Why not use those extra minutes to burn more calories and lose more weight? Multi-task your TV time with a few of these tips and tricks, so you can have the body you love while watching the shows you adore.

4 Tips to Lose Weight while Watching TV

• Ditch the Remote: Although pushing the volume button may be giving your fingers a good workout, you’ll be better off ditching the remote and getting up every time to you want to change the channel. While you’re up, you might as well do a few squats on your way over to the TV.

• Use that Commercial Time: Rather than using those precious minutes of empty time to get up and grab another bag of chips, make the most of each little break to do a few simple cardio or strength training exercises. Crunches, lunges, jumping jacks, and pushups are a great way to get your heart pumping before you’re sucked back into the Zone.

• Wiggle and Stretch: Although this might not be the best technique to lose weight if you’re sitting next to someone, fidgeting and wiggling are easy ways to burn a few extra calories. Leg jiggling and foot tapping – so long as you’re moving, you’re more likely to lose weight.

• Smart Snacking: Too often we like to sit in front of the TV and munch on whatever food happens to be closest to our mouths, whether it’s cereal, chips, popcorn, or chocolate. Rather than mindless snacking, try substituting with a favorite fruit such as an apple or pear, or crunching on a slice of celery. Be smart about what you choose to eat rather than simply going through the motion.

Final Suggestions

Nothing can replace a healthy diet and regular exercise, and though it may be difficult to find time to squeeze in a little aerobics throughout your day, it’s the most effective way to slim down. These tips and pointers can help you make better use of your time, but it takes a little extra effort on your part in order to see any significant results.

They never stop running or jumping or swinging from the ceiling, and all their energy goes toward keeping their body healthy and strong whether they recognize its worth or not. Rather than telling them to settle down and read a book, join your kids for a fun and creative way to exercise.

By making cardio fun, you can instill in them a lifelong desire to stay fit while you can subtly burn off those extra pounds along the way.

Creative Cardio

Hula-hooping: Just because you haven’t done this since you were a kid doesn’t mean that it isn’t a good exercise. The more you work those abs the more you’ll see how effective and fun hoola-hooping can be. Not only will a 2 pound hoop strengthen your core muscles but it can improve your balance, coordination, and endurance as well. Additionally, when you get bored of your everyday round-the-middle hoola-hooping, you can opt for smaller hoops and focus solely on your arms or legs.

Jump-Roping: In case you haven’t noticed, the classic jump rope is one of the best full-body workouts you’ll ever come across. Not only does it strengthen your calves, thighs, glutes and arms, but in can significantly improve your coordination and it definitely burns a great deal of calories along the way.

Skipping: Pick up your feet and start skipping the loo because skipping is also an effective workout if you’re looking for a creative way to include cardio into your day. This fun and entertaining mix of running and jumping works your leg muscles in new and unique ways, so you can burn more calories while playing with your kids.

Conclusion

Your gym time doesn’t need to be restricted to simply pumping weights on the machine or walking away the calories on the treadmill. By keeping your workouts fun and fresh, you can make exercise a fun and engaging challenge rather than yet another boring chore to do. Bond with your kids and say good-bye to cellulite with creative and exciting forms of cardio, so you can have fun while you stay fit!

Here are a few very real and slightly unrealistic new years resolutions that people have.
• Quit Smoking- While this is an admirable goal, smoking cannot be quit cold turkey. Just because you make a promise to yourself does not mean you will give up your addiction.
• See more Friends and Family- A great goal! But things will come up. Your job will expect you to work an extra shift or your child will suddenly become ill.
• Get out of Debt- Perhaps the best goal out there, but most often will not happen. Debt is something that often hangs onto you more than a monkey. If you really want to get rid of it, try making a longterm plan.

Some Advice

Yet most people do not make their resolutions. Partially because they are too unrealistic. They want to exercise five times a week or want to go without sugar for a month. But problems will arise and cause you to break those habits- you will twist an ankle or your brother will get married. In order to avoid feeling extreme disappointment and frustration at yourself, try being realistic with yourself. If you have been late constantly for the past 3 months, don’t expect to suddenly be on time because of your new years resolution. Make progressive resolutions that do not require to to change overnight.

One last thing to remember- your do not have to wait until new years to start your goals. You can start working on them today. That way when new years comes around, you are not starting without some experience. Also, new years resolutions may work for some people, while others simply fail. Find the best way to reach your goal.

