lucy200418

Hi, I want to know if it is healthy for our bodies to have fans on during workouts.

I have taken human anatomy and physiology, and believe that it is not healthy, because if we have fans on, our bodies that are supposed to be sweating and excreting metabolic wastes, would become vasoconstricted. Thus, we wouldn't get the effects of excreting metabolic wastes.

Moreover, if we have just been sweating and wet, but all of a sudden, our skin is exposed to cool air, we might catch a cold or get sick. It is a similar analogy to getting drenched in the rain and be exposed to the wind, isn't it?

I like to understand things from the scientific point of view, and from evidence-based explanations. I couldn't find any reliable (or even any) source that discussed this topic, so if anyone has references, or majors in science, or fitness, any related expertise, please explain this to me. Thank you very much!

我的胸超小的,連 A 都不到,我試過穴道按摩,但是都沒效

我月經來前,或經期間,會經期後,沒有一天胸部會脹的

這是不是代表我都沒有發育胸部的賀爾蒙??

我沒吃過很 "正統" 的 "豐胸食物" (青木瓜,補的食品...等)

但是我的飲食裡包含很多人聲稱有雌激素的豆類啊!

我個人是素食者,所以飲食裡包含很多豆類 (我每天都喝 2-3 杯豆漿)

但我是蛋奶素,所以我喝吃 yogurt

我最近開始喝脫脂牛奶 (因為知前家裡的牛奶都有含脂肪)

我不吃蛋,因為太多飽和脂肪和膽固存對心血管會造成負擔

聽其來很像我是一位很瘦的女生,但是我其實是標準體重

我之前也曾經過重 ( BMI 大約 24, 體重是油脂肪組成的,我那時一點肌肉都沒有)

但是我胖的期間胸部也還是一樣小耶! 從來沒有像人人說的變胖時胸部會變大

(慶幸地,我後來瘦下來時,胸部沒變得更小!)

我現在有在練胸肌,但是胸肌大的是肌肉,而不是"真胸部" ("水滴型"的脂肪部位)

我已經22歲了

所以我是不是沒救了呢? 我的雌激素全都沒有生命力了?

像我這樣頑強的小胸,有什麼食物和運動可以拯救?

非常謝謝~!

Does anybody has good chest muscle (considered by self, and/or others)? Could you share your workout? Thank you.

I want to know the position, equipment, weight, frequency in a week, amount of set at each time, and repetition in each set. Thank you very much, again.

I'm looking for workouts for "inner & middle" chest - the pectoralis minor - not upper chest, pectoralis major. (I'm a female, and I think it'd be awkward to have upper chest muscle. I don't want to push that part of female anatomy down; I want to lift them up & increase some muscle mass in them, that's why I'm working on my inner chest muscle.)

If you work all aspects of your chest, could you explain which workout(s) you do to work on your inner chest muscle, if you've noticed it?

I've searched extensively on the Internet, but each website says something different. Although I found & chose the ones in common, I started building my upper chest, but my inner chest is still not developing at all.

If anyone is willing to share a picture of your "good chest muscle," that'd be even better. That would be more realistic than experimenting with each workout, and finding out that I've been working on the wrong muscle.

Hi, I want to build my abs, but not a six-pack one, but a "two-pack" (abdominal muscles divided into 2 parts with a vertical groove in the middle).

Could someone tell me some workouts that work towards the two-pack abs, instead of six? Please give me the positions, frequencies (how many days in a week), repetitions, and sets that are specfic for 2-pack abs. Thank you very much. I appreciate your help.

If anyone could explain the differences between the workoutsfor two-packs, and those for six-packs, I would appreciate more. Thank you very much. (Personal experiences of actually performing those workouts & have seen the results would be a bonus.)

I usually read the ingredients and nutritional information before I eat new foods, and I do not eat cooked foods outside, since I've seen that most food services fry foods, or cook with lots of oil. I'm careful with fats, especially saturated ones, since they're bad for cardiovascular system.

Half of my family are vegetarians, and they're enjoying some Morning Star veggie burgers. Before I eat one of those, I would like to know if they were fried when Morning Star made them, or just in general, do most brands fry their veggie burgers?

If the veggie burgers were really fried, and if one piece has 110 calories, 4.5g of total fat, 0.5g saturated fat, and 0 trans fat, can I trust its information and have one?

