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Eat bad and Die

I have seen the article Death By Junk Food a few times over the last few days. The story is about a 20 year old boy that ate nothing but french fries and junk food and died of liver disease at 20. This may be a sad story or a wake up call for bad diets but to me mostly it is a reflection on how badly people can eat and have family and friends around them just let it go.

There is not excuse for eating really badly all of the time. I may drink pop and eat chocolate but there is no way that my family or friends or myself for that matter would allow me to eat that way all of the time. There has to be a lower limit to had badly you are willing to eat and this way you can eat everything you should and it you add in a bit of bad food fine. There is no excuse for eating bad food all of the time and then occasionally complaining about your health.

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Burning up calories

I am never sure how many calories I am really burning when I do exercise. Quite often you will have a great workout and according to the numbers you only burned a couple of hundred calories. There is a lot more to calorie burning than what the numbers may say. Some question you should ask yourself are:

How long did you exercise?

How hard was the workout to you?

Did you gain any muscle in the workout?

How long where you tired for after your workout?

You have to remember when you workout that the exercise you did this morning will temporarily raise your metabolism for 12 hours after that workout. Also there is some muscle gain if you didweights or pushed yourself hard.

If you would like to see how much calorie buring you did during your actual workout you can consult a page that I found for this. Just remember to take these numbers with a grain of salt in the larger picture.

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Adderall the new pep pill

I was just reading an article about the Adderall pill in Details magazine on the weekend. Adderall is an ADHD drug that is being prescribed instead of Ritalin to try to dull the effects of ADHD. The article however showed another darker side to using the drug.

What is an Adderall Pill?

An Adderall pill is a combination of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine and there are four reasons that it is used for patients with ADHD:

  • Improve a patient’s attention span.
  • Increase his ability to follow directions.
  • Decrease distractibility among children ages three and older.
  • Decrease impulsivity, stubbornness and aggression.

These are good reasons to take an Adderall pill if it is warranted but more and more professionals are now taking this drug to work more hours and have a better concentration span. The effects are really profound and people have the ability to work a really great 16 or 18 hour day where ususally they could not be very productive after 10 or 12 hours. On the outside it may seem to be a good idea to take Adderall to increase productivity as many people get overloaded with work and have no way to keep up with greater and greater workloads. One of the reasons that this is becoming the drug of choice is that you can get a prescription for this and therefore no have to worry about failing a company drug test.

Side Effects of Adderall Pills

Adderall the new pep pill

Adderall Pill

All good right? But there are some real and dangerous side effects of a simple Adderall pill.

The Adderall pill, because of its composition is very addictive and because of its results it’s the reason that people may want to use it makes it psychologically addictive as well as physically addictive. The more that you use and like the effect of Adderall the more you would like to use it. There are some other very serious side effects such as Heart palpitations, tachycardia (racing heart), elevation of blood pressure. There have also been reports of heart disease associated with chronic amphetamine use. One bizarre but quite possible side effect is psychotic episodes. Mostly however the shakiness and paranoia that are associated with amphetamines are irritating and uncomfortable to the user.

One interesting side effect of an Adderall pill which is kind of like the story of the limitless pill, is the lack of real objectivity. In the article that I read there was great evidence that people that use Adderall think they are doing outstanding work but afterwards realize that maybe it was not quite so great.

This is an issue that we will see more and more of over the next year or two as the popularity of Adderall becomes more and more ingrained in our society. We have seen many of these drugs before and they become very popular as this one has until a few people drop dead at work which forces people to become a little more objective about the danger of Adderall pill.