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Inspiration of The Day

via: Les Africaine sont les plus belles Proud of my heritage

Cardiac Diseases and Lifestyle Choices

Lately, to keep my skills as an exercise physiologist, sharp*, I've been reading up about some of the more common cardiac diseases tied to obesity including information on Drug/surgical/Exercise interventions.Outside of aging,genetic anormalies, environmental pollution, trauma, consequences of being sick and etc...it never fails to amaze me just how bad our lifestyle choices affect our body. And how much, our heart, this WONDERFUL machine, tries to juggle things around, accommodate the changes and  fight to keep us alive despite our reckless sans-laisse attitude towards it The more I read about the heart and the amount of external + internal "pressure" it endures in other to keep the body functioning, the more am beginning to consider becoming a cardiologist instead of a Physiatrist Now let's talk about the medications. Most obesity related heart disease patients are usually battling another disease which may either be the cause of their heart problems or ...

Black adolescent girls benefit less than whites from physical exercise

Source: New York Daily According to research published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, black girls are less responsive to the benefits of physical activity. Researchers studied the exercise levels and caloric intake of a group of 1,148 adolescent girls at age 12. Two years later, lower levels of obesity correlated with higher levels of exercise in white girls. Surprisingly, the same wasn’t true for black girls — those who reported frequent physical activity were just as likely to be obese two years later as ones who rarely exercised. The study’s authors pointed to earlier research that helps explain why African-American girls might be at a disadvantage in the weight game, s uch as having lower metabolic rates and lower rates of fat oxidation than their white peers . Other potential contributing factors are a higher daily caloric intake and more sedentary behaviors, like watching TV, the study says.  There is much that...

Vacay and sick time off

Capecod + biking+  sick + movie night + broken internet connection and just barely hanging on to my sanity after my internet provider told me they'll charge me to send a technician to the house to troubleshoot why even though am paying for internet i dont seem to have an active line.....Yes...we live in a MAD world heading to the T my not so little brother Because I never found a messenger bag i didnt fall in love with arm candy I'm pretty sure famous & busy cities in the world are defined by whether they have a "chinatown" she was an awesome wicked queen but the movie was kinda slow can u spot my black ass on here my army against flu/cold that had me down for a couple of days