Starting with last nights dinner, we had pasta in tomato sauce with ground beef. I had a 3/4 cup serving alongside a bowl of salad with nuts, croutons, lettuce, tomatoes, and carrots. Eating these things I felt somewhat disgusted, as I grow ever more tired with eating beef and meat products. I felt healthier eating the salad, because of the lower amount of calories and the lighter feel in my stomach. I ate with a fork in my right hand, using the same fork for the salad then the pasta. It was just me alone at the table as my sister watched TV and my mother was getting ready for work.
This morning I had a chocolate doughnut from a street vendor, feeling guilty about it but needing to stave off the hunger and to get my metabolism going in the morning. The problem is I never feel hungry and so I often skip breakfast although I hear that it is unhealthy to do so, that your metabolism will automatically accept our lunch and store it as fat because of missing breakfast. I brought it into school in a brown paper bag and opened it up in class. Marco asked me for a bite of it and so I offered him half. I ate my half with my right hand, elbows on the table, waiting for class to begin.
For lunch today I had the school lunch version of meatballs and garlic bread, with chocolate milk. I ate this rather disdainfully as the rubbery meatballs tried very desperately to not be eaten, and the garlic bread turned out to be actual sliced white bread with bits of garlic stuck to it. The chocolate milk is a guilty pleasure because it tastes good at the cost of being high in calories. I know I could always go for the healthier white milk, but I really detest regular milk and drink it sparingly. I ate this with a plastic fork in my right hand, with my hands for the bread. We talked at lunch about a few scattered things but mostly we just played the movie game.
Afterschool I had the Make Your Own Choices meeting where we all snacked on gummy fruit snacks and cookies, all washed down with apple juice. While we were doing so me and Chloe remarked on how fat that would make us look in this very assignment. Oh well. It was a happy thing because it was a reprieve from school and exhibitions, so we indulged a little bit. It just means I have to hit the gym harder tomorrow.
For dinner, my friend surprised us and brought over McDonald's cheeseburgers and chicken sandwiches. Eager to replace the beef in my diet, I went for the latter. I ate it feeling happier because of the taste, but greasier because of the...grease. After this I sat down and have been doing my exhibition since. And coughing. I ate the food with my hands, absentmindedly chewing while thinking about more important things in my head.
I have just finished eating a chicken cutlet sandwich from the deli down the block. It was delicious, and I feel at leas a small bit healthier because it was deli food and not fast food. I figure it must be at least a little better for me. I ate it in my two hands alone at my laptop while working on my exhibition and so I savored the taste as I tried to focus on finishing my work.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Food Assignment 3
How do I do food? How does my family do food? How does corporate America do food?
Starting with me, my food habits are, for the most part, are pretty standard American. I wake up and skip breakfast most days, or have the occasional bowl of cereal, and then for lunch I eat school lunch, god help me. Dinner is usually home-cooked by my mother, or ordered in when not. I'm not cautious of eating at fast food restaurants, regardless of how fattening the food may be. I do count calories, though, whatever that may mean. I try to keep it all within a 2,000 calorie diet. I think carbs might outweigh proteins in my diet, something I am working on changing.
My family does food in a very traditional irish way. We all sit down for dinner, provided we're all home, and we all eat together. Food is varied, based on what new food item my mother saw on some episode of Rachel Ray. There is usually ample carbs and meat to go with it, usually salad as well. Salad containing nuts, raisins, tomatoes, lettuce in a few colors, and croutons. With italian dressing. Food usually spiced with some herbs, or something. When we have big sunday dinners, its always some classic meal of porkchops and mash or steak and mash or lampchops and spuds. Always. I guess we're pretty white. We take around 30-45 minutes to eat based on the food, after which my brother and I do dishes while my dad retreats to watch some TV or read a book, and my Mom gets ready to go to work. My sister might do something as well, usually glued to the television.
White corporate america does dinner the way I just described above. Mom/wife makes food, family all joins in to eat it, kids do cleanup while parents relax a little bit. The foods represented by corporate Americans are very rich and full, glistening turkeys and glazed hams, always an ample supply of it, regardless of whether or not the family will manage to finish it all.
Starting with me, my food habits are, for the most part, are pretty standard American. I wake up and skip breakfast most days, or have the occasional bowl of cereal, and then for lunch I eat school lunch, god help me. Dinner is usually home-cooked by my mother, or ordered in when not. I'm not cautious of eating at fast food restaurants, regardless of how fattening the food may be. I do count calories, though, whatever that may mean. I try to keep it all within a 2,000 calorie diet. I think carbs might outweigh proteins in my diet, something I am working on changing.
