Sports Just Can Also Slender
Cancer January 28th, 2011
Three participants Programme of fitness first big loose that gets the greatest weight loss.
Almost 13 weeks Lucia (39) Routinea fitness center at Orchid Park mall. He practiced fitness routine at least three times a week. Under the guidance of personal trainer that short-haired women do various physical exercises its intensity continuously improved every week.
The result is not gratuitous. Within 13 weeks, body weight decreased from 124.9 kg to 111.8, down 13.1 kg. “I am very satisfied. Before I was almost in despair because of increasing weight. Since 2000, my total up nearly 40 pounds,” he said.
Lucia is one of 40 participants Lose Big Programme, a weight-loss program conducted in groups and are designed specifically for people with a body mass index of 25 or more. This weight loss program developed by Dave Nuku, regional fitness manager of Fitness First.
Excess body weight has proved detrimental to the health side, so someone who had his body weight exceeds the normal limit by a physician is always recommended to reduce food intake and exercise.
Although Lucia has no health problems, but the death of her brother who died at the age of 44 years from complications of diabetes and heart disease struck him. “Time’s brother died, I realized should not go on like this. I do not want to live to be in vain,” he explained.
Costs incurred by the participants Lose Big Programme is not exactly cheap, which is about four million rupiah for a duration of 13-week program. But in addition to guided practice, they also get education and motivation sessions. “Basically that is needed is a thorough transformation, whether physical, mindset and lifestyle,” said Rowan Searle, country manager of Fitness First Indonesia.
The slimming program participants who noted weight loss most is Jani Gurnani (54) who initially only wanted to participate only. As the oldest participant, who would have thought it was the most rapid body weight decrease. “In the first week, my weight went down 9 pounds,” he said.
Jani admitted that the program initially provided very heavy. “Initially I felt exhausted. But from week to week, it was increasingly underestimated as the meningkatkanya my stamina,” he explained.
Jani experience is also felt by Lucia. “I used when jogging or brisk walking for 20 minutes, the straight leg sore ankle,” said Lucia is forced to quit his job as head coach of outbound as they often feel exhausted and his feet are often swollen.
Lucky because they make this program as a group, a lot of support from my friends ‘arms’ that come to increase motivation. “My friends in my group make the sport even more fun, two hours would often not be felt,” said Lucia.
“Now my body feels lighter and agile. Although I still have a target to lose weight to below 100 kg,” said Lucia who is now her dress size has shrunk from the size of “4 L” to “double L”.
The experts reveal weight-loss programs can effectively reduce body weight when coupled with a reduced calorie intake and increase calories burned. Because of that diet drastically, for example by not eating at all, or only eating vegetables alone is not recommended because the body needs all nutrients, including fat.
“So far I did not do a strict diet. From the beginning of any program participants are not restricted to avoid certain foods. However, I avoid fried foods and reduce snacking,” said Lucia.
When you miss the snack-snack favorite, Lucia admits that he re-considering the motivation to lose weight. “I’m not looking for a slim, but healthy looking. That is why I do not want my motivation faded by the little things,” he said.
Secret Anti-Fatigue
Cancer November 30th, 2010
Have we ever wondered why the energy very quickly eroded from within the body so that the weary and lifeless often stop by to make “clouds” in our heads the gray.
Prevention has been brewing some new research on sleep, metabolism, stress, and kronobiologi to identify the most vulnerable time for us to experience fatigue. With the help of experts, Prevention also makes it easy for our best strategy to combat the problem.
Here are the eight secrets that will be able to make sure we woke up feeling refreshed and “filled”, stay awake all day, and make us sleep well at the time.
1. When to wake up
Compared to a nap, better get used to waking up at the same hour every day, and bersahabatlah with light. This will make sirklus circadian or body clock still work in harmony for 24 hours every day. Read the rest of this entry »
Obesity and 'Overweight'
Cancer October 28th, 2010

Definition of obesity and overweight have a different meaning for each person. However, most people considered overweight far exceeds the desired weight as overweight.
The definition of obesity, according to the doctors, is a condition in which body fat is in abundance. This condition is known as a chronic disease that can be overcome. Obesity is also associated with diseases that may reduce the quality of life.
