WEEK 11 CHALLENGE
WEEK 11 - 2000's (Mar 18-24)
The Millennia (2000) brought us SparkPeople, South Beach Diet, wearable trackers and the TV show - The Biggest Loser!
Nutrition:
With the turn of the new century, wackiness reappeared, including Ear Stapling, an acupuncture-based technique for stimulating an appetite suppressing pressure point. It involves placing needles into the inner ear and leaving them there for up to three months. Unfortunately, it also carries a risk of serious infections.
The South Beach Diet is truly a food lover's diet. It's about living well and loving what you eat. But it's also practical, flexible, easy, and effective." The plan emphasizes "good carbs" and "good fats," and was a best-selling diet book in 2004 by Dr. Arthur Agatston. Its popularity has since waned.
Ice cream and diets aren't commonly linked. But the 2002 book "The Ice Cream Diet," released by Prevention magazine, encourages eating sundaes and shakes. But read the fine print: eat these treats -- in moderation. Watching your calorie intake is everything to this "diet," which is more so a reminder that you can eat whatever you want as long as you stay under that magic number.
SparkPeople was founded in 2000 by Chris Downie. SparkPeople.com offers a free four-stage diet program which uses tools, content, and support to help users make lifestyle changes, and sparkRecipes.com, which allows users the ability to catalog, rate, and share recipes, especially healthy recipes, and gives users the nutritional information about their recipes. It also offers the ability to add these recipes to their daily food log on SparkPeople.
Mindfulness is deliberately paying attention, being fully aware of what is happening both inside and outside yourself - in your body, heart and mind - and outside yourself, in your environment. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgement. Mindful eating involves paying full attention to the experience of eating and drinking, both inside and outside the body. We pay attention to the colors, smells, textures, flavors, temperatures, and even the sounds (crunch!) of our food. We pay attention to the experience of the body. Where in the body do we feel hunger? Where do we feel satisfaction? What does half-full feel like, or three quarters full?
Fitness:
The 2000s were the decade in which fitness through dance made a return.
‘Street dance’ passed through school yards, raves and local neighbourhoods to become the fitness trend of choice, particularly for the younger generation. It eventually seeped into dance studios and gyms, and people all over the country took to the floor to test their moves.
Originally these dances would have been completely improvised, but with the dawn of street dance classes came the development of routines incorporating a number of characteristic movements. ‘Locking’ and ‘popping’ the body in various ways, bobbing and weaving, and grabbing or punching through the air appear in almost every modern street dance routine.
Wearable fitness tracking devices, including wireless heart rate monitoring that integrated with commercial-grade fitness equipment found in gyms, were available in consumer-grade electronics by the early 2000s. A fitness tracker, is a device or application for monitoring and tracking fitness-related metrics such as distance walked or run, calorie consumption, and in some cases heartbeat and quality of sleep. The term is now primarily used for smartwatches that are synced, in many cases wirelessly, to a computer or smartphone for long-term data tracking.
In 2004, The Biggest Loser make its TV debut, turning weight loss into a reality show.
The Millennia (2000) brought us SparkPeople, South Beach Diet, wearable trackers and the TV show - The Biggest Loser!
Nutrition:
With the turn of the new century, wackiness reappeared, including Ear Stapling, an acupuncture-based technique for stimulating an appetite suppressing pressure point. It involves placing needles into the inner ear and leaving them there for up to three months. Unfortunately, it also carries a risk of serious infections.
The South Beach Diet is truly a food lover's diet. It's about living well and loving what you eat. But it's also practical, flexible, easy, and effective." The plan emphasizes "good carbs" and "good fats," and was a best-selling diet book in 2004 by Dr. Arthur Agatston. Its popularity has since waned.
Ice cream and diets aren't commonly linked. But the 2002 book "The Ice Cream Diet," released by Prevention magazine, encourages eating sundaes and shakes. But read the fine print: eat these treats -- in moderation. Watching your calorie intake is everything to this "diet," which is more so a reminder that you can eat whatever you want as long as you stay under that magic number.
SparkPeople was founded in 2000 by Chris Downie. SparkPeople.com offers a free four-stage diet program which uses tools, content, and support to help users make lifestyle changes, and sparkRecipes.com, which allows users the ability to catalog, rate, and share recipes, especially healthy recipes, and gives users the nutritional information about their recipes. It also offers the ability to add these recipes to their daily food log on SparkPeople.
Mindfulness is deliberately paying attention, being fully aware of what is happening both inside and outside yourself - in your body, heart and mind - and outside yourself, in your environment. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgement. Mindful eating involves paying full attention to the experience of eating and drinking, both inside and outside the body. We pay attention to the colors, smells, textures, flavors, temperatures, and even the sounds (crunch!) of our food. We pay attention to the experience of the body. Where in the body do we feel hunger? Where do we feel satisfaction? What does half-full feel like, or three quarters full?
Fitness:
The 2000s were the decade in which fitness through dance made a return.
‘Street dance’ passed through school yards, raves and local neighbourhoods to become the fitness trend of choice, particularly for the younger generation. It eventually seeped into dance studios and gyms, and people all over the country took to the floor to test their moves.
Originally these dances would have been completely improvised, but with the dawn of street dance classes came the development of routines incorporating a number of characteristic movements. ‘Locking’ and ‘popping’ the body in various ways, bobbing and weaving, and grabbing or punching through the air appear in almost every modern street dance routine.
Wearable fitness tracking devices, including wireless heart rate monitoring that integrated with commercial-grade fitness equipment found in gyms, were available in consumer-grade electronics by the early 2000s. A fitness tracker, is a device or application for monitoring and tracking fitness-related metrics such as distance walked or run, calorie consumption, and in some cases heartbeat and quality of sleep. The term is now primarily used for smartwatches that are synced, in many cases wirelessly, to a computer or smartphone for long-term data tracking.
In 2004, The Biggest Loser make its TV debut, turning weight loss into a reality show.
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It's one of the things that we stress - Participation, Not Perfection