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LifeGroups | Wednesdays 6:30p | In homesThe battle of diet versus exercise has formed the backbone of the weight loss debate since time immemorial. Dieting and working out are both ways to introduce the calorific deficit necessary for losing weight. Often, even your slimming centre in Singapore will ask you to cut down on bad calories through food. However, critics have been divided on the role of one over the other in shedding the extra pounds. Doing a little exercise can make us believe that we have earned the required calorific deficit and can start binging on junk again. If you too want to know the truth of diet versus exercise for weight loss and some slimming tips especially for women, do read on.
What’s more to weight loss?
No matter how appealing exercise looks, the truth is that weight loss is more about choosing the right kind of food than trying to work it off your body in the gym. Popular culture and the media often projects images of people sweating it out in the gym and eventually reaching the desired weight, but the fact is something else. Staying physically active is one thing, and staying in control of what you’re eating is another. The fact is that one hour of running at the slimming centre burns only about 350-400 calories. One could easily choose a bowl of fresh fruits and vegetables over a hamburger and instantly ‘lose’ some hundred calories. Quitting fizzy drinks and energy bars will have the same effect, and so weight loss seems to be more about diet.
Does dieting only work?
Staying in control of one’s diet need not mean eating less or starving yourself. Weight loss can still be brought on by choosing better food. Many people do not experience actual weight loss because their calorie-counting is faulty. It makes you believe you have gained fewer calories than you actually have. Instead, you should focus on halving your portions. If you have to eat a burger, eat only half of it. However, it is better to eat healthier and lighter alternatives, instead of checking portions. Leguminous foods, lean meat, fresh fruits and vegetables are examples of foods that give you a feeling of fullness. Dieting can help bring about weight loss by way of eating less.
Does exercise alone do better?
A number of methods for weight loss have come up in the recent few years. Dieticians can help lose inches off the belly. Slimming centres are offering holistic weight loss using ancient processes. However, exercise is not rendered inessential. When you adopt exercise along with a diet plan aimed at weight loss, you are working to gain health. Working out helps in the stimulation of metabolic tissues, and ensures that you are losing weight only through excess fat. Maintaining muscle mass and bone density are crucial to healthy weight loss. Exercise is very important for weight loss since it also means added health benefits like better sleep, less cholesterol and stress.
Therefore, it would be a mistake to believe that there is just one winner in the battle of diet and exercise. To be slim and in good health all over, both food and physical activity are indispensable.
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With great sadness, I opened the paper yesterday morning to read the news that one of Windsor’s last remaining prohibition era roadhouses has suffered a devistating fire over the weekend.
Currently operating as the President’s Club “Adult Entertainment” lounge, in a former life it was known as Rum Runners, home to many infamous Z-Rock Monday Night Parites in the early to mid 1990’s. Before that it was known as the Lido Venice, and for a while, just the Lido.
The building despite contradicting information in the articles below was built in 1903 by the Williams Brothers Architects. They also designed Holy rosary Church on Riverside Dr. in the Ford City area of Windsor. The building has a notorious history, as being the site of the murder of “Babe” Trumble, who was shot to death by the Rev. J.L. Spracklin in 1920.
Despite surviving worse over the last 103 years, this weekend’s fire seems to have caused structural damage, and 27 years after the first time it was supposed to be demolished, it looks like clock has finally run out.
When she does come down, Windsor will lose a vital link to its history, one that will never be recaptured.
The Chappell house, from a 1909 postcard.
Here is a similar view today.
The burned-out shell of the former Lido Tavern on the city’s northwest side may be gone in a couple of months.
People who live in the area, complain the old tavern is more than just an eyesore and, City Council has reacted by asking the building department to call tenders to have it demolished. Building Commissioner Magnus Mitchell said there’s still “legal paper work,” but once that’s done tenders can be called.
That could happen by the end of January or early in February and the one time prohibition road house, known in the old days as The Chappell House, will be doomed immediately to the wrecker’s ball.
The Lido, which stands at the corner of Chappell and Sandwich streets, was destroyed by a February 1977 fire. Electrical wires and wooden beams hang from the blackend ceilings, and garbage, broken tables and old sofas lay scattered across the floors. Mitchell estimates it could cost between $5,000 and $10,000 to remove the two storey structure. The hotel has been closely associated with the development of Windsor and, in those early years, it was the “last stop” for anyone traveling by horse and buggy to Amherstburg. It also, lay along the streetcar line that once ran from Windsor to Lasalle.
The former Chappell House was the third hotel owned by the Chappell brothers, Henry and Harley. They opened a hotel in 1865 on the Canadian Steel Corp. property in Ojibway. They sold the first one and bought the Mineral Springs Hotel in Sandwich, and, in 1897, opened up the second Chappell House on the present site. Both hotels, were known for their good food, cooked by Francis Chappell, Hernry Chappell’s wife.
They ran the hotel until it was taken over by the Trumble family who sold it in 1949. It was here at The Chappell House that a famous prohibition shooting took place. Beverly “Babe” Trumble the tavern owner, was shot and killed in 1920 by the Rev. J. O. L. Spracklin, the former minister of Sandwich Methodist Church, now called Sandwich United.
Mitchell said it would take about three to four weeks knock the building down. And when the wreckers move in, despite renovation| work since the prohibition years, they will uncover the ”secret room” in the basement with the fake concrete blocks. The simulated blocks were made of wood and inserted into a brick wall, to hide a small room behind. It was here that liquor was probably kept during prohibition.
No matter what your taste, 3885 Sandwich Street West is definitely not one of Windsor’s fashionable addresses. The land is high, dry and commands a clear view north to the river, but oh, what a view! Immediately across the road are the tanks of a waste-disposal firm. Beyond that the bulldozed rubble of a chemical plant. Across the river the awesome grime of the Zug Island industrial complex presents as grim a panorama as you’ll find anywhere in the world. Between the electricity makers and the steel makers and the chemical makers this little corner of Windsor is no beauty. But back to the tenant, the sightless orphan that occupies 3885.
With gaping holes in the roof, glassless windows and a scruffy crop of weeds, this derelict building looks every inch the industrial casualty. The product of its environment. The color of dried blood, it looks like a wino who has been rolled once too often. In a landscape of despair, the Lido fits right in. A few months ago the kindest thing anyone could suggest for this aging roadhouse was euthanasia. The quick parry and thrust of the wrecking ball and yet more parking space in Sandwich. In a city with more than its share of eyesores, the Lido is a standout. But it was not always so. The building that stands on the corner of Chappell and Sandwich Streets is steeped in the history of the last eight decades and in its own way is as important as the Baby House. The current structure was built in 1897 by the brothers Chappell, Henry and Harley, as a roadhouse serving the carriage trade between Windsor and Amherstburg.
Although it’s difficult to see the original lines now, there are indicaÂ¬tions that the Chappell House was a handsome and gracious example of Edwardian architecture. Doubtless the surroundings were much more pleasant, too. Across the road, then known as Bedford Street, was the well known Mineral Springs Hotel, a fashionable spa that could attract 20,000 visitors on a single Sunday. Although lacking any attraction as exotic as the curative mineral waters, the Chappell house built its reputation on good food and, of course, good drink. However, along came 1916 and with it the “Great Social Experiment” â€” prohibition â€” which no doubt made life difficult for hotels selling strong drink. Conceivably that was one of the reasons why the Chappell family sold the hotel to Beverley (Babe) Tr