What If You Knew the Right Way to Walk Off Weight?

Is There a Right Way To Walk Off Weight?

What happens when you've been walking diligently but not seeing any positive results from your weight loss efforts?  You been walking but getting nowhere with your weight loss efforts. If this is you, don't despair, you're not alone. It turns out that a lot of people shares your dilemma, but help is right around the corner.

I found this wonderful article by Maggie Spilner, former Prevention Walking Editor. Her pearls of wisdom should shed some light on your walking weight loss efforts.

Prevention's Pedometer Walking Exercise Program

The Right Way to Walk Off Weight

Try our pedometer program if other weight loss programs haven't worked.
By Maggie Spilner , Former Prevention Walking Editor, Maggie Spilner, is the author of Prevention's Complete Book of Walking. She is currently organizing walking trips, lecturing, and working on a new walking book.

Introduction

You've walked your buns off, and you haven't lost a pound? All that hoofing, and you're still having trouble zipping up even your "fat pants"? We've heard your frustration, and we've developed a program to take your walking workouts to the next level-and finally blast away all the pounds you want to lose.

In my 15+ years as Prevention's walking editor, I discovered that one of the most common mistakes made by walkers who want to lose weight is getting stuck in neutral. Even if you're taking thousands of extra steps according to your pedometer, if they're always at the same comfortable pace, you won't drop an ounce. You need to shift your walks into high gear!

Prevention's "Walk Off More Weight" pedometer exercise program can help. This walking workout builds on our original pedometer program that appeared in the magazine in July 2001. Along with increasing the number of steps you take throughout the day, you'll pick up your intensity (thus increasing your heart rate) for a portion of those steps. Adding this type of intensity helps boost calorie burn, fitness, and endurance.

We asked 25 people just like you, people who'd been walking regularly but just weren't seeing any results, to try our pedometor walking exercise program for 8 weeks. Those with the most outstanding results diligently stuck to the pedometer walking exercise program and made simple but committed changes in their diets, such as eating less meat or sweets or eating more fruits and vegetables. (We asked them not to change their diets, so we could see the results of an exercise-only program. But once they stepped up their exercise efforts, they just couldn't resist shaping up their diets too!) After just 8 weeks, they were hooked.

Read the success stories of four revved-up walkers who lost pounds and inches, improved their fitness, and increased their energy levels. They also lowered their cholesterol and their triglycerides! Now, it's your turn.

All you need is a pedometer with a pulse meter. (Or use a regular pedometer, and track your heart rate.) First, figure out the average number of steps you take a day. To do this, wear your pedometer from the time you get up in the morning until you go to bed at night. Don't change your daily routine or walk more than usual. Do this for 3 days, ideally 2 weekdays and 1 weekend day. Total your steps for the 3 days, and divide by three to get your baseline.

To establish your daily step goal, add 7,500 steps (about 3 3/4 miles) to your baseline.

Reach Your Zone To calculate your target heart rate zone, subtract your age from 220. That's your maximum heart rate (MHR). Then, keep your pulse between 60 and 80% of your MHR. If you're 40, for example, your MHR is 180 beats per minute. Your target range is 108 to 144 beats per minute (180 x 0.60 and 180 x 0.80). These are only estimates; always consider how you feel as well.

Check your pulse by placing two fingers lightly on your wrist (on the side by your thumb) or on your neck (slightly off center). Count the beats for 10 seconds, then multiply by 6. Or, you can use a heart rate monitor. Get the full story here.

Will you be our next weight loss success story?  Meet some very happy people who have achieved their weight loss goals losing 8 to 15 pounds a week with ease.

 

What Is The Long Term Affect of Drinking a Can of Soda a Day?

Does Your Health Changes if You Drink a Can of Soda a Day Over a Long Period of Time?

On Tue Jun 7, 2011 at 4:58am PDT Bliss Tree, posted an article with the question, "What happens to your body after you drink a soda every day, for a long time?" to its followers.  The article must have pinched a nerve in many people because it was shared 13k times on Facebook.  

I reposted the first 3 paragraphs of the article here; however you can get the full story at the link below.

Sugar rushes and caffeine highs followed by a depressing energy crash are what happens to your body if you drink a soda right now, but plenty of Blisstree readers actually seem to be okay with that. Some of you think it’s alarmist to compare a caffeine and sugar rush to doing drugs, and some just don’t really care about the slump they’ll find themselves in after drinking 39 grams of sugar, but what makes us really worried about a soda-slurping habit is what happens over the long term. 

