Spring break is only a few weeks away, just in time to get the perfect body for hitting the beach and showing it off.
To help, I have created a simple three step program for how to get the perfect spring break body.
Step one, have a body.
Check? Good.
Step two, Go on spring break.
Done? Perfect.
Step three, mission complete.
You now have a perfect spring break body.
By no means am I saying this means we have the freedom to eat as many cookies as we want and not exercise. But unfortunately, what we believe the perfect body to be is rooted in dangerously deceptive traditions.
Let us start with one of the most commonly used measures of how we measure if someone has a “healthy” weight or not — the body mass index.
A Belgian mathematician Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet came up with the BMI scale in the 19th century. The troubling thing about this is that Quetelet wasn’t a medical doctor, he wasn’t a physician — he was a mathematician. In fact, the original intent behind the index was not to determine if someone was overweight or not, but to give a quick way for doctors (200 years ago) to determine the level of obesity in a population so that the government could appropriately allocate resources.
Anyone familiar with statistics would also be familiar with the phrase, “there are lies, damned lies and statistics.” The BMI index is a combination of all three.
The way BMI is calculated is by taking the weight of a person in kilograms, then dividing that by the height of a person, which has been squared. Why? There’s no real reason to square someone’s height in this instance. Unless of course, Quetelet was trying to rig his formula to fit existing data. Which is exactly what he was doing.
BMI can be useful in some contexts, like measuring a relative level of obesity in a general population, but relying on it alone cannot be used to determine if someone is healthy or not.
Let’s just say you are not happy with the amount of weight that seems to be hanging around your midsection. Believe me, I’m with you on that one. So, the best thing to do in that case would be to go on a diet right? Maybe you’ve turned to the television and decided to go with the advice of someone who purports to be a health expert. Dr. Mehmet Oz — better known by his stage name — Dr. Oz.
From peddling green coffee extract, Umckaloabo Root Extract, or garcinia cambogia, many may be led to believe that by eating the pills or potions Dr. Oz pedals on his show can lead you to get the perfect spring break bod.
While those may promise fast weight loss and shrinking your problem areas, they are nothing more than the snake oil of the 21st Century. An article in the Los Angeles Times found that, when compared with actual science, you know, the kind that goes through testing and is peer-reviewed, that less than one-third of the claims made on the show are factual.
OK so maybe don’t get your information from the Dr. Oz show — but cutting out fat should be good, right? Eating fat must then turn into fat in our bodies must mean that it turns into fat in our bodies. Well, not really. Not to mention that eating lots of fat has to be bad for our hearts — probably one of the reasons heart attacks are so common. Right? Wrong.
According to an interview published on the University of Utah Health website, sugar is the more likely culprit of heart problems. When we eat too much sugar, as most Americans do, our liver simply can’t process it. As a result, it is stored as fat.
What’s even worse is that, because we’ve bought into the low-fat diet fad, a lot of the mega-corporations have sucked the fat right out of our foods. But with the fat gone, we’re left with flavorless food. In order to add flavor back in, the corporations added something more addictive than cocaine, and lots of it — sugar.
With the fad diets from TV shows and conventional wisdom gone, one can often be left feeling helpless.
Now believe me, looking at the photos either on Instagram or in magazines of ripped, chiseled (usually photoshopped) people who seem to live at the gym can be extremely difficult — especially when it seems all you have to do is look at a hamburger and gain 20 pounds.
I won’t pretend that I haven’t been that person.
I’ve struggled with my weight for most of my life. At the young age of only 14, I was obese. Chronically so. I was 190 pounds and was only 5 feet 6 inches tall.
It wasn’t healthy. Everyday I would wake up, and my joints would ache. I had trouble going up stairs more than one flight. I hated the way I looked in the mirror. But what was most damaging about all of that was the mocking and teasing I experienced.
Every time we had to go swimming for gym class, I dreaded taking off my shirt because I didn’t want people to see the fat on my body.
I’m not alone in this. Most Americans, according to a survey from the Centers for Disease Control, are conscious about their weight. This has led us to bounce from diet to diet, from workout plan to workout plan, with no success.
The question then becomes what to do about it.
When I was a little boy, my grandmother always told me that you never make a judgement on someone if it’s not something they can’t fix in five seconds. Bad haircut? Can’t be fixed in five seconds. Food on their face? Can be fixed in five seconds. Chronic misinformation over years about what to eat leading to someone being overweight? For sure cannot be fixed in five seconds.