I mean, even though I'd be eating 4.5g of fat and 0.5 sat fat, which would not be a significant amount in my diet (since I usually under consume total fats), but if it's fried, would that automatically make it worse than what the nutritional information reveals? Since frying foods would increase contents of saturated fat and/or trans fat.

What my question is asking is that, if I were to have 2 french fries (which I would not). I am 100% sure that they were fried, but I am having just 2, would I compromise my health significantly? It does not matter what oil the french fries were made with, let's say one of the "healthy oils" - canola oil, or flaxseed oil, or olive oil. I just want to know if I know the nutritional information, and that the amount of total, saturated, and trans fats are minimal, can I eat that food??

Thank you very much.

I am a female who just started chest workouts with dumbbells and bars, and I have a few questions.

I want to know which parts of the chest would be worked on, if I hold the dumbbells and bars differently, and please specify the differences of positions of hands for dumbbells and bars, if there are. Thank you.

(1) Firstly, for the "bench press" workouts, do dumbbells or bars work better for females? Which ones yield in more feminine yet chest muscles?

(2a) As I have asked, for a more feminine result, should the hands on the bars and/or dumbbells be closer, or further?

(2b) How can I measure the distance between my two hands? For examples, two hands should be about # times the width of a hand; or each hand should be next to the shoulder, etc.

(2c) At what level should the hands be at? For example, at the midpoint of upper and lower chest; at clavicle (collarbone), etc.

(3) Or, if I want to work more on the inner aspects of my chests, how should I hold the dumbbells and/or bars? Same questions about the distance and level of hands, as those in 2b and 2c.

Thank you very much.

I've had type 1 diabetes for over 8 years, during which I've had hypoglycemia of <30 mg/dL on at least 5 occasions, but those were the times when I did check my blood sugar, so there were actually more than 5 times. In addition, I've had an average of... I'd say about 10 hypoglycemic eposides in the 40's mg/dL in a month (about half of which occur in the morning, and the other half during the day), and a lot of my hypoglycemic events were in the 40's, and many were prolonged.

There were several times when I was awake from my sleep, but extremely confused, unconscious, and didn't know anything at all. I didn't know what I was doing and what I had to do on a usual basis, but I was too unconscious that I didn't question in my mind; I just looked around me and walked from one place to another, and to another, without any thought in mind.

There were times when I was extremely dizzy and felt like I was going to faint. Although I did know where I was and what I was doing at the moment, after I ate and raised my blood sugar level, I had no memory of what I heard or did during that time when I was hypoglycemic.

Here's my question:

For some amazing reason, on those occasions when I absolutely did not know anything, and was nearly a "walking dead," I was protected by my centeral nervous system by grabbing glucose tablets and/or other foods to eat, before I fainted. (I guess eating was the only thing I knew, and was able to do, without thinking.)

I've heard instances of people fainting from blood sugar levels of 46 mg/dL, 30 mg/dL, etc., but I've had levels of 28, 20, 15 mg/dL, levels that were too low, that my glucometer gave me LO, which I later looked in the manual of the meter and learned that it meant lower than 15 mg/dL. However, I never fainted from hypoglycemia...

(1) Does that mean that my central nervous system/brain is tough?

Although I had never fainted, I think I have some complications from repeated and/or prolonged, severe hypoglycemia. I'm just assuming, because my cognitive functioning has declined; I easily forget the material that I've studied for my classes, and I'm 21 years old. I don't have history of seizure, but during some hypoglycemic eposides, I had some muscle twitching, and I think that I have some sequelae from those eposides, because a few times, my hands were uncoordinated and twitching, when I actually checked and verified that my blood glucose levels were above 70 mg/dL.

(2) ...anyway, is it possible to have juvenile dementia from hypoglycemic eposides?

Or would I have increased risks of developing psychological disorders due to disturbances of the neurons and neurotransmitter, from exposures to hypoglycemia?

What are some short- or long-term complications of the (central or peripheral) nervous system, or damages of any organ system, from hypoglecemia?

Thank you so, very, much, for answering my questions. (Please include your credentials, if you have any, because I tend to believe explanations from doctors - either MD, or doctors of any field, particularly related to the subjects of my questions.)

What types (and examples) of exercises and healthy foods can correct hypotension? (I don't want to eat a high-fat diet which would make me hypertensive and have high risk of CVD, please.)

