Welcom to the "HEALTH AND FITNESS"  conferance.  It's exactly what 
it says it is....no hidden meanings or anything.  

Here, the topics will range from excersice to dieting to natural remedies
to discussions on real diseases.  Feel free to ask whatever questions
or answers that you might have.  :)

And last but not least, please remember that we are not professionals, and
should not be taken as such.  On the other hand, there are alot of people
in here that have some experiance with some of the things, and just might
have an answer to that burning question of yours.  :)

51 responses total.

Yes, welcome to the new conference!  We might be linking in some items, but
the floor is free to enter your own questions...

Wonderful idea for a conference! Though it's been touched on in the Synthesis
conf, I'd like to get going on the "natural remedies" idea. Will do some
thinking on an approach and get back to ya with an item or two.

Feel free to enter any items that could fit the name of the conference...we
don't have much to go on yet.  

i had been thinking about entering an item, also, kae....i've been waiting to 
see what sort of turn-out that we would get....please go ahead and enter to
your heart's contenet!!!!  :)

Thanks for getting this up and running; I'm looking forward to the
upcoming discussions!

me too..hello..this is just what I need I love this topic..and since I work
in a ibrary I willbe glad to get additional information for you anytime.
this is one of my favorite reference questions to delve into

I see you came right over there STormy...

Hello i love this..I am trying to lose weight, hope to eat right and I am
working out with weights I have lots of questions...I am inviting others here
too

Here is what i want to know....I am 27 now and have been married for 8 years
now.  When i got married I weighed in at a weak 127 lbs..  Now i weigh in
between 175 and 180.  I am only 5'7" so its not like i carry it all that well.
I eat less now than I did when i was at 127 lbs..for heavens sake i used to
manage a pizza joint.  That was all I ate..all day long..Now friends have told
me its metabolism and all that junk...The thing i dont get is that i am very
active..i work in a factory so i am usually doing alot of lifting and I am
always on my feet...I play hockey....I play softball from April till
October...Is there something wrong with me....?

You might have suffered one of the rites of adulthood... the "shift of
metabolism", as I call it.  Happened to me around 24 or so, when all of sudden
what I ate mattered.

You might look at what you eat (fat, sugar, etc.) and make some changes.

Also bubu are yu solid muscle too?  Remember muscle weighs more than fat.
I had tht problem too.  I am not all flab and I weigh more than women who i
know are larger than me.  It is the muscle Ihave.  I don't have alot but it
is significant. At 180lbs you are susposed to eat  2200 calories a day to lose
weight. about a lb a week which is good but you don't sound fat to me bubu.
Take a good long look at your body in the mirror examine your body for
solidness and muscle you may only need to tone up or like scott said to cut
down on fat and sugar which are rather easy to load up on alot of iwth out
feeling really full believe me I know I got the way I am by eating high fat
foods, and sugar.  year by year.  
Hang in their Dan you will make it.. wwe will help each other.

something that my mom was talking about yesterday, was th fact that most people
gain weight when they get married....

Ha ha ha I LOST weight and then gained it after children and feeling unhappy
for so many years. but it is true.

No I am not all muscle.....MY arms and legs are in real good shape.  My gut
on the other hand is not....I wouldn't mind weighing what I do if my gut was
more firmer...

hey Dan..yu can do it real easy you are half way there....do some sit ups and
neat stufff like that...:)

<bubu wonders if he knows Honey Love>
 gotta admit the name sounds like a bond girl....

Yes Dan you know me..very well....inside and out in fact..sweetheart.:)

You are becoming very readable my dear....All I have to do is read the name
anbd then read the plan....

you are so clever..besides who else on here loves you like I do?...:)

<blush>

you Dan are one of my best friends......:)

I went through a major metabolism shock when I got pregnant the first time
at 27.  I was about 115 before and gained 30 lbs so fast I didn't know
what happened.  I was always hungrey, so I ate...and ate...and ate! But I
lost it all. Then I had my 2nd kid right before I turned 30.  Losing it
got harder. After that my metabolism, formerly really fast (I could eat
all the sweets & junk I liked & never gain an ounce) got kindof normal.  I
had to watch what I ate for the first time in my whole life. 
Now I am pregnant w/my 4th kid, and I gained 10 lbs a month for the
2nd-4th  months and finally slowed down to just two in the last month. 
Metabolism is not my favorite word.  Nor is exercise (sigh!)

What I have read is that  our matabolisms are susposed to be slow that that
is more normal..more efficient..burns what it should effectively..However it
doesn't make me feel normal at all...( compared to others)..I gained after
children...I started out with the doctors telling me to  gain more and then
gaining it after their births...aaarrrgggghhh
and I  was nursing them too...

An INDEX to medical FAQs was posted to usenet. I grabbed it and you can
read it in /u/rcurl/medical-FAQ

It is an index of internet information sources on a large number of medical
topics. FAQ archive locations, newsgroups and URLs are given. The FAQ
is subdivided into a number of major categories, with up to a dozen or
so specific topics in each category. The main categories are:

Chronic fatigue syndrome
Complimentary therapies/'Non-Western' medicine  
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology                                                
Infectious disease
Lifestyle and fitness    
Miscellaneous  
Musculoskeletal medicine      
Neurology    
Nutrition        
Nursing         
Obstetrics and gynaecology          
Oncology         
Ophthalmology      
Otolaryngology
Paediatrics    
Pathology     
Pharmacology/clinical toxicology  
Psychiatry and clinical pyshcology   
Radiology          
Respiratory medicine   
Surgery     
Urology    

I didn't know the best way to present this. You might want to grep for
those major categories and following. Or, just download it and print it!
If anyone has a good idea on making it more accessible, please implement 
it.

Ok. I took the liberty of copying rcurl's FAQ and am in the process of
formating it into html. If I'm stubborn enough I'll be able to link all the
items to their appropriate locations. ( I may have bitten off more than I can
chew, but I'll give it a try). So if anyone wants to look through it, in
addition to the above file of rculrs you can go to
http://www.personal.umich.edu/~mjfulton/medfaq.html
I haven't fininshed formating it yet, but some of it's readable.

This has apparently been done by McKenzie himself, at
http://www.oup.co.uk/scimed/medint/ and from there link to Medical FAQ
Postings. I just did, and it is the same as the file I saved, except the
URL links are live. This is mentioned in the FAQ. 

Yeah. I noticed that after I started going through it. One thought I had might
be to set it up as aweb page locally, so we wouldn't tie up the outging
bandwidth wen perusing it.

HVCN might want to do that, if they have a medical section.

it's in planning right now...

i would like to know about aids disease

As co-fairwitness of this conference, I killed item 56 which was entered
today.  It was a pyramid scheme, also posted in Summer Agora as item 145.

Thank you, scott.  The same "Get Rich Quick" message has also appeared 
in other conferences.  Will try to get out a list ASAP.

Thank you, scott.

I'll addd my thanks.  I did the same in all my conferences without even
gracing it with an acknowld=edgement.

Hey... It's Bad.

I just nuked the local appearance of the "MAKE MONEY FAST" scam that has been
showing up all over Grex lately.

RE #36 Thank you scott.

I just killed another one too....(sigh)

RE #38 And thanks to you too, eeyore.

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