As a society, we have to stop passing judgments on people for things that at that moment, they can do nothing to make the problem instantaneously better. We ought to encourage them to take charge of their life and live it however they darn well please. There are enough problems in our own lives that deserve our attention for us to be fixated on how much someone weighs.
So with the opportunity to hit the beach coming up soon, let’s all resolve that the perfect spring break body isn’t an ideal we should all be forced to conform to.
The URI or path of a HTTP request doesn’t have any hard limits in terms of how long it’s allowed to be.
However, Browsers and search engines have limits, and on the server side it’s a good idea to limit the length of the URI to combat certain denial-of-service attacks or bugs.
Based on limits of browsers, it’s a good idea to try and not exceed 2000 bytes for the uri.
When a client does exceed it, the appropriate status code to return is
414 URI Too Long.
HTTP/1.1 414 URI Too Long
Content-Type: text/html
<p>Insufficient level of conciseness in request</p>
The PHP.net website has in the last 20 years made use of an extensive network of mirrors to make the PHP documentation available, and distribute source tarballs. These mirrors have been maintained by members and companies in the PHP eco-system for many valuable years. However, the administration of the mirror system is often haphazard, with few contributors helping out—PHP is Open Source, and this is simply how these things can go.
Maintaining the mirrors is now no longer sustainable, and also hinders the take up of moving the PHP.net website fully to HTTPS. Because the PHP.net team has no access to the mirror servers, we also can't make sure the mirrors are up-to-date, and some mirrors are still running PHP 5.3.
It is likely no longer necessary to have a mirror system in place, as unlike 20 years ago, it is not nearly has hard as setting up a distributed cache system. As a matter of fact, some of the PHP.net web site, through http://www.php.net/, already sits behind a Content Delivery Network (CDN) from Myra, which is sponsored by long time PHP contributor Sascha Schumann.
With these preliminaries out of the way, I would therefore like to announce the discontinuation of PHP.net's mirroring program. Instead of having mirrors, we are moving all of PHP.net to HTTPS (and get rid of https://secure.php.net), and move them behind Myra's CDN, with the same local content delivery opportunities, but at significantly less administration requirements.
Watch this space for further developments!
To end this post, I would very much like to thank all the mirror maintainers for their dedication, time, and bandwidth over all these years. Thanks!
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Spring break is only a few weeks away, just in time to get the perfect body for hitting the beach and showing it off.
To help, I have created a simple three step program for how to get the perfect spring break body.
Step one, have a body.
Check? Good.
Step two, Go on spring break.
Done? Perfect.
Step three, mission complete.
You now have a perfect spring break body.
By no means am I saying this means we have the freedom to eat as many cookies as we want and not exercise. But unfortunately, what we believe the perfect body to be is rooted in dangerously deceptive traditions.
Let us start with one of the most commonly used measures of how we measure if someone has a “healthy” weight or not — the body mass index.
A Belgian mathematician Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet came up with the BMI scale in the 19th century. The troubling thing about this is that Quetelet wasn’t a medical doctor, he wasn’t a physician — he was a mathematician. In fact, the original intent behind the index was not to determine if someone was overweight or not, but to give a quick way for doctors (200 years ago) to determine the level of obesity in a population so that the government could appropriately allocate resources.
Anyone familiar with statistics would also be familiar with the phrase, “there are lies, damned lies and statistics.” The BMI index is a combination of all three.
The way BMI is calculated is by taking the weight of a person in kilograms, then dividing that by the height of a person, which has been squared. Why? There’s no real reason to square someone’s height in this instance. Unless of course, Quetelet was trying to rig his formula to fit existing data. Which is exactly what he was doing.
BMI can be useful in some contexts, like measuring a relative level of obesity in a general population, but relying on it alone cannot be used to determine if someone is healthy or not.
Let’s just say you are not happy with the amount of weight that seems to be hanging around your midsection. Believe me, I’m with you on that one. So, the best thing to do in that case would be to go on a diet right? Maybe you’ve turned to the television and decided to go with the advice of someone who purports to be a health expert. Dr. Mehmet Oz — better known by his stage name — Dr. Oz.
From peddling green coffee extract, Umckaloabo Root Extract, or garcinia cambogia, many may be led to believe that by eating the pills or potions Dr. Oz pedals on his show can lead you to get the perfect spring break bod.