Here’s a quick snapshot of you, in a few years, after drinking soda on a regular basis:

You’ll Be Fatter: According to research in the Nurse’s Health Study, which monitored the health of 90,000 women for eight years, drinking a single soda every day of the week added 10 pounds over a four-year period.

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You’ll Probably Have Diabetes: In the Nurses’ Health Study, women who said they drank one or more servings a day of a sugar-sweetened soft drink or fruit punch were twice as likely to have developed type 2 diabetes during the study than those who rarely consumed these beverages.  You can get the full story  here.

US Troops Returning From Afghanistan Charged $2,800 For Baggage by Airline

Airline apologizes after U.S. troops returning from Afghanistan charged $2,800 for baggage

by Laura Rozen

Is this free money?  What do you think?

Below is a portion of an article written by Laura Rozen, for news yahoo com on an incident involving Delta Airlines and US troops returning from a tour of duty in Afghanistan.

Delta Airlines found itself scrambling to shore up its patriotic credentials after U.S. troops returning from Afghanistan posted a YouTube video complaining the airline had charged them more than $2,800 in excess baggage fees.

"We showed up and found out we had too many bags," Army Staff Sgt. Robert O'Hair, of the 95th Infantry Division, said in the video, the Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel reported today.

"We had four bags, and Delta Air Lines only allows three bags. Anything over three bags you have to pay for, even though there's a contract between the United States government and Delta Air Lines: When returning from Afghanistan on military orders, you're authorized up to four bags."

The 34 soldiers, from the 95th Infantry Division, had to pay $200 each out of pocket to the airline to transport their fourth bag.

Delta Airlines on Wednesday changed its policy to permit active-duty soldiers traveling economy class to check four bags at no extra fee, Terkel writes in an update.

The airline promised to repay the soldiers, but I think some damage has been done. What do you think?  Below are a couple of comments from the actual article.

Free13, wrote in his/her comment:

Maybe the soldiers should charge delta a fee for there freedom they cherish!! that should resolve the issue..

Turnstiles, wrote:

Absolutely no common sense at all by Delta. They gained $2,800 in baggage fees but lose six or seven figures in bad publicity by potential customers not using their airline in resentment.

Jason, wrote:
Shame on you Delta. These men and women are protecting your right to be in business at all. Each one of them should be reimbursed and given 2 first class tickets anywhere Delta flies.

What if All HIV Patients Were "Functionally Cured?"

HIV Community Excited First man ‘functionally cured’

 Fri Jun 3, 5:40 pm ET 
By Liz Goodwi

What if all HIV patients were "functionally cure" of HIV?   Well scientist now believes that they have a functional cure for HIV.  Liz Goodwi  Friday June 3, 2001 article in YahooNews/the Lookoutblog, shed some light on this sigh of relief.

According to UN report, “since HIV was discovered 30 years ago this week, 30 million people have died from the disease, and it continues to spread at the rate of 7,000 people per day globally.”  I don't know about you but to me that is a scary epidemic. 

Now there is hope and it stems from a bone marrow stem cell transplant in Berlin, Germany in 2007. The transplant came from a man who was immune to HIV, which scientists say about 1 percent of Caucasians are. 

This resulted in what scientist call the"Berlin patient," in reference to Timothy Ray Brown  a man who suffered from both leukemia and HIV before he received the transplant. See the "Berlin patient" video here. He is now referred to as being "functionally cured."

Since the transplant, "He has no replicating virus and he isn't taking any medication. And he will now probably never have any problems with HIV," his doctor Gero Huetter told Reuters. 

Brown’s story “is perhaps why the story of the man scientists call the "Berlin patient" is so remarkable and has generated so much excitement among the HIV advocacy community.” The are actually referring to him as being "functionally cured." 

You Can Lose Weight In 2 Weeks?

Lose Weight in 2 Weeks

Yes You Can Lose Weight in 2 Weeks

I market weight loss products for a woman to lose weight in two weeks.  A woman who is having a difficult time losing baby fat, and feel like she have already tried everything by that point to lose weight, with no real success, like what happened to Tanya above. 

Nothing seemed to make a real difference for her in losing her baby fat and to make matters worst she had a prescription drug that made her gained 60 extra pounds.  Then she tried this program and here is what she had to say.

But let me ask you before I give you her story let me ask you, do you know anyone who ever wanted to lose weight in two weeks? 
Are they now trying to lose some weight?  Then Tanya's story could be an inspiration to them.

