FIT-2-FLIX 4 Diabetes

2 out of 3 American’s are obese, and 30.3 million Americans – 9.4% of the U.S. population – have diabetes.

What if, we could use movies to give diabetics a push that inspires them to cinematic elevation to not just watch a movie but get fit with it; for the purpose of creating a positive lifestyle change in the fight to help end diabetes and cure obesity?

Diabetes is a group of diseases that result in too much sugar in the blood (high blood glucose). Whereas, the most common types are:

Type 2 diabetes – A chronic condition that affects the way the body processes blood sugar (glucose).
Type 1 diabetes – A chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin.
Prediabetes – A condition in which blood sugar is high, but not high enough to be type 2 diabetes.
Gestational diabetes – A form of high blood sugar affecting pregnant women.

To better help educate you on this global health problem, watch the ‘Fed-Up’ documentary trailer below that investigates how the American food industry may be responsible for more sickness than previously realized that is told by the filmmaker Stephanie Soechtig and journalist Katie Couric.

To see the full documentary of ‘Fed Up’ you can go to Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/70299287 and watch it there.

KEY POINTERS FROM THE ‘FED-UP’ DOCUMENTARY:

Our fight against obesity is making things worse.
A generation is doing what their parents have done, and not developing new habits.
The generation wants to loose weight, but don’t know how as we are putting the blame on them.
Eat less, exercise more is the common solution that we go by.
The things that they are doing to combat obesity is: diet, fitness, and research and education.
The cure that we are telling people to do is the wrong cure, whereas, energy-balance is the solution.
The food industry is at the heart of the problem.
Soda increases the risk of obesity by 60%, and all calories contribute to it.
Sugar increases the risk of diabetes by 22%.
The message of the industry (food) get embedded into us, as its our self-esteem that will determine our diet or what kind of diet or fitness we will have. For example, if a child thinks they are too fat they may feel hopeless and result back to there old ways of eating with no exercise and the messages on TV will just fuel it. But put them in front of positive food messages and encourage their self-esteem will get them headed in a good direction for a diet and exercise plan.
Insulin can block your brain of feeling full, as insulin comes from the liver when it is over-worked.
Sugar makes you crave more as less sugar; less fat will help fix this.
It seems like when we changed to a new market, we changed the way we eat.
If we reduce the cravings, we reduce the appetite. Resulting to better to less eating and self-esteem that can encourage an exercise plan.
Food addiction is a real thing that lights up your brain like any other drug.
Clue: “We see food we get hungry,” the food industry and media can fuel this as this hijacks our brain to go in this direction. We make food in to entertainment by adding cartoons and making it look fun.
Diabetes makes it worse, because you are always thirsty and hungry.
With processed foods you can dial up and down the carbs.
We can buy healthy foods, so when we are the on the run, to-go, we will automatically pick up the healthy item instead of the junk food item.
It’s the food not people, as the food is a part of the governments policy.
Healthy food could look more entertaining and fun looking, just like junk food looks fun and entertaining. For example, we can do fruit pizza (bread spread with vanilla yogurt, topped with bananas, peaches, kiwi, strawberries, mango, blueberries and low-fat sprinkles.
Change the way we think about food, changes the way we will act towards it.
Healthy habits and buying patterns will help people keep up in to adult-hood.
Food commercials inspire us to eat more; as all we are doing is sitting and watching and not really doing nothing. Which makes us reach for the junk food, in this we could be tricking our brain into thinking we are doing something when really we are not. Another alternative is to help people make better decisions with food and to uses movies to give them momentum to not just watch TV/movie but get up an exercise with it, as a they move to a movie with their favorite healthy snacks.
Thin people can be fat on the inside, so I must be really fat on the inside because I love food. This also can tie in with just because someone is thin doesn’t mean they are healthy, and a fat person can be healthy then they may look.
It’s a problem of everybody, and not just for the obese person as we all experience bad health.
We change how we perceive the product, being deceptive and misleading for what it really is as we make food look like our friends.
If you want to cure obesity you have to demonize the food industry.
The food environment pushes us to eat more, and that makes us want to work so hard to want to stay healthy.

