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How to Prevent a Flushed Face during Pregnancy #WeightLoss #Weight Loss #Diet
Mar 5th
Of all the skin changes you may experience during pregnancy, a flushed face is probably the most annoying. This is the “pregnancy glow” that everyone praises, but it can be downright irritating if you are experiencing it for yourself. In order to understand how you can prevent it, you must get a better understanding of what causes it.
What Causes Flushed Skin During Pregnancy?
The reddening of your face and cheeks you experience during pregnancy is due to both hormonal and physical changes your body is undergoing. As the volume of blood in your body increases, you are more prone to flushing and the blood vessels in your cheeks will reflect this physical change. In addition, anything that causes your blood vessels to dilate will cause a flush. Whether you are pregnant or not, the most common thing that causes dilation is increased heart rate–which you will have naturally during pregnancy anyway.
Other factors can contribute to a reddening of your cheeks, such as:
- Spicy foods, a common craving during pregnancy
- Increased physical exertion
- Sun and wind exposure
- Certain irritating skincare products
What Can You Do to Prevent Flushing?
You cannot change the dilation of your blood vessels, increased heart rate, or increased blood volume. So if this is seriously an embarrassing issue for you, try to take charge of the factors you can control. This includes cutting out spicy foods, opting for gentler exercise such as yoga, wearing sunscreen, and finding gentler skincare products.
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Lab Notes: FDA Says Some Food Labels are Misleading; Tofu, Fake Meats Recalled #WeightLoss #Weight Loss #Diet
Mar 5th
On our Lab Notes page CalorieLab’s editors select and rank the day’s essential health news items in real time. Readers can suggest, vote and comment on items. Below are brief summaries of yesterday’s (March 4, 2010) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes.
1. FDA Says Some Food Labels are Misleading
The Food and Drug Administration calls out 17 food manufacturers for misleading nutritional labels.
2. Tofu, Fake Meats Recalled
Earth Island is conducting a precautionary recall of a bunch of Follow Your Heart brand deli, tofu and salad dressing products because they might be contaminated with salmonella.
3. Storefront Surgical Facilities Poorly Regulated
The increasingly popular medical business model of the free-standing storefront specialist ambulatory surgical clinic is largely unregulated, falling through the gaps of the current medical regulatory system.
(By CalorieLab editors)
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The Top 10 reasons Why People Incorrectly Think the BMI is Wrong, and One Time When They are Correct #WeightLoss #Weight Loss #Diet
Mar 5th
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.
The Top Ten
1. They have a high BMI. This is the number one reason people argue against the BMI.
2. They think its normal to put on a few pounds. The BMI counteracts peoples flawed thinking.
3. They are in denial. Denial is possibly the strongest of all the defense mechanisms, or psychologically disordered strategies that people use to cope with reality and maintain self-image.
4. They have a food addiction. Given the choice to believe that their high BMI is dangerous, people with an addiction will dismiss their BMI rather than face reality.
5. They use the straw man argument, where you change the topic and argue against that. The BMI is not a beauty contest, yet they argue that people look good with a high BMI. Therefore, its a bad measurement.
6. They call the BMI statistical origin nonsensical, yet ignore all the statistical data that supports and shows it works regardless if the measurement design, i.e. height-weight, makes no sense. The bottom line of a high BMI is increased morbidity and mortality in almost every large scale study, except possibly for a very small increased BMI in people over 70 years of age.
7. They cant get insurance with their high BMI. Of course they will cost the insurance company much more money than they will ever pay for insurance, either immediately or later, thus raising the rates for the rest of us.
8. They think they are an athlete, and since a lot of real athletes have a high BMI, then theirs must be OK. Many athletes do not have a high BMI, especially in sports where significant endurance is important. Did you know that in the average football game, the
athletes actual playing time is less than 15 minutes total?