Below is her story notice where she tells you, that she lost 11 pounds by the end of her second week on this program.  Her results and yours may differ but the important thing to remember and consider is that you can lose weight in 2 weeks. Here is her story: 

"After having 3 kids and a prescription medication that caused me to gain 60 pounds, I was ready to try something new. I thought I’d tried everything by that point and I would have done anything to lose the weight!"

"A friend approached me about making money and losing weight. Skeptical, but curious, I asked lots of questions, sampled some product, went online to do research, then went for it."

"I ordered Accelerate, Flush, and XYNG. I was excited when my Xyngular package came in the mail just a few days later. I was even more excited a week after that when I had dropped 6 pounds! I used the Accelerate and Flush regularly, and used the XYNG as a pick-me-up."

"By the end of the second week, I had lost 11 pounds! I ended up losing over 40 pounds in 9 months with minimal exercise!"

"I've gone from a size 14 to a size 4 (and the 4's are getting baggy). I couldn’t have done it without these products. They helped me lose the weight, keep it off, and make me a happier, healthier person while I did it!"

"Thank You Xyngular!"

-Tanya Whiteman

Tanya's story is a typical Xyngular member's story.  your experience with Xyngular's weight loss program may be different.  None-the-less the weight loss programs work quickly with minimal alteration to your eating habits and life style.

What If Man-Size Meteor From Comet Hit Earth

What If Georgia Was Hit by Man-Size Meteor From Comet

Credit: Stuart WongPhoto taken in Lafayette, CA. on November 19, 2002 at approx. 2:40am. 

According to NASA on May 20 (0247 GMT on May 21), a 6-foot-wide (1.8-meter) space rock barrelled into Earth's atmosphere at 10:47 p.m. EDT about 66 miles (106 kilometers) above the city of Macon, Ga.  It was considered a "fireball," a term given to a meteor that shines brighter than Venus in the sky.

NASA researchers said that, " When it entered the atmosphere, the comet chunk was traveling northwest at about 86,000 mph (138,404 kph).  At this velocity, the boulder-size "dirty snowball" possessed an energy or striking power somewhere between 500 and 1,000 tons of TNT.  What if that boulder was to hit earth in a populated area at such velocity?

Is this a cause for concern? Apparently, we've been having fireballs in our atmosphere quite frequently. According to the article written by Mike Wall , SPACE.com Senior Writer Space.com | SPACE.com – Thu, Jun 2, 2011, this is not unusual.  His article states,"Fireballs like the May 20 event are impressive but not terribly unusual."

He continues, "Objects as big as washing machines typically fall into Earth's atmosphere on a monthly basis, but most of them burn up before reaching the ground. Many of the resulting fireballs are not seen because they occur over remote areas or over oceans (which cover more than two-thirds of Earth's surface)."

My question again is.  What if, such boulders were able to penetrate through earths atmosphere and hit a populated area at such velocity?

What If a Little Ice Age Caused The Disapperance of The Vikings On Greenland?

Did a Little Ice Age Caused The Vikings Disappearance On Greenland?

Did a little ice age on Greenland cause the disappearance of the Vikings people?   Scientist from the United States and Britain seem to think so. An article on Yahoo!News  by Reuters states that, “A cold snap in Greenland in the 12th century may help explain why Viking settlers vanished from the island,” the scientists said on Monday. 

The article continues to say that, “Scientists have previously suspected that a cooling toward a "Little Ice Age" from the 1400s gradually shortened growing seasons and added to sea ice that hampered sailing links with Iceland or the Nordic nations.”

William D'Andrea of Brown University, the lead author of the study in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said that, "There is a definite cooling trend in the region right before the Norse disappear."

Based on other findings by the researchers, D'Andrea also said,"You have an interval when the summers are long and balmy and you build up the size of your farm, and then suddenly year after year, you go into this cooling trend, and the summers are getting shorter and colder and you can't make as much hay." This shift in temperatures to a colder and longer period of coldness could have hampered the Vikings ability to raise crops and hunt for food.  

Today Greenland’s new inhabitants are again being threatened by unfavorable climate changes.  This time it is the warming up of the region, which is melting the ice caps and also an increase in volcanic eruptions that spew hazardous ashes over large area of land.

Will this climatic and geographical change cause people to abandon Greenland again?  What’s your thought about the situation?  Leave me a post below.  thank you.