Most Hong Kong schoolchildren have not returned to school since the lunar new year holidays and the government has extended closures to 20 April. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

Its been a long holiday, laughs Hong Kong insurance worker and mother, Sarah Wong.

Wong and her two daughters, Chloe and Greeta, are at a co-working space in Jordan, Kowloon. Chloe has set her desk up like home, with an iPad, her own lamp, and an aromatherapy diffuser. The girls, aged 12 and eight, are listening to online lessons from their school which has been closed because of the coronavirus.

What is Covid-19 - the illness that started in Wuhan?

It is caused by a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals. Many of those initially infected either worked or frequently shopped in the Huanan seafood wholesale market in the centre of the Chinese city.

Have there been other coronaviruses?

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (Mers) are both caused by coronaviruses that came from animals. In 2002, Sars spread virtually unchecked to 37 countries, causing global panic, infecting more than 8,000 people and killing more than 750. Mers appears to be less easily passed from human to human, but has greater lethality, killing 35% of about 2,500 people who have been infected.

What are the symptoms caused by the new coronavirus?

The virus can cause pneumonia. Those who have fallen ill are reported to suffer coughs, fever and breathing difficulties. In severe cases there can be organ failure. As this is viral pneumonia, antibiotics are of no use. The antiviral drugs we have against flu will not work. Recovery depends on the strength of the immune system. Many of those who have died were already in poor health.

Should I go to the doctor if I have a cough?

UK Chief Medical Officers are advising anyone who has travelled to the UK from mainlandChina, Thailand, Japan, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia or Macau in the last 14 days and who is experiencing a cough or fever or shortness of breath to stay indoors and call NHS 111, even if symptoms are mild.

Is the virus being transmitted from one person to another?

Chinas national health commission has confirmed human-to-human transmission, and there have been such transmissions elsewhere.

How many people have been affected?

As of 3 March,the outbreak has affected more than 89,000 people globally, with atotal death toll in excess of 3,000. In mainland China, of the80,151 confirmed cases, over 44,000 people have recovered, and 2,943 (or 3.6%) have died. Over 125 deaths have occurred outside ofChina.

The coronavirus has spread tomore than 60 other countries. The worst affected include South Korea with nearly 5,000 cases, and Iran, with over 1,500 cases.

There have been40 recorded cases and no fatalities to date in the UK.

Why is this worse than normal influenza, and how worried are the experts?

We dont yet know how dangerous the new coronavirus is, and we wont know until more data comes in. The mortality rate is around 2% at the centre of the outbreak, Hubei province, and less than that elsewhere. For comparison, seasonal flu typically has a mortality rate below 1% and is thought to cause about 400,000 deaths each year globally. Sars had a death rate of more than 10%.

Another key unknown is how contagious the coronavirus is. A crucial difference is that unlike flu, there is no vaccine for the new coronavirus, which means it is more difficult for vulnerable members of the population elderly people or those with existing respiratory or immune problems to protect themselves. Hand-washing and avoiding other people if you feel unwell are important. One sensible step is to get the flu vaccine, which will reduce the burden on health services if the outbreak turns into a wider epidemic.

Is the outbreak a pandemic?

A pandemic, in WHO terms, is the worldwide spread of a disease. Coronavirus cases have been confirmed outside China, but by no means in all 195 countries on the WHOs list. It is also not spreading within those countries at the moment, except in a very few cases. By far the majority of cases are travellers who picked up the virus in China.

Should we panic?

No. The spread of the virus outside China is worrying but not an unexpected development. The WHO hasdeclared the outbreak to be a public health emergencyof international concern. The key issues are how transmissible this new coronavirus is between people, and what proportion become severely ill and end up in hospital. Often viruses that spread easily tend to have a milder impact. Generally, the coronavirus appears to be hitting older people hardest, with few cases in children.

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Across the world, governments are ordering or contemplating school closures in a bid to slow the spread of the virus. French officials closed about 120 schools in areas that have reported the largest numbers of infections, its education minister said on Tuesday.

In some countries parents have already had their children at home for more than a month. Some have taken holidays or sent the kids overseas to relatives.

Most Hong Kong schoolchildren never returned to school following the lunar new year holidays after the government announced and then extended closures to 20 April.

In the first few weeks it was a little bit troublesome, it messed up all our schedules not only the kids but all of our daily routine and work schedules, Wong says.

But the start of online classes brought back routine and relieved the girls boredom, Wong says, and shes lucky to have an employer who lets her work flexibly. Friends arent so fortunate and she says they are panicked.

When the weather is nice, Wong takes the girls to the playground or the beach, but amid calls for people to practise social distancing, theyre missing their friends.

