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Book Weight Management

    Book Details:
  • Author : Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2003-12-01
  • ISBN : 0309089964
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Weight Management written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary purpose of fitness and body composition standards in the U.S. Armed Forces has always been to select individuals best suited to the physical demands of military service, based on the assumption that proper body weight and composition supports good health, physical fitness, and appropriate military appearance. The current epidemic of overweight and obesity in the United States affects the military services. The pool of available recruits is reduced because of failure to meet body composition standards for entry into the services and a high percentage of individuals exceeding military weight-for-height standards at the time of entry into the service leave the military before completing their term of enlistment. To aid in developing strategies for prevention and remediation of overweight in military personnel, the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command requested the Committee on Military Nutrition Research to review the scientific evidence for: factors that influence body weight, optimal components of a weight loss and weight maintenance program, and the role of gender, age, and ethnicity in weight management.

Book Sleep Hypoventilation  A State of the Art Overview  An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

Download or read book Sleep Hypoventilation A State of the Art Overview An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics written by Babak Mokhlesi and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue on Hypoventilation Syndrome covers a variety of topics such as Sleep hypoventilation: Diagnostic considerations and technological limitations,Pathophysiology of hypoventilation during sleep,Advances in PAP treatment modalities for hypoventilation syndromes,Scoring abnormal respiratory events on polysomnography during noninvasive ventilation,OHS Epidemiology and diagnosis,OHS outcomes,Non-PAP treatment modalities in OHS, Pulmonary overlap syndromes,Noninvasive ventilation during sleep in stable COPD and more!

Book Regulation of Body Weight

Download or read book Regulation of Body Weight written by Claude Bouchard and published by . This book was released on 1996-06-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fact that about 30-40% of the adults in the Western world are overweight or obese testifies to the frequency of the disturbances in body weight regulation. Scientists have established that caloric intake, macronutrient composition of the diet, basal and resting metabolic rate, thermic response to food, energy expenditure associated with movement and physical activity, and preferential storage of the surplus of calories as fat or lean tissues are critical determinants of energy balance and body weight. While much has been learned, the field is poised for major advances with the advent of a variety of imaging techniques, progress in quantitative and molecular genetics, use of transgenic rodent models and of breeding experiments with informative inbred strains, availability of stable isotopes for metabolic and behavioral studies, and a growing number of useful experimental animal and human models. This volume takes an integrative approach to obesity. It is structured around four major topics: (1) the animal and human models currently available for the study of body weight regulation with their strengths and limitations, (2) the molecular and genetic basis of the regulation of body weight, (3) the metabolic and physiological mechanisms involved, and (4) the behavioral and social determinants. The 13 background papers provide a critical overview of the present knowledge base while the group reports summarize the extensive deliberations of 38 international experts. Particular emphasis has been given to promising research areas and on the advances needed to ensure a better understanding of the biological and behavioral mechanisms of the regulation of body weight, with a particular emphasis on overweight and obesity.

Book Not Eating Enough

    Book Details:
  • Author : Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 1995-09-01
  • ISBN : 0309176107
  • Pages : 497 pages

Download or read book Not Eating Enough written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eating enough food to meet nutritional needs and maintain good health and good performance in all aspects of lifeâ€"both at home and on the jobâ€"is important for all of us throughout our lives. For military personnel, however, this presents a special challenge. Although soldiers typically have a number of options for eating when stationed on a base, in the field during missions their meals come in the form of operational rations. Unfortunately, military personnel in training and field operations often do not eat their rations in the amounts needed to ensure that they meet their energy and nutrient requirements and consequently lose weight and potentially risk loss of effectiveness both in physical and cognitive performance. This book contains 20 chapters by military and nonmilitary scientists from such fields as food science, food marketing and engineering, nutrition, physiology, psychology, and various medical specialties. Although described within a context of military tasks, the committee's conclusions and recommendations have wide-reaching implications for people who find that job-related stress changes their eating habits.

