http://www.enhancegenetics.com Enhance genetics is a body building community for all levels of weight training. en Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:17:40 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/images/eg/misc/rss.jpg http://www.enhancegenetics.com http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10087&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:53:57 GMT BIG-K...]]> 1 member is celebrating their birthday on 09-06-2010:

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Happy Birthday! ]]> Forum Lounge GRIM http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10087 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10084&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:40:04 GMT (HealthDay News) -- Many Americans have skewed perceptions when it comes to their weight, often believing they are thinner than they really are, even... (HealthDay News) -- Many Americans have skewed perceptions when it comes to their weight, often believing they are thinner than they really are, even when the scales are shouting otherwise, a new poll finds.

As part of the Harris Interactive/HealthDay survey, respondents were asked to provide their height and weight, from which pollsters calculated their body-mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight to height. Respondents were then asked which category of weight they thought they fell into.

Thirty percent of those in the "overweight" class believed they were actually normal size, while 70 percent of those classified as obese felt they were simply overweight. Among the heaviest group, the morbidly obese, almost 60 percent pegged themselves as obese, while another 39 percent considered themselves merely overweight.

These findings may help to explain why overweight and obesity rates in the United States continue to go up, experts say.

"While there are some people who have body images in line with their actual BMI, for many people they are not, and this may be where part of the problem lies," said Regina Corso, vice president of Harris Poll Solutions. "If they do not recognize the problem or don't recognize the severity of the problem, they are less likely to do something about it."

And that means that obesity may be becoming the new norm, raising the specter of increasing rates of health threats such as diabetes, heart disease and certain cancers.

"I think too many people are unsure of what they should actually weigh," said Keri Gans, a registered dietician and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. "For many, they have grown up in a culture were most people are overweight and that is the norm, or they have been surrounded by too many celebrities and fashion in the media and think very thin is the norm."

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 34 percent of adults aged 20 and older are obese, and 34 percent are overweight. Among children, 18 percent of teens aged 12 to 19 are obese, 20 percent of children aged 6 to 11 are obese, as are 10 percent of kids aged 2 to 5.

Most respondents to the poll who felt they were heavier than they should be blamed sloth, rather than poor eating habits, for their predicament.

"In the mindset of most Americans, they're not looking at this as a food problem as much as an exercise problem," Corso said.

According to the poll, 52 percent of overweight people and 75 percent of both the obese and morbidly obese felt they didn't exercise enough.

"We're seeing the couch potato stigma [syndrome]," Corso said. "Three out of five Americans overall are saying they don't exercise as much as they should."

Added Gans: "It is sad that 59 percent of people who responded know they should be getting more exercise but yet aren't. Maybe they set the bar too high and forget that simply walking counts as exercise."

Food appeared to be a lesser culprit than lack of exercise in people's minds, with 36 percent of overweight respondents, 48 percent of obese respondents and 27 percent of those morbidly obese feeling they ate more than they "should in general."

A third of overweight people, 55 percent of obese people and 59 percent of morbidly obese people felt they ate too much of the wrong types of food.

As for weight-loss interventions, the respondents deemed surgery the most effective method, followed by prescription drugs, then drugs and diet-food supplements obtained over-the-counter.

About half felt that procedures such as gastric bypass and stomach stapling were either very or fairly effective in helping people shrink their girth. Faith in these remedies seemed similar, regardless of the respondents' weight.

"Americans like the quick fix and that's what they think the surgery is even though there are so many other things" that work, Corso said. "And so many people reverse their own surgery. These numbers are staggering."

Dr. Mitchell Roslin, chief of obesity surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, noted that "when [Dr. Everett Coop, surgeon general in the 1980s] wrote 'Shape Up America,' he said the biggest health problem facing America was not AIDS, not cancer, it's obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. Since then ... we've seen nothing but a rise in obesity despite all of these efforts that have gone on now since the 1980s."

"The American public knows this but it's hard and it's something that they're not quite ready to do," Corso added. "This wake-up call still isn't ringing as loudly as it could."

The poll included 2,418 adults (aged 18 and over) who were surveyed online between Aug. 17 and 19. ]]> General Discussion millenium girl http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10084 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10083&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:37:24 GMT ATLANTA – Could your kitchen at home pass a restaurant inspection? New research suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the... ATLANTA – Could your kitchen at home pass a restaurant inspection?

New research suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of health inspection commonly administered to restaurants.

The small study from California's Los Angeles County found that only 61 percent of home kitchens would get an A or B if put through the rigors of a restaurant inspection. At least 14 percent would fail — not even getting a C.

