislike what they see. The reasons may vary, but for some people an overweight body is a very stressful and hard to...

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A Weighty Issue In the state of Massachusetts, there is a law that makes it illegal for anyone to consume more than three sandwiches at a wake. Who knows for sure why this law is in effect, but one theory is this, when people are depressed they tend to eat more, thus consuming more calories, wh...

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According to Stephanie Armour's article "Your Appearance Can Affect the Size of your Paycheck", she said numerous studies are indicating that workers with below-average appearances tend to earn notably less per hour than their above-average-looking teammates. ...

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The rise of anorexia and obesity in the western world has resulted in what can be called a serious health and psychological epidemic. In the Unites States, 44.2% of the population are obese, due in part to our increasing expectation that women should be thin. Both disorders are the cause of hundreds...

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History Joseph Hubertus Pilates is the founder of the Pilates method also known as "the method." He was born in Germany in 1880 and as a young boy suffered from asthma, ricketts and rheumatic fever. He was always very weak. Fortunately, a family physician gave him a used anatomy book which he pr...

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