Book Weighing the Options

    Book Details:
  • Author : Committee to Develop Criteria for Evaluating the Outcomes of Approaches to Prevent and Treat Obesity
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 1995-03-15
  • ISBN : 030952136X
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Weighing the Options written by Committee to Develop Criteria for Evaluating the Outcomes of Approaches to Prevent and Treat Obesity and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-03-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly one out of every three adults in America is obese and tens of millions of people in the United States are dieting at any one time. This has resulted in a weight-loss industry worth billions of dollars a year and growing. What are the long-term results of weight-loss programs? How can people sort through the many programs available and select one that is right for them? Weighing the Options strives to answer these questions. Despite widespread public concern about weight, few studies have examined the long-term results of weight-loss programs. One reason that evaluating obesity management is difficult is that no other treatment depends so much on an individual's own initiative and state of mind. Now, a distinguished group of experts assembled by the Institute of Medicine addresses this compelling issue. Weighing the Options presents criteria for evaluating treatment programs for obesity and explores what these criteria mean--to health care providers, program designers, researchers, and even overweight people seeking help. In presenting its criteria the authors offer a wealth of information about weight loss: how obesity is on the rise, what types of weight-loss programs are available, how to define obesity, how well we maintain weight loss, and what approaches and practices appear to be most successful. Information about weight-loss programs--their clients, staff qualifications, services, and success rates--necessary to make wise program choices is discussed in detail. The book examines how client demographics and characteristics--including health status, knowledge of weight-loss issues, and attitude toward weight and body image--affect which programs clients choose, how successful they are likely to be with their choices, and what this means for outcome measurement. Short- and long-term safety consequences of weight loss are discussed as well as clinical assessment of individual patients. The authors document the health risks of being overweight, summarizing data indicating that even a small weight loss reduces the risk of disease and depression and increases self-esteem. At the same time, weight loss has been associated with some poor outcomes, and the book discusses the implications for program evaluation. Prevention can be even more important than treatment. In Weighing the Options, programs for population groups, efforts targeted to specific groups at high risk for obesity, and prevention of further weight gain in obese individuals get special attention. This book provides detailed guidance on how the weight-loss industry can improve its programs to help people be more successful at long-term weight loss. And it provides consumers with tips on selecting a program that will improve their chances of permanently losing excess weight.

Book Diet and Health

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 1989-01-01
  • ISBN : 0309039940
  • Pages : 765 pages

Download or read book Diet and Health written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diet and Health examines the many complex issues concerning diet and its role in increasing or decreasing the risk of chronic disease. It proposes dietary recommendations for reducing the risk of the major diseases and causes of death today: atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (including heart attack and stroke), cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, liver disease, and dental caries.

Book Low Glycemic Index Diet

Download or read book Low Glycemic Index Diet written by Janette Brand Miller and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Low GI Diet is the only science-based diet that is proven to help you lose weight and develop a lifetime of healthy eating habits that can help you achieve optimum health and wellbeing and protect against illness and disease. This guide features: an effective 12-week action plan based on low GI eating, exercise, and activity goals for each week which will enable you to lose up to ten per cent of your current body weight; plus an ongoing maintenance program tips to help you maintain weight loss for life delicious recipes and meal plans the GI tables with the GI values of all your favourite foods. The result: A slimmer, fitter, healthier you for the rest of your life! Brought to you by the authors of the worldwide bestselling The New Glucose Revolution series on the glycemic index, The Low GI Diet explains how choosing low GI carbohydrates can help you feel fuller for longer and increase your energy levels making weight loss achievable and sustainable. A companion volume to the newly revised and updated The Low GI Handbook. Start losing weight and improving your overall health today.

Book The Circadian Code

Download or read book The Circadian Code written by Satchin Panda, PhD and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we eat may be as important as what we eat. Like most people, you probably wake up, get hungry for meals and doze off in bed around the same time every day. If you’ve ever experienced jet lag or pulled an all-nighter, you know that this schedule can easily be thrown off kilter. But for some people, that imbalance—difficulty sleeping at night, hunger at odd times, or sudden fatigue at noon—is a constant. If you're one of those people, Dr. Satchin Panda, one of the leading researchers on circadian rhythms, has a plan to reset your body clock. Beginning with an in-depth explanation of the circadian clock—why it’s important, how it works, and how to know it isn’t working—The Circadian Code outlines lifestyle changes to make to get back on track. It's a concrete plan to enhance weight loss, improve sleep, optimize exercise, and manage technology so that it doesn’t interfere with your body’s natural rhythm. Dr. Panda’s life-changing methods show you how to prevent and reverse ailments like diabetes, cancer, and dementia, as well as microbiome conditions like acid reflux, heartburn, and irritable bowel disease.

