Dallas Publisher Encourages Living Green through Informed, Healthy Lifestyle: Eating Habits are Worth Billions.DALLAS -- Publisher Healthiness, Inc. has taken its own advice and has encouraged all of its employees to leave a shallower, greener footprint by living healthier lifestyles. Recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. , reduced hydrocarbon hydrocarbon (hī'drōkär`bən), any organic compound composed solely of the elements hydrogen and carbon. The hydrocarbons differ both in the total number of carbon and hydrogen atoms in their molecules and in the proportion of hydrogen consumption, and emphasis on renewable resources Noun 1. renewable resource - any natural resource (as wood or solar energy) that can be replenished naturally with the passage of time natural resource, natural resources - resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature are all familiar ways we know to reduce the footprint left behind as we live out the course of our lives. We've heard a lot lately about living green as a lifestyle choice designed to keep that footprint small, but what about the idea that we can keep it shallow as well. Can maintaining good health reduce the impact we have on our surroundings? You bet. Lifestyle choices can reduce problems like the 'big three': coronary heart disease coronary heart disease: see coronary artery disease. coronary heart disease or ischemic heart disease Progressive reduction of blood supply to the heart muscle due to narrowing or blocking of a coronary artery (see atherosclerosis). , diabetes, and hypertension. In the U.S. we face costs that passed the $100 billion per year mark four years ago for expenses that are generated by these conditions. This is, mind you, a multi-billion dollar national invoice, about half for medical cost, and the other half for productivity lost, lives that are shortened, increased health insurance costs, and the burden on our families. It is, however, a set of problems that diminish as good lifestyle choices are made on the individual level. Changes in lifestyle that directly reduce the occurrence of these killers, as you would suspect, are all about changes in what we eat, how much we eat, and taking our bodies out for a little exercise. These are all changes we associate with reducing the amount of excess fat we carry around, but here is a surprise for you. Recent research from Southwestern Medical Center has opened up the possibility that overeating overeating eating too much food too quickly; leads to acute gastric dilatation in dogs and horses, acute carbohydrate engorgement in ruminants, dietetic (dietary) diarrhea in young calves and foals, abomasal tympany in bottle fed lambs and calves. , rather than the obesity obesity, condition resulting from excessive storage of fat in the body. Obesity has been defined as a weight more than 20% above what is considered normal according to standard age, height, and weight tables, or by a complex formula known as the body mass index. it causes, is the trigger for developing all of the big three conditions. The take-home is this: a lot of us consume more than we require. We live in a country with extraordinary food choices so we can still live well if we and eat only what we need, but no more. Add exercise to our lifestyle and we leave a shallower footprint that makes our world a little greener. Healthiness, Inc. publishes Personal Fit Weight Loss Guide a web based Coming from a Web server. See Web application. information center delivering knowledge, insight, and direction for those who recognize a need to lose weight. http://dx.doi.org/10.2121/Weight-Loss-Guide-042408 |
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