My BP used to be about 90-100/60-70 mm Hg, but after I had been exercising regularly for a long time and had lost about 20 pounds (from almost 138 pounds), my BP became 80-88/40-50 mm Hg. I'm 5 feet 3.

I also started calorie counting when I started the plan of losing weight, but I have been consuming a lot of protein each day, since I know that protein maintains the blood, I usually consume 10-20g less fat than the amount I can eat based on my daily caloric intake. I also have been watching my salt intake, but I think I'm still consuming enough salt daily, and I'm not hyponatremic. I drink at least 6 cups of fluid daily, and 10 cups for a lot of time. I've been a vegetarian since the time when my blood pressure was still normal. I also have type 1 diabetes. (Yes, I said "type 1." I gained weight to 140 pounds after I had DM. Besides, I was not overweight when I was 138 lb, although I was close.)

I don't know if there was really a correlation between the decrease in my blood pressure and exercising or not, but exercising does decrease blood pressure, so I assume that was the cause of my hypotension.

I didn't check my blood pressure as regularly when it was still in the normal range, but whenever I gave blood, my systolic and diastolic blood pressures were usually in those ranges. I have started to check my blood pressure quite frequently after being so hypotensive, and not just the systolic "or" diastolic blood pressure are below 88/50 mm Hg, usually both would be below these 2 numbers.

So now I can no longer give blood, and the ineligibility to give blood always makes me very mad and frustrated. I can't accept the fact that I have to be rejected everytime the phlebotomists (or medical personnel) take my blood pressure. I have tried jumping and skipping to the blood drives, being nervous, and being mad (as I am) before my blood pressure is taken, but it's still that low. I wouldn't try caffeine, since I know from experience that it doesn't stimulate me. I can drink two 8-oz cups of Espresso and still be sleeping a few minutes after I finish. Besides, caffeine is diuretic, I don't need my blood pressure to be any lower than it has already been.

I have checked the following websites, and most of them suggest increasing salt in diet. I don't think my daily intake of sodium is less than 1500 mg, although I'm not sure if it does reach the recommended maximum (2400 mg).

My heart beat used to be 60 beats/min everytime I took it, but after trying an alternative treatment, which I didn't consent to try, my heart beat has become 57-76 bpm, and the numbers are usually not close.

I don't have signs of orthostatic hypotension, however. I can stand up from a lower position and not feel dizzy. I know how it feels like to have orthostatic hypotension, because I've experienced it when I had polyuria from DKA. I can exercise without ever fainting from hypotension, and I don't experience SOB. My HGB is about 12.0 g/dL and HCT about 40%.

Can anybody please tell me how I can correct my hypotension? And could you please tell me your title and/or degree/major if you have any. You don't have to be health-care professionals, but if you are, I may read your suggestions more carefully, since you have degrees in the medical field.

My mom told me that my dad used to have low BP, and he started biking regularly. My mom said that my dad's BP has been WNL. But I've never seen my dad checked his BP, so who knows? I thought exercising could only decrease BP. (The exercises I have been doing are jogging, or elliptical striding, and light weight-lifting, and I rarely bike, because I think that biking is not enough exercising. I like sweating and not to be sitting in one place, but biking doesn't make me sweat as much as jogging, and it doesn't burn as much calories.)

References:

PubMed Health

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH000453...

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topi...

Mayo Clinic

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/low-blood-pressur...

Simple Remedies

http://www.simple-remedies.com/home-remedies/low-b...

Thank you very, very much.

Okay... After my extensive research on trans fat & hydrogenated fat... My conclusion is that trans fat = partially or completely hydrogenated oil/fat, correct?

Peanut butter contains hydrogenated vegetable oil. If I assume that there are 0.5 g of trans fat in in serving (2 tablespoons) of peanut butter, and if I eat 2 tbsp of peanut butter daily like I usually have been, I will have eaten 1 g of trans fat every 2 days, 10 grams of trans fat in 20 days, and so on...

Am I going to develop cardiovascular disease(s), or will I have a higher-than-average risk? Because our bodies cannot eliminate trans fat, can they? No matter how much I love and eat whole grains and oatmeals? No matter how in normal range my low-density lipoprotein (LDL), cholesterol, and triglycerides were, and no matter how abnormally low my very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) was when I had them tested last month? (I didn't know that there was something called "VLDL," but I searched it on Google and learned that it was not good to have it high, so having it the lower was probably the better?)

