Forth, other negative effect of alcohol.
People use drinking some wine to help them sleep, but the sleep won’t be very deep; as a result, people get less rest. Alcohol makes the stomach produce more acid causing the stomach inflamed; moreover, alcohol abuse leads to serious health problems－ stomach ulcers, liver disease, and heart diseases.
If you are going to have a drink later, you should eat a healthy meal first. Do not drink wine with an empty stomach. In this way it not only can protect your stomach but also can avoid overdrinking. Just as you drink out with friends, so you can do exercise over thirty minutes to balance your calories—but not skipping a meal.
Dieters need to watch calories, for you to know that one gram alcohol contains 7 calories; moreover, there is no nutrition in it. There is another important thing to pay attention is not mixing alcohol with other drinks, which will gain more calories. If you are going to mix liquor with anything, you should choose a diet or club soda, not fruit juice or regular soda; furthermore, dry wines usually have fewer calories than sweet ones.
2010年4月29日 星期四
The author provides a chart which lists the wines with the calories for people to think what kind of the wine they should order.
Drink Serving Size Calories
Red wine 5 oz. 100
White wine 5 oz. 100
Champagne 5 oz. 130
Light beer 12 oz. 105
Regular beer 12 oz. 140
Dark beer 12 oz. 170
Cosmopolitan 3 oz. 165
Martini 3 oz. 205
Long Island iced tea 8 oz. 400
Gin & Tonic 8 oz. 175
Rum & Soda 8 oz. 180
Margarita 8 oz. 200
Whiskey Sour 4 oz. 200
I took a diet program two years ago, the instructor warned us not drinking any wine, including beer. According to my father’s case, I think my instructor is right about it. As I mentioned before, I (as a successful dieter) recommend you water to drink, not juice, coke or soda. Therefore, my dear friends who are reading my blog: If you are on a diet, if you still want to have a drink, then you have to choose wisely.
Alcohol and Weight Loss─Can You Have Both?
Vocabulary:
metabolize 使新陳代謝 to turn food, minerals, etc. in the body into new
cells, energy and waste products by means of
chemical processes.
diuretic 利尿劑 a substance that causes an increase in the flow of
urine
dehydration 脫水 losing too much water from your body
inflamed 發炎的 (of a part of the body) red, sore and hot because of
infection or injury
club soda 蘇打水 soda water
(調酒用)
magnesium 鎂 mineral
potassium 鉀 mineral
calcium 鈣 mineral
zinc 鋅 mineral
2010年4月12日 星期一
Doctors Use Wii Games for Rehab Therapy
Except the diet of food, I suggest people who want to lose weight should have more exercises to burn the extra calories. Averagely, the figure as I was－183 centimeters tall, 105 weight－needs 2000 calories input a day. I can not do many activities as normal people do; therefore, my parents bought the exercising equipments as the therapists have offered to help me exercise at home. I love to play Wii－occupational therapy when I was in the hospital and back home. Playing and rehabilitating at the same time; moreover, Wii helps me lose weight, too.
Therefore, I would like to introduce you an article “Doctors Use Wii Games for Rehab Therapy” By Lindsey Tanner, from The Associated Press, February 9, 2008.
http://conversation.cgu.edu/ebhc/files/519/2880/WiiTherapy.pdf
Here is the summary of the article:
"Wii habilitation."－ Nintendo's Wii video game system becomes popular. It is not only the teen TV games but also becomes a trend in rehab therapy for patients recovering from strokes, broken bones, surgery and even combat injuries.
The traditional physical therapy: stretching and lifting exercises－painful, repetitive and boring－but they help the sick or injured regain their strength, and they have to do them. To tell the truth, many patients think PT (physical therapy) really is a “pain and torture”, said James Osborn who works at Herrin Hospital Illinois.
Therefore, I would like to introduce you an article “Doctors Use Wii Games for Rehab Therapy” By Lindsey Tanner, from The Associated Press, February 9, 2008.
http://conversation.cgu.edu/ebhc/files/519/2880/WiiTherapy.pdf
Here is the summary of the article:
"Wii habilitation."－ Nintendo's Wii video game system becomes popular. It is not only the teen TV games but also becomes a trend in rehab therapy for patients recovering from strokes, broken bones, surgery and even combat injuries.
The traditional physical therapy: stretching and lifting exercises－painful, repetitive and boring－but they help the sick or injured regain their strength, and they have to do them. To tell the truth, many patients think PT (physical therapy) really is a “pain and torture”, said James Osborn who works at Herrin Hospital Illinois.