"I would say if they got below a C, I'm not sure I would like them to invite me to dinner," said Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

In comparison, nearly all Los Angeles County restaurants — 98 percent — get A or B scores each year.

The study, released Thursday, is believed to be one of the first to offer a sizable assessment of food safety in private homes. But the researchers admit the way it was done is hardly perfect.

The results are based not on actual inspections, but on an Internet quiz taken by about 13,000 adults.

So it's hard to use it to compare the conditions in home kitchens to those in restaurants, which involve trained inspectors giving objective assessments of dirt, pests, and food storage and handling practices.

What's more, experts don't believe the study is representative of all households, because people who are more interested and conscientious about food safety are more likely to take the quiz.

"You'll miss a big population who don't have home computers or just really don't care" about the cleanliness of their kitchens, said Martin Bucknavage, a food safety specialist with Penn State University's Department of Food Science.

A more comprehensive look would probably find that an even smaller percentage of home kitchens would do well in a restaurant inspection, he suggested.

In 2006, the county health department began a home kitchen self-inspection program, designed to help consumers learn how to store and prepare food safely. The department also began offering an online quiz with 45 yes or no questions that simulates a restaurant inspection checklist.

People are asked, for example, if their refrigerator temperature is 41 degrees Fahrenheit or lower, whether raw meat is stored below other foods on refrigerator shelves, and whether fruits and vegetables are always thoroughly rinsed before they are eaten.

The study is based on quizzes taken through 2008.

Overall, 34 percent got an A, meaning they correctly answered at least 90 percent of the questions. Another 27 percent got a B, 25 percent a C, and 14 percent failed to score at least a 70.

An estimated 87 million cases of food-borne illness occur in the United States each year, including 371,000 hospitalizations and 5,700 deaths, according to an Associated Press calculation that uses a CDC formula and recent population estimates.

Many outbreaks that receive publicity are centered on people who got sick after eating at a restaurant, catered celebration or large social gathering. In this summer's outbreak linked to salmonella in eggs, several illnesses were first identified in clusters among restaurant patrons.

But experts believe the bulk of food poisonings are unreported illnesses from food prepared at home.

The study is being published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ]]> General Discussion millenium girl http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10083 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10082&goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:28:10 GMT An internal study of the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that the social network Facebook is considered more cooperating by the police that the micro-blogging site Twitter, which always requires a court order.

The study, released at the request of the organization Electronic Frontier Foundation, which placed it on the internet, aims to explain to the police and prosecutors can use to make social networks in their research can probe to "establish motivation and personal relationships" "confirm or refute alibis," among other things.

Analyzing the four main sites used in the United States (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn), concludes that Facebook "is often urgent demands cooperative."

In contrast, researchers interested in information from Twitter encounter several obstacles: the site does not supply the phone numbers of its users, "not preserve data without legal procedure," and has "a policy explicitly communicate data only in response to legal proceedings, "the document.

Questioned by AFP on Wednesday, Andrew Noyes, Facebook spokeswoman said the internet site of socialization in cooperating with law enforcement "within the limits of the law and when this is justified for the safety of users of Facebook."

(AFP) ]]> Tech Stuff millenium girl http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10082 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10081&goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:41:15 GMT Not only did our little Bucky find a hot hot lady to actually marry him, he's managed to keep her for 14 years:p That woman deserves a medal! Congratulations Buck! ]]> Forum Lounge Wabbitt http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10081 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10080&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:27:08 GMT A rising number of Americans say they work out an hour a day, CDC says More Americans are exercising but rates of obesity and smoking have not... A rising number of Americans say they work out an hour a day, CDC says

More Americans are exercising but rates of obesity and smoking have not changed, according to the latest government data.

A survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Wednesday finds obesity rates were frozen last year at around 28 percent of adults compared to 2008.

But 34.7 percent claimed in 2009 they engage in regular leisure physical activity, up from 31.9 percent in 2008. And 39.8 percent said they had been tested for the AIDS virus, slightly more than 38.7 percent in 2008.

Health experts and the U.S. government both recommend getting daily exercise — about an hour a day of moderate exercise for most adults — to keep weight off and prevent heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

The CDC also recommends that every adult get an HIV test. The CDC estimates that about 1 million Americans are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS, but more than 20 percent have not been tested and do not know it.

