Fitness Tips for Men: A Beginners Guide

post from Fitness Tips for Life - Lose Weight on 18 June 2012 09:26:10 PM. © Fitness Tips for Life - Lose Weight

Are you concerned about the extra pounds on your belly? You should be. Studies show that overweight men whose waistlines exceed 40 inches are at greater risk of suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke. Fortunately, it’s not that difficult to get back in shape. The following fitness tips for men will help you [...]

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The Importance of Personal Relationships in the
Original Social Media, Life

post from CalorieLab - Health News & Information Blog on 18 June 2012 05:08:06 PM. © CalorieLab - Health News & Information Blog

Contributor: “Dr. J”
Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50 miles a week and flies a Cherokee Arrow 200. friends laughing

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It’s pretty well-established that close relationships with our families and friends benefit us in many ways. Studies have supported numerous positive mental and physical changes that occur with having these types of close relationships.

Along with the growth of social media, it seems that we are actually becoming less social in the brick-and-mortar world. Social isolation has become more prevalent due to how the way we live has greatly reduced the quantity and quality of social relationships. Many people no longer live in extended families or even near each other. Many also delay getting married and having children. In addition, more and more people are living alone, and loneliness is becoming increasingly common. Though we may have many Facebook friends that “Like” us, I wonder if that really gives us anywhere near the benefits of having that strong social support that is so integrated into our evolutionary makeup and that seems to be disappearing in today’s world.

I would like to suggest another area which has not been as widely studied as having family and friends but I believe can enhance our lives just as much: having and building relationships with the many important acquaintances that we see in our daily lives.

Researchers at Brigham Young University reviewed 148 studies, which included more than 300,000 deceased individuals containing information about people’s initial health status, whether they had any pre-existing health conditions, an assessment of their social relationships, and how and when these people died. They found a 50 percent increased likelihood of survival for participants with stronger social relationships. The researchers found that the lack of social relationships had more influence on mortality rates than other risk factors such as physical activity or obesity. The study’s conclusion was that your relationships in life are just as important as what you eat and drink, how much exercise you get and other important health behaviors.

There are so many opportunities for us to establish positive, healthy relationships in day-to-day living. Work may seem like the obvious place, but I would like to stress other situations where our activity is not about work, but rather the activities that revolve around living our lives. Think of the people who you buy your food from at the supermarket. I see Rusty all the time there. He’s the produce manager. Then there is Shirley, who works at the checkout counter. Clyde at the automotive center. Scott for airplane maintenance. Michele for hair maintenance, Gerry for accounting, Jeff for dentistry, Tom for flight physicals. The list goes on and on, but the important thing is that we usually call each other by our names, and we talk about much more than just the business of the day.

This column came about because of a discussion a friend and I had after a recent incident.

We had a problem where we left something important along with the cellphone at a prior meeting. We realized this on the way to a bank we both used.

“Perfect,” I thought as we pulled into the bank’s parking lot. “Don’t worry about a thing.”

As we entered the empty bank, I thought that all the customers must have been home updating their Facebook page. I looked over to see one of the managers.

“Mary, we have a problem, could you please help us with this?”

“Of course,” Mary replied.

At this point, Pat, the vice president of the bank, came out of her lonely office. “Dr. J, how are you today?”

“Hi Pat! We had a little problem, but Mary’s helping us with it. How are you and your daughter doing?”

Pat and I chatted a bit as I went to the teller. Having the vice president standing there reminded me of when the dean of my college happened to just show up at a lecture I was giving. The teller was very efficient!

Mary was able to reach Mark from our prior meeting, and he said he was on his way with our things and would be there in 10 minutes.

“Great! He’s such a nice person to do that,” I said.

We all have many nice people in our day-to-day lives, some we know, some we have yet to meet. Take advantage of this social media place called life — it does a body good!

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Why You May Still Need a Vitamin D Supplement in
Summer

post from Vital to Health and Wellness Blog on 18 June 2012 02:55:29 PM. © Vital to Health and Wellness Blog

Even though it's summer, you may still need to take an additional vitamin D supplement. Why?

The weather is warm, sun is shining and you’re enjoying every minute of the great outdoors this season. But, just because the days are longer and sun is brighter this doesn’t mean you should ditch your vitamin D supplement. Sure, our skin can make vitamin D upon exposure to sunlight; however, the sun’s rays alone may not be enough for many people.

Factors which affect Vitamin D production

Despite exposure to the sun’s rays, several factors impair our body’s production of vitamin D including:

Darker skin color,
Obesity and
Sunscreen use (sunscreen blocks UV rays that are needed to make vitamin D)
Malabsorption
Age (production decreases as we age)

In addition, some people’s vitamin D levels may have dropped so low during winter months that summertime sunlight alone won’t do enough to bring their vitamin D level to within normal limits.

Deficiency is more common than you think!