Doctors Use Wii Games for Rehab Therapy
On the contrary, using the Wii game－ motion-sensitive controller, the movements are so similar to traditional therapy exercises, but patients become so interested in the game. As Osborn said, “In the Wii system, because it's kind of a game format, it does create this kind of inner competitiveness. You may be boxing or playing tennis against some figure. On the screen, it's amazing how many of our patients want to beat their opponent...When people can refocus their attention from the tediousness of the physical task, oftentimes they do much better…" The most popular Wii games as physical therapy as sports－baseball, bowling, boxing, golf and tennis are fun to operate. Patients wave a wireless controller which directs the actions of animated athletes on the screen and at the same time patients achieve movements with fun.
The Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital at the west of Chicago recently bought a Wii system for its spinal cord injury unit. Pfc. Matthew Turpen who is 22 years old; he paralyzed from the chest down in a car accident stationing in Germany last year－playing Wii golf and bowling from his wheelchair at Hines. “A lot of people don't have full finger function so it definitely helps being able to work on using your fingers more and figuring out different ways to use your hands and arms”, Turpen said. It is the same situation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the therapy is suitable to patients injured during combat in Iraq, who tends to be in the 19 to 25 age range－a group that's "very into" playing video games. WakeMed Health has been using Wii games at its Raleigh, N.C.Hospital for patients from 9 years old to people in their 80s. "They're getting improved endurance, strength, and coordination. I think “it's very entertaining for them”, the therapist Elizabeth Penny said. “It really helps the body to loosen up so it can do what it's supposed to do”, said Billy Perry who is 64 years old, a retired police officer, received Wii therapy at WakeMed after a stroke on Christmas Eve.
Although there's plenty of evidence that Wii games help in rehab, researcher Lars Oddsson, a director of the Sister Kenny Research Center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, wants to put the games to a real test. The center bought a Wii system last summer working with the University of Minnesota to design a study measuring patients' function before and after this “Wii hab as someone called it…You can certainly make a case that some form of endurance related to strength and flexibility, balance and cardio would be challenged when you play the Wii, but hard scientific proof is needed to prove it”, Oddsson said.
Wii actually can provoke the motivation to the patient, but overuse becomes a big problem. As Dr. Julio Bonis of Madrid spent hours playing Wii tennis and got tendonitis as a real tennis player can get. People should pay attention to overuse Wii.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/09/AR2008020900956.html 03.11.2009
After reading the article, I think the motivation of exercising is very important. Doing fun exercising like Wii makes me feel no pain but lots of challenges and pushes me to do the exercise again and again.
The Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital at the west of Chicago recently bought a Wii system for its spinal cord injury unit. Pfc. Matthew Turpen who is 22 years old; he paralyzed from the chest down in a car accident stationing in Germany last year－playing Wii golf and bowling from his wheelchair at Hines. “A lot of people don't have full finger function so it definitely helps being able to work on using your fingers more and figuring out different ways to use your hands and arms”, Turpen said. It is the same situation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the therapy is suitable to patients injured during combat in Iraq, who tends to be in the 19 to 25 age range－a group that's "very into" playing video games. WakeMed Health has been using Wii games at its Raleigh, N.C.Hospital for patients from 9 years old to people in their 80s. "They're getting improved endurance, strength, and coordination. I think “it's very entertaining for them”, the therapist Elizabeth Penny said. “It really helps the body to loosen up so it can do what it's supposed to do”, said Billy Perry who is 64 years old, a retired police officer, received Wii therapy at WakeMed after a stroke on Christmas Eve.
Although there's plenty of evidence that Wii games help in rehab, researcher Lars Oddsson, a director of the Sister Kenny Research Center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, wants to put the games to a real test. The center bought a Wii system last summer working with the University of Minnesota to design a study measuring patients' function before and after this “Wii hab as someone called it…You can certainly make a case that some form of endurance related to strength and flexibility, balance and cardio would be challenged when you play the Wii, but hard scientific proof is needed to prove it”, Oddsson said.
Wii actually can provoke the motivation to the patient, but overuse becomes a big problem. As Dr. Julio Bonis of Madrid spent hours playing Wii tennis and got tendonitis as a real tennis player can get. People should pay attention to overuse Wii.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/09/AR2008020900956.html 03.11.2009
After reading the article, I think the motivation of exercising is very important. Doing fun exercising like Wii makes me feel no pain but lots of challenges and pushes me to do the exercise again and again.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
1. rehab
=rehabilitation 康復 the process of helping to cure somebody who has
a problem with health
2. animated 栩栩如生 alive; of pictures, drawings, etc. make to look as if they are moving as real
3. Pfc. (陸軍)
一等兵 soldier: private first class
4. paralyze 癱瘓 become powerless and unable to function
5. tendonitis 肌腱炎 inflammation of a tendon
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