The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) describes the society today as “‘obesogenic,’ characterized by environments that promote increased food intake, nonhealthful foods, and physical inactivity.”

Getting the society back in shape, in my opinion, through government-initiated health nutrition seminars, sports clinics and physical activities should be the goal in mind. Nutritionists and dietitians should be able to impart the importance of losing weight the healthy way. One may ask, “what is the strongest best suppressant for appetite?”

I would say, “balanced diet (read: green, leafy vegetables and fruits) and exercise, and a strong will to follow through.”

Our goal then is to help me achieve and maintain pimple-free skin. I was expecting that we would already be able to skip the “achieve” part of our goal by the time I turn a quarter-of-a-century old. Unfortunately, that is not the case for me because the genes have not favored me with healthy, flawless facial skin even as I yearly turn a year older. Hence, fast-forward to today, regular appointments with the dermatologist are still being scheduled for basic acne treatment with facial or diamond peel (if skin is free of acne). It is also during these checkups that the doctor will be able to check if the prescribed acne products are working just fine for my type of skin.

I thought pimples only occur during the pubescent stage and very rarely during pregnancy for some females, I’m wrong.

Thinking of hitting the gym myself, I asked him which supplements I should get just for muscle toning and weight loss gym workouts. He did give me a couple of suggestions including online hemo rage black reviews, to help me on my research and hopefully help me decide which ones to get. Whew! I am already getting pumped up at the thought of hitting the gym!

Rigor mortis (lit. death stiffness) is one of the recognizable signs of death (Latin mors, mortis meaning “of death”) that is caused by a chemical change in the muscles after death, causing the limbs of the corpse to become stiff (Latin rigor) and difficult to move or manipulate. In humans it commences after about 3 hours, reaches maximum stiffness after 12 hours, and gradually dissipates until approximately 72 hours (3 days) after death. Heat sources such as fire can speed up the process of rigor mortis. The degree of rigor mortis may be used in forensic pathology to determine the approximate time of death.

There you go.

I guess we all have to try these at our own risk. However, for those people who would like to do a more in depth reading up before trying it out, perhaps you can do so on particular websites, such as one that I found for the product lipozene. After all, the more information you get, the better and more informed decision you will make, right? For me, I’ll stick to exercising for the meantime. Hopefully, it works out for me. Hehe.

Whenever I get back from duty, Borski would always weigh me just to know if I had gained or lost weight since the last time I left. Most of the time though, I am leaning towards the ‘gain’ side, much more than the ‘lost’ side, all thanks to my inability to control my appetite, as well as due to being unable to get some exercise in when I am at work either in Manila or in the field. Just yesterday, I checked, and I was over 200lbs. Sigh.

When I was due to report for 1 single tour of duty (14 days when at the field), I was thinking it would be easy to control my diet, since I would be in the field, and no one would be prodding me to eat during meal times. I am saying this because when I am at the head office, even though I am still feeling full, whenever lunchtime comes, I find it hard to say no whenever my officemates call me out to have lunch. However, I found out that my inability to control my appetite was not tied in to wherever I was posted. It was just me, period. Now I am thinking maybe I just need the strongest diet pills available.

Just yesterday evening, I was able to spend around 3 hours at the badminton court sweating it out. It would be the start of a week-long exercise regimen, I hope. When the next weigh in time comes next week, I hope I could get my weight down to around 192lbs. Wishful thinking….

I am referring to my observation that people in my country (well, most of them i think) would trade their golden brown complexion to have a lighter complexion. This could partly be explained by the duration in which we have been under colonization, first by the Spaniards (300+ years), and then by the Americans. If you ask me, we have been brainwashed  from all those foreign influences, and subconsciously, that is why we want to be whiter. If you were someone marketing Glutathione or skin whitening creams, then our country would be a good market for those items.

Now for the ironic part. If people from our country want to have lighter complexion, I guess the opposite is true. Where people have lighter complexion, they wanna get a tan. This is why indoor tanning lotions are in nowadays, what with the dangers that old-fashioned tanning poses. Blame it on global warming, if you would.

Yet the irony still remains.

However, experts say that this number still hasn’t peaked and is still on the rise. The picture you would see right now is that of thousands of earthquake survivors, all cramped in makeshift tents. Sadly, those conditions are so conducive for cholera to spread like wildfire. The acute intestinal infection is caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the Vibrio cholerae bacteria. Although easily treated, it has a short incubation period of a few hours to 5 days and causes acute watery diarrhea that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death without treatment. I guess what is needed is for other nations to not stop the support that was already generated after the immediate event, and keep the aid coming. Surely they could use nutrition affiliate programs to control the spread of contaminated food and water, and stop this outbreak.

If we don’t act now, I wonder how long it will be before there are any left to save.

Discussing this while brisk walking side by side last Tuesday morning at the local oval of the coliseum, I told my dad it is not the lack of exercise equipment, but rather the lack of drive, since we did have a pool, as well as a fitness gym at our lodging place. I did plan way back that whenever I already had the means, and the space for it as well, I would consider purchasing refurbished fitness equipment. I guess I still have a lot of changing to do, since if I do that, and I still did not have the drive to exercise, dust would be all that it catches.