The scientists from Venezuela and the United States of America have found an amazing factor that big breakfast including carbohydrates and protein and then containing low carbohydrate and little calorie diet for the rest of the day tended to be more and more successful remedial measure in losing fats and keeping healthy and smart. This plan is being designed for the domestic and job holder women.

This study was presented at The Endocrine Society’s 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday 17th June, by the guide writer Dr Daniela Jakubowicz of the Hospital de Clinicas, Caracas, Venezuela.

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High cholesterol emerged as one of the dangerous diseases in the world. Millions of people are involving in the disease of high cholesterol. Therefore it is estimated that every second American has caught up with symptoms of high cholesterol.

The lifestyles of the people have changed. People are used to binge eating that includes various kinds of foodstuffs, such as heavy cheese, butter, oily and spicy foodstuffs, enormous amounts of sweets and cookies, etc.

The patterns of keeping healthy and fit body have gone away. Now people don’t perform kinds of exercises, such as brisk walking, jogging, sprinting, swimming, yoga exercise, dance trainings, and weight lifting, etc.

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Ted Skup defines good health as “having a sense of well-being” in his recent book “Death, Taxes & Push-Ups”.  He claims that this book would act as a perfect guide to reach that goal.Ted Skup says that push-ups are emerging as a main choice among those who want to workout to achieve perfect harmony of mind, body, and spirit. He has termed his push-up routine “Horizontal Jogging” and wrote his book, “Death, Taxes, and Push-ups” after officially completing ten million push-ups himself.

“Push-up Revolution” has been initiated with this new book by Skup published by Abox Publishing. He says, “As a revolutionist, my nature draws me to challenge everything the fitness industry dishes out.”

Skup, an authority on push ups calls it to be the most explosive exercise on the earth. However, till now it has been perceived as a warm exercise.

Push ups are not only an exercise, but can also be adopted as complete exercise regime. It works well for all without any difference based on gender or age. Men, women and children can easily take up this exercise at any fitness level. Best part of this exercise is its simplicity and space freeness which everyone can adapt easily.

Fitness industry is slowly acknowledging the importance of push-ups. The claims and quick solutions offered by the fitness industry are failing slowly. Health experts across the world have now acknowledged that exercise and being physically active cannot be replaced by any short term or quick approach.

The best part is that unlike other exercise regimes, it doesn’t need any equipment or money. They are free and convenient. Push-ups fit well for people with tight budgets as well those who have busy schedules like executives.

Push-ups provide great upper body, low-cost exercise. They are a good exercise for those who want to tone up or gain strength but not too much mass. The best thing is that one is not required to go to gym to do them; it can be easily done at home. Space is not a problem with exercise regime.

Ted Skup hopes that the ‘push-ups revolutions’ will spread across the borders and will help everyone in the same way as it has helped him. Its inexpensive advantages would certainly attract every common person in order to maintain good health, he expects.

Medically supervised weight control schedule helps in enriching the bones with mineral contents among teenagers. The obese teenagers who participated in such a program were successful in loosing weight in a systematic way. A year long program at the ‘Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’ established these findings with sufficient evidences.

According to the researchers, the adolescent if the most critical stage of life in which bones take shapes and become healthier in later years. Findings of this research study were published in the current issue of the journal “Obesity”. It involved 62 teenagers with an age range of 9-17 years. The study with in built trials aimed at exploring the effectiveness of a “comprehensive, family based, behavioral weight control program”. Effects of the drug,”Sibutramine”, a weight loss drug, were specifically observed in this study.

Researchers explained that in general obesity is directly related with the ‘high bone mineral density’. When an adolescent individual goes on reducing its weight the ‘bone mineral density’ also goes decreasing. It is mainly because of the reduction in the content of the minerals in bones.

Study results were however surprisingly in contrast to this conventional understanding. Researchers observed that despite the loss of weight in teenagers the bone mineral density was increasing.

Mineral density becomes a key factor in determining the frequency and probability of fractures in the adults. Healthy status of bones in adolescent age is more probable to help maintaining a more healthy bone life in later years. “The amount of bone mass acquired during puberty is the key determinant of lifetime fracture risk”, said researchers in the study report.

With the help of a ‘Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry Scanner (DXA)’, the researchers measured the bone mineral content of the whole body and also of some specific parts of the body including the legs, arms and lumbar spine. Measurement calculations and data thus obtained for all the 66 adolescents were subsequently put to comparison. Researchers found that the mineral content of bones in case of the obese teenagers was higher than the reference group, both at the beginning and at the end of the study.

The ‘bone mineral content’ for each of the teenager was adjusted for respective height. It was then revealed that the bone mineral content at arms and legs showed a less increment than estimated. Similarly the lumbar spine bone mineral content was observed to be higher than the expected.

Researchers attributed these results to the reasoning that such type of changes in the bone mineral content was mainly because of the changes that occurred in the amount of fat and muscle within the body during a weight loss program.

Now days, the growing pediatric obesity epidemic is forcing millions of adolescents across the world to undergo treatments.” It is important to understand the role of weight loss on bone health during this critical period”, said Dr. Stettler, the lead researcher.