My family does food in a very traditional irish way. We all sit down for dinner, provided we're all home, and we all eat together. Food is varied, based on what new food item my mother saw on some episode of Rachel Ray. There is usually ample carbs and meat to go with it, usually salad as well. Salad containing nuts, raisins, tomatoes, lettuce in a few colors, and croutons. With italian dressing. Food usually spiced with some herbs, or something. When we have big sunday dinners, its always some classic meal of porkchops and mash or steak and mash or lampchops and spuds. Always. I guess we're pretty white. We take around 30-45 minutes to eat based on the food, after which my brother and I do dishes while my dad retreats to watch some TV or read a book, and my Mom gets ready to go to work. My sister might do something as well, usually glued to the television.
White corporate america does dinner the way I just described above. Mom/wife makes food, family all joins in to eat it, kids do cleanup while parents relax a little bit. The foods represented by corporate Americans are very rich and full, glistening turkeys and glazed hams, always an ample supply of it, regardless of whether or not the family will manage to finish it all.
Monday, April 27, 2009
List of items in my refrigerator:
Box of cherry tomatoes
Can of Coke
2 jars of salsa
Poland spring sparkling water
dozen eggs
Grape and strawberry jellies
orange marmalade
country crock butter
mustard
blackcurrant jam
cough syrup
stick of butter
more mustard
peanut butter
gallon of milk
gallon of water
grape jelly
whole wheat bread
shredded cheese )provolone)
white grape sparkling water
leftover pork fried rice
3 polish beers
mayonaisse
apple sauce
spiced beetroot
marzipan bar
crushed garlic
tortillas
lettuce
orange juice ketchup
6 different dressings
lemonade
hot sauce
Analysis:
Keeping in mind that my mother was recently gone to Ireland on holiday, I think that the state of our fridge is to be expected. Being as my father and my brother and I don't pick up groceries, we can't expect there to be any food of real meal substance. Basically this leaves us with the condiments and stuff that just happens to be there. Analyzing that, I might assume that this fridge indicates a group of people who don't hold the types of food they eat at the highest calibur, but they are aware that some things are healthier than others. the presence of the lettuce and tomatoes might indicate as much. However, the high quantity of sugary jams and jellies indicate that these people do not know the caloric danger of over-indulging on jams and jellied breads.
Box of cherry tomatoes
Can of Coke
2 jars of salsa
Poland spring sparkling water
dozen eggs
Grape and strawberry jellies
orange marmalade
country crock butter
mustard
blackcurrant jam
cough syrup
stick of butter
more mustard
peanut butter
gallon of milk
gallon of water
grape jelly
whole wheat bread
shredded cheese )provolone)
white grape sparkling water
leftover pork fried rice
3 polish beers
mayonaisse
apple sauce
spiced beetroot
marzipan bar
crushed garlic
tortillas
lettuce
orange juice ketchup
6 different dressings
lemonade
hot sauce
Analysis:
Keeping in mind that my mother was recently gone to Ireland on holiday, I think that the state of our fridge is to be expected. Being as my father and my brother and I don't pick up groceries, we can't expect there to be any food of real meal substance. Basically this leaves us with the condiments and stuff that just happens to be there. Analyzing that, I might assume that this fridge indicates a group of people who don't hold the types of food they eat at the highest calibur, but they are aware that some things are healthier than others. the presence of the lettuce and tomatoes might indicate as much. However, the high quantity of sugary jams and jellies indicate that these people do not know the caloric danger of over-indulging on jams and jellied breads.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Thought on Morality and the African Condition
For 200$ and the aid of UNICEF, you can guarantee an unhealthy 3-year old African child the chance to become a healthy 6 - year old african child. You can kick-start the starving children of Africa and give them the foundation they need to live a new, healthier life, allowing them to have a real chance at a real life. This, according to Utilitarian views proposed by Peter Singer, would be the morally correct thing to do. In fact, if you aren't already doing this and can afford to, you are morally wrong in the eyes of Singer and other utilitarian philosophers. Why should we not donate the 200$? What, if anything, holds us back from achieving moral purity? It can be argued that the immediacy of the situation deters many people from realizing that to send this money to the starving children is to save a life. By only seeing the images of the strife from a safe distance, people are not encouraged to act upon their compassionate instinct for their fellow humans. People can sit back and not feel guilty because they reason that surely someone else is taking care of the problem, and why should they have to? They worked for their money, only to send it off to some country they've never been to, to a child they'll never see. On the other hand, are these people right? Are they unknowingly fighting against an unjust enemy? By not donating this money, people like columnist Kevin Myers would argue (http://www.independent.ie/
opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/writing-what-i-should-have-written-so-many-years-ago-1437779.html) that you are doing the right thing by not contributing to dangerous living conditions in places like Ethiopia, which received millions of dollars in benefits from the Live Aid concert in 1986. The conditions of which Myers makes note are those that concern the corrupt system in place in Ethiopia, a system based on Warlords who control the flow of everything from food to money in ethiopia. Myers goes so far as to say that he 'little teary-eyed starving child you saved back in 86' is now a misogynistic 20 something wielding a Kalashinikov. Myers would say that to donate now is to feed a corrupt system that benefits the warlords in charge but ultimately hurts the innocent civilians. He remarks that while the country may have been in dire straights 20-some-odd years ago, the population has been able to more than double, regardless of how badly the economic crisis may have gotten. Acknowledging these two points of view, its is up to oneself to determine which cause is truly more 'noble'; the one who contributes to the cause to give a child a chance at life, with the risk of them growing up to become a misogynistic armed insurgent, or those who choose to not donate and risk the lives of countless innocents caught in the tumult of a country in the gutter. Do or don't is the decision, there is no idle standing by in this situation. I still need five words.
opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/writing-what-i-should-have-written-so-many-years-ago-1437779.html) that you are doing the right thing by not contributing to dangerous living conditions in places like Ethiopia, which received millions of dollars in benefits from the Live Aid concert in 1986. The conditions of which Myers makes note are those that concern the corrupt system in place in Ethiopia, a system based on Warlords who control the flow of everything from food to money in ethiopia. Myers goes so far as to say that he 'little teary-eyed starving child you saved back in 86' is now a misogynistic 20 something wielding a Kalashinikov. Myers would say that to donate now is to feed a corrupt system that benefits the warlords in charge but ultimately hurts the innocent civilians. He remarks that while the country may have been in dire straights 20-some-odd years ago, the population has been able to more than double, regardless of how badly the economic crisis may have gotten. Acknowledging these two points of view, its is up to oneself to determine which cause is truly more 'noble'; the one who contributes to the cause to give a child a chance at life, with the risk of them growing up to become a misogynistic armed insurgent, or those who choose to not donate and risk the lives of countless innocents caught in the tumult of a country in the gutter. Do or don't is the decision, there is no idle standing by in this situation. I still need five words.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Okay, last update just because today was fucking awesome.
I met up with some friend of mine who do Parkour because they had a beginner's session today and they brought me and some others through the basics of parkour. I was out all day long from 11-9 just running and jumping and vaulting. it was so much fun, regardless of how tough the workouts were. I was feeling ecstatic the whole day about the running and jumping. I now wish that I had a good rail to be able to vault over. man it was fun. The sun was high in the sky and made me brighten up my mood. I expect to be tired and sore tomorrow but that's ok, its exhibition day anyhow.
I met up with some friend of mine who do Parkour because they had a beginner's session today and they brought me and some others through the basics of parkour. I was out all day long from 11-9 just running and jumping and vaulting. it was so much fun, regardless of how tough the workouts were. I was feeling ecstatic the whole day about the running and jumping. I now wish that I had a good rail to be able to vault over. man it was fun. The sun was high in the sky and made me brighten up my mood. I expect to be tired and sore tomorrow but that's ok, its exhibition day anyhow.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Cataloging Emotions over Break
It's the fourth day of break, if you don't count wednesday afternoon. And I don't, so there. I guess it will just be easier to talk about how my emotional state has gone since thursday morning up until now. I'll update more as time goes by.
So as of thursday morning, my first emotions were basically apathetic, as I couldn't really think of someone who wasn't too busy to hang out with. Everyone I knew was doing something or just couldn't chill. So I spent the morning lazing around after finding out my gym is closed for passover. After a while I went for a skate and that relaxed me, because I brought my carving board with me. I ended up coming home after a few hours because it got lonely and so when my friend got off work I went and hung out with him. Since then I've felt essentially the same, apathetic. But my gym opens tomorrow again so maybe things will pick up.