HOW FLICK-FITNESS CAN HELP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DIABETES?

To put it simply, it inspires you to not just watch a movie but get fit with as it consists of 5-10 easy exercises that you can do from home while watching a movie.

On the movie side: Movies are a window where one can experience a story as a relatable character perceives it and walk in another’s shoes to get a different perspective on a similar situation that the character is seen going through the same thing without having to pay the cost. For the purpose of seeing your life in a new light that inspires you to call goal into existence, by practicing creative imagination and working towards seeing that dream fulfilled, in spite of what life might look on the outside.

Not to mention, after watching a movie; we’re inspired by either cinematic admiration “refers to the ability of movies to promote altruism, such that a viewer is inspired to perform acts to improve the welfare of others after watching a portrayal of virtue, goodness, and/or character strength. Or cinematic elevation, refers to the ability of movies to promote self-improvement or goal setting” (qtd. Ryan Niemiec).

On the fitness side: You probably have heard the phrase, “a 10-minute exercise is as equivalent to an hour in the gym.” Well that’s correct as I am going to show you 10 exercises that you can do at home, with moves from a movie that you can do while watching it.

In fact, the health benefits of 10-minute interval workouts according to Dr. Kenneth Cooper from Oral Roberts University he tells us that he “had developed a concept that is relatively simple, yet scientifically-based method of quantifying the benefits of physical activity on the Cardiorespiratory (CR) System. In which the purpose of this exercise program i to place an increased demand or overload upon the CR System. During aerobic exercise large amounts of oxygen i required to meet the energy demands of working muscles. This causes the CR System to work harder than normal to supply the oxygen needs. Through appropriate exercise, adaptations will occur in the body leading to an efficient CR System and improved health of the individual.” He adds that “in order for a physical activity to have a beneficial effect upon the CR System, the activity must place a sufficient overload (i.e. frequency, intensity, and time) upon the system. The intensity of the physical activity is quantified in terms of heart rate (HR) and should normally be between 60-90 percent of the individual’s maximal HR (this can be calculated by subtracting one’s age from 220). This HR range for conditioning the CR System is called the Heart Rate Training Zone. To receive health benefits the exercise time should be continuous for 10 to 20 minutes and performed at a minimum frequency of three day per week. By increasing the frequency, intensity, and/or time of the aerobic activity, the greater the improvements to the CR System and increased health benefits. However, by increasing the overload too quickly, unnecessary injuries may occur. To decrease the chance of injuries the overload should be increased by no more than 10% per week.”

As this is something that I have learned from the fitness program at ORU when I was in college, and have adopted into my own personal workouts with Flick Fitness – using movies to get fit.

So if you don’t want to go to the gym? Avoiding the crowd? Don’t like exercising? Or maybe it’s you’re looking for something different in a fitness routine that will give you that momentum for a positive life-change?

Well rather you like or don’t like exercise, but love movies this might be something that interests you to do.

Particularly, movie trailers with clips that demonstrate an exercise move with a movie soundtrack to bring it all together in a 10-minute workout.

As you know what they say, “a 10-minute exercise is ‘as good as hours in the gym’ and according to Men’s Health, Ali Eaves said. “high-intensity interval workouts can help you improve your health and fitness in less time than traditional cardio.”

Moreover, according to author Daniel Bates who said.“Short bursts of exercise lasting less than 10 minutes give you the same health benefits as slugging it out at the gym for hours. While a Boston University study found that so long as the 10-minute bursts make up your daily quota of exercise, you will see the difference on your body, as it concluded that ‘some exercise is better than nothing’ and that by adding up the small things you can have a big impact. The results showed that compared to those who did not do enough exercise, everyone who did so weighed less had lower BMI and lower cholesterol. Exercising had a stronger impact on cardiovascular risk factors in women than men, possibly because of physiological differences or unmeasured factors. But significantly, the benefits of short bursts of less than 10 minutes yielded the same benefits as those who worked out for longer” (“dailymail” 2013).