On Hong Kong Island the age gap between Eiffel Chaus children kindergarten, grade one, and grade five has made it difficult to manage all three.

The youngest one in kindergarten doesnt have any online class, Chau says.

I just need to keep her busy so she wont disturb the other two kids. She has company, but she sees the parents at home so she expects the parents to do something with her.

Chau says hes lucky that hes permitted to work from home, as his wife is a teacher and is busy running online classes for her students.

His advice to other parents facing the same situation is to take advantage of it. Hong Kongs schooling is notoriously demanding, but Chau is using the extra time to teach his kids more responsibility for their home and chores, and to do more exercise.

At the same time its also a good opportunity for us to catch up with family relations, he says. We have nowhere to go, even on the weekend. We do board games, and card games, thats something we can take this chance to do.

In China, millions of students have been home from school since mid-February. Schools have been ordered to provide online lessons, and primary classes are reportedly broadcast on public television.

Officials have advised, and in some cases ordered, families to stay inside, making the absence of school even harder for restless children stuck at home. Online videos show families playing elaborate games.

A flood of advice online ranges from creating strict daily schedules to follow, to videos with home science experiments and tips for activities. A notice in February from the Gulou district in Beijing advised parents to cherish the time: The parent is the most important teacher in every childs life, it said.

But discussion topics such as what kind of life have parents been pressured into and school start date is postponed have more than 400m views and thousands of comments.

I just want to know when kindergarten starts, one wrote.

The kids are so destructive and parents are going crazy. I hope the epidemic passes as soon as possible, so that these destructive little beasts can study.

Others complained about the difficulty of supervising their kids online classes and heavy workload. One said: I am being tortured to death by these online classes. When will this end?

In Japan many working parents were horrified by the governments weekend announcement requesting every primary, middle and high school in the country to close until the start of the new academic year in mid-April.

The unprecedented shutdown, affecting almost 13 million pupils, has forced companies to rethink their rigid work practices, to allow working from home or shortening business hours.

Working mothers complained that the shutdown would force them to take time off, given the shortage of daycare facilities and the scarcity of nannies and babysitters.

An online poll by Yahoo Japan found 49% of parents said they would leave their children home alone, 20% would take time off work and 14% would enlist the help of grandparents. In a few cases, parents have had no choice but to take their children to work. They include Keiko Kobayashi, a senior manager at a multinational staffing service in Tokyo.

I was shocked by the news of the school closures, and thought, what should I do? Kobayashi told Associated Press. There was no explanation of how this is going to work.

Back in Kowloon, Wong looks at her girls studying at the table and smiles. I really hope they can go back to school soon, she says. They keep saying I want to go to school, which is good because before they didnt want to go.

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I told this storyin my book. Roughly six months before I broke the income barrier I needed to pave the path to quitting my full-time job, I was dead broke. A weekend of buying my kid a few fish and going to Chik Fil aput my account in the negative.

Even though my side hustles were bringing in money, I had bills up the you know what. Dont care if its politically incorrect. For me, as a man, it felt horrible to feel like I couldnt take care of my family.

Throughout the process of building my career from having to live with my pregnant partners parents to having$10,000 months on auto-pilot, I always knew one thing for certain:

I wasnt going to spend the rest of my life being broke.

Id die first. Literally, I knew in my heart I would die before giving up.

I didnt want to live out the statistics you often see:

I dont look down on people for not having money. In many ways, their lot in life isnt their fault at all.

Society is set up for you to fail. Without question, the gameisrigged. Sometimes I think people dont think I agree with them on that. I do.

You have toescapethis fate, make no mistake about it.

Lets take a look at some of the signs you have a fighting chance to do so.

Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead. Robert Kiyosaki

Nobodylikesbeing broke.

But in order to do the work it takes to become financially flexible, you have tohatebeing broke.

The only people who hate being broke but dont find their way out are the truly destitute. Middle-class people? They just dont want it bad enough. They dont hate the stress of living paycheck to paycheck enough to do anything about it.

I cant tell you how many times Ive projected out a future where I didnt have money and it scared me on a visceral level. Honestly, I was more afraid of being broke than I was inspired to make money.

Why? Because being broke isstressful.

Id have fights with my partner about money, stress about situations like the story I started the post with, and I just observed people who were struggling to get by and I couldnt fathom living the rest of my life like that.

You almost have to have a sense that being broke is beneath you, even though, of course, theres nothing wrong with being broke.

I remember working as a manager at a video store for $10/hr. Id go get tacos and Taco Johns. The sign on the door said hiring$11/hr. I put in all this work to make less than someone making god damned tacos. Nope. Not me. Not forever.