More than 75 percent of Americans have insufficient levels of vitamin D according to the Archives of Internal Medicine. Be sure you do not fall into this category. Get your vitamin D levels checked regularly if you are at risk for deficiency or insufficiency and be diligent about taking a prescription dose of vitamin D or supplemental dose if your doctor prescribed one. A vitamin D deficiency can lead to weak and misshaped bones and impair overall health.

Vitamin D is also very important for the proper absorption of Calcium. Never take a calcium supplement alone that does not also contain vitamin D.

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Band working

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Heya everyone, i had a gastric band fitted about 12 days ago. I was advised to do the liquid diet for 4 weeks and to start with this was no probs at...

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Cheat meal got you frustrated

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Today several of my clients are frustrated because their weight has gone up from having a meal off of the diet over the weekend. When you go off...

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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels

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Earlier today I was thinking about the quote "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." That is so true. Seeing your waistline shrinking in the...

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Ozzy Osbourne son diagnosed with multiple
sclerosis

post from ** Stu's Views & M.S. News ** on 18 June 2012 10:08:08 AM. © ** Stu's Views & M.S. News **

(Reuters) - Reality television star Jack Osbourne, son of rocker Ozzy Osbourne and "America's Got Talent" judge Sharon Osbourne, has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, celebrity magazine People reported on Sunday.Osbourne, 26, who welcomed daughter Pearl with his fiancé Lisa Stelly in April, was given the news of his diagnosis two weeks after his daughter's birth."I was just angry and frustrated and kept thinking, 'Why now?'" Osbourne told People. "I've got a family and that's what's supposed to be the most important thing."Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system - the brain and spinal cord -- and can affect muscle control, strength, vision, balance, thinking and feeling.Read more.. Please note that all comments are moderated. So that you can be kept up to date with MS news Click here to: REGISTER - for our weekly e-Newsletter~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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New Study to determine if Copaxone OK for Less
Frequent Dosing

Clinical Notes: MS Patients Gain Weekly Drug Dose

By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage TodayPublished: June 17, 2012A mainstay of multiple sclerosis (MS) therapy can be given three times weekly instead of the current daily injection, a study found. Also this week: genetic testing for "racial purity."Copaxone OK for Less Frequent DosingGlatiramer acetate (Copaxone), one of the two front-line injectable drugs for MS, may not have to be administered every day as is currently the case, its manufacturer suggested.In an international placebo-controlled trial called GALA involving more than 1,400 patients, a three-times weekly schedule with 40 mg per injection -- double the daily dose -- met the study's primary endpoint by reducing annualized relapse rates by 34.4% relative to placebo, according to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries."Initial analysis of the data indicates that secondary clinical endpoints were achieved, with the exception of reduction in brain atrophy," the company said in a statement.The need for daily injections is considered one of the main drawbacks of glatiramer acetate.Teva said a 1-year open-label extension of the GALA trial is now underway.Source: MedPageToday
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Musings on a mixed and busy fortnight: Oxford
Drupal Education Camp

There is a busy fortnight coming up here. If all goes according to plan it runs like this: Drupal, Visual Methodologies and Ruby.

On Thursday evening I will travel down to Oxford for Drupal Education Camp. My first Drupal effort is taking shape. There are five photos in a jCarousel. I think I'm almost there but after the five scroll through there are five empty placeholders or blanks. It's probably just a tweak to the settings. The enquiry form is completed. I'm not happy about the formatting which seems to characterise many Drupal pages: that of the long series of fields. Listening to discussion at Drupal NW this month also reminded me of the need for spam capture.

I'm hoping one or two Drupal mental health contacts from Cambridge in January may also attend. The accepted sessions for Oxford present a very useful mix (timing permitting), especially:

Drupal 7 Semantizer

How we built a virtual learning environment

There was a debate on the longevity of VLEs in Wolverhampton in 2008-09. As I tried to look up that event I noticed that variations on the theme of "The VLE is dead, long live the VLE" are still doing the rounds. Clearly a case of the undead.

So, three - four years on this should insightful: What is a VLE? Is there a hybrid form? How far can Drupal be pushed? Why do students use FB and by-pass the institutional 'tools'? Perhaps it's because they are deliberating on the existence of this TLA versus that?

Migrating data into Drupal using the migrate module

NeuroHub: The information environment for Neuroscientists

The content of a new h2cm website will (yes, I know....) combine archive material - Brian Hodges' notes - with new work. For student users a means to assess and measure understanding of the content makes sense. I implemented a crude multiple choice test. The questions were probably not too bad, but there was no log-in, administration. If assessment can be done in a standardised way then that would be a huge bonus. What a new site should be about though is facilitating students in developing their knowledge and application of Hodges' model. The context of that knowledge and application need not be wholly limited to nursing.

After Oxford, on Monday 25th and after work I'm heading east to Newcastle for two days. I'll reflect on that soon. The trick is going to be threading all these together.

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Advice regarding university accommodations

Hello, I'm a 23 year old student in Michigan with a complex situation I would like advice on. I'm not sure which section this would best be posted...

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