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Storing excess fat around the waist poses a significant
health risk, even in people not considered to be
overweight or obese. So if you notice your waist size
increasing over time, it's time to start eating better
and exercising more. This week we focus on Waist
Size: a predictor of your health status. In fitness
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The best exercises for losing inches from our waist are
those that allow the body to switch into the third fat
burning gear, exercises like rowing, swimming and
walking. When these exercises are completed fat is
burned from all over the body including the waist and
hip region. Eventually you will lose inches from the
waist and flatten the stomach muscles with regular
aerobic exercise.
The many waist exercises like side bends, torso twists
and hip extensions are great to help tone the muscles
around the waist and hip area but they cannot reduce the
fat from the waist because the time taken to complete
forces these exercises to be anaerobic, they burn mainly
carbs. This doesn't mean you should neglect this type of
exercise for the waist. Toning the abdominal muscles
helps tighten and firm the area so once you lose the
layer of fat the muscles they can show through clearly
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Run, Patti, Run
At a young and tender age, Patti Wilson was told by her doctor that she was an
epileptic. Her father, Jim Wilson, is a morning jogger. One day she smiled
through her teenage braces and said, "Daddy what I'd really love to do is run
with you every day, but I'm afraid I'll have a seizure."
Her father told her, "If you do, I know how to handle it so let's start
running!" That's just what they did every day. It was a wonderful experience for
them to share and there were no seizures at all while she was running. After a
few weeks, she told her father, "Daddy, what I'd really love to do is break the
world's long- distance running record for women."
Her father checked the Guinness Book of World Records and found that the
farthest any woman had run was 80 miles. As a freshman in high school, Patti
announced, "I'm going to run from Orange County up to San Francisco." (A
distance of 400 miles.) "As a sophomore," she went on, "I'm going to run to
Portland, Oregon." (Over 1,500 miles.) "As a junior I'll run to St. Louis.
(About 2,000 miles.)
"As a senior I'll run to the White House." (More than 3,000 miles away.) In view
of her handicap, Patti was as ambitious as she was enthusiastic, but she said
she looked at the handicap of being an epileptic as simply "an inconvenience."
She focused not on what she had lost, but on what she had left.
That year she completed her run to San Francisco wearing a T-shirt that read, "I
love Epileptics." Her dad ran every mile at her side, and her mom, a nurse,
followed in a motor home behind them in case anything went wrong. In her
sophomore year Patti's classmates got behind her. They built a giant poster that
read, "Run, Patti, Run!" (This has since become her motto and the title of a
book she has written.)
On her second marathon, en route to Portland, she fractured a bone in her foot.
A doctor told her she had to stop her run. He said, "I've got to put a cast on
your ankle so that you don't sustain permanent damage." "Doc, you don't
understand," she said. "This isn't just a whim of mine, it's a magnificent
obsession!
I'm not just doing it for me, I'm doing it to break the chains on the brains
that limit so many others. Isn't there a way I can keep running?" He gave her
one option. He could wrap it in adhesive instead of putting it in a cast. He
warned her that it would be incredibly painful, and told her, "It will blister."
She told the doctor to wrap it up. She finished the run to Portland, completing
her last mile with the governor of Oregon. You may have seen the headlines:
"Super Runner, Patti Wilson Ends Marathon For Epilepsy On Her 17th Birthday."
After four months of almost continuous running from West Coast to the East
Coast, Patti arrived in Washington and shook the hand of the President of the
United States. She told him, "I wanted people to know that epileptics are normal
human beings with normal lives."
If Patti Wilson can do so much with so little, what can you do to outperform
yourself in a state of total wellness?
Courtsey: http://www.inspiring-quotes-and-stories.com
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"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to
look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you
can't build on it; It's only for wallowing in."
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TUNA AND CORN FISH CAKES
Makes: 4 servings
Ingredients:
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300g or 1 1/4 cups cooked mashed potatoes
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200g can tuna fish in soya oil, drained
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115g or 3/4 cup canned or frozen sweetcorn
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30ml or 2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
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50g or 1cup fresh white or brown breadcrumbs
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salt and black pepper
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lemon wedges, to serve
Directions:
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Place the mashed potato in a bowl and stir in the tuna fish, sweetcorn and
chopped parsley.
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Season to taste with salt and pepper, then shape into eight patty shapes
with your hands.
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Spread out the breadcrumbs on a plate and press the fish cakes into the
breadcrumbs to coat lightly, then place on a baking sheet.
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Cook the fish cakes under a moderately hot grill until crisp and golden
brown, turning once. Serve hot with lemon wedges and fresh vegetables.
Nutritional Information (Per portion):
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Energy 203Kcals/852KJ,
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Fat 4.62g,
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Saturated fat 0.81g,
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Cholesterol 21.25mg,
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Fibre 1.82g.
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Waist Size: a predictor of your health status
Check your waist size, for a woman's waist size greater
than 34.6 inches possesses serious health risk.
Storing excess fat around the waist poses a significant
health risk, even in people not considered to be
overweight or obese. The doctors should measure a
patient's waistline and their hips as well as their body
mass index as part of standard health checks, according
to the researchers, from Imperial College London, the
German Institute of Human Nutrition, and other research
institutions across Europe.
Similarly, according to a study from the American Cancer
Society, which tracked the health of more than 100,000
people over nine years" having a large waist size
doubled the risk of dying from any cause during the
study period compared to those with smaller waists".
Larger waist circumference has been linked to insulin
resistance that can lead to diabetes, heart disease and
abnormal cholesterol levels. Fat in the abdomen may be
more dangerous because of the proximity to major organs,
compared to subcutaneous fat. According to Eric J.
Jacobs, an epidemiologist with the American Cancer
Society in Atlanta "A larger waist size was found to be
linked to a higher risk for dying from cardiovascular
disease, respiratory disease and cancer at every measure
of body mass index".
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