Meanwhile, overweight or being overweight is a condition in which body weight (BW) BW than the normal person. Of the estimated 210 million Indonesian population in 2000, the number of overweight people who have reached 76.7 million (17.5 percent) and that obesity reached 9.8 million (4.7 percent).
The term “normal”, “overweight”, and “obese” can vary in each country and culture. Therefore, WHO established a measurement or classification of obesity that is not dependent on cultural bias.
The most widely used method for measuring the level of obesity is the body mass index (BMI), which is obtained by dividing weight (kg) by square of height (meters). BMI can be used to determine how much a person can be exposed to the risk of certain diseases.
Asian normal BMI values from 18.5 to 22.9. Values from 23 to 24.9 is overweight (overweight). Someone said to her obesity when BMI over 30 or in other words the person has excess body weight as much as 20 percent.
There are many diseases are closely associated with being overweight. Call it high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, arthritis, back pain, and even sexual dysfunction.
Quick stretch at Work Tables
Cancer August 31st, 2010
It’s Monday again and this means, the list we have to do work that has just begun. In law relationship, this will make us to be more sitting behind a computer desk. Finally getting too tense neck muscles, shoulders, and our backs.
This physical discomfort made an already super busy day, it becomes increasingly unpleasant. But now, with the Prevention, we stop the cycle of tension without ever leaving our desks.
In practice it only takes 30 seconds of this, we asked to sit with your back on a chair, then lay down in front torso attached to the thigh. Movement is a good stretch for back, neck and hip we. But the main strength of this movement is to help us feel quite calm and let us breath more deeply and slowly. This trick is also very powerful way to cope with stress.
Here are the steps that we can do stretches at your desk:
• Back off slightly to the back bench, and make sure we are on the thigh seat bench boss.
• Make sure both feet flat on the floor and rest. If not, drop us a little bench.
• Open the width of the knee and make sure both feet are just below the knee.
• Bend your body from the waist toward the front, lay torso until his head was between his thighs. Let your arms above your head, then brought down on the floor.
• Allow your body in this position in a while, let your body get accustomed to new situations.
• When our breathing is slower and longer, continue to elongate the backbone of our every breath. And release your muscles every exhale.
• Do the elongation of the spine, at least up to 10 deep breaths.
• When lifting the body upward, still earned a curved spine. Let your lower back until the back of the bench first, then followed with the back of the middle and then the new blades. Finally, bring the head back to the starting position.
Do not tell me again do not have time. Apparently, no longer need and a special place for stretching. Simply provide a time 30 seconds, we can benefit from stretching enough behind our desk
This 10 Losses due to Sleep Deprivation
Cancer August 12th, 2010

- you never feel cranky and dizzy? Maybe it’s due to lack of sleep. Do not ever take for granted this state! Lack of sleep can affect your sex life, memory, health, appearance, and even make your body “stretchy”.
Here are 10 surprising things that happen due to lack of sleep:
1. Accident
Sleep deprivation is one of the biggest disasters in the history of factors other than nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island in 1979, the biggest oil spill Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl nuclear crisis in 1986, and others.
Sound excessive, but you must realize the lack of sleep also affects your safety every day on the road. Drowsiness can slow your time driving, the equivalent of when you’re drunk at the wheel.
A study by the Institute of Traffic Safety National Highway America shows that fatigue is a cause of car accidents and 100 000 deaths during the year 1500 in the U.S.. The Sacrifice, a person under the age of 25 years.
The same study shows, if you lack sleep or have a low-quality sleep, it can cause accidents and injuries at work. In one study, workers who complain of excessive daytime drowsiness vulnerable injured while working and constantly experience the same accident while working.
2. Concentrations decreased
A good sleep plays an important role in thinking and learning. Lack of sleep can affect many things. First, interfering with alertness, concentration, reasoning, and problem-solving. This makes learning difficult and inefficient. Secondly, the sleep cycle at night play a role in “strengthening” of memory in the mind. If not enough sleep, then you will not be able to remember what you learned and experienced during the day.
3. Serious health problems
Sleep disorders and chronic sleep deprivation can lead you step on the risk:
* Heart Disease
* Heart attack
* Heart failure
* Irregular heartbeat
* High blood pressure
* Stroke
* Diabetes
According to some studies, 90 percent of people with insomnia, sleep disorder characterized by difficulty sleeping and stayed awake all night-also experienced a similar health risks.
