Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

Good Calories, Bad Calories has much useful information and is well worth reading. Gary Taubes’s tenets related to obesity can be summarized in four statements (i) He believes that you can gain weight and become obese without a positive energy balance; (ii) He also believes that dietary fat is unimportant for the development of obesity; (iii) Carbohydrate, in his view, is what produces obesity and (iv) Insulin secreted by the carbohydrate is the problem in obesity. However, some of the conclusions that the author reaches are not consistent with current concepts about obesity. There are many kinds of obesity, and only some depend on diet composition.

Two dietary manipulations produce obesity in susceptible people: eating a high-fat diet and drinking sugar-or high-fructose corn syrup-sweetened beverages. Insulin is necessary but not sufficient in the diet-dependent obesities. When diet is important, it may be the combination of fat and fructose (the deadly duo) that is most important. Regardless of diet, it is a positive energy balance over months to years that is the sine qua non for obesity. Obese people clearly eat more than do lean ones, and food-intake records are notoriously unreliable, as documented by use of doubly labelled water.

Underreporting of food intake is greater in obese than in normal-weight people and is worse for fat than for other macronutrient groups. Accepting the concept that obesity results from a positive energy balance does not tell us why energy balance is positive. This depends on a variety of environmental factors interacting with the genetic sus-ceptibility of certain individuals. Weight loss is related to adherence to the diet, not to its macronutrient composition.

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Total Health: Becoming Physically Fit

In 1956, Dwight D. Eisenhower formed thevPresident’s Council on Youth Fitness,after learning that 59% of American children had failed a minimum muscular fitness test. In 1967 an Oregon track coach named Bill Bowerman wrote a book called Jogging that ignited the running craze. A year later Air Force physician Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper fired a fitness shot heard ’round the world with the release of his book, Aerobics.

So why is it that 30 years later, so many Americans, both young and old, are still so overweight and out-of-shape? Why are so many people still smoking? Why are heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure and other lifestyle-related diseases still claiming so many lives? Despite years of education and volumes of literature written on the benefits of physical fitness, why are we still a nation of couch potatoes? Total Health:Becoming Physically Fitis a three-part video series that encourages students to take charge of their bodies and their health. In simple and easy-to-understand language, the video and print materials demonstrate exactly what defines physical fitness and how important it is to not only achieve it, but sustain it. The series embraces a “back to the basics” formula for fitness with an emphasis on flexibility, strength, and endurance. Using common-sense principles, the series teaches students how to assess their current physical condition, how to improve their own overall physical fitness, and explains why it’s so important that they do so.

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Hypertension, Diabetes, Cholesterol, Weight, and Weight Control

The 1998 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) included a detailed examination of preventive health problems and behaviors. This report uses data from the 1998 NHIS to examine the prevalence of selected problems among rural populations, with an emphasis on rural minorities. —Rural“ was defined, following NHIS guidelines, as living in a non-MSA county.

"Self Reported Prevalence of Health Problems"
Hypertension: Rural residents of all racial / ethnicity groups were more likely to report having been told they have hypertension than were metropolitan residents. The highest rates of reported hypertension were found among rural African Americans, one third of whom (34%) reported having high blood pressure.


Diabetes: Across non-metro residents, about seven percent of African Americans and seven percent of —other“ race adults reported that they had diabetes.

Cholesterol: As a measure of the degree to which non-metro residents obtain needed clinical preventive services, we examined self-reported receipt of cholesterol screening.

Contents
Executive Summary
Chapter One
Hypertension
Chapter Two
Diabetes
Chapter Three
Cholesterol Screening
Chapter Four
Weight and Weight Control Behaviors
Chapter Five
Exercise
Chapter Six
Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendices
Appendix A
Method and Detailed Tables
Appendix B
References

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PDF Ebook Permanent Hair Removal And Skin Treatment

You will be amazed to know that approximately 22% of the women in North America have excessive or unwanted facial hair. For many individuals, this unwanted facial hair and the resulting bad looks negatively affect the quality of life. Even men are compelled to rid themselves of unwanted body hair, mainly due to the popular fashion appeal and appearance anxieties. If removing unwanted hair is the aim, why use the painful waxing procedure or the skin-damaging removal creams? Shaving damages the smoothness of the skin. In this century, the best way to get rid of unwanted hair is laser hair removal treatments.

Unwanted body hair is undesirable for various cultural, social, cosmetic, or psychological reasons. Unwanted body hair usually results in feelings of embarrassment or emotional burden that may further impede relationships and daily activities. Why carry this emotional burden when laser hair removal treatment is so effective to cure your problem.

The first lasers were approved for the use of hair removal in 1996. At that time, there wasn’t much use of this technology. However, today, dramatic advancement have occurred in laser technology. Along with laser hair removal treatments, many more effective cooling devices are used to treat individuals with light skin and dark hair. Long-pulsed lasers are also used today to safely and effectively treat patients with darker skin types.