Book Energy Balance and Obesity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isabelle Romieu
  • Publisher : IARC Working Group Report
  • Release : 2018-01-12
  • ISBN : 9789283225195
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Energy Balance and Obesity written by Isabelle Romieu and published by IARC Working Group Report. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the relationship between energy balance and obesity is essential to develop effective prevention programs and policies. The International Agency for Research on Cancer convened a Working Group of world-leading experts in December 2015 to review the evidence regarding energy balance and obesity, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries, and to consider the following scientific questions: (i) Are the drivers of the obesity epidemic related only to energy excess and/or do specific foods or nutrients play a major role in this epidemic? (ii) What are the factors that modulate these associations? (iii) Which types of data and/or studies will further improve our understanding? This book provides summaries of the evidence from the literature as well as the Working Group's conclusions and recommendations to tackle the global epidemic of obesity.

Book Energy Metabolism

    Book Details:
  • Author : John M. Kinney
  • Publisher : Raven Press (ID)
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 586 pages

Download or read book Energy Metabolism written by John M. Kinney and published by Raven Press (ID). This book was released on 1992 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship of energy metabolism to clinical nutrition and presents insights on energy stores, energy balance and regulation of energy metabolism during the altered metabolic condition of patients in intensive care.

Book The South Beach Diet Cookbook

Download or read book The South Beach Diet Cookbook written by Arthur Agatston and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to "The South Beach Diet" presents more than two hundred recipes that demonstrate how to eat healthfully without compromising taste, outlining the diet's basic philosophies and sharing personal success stories.

Book Attenuating the Side Effects of Caloric Restriction Through Exercise and Increased Protein Intake

Download or read book Attenuating the Side Effects of Caloric Restriction Through Exercise and Increased Protein Intake written by Jay A. Petersen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effects of caloric restriction (CR) on weight loss and health outcomes are documented, but few controlled studies have addressed its effect on performance. Fat free mass (FFM) is reduced during CR, which may impair performance. The purpose of this thesis was to explore the capacity of these strategies to attenuate the side-effects of calorie-restricted weight loss: Exercise, which preserves FFM during CR, may be employed to maintain performance in an energy-deficient state, and a high protein intake may work in combination with exercise to further protect FFM and performance. Two studies were utilized to address this purpose. In study 1, participants (N=6) underwent two, 4-day periods of CR (15 kcal/kg FFM/day) and two periods of balanced energy availability (40 kcal/kg FFM/day). During one CR (CR+EX) and one balanced condition (CON+EX), participants exercised to expend 15 kcal/kg FFM/day; no exercise was conducted during the other conditions. Body weight decreased in both CR+EX (-1.8kg [-2.6; -1.0]) and CR without exercise (CR-EX) (-2.4kg [-3.0; -1.9]), but FFM tended to decrease only in CR-EX (p=0.07). Peak aerobic capacity (VO2peak) increased (6.2% [2.8; 9.5]) in CR+EX. Submaximal heart rate and rating of perceived exertion increased in CR-EX (p2peak (+6.8 mL/kg/min [2.7; 10.8]) as well as maximal fat oxidation (+0.34 g/min [0.32; 0.36]) increased during CR+HP. Overall, our findings suggest exercise and a high protein diet seem effective in preserving performance during short-term CR.

Book Sport Nutrition for Health and Performance

Download or read book Sport Nutrition for Health and Performance written by Melinda Manore and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2009 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors sort fact from fiction to help students and practitioners of sports nutrition present sound advice to athletes on correct nutrition and dietary requirements.

Book The Endurance Diet

Download or read book The Endurance Diet written by Matt Fitzgerald and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TheÊRacing WeightÊandÊNew Rules of Marathon and Half Marathon NutritionÊauthorÕs first diet book: advice on everything from how (and how much) to eat, sample food plans from elite endurance athletes, delicious recipes, and science-based research. With a foreword by Dr. Asker Jeukendrup, the worldÕs pre-eminent sports nutrition scientist.

