Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 5:20 AM
Just about everybody seems to be interested in weight control. Some of us weigh just the right amount thers need to gain a few pounds. Most of us "battle the bulge" at some time in our life. Whatever our goals, should understand and take advantage of the important role of exercise in keeping our weight under ontrol.Carrying around too much body fat is a major nuisance. Yet excess body fat is common in modern- ay living. Few of today's occupations require vigorous physical activity, and much of our leisure time is spent in sedentary...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 5:13 AM
Losing weight, gaining weight or maintaining your weight depends on the amount of calories you take in
and use up during the day, otherwise referred to as energy balance. Learning how to balance energy intake
(calories in food) with energy output (calories expended through physical activity) will help you achieve your
desired weight.
Although the underlying causes and the treatments of obesity are complex, the concept of energy balance is
relatively simple. If you eat more calories than your body needs to perform your day's activities, the extra
calories...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 5:09 AM
Counting Calories For Better Health : Each pound of fat your body stores represents 3,500 calories of unused energy. In order to lose one pound, you would have to create a calorie deficit of 3,500 calories by either taking in 3,500 less calories over a period of time than you need or doing 3,500 calories worth of exercise.
It is recommended that no more than two pounds (7,000 calories) be lost per week for lasting weight loss.
Adding 15 minutes of moderate exercise, say walking one mile, to your daily schedule will use up 100 extra
calories per day. (Your...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 5:03 AM
Exercise and Modern Living Health Psychology One thing is certain. Most people do not get enough exercise in their ordinary routines. All of the advances of modern technology – from electric can openers to power steering have made life easier, more comfortable and much less physically demanding. Yet our bodies need activity, especially if they are carrying around too much fat. Satisfying this need requires a definite plan, and a commitment. There are two main
Ways to increase the number of calories you expend:
1. Start a regular exercise program if...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 4:59 AM
Before looking at what kind of regular exercise program is best, let's look at how you can increase the
amount of physical activity in your daily routine to supplement your exercise program.
• Recreational pursuits such as gardening on weekends, bowling in the office league, family outings,
an evening of social dancing, and many other activities provide added exercise. They are fun and
can be considered an extra bonus in your weight control campaign.
• Add more "action" to your day. Walk to the neighborhood grocery store instead of using the car.
Park several...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 4:55 AM
Strength Training in Health Psychology In addition to the aerobic exercise, supplement your program with muscle strengthening and stretching exercises. Strength training is another way for you to meet the recommended minimum of 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity each day. Strength training will help you burn extra calories, build strong muscles, bones, and joints, and improve your physical functioning. The stronger your muscles, the longer you will be able to keep going during aerobic activity, and the less chance of injury. Experts recommend...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 4:51 AM
Although any kind of physical in Health Psychology movement requires energy (calories), the type of exercise that uses the most energy is aerobic exercise. The term "aerobic" is derived from the Greek word meaning "with oxygen." Jogging, brisk walking, swimming, biking, cross-country skiing and aerobic dancing are some popular forms of aerobic exercise.
Aerobic exercises use the body's large muscle groups in continuous, rhythmic, sustained movement and
require oxygen for the production of energy. When oxygen is combined with food (which can come from
stored...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 4:46 AM
Heart rate is widely accepted as a good method for measuring intensity during running, swimming, cycling,
and other aerobic activities. Exercise that doesn’t raise your heart rate to a certain level and keep it there for
20 minutes won’t contribute significantly to cardiovascular fitness.
The heart rate you should maintain is called your target heart rate. There are several ways of arriving at this
figure. One of the simplest is: maximum heart rate (220 - age) x 70%. Thus, the target heart rate for a 40
year-old would be 126.
Beginners should maintain the...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 4:39 AM
The benefits of exercise are many, from producing physically fit bodies to providing an outlet for fun and
socialization. When added to a weight control program these benefits take on increased significance.
Physical Benefits:
We already have noted that proper exercise can help control weight by burning excess body fat. It also has
two other body-trimming advantages:
1) Exercise builds muscle tissue and muscle uses calories up at a faster rate than body fat; and
2) Exercise helps reduce inches and a firm, lean body looks slimmer even if your weight remains...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 4:34 AM
Hopefully, Tips to Get Started On Your Exercise Plans you are now convinced that in order to successfully manage your weight you must include exercise in your daily routine. Here are some tips to get you started:
1. Check with your doctor first. Since you are carrying around some extra "baggage," it is wise to get
your doctor's "OK" before embarking on an exercise program.
2. Choose activities that you think you'll enjoy. Most people will stick to their exercise program if they
are having fun, even though they are working hard.
3. Set aside a regular...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 4:28 AM
Making A Commitment Fitness Fundamentals Guidelines for Exercise Programs You have taken the important first step on the path to physical fitness by seeking information. The next step is to decide that you are going to be physically fit. This lecture is designed to help you reach that decision and your goal.
The decision to carry out a physical fitness program cannot be taken lightly. It requires a lifelong
commitment of time and effort. Exercise must become one of those things that you do without question,
like bathing and brushing your teeth. Unless...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 4:23 AM
If you're under 35 and in good health, you don't need to see a doctor before beginning an exercise program.
But if you are over 35 and have been inactive for several years, you should consult your physician, who may
or may not recommend a graded exercise test. Other conditions that indicate a need for medical clearance are:
• High blood pressure.
• Heart trouble.
• Family history of early stroke or heart attack deaths.
• Frequent dizzy spells.
• Extreme breathlessness after mild exertion.