Before undergoing this laser hair removal treatment, the candidate is instructed to avoid direct sunlight and active tanning for sometime. The patient’s skin is then bleached with retinoic acid or hydroquinone to lighten it. Reliable clinics performing laser hair treatment does various tests to understand the skin qualities and conditions, and accordingly performs the laser treatment.

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REMOVE UNWANTED HAIR WITH LASER HAIR REMOVAL
BEST SKIN CARE TREATMENTS AT ADVANCED LASER CLINIC
LIGHT PULSE SKIN RENEWAL TREATMENT
LASER HAIR REMOVAL TREATMENT IN CHICAGO
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Women’s Mental Health Ebook

We are pleased to present this evidence based review which contains a reappraisal of the status of women’s mental health problems in different regions of the world. It updates and reactualizes a first publication on Psychosocial and Mental Health Aspects of Women’s Health issued by the Divisions of Mental and Family Health in 1993.

Over the years, the work of many WHO departments has converged with the concerns of the Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, University of Melbourne, in documenting the impact of discrimination and low socio-economic status on the health of women. More recently, there has been a shift from a focus on “women” to a focus on “gender” as a critical determinant of health. We are committed to the integration of gender issues in all our work and to the utilization of gender analysis in the development of mental health policies and programmes. In line with the recommendations articulated in the Beijing Platform of Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, we are strengthening attention to the tremendous health burden of women that is created by gender discrimination, poverty, social position, and various forms of violence against women.

In the Global Burden of Disease, it is estimated that depression will become the second most important cause of disease burden in the world by the year 2020. Women in developed and developing countries alike are almost twice as likely as men to experience depression. Another two of the leading causes of disease burden estimated for the year 2020, namely violence and self inflicted injuries, have special relevance for women’s mental health.

This document adopts a health determinants framework for examining the evidence related to women’s poor mental health. From this perspective, public policy including economic policy, socio-cultural and environmental factors, community and social support, stressors and life events, personal behaviour and skills, and availability and access to health services, are all seen to exercise a role in determining women’s mental health status. Similarly, when considering the differences between women and men, a gender approach has been used. While this does not exclude biological or sex differences, it considers the critical roles that social and cultural factors and unequal power relations between men and women play in promoting or impeding mental health. Such inequalities create, maintain and exacerbate exposure to risk factors that endanger women’s mental health, and are most graphically illustrated in the significantly different rates of depression between men and women, poverty and its impact, and the phenomenal prevalence of violence against women.

The document collects and analyses the latest research evidence pertaining to the study of these issues and identifies the most pertinent risk factors and social causes that account for much of the poor mental health of millions of women around the globe. It also highlights the current gaps in knowledge that must be addressed through cross-cultural epidemiological, behavioural and operational research, especially in the developing countries, since most of the present research is directed at the situation in the richer, developed countries. Finally, the document provides pointers to the most.

Although it is not intended to be used as a guideline per se, it is our hope that readers will benefit from the analysis of evidence provided in this document and be guided on the priorities for research and action in this critical area. As a follow up to this review, we will address the need for a more practical, user-friendly guide to assist health workers and managers in becoming aware of their vital role in alleviating the mental health problems of women through a variety of individual and community based interventions. In the meantime, WHO along with its collaborating centres, will continue to provide technical support to countries upon their request, to develop culturally sensitive policies and programmes addressing the individual and social risk factors that account for the pervasive damage to so many women’s mental wellbeing in all countries of the world.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE : GENDER DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH
Background
Social position, poverty and health
Influences on women's well being: Gender development
Economic policies, access and equity
Economic policies and women's social position
Social position, righs and mental health promotion
Women's mental health concerns
PART TWO : DEPRESSION IN WOMEN
Social theories of depression
Social theories of depression in women

Characteristic features of severe events: humiliation and entrapment
Social mentalities and rank

Severe events and rates of depression
Summary
PART THREE : POVERTY, SOCIAL POSITION AND MENTAL HEALTH
Relationship between social class and mental health
Measurement of women’s socio-economic status (SES)
Behavioural risk factors, physical and psychological comorbidity
Need to link physical and mental health
Chronic difficulties and acute crises
Summary

Place, severe events and depression
Core ties, identity and the ethic of care

PART FOUR : VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
The problem
Terminology
Violence in health care
Prevalence of violence against women in 'peace' time
Physical partner violence
Violence and reproductive functioning
Sexual violence in adulthood
Reactions to violence
Child sexual abuse
Multiple forms of violence
Revictimisation
Consequences of violence
Common features of violence and depression

Suicidal behaviour
Depression and anxiety
Post-traumatic stress

Comorbidity and the burden of violence
Barriers to understanding
Accounting for violence
Coping with violence
Summary

Reducing the psychological impact of violence
Psychosocial factors
Need for multilevel analysis

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