Book The Body Reset Diet

Download or read book The Body Reset Diet written by Harley Pasternak and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get healthy in just 15 days with this diet plan from the celebrity trainer and New York Times bestselling author frequently featured on Khloé Kardashian's Revenge Body We've gone way overboard trying to beat the bulge. We've tried every diet out there—low-carb, low-fat, all-grapefruit—and spent hours toiling on treadmills and machines, to no avail. It's time to hit the reset button and start over with a new perspective on weight loss. In The Body Reset Diet, celebrity trainer and New York Times bestselling author Harley Pasternak offers you the ultimate plan for a thinner, healthier, happier life. This three-phase program focuses on the easiest, most effective way to slim down: blending. The 5-day jump-start includes delicious, expertly crafted smoothies (White Peach Ginger, Apple Pie, and Pina Colada, to name a few), dips, snacks, and soups that keep you satisfied while boosting your metabolism. Over the following 10 days, the plan reintroduces healthy combinations of classic dishes along with the blended recipes to keep the metabolism humming, so you will continue to torch calories and shed pounds. The plan also explains how the easiest form of exercise—walking—along with light resistance training is all it takes to achieve the celebrity-worthy physique that we all desire. No equipment necessary! Whether you are looking to lose significant weight or just those last 5 pounds, The Body Reset Diet offers a proven program to reset, slim down, and get healthy in just 15 days—and stay that way for good!

Book The Effects of Time Restricted Feeding on Cardio metabolic Risk Variables in Competitive Male Runners

Download or read book The Effects of Time Restricted Feeding on Cardio metabolic Risk Variables in Competitive Male Runners written by Christine Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weight loss through reductions in fat mass while maintaining muscle mass is a common goal for athletes as this may provide them with a competitive advantage. Although caloric restriction is the most commonly used and the most widely studied strategy, an alternate method that is becoming increasingly popular is time restricted feeding (TRF). TRF is a form of intermittent fasting and is term used to describe the manipulation of meal timing in order to prolong the fasted portion and decrease the feeding window, which may or may not also involve caloric restriction. Most people traditionally fast overnight during sleep but those adhering to time restrictive feeding will prolong this fast to 16-20 hours of the day. This type of eating pattern has recently become popular in athletes due to its perceived performance and health benefits. However, to date, of the studies that have been done in athletes, all have used resistance-trained athletes. However, this means that the findings of these studies may not apply to endurance athletes since resistance-training results in different exercise-induced metabolic adaptations when compared to endurance exercise. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the 16/8 diet on cardio-metabolic health outcomes in competitive male runners. Fifteen subjects (28.7 ± 5.2 years, 73.5 ± 8.6 kg, 177.7 ± 6.6 cm) completed the randomized cross-over study. Upon completing an orientation visit to determine eligibility, subjects were randomly assigned to either a 4-week TRF group or a normal diet group (ND) (12 hours fed and 12 hours fasted), followed by a 2-week washout period, then began the other 4-week dietary pattern. Subjects maintained their caloric and macronutrient intake as well as the same exercise routine throughout both arms of the study. Subjects arrived fasted for 4 test days on the beginning and end of each dietary pattern. Upon arrival, subject weight was determined, followed by indirect calorimetry to determine resting energy expenditure, a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan to obtain body composition measurements, and a blood draw for biochemical markers related to glucose metabolism and cardiovascular disease risk. All data was analyzed using a mixed linear model and if a sequence effect was determined, all data was then analyzed using a Tukey's post hoc test. The present study showed no significant difference between groups for resting energy expenditure, respiratory exchange ratio, insulin, glucose, homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), quantitative insulin sensitivity check index (QUICKI), total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL), TC/HDL, LDL/HDL, non-HDL, triglycerides (TG), and blood pressure. This study did show that the TRF group lost a significant amount of fat mass (p = 0.05) and body fat percentage (p = 0.04) while maintaining muscle mass. These results suggest that endurance athletes adhering to the 16/8 dietary pattern for 4 weeks may be able to lose fat mass while maintaining fat free mass and energy expenditure. A reduction in fat free mass and energy expenditure is often associated with hypocaloric diets meaning adopting an isocaloric TRF dietary pattern may be a better alternative to caloric restriction. Athletes that are trying to reduce fat mass before an event should adopt a TRF dietary pattern as opposed to an isocaloric diet due to this diet's ability to maintain fat free mass and resting energy expenditure as well as the lack of any adverse effects on other health-related outcome variables.