Enlist the Help of Others

Santa Clause doesn’t make the toys for all the boys and girls around the world alone, so why should you plan everything for your holiday? Find your own version of Santa’s elves to help give your holiday a less stressful time. There is no shame in asking for help; plus the work goes by a lot faster if you have someone to talk to.

Plan and Prepare

Those people who plan and prepare their parties and dinners are most likely to have a more successful than those who just wing it. Preparation can help you in any aspect of your life.

Make a list and check it twice! Making lists helps you not forget important things needed for your party (like ham, olives, or Yams.) Also, make a list of all the people you need to buy gifts for and what you plan on getting them.

Remember to be Flexible

Be prepared for the unexpected. Plan on things going wrong. If you struggle to think what could possibly go wrong, just watch Christmas Vacation. That should clear some things up. Hope for the best and expect the worst is a good phrase to remember.

Overall, the holidays are a time of joy and giving, not of selfishness, stress, and worry. Try to keep that in mind next time you decide to throw a big party last minute.

A Look into Wonderland

A new psychological disorder has come out called the Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This disease causes people to see the world in a new (and distorted) way.

People who have the Alice in Wonderland Syndrome have claimed that the ground they walk on often feels spongy. Also, their feet and legs would often go through the carpet to an unknown place. Other people have reported that they cannot drive anymore because of the distorted vision and depth perception. The cars would appear to be larger than they normally are, and closer or farther away than normal.

Ways of Getting Curious

There are a couple of ways to get the Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. The main one is by migraines. Because of the intense amount of pain a migraine often gives people, they tend to see the world in a different way.

Finding your way Home

Like little Alice, people who have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome are often trying to find cures to the disease. Unfortunately, there is no known cure. The only way to treat Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is by figuring out the underlying cause for it and then treating that. Another way to fix Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is just by wading it out and seeing if it will fix itself.

Vitamin A

Vitamin A is a good antioxidant and keeps your skin healthy by rejuvenating it. It filters through the toxins that are in your skin and replaces it with healthy cells. Ways of getting vitamin A are through tomatoes or carrots. A couple of other foods include butter, milk, broccoli, mangos, and eggs.

Vitamins B, C, and E

Vitamins B, C, and E are all good for your body, but can also be good for your skin. Try to eat food that have them all in it to ‘kill two birds with one stone.’ A fruit like a watermelon will do the trick.

Vitamin B

This is good for recharging the cells in your body. It can also help maintain a healthy skin tone. But keep in mind that taken in too much amount can cause acne as well. A couple of foods that have vitamin B are-
• Yogurt
• Soy Products
• Salmon
• Milk
• Potatoes
• Peppers
• Beef
• Bananas
• Cabbage
• Dried Fruit
• Lamb
• Venision

Omega3 Oil

Omega3 Oil can increase your blood circulation which helps fibrin flow through your body better. Fibrin is a compound that helps scars and buildup. Omega3 Oil can be found in a variety of places such as fish, meat, and eggs.

Preventive Eating

Eating food can help prevent acne problems that often plague your skin. Eating fruits and vegetables will be the most beneficial to you. Try even taking supplements of vitamin A, B, C, and E will help those who do not like to eat fruits and veggies.

When most people consider whether their diet is good for them, they tend to think how it will affect their waistline, rather than their T-zone.

But the truth is, what you eat has just as large of an impact on the skin that covers your body as the fat stores that are underneath it.

Here are some popular diets and how they affect the health of your skin:

Mediterranean Diet

Because the Mediterranean Diet includes a lot of fish, leafy greens and olive oil, the benefits go much further than your waistline.

With plenty of omega-3s, this diet can go far to make skin cell membranes strong and elastic, meaning less sagging and fewer wrinkles later.

Vegetarian/vegan

Whether you’re doing it for the animals, for the environment, or for your health, leading a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle can have a whole slew of side effects.

Vegetarians and vegans tend to eat more whole grains and fresh produce which means more antioxidants to neutralize the free radicals that contribute to wrinkles, brown spots, and other signs of aging on the skin.

You’re also more likely to indulge in plant-based protein sources which have been shown to have super skin benefits. Beans can help battle acne and decrease inflammation and redness of the skin. They are also able to stave off premature wrinkles.

High protein, Low carb

Despite the trend that carbs are simply evil, there can be some skin dangers when ingesting more protein.

