More people are classed as overweight than of normal weight – and more importantly, 27 percent of women and 24 percent of men are classified as clinically obese.
WHAT CAUSES OBESITY?
Your natural body weight is influenced by many factors, including your age, sex, shape and genetics. You gain weight when what you eat is not used by the body as energy (calories) and is instead stored in adipose (fatty) tissue. In women, this is usually around the hips, thighs and buttocks, the arms and shoulders. In men, fat builds up around the waist and stomach.
Obesity tends to run in families, not only through genetics but because most people acquire their eating habits from their families. Very rarely, obesity is caused by glandular problems, such as an underactive thyroid or overactive adrenals. Getting older can have an effect, too; older people use less energy, may have joint and mobility problems, lose muscle mass, have slower metabolic rates and store more fat.
PROBLEMS CAUSED BY OBESITY
It is important to understand that obesity is not simply a cosmetic problem. Even moderate weight gain as an adult increases your risk of illness later. Many overweight people have high blood pressure and blood fat levels that have been linked to a number of health concerns, including coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, some cancers, gallstones, and adult-onset diabetes.
If you are clinically obese, it means your metabolism is putting stress on many organs in your body and the extra load on the bones and joints can make pre-existing medical conditions, such as osteoarthritis, worse. Storing weight around the stomach (apple shape) is associated with greater risk of disease than storing fat on the hips and thighs (pear shape). However, if you lose 5 to 10 percent of this accumulated extra weight and switch to a healthy eating plan with exercise, you can substantially reduce your risk.
FAT AND THE MENOPAUSE
Women tend to put on weight between the ages of 40 and 60. Though overall estrogen levels drop, estrogen is still produced by body fat, if it is substantial. Some women attribute their weight gain to hormone therapy, but reduced activity resulting in loss of muscle mass may be more pertinent. Walking for at least 30 minutes daily reduces the risk of heat disease and stroke by 40 percent. Walking strengthens muscles and bones by placing on and a half times the body weight on them.
Watch the video related to men health problems
ANXIETY and STRESS – - A Chinese herbal prescription As you know, anxiety is a complicated condition brought on by various problems of life. It would be nice if I could write a prescription to make all your problems go away. However, you know that I don’t have that kind of power, especially in financial matters, personal relationships, job security, or business dealings. Nevertheless, I can help you reduce the physical stress that anxiety brings. Anxiety throws your body out of balance. As a result, various physical problems tend to surface and resurface, such as indigestion, overeating, sleep difficulty, migraines, skin rash, burst of temper, energy drain, etc. The prescription should help your body achieve the balance that has been lost. How? Balance is a delicate thing. You can only restore it by gently nourishing the major organs back to their normal conditions. When they become stronger, they will be able to find their own way to balance without you having to tell them how. As a result, you will feel much better overall. The Chinese approach to anxiety is to nourish, moisten, and soothe. The word is ?, pronounced as “ren”, for which I cannot find an English word similar in meaning. The prescription should basically be a combination of gentle nourishing for all major organs and the Yin. 1) Liver Bai Shao ??Gou Qi Zi ???2) Lungs Bai He ??Jie Gen ??3) Heart Zao Ren ??Wu Wei Zi ???4) Stomach Bai Zhu ??Dang Shen ??5) Kidneys Qian Shi ??Jin Qian Cao <b>…</b>
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OK, my original post was a sincere wish to help you, but your admixture of demandingness and superior tone has caused me to delete my suggestions. Learn how to phrase a question…and learn a bit of humility, rookie!
To .:Cyb3rGlitch: He did that…two days ago. This guy is a high schooler troll, trying to impress people. He is, of course, failing. Try the "Old Jedi Mind Trick" on him. LOL
I'd suggest the brand new Kingtron DDR5 17mm 18Mb RAM. It is very hard to get, but it is used in the latest Nvidia MRI systems.
Hi there! If your father's getting you a laptop, he probably is looking for it to last at least 5 years (so don't drop it!).
With that in mind, a "rule of thumb" when it comes to laptop longevity in the long haul is you'll have to invest today in a mid-high to high-end system, otherwise it will be slow and slugish as newer operating systems and software become available (usually every 2-3 years). Being the geek for several schools, it's amazing how much money I see wasted buying cheap laptops that become doorstops in a couple of years.
