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Dr. Robert Knight Plum
Tree Medical Center
Bel Air, MD

The Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, remarked in the early 1990s "That not exercising once a day for at least 30 minutes, carries the same risks as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day."

The incidence of obesity and obesity-related illnesses continues to rise in the United States, along with the costs of caring for these conditions. A survey conducted by the American Medical Association revealed that one in every five Americans was obese in 1998; in 1991 the rate was one in eight.

This epidemic of obesity is getting worse. One possibility is that we as a society are less active. Two inventions that contribute to inactivity are television and personal computers, both of which now draw young people into many more hours of immobility than young people experienced in the recent past. Another change is that people drive more and walk less. Less physical activity means fewer calories burned.

We are eating more now in at least two ways, we consume bigger portions and we eat more often. I tell my patients that every trip to the "golden arches" puts you one step closer to the "pearly gates".

A good Basic approach to being healthy is to incorporate good nutrition with regular daily exercise, including cardiovascular and weight training.
- DR Robert Knight

References: l. McCarter, Daniel, Low Carbohydrate diet effective for adults, The Journal of Family Practice, July 2000,Vol. 52, No. 7,5l5-516 2. Weill, Andrew, Eating Well For Optimum Health, Knopf 2000

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Triad Wellness Center

Triad Wellness Center is one of the fastest-growing wellness and weight management programs in Harford County and first to offer ON-LINE Training. Our staff and supportive members are dedicated to provide a comfortable, positive environmnet for people to find the information and support they need to manage their weight and improve their overall awarementss without gimmicks or pressure. We offer both consumer and corporate programs and feel honored to help people reach their health and fitness goals each day.

"Obesity costs U.S. employers more that $13 billion annually, and it also adversely
affects the quality of life and health of their workers."
- Institute on the Costs and Health Effects of Obesity

Triad Wellness Center is here to help you get fit, excel in your training and feel better. Our team is expertly trained in the evaluation or your needs, development of a training plan, and in providing the right training and wellness for you. Our team has years of experience with mom's wanting to loose those extra pounds, that athlete that is training for the next competition or the client that needs a relaxing message.

Kim Nussle, Certified Personal Trainer
Our Founder and President, Kim Nussle, CPT has been in the wellness training industry for over 15 years. She has vast knowledge of individual and group training as well as group fitness instruction including but not limited to weight loss programs and sport specific training. She has many years of experience in organizing, directing, and implementing training programs for all populations.

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Nutritional Counseling

Making Nutrition Work for You
No matter your genetic makeup or goals, 80% of your fitness success is based on nutrition. The remaining 20% is hard work and dedication.

Without proper nutrition, achieving your fitness goals are virtually impossible! Nutrition is the most important part of athletic and fitness achievement.

Nutrition should be consistent, efficient and persistent! With optimal nutrition you will have optimal performance.

No miracle food or pill can guarantee a long and healthy life, but with exercise and some dietary changes you can improve your odds.

Eating for Performance
- Nutrition is just as important as exercise... if not more!
- It is a proven fact that different people need to eat differently
- Nutrition and calorie needs vary depending upon age, body-size, sex, level of physical activity and any special concerns
- A balanced range of services from each of the four food groups is necessary to fuel for endurance.
- The amount of fuel, timing of meals and snacks, and type of fuel is key to optimal performance.
- Not all foods are created equal. The key to healthy nutrition is a daily choice!
- Do You Exhibit Signs of an Unhealthy Diet?
- - - Dry, itchy skin
- - - Hair that has lost its shine
- - - Joints that crack
- - - Short memory span

Whether your goals are to increase energy, gain muscle weight, lose body fat, improve athletic performance or achieve academic success... Nutritional Counseling is the Key to your Fitness Success!

The Absolute Truth About Weight-Management There are two approaches toward weight-management. The first is the "magic-theory." The second is the "Fitness or Lifestyle" approach.

The Magic Approach
The magic-theory often incorporates restricted-calorie starvation diets, pills, hypnosis, pre-packaged foods, etc. You may remember the infamous liquid-diets, grapefruit diets, amphetamine diet pills, the Hollywood Diet, Scarsdale Diet Plans, "fen-phen" and most recently, the Atkins Diet fad. The magic theory approach is appealing because it requires no responsibility. You simply fall into a "system" and "they" tell you what to do. You don¹t even need to think. (You just need to suffer). The system has all the answers. And if you fail, well, then it¹s your fault because you weren¹t a good "dieter." The magic-theory has left millions of people in hopeless despair (and hungry) in their never-ending quest to be thin.