• Arthritis or other bone problems.
• Severe muscular, ligament or...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 4:16 AM
Physical fitness is to the human body what fine tuning is to an engine. It enables us to perform up to our
potential. Fitness in The Way of Health Psychology can be described as a condition that helps us look, feel and do our best. More specifically, “The ability to perform daily tasks vigorously and alertly, with energy left over for enjoying leisure- time activities and meeting emergency demands. It is the ability to endure, to bear up, to withstand stress, to carry on in circumstances where an unfit person could not continue, and is a major basis for...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 4:08 AM
A Workout Schedule often, how long and how hard you exercise, and what kinds of exercises you do should be determined by what you are trying to accomplish. Your goals, your present fitness level, age, health, skills, interest and convenience are among the factors you should consider. For example, an athlete training for high-level competition would follow a different program than a person whose goals are good health and the ability to meet work and recreational needs.
Your exercise program should include something from each of the four basic fitness components...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 3:59 AM
Unsafe conditions threaten people’s health in virtually all environments, such as in traffic, at home, on the
job, and at the beach. These conditions produce huge numbers of illnesses, injuries, and deaths each year. In
most cases, these health problems could have been avoided if the victim or other people had used
reasonable safety precautions. Sometimes people don’t know how to prevent injury—as is often the case for
elderly individuals who become injured when they fall— but safety training can reduce these injuri...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 3:56 AM
The death rates for motor vehicle accidents in the United States increase dramatically during adolescence,
and the rate of deaths from traffic mishaps among 15-to 24-year-olds is over twice as high for males as for
females. Because of the high rates of traffic fatalities in adolescence, special safe-driving programs have
been directed toward teenagers. One approach has involved providing driver training in high schools, and
early quasi-experimental research showed that students who take driver education courses subsequently
have fewer accidents than those...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 3:47 AM
We are going to discuss the role of Health Psychology once again. It will be different this
time, though. Now that we have taken a good look into many of the important concepts in Health
Psychology, you will be in a better position to understand the remaining introduction of Health Psychology.
For example, if now we will talk about prevention, you will know what it is, and how many types of
prevention are there. Similarly, if we talk about promoting health, you will know what we mean by that. In
this way, we will try to summarize all important ideas of Health...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 3:42 AM
Health psychologists seek to identify the behaviors and experiences that promote health, lead to illness,
influence the effectiveness of health care, and recommend improvements to health policy in their life. There
are many examples of this. Smoking, diet, and lack of regular exercise all contribute to the formation of
disease. There are some minor associations between illness and individual characteristics such as personality.
For example, it is claimed that individuals with thrill seeking personalities are more likely to drive fast,
making them more likely...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 3:37 AM
Psychologists work towards promoting health through behavioral change, as mentioned above, but they
prevent illness in other ways as well. Practitioners emphasize education as a large part of illness prevention,
as many people do not recognize the risk to illness present in their lives. Or they are unable to implement
the knowledge that they have owing to the pressures of their everyday existence. A common example of this
is anti-smoking campaigns. Those least able to afford tobacco products consume them the most. It is a
method for controlling emotional...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 3:33 AM
There is much to know about how disease affects our mental well being. When illness or accidents befall a
person, their entire life is affected. A psychologically healthy individual who gets severely injured, say, now
has many different practical issues to contend with that will in turn affect their psychological well being.
Who will take care of them while they recover? If they can’t work, how will they pay for bills or care for
dependents? If this person sees themselves as being self-reliant, how do they handle this new identity? What
if they cannot pursue...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 3:30 AM
Health psychologists are exploring how health policy can impact on inequities, inequalities and social
injustice. This expands the scope of health psychology beyond the level of individual health to an
examination of the social and economic determinants of health experience both within and between regions
and natio...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 3:28 AM
Health psychologists attempt to aid the process of communication between doctors and patients during
medical consultations. There are many problems in this process, particularly the use of jargon by doctors
(using long, complex, usually medicine-specific words often not understood by the patient). Researchers
such as Boyle and McKinlay have investigated this process and discovered not only that patient
understanding is low (40% of women on a maternity ward understood 13 medical terms that they were
given), but that even doctors do not expect their patients...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 3:25 AM
Getting People to obey medical advice and adhere to their treatment regimens is a difficult task for
health psychologists. Mostly, people forget to take their pills or find their side effects too difficult
to cope with, but failing to take prescribed medication costs very huge amounts of money per year,
as well as wasting millions of usable, viable medicines that could otherwise be used to help other
people.
Health Psychology focuses upon how biological, psychological, and social factors affect health and illness.
Many health psychologists perform on the...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 3:20 AM
There are five major aspects to health psychology, in which each contribute to the overall existence of
health psychology. Health psychology contributes to our understanding of health and illness through
patients' adjustment to serious illnesses, their health beliefs, which influences their behavior, their mind and
body connection, and finally the psychosocial factors that can reinforce healthy behaviors and prevent
negative ones.
1. Mind-Body Connection
This includes the importance of peoples' adjustment following the diagnosis of a disease, death, or...
Posted by Sohail Khatri | at 3:16 AM
There are Many Attractions for Potential Attractions of Careers in Health Psychology
Helping Others
It can be extremely rewarding when helping others cope with certain illnesses. A health psychologist can
actually save a person's life.
Promoting Health
By promoting health, one is educating people on how to take the best care of themselves. Health
psychologists are thus reducing peoples' risk of illness.
Challenging job
It can be very challenging when working with people that have extremely negative attitudes.
Team Environment
Health psychologists...
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