I used to listen to the book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, on repeat when I had to put on the signs for the featured movies out in the parking lot. Plotting. Patient. One day, I wouldnt be broke.

Now? Im not rich, but Im no longer broke. And it was worth all the work.

Let everyone else be content. You? Get pissed.Use that frustration to your advantageso you dont quit.

Earn with your mind, not your time. Naval Ravikant

Even if you have a job right now (which is the smart thing to do while you build your side hustle), you know that its impossible to have real financial flexibility and wealth with a job alone.

Youre putting your energy into something you can scale, something with leverage, something that can provide income for you without your direct work:

Having a sole source of income will leave you in a perpetual loop of middle class living at best.

See, its not just the risk,yes risk, of having a sole source of income thats the problem, but also thecounterproductive culturemost wage earners ascribe to:

Its a nasty trap.

If you want wealth, flexibility, whatever you call it, you need your money or effort to go to workfor youat some point.

But how do you put in the work required to build these asset vehicles?

Simple.

The thing about wealth pursuits? Theyre slow. Super slow.

Not only that, but you make little to no money in the beginning.

I talk about this all the time on myYouTube channel. I should just rename it exponential growth.

All the great things in life compound:

Warren Buffet didnt become a billionaireuntil he was in his60s. Those last 30 years or so of compounding took him to insane wealth.

Getting compounding to work is psychologically difficult:

I dont have the exact number, but five years is my educated guess.

If you tinkered around with some form of business, freelancing, or investing for five years without quitting, something good will happen.

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Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve. Charlie Munger

Ironically, broke people seem to be the most certain of everything. I recently watched an interview with Munger. What stood out most? Every time he wasnt certain or near certain of an answer, he immediately defaulted to saying I dont know.

Wealthy people are often much more intellectually humble than middle-class people. They have coaches, mentors, advisers, teams. They constantly soak in new information and never think they have everything figured out.

Watch this interview withDiddy and Ray Dalio.

Diddy, who has a net worth in the hundreds of millions, asks Dalio, his mentor, advice with a sincere level of humility. Diddy doesnt have to listen to anybody and he could blow money until the day he dies, yet he treats knowledge with a level of respect most content with what they have types cant fathom.

The only thing between most people and more money is knowledge.

Theres no grand conspiracy keeping you broke. Its definitely not the fault of billionaires. If you dont have money, its because you dont understand money. If you dont understand money, then learn how to understand it. Simple.

Just this week Ive started to devour information about:

Im going to eventually move all of this knowledge into my circle of competence.

I dont know much about any of the above, but Ill learn. Just like I learned to make money on the internet with no prior experience and become a professional writer with no writing degree.

How? I read hundreds of books, watched thousands of hours of video, and practiced every day for five years.

Back to the point of time commitment. Spending a decade learning this stuff isnt a problem for me. Why? Because I like to learn and I know that learningcompounds.

If youre willing to learn books, podcasts, courses, YouTube videos you can figure all of this out.

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. Its thedesire to learnthatsscarce. Naval Ravikant

I dont understand how people who own smartphones with access to YouTube say they have no access to resources. B.S. YouTube is a goldmine most people use it wrong.

At some point, you just have to admit youre being lazy andstop.

In the information age, there are no excuses.

Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. And no one is going to make things work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels. Grant Cardone

If youre good at math, you just know you need a lot of money. Yes, need.

You need millions of dollars to retire on time and successfully. Add in your kids and their financial future, the ability to have amazing experiences like travel, and the time to enjoy your life without needing to work all the time, and youll understand that making money is the only logical option.

Just look around and the way people live. The stress. You need more money than you have right now. More importantly, you need more flexibility and income-earning assets than you have right now.

If youre young like me (30), dont waste any more of your time. I can only imagine what it would feel like to be middle-aged or old with no money saved.

With a modest salary of $50,000 over a full work-life of say, 50 years (2272),you will have made $2,500,000. To make all of that money and end up with little to none of it seems soul-crushingly sad and insane, but it happens. Thinking about it makes me sick.

See, its these people who claim to not care about money who care about it the most. They fuck up the math. They keep up with the Joneses their whole lives and level up their lifestyle as their income increases, piling up debt along the way.

Be smart.

Look at the math it takes to be successful and create a plan. Earn more money and keep your living expenses low. Thats the recipe. Im greedy, but I drive a $2,500 car and live in a $1,300 two-bedroom while people who make less than me drive BMWs and have giant homes.

Ive done the math. Im fine to appear broke for this decade to be wealthy by the next one.