--UPDATE--
10:53pm Sunday April 12
I just posted a blog post on my personal blog basically about how I'm still in love with my now ex girlfriend and how I'm feeling reflective. This makes my current mood a very somber one, interrupted every now and hen by a hollow kind of happiness as I recall one of the positive days from my relationship with her. Something I said which might wrap this up a little clearer is the line I said that reads: "Sometimes, I wish I could just cry. It seems like such a simple action. Go figure.”
--UPDATE--
11:53pm Sunday April 12
I just listened to my Happy playlist (yes, I have a happy playlist) and now I've managed to pick my mood back up from apathetic misery to average, teetering between smiling and frowning status.
--UPDATE--
1:43am Tuesday April 14
Whoosh. Big day. Went skating because of the pleasant weather, was out for a couple hours texting ex-girlfriend. (In middle of traffic, mind you.) After a little while of happily skating and evading traffic, I got the call to come home and take my little sister to the park. A little bit of a dampening on the mood but I figured I'd still be able to enjoy the weather, just now with a nine year old clinging to me. So I felt the rush of the wind as I raced back uptown, mood locked down into a happy state, because when you longboard like that, you can't focus on much more than the stretch of road in front of you. The farther ahead you look, the more stuff you tune out. I tuned out all the negative energy around me. But anyhow, flash-forwarding a bit, later in the day, after returning home and playing some videogames, I had a conversation via AIM with my ex, outlining how she is very dramatic, to which she very dramatically told me not to ay tat for fear she be compared to her antagonizing older brother. I told her to face facts and deal with it, silently angry but at the same time feeling a guilty pleasure in silencing someone who hurt me. I felt closure to the breakup for the first time, and so I was relieved. Like a weight off my chest. Then I hit the gym after feeling disgusted with myself in not having gone because of passover, and so I worked out my usual routine, feeling tired-ish until I got to the weights room where I always manage to feel inadequate, being as I'm not there as a bodybuilder or some such type, and I'm not doing as much weight as these other gym rats. I try to make up for it by telling myself I'm smarter than them anyway, and that while i might be fat now, at least i'm trying.
--UPDATE--
11:48pm Tuesday April 14
Today's weather kind of impacted my mood. It was chilly outside for a good while, and very indicative of rain, so I wasn't too excited about going skating with Dylan, but I figured the rain might hold off long enough to get in a good session. We agreed to meet up at columbus circle, and so I headed down there from my place. I underestimated how long it would take me to get there and ended up getting there at least 45 minutes earlier than Dylan and so I waited on the stairs by the fountain. A few minutes of waiting passed before this homeless man asked me for a cigarette. I told him I didn't smoke and he shrugged and asked about my board. I explained some longboarding to him and he asked me if I minded if he sat down. I didn't and so he joined me on the step. He smelled heavily of alchohol and staggered a bit, but his words were fairly concise, mumbled through his beard as they were. We ended up having a pretty interesting conversation, he told me some jokes, I told him some, he told me about how he was always around the area and knew the table vendors, some of the bicycle carriages, basically the whole crew who worked there. He brought up my mood because he got me thinking about life. Consider like this; we are all the main characters of our own story, right? So then we know our own background, our dreams, hopes, etc. I started thinking about how everyone else is like a secondary character. How if you go into detail about their stories, your own story becomes a little richer. This is the same for everyone. It's hard to think about the rest of the world having a story much like your own, but it's true.
--UPDATE--
12:39am Friday April 17
Ok, I'll have to recap wednesday while I'm here. I got to sleep in late, to be woken up by a call from my friend reminding me of our plans to hang out. After a scurried shower and dressing, I headed down to union square where i met up with some old friends who graduated last year and who I don't get to see often enough. It was me, Louis, Brittany, and Sandy all hanging out. We went to see a movie, one of those cute comedies that gets you smiling because the protagonist has things end up well even though things ae at the same time pretty shitty. It was a good day, we got to recollect and embrace each other's company, re-igniting our old ties basically. That got me feeling very pleasant inside, like warm almost, but ... satisfied might be the word. Then today I had to wake up early and drive upstate to clean up house, something which isn't a pile of work, but just monotonous, and i felt greatly bored. The upside of today was that I got to get out into a tree and climb, feeling free and natural, and excited over the simplicity of the action of climbing a tree.
--Final UPDATE--
7:43am Friday April 17
Probably the dullest day this break. Haircut and skating was basically all I did. Emotionally I've felt very reflective, thinking about my past, my future. It's a very neutral sort of feeling, not good or bad, just contemplative. I'm tired. Drained.