You said you're "soooo not computer-smart". I've found most people who are like that and don't mind learning something different, like going with Apple notebooks, and colleges and universities support Apple users as much as Windows ones. Yes, a MacBook will appear more expensive than it's PC counterparts but in addition to Students getting a discount of up to 20%:
1. They have built-in web cameras and microphones
2. Built-in wireless networking.
3. Software includes photo albums, DVD creator, iTunes, a Web Page Designer, backup recovery. (This is not some "trial-ware"–this is permenant for you to use as long as you want.)
4. Relatively easy to maintain and you don't need to have a friendly neighborhood geek to fix.
5. Resistant to viruses and spyware. This is a big problem, especially with recent attacks on PCs in the last two weeks I had to fight. (I actually use a Mac to go into these virus-ridden websites and ads.)
Alas, the MacBook doesn't have an SD memory card chip, but you can buy an external one to connect to it's USB port for under $20.
I can go over PC notebooks as well, but that can be done over e-mail.
One last thing: if you do get a laptop (PC or MAC) get a warranty that covers EVERYTHING–including that display, which is the most costly item to replace. Best Buy actually offers a "bumper to bumper" warranty as one of their choices. Laptops tend to get dropped or stepped on unless you are a very careful person.
Another last thing (but very important): laptops are very mobile and you'd be surprised how mobile they get when someone steals yours. I use on my laptops Computrace's "LoJack for Laptops" (www.lojackforlaptops.com). Just like the LoJack for cars, this is better security than any insurance policy if you're a student or a teacher.
When it comes to laptops the old saying "you get what you pay for" is accurate.
–The Chief Geek
http://www.TheChiefGeek.Org
Thank you so much for all your coments, lots have happened since I made this video which was one of the first I ever made and I was so green then. I will try and re-do it and slow the writing down. To all suffering with Ehlers-Danlos, you have my empathy and heartfelt understanding, to all carers, hang in there xxxx
fuck. my. life…..i just found out i have this shit….can anyone recommend some sort of physiotherapy or conditioning so that the pain can go away? there has to be something…this is bullshit…
If it was custom built at a store or a from a computer manufacturer call them up and get them to help you. If you bought the parts separate and built the computer yourself you'll have to do the troubleshooting on your own. It's one of the reasons I don't self-build any more, when something breaks you're really all on your own to figure out what the problem is.
Did you run the memory diagnostic? Did it find any errors? If it did, the memory should be under warranty still, get it replaced.
Elfins, If you could slow it down so we could read and digest the information, and if you would correct the misspelled words so credibility could be maintained, this would be a very powerful vehicle for teaching the public about EDS.
You've got two heavy applications there:
Video editing requires lots of CPU power, RAM and a fair amount of hard disk space
Gaming requires an excellent graphics card. Those graphic cards can exceed $600 each if you're getting the bleeding edge.
I had something of the same requirements (video editing, not so much gaming). I bought a middling gaming system with the Intel core i7 processor. Something like the following system:
http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Configurators.aspx?mid=375
but boost the memory to 6 GB, and add an extra hard drive (or in my case 3x 1.5 TB for a RAID 5 disk system that gives me some backup protection and high speed access.) Keep the system and program disk separate from your HD file storage for faster access.
That level of system will play any game (not necessarily at the top graphic settings) and crunch through all sorts of video processing. The i7-920 cpu can be over-clocked to 4+ GHz if you're into that sort of thing. Intel's x58 chipset offers triple channel RAM and a fairly nice RAID controller.
You're looking at roughly $1300-$1500 for that level of system.
where did the song come from? It isn’t music i’d normally like, but it has stuck in my head.
What is your budget?
DO NOT BUY A DVD BASED CAMCORDER.
Highest compression of the available storage formats results in lost data = poor video quality… especially if you have any intention of ever editing. The DVD based camcorders will compress into a VOB file typically not useful directly by most video editors. That typically means ripping the DVD or using the analog AV cables that come with the camcorder and transferring low-quality analog video through a analog/digital bridge.
DO NOT BUY A DVD BASED CAMCORDER.
The BEST quality video comes from camcorders that use miniDV tape (which record into DV format for standard definition video). There is very little compression applied and if your computer has a firewire port, DV can be editied by pretty much any video editing application. You will use the DV port of the camcorder connected to the firewire port of your computer – using a firewire cable (firewire, i.Link, IEEE1394 are all the same thing).
DO NOT BUY A DVD BASED CAMCORDER.