As Marshawn Lynch, who famously spent none of his NFL contract money and lived only off endorsements, said:

Take care of yo chicken.

Let the content people stay blind to financial literacy. Wait them out. Theyll see soon enough.

Stay humble, grind, reinvest in yourself.

Itll all work out.

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Carrie Underwood is hanging off a rock-climbing wall as if shes auditioning for a role in Free Soloand totally nailing it.

FWIW, this is not an activity she does often: I went rappelling once as a kid and freaked out, she says.

But hesitation is nowhere in sight today as Carrie supports her body in a series of challenging poses without breaking a sweat.

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That strength didnt happen by accidentand for the 36-year-old, it didnt happen overnight. Carrie, who characterizes herself as a vegetarian and wannabe vegan, grew up on a cattle farm in Checotah, Oklahoma, population 3,500. She remembers the exact moment she vowed to stop eating beef: when she was 13 and saw the calves shed grown up with getting neutered.

Her initial dedication to a plant-based diet was more about animal welfare than health. Carrie didnt pay much attention to nutrition or fitness until she encountered online message boards during her winning stint on American Idol in 2005. Carries getting fat, read one note.

I shouldnt care what other people think about me, Carrie says. But she also knew that the quesadillas and pasta shed been living on werent making her feel her best. I was tired, and I kept buying bigger clothes, she recalls. I knew I could be better for myself, and I let my haters be my motivators.

After she won American Idol, Carrie and the other contestants went on tour. She started reading labels, counting calories, and logging time on the elliptical. At first, she felt good. I was sleeping better, and I had more energy for our grueling schedule, she says. So she decided to take it further. If this is working, she reasoned, wouldnt it be better to exercise even more and eat a little less? Some days, she consumed as few as 800 calories.

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By the time she attended her first CMA Awards in November 2005, her plan was starting to backfire. Sure, shed lost weight, but she was also finding it nearly impossible to stick to her strict diet. Her periods of restriction were almost always followed by overindulging. I would fall off the wagon, then feel terrible and repeat the cycle. Her newfound energy levels were also starting to dip. Your body is screaming out, I need more calories, I need more carbs! she says. When I ask if she feels she was suffering from disordered eating, Carrie pauses, then says thoughtfully, I really would not call it that. Instead, she feels she just lacked the knowledge to create parameters that worked for her.

Today, with her first book, Carrie has created the manual she wishes she had back then, Find Your Path: Honor Your Body, Fuel Your Soul, and Get Strong With Fit52Life, available now. Along with her trainer, Eve Overland, and nutritionist, Cara Clark, Carrie offers a framework to help women make smart choices year-round. (Stay tuned for the app this spring.)

So what does Carries current version of healthy look like? Its structured, but in a way that allows her to enjoy the occasional slice of cake. I love rules, says Carrie. This is how I feel good about myself, and this is how I operate. On that note, she tracks calories and macros (the amount of protein, carbs, and fat she consumes daily) on the app MyFitnessPal. Her happy place: 45 percent carbs, 30 percent fat, and 25 percent protein.

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A typical day of eats for the star starts pre-workout, with a tofu or egg-white scramble, Ezekiel toast, berries, and coffee. At lunch, shell have a sandwich with Tofurky, tomato, avocado, red onion, spinach, and mustard. Her snack might be a green smoothie or protein bar. Then for dinner shell make roasted veggies and a piece of vegan chicken, or a tofu stir-fry.

Shes not a big dessert person, but she keeps squares of dark chocolate for when a craving strikes. I do have my vice, Carrie admits, and its red wine. Its good for my heart, right?! she laughs. She likes to unwind with a glass or two and The Bachelor.

While Carrie doesnt leave much to chance in terms of her diet, she is learning to roll with the punches when it comes to her workouts, now that shes the mother of two sons, Isaiah, 5, and Jake, 1. If I can work out seven days a weekwhich doesnt happen, but if I canIm going to, she says. Because the next week, I might get two days.

Her trainer, Eve, travels with her when shes on the road. (Check out Carries Instagram to peep the impressive mobile gym she built for tours.) But at home, Carrie primarily comes up with her own routines, which she maps out in a journal. When I walk in and dont have a plan, I usually walk out, she says, nodding in solidarity as I admit I usually do the same, as if we were two workout buddies exchanging gripes in the locker room.

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Carrie credits Eve for getting her hooked on liftingand for crafting the routine responsible for her incredibly sculpted legs. Warning: Its not for the faint of heart. Carries leg workout consists of six supersets of three moves, each done for three or four sets. Moves include tuck jumps, Romanian deadlifts (with 30- to 35-pound dumbbells), walking lunges (with 20- to 25-pound dumbbells), and elevated sumo squats (with a 50-pound dumbbell!). Im sore just thinking about it.