So as of thursday morning, my first emotions were basically apathetic, as I couldn't really think of someone who wasn't too busy to hang out with. Everyone I knew was doing something or just couldn't chill. So I spent the morning lazing around after finding out my gym is closed for passover. After a while I went for a skate and that relaxed me, because I brought my carving board with me. I ended up coming home after a few hours because it got lonely and so when my friend got off work I went and hung out with him. Since then I've felt essentially the same, apathetic. But my gym opens tomorrow again so maybe things will pick up.
--UPDATE--
10:53pm Sunday April 12
I just posted a blog post on my personal blog basically about how I'm still in love with my now ex girlfriend and how I'm feeling reflective. This makes my current mood a very somber one, interrupted every now and hen by a hollow kind of happiness as I recall one of the positive days from my relationship with her. Something I said which might wrap this up a little clearer is the line I said that reads: "Sometimes, I wish I could just cry. It seems like such a simple action. Go figure.”
--UPDATE--
11:53pm Sunday April 12
I just listened to my Happy playlist (yes, I have a happy playlist) and now I've managed to pick my mood back up from apathetic misery to average, teetering between smiling and frowning status.
--UPDATE--
1:43am Tuesday April 14
Whoosh. Big day. Went skating because of the pleasant weather, was out for a couple hours texting ex-girlfriend. (In middle of traffic, mind you.) After a little while of happily skating and evading traffic, I got the call to come home and take my little sister to the park. A little bit of a dampening on the mood but I figured I'd still be able to enjoy the weather, just now with a nine year old clinging to me. So I felt the rush of the wind as I raced back uptown, mood locked down into a happy state, because when you longboard like that, you can't focus on much more than the stretch of road in front of you. The farther ahead you look, the more stuff you tune out. I tuned out all the negative energy around me. But anyhow, flash-forwarding a bit, later in the day, after returning home and playing some videogames, I had a conversation via AIM with my ex, outlining how she is very dramatic, to which she very dramatically told me not to ay tat for fear she be compared to her antagonizing older brother. I told her to face facts and deal with it, silently angry but at the same time feeling a guilty pleasure in silencing someone who hurt me. I felt closure to the breakup for the first time, and so I was relieved. Like a weight off my chest. Then I hit the gym after feeling disgusted with myself in not having gone because of passover, and so I worked out my usual routine, feeling tired-ish until I got to the weights room where I always manage to feel inadequate, being as I'm not there as a bodybuilder or some such type, and I'm not doing as much weight as these other gym rats. I try to make up for it by telling myself I'm smarter than them anyway, and that while i might be fat now, at least i'm trying.
--UPDATE--
11:48pm Tuesday April 14
Today's weather kind of impacted my mood. It was chilly outside for a good while, and very indicative of rain, so I wasn't too excited about going skating with Dylan, but I figured the rain might hold off long enough to get in a good session. We agreed to meet up at columbus circle, and so I headed down there from my place. I underestimated how long it would take me to get there and ended up getting there at least 45 minutes earlier than Dylan and so I waited on the stairs by the fountain. A few minutes of waiting passed before this homeless man asked me for a cigarette. I told him I didn't smoke and he shrugged and asked about my board. I explained some longboarding to him and he asked me if I minded if he sat down. I didn't and so he joined me on the step. He smelled heavily of alchohol and staggered a bit, but his words were fairly concise, mumbled through his beard as they were. We ended up having a pretty interesting conversation, he told me some jokes, I told him some, he told me about how he was always around the area and knew the table vendors, some of the bicycle carriages, basically the whole crew who worked there. He brought up my mood because he got me thinking about life. Consider like this; we are all the main characters of our own story, right? So then we know our own background, our dreams, hopes, etc. I started thinking about how everyone else is like a secondary character. How if you go into detail about their stories, your own story becomes a little richer. This is the same for everyone. It's hard to think about the rest of the world having a story much like your own, but it's true.
--UPDATE--
12:39am Friday April 17
Ok, I'll have to recap wednesday while I'm here. I got to sleep in late, to be woken up by a call from my friend reminding me of our plans to hang out. After a scurried shower and dressing, I headed down to union square where i met up with some old friends who graduated last year and who I don't get to see often enough. It was me, Louis, Brittany, and Sandy all hanging out. We went to see a movie, one of those cute comedies that gets you smiling because the protagonist has things end up well even though things ae at the same time pretty shitty. It was a good day, we got to recollect and embrace each other's company, re-igniting our old ties basically. That got me feeling very pleasant inside, like warm almost, but ... satisfied might be the word. Then today I had to wake up early and drive upstate to clean up house, something which isn't a pile of work, but just monotonous, and i felt greatly bored. The upside of today was that I got to get out into a tree and climb, feeling free and natural, and excited over the simplicity of the action of climbing a tree.
