To all my peeps who believe sweating...working up a good lather?...will help you lose weight. Well, you should be down a few belt notches by now. With high humidity and daily temperatures hovering near 100, the least amount of effort should produce buckets of weight reducing sweat. Think of how much you'd lose doing actual physical work.
Just think, you don't have to run off to the sauna or wear one of those plastic garbage bag sauna suits.
Haven't loss much have ya? Despite what many believe, sweating is not a weight losing process. Sweating is how the body cools down. It's called "evaporative cooling." Lick the back of your hand and then blow on it. Feel a cooling sensation? Now blow on the back of the opposite dry hand. Notice the difference? If you were a dog, you'd pant, huh,huh,huh. Elephants flap their ears. Reptiles craw under a rock.
People do loose weigh sweating but it's not fat which is what we think we're loosing. It is liquid, mostly water with some other bodily stuff like sodium and chloride which gives sweat its salty taste.
Athletes who have to make weight...boxers for example...may sweat off a pound or two in order to qualify for competition. Sometimes they wear sauna suits to do this.
Notice how weigh-in is always at noon or before. But the match is always held hours later? What do you think the dehydrated athlete is doing just after weigh-in? Consuming liquids...and eating.
The body wants to maintain balance. Sweat off a pound of sweat...you will put it back on with the next glass of water.
Warning:
Elevated body temperature and water loss while wearing a sauna suit can lead to dehydration or a possible heat stroke and, in extreme cases cause death. Thus, a sauna suit should not be worn while doing extreme exercise or in hot conditions. Many authorities discourage sauna suit use during exercise under any circumstances. A sauna suit is not intended for wear in a sauna.
Want to lose weight? Not exactly you don't. Your legs have weight. What many of us want is to lose fat. To do this, you must consume fewer calories than the body needs. Generally and simply speaking, the body most efficiently converts fat to energy at a heart rate of 60 to 80 percent of the heart's maximum pulse rate or beats per minute. It is also a pulse rate in which a moderately conditioned exerciser can hang the longest without tiring. The longer you hang, the more calories you burned.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
A misstep, a chance visit, a life saved
A woman,63, a university administrator, recently fell and fractured a bone in her right leg near the ankle. The injury required an operation and back home she went with instructions for limited movement.
During convalescence, the woman, a recent widow, unknowingly developed a pulmonary embolism...blood clot in the lung.
Pulmonary embolism occurs when blood clots become lodged in a lung artery, blocking blood flow to lung tissue. Blood clots often originate in the legs.
Blood clots are more likely to form in your legs during periods of inactivity, such as being confined to bed for an extended period after surgery, a heart attack, or... a leg fracture.
What this grandmother of two felt, not knowing the seriousness of what she was going through, was a sudden onset of shortness of breath and lightheadedness all coming shortly after the cast was removed from her leg about a week after the operation. She along with other family members associated the symptoms with the events...the excitement of the day along with her lack of exercise.
However, the following day, the woman felt worst. She tried to tough it out until her daughter, by chance, paid a visit and became alarmed at what she saw.
Ambulance was called and off to the hospital they went. There, the condition, the clots, were discovered. A life was saved.
A near death experience, caught in time. All this from a fall, started by a stumble from which the woman, a few years ago, could have easily avoided.
September 23 is Falls Prevention Awareness Day.
A time in which we celebrate the first of autumn while promoting public awareness on how to prevent falls among older adults.
Each year, one in every three adults age 65 and older falls. Many suffering debilitating injuries which can haunt them for the remainder of their lives.
During convalescence, the woman, a recent widow, unknowingly developed a pulmonary embolism...blood clot in the lung.
Pulmonary embolism occurs when blood clots become lodged in a lung artery, blocking blood flow to lung tissue. Blood clots often originate in the legs.
Blood clots are more likely to form in your legs during periods of inactivity, such as being confined to bed for an extended period after surgery, a heart attack, or... a leg fracture.
What this grandmother of two felt, not knowing the seriousness of what she was going through, was a sudden onset of shortness of breath and lightheadedness all coming shortly after the cast was removed from her leg about a week after the operation. She along with other family members associated the symptoms with the events...the excitement of the day along with her lack of exercise.
However, the following day, the woman felt worst. She tried to tough it out until her daughter, by chance, paid a visit and became alarmed at what she saw.
Ambulance was called and off to the hospital they went. There, the condition, the clots, were discovered. A life was saved.
A near death experience, caught in time. All this from a fall, started by a stumble from which the woman, a few years ago, could have easily avoided.
September 23 is Falls Prevention Awareness Day.
A time in which we celebrate the first of autumn while promoting public awareness on how to prevent falls among older adults.
Each year, one in every three adults age 65 and older falls. Many suffering debilitating injuries which can haunt them for the remainder of their lives.
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