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Aninder S

McDonald's Marketing Strategy - 0 views

  • "everyday affordability" message that drives customers to McDonald's restaurants
  • integrated campaigns centered around such initiatives as the Olympics, the Kung Fu Panda film and fresh "I'm Lovin' it" ads
  • We are always looking to tomorrow and how do we get better?"  This type of thinking and marketing philosophy has always kept the fast-food giant in the black.
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  • Each and every day, 47 million consumers worldwide visit McDonald's because they know and love the Golden Arches, Ronald McDonald and Big Mac sandwiches.
    • Aninder S
       
      It's hard to avoid such a tempting restaurant with so many costumers, open 24 hours a day, affordable food, and added chemicals that make the food tasting delicious and making you want to come back. My sister herself works at McDonalds and finds it quite difficult to resist the temptation of BigMac and fries. Yes McDonald's does provide jobs for many young people like her, but McDonald's does not teach the benefits of healthy living. 
Wasif H

Carbohydrate-loading diet - MayoClinic.com - 0 views

  • A carbohydrate-loading diet, also called a carb-loading diet, is a strategy to increase the amount of fuel stored in your muscles to improve athletic performance. Carbohydrate loading generally involves greatly increasing the amount of carbohydrates you eat several days before a high-intensity endurance athletic event.
  • Your muscles normally store only small amounts of glycogen — enough to support you during recreational exercise activities. If you exercise intensely for more than 90 minutes, your muscles may run out of glycogen. At that point, you may start to become fatigued, and your performance may suffer.
  • But with carbohydrate loading, you may be able to store up enough energy in your muscles to give you the stamina to make it through longer endurance events without overwhelming fatigue
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  • Carbohydrate loading may give you more energy during an endurance event. You may feel less fatigued and see an improvement in your performance after carbohydrate loading. But carbohydrate loading isn't effective for everyone. Other factors can influence your athletic performance or interfere with the effectiveness of your carbohydrate-loading strategy, including your fitness level and the intensity level of your exercise.
  • Carbohydrate loading isn't right for every endurance athlete. It's a good idea to consult your doctor or a registered dietitian before you start carbohydrate loading, especially if you have diabetes.
    • Wasif H
       
      This website gives an effective sample meal plan to do with a carb loading diet but doesnt cover the question of should I have carbs after a workout
Aninder S

'India in grip of obesity epidemic' - Times Of India - 0 views

  • India is now in the grip of an obesity epidemic and the trend needs to be immediately arrested by taxing junk food, restricting food ads and making food labelling clearer, according to a study.
  • India's overweight rates increased by 20%.
  • Currently, almost 1 in 5 men and over 1 in 6 women are overweight. In some urban areas, the rates are as high as 40%.
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  • According to estimates in the study, the annual cost of broad-based prevention strategies tackling obesity and other health threats, such as alcohol consumption, smoking, high blood pressure and cholesterol, would be less than $2 per person per year in India
  • Upto 4,42,000 life years could be gained through a combination of prevention programmes in India every year. The cost-effectiveness ratio of a prevention strategy would be $268 per life year gained in good health in India
  • Obesity is the root for several non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
  • Another study in the Lancet on Thursday predicts that by 2030, nearly 70% of all global deaths will be from non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, and respiratory and heart disease. Of these 70% of deaths, 80% will be in the less wealthy nations like India.
    • Aninder S
       
      My question does focus on Indian food and related health benefits and concerns, but this doesn't mean that other countries and cultures aren't facing the same issues. The world in general is in a state where there are now more overall obese people than starving. The surplus of food has risen, and the cost of food has fallen. We need to control how much we eat and which foods we spend our money on (no McDonald's!)
Joti P

Improve your mood with these foods - TODAY Health - TODAY.com - 0 views

  • following strategies will stabilize your blood sugars
  • Eat every 4 to 5 hours
  • provides your brain and body with a constant source of fuel.
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  • Limit refined carbohydrates to help lessen volatile blood sugar swings
  • create radical spikes (and drops) in your blood sugar
  • Incorporate soluble fiber
  • have the ability to slow down the absorption of sugar in your blood
  • lessen blood sugar
  • Incorporate protein with meals and snacks (whenever possible)
  • Smart protein choices include poultry, seafood and fish, veal, pork tenderloin, tofu, eggs
  • help slow the absorption of carbohydrate in the blood
  • Omega-3 fats
  • mood lifting and to help possibly alleviate depression.
  • Folic acid and B12
  • Foods rich in folate: fortified whole-grain breakfast cereals, lentils, black-eyed peas, soybeans, oatmeal, mustard greens, beets, broccoli, sunflower seeds, wheat germ and oranges.
  • Foods rich in vitamin B12: shellfish (clams, oysters, crab), wild salmon (fresh or canned), fortified whole-grain breakfast cereal, lean beef, cottage cheese, low-fat yogurt, milk (skim, skim plus, 1% reduced-fat) and eggs.
  • Vitamin D
  • Foods rich in vitamin D: fish with bones, fat free and low-fat milk, fortified soy milk and egg yolks
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    I think for question 2 this really tells me what food i need to eat not just for physical health, but also for a generally happy mood. 
Joti P

Muscle confusion: The Globe and Mail - 0 views

  • “It's changing up your workouts on a very regular basis to make sure that your body doesn't get used to the task
  • doing the same workout over and over, the body's muscles dull to the routine
  • mixing up exercises, sets and reps, muscles become “confused,” forcing them to work harder
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  • There's plenty of science to support muscle confusion's claims, says Matt Heath, a neuroscientist in the school of kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario.
  • It's about the strategy you employ in order to recruit all the different … motor neurons that ultimately go on to fire off and tell the muscle to contract.
  • mixing things up does have one benefit that can't be denied, especially when it comes to the often tedious experience of trying to get in shape. “It doesn't get boring,”
  • Muscle confusion: Hey biceps, you'll never guess what's next
    • Jason Levitt
       
      Tony Horton - P90X built his entire program on this principle. No plateau and keeps you interested!
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    This is a really good article from a relly famous magazine that really emphasises my 8th question.
Aninder S

Advertising fast foo - 0 views

Advertising fast food to children and its major shift - YouTube: As technology has improved immensely in the past few years, corporate businesses have found ingenious ways of persuading the averag...