In between crushing leg days, Carrie runs outside when its warm or crafts mini challenges on the treadmill. I have to set goals for myself: Every 15 minutes Im going to hit 1.25 miles, then by the end of an hour Ill have run 5 miles, she says. Shes also hard at work on her pullup gameshes up to eight.

The dedication to exercise and clean eating may seem intense, but its refreshing to speak to a celebrity whos honest about what it takes to keep her body prepared to own the stagein constant motion no lessfor two hours a night on a five-month tour. Not to mention those evenings when shes walking a red carpet, camera-ready. Carrie doesnt pretend to eat pizza every night or claim to do only a few crunches every now and then to get those abs. She puts in workand knowing she can pull it off with two kids and a 24/7 job makes me feel I can find the motivation too.

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While Carries got her wellness routine on lock, she admits she could definitely improve when it comes to self-care. She calls exercise her anti-depressant and antianxiety medicationand says when she falls out of her routine, both she and her husband notice a shift in her mood. When I ask if shes learned other ways to maintain her equilibrium when she cant work out, she scrunches her face and says without hesitation, No.

Later, she elaborates: Thats a part of my personality I need to be better with. Id love to sit in a bubble bath, but thats not going to happen. My self-care is my gym time, and thats a stress reliever for me.

Carries certainly been through some tough times in recent years. Before the birth of her second son, she experienced three miscarriages. When we talk about it, tears come to her eyes. For my body to not be doing something it was supposed to do was a tough pill to swallow, she says. It reminded me Im not in control of everything.

She says opening up about the miscarriages felt like a weight lifted off my shouldersand since then, women tell her their stories. Its not a dirty secret. Its something many women go through, Carrie says.

Her relationship with her husband, former NHL player Mike Fisher, is also a source of energyeven though it may seem like a case of opposites attracting. He wears a jersey; she loves sequins. Shes basically vegan; he eats meat. The list goes on. But the gym is their common ground. They work out together when they can, or swap childcare duties so the other can sweat.

Theyve got a similar strategy at home. She buys groceries, makes dinners, packs lunches, etc. When its time for her to work? Mike takes over. Were a good team, she says.

While not all the pieces fit perfectly, Carrie has a structure in place to guide her on her (very busy) path. And even with the new book, her activewear line, and plans to work on new music, dont expect her to stray. Physical fitness makes everything else possible, she says. Carrie is clearly a woman who knows where her strengths lieand isnt afraid to use them.

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Nowadays lots of people use diets to stay slim and healthy. However, to achieve the best results, you should make sure that you a follow nutritious diet, one that can help you lose weight by eating healthy plus doing some exercise.

Counting on the help of a nutrition specialist is the key to avoid cutting out foods that contain essential nutrients necessary for our body to function properly. Remember that avoiding absolutely everything is not the way to get that bikini body, and some methods can be completely counterproductive.

1. Dont starve yourself

Dont get it into your head that to lose weight you need to stop eating. This is a frequent error people make, focusing on the idea that eliminating food groups like carbohydrates, fats, or sugars, and even proteins, which are all vital for our body. Eating a mere 800 to 1000 calories per day and drinking less water, is a monumental mistake.

2. Drinking smoothies or eating single-group food

Experts insist that getting nutrition exclusively from green smoothies or diets in which you repeatedly consume the same food, does not work. This can make people suffer from dehydration caused by the diuretic ingredients in many detox smoothies, as well as generating the loss of muscular mass because of the lack of quality protein.This low calorie level will make your body burn muscle to get energy, and lose liquid instead of fat, creating a rebound effect that will mean you will put weight back on twice as fast when you stop dieting.

3. Skipping meals

Respecting meal times is a vital aspect of keeping your metabolism activated and accelerated. Skipping meals can seem like a good way to reduce calorie intake, but it will actually slow your metabolism down. The best thing to do is to eat every four hours, eating snacks like fibrous fruits in between meals, that will fill you up more quickly. These will become nutritious allies in your daily diet.

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Don't go for the newest diet people are talking about, just eat healthier foods instead

LAUREN PETTIT | DAILY EVERGREEN ILLUSTRATION

Move over paleo, these diets don't solve the issue of being a healthier person. Instead focus on foods that are healthier and cutting calorie counts to achieve a healthier lifestyle for yourself.

HALEY BRICKWEDEL, Evergreen columnist March 2, 2020

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There are so many options when looking for a new diet plan. There is keto, vegan, intermediate fasting, vegetarian, paleo, detox or juice cleanse and much more to choose from. These diets are trendy and unhealthy.