Nevertheless, Flick-Fitness can consist of 5 individual 2-minute moves for a total of 10 minutes, and can be customized to fit a participate’s specifications.

To sum it all up, Flix-Fitness can be used to get FIT-2-FLIX in the fight against Diabetes and help the 2 out of 3 American’s who are obese or 30.3 million Americans who have diabetes out of the 88% of American’s who watch movies; by moved with a movie either to cinematic admiration or elevation that can cause a revolutionary positive change in their lifestyle.

See a FIT-2-FLIX program in action by clicking on the ‘Flick-Fitness’ tab, or search for it on YouTube.com.

Thanks for reading this.

2 out of 3 American’s are obese, and 30.3 million Americans – 9.4% of the U.S. population – have diabetes.

What if, we could use movies to give diabetics a push that inspires them to cinematic elevation to not just watch a movie but get fit with it; for the purpose of creating a positive lifestyle change in the fight to help end diabetes and cure obesity?

Type 2 diabetes – A chronic condition that affects the way the body processes blood sugar (glucose).

Type 1 diabetes – A chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin.

Prediabetes – A condition in which blood sugar is high, but not high enough to be type 2 diabetes.

Gestational diabetes – A form of high blood sugar affecting pregnant women.

Our fight against obesity is making things worse.

A generation is doing what their parents have done, and not developing new habits.

The generation wants to loose weight, but don’t know how as we are putting the blame on them.

Eat less, exercise more is the common solution that we go by.

The things that they are doing to combat obesity is: diet, fitness, and research and education.

The cure that we are telling people to do is the wrong cure, whereas, energy-balance is the solution.

The food industry is at the heart of the problem.

Soda increases the risk of obesity by 60%, and all calories contribute to it.

Sugar increases the risk of diabetes by 22%.

Insulin can block your brain of feeling full, as insulin comes from the liver when it is over-worked.

Sugar makes you crave more as less sugar; less fat will help fix this.

It seems like when we changed to a new market, we changed the way we eat.

If we reduce the cravings, we reduce the appetite. Resulting to better to less eating and self-esteem that can encourage an exercise plan.

Food addiction is a real thing that lights up your brain like any other drug.

Clue: “We see food we get hungry,” the food industry and media can fuel this as this hijacks our brain to go in this direction. We make food in to entertainment by adding cartoons and making it look fun.

Diabetes makes it worse, because you are always thirsty and hungry.

With processed foods you can dial up and down the carbs.

We can buy healthy foods, so when we are the on the run, to-go, we will automatically pick up the healthy item instead of the junk food item.

It’s the food not people, as the food is a part of the governments policy.

Healthy food could look more entertaining and fun looking, just like junk food looks fun and entertaining. For example, we can do fruit pizza (bread spread with vanilla yogurt, topped with bananas, peaches, kiwi, strawberries, mango, blueberries and low-fat sprinkles.

Change the way we think about food, changes the way we will act towards it.

Healthy habits and buying patterns will help people keep up in to adult-hood.

Thin people can be fat on the inside, so I must be really fat on the inside because I love food. This also can tie in with just because someone is thin doesn’t mean they are healthy, and a fat person can be healthy then they may look.

It’s a problem of everybody, and not just for the obese person as we all experience bad health.

We change how we perceive the product, being deceptive and misleading for what it really is as we make food look like our friends.

If you want to cure obesity you have to demonize the food industry.

The food environment pushes us to eat more, and that makes us want to work so hard to want to stay healthy.

HOW FLICK-FITNESS CAN HELP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DIABETES?

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