While those may promise fast weight loss and shrinking your problem areas, they are nothing more than the snake oil of the 21st Century. An article in the Los Angeles Times found that, when compared with actual science, you know, the kind that goes through testing and is peer-reviewed, that less than one-third of the claims made on the show are factual.
OK so maybe don’t get your information from the Dr. Oz show — but cutting out fat should be good, right? Eating fat must then turn into fat in our bodies must mean that it turns into fat in our bodies. Well, not really. Not to mention that eating lots of fat has to be bad for our hearts — probably one of the reasons heart attacks are so common. Right? Wrong.
According to an interview published on the University of Utah Health website, sugar is the more likely culprit of heart problems. When we eat too much sugar, as most Americans do, our liver simply can’t process it. As a result, it is stored as fat.
What’s even worse is that, because we’ve bought into the low-fat diet fad, a lot of the mega-corporations have sucked the fat right out of our foods. But with the fat gone, we’re left with flavorless food. In order to add flavor back in, the corporations added something more addictive than cocaine, and lots of it — sugar.
With the fad diets from TV shows and conventional wisdom gone, one can often be left feeling helpless.
Now believe me, looking at the photos either on Instagram or in magazines of ripped, chiseled (usually photoshopped) people who seem to live at the gym can be extremely difficult — especially when it seems all you have to do is look at a hamburger and gain 20 pounds.
I won’t pretend that I haven’t been that person.
I’ve struggled with my weight for most of my life. At the young age of only 14, I was obese. Chronically so. I was 190 pounds and was only 5 feet 6 inches tall.
It wasn’t healthy. Everyday I would wake up, and my joints would ache. I had trouble going up stairs more than one flight. I hated the way I looked in the mirror. But what was most damaging about all of that was the mocking and teasing I experienced.
Every time we had to go swimming for gym class, I dreaded taking off my shirt because I didn’t want people to see the fat on my body.
I’m not alone in this. Most Americans, according to a survey from the Centers for Disease Control, are conscious about their weight. This has led us to bounce from diet to diet, from workout plan to workout plan, with no success.
The question then becomes what to do about it.
When I was a little boy, my grandmother always told me that you never make a judgement on someone if it’s not something they can’t fix in five seconds. Bad haircut? Can’t be fixed in five seconds. Food on their face? Can be fixed in five seconds. Chronic misinformation over years about what to eat leading to someone being overweight? For sure cannot be fixed in five seconds.
As a society, we have to stop passing judgments on people for things that at that moment, they can do nothing to make the problem instantaneously better. We ought to encourage them to take charge of their life and live it however they darn well please. There are enough problems in our own lives that deserve our attention for us to be fixated on how much someone weighs.
So with the opportunity to hit the beach coming up soon, let’s all resolve that the perfect spring break body isn’t an ideal we should all be forced to conform to.
FTC announced the settlement on its website last week. The agency cited a supplement marketer named Cure Encapsulations, Inc. and its owner Naftula Jacobowitz, for making allegations that they made false and unsubstantiated claims for their garcinia cambogia weight-loss supplement and that they paid a third-party website to write and post fake reviews on amazon.com.
FTC alleged that under the scheme, the third party, doing business at the now defunct website amazonverifiedreviews.com, was paid to post false and misleading reviews of the product “Quality Encapsulations Garcinia Cambogia Extract with HCA.”
FTC alleges that Jacobowitz told the third party that his product had at least an average rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars to generate adequate sales. “Please make my product … stay a five star,” FTC alleges that Jacobowitz told the third party.
“People rely on reviews when they’re shopping online,” said Andrew Smith, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “When a company buys fake reviews to inflate its Amazon ratings, it hurts both shoppers and companies that play by the rules.”
The FTC’s complaint also alleges that the defendants made false and unsubstantiated claims on their Amazon product page, including through the purchased reviews, that their garcinia cambogia product is a “powerful appetite suppressant,” “Literally BLOCKS FAT From Forming,” causes significant weight loss, including as much as twenty pounds, and causes rapid and substantial weight loss, including as much as two or more pounds per week.
Under the proposed agreement, the defendants are blocked from making any weight-loss, appetite-suppression, fat-blocking, or disease-treatment claims for any dietary supplement, food, or drug unless they have competent and reliable scientific evidence in the form of human clinical testing supporting the claims.