Fad diets often lead people to believe that there is a one-size-fits-all diet, and this is the one. The secrets out there isnt one perfect diet for all of us, said Lauren Keeney, a registered dietitian nutritionist and the owner and operator of Integrated Health LLC located in Moscow.

College is a colliding environment of lack of money and energy. When a student is lacking money, it is easier to buy staple items. These items look like ramen, canned veggies or soup and anything else that can be found at a low price. These low-price items are high in cholesterol and fat and they lack many of the key nutrients that are needed in a balanced diet. Low-cost foods also increase weight gain and fatigue.

It can come as no surprise that many college students are hopping on diet trends to lose weight fast, in the high stress and low energy environment. These fad diets are used to change a students look, weight and energy level.

I have done every diet you can do, from keto to fasting, said Hannah Bidon, a WSU junior majoring in nutrition and exercise physiology and minoring in psychology.

The diet is a quick fix that can have little to no effect on a students daily eating habits.

In my experience, I gave up and I couldnt do it. This was because it was unnatural for my body, Bidon said.

Starting a new diet can be exciting at first. Eventually the diet will come to an end, leaving the body feeling unhealthy and overall useless. Cutting out key components to a diet can harm the body.

Eat foods that your body craves and foods that make your body feel good, energized and satisfied. This means, eat what you enjoy and enjoy what you eat physically, mentally and emotionally, Keeney said.

Cutting out just carbs and fat can affect the body. Unless there are dietary restrictions or religious guidelines, an individual should provide their body with all food groups.

The students that want to change their diets for ethical and environmental reasons are very different from those who want to lose 10 pounds in eight days. They try the new diets of detox, juice cleanse, one large meal a day, keto, paleo and much more. There are fewer extreme ways of dieting and healthy choices.

Diets come to an end and so does that healthy eating. Many times, the diet trend does not change an individuals overall eating habits or relationship with food.

In the end I gained the weight back or felt unhealthy after the diet, Bidon said.

Diets dont last forever, it is easier to make life changes.

What many young adults lack in their diet is having a healthy relationship with food, Keeney said.

The best advice I was given was to balance the plate. Have all the food groups represented on the plate. Fruit and veggies, grain (bread, potatoes and more), protein (fish, eggs, tofu and nuts) and dairy (milk, yogurt and cheese).

Add more color to your diet, this way you can ensure youre getting a variety of nutrients to support your overall health, Keeney said.

Students can add nutritious and need food groups by adding in diverse veggies and sides to their main dish.

Take top ramen, for example. Overall it is not healthy. But it is cheap, so it is a staple in any students dorm, apartment, or house. It can be made healthier by adding a protein (I like an egg or two) and some green veggies. It not only looks more appetizing it can be more nutritious and filling.

Why even diet when it can end in gaining the weight back? I suggest making little healthy changes that can improve overall attitudes towards food. Little changes can make a big difference.

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Top eight diets that celebrities swear by

When it comes to having a flawless form, celebrities seem to know their ways around it. Of course, this is mostly because famous icons have access to the best nutritionists and fitness trainers in the market, but many of them also like to share their secrets with their audience. While exercising is crucial to keeping yourself fit, this should be accompanied by the right diet that can nourish your body, as well as to help maintain its healthy weight. Here are some of the most promising diets that celebrities swear by:

The five-ingredient diet

Also known as the five-factor diet, this nutrition plan limits your calorie intake without severing ties with your favourite food. While some people may stop consuming bread, cheeses, or any other source of carbs, this has been proven to be inefficient as a long-term diet. Instead, the 5-factor diet allows you to create your own diet plan, however, you want, as long as it contains these five elements: Fluids, fat, protein and complex carbs. Accordingly, you should have five meals per day with only five ingredients in each dish.

Dr Nowzaradan diet

The Dr Nowzaradan diet allows you to consume everything you want, as long as you keep an eye on your overall calorie intake. Essentially, following this diet will cut down your calories from 2,000 to 1,200. If youre not familiar with this plan, you can visit this URL to read about it in more detail. In short, this diet can help you shed stubborn fat, as you only consume 1,200 calories, while your body needs 2,000 to function. This compels your body to use the stored fat in your body for fuel and thus you lose an impressive amount of weight in little time.

The Dukan diet

Although popular amongst celebrities, the Dukan diet is not recommended by nutritionists for long periods of time. This diet can be followed for a couple of months every now and again for rapid weight loss without compromising muscle mass. It comprises high-protein sources and low-calorie foods. That said, there are four phases to this diet: the first two are the most challenging to follow and theyre designed to shed stubborn fat, the last two stages can be a long-term plan as they contain more caloric intake.