Some other facts from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics:

* The prevalence of obesity among adults aged 20 and over has increased from 19.4 percent in 1997 to 28 percent in 2009.
* In 2009, 9 percent of adults 18 and over had diabetes, up from 8.2 percent in 2008 and 5 percent in 1997.
* 20.6 percent of adults smoked, about the same as in 2008.
* Nearly 23 percent of adults had at least one day of binge drinking in 2009, defined as having five or more drinks in a day.
* Most Americans believe they are healthy. More than 66 percent said they had excellent or very good health, down from 68.5 percent in 2008. 2.4 percent said they had poor health.
* Just over 4 percent of all Americans said they had an asthma attack in the past year.

[Reuters] ]]> General Discussion millenium girl http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10080 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10078&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:26:52 GMT Holy shit, I just started Letrozole tonight. Shot it into my mouth and about ended up on my ass. Glad I had a drink ready to follow. WOW! Holy shit, I just started Letrozole tonight. Shot it into my mouth and about ended up on my ass. Glad I had a drink ready to follow. WOW! ]]> Anabolics T-bar http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10078 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10077&goto=newpost Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:34:05 GMT U.S. News & World Report reveals five ways that exercise can enhance your brainpower and mood:

1. It reverses the detrimental effects of stress. Exercise boosts levels of soothing brain chemicals like serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. Exercise may actually work on a cellular level to reverse stress's toll on your aging process.
2. It lifts depression. Sustained, sweat-inducing activity can reduce symptoms of depression about as effectively as antidepressants.
3. It improves learning. Exercise increases the level of brain chemicals called growth factors that help make new brain cells.
4. It builds self-esteem and improves body image. Even simply seeing fitness improvements, like running a faster mile or lifting more weight, can improve your self-esteem and body image.
5. It leaves you feeling euphoric. High-intensity exercise can leave you with a feeling of euphoria. Try running, biking, or swimming as fast as you can for 30 to 40 seconds and then reduce your speed to a gentle pace for five minutes before sprinting again.

Further, a new study by researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago have revealed impressive insights into why exercise is so good for your brain. In short, it appears that exercise lowers the activity of bone-morphogenetic protein or BMP, which slows the production of new brain cells.

At the same time, exercise increases Noggin, a brain protein that acts as a BMP antagonist.

According to NYTimes.com:

"The more Noggin in your brain, the less BMP activity exists and the more stem cell divisions and neurogenesis [production of new brain cells] you experience."

Sources:

U.S. News & World Report June 30, 2010

NYTimes.com July 7, 2010 ]]> General Discussion millenium girl http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10077 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10076&goto=newpost Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:59:45 GMT Wabbitt thanks for the invite. I love the look and all the participation. Great job! It was tough making my first post and seeing "Noob" next to my name. Wow to go from having over twelve thousand posts to 1.... guess I have some work to do here!

As for me, been training for 31 years. Have trained with old school guys like Tom Platz, Albert Beckles, Shawn Ray and several others. To not discriminate I've also trained with Lisa Lorio, Tonya Knight, Penny Price, Carla Dunlap and Raye Hollitt. I was competitive in both high school and college sports, and just kept the lifestyle going when I graduated. Now I am a business executive who enjoys being in his 40's, as of the last three months now has the worlds most wonderful woman, and I enjoy being the best built person in the room no matter where my work takes me.

Oh, and I'm a noob. :cool: ]]> Introductions T-bar http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10076 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10075&goto=newpost Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:40:03 GMT Keeping up the habit of working out every day is tough for most of us. What are some ways you keep yourself motivated to hit the gym on your... Keeping up the habit of working out every day is tough for most of us. What are some ways you keep yourself motivated to hit the gym on your off-days?

-Scout ]]> General Discussion Scout200 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10075 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10074&goto=newpost Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:01:41 GMT I would like to extend an invitation to the members here to come check out muscle-paradise. I took over as admin there a few months ago and I have... I would like to extend an invitation to the members here to come check out muscle-paradise. I took over as admin there a few months ago and I have been working hard adding forums and restructuring the staff and getting it going over there. So come on over and check it out. I hope to see you all there.

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DGAF ]]> Friends of EG DGAF http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10074 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10072&goto=newpost Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:26:57 GMT check Greene out...5 weeks out from the O

KAI GREENE: 5 WEEKS OUT - Flex Online ]]> Sports Big B http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10072 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10071&goto=newpost Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:22:41 GMT I haven't bowhunted in like 4 years. Ever since the fire, I just haven't had an interest. Anyhow, I am getting the bug again and I am off to look at the new Mathews Z7 bow. I will most likely end up buying it, just hope I can pay it off before hunting season:p

I really really miss my Switchback. It is by far the most incredible bow I ever shot. I was literally splitting knocks with that bow at 50 yards. Anybody else shoot a Mathews? ]]> Outdoors Wabbitt http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10071 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10070&goto=newpost Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:07:06 GMT Short Term High-Intensity Interval Training (HIT) As Effective As Moderate Long Term Endurance Exercise, Study The excuse that there is not enough... Short Term High-Intensity Interval Training (HIT) As Effective As Moderate Long Term Endurance Exercise, Study

The excuse that there is not enough time to exercise effectively is beginning to wear thin according to evidence from a study by scientists in Canada who found that short term high-intensity interval training (HIT) can deliver in significantly less time the same health benefits as moderate long term "endurance" training.

