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Use A Diet, Less Food, Less Storage, myfitnesspal.com
Updated: Jun 26, 2012 Arthur C
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Use A Diet, Less Food, Less Storage, myfitnesspal.com
Planning Your Body
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Many TL people are overweight. This is the product of their diet, over getting older and being unemployed and underutilized. The Community Kitchens, like St Anthonys, provide high calorie meals, and multiple meals, if you want them. Seniors get especial attention. Older people jusy seem to put on weight or they may have conditions, like diabetes, that result from diet. When you're out-of-work, you get out-of-shape. You don't have the energy demand and responsibilities of the normal work lifestyle. You can eat or drink what you like, sleep all day and there is little requirement for exercise. In addition, many TL residents drink a lot of alcohol , which adds weight, in addition to its debilitating effects.

If residents developed their own diet with a goal to lose some pounds together with an exercise program, they would need less food, and they would be healthier, myfitnesspal.com is a way to establish and monitor such a program. It sets targets for meals on a daily basis and plots the effects of what you eat and how much you exercise. It is a social website. It is said that diets are only effective if you collaborate with other dieters with similar goals. You need to learn more about nutrition, to eat foods that will benefit your body. With continued exposure to high calorie diets and processed foods, the program can assist people to restore their potential full longevity, than lose 20 years, as TL residents are expected to do. Yes, you need a computer and the internet to work with it. There are very few TL residents with computers

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