CONTENTS
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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Chapter 1
Misconception about Counting Calorie and
Weight Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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Misconception about Energy Balance and
Weight Gain/Weight Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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Chapter 2
Food, Water, Air, Physical Activity and
Weight Gain/Weight Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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Chapter 3
Underlying Mechanism of Body Fat Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 41
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Chapter 4
Modern Sitting Furniture and Obesity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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Biomechanics of Sitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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Sitting Posture and Modern Sitting Furniture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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Biomechanics of Sitting and the Sense of Balance . . . . . . . . . . 63
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Skeletal Muscles and Body Posture in a Sitting Position . . . . 67
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Sitting Posture and Weight Gain/Weight Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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Sitting Posture and Mechanical Stimulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
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Weight Loss Surgeries, Diabetes and the
Biomechanics of Sitting and Walking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
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Industrialised World Diseases and
Modern Sitting Furniture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
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Couch, Sofa, Armchair and Diabetes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
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How to Counteract the Adverse Effects of
Prolong Sitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
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Chapter 5
Post Pregnancy Weight Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
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Hollywood Story – Weight Gain/Weight Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
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The Long Neck Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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Excessive Skin – Saggy Fat Tissues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
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Gynecomastia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
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Part Two
POSTURAL AND MOTOR SKILL EXERCISES
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Abstract
Walking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Habitually Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Slow Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Extreme Slow Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Brisk Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Walking With Folded Arms in Front of the Chest . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Walking while Changing the Speed and Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Walking Up and Down a Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Walking Diagonally Up and Down a Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Balanced Walking – Advanced Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
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Walking on the Rocky Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Standing on One Leg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Bare Foot Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Stretching the Body in the Direction Opposite
to the Pull of Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Pushing an Object in the Direction Opposite
to the Pull of Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
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Balanced Stretching Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
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Balanced Stretching Exercises – Advanced Level . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Jumping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Height Jump (Vertical Jump) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Distance Jump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Height and Distance Jump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Jump in the Height to Catch, Grab or Touch an Object . . . . . . . 198
Jumping Up a Slope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Jumping Down a Slope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Jumping and Landing Skills – Advanced Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
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Landing Skill – Advanced Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Carrying a Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
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Extremely Balanced Walking While Carrying a Weight . . . . . . . 219
Summary about Weight Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
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