Raw diet

While this diet helps you lose weight and stay in shape, most celebrities that follow it are more concerned about its anti-aging benefits. A Raw Diet contains unrefined foods that are preferably uncooked but can be heated to no higher than 118 degrees. This nutrition plan is mostly vegan, but raw eggs may also be consumed.

The keto diet

You must have already heard of this fad diet, which is followed by Halle Berry and Kim Kardashian. The plan works in precise percentages, where 75% of your meal should comprise fats, 20% should be protein and 5% should be carbs. This prompts your body to burn fat instead of carbs, which allows you to lose weight rapidly.

Mediterranean diet

This diet is not at all restrictive, but its popular amongst celebrities like Rachel Ray and Penelope Cruz. This plan contains plenty of fruits, legumes, whole-grain foods and any healthy sources of fat such as seafood. Celebrities who followed this diet have vouched for how much weight they were able to lose in little time, despite their diet including a delicious variety of healthy food.

Juice diet

With the name being quite self-explanatory, the juice diet allows you to consume your needed nutrients through only blended food and juices. According to recent studies, however, this diet is not recommended, especially for long periods of time. This is because the diet utilises lots of fruits, which can be very high in sugar.

The Paleo diet

Recently, this diet has gained popularity after Jessica Biel swore by how effective it was in helping her stay slim. This Paleo Nutrition Plan requires you to consume any foods that have existed for millions of years, which scratches all processed food off the list. This also means that followers of this diet cannot consume dairy, legumes or whole grains.

No matter how desperate you might be to lose weight, you should also follow a diet plan that you can stick to, rather than an unnecessarily strict one that you would eventually give up on. Your best bet is to follow a nutritious diet that does not entirely restrict your access to delicious meals but limits junk food. This will allow you to indulge in your favourite food without compromising your fitness plan. If you consistently follow these diets along with your exercise routine, you can look as stunning as your favourite celebrities in several months time.

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Zareen Siddique (@FitwithZareen) is defying the skinny is pretty look and advocating strong is healthy. At 45 years, she has a six-pack throughout the year through sheer discipline in exercise and diet. Fitness is a way of life for her. A mother of two and anArmy brat, positive persona she says is a gift from her parents. She believes that women dont have to give up on being fit post pregnancy and she trains women struggling post-delivery (especially C Section) to gain strength and fitness. A lot of lifestyle diseases can be reversed and managed through exercise and a suitable diet. It is a wonderful thing for women to take charge of their lives, she says.

She doesnt push weight loss in her trainees.

A runner and a yoga lover, Zareen combines different disciplines of exercise to tailor make workouts for her trainees. Her meal plans are popular for their simplicity and efficacy.Trainees from all over the world benefit from her Indian meal plans and workouts that make them love their daily dose of exercise. This coach walks her talk and pushes her own limits physically and mentally in her workouts that she posts on Instagram. The following she has on Instagram proves that shes a motivator and a positive influence on many lives.

This certified online nutrition and core fitness coach is an ardent runner. She also runs marathons on a regular basis. Among her other qualifications are a Reebok Group Fitness Certification, Master Function Training Certification, and a Diploma in Dietetics and Nutrition.

Zareen specializes in post-pregnancy weight loss and fitness too. Besides, she is also a motivational coach and regularly interacts with women, encouraging them to make exercise a part of their daily lives. This, she insists, can be achieved by making small changes in diet and lifestyle.

It is no surprise that Zareens work also makes her a motivational coach to her clients. After all, it requires a lot of self-control and motivation to stay on the path of tough functional training and Zareen realizes how important it is to keep bucking up her clients through their daily rigors.

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Kerri Hwang, a 34-year old middle school cafeteria worker from Burleson, Texas, has struggled with her weight for years. At her heaviest in 2017, she topped the scales at 316 pounds.

Kerri Hwang's get-fit journey has helped her lose nearly 100 pounds.

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"I may have gained even more weight, but I stopped getting on the scale after that," she recalls ruefully.

But 18 months ago, Kerri wandered into a local gym at the advice of a friend and left motivated to get herself into better physical shape. Today, she's gone from being barely able to walk around the block to deadlifting 300 pounds. Here's her story, in her own words.

I've been overweight my entire life and have always struggled with my self-esteem. Over the years, I bounced through every single diet and supplement you can imagine: Weight Watchers, Plexus, Herbalife, Slimfast, Hydroxycut. Nothing worked. I never lost more than 30 pounds, and I still wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror.