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Wasif H

Creatine Myth and Facts - 0 views

  • Q: Is Creatine a Steroid?
  • A:  I would like to dispel this myth by giving you the definition of what an anabolic steroid is.  These  are synthetic versions of the male hormone testosterone.  Creatine, as you will see below is not.  Basically anyone who says this should immediately be labeled a gymbecile. 
  • Q: What is Creatine?
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  • A:  First, let me emphasize that our bodies already produce creatine naturally.  Did you ever watch the transformers when you were a kid?  Well if not, there were groups of robots called " combiners. "  They would join together and form an even larger and more massive robot, crushing everything in their paths!  Our liver does the same thing with the three amino acids, Arginine, Glycine and Methionine.  It combines them to form creatine, much like the constructicons combined to form devastator!  Ok so that was a lame example, but it explains the process quite nicely.  
  • Q: What exactly does creatine do?
  • 1. Creatine works mainly to increase our Creatine Phosphate System
  • 2. Increases The Pump!
  • 3. Increases The Reparation Process of Bodybuilding.
  • Q: How exactly does Creatine Apply to An Athlete?
  • A:  Simple, it does so by enhancing your creatine phosphate energy system.  This does a number of things: 1.  Increases explosion - Most athletes notice more explosiveness after utilizing this supplement 2.  Allows yourself to push yourself harder and longer. 
  • Q: What are the side effects of Creatine, and in General how safe is it? A:  As stated above, creatine is not, and I repeat not a hormone.  Therefore it does not have the side effects associated with any Prohormone or illegal steroid. There have been hundreds of studies done on creatine that all show that it is a safe supplement. To further prove its safety two an a half million kilograms of creatine were consumed in the United States alone in 1999!  That statistic alone speaks volumes about the safety and efficiency of this supplement!  Not only that, but creatine has been the number one supplement on the market for almost a decade and no one has reported any adverse side effects from it. ( aside from the ones I listed above. )
  • : I don't workout, but do you think that creatine will build muscles and help me to lose fat?
  • No!  If you don't workout I cannot imagine what supplement would help you.  Creatine provides your muscles with more short term energy - but that is wasted if you do not exercise them. If you take creatine you should push yourself even harder in the gym. The idea is with more energy you should be able to workout harder. A harder workout leads to increased muscle mass.
  • Q: Since Creatine makes you gain weight should I not take it on a cut?
  • Yes, creatine causes your body to hold water, but that is a good thing!  The fact that your muscles are super hydrated even on a cut is fantastic.  I see absolutely no correlation between taking creatine and our body storing fat.  If anything, creatine will assist us in maintaining more lean mass while dieting.  In my mind there is no point to discontinuing the use of creatine while trying to burn fat.
  • Can I take Creatine and Protein at the same time?
  • Firstly, protein is a food product.  If you couldn't take creatine and protein at the same time, then you would have to be a strict vegetarian and still you would end out consuming around 40 grams a day just from normal foods.  To top this off, creatine is not much use without a significant protein intake.  What is the point of pushing your muscles further than they are used to, if you are not going to provide the amino acids necessary for their repair?  
  • Which supplement is Better Creatine or Protein?
  • :  ( I probably get asked this question at least once a day through email.)  Amino acids are the building blocks of our muscles.  If you do not get enough than there is no point to working out.  Creatine is an outstanding supplement, but if you have to choose from getting at least 1 gram a day of protein or getting your creatine then opt for the protein.  However I do want to stress that creatine is an excellent supplement.  In fact for assistance in muscular gains I would rate it second only to whey.
  • Do you feel that creatine is cheating?  I want to earn my muscles the hard way and don't want to cheat to get them.
  • ( I can't stand these types of questions!!! )  Yes, you would be cheating.  You would be cheating yourself out of great gains by not supplementing with it!
  • s there anything I can take to make creatine a more effective supplement?
  • The first thing I would like to emphasize is that creatine will not work if you are not properly hydrated!  It relies heavily on this, so you must drink tons of water, if you want optimal results from it.  Super hydrating your body will also improve your weight room pumps tremendously!
  • What is the best method, dose wise, of taking creatine?
  • For creatine to produce optimal results, muscle stores must be topped off or saturated with it.  To accomplish this you need to load the creatine for 5 days at 20-25 grams, spread out throughout the day into 4-5 servings.  This is the quickest and in my opinion the " best " way to saturate your muscles with creatine.  Following this phase, all you need is to take 5-10 grams a day to maintain your saturation levels.  After this, any creatine you take will be excreted as creatinine.
  • Do I need to Cycle Creatine?
  • My recommendation is to load for 5 days, followed by a 5-10 gram maintenance dosage for 4-6 weeks.  Following this, there are two particular strategies: 1.  You can take one to two weeks off and then start the cycle over.  Many athletes attest to receiving a better results this way.  2.  However, several athletes will never come off of it.  They will load it for 5 days, maintain for a few weeks and then reload again.  This is increasingly becoming the more popular method of usage.
    • Wasif H
       
      This is more of like a blog but much of his info is credible. I think of some it may not be true. I think if you take creatine you should cycle it out of your body. 
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