I have lost at least 20 pounds from 140 pounds, by exercising and healty diet (fruits, vegetables, whole grains, oats, and moderate proteins - since too much can be stored as fat), and I've been counting calories and fat intake everyday, and I don't eat foods that I don't think worth eating, such as fatty and/or sugary foods, etc. (I eat about 2/3 of the total fat and 1/2 of sat fat I can eat daily, according to the calculation of my daily caloric value.)

I don't want to get cardiovascular conditions, and it wouldn't be reasonable if I should get any, because I've been so careful with my diet, but I want to make sure that I'm truly careful and look at every aspect of my diet.

Thank you so much!

If I am making a granola bar with 200 calories of oats, 130 calories of rasins, 60 calories of honey. After I bake the granola bar, would the entire (undivided) bar be 390 calories? (The ingredients may be unrealistic to make a granola bar, but I'm just making an example.)

Thank you very much, whoever helps me. =)

Because when I looked at the premixed cake powders, they all labeled 2 columns of nutritional facts, with one column for mixed paste, and another for baked cakes, does that mean that baking would add calories to foods?

And the definition of calorie is the energy required to raise 1 g of water to 1 degree Celsius, and baking would cause chemical reaction, so then - am I thinking too hard and complicated?? :P

I learned that the phosphoric acid in soda increases the risk of osteoporosis, because it decreases the absoprtion of calcium.

If I leave a bottle of (diet) soda open, I would be de-carbonating that soda, correct? Then, would I be removing the phosphoric acid as well?

I'm not good at chemistry, and I don't understand the relationship between phosphoric acid and carbon, so please explain to me if I'm not making sense. Thank you very much.

Fibers are good for the GI, and they promote bowel movement. But if a person has been consuming more than minimum amount of fibers daily, and has been having bowel movements without difficulty, would that person's GI system become dependent on fibers and end up having the same side effects of laxative? Such as constipation when only consuming the minimum amount of fibers recommended for a day, or less than minimum amount, for one or two days.

What is the normal range of microalbumin in random urine? What does a level of less than 1.2 mg/dL mean? (I can't believe that I couldn't find the answer online.) Thank you very much.

Here's a picture of the food that I'm going to describe and ask about: http://i.imgur.com/XEnNj.jpg

Does anybody know what the name of this food is? A friend of my mom's brought this back home from a senior center, and she gave this to my mom. I don't know if this food is a known by many people, or if the senior center just created it.

It's about 3 by 4 inches and 1 1/2 inches thick. It looks, feels, and tastes like cream cheese is a big portion of the ingredients. The food is white (with raisins), it becomes soft and tender when heated, and it tastes like cream cheese. Although it tastes only a bit like cream cheese, it becomes obvious when the container that the food has been placed in leaves traces of cream cheese, and I mean fresh and semi-liquid cream cheese.

Thank you very much for finding out the answer and solve this long-time mystery to me! =)

I'll try to make my questions easier to be read and understand:

(1) Are we supposed to be consuming zero milligram of caffeine daily?

I didn't have the habit of drinking coffee before, but I found that the taste of coffee is really good, so I recently started to drink coffee.

I don't think I'm addicted to caffeine, because I don't experience the prominent side effects that come from caffeine. I don't feel excited or moody, nor will I be waken up - definitely not, since I feel ill and even more tired if I drink regular coffee - but I get upset stomach and elevated blood glucose.

I usually drink decaffeinated coffee. However, the ones with flavors are usually caffeinated, so it means that sometimes I'm drinking more caffeine than usual. I also experience the effects that I have with regular (plain) coffee, but not as intensely.

And if I'm drinking coffee in the following pattern as a habit:

- 2-3 cups of 8 oz. coffee

--- Decaf and 1/2 caf. coffee alternately

Assume that I fill my 24-ounce mug full everytime:

-On some days I'll be consuming about 6-36 mg of caffeine

---From decaf coffee with 2-12 mg in every 8 oz.

-Sometimes I'll be consuming 150-180 mg of caffeine

---From 1/2 caf. coffee with 50-60 mg in every 8 oz.

(2) Would my health be at risk? I mean nervous system, cardiovascular system, etc.