4. Decreased sex drive
The experts reported that sleep deprivation in male and female libido and reduce the urge to have sex. This is due to depleted energy, drowsiness, and rising tension.
For men who suffer from sleep apnea (breathing problems during sleep disturbing) lack of sleep cause sexual arousal sluggish. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism in 2002 showed that almost all people who suffer from sleep apnea have lower levels of testosterone. Nearly half of people who suffer from severe sleep apnea have a low testosterone level at night.
5. Causing depression
In a 1997 study, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania reported that people who sleep less than five hours per day for seven days led to stress, anger, sadness, and mental fatigue. In addition, lack of sleep and sleep disorders can cause symptoms of depression.
The most common sleep disorder is insomnia, which has strong links with depression. In the 2007 study involving 10,000 people revealed that people with insomnia five times more susceptible to depression. In fact, insomnia is often one of the first symptoms of depression.
Insomnia and no appetite due to depression are related. Sleep deprivation exacerbates depressive symptoms and depression makes you more difficult to sleep. On the positive side, a good sleep pattern can help treat depression.
6. Influence skin health
Most people have pale skin and puffy eyes after a few sleepless nights. That situation was due to a chronic lack of sleep can lead to dull skin, fine lines on the face, and dark circles under the eyes.
If you are not getting enough sleep, your body release more stress hormones or cortisol. In excessive amounts, cortisol can break down skin collagen or proteins that keep skin smooth and elastic.
Sleep deprivation can also cause the body less growth hormone release. When we were young, human growth hormone encourages the growth. In this case, the hormone that helps increase muscle mass, skin thicken, and strengthen bones.
“This occurs when the body is sleeping soundly-which we call a slow wave sleep (SWS), growth hormone is released,” said Phil Gehrman, PhD, CBSM, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Director of Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
7. Forgetful
Do not want to forget the best memories in your life? Try to multiply sleep. In 2009, researchers from America and France found that the events of the brain called sharp wave ripples responsible strengthen memory in the brain. This event also transfer information from the hippocampus to the neocortex in the brain, where long-term memories are stored. Sharp wave ripples occur mostly during sleep.
8. Body to be “stretched”
If you ignore the effects of sleep deprivation, so be prepared with the threat of being overweight. Lack of sleep associated with increased hunger and appetite, and possibly could become obese. According to a 2004 study, nearly 30 percent of those who slept less than six hours a day tend to be more obese than those who slept seven to nine hours a day.
Recent research has focused on the relationship between sleep and peptides that regulate appetite. Ghrelin stimulates hunger and satiety signals of leptin to the brain and stimulate the appetite. Short sleep time was associated with decreased leptin and an increase in ghrelin.
Lack of sleep not only stimulate the appetite. It also stimulates the desire to eat fatty foods and foods high in carbohydrates. The ongoing research conducted to investigate whether adequate sleep should be a standard part of a weight-loss program.
9. Increase the risk of death
In his second Whitehall study, British researchers discover how sleep patterns affect mortality rates of more than 10,000 British civil servants over the past two decades. Based on the results of research published in 2007, those who have been sleeping less than 5-7 hours a day increased the risk of death due to various factors. Even the lack of sleep increased two-fold risk of death from cardiovascular disease.
10. Particularly damaging assessment of sleep
Lack of sleep can affect the interpretation of the events. State’s limp body to make we can not judge the situation accurately and wisely. Your lack of sleep is very vulnerable to a bad rating when it comes time to assess what is missing something.
In a fast paced world today, sleep habits become a kind of badge of honor. Specialists on the bed saying, you’re wrong if you think you are fine despite lack of sleep because no matter where you work in any profession, will be a big problem if you can not judge things well.
“Studies show that from time to time, people who slept for six hours instead of seven or eight hours a day, began to feel that they have adapted to the circumstances lack of sleep. They’re used to it,” says Gehrman.
“But if you look at the results of tests of mental performance and alertness, their value continues to deteriorate. It explains how sleep deprivation interfere with our daily activities.
