Higher video quality than DVD based and not quite miniDV tape based camcorder video quality are the hard drive and certain higher-end flash based camcorder – they typically compress a lot into a MPEG file format. Most (not all) video editors can deal with this with not additional codecs – but the translation apps are available for all editing apps to deal with them.
DO NOT BUY A DVD BASED CAMCORDER.
When you use MiniDV tape, it is your "archive". Fill a 60 minute tape, pop out the tape, put in a new one and start rolling. I can use around 5 seconds from the time I press stop, replace a tape and am recording again.
When you use a hard drive based or flash memory based camcorder, what happens when you run out of memory? You need to transfer video to a computer, delete the files from the camcorder and start shooting again. Yes, they hold menay hours of video – you have to be sure to clean it out each time – just like you need to remember to carry blank tapes.
DO NOT BUY A DVD BASED CAMCORDER.
Video on things for sale is only part of the whole ecosystem. Most low-end and mid-range camcorders do not have any manual audio control and have to rely on an auto audio leveling circuit. For the most part, this auto-audio gain mechanism cannot deal with loud music – this can be loud from a marching band or loud from amplified instruments. The resulting audio will be muddy and not usable. You can either find a Sony camcorder (DCR-HC28, DCR-HC96) that has a menu selection for normal or low gain for the audio or you can use an external device to control the gain (like a BeachTek XLR adapter – but you would be using a camcorder with a mic-in jack and XLR mics) or you can find a camcorder with manual audio control. The least expensive ones I know of are the Canon HV20 or Sony HDR-HC7.
DO NOT BUY A DVD BASED CAMCORDER.
Both the Sony DCR-HC28 and DCR-HC96 do not have a proper mic-in jack – they do have a Sony proprietary "active interface" shoe. Normally, that would mean you are locked into using ONLY Sony proprietary mics that work with the proprietary shoe… but, if you get http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/479976-REG/Sony_VMCK100_VMC_K100_Microphone_Adapter.html … then you can use any mic or XLR adapter with a 1/8" jack. B&H is the only place these seem to exist – you can't even get them directly from Sony!
DO NOT BUY A DVD BASED CAMCORDER.
I do not know what the PAL equivalents are for these NTSC camcorders… but I hope this helps… PLEASE do not buy a DVD based camcorder.
Good video , i have the hypermobility type , but by chane i made examination on my heart and i found out that i have mitral valve prolapse with trivial MR
Not bad. I'd be scared to death of that cheap-ass PC Chips mobo, and I don't have much faith in Rosewill PSUs either, but if it doesn't start smoking in the first couple of hours, then you've got a machine that any grandmother would love, at a fair price.
Don't forget an optical drive, and an OEM copy of Windows. You don't want anyone to catch you selling unlicensed copies of Windows, and no one who would choose Linux is going buy those questionable parts from you.
I'm not judging, I've used some cheap parts in builds before too, but it always came back to bite me in the ass when the cheap PSU stopped working.
Amazing video. Love the end about the girl and how in her world, everything hurts. I have EDS and wasn’t diagnosed until I was 18 and needed surgery for subluxating and tearing my shoulder apart. It kept me from the Navy. I dislocated both of my knees in a four month academy that kept me from being law enforcement. And mine is the less severe type! I couldn’t imagine the others. It’s so sad. =( I don’t feel for myself but for those who MUST be in so much more pain than my little version!
u wont get a card that good for pci .. an nvidia 5200 or so will be the best u can find most likely …
I liked my website to this video. It is very moving and very educational.
I am a chronic pain patient with Ehlers-Danlos please visity my blog. It talks about how I cope and it puts a light heart on a tough way to live…
edsshegetitfromhermomma.blogspot.com
The words "Rarely uses" are used quite a lot on Ebay. You've used it at least three times yourself in that question above.
If you've used it once, you've used it a thousand times. Do all of these things you mention work?
Have you tried checking out what other people are selling your device for on ebay?
Bless you for being such a supportive mother to your daughter. I have Type III EDS, my mom who’s EDS is much more benign makes me feel like its my fault for hurting all the time.
Blessings to you and your daughter…..
i once got told “de mind it can do funny tings..” Can you imagine? Got dx’d when i was 37. Been tearing ligaments and subluxing/dislocating since i was 7.
i am type III and the next doc who says it is the “lucky” one i will kick him/her in the crotch. People (docs included) don’t realize that the categories are our inventions.. the disorder doesn’t care. So i have type III with features from some of the other types.
that said.. i do ok. i am a fighter and i will have a decent life