I love my (physical) heart with all my heart, because it enables me to jog at least 30 minutes straight on the treadmill, I don't want to kill it, and in turn killing myself.

Please tell me the detail of the truth - I can cut down the frequency, and/or amount of intake of coffee to a specified/recommended value, or even make drinking coffee an occasional thing, if necessary.

Thank you very, very, much!

I'm using TrueCrypt to protect my USB flash drive with a password. But I installed the software on my laptop and set the password using my laptop, so I'm worried that I won't be able to open my USB on another computer that doesn't have TrueCrypt, such as one at my college. Can my USB still opened on another computer?

Thank you for your help.

Does anyone know the calories in one French chocolate, Lindt Champs Elysées A La Folie? One of my friends received a package of it from France, and she shared a few with me.

I feel bad for asking her to check the caloric value for me, but I really want to know how many calories it has, otherwise I won't feel secure eating it. I might have one of those chocolates and be skipping one meal.

Thank you very much.

I've had diabetes for more than 5 years, and I just read some articles online about how sweeteners can cause loss of taste. Now I'm beginning to worry and correlate my high threshold for taste with sweetners, and I believe that sweetners could have caused my sense of taste to be lost.

Maybe that's why I never understood how manufacturers of sweetners usually claim that they taste sweeter than sugar. Maybe that's why I usually have to put several packages of sweetener into my drinks and salt and pepper into my food.

But how do sweeteners cause the loss of taste? Do they work like drugs that cause tolerance so that users need greater "doses" to achieve the desired effect? Do they partially/completely damage the neurons that have gustatory receptors? Or how exactly do sweetners work?

If I stop or reduce my intake of sweetners for a period of time, would my sense of taste return? Because I learned from Anatomy & Physiology class that neurons don't regenerate once they are damaged. That sounds very sad. Neurons are such amazing and precious cells... (although other cells of the human body are as well...)

Does diabetic neuropathy affect sense of taste? Is there any diagnostic test for gustatory problems/diseases?

I found that I'm really adding very strong flavors in food, but I'm not sure if it's my sensory or perception that's dictating this.

I have diabetes, so I'm afraid that I have neuropathy in my tongue. I've never heard of neuropathy affecting sense of taste, other than extremities, but it doesn't mean that there's no case like such.

Example 1:

I usually add at least 5 packages of sugar substitute in a 12-ounce coffee. (The sugar substitutes are usually aspartame or sucralose, because I feel that saccharin tastes unusually bitter as "sugar" substitutue.) And I think (or taste??) that dark roasted coffee has realer coffee taste, because they'll bitter. (I like the bitterness in coffee, but at the same time, I like the sweetness in sugar sub, but I don't put too much creamer, because I like my coffee bitter-sweet.)

Example 2:

I not only like black pepper, but I also put *a lot* of it in my food, and when my friends who eat with me are like "That's a lot of pepper," I'm like "It's not really that spicy. I usually put about 6 packages of those small Sysco.co packaged pepper in a... maybe 2-ounce salad, but I don't add more salt, since I think the salad dressing taste enough. It's also because the dressing that I usually get has 410 mg of sodium in 2 tablespoon.

So.... I don't know. I seem to be eating strong flavors, but I seem not.

BUT I'm still worried, because I like mints a lot (peppermint, spearmint, freshmint, mint of any type), and I've eaten a lof mints since I was younger. But I heard that mints and spicy foods damage sense of taste. I also have accidentally burned my tongue several times from drinking hot content (I know a lot of people have this experience, but each individual's cells are different). Do mints - especially peppermints - affect sense of taste?

Would I have killed the neurons, or cells with sensing receptors in my tongue?? (I'm worried, because I know that neurons are amazingly precious - although any other part of human body is. Neurons don't regenerate once they die... )=

Thank you so, so, very much! =)

If Kegel exercise is done during urination - meaning constricting Kegel muscle and relaxing it to continue urination - would overly constricting the muscle retain urine in the bladder? I usually feel like after I've constricted the muscle, the urine flow decreases to less than the amount before I did the Kegel exercise.

What I mean is that, if I was urinating 3 seconds before, and after holding my Kegel muscle for 3 seconds and continue to urinate, I feel like I don't have much urine left to void, as if I had held it in my bladder when I did the exercise. Or maybe when I do the Kegel exercise, I'm usually almost done with urinating?

Thank you very much.