--Final UPDATE--
7:43am Friday April 17
Probably the dullest day this break. Haircut and skating was basically all I did. Emotionally I've felt very reflective, thinking about my past, my future. It's a very neutral sort of feeling, not good or bad, just contemplative. I'm tired. Drained.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
"Freudian psychoanalysis refers to a specific type of treatment in which the "analysand" (analytic patient) verbalizes thoughts, including free associations, fantasies, and dreams, from which the analyst formulates the unconscious conflicts causing the patient's symptoms and character problems, and interprets them for the patient to create insight for resolution of the problems." - Wikipedia
It seems to me that psychoanalysts are little more than story tellers. The phrase "formulating unconscious conflicts" seems synonymous to "making things up", which means to me that these therapists make up reasons for their patients to continue going to sessions and thus continuing their payment. Psychoanalysis might not uncover real problems, but a positive might be that the analysand finds themselves in a position where they can talk comfortably about their lives and hope to recieve comforting advice and insight. Ignorance is bliss.
It seems to me that psychoanalysts are little more than story tellers. The phrase "formulating unconscious conflicts" seems synonymous to "making things up", which means to me that these therapists make up reasons for their patients to continue going to sessions and thus continuing their payment. Psychoanalysis might not uncover real problems, but a positive might be that the analysand finds themselves in a position where they can talk comfortably about their lives and hope to recieve comforting advice and insight. Ignorance is bliss.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Questions on Health and Fitness
1.) What is the world's unhealthiest country? City?
In terms of physical fitness, America is very poor in health, but as for disease and life expectancy, America is among the highest in public health. The unhealthiest city in America is Huntington, West Virginia.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080712083106AA9kaxT
2.) What benefits come from drinking Muscle Milk or other protein supplements?
Whenever you have an good workout routine and are aiming to put on mass and increase lean muscle, then this is the best supplement on the market and can work well as a meal replacement and especially as a before bed protein supplement. While you are sleeping, this protein has the power to repair your muscles from training and will prevent you from losing muscle while you sleep.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Muscle-Milk---Why-Do-Pros-Buy-Muscle-Milk?&id=1486509
3.) What is the most popular type of exercise?
According to recent studies, more than 70 million Americans walk to exercise, making it the most popular form of exercise. Depending on the terrain and walking 3 mph, these walkers are burning 15 grams of carbohydrates per hour (100 lb. person), 21 grams per hour (150 lb. person), and 27 grams per hour (200 lb. person). They are also using about 50 percent of their body's major muscles.
http://www.diabetic-lifestyle.com/articles/nov_burni_1.htm
4.) How many calories does the typical american consume in a day?
A brief perusal of the USA yearbook shows a per Capita Daily Consumption of 3,790 Calories for the 2000-2002 years.
http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/12/27/do_americans_eat_3790_calories_per_day.php
5.) What are my caloric needs?
Maintenance:
2956 Calories/day
Fat Loss:
2365 Calories/day
Extreme Fat Loss:
1960 Calories/day
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
6.) What are he rates of mental illness in the country?
300 professional interviewers traveled 8 million miles over a five-year period to question nearly 9,300 U.S. adults.
Here are some of the key findings of the study, which examined anxiety disorders, mood disorders, impulse-control disorders and substance abuse disorders:
Half of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14, while three-quarters begin by age 24. Anxiety disorders tend to begin in late childhood, mood disorders in late adolescence and substance abuse in the early 20s. "This interferes with accomplishing major social, educational and occupational milestones, and can cause lifelong disability," said Kathleen Ries Merikangas, lead NIMH collaborator on the study and chief of the NIMH's section on developmental genetic epidemiology.
The majority of Americans will, at some point in their lifetime, meet the diagnostic criteria for one or more mental disorders. About one quarter (26 percent) of the general population reported symptoms sufficient for diagnosing such a disorder during the past year. Most of these disorders, however, were mild and likely to resolve without treatment. "Snake phobia is a mental illness but if you live on the 35th floor of a building in Manhattan, it doesn't get in the way of life very much," Kessler said. "We need to do a better job of which mild and moderate cases are likely to become seriously debilitating."
Six percent of Americans have a severe mental health disorder, reporting a mean of 88.3 days during the past year when they felt they were unable to carry out their normal daily activities.
