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Also, I have limited means and equipment, does it have to be done to the tee? As well, do you have to follow the exact "diet program"?
If anyone can let me know, I'd appreciate it. :) I am thinking about doing this, but I want to be sure. Thanks !
Monday, June 10, 2013
P90X.. I know this gets brought up a lot..
.. But I was wondering a few things about it. First of all, does it have the same results for someone who has more than 20 lbs to lose? (I am 5'5" and 180 lbs). How do you know if it is something that is too intense for your current fitness?
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I need some unbiased advice here. :)
I know this is asked a lot but math makes my head whirl so having some expert CC member advice would help me a ton. :)
Okay so here come the stats
20 years old
5 ft 8 inch
164 pounds
I'm lightly active most days and on days I work at Subway I'd say I'm moderately active
I eat about 1400-1500 calories a day, however, when I work out and/or have a shift at work I calculate what I burned and usually try to eat back half of the deficit. So some days are 1700 days and others are 1400 depending.
Is this all healthy? Any tips or tricks?
Anxiety, Depression May Triple Risk of Death for Heart Patients: Study
Researcher recommends stress-reducing measures
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, March 19 (HealthDay News) -- Anxiety and depression coupled with heart disease triples the risk of death compared to cardiac trouble alone, researchers have found.
Among heart patients, anxiety can double the risk of dying from any cause, the study authors noted, and depression further raises those odds.
"Patients with heart disease who experience high anxiety during the stressors of everyday life may benefit from treatments designed to reduce anxiety, such as medications targeting anxiety or stress management," said lead researcher Lana Watkins, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.
"Benefits from stress-reducing interventions would potentially be greatest in patients where anxiety is found in combination with depression," she added.
Previous studies have shown that depression is about three times more common in heart attack patients than in others. But few studies have looked at anxiety's effect or the combination of the two on heart disease patients.
One expert, Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a spokesman for the American Heart Association and a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, agreed anxiety and depression are most lethal when they co-exist.
"Depression and anxiety have both been individually associated with a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease, and in patients with cardiovascular disease [they are] associated with higher risk of recurrent cardiovascular events and death," Fonarow said.
This new study finds that anxiety, particularly when accompanying depression, independently increased risk of dying, he added.
The report was published March 19 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Anxiety is a common mental health problem, with about one-third of U.S. adults experiencing an anxiety disorder in their lifetime, the researchers noted. And heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.
For the study, more than 900 heart disease patients, average age 62, answered a questionnaire measuring their level of anxiety and depression right before or just after coronary angiography, which can be a stressful cardiac procedure. The test uses special X-rays and dyes to view the coronary arteries.
The investigators found that 90 patients had anxiety, 65 had depression and 99 suffered from both.
Of the 133 patients who died over the three years of follow-up, 55 suffered from anxiety, depression or both, the researchers reported. Most of these deaths (93) were related to heart disease, they noted.
Patients who are highly anxious during a stressful life experience, such as a cardiac hospitalization, are at an increased risk of dying, and this risk is independent of the severity of their heart disease and also of depression, Watkins said.
According to the researchers, anxiety can increase inflammation and blood pressure. Fatigue or feelings of worthlessness associated with depression may cause people to ignore their treatment for heart disease.
3500=1lb loss?
Say i wanted to add my numbers up to see how close i am to 3500=1lb weight loss What numbers do i add calories burn?/Net calories?
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Woman's Tea Addiction Led to Loss of Teeth, Bone Problems
Extreme levels of fluoride from daily consumption of a concentrated brew caused pain, brittle teeth
By Barbara Bronson Gray
HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, March 20 (HealthDay News) -- Here's a cautionary tale about the value of moderation.
A case study reported in the March 21 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine shows how habitually drinking an extreme form of highly concentrated tea over almost 20 years created a hard-to-diagnose case of severe bone damage in a 47-year-old woman.
Worried that she had cancer, the patient told her primary care doctor in Lansing, Mich., that she was concerned about bone pain she had been having in her lower back, arms, legs and hips for five years. She also had had all her teeth extracted due to brittleness.
Her X-rays showed her bones were unusually dense, but there was no sign of disease. The fluoride level in her blood was also high. She was referred to Dr. Sudhaker Rao, section head of bone and mineral metabolism and director of the bone and mineral research laboratory at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, for a bone biopsy.