In fact, by eating too much animal fat you not only have to worry about cholesterol, but your body could begin producing more free radicals which promote cell death and sagging skin.

Low Fat

Brought back into popularity by Dr. Ornish, it has become increasingly more popular to cut out most fats from your diet.

Although this might be great for your heart and waistline, a diet low in fat will cut out the complexion friendly antioxidants and fat soluble vitamins that your skin needs.

Ultimately, if you stop consuming fat, you’ll have saggy skin that loses its resilience – just look at Bill Clinton who has been following Dr. Ornish’s diet for the past few years.

But nevertheless, Perry’s decision to vaccinate all preadolescent girls against the sexually transmitted virus HPV.

This issue ballooned on Monday night when Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum fledged an all out attack against current Governor Rick Perry of Texas. Governor Perry issued an executive order which required all sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, and neither Bachmann nor Santorum were willing to let him get away with it.

They criticized Perry’s mandate as being an “overreach of state power in a decision properly left to parents.” Even Sarah Palin found fault with this decision of Perry’s.

Although there are many vaccines that are mandated despite some controversy, the HPV vaccination pushes the buttons of many conservatives.

They complain that it is an example of the government reaching too far into personal health care decisions, that the vaccine could cause mental disorders, (although this has been debunked by multiple, credible studies) and even that the vaccination could promote promiscuity.

Despite the fact that these complaints seem to be from right-winged extremists, they made their mark on Governor Perry’s confidence. Once the frontrunner for the Republican candidacy, Craig Robinson, a former director of the Republican Party of Iowa, noted that “these blows landed and affected [Perry].”

When Perry carried out the HPV legislature, he was doing a favor for former chief of staff, Mike Toomey, who was then a lobbyist for the makers of the vaccination.

The fact that this vaccination wasn’t even Perry’s idea, nor something he felt passionate about, makes Perry’s case for legitimacy even more difficult.

Republicans want a presidential candidate that represents their values as well as their idea of a laissez-faire government; maybe this just created more room for Republican runner-up Mitt Romney in the presidential campaign.

This summer an E. coli strain from strawberries sickened nine people and killed one in Oregon, whereas papayas and sprouts infected hundreds with salmonella in over five states.

But why this surge in sickness when the landmark food safety law was passed by Congress last December? This motion was supposed to reduce the frequency and severity of food safety problems, but the latest news shows that it is not working.

The Food and Drug Administration’s deputy commissioner for foods, Mike Taylor, says that “It is an enormous undertaking.” Taylor is responsible for turning the law into a coherent set of rules that farmers, food processors and importers can follow to keep us safe.

Because of recent budget cuts, the FDA simply does not have the fiscal resources that are required for such a job. While they were hoping to get more money, the recent plunge in the stock market has left the food regulators with little hope of acquiring additional funds, and they have instead been left with less money than they initially asked for.

Instead, the FDA is trying to focus on food that has the greatest safety risk, exempting farms that average less than $500,000 a year in sales, selling mostly to local vendors.

Taylor estimates that the FDA will need hundreds of millions of dollars to finance these new regulations, and with a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, it’s not likely that they’re going to get it.

Until then, we have to be careful to wash our produce as well as we can, and if you know that you have a suppressed immune system, it might be best to boil everything you get fresh.

AIDS has been a medical enigma for decades now. Despite the billions of dollars, millions of victims, thousands of doctors, and a countless amount of hours spent researching this fatal human immunodeficiency virus, there have not been many developments made in the quest to eradicate this disease.

However, all this has changed with the introduction of a new pill that has been shown to be able to prevent an uninfected person from catching the disease. Two new studies were released today that showed evidence that taking a daily pill containing one of more of these new AIDS drugs can actually prevent this person from contracting the virus.

This is a huge stride in the world of AIDS prevention technology; until a few years ago, there was nothing more than condoms and abstinence in the tool kit for prevention. Research and studies since have added circumcision, vaginal microbicides and now a daily pill to that kit.

As more studies are conducted, there is going to be more and more pressure for donors to find money to supply these drugs in places where AIDS is a bigger problem, for instance, Africa. There are also plans for cheaply releasing these patents to pharmaceutical manufacturers that promise to sell the drugs for a price that will be affordable to those who need it most.

Although it will take the Center for Disease Control a few months to write new guidelines, the drugs will be available through American doctors as soon as possible.