Anxiety disorders were the most prevalent (affecting 28.8 percent of Americans at some time in their life), followed by impulse-control disorders (24.8 percent), mood disorders (20.8 percent) and substance use disorders (14.6 percent).
In any given year, 18.1 percent of the adult population suffered anxiety disorders, 9.5 percent experienced mood disorders, 8.9 percent experienced impulse-control disorders and 3.8 percent suffered substance use disorders.
In the United States, females have higher rates of mood and anxiety disorders, while males have higher rates of substance abuse and impulse disorders.
For almost all mental disorders, individuals delayed getting treatment. The median delay was about 10 years. For social phobia and separation anxiety, the delay was 20 to 23 years and, for mood disorders, six to eight years. Almost half of all lifetime cases of substance use and impulse control disorders never obtained treatment. "Early-onset disorders are, in general, more persistent and more severe than those that start later," Kessler explained.
http://www.coolnurse.com/mental_healthusa.htm
7.) How can watching TV be harmful to your health?
Cornell University researchers are reporting what appears to be a statistically significant relationship between autism rates and television watching by children under the age of 3. The researchers studied autism incidence in California, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington state. They found that as cable television became common in California and Pennsylvania beginning around 1980, childhood autism rose more in the counties that had cable than in the counties that did not.
http://www.slate.com/id/2151538/
8.) What benefits can be derived from video games?
In the latest study to address the impact of video games on game players, researchers at the University of Rochester and Tel Aviv University have found that action-oriented video games can improve players' vision.
The findings, reported in the March 29 issue of Nature, indicate that action games offer players the chance to improve their contrast perception by as much as 58%.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/virtualworlds/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216401807
9.) How might mental fitness impact physical fitness?
Research shows that anxiety can make you sleep fewer hours, get sick more often, remember less, become more prone to long-term disease and—as if you needed reminding—eat more. In a recent Self.com poll, 85 percent of women said that worries interfere with their ability to catch zzz's, while 71 percent say they're more irritable due to stress.
http://health.yahoo.com/experts/healthieryou/9061/stress-is-sabotaging-your-diet-success/;_ylt=Asnoiev5bNOCGrZw9n4Lr_sQ.ZN4
10.) How can we defeat stress, and improve our mental health?
Turn up the tunes. Listening to music that has a steady (not frenetic) beat may cause brain waves to keep time and relax you, research from a music symposium at Stanford University in California reports. Load your iPod with a playlist of the songs that make you happiest.
Break a sweat. Exercising for 30 minutes makes your body release chemicals that dull the physiological effects of stress response for up to a full day. But the effect only works when the activity is something you really want to do, so make sure you're psyched about channeling your energy in that cardiovascular direction.
Use a better bulb. Outfit your office lamp with an incandescent bulb, particularly if your cubicle is brightened by fluorescent lights. Incandescent and fluorescent lights work together to more closely mimic outside light. And it's sunshine (or the perception of it) that regulates the body's biorhythms. Not getting enough of it can affect hormone levels, suppressing the immune system and increasing the probability of mood swings, depression and sluggishness.
In terms of physical fitness, America is very poor in health, but as for disease and life expectancy, America is among the highest in public health. The unhealthiest city in America is Huntington, West Virginia.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080712083106AA9kaxT
2.) What benefits come from drinking Muscle Milk or other protein supplements?
Whenever you have an good workout routine and are aiming to put on mass and increase lean muscle, then this is the best supplement on the market and can work well as a meal replacement and especially as a before bed protein supplement. While you are sleeping, this protein has the power to repair your muscles from training and will prevent you from losing muscle while you sleep.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Muscle-Milk---Why-Do-Pros-Buy-Muscle-Milk?&id=1486509
3.) What is the most popular type of exercise?
According to recent studies, more than 70 million Americans walk to exercise, making it the most popular form of exercise. Depending on the terrain and walking 3 mph, these walkers are burning 15 grams of carbohydrates per hour (100 lb. person), 21 grams per hour (150 lb. person), and 27 grams per hour (200 lb. person). They are also using about 50 percent of their body's major muscles.
http://www.diabetic-lifestyle.com/articles/nov_burni_1.htm
4.) How many calories does the typical american consume in a day?
A brief perusal of the USA yearbook shows a per Capita Daily Consumption of 3,790 Calories for the 2000-2002 years.
http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/12/27/do_americans_eat_3790_calories_per_day.php
5.) What are my caloric needs?
