Exercise addiction may not necessarily sound like a bad thing to everyone. After all, numerous studies have demonstrated the physical and emotional health benefits of regular exercise -- it is essential to our well-being
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Understanding Bulimia (College Health Guru) - YouTube:
This video focuses on just bulimia and how it actually works and how you can tell if someone is going through the disorder. The bulimia can actually lead to compulsive disorder as another way to lose the calories taken in. What I found interesting was how it's normal weighted people that actually go through bulimia. This tells you how much pressure society and media can put on someone to look a certain way, especially through all television shows, music videos, and modelling.
Revealed... Addicted - 0 views
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Revealed... Addicted to exercise? - YouTube:
This video clears up any confusions that may have been present regarding compulsive exercise and bulimia nervosa. This video explains the journey of someone who has actually dealt with both disorders, and what they went through. A disorder like this is really dangerous and the addiction can be so great that it can lead to death.
What Is Exercise Add - 0 views
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What Is Exercise Addiction:
This article explains more about what compulsive exercise is and where it generates from. I also find this article very interesting because it discusses the controversy of exercise addiction, and how there really is now remedy for it, because exercise itself is used to quit certain addictions. The mental process that leads to this disorder really is hard to unwind.
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exercise addiction is maladaptive, so instead of improving the person’s life, it is causes more problems.
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Exercise addiction can threaten health, causing injuries, physical damage due to inadequate rest, and in some instances (particularly when co-occurring with an eating disorder), malnutrition and other problems.
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When Too Much Exercise Becomes a Problem:
This article does a better job than the previous article in explaining the correlation between bulimia and compulsive exercise. It's fascinating to know how much your self-esteem and self portrait of yourself you have. You actual mental thoughts and condition determine what you do physically/
When Too Much Exercise Becomes a Problem - 0 views
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But while a little exercise is a good thing, taking exercise to the extreme can cause serious health issues, even death.
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When few adults exercise regularly, and many struggle to find just 20 minutes to dedicate to a workout, it may be hard to believe that some people place exercise at the center of their lives
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Compulsive exercise is more than a desire to get in the ultimate shape or manage one's weight.
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Excessive Exercise:
I was expecting to find a correlation between excessive exercise and eating disorders, but it does make sense. If you have bulimia or anorexia, as as example, you both mentally and physically strain yourself from exercising too much, to lose weight because your not happy with the way you look.
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One of the techniques frequently used by people with eating disorders is to try to control their weight by burning up calories with exercise
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Doing exercises for people affected by eating disorders usually means exhausting hours of aerobics such as: gym, dancing, cycling, running, etc., that can last several hours a day, every day.
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Moreover, it has been found by some Australian researchers that excessive exercise can cause further hunger sense suppression.
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The Importance of Sleep for Performance - YouTube:
This video is of cycling coach who understands that sleep is the key to the optimum performance. Focusing too much on training will wear your muscles out. You need to give your body time to relax from all the training. Sleeping is also one thing, but keeping a good diet will also help you be more awake and alert as well as energetic.
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College students' performance suffers from lack of sleep - USATODAY.com:
Most of us will be going onto post-secondary education and will get caught up in the work that we have to do. It has become kind of the norm to lack on sleep and pull-nighters if necessary to complete your work. Post-secondary education requires that we schedule our time properly and get enough sleep.
College students' performance suffers from lack of sleep - USATODAY.com - 0 views
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Colleges are starting to wake up to how sleep deprivation cuts into the academic and athletic performance of their students.
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All-nighters have become a habit in higher education, but a handful of small new studies
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Sleep experts say the amount of sleep each person needs is largely dependent on the individual: Some people can get by with only five or six hours. The National Sleep Foundation says adults need seven to nine hours a night.
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Extra Sleep Improves Athletic Performance:
It's one thing to fall asleep during class because of boredom or loss of interest and not have the teacher notice, but during physical activities at school or at home you won't perform to the best of your ability. This article discusses a study that was conducted to show how sleep affects performance ability. The fact is that less sleep you acquire on average your brain's ability to judge certain situation during the play will not function accordingly and allow you to excel.
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Participants in this ongoing study were five healthy students on the Stanford University men’s and women’s swimming teams
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For the first two weeks of the study, the students maintained their usual sleep-wake pattern
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The athletes then extended their sleep to 10 hours per day for six to seven weeks.
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The Importance of Sleep:
We all know that sleep is a key component to a healthy living style and we all need to sleep for a minimum of 7 to 8 hours. However, so many of us deprive ourselves of sleep because of a big test or huge assignment do for the next day. Manage your time and you won't run into such a problem.
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We don't need to know that rats who generally live 2 - 3 years die within 3 weeks when deprived of sleep to understand how important sleep is to our bodies and health. But it does emphasize the importance of sleep!
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brain wave activity during sleep and how the eyeballs roll around rapidly during certain stages of sleep
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Sleep is the time we rest so that the body can rejuvenate and recharge.
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Teenagers and Stress - YouTube:
The truth is that stress will always be a part of our lives no matter what. It's how we react and deal with this stress that will help us overcome the problems we face and get out tasks completed. This video relates to teens through teens and we see how three different people have three different ways of dealing with stress. Not doing the things you enjoy the most will only increase your stress, and you need to find a happy medium between school and enjoyment. Trying finding a stress reliever through some sort of physical activity that way you stay active and stress-free.
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This video clears up any confusions that may have been present regarding compulsive exercise and bulimia nervosa. This video explains the journey of someone who has actually dealt with both disorders, and what they went through. A disorder like this is really dangerous and the addiction can be so great that it can lead to death.