People Still Getting Fatter - Over 1 Billion Adults Overweight Worldwide
According to Paul Zimmet This insidious, creeping pandemic of obesity is now engulfing the entire world. It s as big a threat as global warming and bird flu. This statement was recently made at the International Congress on Obesity which is held once every four years. Paul Zimmet is Foundation Director of the International Diabetes Institute, and Professor of Diabetes at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia, and at the Graduate School of Public Health of the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Acording to the World Health Organization, more than 1 billion adults are overweight with 300 million of them are obese. People have been getting fatter and fatter every year for the past 25 years. And this increase is not limited to adults. The percentage of young people who are overweight has more than tripled since 1980. Among children and teens aged 6-19 years, 16 percent over 9 million young people are considered overweight. Why is this of concern. Mainly because it puts...
posted by Cierra on April 11, 2009
Home Remedies For Parkinson S Disease
Diet plays an important role in the treatment of this disease. To begin with, the patient should resort to a short juice fast for five days. In this regimen, he should take a glass of fresh fruit or vegetable juice, diluted with water on 50:50 basis, every two hours from 8 a.m. Fruits and vegetables which may be used for juicing are apple, pineapple, grapes, orange, tomato, carrot, cabbage and spinach. A warm water enema should be used daily to cleanse the bowels during the period of fasting. After the short juice fast, the patient may adopt an all-fruit diet for further 5 days. During this period, he should take three meals a day of fresh juicy fruits, such as apple, pear, peach, papaya, grapes, orange and pineapple, at five-hourly intervals. Thereafter, he may gradually adopt a well-balanced lacto-vegetarian diet. The emphasis should be on raw seeds, nuts and grains, plenty of sprouts, raw milk, preferably goat s milk, and raw fruits and vegetables. Green leafy vegetables and yellow turnips are especially...
posted by Cherish on February 13, 2009
Are You Dreaming Of Free Medical Care? Wake Up!
There s been much debate over our current medical system and the insurance required to get quality care at a price we can all afford. While it would be great to have minimal costs for our medical care, we are still only in the debate of changing the system. For now, all we can do is to learn how to get the health insurance policy to cover our needs without spending in excess or paying for coverage you ll never use. Obviously, you hope you and your family won t have to use your health insurance policy, but in today s society, the chances are great that you ll need the coverage of a health insurance policy more than once during the course of a year. Without at least a minimum amount of coverage, just a visit to a general physician and lab fees can be astronomical. It s important to get and maintain an adequate health insurance policy both in terms of health and financial security. To get a health insurance policy that s not outrageously priced, yet still covers your anticipated and unexpected healthcare costs...
posted by Mariam on December 20, 2008
Italian Cuisine: More Than Pasta
Go to any family restaurant with Italian dining in mind and you are likely to order chicken parmesan, pasta alfredo, spaghetti and meatballs, or maybe a pizza. It is easy to think that some pasta, some marinara sauce, a crust of Italian bread and a glass of wine is the beginning and end of Italian cuisine, especially if you grew up in the United States.There is much more than red sauce and starch on the agenda for most Italian regional cuisines, and with all of the various regions and cultures in the boot on the ocean, Italian regional cuisines have as much range as your average New York City block. There is the tourist region of Tuscany, on the northwestern coast of Italy. Tuscany is sought out for its simple but delicious dishes, seasoned sparingly with basil, parsley, and thyme. Tuscan bread and a little bit of olive oil is a big part of the seafood dishes of the Tuscan region. Abruzzo, a little known treasure in the middle eastern section of the boot mixes chili peppers into almost all of their dishes...
posted by Bernice on November 10, 2008