9. They saw a report that said according to the BMI charts, both Tom Cruise and LeBron James are obese, and they are fine. In reality, neither Tom Cruise ( BMI 25.1-26) nor LeBron James (BMI 27.5) are obese. They both fall in the overweight category. LeBron is a professional athlete, and Cruise is no longer Maverick from Top Gun.
10. They have a blog on the Internet with a high proportion of the readership having a high BMI and do not want to be honest about the BMI or their BMI because they fear the loss of their followers as both an ego and economic decline.
One Time Correct
Possibly, if you are an athlete or a dedicated weight trainer, your BMI will be higher than the normal range.
If, for example, we look at the Bell shaped curve of statistics, 99.7 percent lie within three standard deviations. Using this data, assuming 3 out of every 1000 individuals is either a significant athlete or a serious weight trainer, both with a high muscle mass and low body fat, then the BMI is valid for the other 997 individuals.
If you feel like disagreeing with this column, please include which number applies to your thinking. Thank you.
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The Importance of Physical Education Classes, and the Hazards That Lurk Between Home and School #WeightLoss #Weight Loss #Diet
Mar 5th
P.E. Classes: A+
Researchers at the University of California’s Berkeley and San Francisco campuses wanted to know which of the various physical activities that adolescents engage in are the healthiest, so they undertook what they describe as “an incredibly comprehensive” analysis of teenagers’ routine daily activities and their Body Mass Index (BMI) and cardiovascular fitness, as measured by how long it took them to walk or run one mile.
They discovered that the strongest and most significant activity linked to low BMI and fast miles was school-based physical education, good old P.E. In fact, of all the physical activities reported, P.E. was the only one that correlated with lowered weight. And not a lot of P.E. either; just 20 minutes of exercise daily during P.E. class was strongly associated with shorter mile times and lower BMI numbers.
Walking to School: C-
One other activity that was significantly associated with cardiovascular fitness was walking to school, but unfortunately, it was also significantly linked to a higher BMI, a seemingly counterintuitive result that the researchers easily explained: kids who walk to school are more likely to stop along the way to buy food, usually of the snack variety, and thus to be overweight. Since “walk to school” has been one of the standard weight-control suggestions for parents of chubby offspring, this creates a bit of a conundrum.
Solutions seem elusive. Sending the child to school with no money? The clever child will have stashed some away en route. Declaring convenience stores and fast food outlets near the school “off limits” to students for one hour before and after school? Only if the businesses affected are willing to go along with cutting off one of their steadiest income streams. Accompanying the child to school? Only if you are willing to be resented for the rest of your life for this unthinkable public humiliation. Anyone with an answer is invited to submit it.
They could certainly use one in Manchester.
Coincidentally, among those who may soon be searching for just such an answer are the parents of school kids in Manchester, England, where nearly 20 percent of all 10 and 11-year-olds are dangerously overweight or obese, and where the Health Commission has proposed a ban on all nonresident parking near some 1,100 schools, specifically to prevent parents from driving their children to schools and thereby depriving them of the exercise from walking or bicycling. Some parents are already up in arms at this notion, and if they get wind of the U.C. research findings, they could make the argument that such a ban could only make things worse, weight wise.
(By Robert S. Wieder for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)
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Obese Kids More Likely to Suffer Leg Injuries #WeightLoss #Weight Loss #Diet
Mar 4th
Carrying around a lot of extra weight has to be murder on your legs. It must wreak havoc on your knees, ankles, and joints.
Turns out it does, especially in kids. Overweight or obese children are twice as likely to sprain something as normal weight kids.
Writing in the journal Pediatrics, researchers found obese children tended to suffer more lower body injuries, while thinner – more active – kids endured more sporting injuries, like lacerations and bumps on the head.
Data on 23,000 children, ages 3 to 14, revealed the obese children – one in six of the kids studied – had more lower extremity injuries with a 30% risk, compared to an 18% risk for normal weight children.
And obese kids had a 10% risk to suffer head or face injuries, while thinner children only had a 18% chance.
Researchers point out that both obese children and adults take longer to recover from physical injuries.
Via Reuters.
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