The Fitness Approach
Meanwhile, beneath the clamor of misleading advertising, dieting "gurus" and multi-level weight-loss schemes, the Fitness Industry has quietly and methodically helped millions of people throughout the world achieve long-term weight-management and fitness goals. How? By using common sense! Weight-management programs designed by fitness professionals focus on two primary elements -- proper nutrition and productive exercise.

Fitness experts focus on body-composition (body-fat vs. lean mass) instead of body weight.

You'll also find that many fitness organizations emphasize the physiological aspect of weight-management as opposed to the psychological side. This makes sense since most fitness experts receive their training in exercise physiology, nutrition or other life sciences related to the physical world.

So, it is to that end, the physiological aspect of weight-management, that this page, and our entire web site is dedicated. Fitness will help you understand the delicate balance and interrelationships our bodies maintain with food and exercise.

Everyday Signs that Obesity Rates Are Increasing - CSPI
- Because of safety concerns, the Federal Aviation Administration has instructed he airlines to add ten (10) pounds to approved passenger weights.
- When administering vaccines and drawing blood, doctors now need longer needles to penetrate thicker layers of fat on American bodies.
- Almost 25% of women in their 50's are too large to have their body-fat measured with a traditional skinfold caliper.
- Liposuction is the most commonly performed cosmetic sugical procedure in the U.S. - increasing 118% between 1997 and 2000
- Over the last decade, diabetes rates rose 60% in the U.S. (over half of diabetes cases are due to overweight, poor diet and physical inactivity.)
- Today's size 10 was sold as a women's size 14 in the 1940's.
- The Gap, Limited Too and Target are selling plus-sized clothes for youth.
- Plus-sized boutique Lane Bryant is expected to increase its number of stores from 650 to 1,000 over the next five years. Catherine's Plus Sizes is projected to increase from 470 to 700 stores. The plus-size clothing market generates $23 billion in sales each year, accounting for a quarter of women's clothing sales.
- Nike changed the size scale for it's women's fitness apparel. A small sports bra used to fit a woman with a 33-inch to 35-inch bust. Now it fits a 35- to 37-inch bust.
- One of the reasons the Boston Red Sox decided to rebuild the legendary Fenway Park was that the seats were too narrow for today's fan.

What You Should Know About the New Trans Fat Label Regulation
WASHINGTON‹ July 9, 2003 - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced a final rule requiring food manufacturers to list trans fat on Nutrition Facts labels. The move will spur companies to reformulate products and to let consumers know how much of this dangerous and heretofore hidden fat is in packaged foods.

While the rule will require labels to list grams of trans fat, the rule is weaker than the proposal issued by the FDA in 1999. For instance, the new labels will not place the amount of trans fat into the context of a day¹s diet. Several experts have urged the FDA to use the existing Daily Value for saturated fat - 20 grams per day - as the new combined DV for saturated plus trans fat. That way, consumers could look to one Daily Value for both heart-disease promoting fats. Canada requires food manufacturers to treat trans fat in that way.

In another retreat from its 1999 proposal, the FDA will allow food manufacturers to use claims like "low in saturated fat" on labels for products that have a lot of trans fat.

"The new labels will let consumers compare trans fat content from product to product, and that will be a great step forward," said CSPI nutrition policy director Margo Wootan. "It will be hard, though, for people to tell if a given number of grams of trans fat is a lot or a little. Five grams may not seem like a lot, but it is."

While small amounts of trans fat occur naturally in meat and dairy foods, most comes from the partially hydrogenated oils used to make French fries, crackers, margarine, cookies, pastries, and other processed foods. Food manufacturers use hydrogen to turn liquid vegetable oil into semi-solid shortening. Last year, the National Academy of Sciences confirmed that trans fat is about as harmful as saturated fat.

"I hope that food manufacturers begin reformulating their products to reduce levels of trans fat and saturated fat in foods," said CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson. "And although this rule does not apply to restaurants, the frying oil used by many chains is a major source of trans fat. Restaurants should switch to healthier frying oils to help lower the nation¹s rates of heart disease."

A few companies, like Frito Lay and Lipton, have already taken steps to eliminate trans fat in some products. But McDonald's, which last September announced with great fanfare its proposal to reduce saturated and trans fat in its fried foods, quietly reneged on its pledge earlier this year.

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