The scientists who did the study are based at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. A paper on it is about to come out in print in the The Journal of Physiology, although an online issue has been available to view since January.

Scientists have known for years that doing regular moderate long term exercise like cycling or running for several hours a week improves oxygen delivery to muscles and elimination of waste products: it also improves the efficiency of fuel burning in the tiny power houses inside cells, the mitochondria.

Such a regime also widens the blood vessels to the muscle cells and boosts the number of mitochondria they contain. The result is an ability to do every day things more effectively, without strain, and with lower risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetes.

But there is one drawback that puts many people off: the amount of time such an approach consumes. Corresponding author Professor Martin Gibala and colleagues took it upon themselves to show that you can get the same results in less time with short spurts of "HIT".

As Gibala explained to the press:

"We have shown that interval training does not have to be 'all out' in order to be effective."

"Doing 10 one-minute sprints on a standard stationary bike with about one minute of rest in between, three times a week, works as well in improving muscle as many hours of conventional long-term biking less strenuously," he added.

HIT is where you do a number of shorts bursts of highly intense exercise with short recovery breaks in between.

In previous research involving college students, Gibala and colleagues discovered that HIT delivers the same physical benefits as traditional endurance training, even though it takes considerably less time, and surprisingly, involves doing less exercise.

But in their previous research they used an extreme set-up where the participants had to pedal "all out" on a specially adapted lab exercise bike.

In this new study they used a standard stationary bike and a workout that was still beyond the comfort zone of most people (about 95 per cent of maximal heart rate), but was only half of what might be regarded as an "all out" sprint.

This less extreme form of HIT should work well for people whose doctors might be a little worried about them taking up the "all out" form: that is people who are older, less fit and likely to be overweight.

For the study, they set out to show that unlike most HIT research that employs an "all out" approach (such as repeated Wingate Tests) that may not be safe or practical for many people, it was possible to achieve similar results with a more practical model of low-volume HIT.

They recruited seven men of average age 21 years and got them to perform 6 training session over 2 weeks. Each session comprised between 8 and 12 one-minute intervals at around 100 per cent of peak power output (they monitored their performance using a measure of their peak VO2). Each interval was separated by 75 seconds of rest.

The results showed that the training significantly increased exercise capacity in two cycling time trials (one for 50kJ and the other for 750kJ).

The researchers also compared biopsy samples of vastus lateralis muscle (the largest part of the quadriceps) taken before the 2 weeks of training with samples taken after, and found that the later samples showed increased maximal activity of mitochondrial capacity and other relevant chemical processes.

The researchers concluded that:

"This study demonstrates that a practical model of low volume HIT is a potent stimulus for increasing skeletal muscle mitochondrial capacity and improving exercise performance."

Gibala said that to achieve the same results by endurance training over the same period (two weeks) you would have to do over 10 hours of continuous moderate cycling exercise.

Although the study does not explain why HIT is so effective, it suggests that HIT stimulates many of the same signalling pathways as those stimulated by endurance training.

Gibala said "no time to exercise" is now no longer a valid excuse as HIT can be tailored for the average adult.

"While still a demanding form of training," he explained, "the exercise protocol we used should be possible to do by the general public and you don't need more than an average exercise bike."

He and his colleagues are now working on developing HIT to help people who are overweight or who have metabolic disorders like diabetes.

"A practical model of low-volume high-intensity interval training induces mitochondrial biogenesis in human skeletal muscle: potential mechanisms."
Jonathan P Little, Adeel S Safdar, Geoffrey P Wilkin, Mark A Tarnopolsky, and Martin J Gibala.
J Physiol, jphysiol.2009.181743; published ahead of print January 25, 2010
DOI:10.1113/jphysiol.2009.181743

Source: Wiley-Blackwell.
Medical News Today ]]> Sports Specific millenium girl http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10070 http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10069&goto=newpost Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:56:50 GMT I really hate these bs supplement companies anyhow.

http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/758339 ]]> General Discussions Wabbitt http://www.enhancegenetics.com/showthread.php?t=10069