Losing weight at work
Sounds too good to be true? A new desk created at the Mayo Clinic in the US is basically a desk placed on top of a treadmill. An overweight worker would lose over 60 pounds if he or she used the desk-treadmill all day every day for a year. If that isn’t multitasking, what is? The price tag is pretty high, the desk will be sold for about 1600 USD. It’s now up to you to convince your boss of the importance of this new technology. Good luck.
The article:
Could work actually make you fitter? You might think it unlikely as you sit in your office slumped in front of your computer, but a new desk designed at the Mayo Clinic could give you a proper work out.
The U.S. medical practice have built what they called a “vertical workstation” — a desk fitted over a standard treadmill.
They persuaded 15 obese people to work at this treadmill-desk and measured how many calories they burned.
If an overweight office worker used this vertical workstation all day, every day for a year, he or she could lose up to 66 pounds, the researchers report in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Weight Loss On Tv
We all know how much television influences people. From the extremely skinny models, to the perfect looking actresses, and the unbelievable weight loss programs. Two contestants of the TV show “The Biggest Loser”, in which participants battle each other to lose as much weight as possible, warn people with weight problems that they shouldn’t try to emulate what happens on the show as it’s an unrealistic way to lose weight. As with everything, a weight loss plan needs to be realistic and offer the possibility to actually reach your goals. Starting with a weight loss schedule that is too hard to achieve will make you feel bad once you realize it’s utopia.
The article:
TWO contestants on The Biggest Loser have warned dieters they are destined to fail if they try to emulate the weight-loss techniques portrayed on the show.
It comes after the top-rating Channel Ten series was slammed by Food & Nutrition Australia (F&NA) last week for promoting an unrealistic weight-loss regime.
NSW contestants Kelly Donaghy Lewis and Mel Russell agree it would be impossible to maintain the diet and exercise program they undertook.
“We’re under extraordinary circumstances in there,” Ms Russell said. “I always tell people you can’t expect to lose the amount of weight we lost on the show. All we did was train 24/7. Who in normal life can fit in four hours of training a day?
Soy products and weight loss
There is lots of research being down in recent years to what stimulates weight loss, mostly because the weight loss market is huge and worth billions of dollars in Europe and the US. This month’s issue of Journal of the American Dietetic Association will feature an article by researchers about the effect of Soy products on weight loss. To put it short : The researchers were unable to find a link between Soy products and weight loss. There was no difference in weight loss between the group of people that were fed extra soy and the ones that did not.
They did find that a diet rich in soy lowers Insulin levels and fights bad cholesterol.
The article:
Eating soy-rich foods won’t help you lose weight faster, say researchers presenting their findings in this month’s issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
Their new study, completed at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, shows overweight women who cut 500 calories a day from their diet and added soy-protein-rich foods every day for 12 weeks did not lose any more weight than women who did not eat extra soy.
Authors note previous research suggests adding soy to the diet can enhance weight loss. And the FDA approves health claims eating 25 grams of soy protein a day as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol can reduce the risk of heart disease.
Atkins a good way to lose weight?
According to a recent study Atkins diet is a good way to lose weight without adverse health effects. Stanford University researchers did a yearlong study and compared Atkins to three other diets. I have not tried any real official diets but have heard good and bad comments about Atkins. This study does look interesting though. Atkins is a very low-carbohydrate diet, and apparently does help a lot in losing weight.
George.
Here is the article:
A yearlong, head-to-head study of four widely used diets found that overweight women who followed the very low-carbohydrate Atkins diet had no adverse health effects and lost slightly more weight than women on the other three.
The study by Stanford University researchers compared the Atkins approach with three others: the standard low-fat, reduced-calorie regimen long recommended by many physicians and weight loss experts; the Zone, a reduced-carbohydrate approach developed by author Barry Sears; and the very low-fat, high-carbohydrate regimen created by physician Dean Ornish.
After a year, women in the Atkins group averaged a modest 10-pound loss compared with about 6 pounds for those in the three other groups.
The latest findings add to a growing body of evidence that the very low-carbohydrate, high-protein Atkins diet does not cause the harmful heart and artery effects long feared by many researchers.
Weight Loss Update
Hello guys and ladies,
Wow it’s been a while since I last posted. It’s been one hell of a busy time at work, and at home as well. Weight loss has been put on the back burner for now. That doesn’t mean I am not actively watching what I eat, and that I don’t exercise at all. No! It means that I spend a bit less on my weight loss programme compared to before. I still have about 15 kilograms to lose. Won’t happen soon as I’ve been at my current weight for ages. A bit de-motivating, but i’ll get through it.
Speak to you soon.
George.