Idris Elba To Open Health Clinic In Sierra Leone

Actor Idris Elba is planning on opening a healthcare clinic in Sierra Leone to provide support for sick families in his father’s homeland. The actor was born in England to African parents and admits he’s “embarrassed” he’s never visited his father’s birthplace or his mother’s hometown in Ghana,

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putting together plans to boost healthcare in Sierra Leone by teaming up with a cousin to fund a medical unit in the country – and he’s even considering helping the region’s arts industry.

“It’s embarrassing. I have to go. There are plans, serious plans! I can’t wait,” Elba tells Britain’s Observer Magazine. “I want to go to Sierra Leone with something – whether it’s some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

“I would really like to open a studio in Sierra Leone. It’s a country that can actually house and look like many parts of the world. If I could somehow encourage a film community to use Sierra Leone as the studio in West Africa to make films there, that would be really cool.”

Lady Gaga’s Mother Joins Her on Tour to Keep Her Sober?

It looks like Lady Gaga is getting a new companion on her tour bus.

Gaga’s real life mother, 56-year-old Cynthia Germanotta, told reporters that she has grown concerned about her daughter’s health while she is on her “Monster Ball Tour”.

Cynthia says she is determined to make sure that Gaga doesn't fall off the wagon after she became ill on the road last year from drinking too much.

"Her mum thinks she drinks too much and doesn't eat enough. She has gone along to keep an eye on her boozing and feed her up."

Lady Gaga, whose stage persona can take on a very strange appearance at times, is known to work hard to keep her weight down. She works out every day and recently told X17 Magazine,

"I am on the drunk diet, I live my life as I want to, creatively. I like to drink whiskey and stuff while I am working. But the deal is I've got to work out every day, and I work out hung over if I am hung over. And it's about the cross-training and keeping yourself inspired. I have to say, I do a ton of yoga."

Yea, that sounds pretty healthy to us, and an exceptionally good way to be a role model to all your little monsters.

Exercise That Body Baby!!!....Top Ten Rules For Fat Burning Exercises

Jennifer Hudson Flaunting her TRIM figure on the cover of Essence Mag

  Loosing weight can be quite tedious and stressful.Sometimes you feel hopeless and helpless especially if you have tried all the workout procedures you know (like me).Well if blasting body fat is one of your exercise goals, then these 10 pointers will ensure you get the most out of every workout minute. 

Be intense with your exerciseDon’t be fooled by the so-called fat-burning zone. This is the misguided notion that working at a lower intensity is better for fat burning than working at a higher effort level (say, for example, walking instead of running.) The harder you exercise, the more calories you will burn and it is this that really counts when it comes to losing fat. 
Choose your exercise carefully
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‘ultimate’ calorie-torching activity. Energy burned is dependent not just on the activity itself, but on how much effort you put in, how skilled you are at it, how long you do it for, and how often. So choose something that you are going to do regularly and consistently. That means an activity that you actually enjoy (unless you want your workouts to involve untold misery and boredom!) and one that is practical and accessible. 
Exercising larger muscles
Serious fat-burning activity uses the large muscle groups of the body – the thighs and bottom, chest and back. The greater the overall recruitment of muscle, the higher the calorie expenditure. So in the gym, you are much better off using, say, the rower than one of those arm-cranking machines.

Sustainable exercise development
To fire up the calorie furnace, fat-burning activity has to be sustainable for a reasonable period. So while skipping is great exercise, it’s not much use if you can only do it for three minutes. The American College of Sports Medicine recommends 20-60 minutes per session, three to five times per week. It doesn’t have to be continuous effort, however …
Interval trainingInterval training, in which you mix hard efforts with bouts of recovery, is one of the best ways of maximising calorie expenditure, improving aerobic fitness and making use of limited time. To get the most out of an interval session, ensure that you work outside the comfort zone on the efforts and ease right off during the recoveries. Try a 2:2 rest/work ratio to start with.
Carry the exercise load
Activities that are weight bearing, such as walking and running, use more calories than those in which your weight is supported (such as swimming or cycling), simply because you have to shift your own body weight against gravity.

Running on empty?
You may have heard that exercising on an empty stomach in the morning burns more fat. It is true that the body has to rely on fat stores if you don’t break the overnight fast, but then again, the lack of a ready energy supply may mean that you don’t work out for as long, or as hard, as you may have otherwise done.

Go for the afterburn
One of the best things about exercise is that the fat-burning benefits continue long after you’ve got out the shower. This ‘afterburn’ (increased calorie expenditure) is far greater following exercise at 75%  of maximum heart rate, or higher – another reason to eschew those low-intensity workouts!
Increase exercise intensity
If you want to keep seeing results in your fat-burning programme, you must keep increasing the intensity. This isn’t the same as increasing your effort, because as you get fitter, your body will be able to cope with increasing demands. If you rest on your laurels, the benefits will begin to tail off.
Keep movingMaximise your daily fat burning by moving! Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have found that leaner people tend to stand and move more than overweight people in normal daily life. Their ‘non-exercise activity thermogenesis’ (NEAT) was as much as 350 calories higher each day. So don’t just sit there, wiggle your toes, shake a leg, get up regularly and move your body!

Source....Realbuzz