Maintenance:
2956 Calories/day
Fat Loss:
2365 Calories/day
Extreme Fat Loss:
1960 Calories/day
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
6.) What are he rates of mental illness in the country?
300 professional interviewers traveled 8 million miles over a five-year period to question nearly 9,300 U.S. adults.
Here are some of the key findings of the study, which examined anxiety disorders, mood disorders, impulse-control disorders and substance abuse disorders:
Half of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14, while three-quarters begin by age 24. Anxiety disorders tend to begin in late childhood, mood disorders in late adolescence and substance abuse in the early 20s. "This interferes with accomplishing major social, educational and occupational milestones, and can cause lifelong disability," said Kathleen Ries Merikangas, lead NIMH collaborator on the study and chief of the NIMH's section on developmental genetic epidemiology.
The majority of Americans will, at some point in their lifetime, meet the diagnostic criteria for one or more mental disorders. About one quarter (26 percent) of the general population reported symptoms sufficient for diagnosing such a disorder during the past year. Most of these disorders, however, were mild and likely to resolve without treatment. "Snake phobia is a mental illness but if you live on the 35th floor of a building in Manhattan, it doesn't get in the way of life very much," Kessler said. "We need to do a better job of which mild and moderate cases are likely to become seriously debilitating."
Six percent of Americans have a severe mental health disorder, reporting a mean of 88.3 days during the past year when they felt they were unable to carry out their normal daily activities.
Anxiety disorders were the most prevalent (affecting 28.8 percent of Americans at some time in their life), followed by impulse-control disorders (24.8 percent), mood disorders (20.8 percent) and substance use disorders (14.6 percent).
In any given year, 18.1 percent of the adult population suffered anxiety disorders, 9.5 percent experienced mood disorders, 8.9 percent experienced impulse-control disorders and 3.8 percent suffered substance use disorders.
In the United States, females have higher rates of mood and anxiety disorders, while males have higher rates of substance abuse and impulse disorders.
For almost all mental disorders, individuals delayed getting treatment. The median delay was about 10 years. For social phobia and separation anxiety, the delay was 20 to 23 years and, for mood disorders, six to eight years. Almost half of all lifetime cases of substance use and impulse control disorders never obtained treatment. "Early-onset disorders are, in general, more persistent and more severe than those that start later," Kessler explained.
http://www.coolnurse.com/mental_healthusa.htm
7.) How can watching TV be harmful to your health?
Cornell University researchers are reporting what appears to be a statistically significant relationship between autism rates and television watching by children under the age of 3. The researchers studied autism incidence in California, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington state. They found that as cable television became common in California and Pennsylvania beginning around 1980, childhood autism rose more in the counties that had cable than in the counties that did not.
http://www.slate.com/id/2151538/
8.) What benefits can be derived from video games?
In the latest study to address the impact of video games on game players, researchers at the University of Rochester and Tel Aviv University have found that action-oriented video games can improve players' vision.
The findings, reported in the March 29 issue of Nature, indicate that action games offer players the chance to improve their contrast perception by as much as 58%.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/virtualworlds/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216401807
9.) How might mental fitness impact physical fitness?
Research shows that anxiety can make you sleep fewer hours, get sick more often, remember less, become more prone to long-term disease and—as if you needed reminding—eat more. In a recent Self.com poll, 85 percent of women said that worries interfere with their ability to catch zzz's, while 71 percent say they're more irritable due to stress.
http://health.yahoo.com/experts/healthieryou/9061/stress-is-sabotaging-your-diet-success/;_ylt=Asnoiev5bNOCGrZw9n4Lr_sQ.ZN4
10.) How can we defeat stress, and improve our mental health?
Turn up the tunes. Listening to music that has a steady (not frenetic) beat may cause brain waves to keep time and relax you, research from a music symposium at Stanford University in California reports. Load your iPod with a playlist of the songs that make you happiest.
Break a sweat. Exercising for 30 minutes makes your body release chemicals that dull the physiological effects of stress response for up to a full day. But the effect only works when the activity is something you really want to do, so make sure you're psyched about channeling your energy in that cardiovascular direction.
Use a better bulb. Outfit your office lamp with an incandescent bulb, particularly if your cubicle is brightened by fluorescent lights. Incandescent and fluorescent lights work together to more closely mimic outside light. And it's sunshine (or the perception of it) that regulates the body's biorhythms. Not getting enough of it can affect hormone levels, suppressing the immune system and increasing the probability of mood swings, depression and sluggishness.
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