The patient's intake of brewed tea was astronomically high, said Rao, who learned that the patient had been regularly drinking a pitcher a day of tea made from about 100 to 150 tea bags, which gave her more than 20 milligrams (mg) of fluoride. She had a fluoride concentration in her blood of 0.43 milligrams per liter, while the normal concentration is less than 0.10 mg per liter, Rao reported.
Fluoride is used to prevent tooth decay and is usually prescribed for children and adults whose homes have water that does not naturally have fluoride in it, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
It turns out that Rao, the author of the case study, came from an area in India where fluoride levels in the water were naturally extremely high, sometimes causing a condition called skeletal fluorosis. He has also recently consulted on a few cases involving high fluoride in the blood, he pointed out.
"Most of us can excrete fluoride extremely well, but if you drink too much, it can be a problem," he said. Brewed tea has one of the highest fluoride contents of all the beverages in the United States, according to Rao. He immediately wondered if the fluoride in the concentrated tea concoction the woman was regularly drinking could be the cause of her bone troubles, he said. "There have been about three to four cases reported in the U.S. associated with ingesting tea, especially large amounts of it," he noted.
When Rao tried to perform the biopsy, the woman's bone was so hard he said his instrument could not penetrate the bone. "It was like steel," he said. "Her bone density was very high, seven times denser than normal."
Experts Question Use of Ankle Blood Pressure to Gauge Heart Risks
Title: Experts Question Use of Ankle Blood Pressure to Gauge Heart Risks
Category: Health News
Created: 3/18/2013 6:35:00 PM
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Category: Health News
Created: 3/18/2013 6:35:00 PM
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Healthy Snacks
I'm going to try to eat healthier starting with my snacks. I plan to start eating raisins but I'm not really sure what else there is. Any granola bars or things of the sort that can just be opened and eaten would be wonderful. However, I can not stand yogurt. I'm giving it another try tomorrow but all the attempts in the past didn't go well. I am clueless as to what healthy snacks are out there.
'Cruise Ship Virus' Also Sickens 1 Million U.S. Kids Yearly
Norovirus has overtaken rotavirus in causing gastric illness, CDC study finds
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, March 20 (HealthDay News) -- Norovirus, the infamous stomach bug that's sickened countless cruise ship passengers, also wreaks havoc on land.
Each year, many children visit their doctor or an emergency room due to severe vomiting and diarrhea caused by norovirus, according to new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC report estimated the cost of those illnesses at more than $273 million annually.
"The main point we found was that the health care burden in children under 5 years old from norovirus was surprisingly great, causing nearly 1 million medical visits per year," said the study's lead author, Daniel Payne, an epidemiologist with the CDC. "The second point was that, for the first time, norovirus health care visits have exceeded those for rotavirus."
Rotavirus is a common gastrointestinal illness for which there is now a vaccine.
It's important to note that the rate of norovirus hasn't been increasing in young children, Payne said. The reason norovirus is now responsible for more health care visits than rotavirus is that the incidence of rotavirus infection is dropping because the rotavirus vaccine is working well.
Results of the study are published in the March 21 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Norovirus is a viral illness that can affect anyone, according to the CDC. It commonly causes nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and stomach cramps. Most people recover from a norovirus infection in a day or two, but the very young and the very old -- as well as those with underlying medical conditions -- have a greater risk of becoming dehydrated when they're sick with norovirus.
The virus is very contagious. Payne said it takes as few as 18 norovirus particles to infect someone. By comparison, a flu virus may take between 100 and 1,000 virus particles to cause infection. Payne said people who have been infected can also keep spreading the virus even after they feel better.
Norovirus is difficult to diagnose definitively. The test that can confirm the virus is costly and time consuming, Payne said, so there have not been good data on how many children are affected by it each year.
To get a better idea of how prevalent this infection really is, the researchers collected samples from hospitals, emergency departments and outpatient clinics from children under 5 years old who had acute gastrointestinal symptoms. The children were from three U.S. counties: Monroe County, N.Y.; Davidson County, Tenn.; and Hamilton County, Ohio. The samples were collected in 2009 and 2010, and were tested for both norovirus and rotavirus.
Norovirus was detected in 21 percent of children under 5 in 2009 and 2010. Rotavirus was found in 12 percent of children in the same age group. Norovirus was also found in 4 percent of healthy children tested in 2009 .
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