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It is not surprising that most teenage girls have dieted at some time, leading to poor body image and disordered eating including obesity. While it is difficult to find specific causes for these difficulties, gender stereotypes in television, movies, books, and the toy and fashion industries pose obvious challenges to girls' healthy psychological development. This week we focus on Teenage Obesity on Rise: Time to Take Action.
Another area of focus is Herbs to Manage Menopause. If your life is being ruined or dominated by mood swings, depression, hot flashes, sweating, anxiety, insomnia, loss of libido, and dryness of the skin, mucous, and vagina, we hope that these herbs will help you in gaining some relief. To learn more check out the Top 10 Herbs to Manage Menopause.
Yours in fitness,
Namita |
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Breathing is a key element in meditation and concentration. Begin with 5 minutes of deep abdominal breathing, to provide your brain with plenty of oxygen. Then slow your breathing right down, keeping it rhythmical, inhaling for 3 seconds and then exhaling for 3 seconds.
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Living on purpose
You have skills, knowledge, interests, talents, resources and abilities sufficient to accomplish virtually anything. And when there's a strong and driving purpose to line it all up and tie it all together, indeed the accomplishments will come.
Perhaps you've experienced a devastating defeat, disappointment or tragedy, and it seems that your sense of purpose has been ripped away from you. Yet the very pain you feel is itself a powerful acknowledgment that the purpose has not been lost, that you desire to follow it more than ever.
In many ways it's easier to ignore your purpose, to let yourself be distracted and tossed aimlessly around by everything that comes along. Yet when you follow a steady and positive purpose, though it requires more effort and attention, you'll actually get somewhere valuable and meaningful as a result.
You are amazingly creative, adaptable, intelligent and resourceful. Imagine what can happen when you put it all to work in the service of a positive and meaningful purpose. Live the moments of your life focused on what you care most about, and let your own special purpose shine brightly.
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"Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.”
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Healthy Recipe
Spanish Brown Rice
Makes: 8 servings
Ingredients:
1 cup onion, chopped
1 tablespoon garlic, minced
4 tablespoons white wine
2 pounds stewed tomatoes
1 cup green pepper, chopped
1 cup red or yellow pepper, chopped -
8 whole mushrooms, chopped
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2 cups corn kernels
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6 tablespoons medium salsa
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2 teaspoons dried basil
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2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
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4 cups cooked brown rice
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1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
Directions:
Cook the onion and garlic in the wine until tender. Add the stewed tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, corn, salsa, basil, and Italian seasoning.
Bring to a boil and simmer for 8-12 minutes. -
Combine the cooked rice with the sauce and stir well. Garnish with cilantro.
Nutritional Information:
Serving size: 1 1/4 cups
Calories: 210
Fat: 2 g
Cholesterol: 0 mg
Carbohydrates: 36 g
Protein: 9 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sodium: 800 mg
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Teenage Obesity on Rise: Time to Take Action
Doctors recommend consistent exercise in combination
with healthy eating as the best way for growing females
to lose weight safely and keep it off. Besides, gaining
control over the body at a younger age helps in future
years when losing extra weight gets tougher.
According to research released by the American Journal
of Preventive Medicine, junk food ads on TV may be a
major reason obesity rates continue to rise among 12-17
year-olds. The studies examined by researchers at the
University of Illinois-Chicago and University of
Michigan concluded that 26% of TV ads seen by teens were
for food products. The vast majority of these products
contain high amounts of fat, sugar and sodium.
Teen girls can lose weight and have fun with a variety
of aerobic exercise techniques, including dancing,
tennis, football, volleyball and kickboxing.
Teens who watch more than two hours a day had more fat
than those who watch less, according to the National
Institutes of Health.
Learn more about this article
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