In addition, it prohibits them from making misrepresentations regarding endorsements, including that an endorsement is truthful or by an actual user.
The order next requires the defendants to email notices to consumers who bought Quality Encapsulations Garcinia Cambogia capsules detailing the FTC’s allegations regarding their efficacy claims. In addition, the order requires the defendants to notify Amazon, Inc. that they purchased Amazon reviews of their Quality Encapsulations Garcinia Cambogia capsules and to identify to Amazon the purchased reviews.
The defendants were required to pay an upfront, $50,000 fee to settle the case. A nominal $12.8 million fine has been imposed that will only come due if the defendants violate the agreement.
Attorney Ivan Wasserman, a partner in the firm Amin Talati Upadhye, said while the case breaks new ground, it points out something that has been true for a while, that being that having a robust social media policy is part of playing in the modern retail landscape.
“This is the first time that FTC has gone after a company posting fake reviews about their products. I don’t think it is any secret that that happens,” Wasserman told NutraIngredients-USA.
“Amazon is so incredibly important and for a lot of supplement companies it’s their only sales channel. But it’s patently deceptive to post fake reviews,” he said.
“It’s very important for companies to have a social media policy in place and show that employees have read and acknowledged the social media policy,” he said.
Such a policy could protect a company even if some of its employees, an over ambitions sales leader for example, might take matters into their own hands on the review front.
“The only way FTC got their hands on what the defendants said to the third party would have been through discovery. To hold a company responsible for fake reviews on Amazon or any other website there would have to be some evidence that either the company knew of or encouraged the activity,” he said.
“It would be a great defense for the company be able to show that the employee did that in direct contravention to a policy they signed,” Wasserman concluded.
The attorney who represents the company, August Horvath, of the law firm Foley Hoag, sent this statement on the FTC action:
“Cure Encapsulations was alleged to have bought a small number of fake reviews between Oct of 2014 and June of 2015 to counter against fake negative reviews posted by competitors. The reviews in question were minimal in number, were quickly removed from amazon.com, and we believe that not more than 5 of those reviews were left. We regret that one of our employees engaged in such acts since it opposes our ethical standards. Many companies’ online storefronts up to this date are filled with fake reviews, we can attest that we received more than 12,000 real reviews from real people, and we adhere to a strict code of conduct. “
Exercises for abs are an important way to strengthen your midsection, also known as your core, and to give you stability and awesome looking abs.
Everyone thinks that there is some kind of a secret but really the best way to build a great set of abs and get that stable core is to diet, stretch, and work the right muscles in the right way.
First things first, even with a great set of abdominal muscles you are going to have trouble showing them off if you have even a thin slab of fat covering them up. So it is important to keep your down.
Next comes stretching. I want to make sure that you have a useful set of muscles when you have strengthened them. One of the best ways to have great muscles is to make sure that you have been stretching so that you can have the range of motion that goes along with the increased strength and stability that the following exercises will give you.
Finally we get to the exercises themselves that will help get you stronger.
There are three parts that you want to work on in your abdominal area. There are the upper abs, lower abs, and the obliques, which are the muscles on your sides right above your hips.
The way to work your upper abdominals is to exercises that lift your upper body off of the ground. This could be as simple as doing crunches, situps or a curl up.
These exercises will put pressure on your upper abs. As far as sets and reps go you will want to do 2 sets of 20-25 reps 3 times a week. Some people say to do ab exercises everyday but this will lead to overtraining I believe.
To work the lower abdominals you need to lift your legs off the ground while lying down. There are a few exercises that I like and those are leg raises, and seated knee ups on a bench.
Again the best way to work your your core is to do 2 sets of 20-25 reps of each exercises, 3 times a week on non-consecutive days.
Your obliques are on your sides and the best way to work these muscles is to make sure that you are putting pressure on your sides by lifting or twisting on each side.
The easiest exercise to start with is by standing up straight and leaning to one side, then straight back up, and then leaning to the other side.
This may seem easy but you will feel it tomorrow.
Another exercise that works well is twists, just sit on a bench and then rotate around facing one side and then rotating around to face the other side.
Again a couple of sets of each of these exercises are quite doable and should not be very hard or tiring, you will feel it the next day though.
If you are doing these ab exercises every two or three days they should not take you more than about 10 minutes a workout. This will get you in better shape and you will notice big changes within 3 to 4 weeks at most.
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