Then, one of the women I'd met through one of my diet attempts suggested I try an exercise session with her trainer at her gym. I went, and I loved it. Even though I had severe back pain, I found I could do basic moves like air squats and light weight-lifting. I felt strong, and capable, and proud of myself.

After that, I was hooked. I kept wanting to go back to that gym, which was filled with so many warm, welcoming, supportive folks. I felt like I had truly met my people. After a couple weeks, my clothes were big on me, and I realized the exercise program was working.

At the beginning, it was all about strength training. I went twice a week for personal training sessions at my gym. We broke it up by body parts: At the beginning of the week, we'd do an hour of upper-body exercises, such as lat pull downs, back extensions, chest presses and bicep curls, and then later in the week, an hour of lower-body activity such as lunges, squats and abdominal work like crunches.

As I gradually got into better shape, my trainer added little 30-second spurts of physical activity like marching in place or jumping jacks between the exercises in my workout.

I know cardio is always touted as a way to lose weight, but I think it's a tool that can be abused sometimes. My trainer never forced it on me he just encouraged me to be more active.

Before I started exercising, I would sit all the time. But I made it a goal to get in 10,000 steps a day. I began taking walks on my lunch break, parking farther away from the office or grocery store and, instead of watching TV, going outside with my 11-year-old daughter to play with the dogs. I tried to sit as little as possible when I was on the phone, for example, I'd stand up and walk around.

"I quickly realized my problem: I was restrictively calorie-counting, not macro-counting. Once I adjusted my protein intake, I saw the results really pay off in terms of my strength-training goals."

As I got into better shape and began to feel better, I found I naturally gravitated toward wanting to eat a healthy diet. I realized that I didn't have to restrict foods I loved, like cookies, entirely it was all about just eating everything in the right amount.

I started simple, with LIVESTRONG.com's MyPlate app. It helped me set daily goals in the important food groups: three servings each of fruit, veggies and whole grains, as well as at least 6 ounces of protein.

Then, in April 2019, I hired a nutrition coach who helped me fine-tune it. She gave me advice on how many fat, carb and protein grams I should eat every day, and encouraged me to log them so I'd get a better sense of how much I should be eating.

I quickly realized my problem: I was restrictively calorie-counting, not macro-counting. I was eating more carbs and fat than I needed, for example, but not nearly enough protein. Once I adjusted my protein intake, I saw the results really pay off in terms of my strength-training goals. That was more proof that I was on the right path!

"I'm not the person I was two years ago," Kerri says of her physical, mental and emotional transformation.

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Up until recently, I've always had a little voice in my head whispering that I'm not good enough. But I'm not the person I was two years ago. The changes I've made not only in my physical appearance, but mentally and emotionally are insane. My weight always made me shy because I didn't want people to look at me for fear I'd be seen as fat and gross.

Now, I'm totally OK with who I am. I'm not afraid to go to the pool anymore with my daughter, or get into a bathing suit at the beach, or run around with her at our local playground. I'm not afraid to try a new fitness class at my local rec center, and I'm not afraid to be silly and laugh when I'm out and about with my husband.

At first, I balked at spending money on a trainer. But the more I thought about it, I realized that over the years I'd already lost so much money on meal plans and workout DVDs and exercise memberships, that it was worth a try. It's the best financial investment I've ever made.

I found a wonderful support system at my gym first my trainer, then all the other clients who became my friends. Now, my husband and I just automatically calculate my personal training costs as part of our monthly budget. It's what I love, and working out keeps me healthy it's not a chore or an obligation.

"We all want instant results, but losing weight is about changing your lifestyle. You have to be consistent, and you also have to get out of your comfort zone to make those necessary changes."

Three times a week, I pick up my daughter from school and she hangs out and plays on her iPad while I work out. I joke that these times are also like therapy sessions. If I'm having a bad day, I can talk to others while exercising and work through my problems.

Never give up. We all want instant results, but losing weight is about changing your lifestyle. You have to be consistent, and you also have to get out of your comfort zone to make those necessary changes.

One of the biggest adjustments I had to make was the idea that I could make room in my diet for occasional indulgences. Every night, I reward myself with a small sweet treat, like two to three mini Reese's white chocolate peanut butter cups. I always thought it was a luxury I couldn't afford, but it turns out it's only an extra 80 to 120 calories.

Yes, sometimes I get impatient and want my weight to fall off more quickly but then I go shopping and realize that just a year ago I would never have been able to find anything in a regular department store that would have fit me. On those days or weeks when the scale doesn't seem to budge, I remind myself that I'm still losing inches around my arms and thighs and dropping clothing sizes. And I feel so much better! That's what's most important.

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