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  • Why Are We So Fat? The Real Reason For The Obesity Epidemic
    Copyright 2006 Tom Venuto

    Why Are We So Fat? That’s the question asked in the cover story of a recent issue of National Geographic magazine.

    “Americans enjoy one of the most luxurious lifestyles on Earth: Our food is plentiful. Our work is automated. Our leisure is effortless. And it’s killing us,” says Geographic senior writer Cathy Newman.

    Some of the latest facts and statistics about obesity revealed in the article are chilling:

    * One out of three Americans is obese, twice as many as three decades ago

    * The Center for Disease control and Prevention (CDC) h ...
    Author:     Tom Venuto, CSCS, NSCA-CPT
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  • Longevity - Can Fat Cells Dictate How Long a Human Survives?
    According to the September Issue of Popular Mechanics, a report written by Jim Wilson explains how human beings may some day have the capability to survive to be 180 (one hundred eighty) years old!

    Based on research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(http://web.mit.edu/biology/www/facultyareas/facresearch/guarente.shtml) and Professor Leonard P. Guarante; genetic makeup that rules our individual "time-clocks" can be virtually erased.

    * How is this possible?
    Every person has DNA fragments dubbed telomeres Our telomeres are specifically designed to extend our live ...
    Author:     C Bailey-Lloyd/Lady Camelot
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  • Beauty Today: All Smoke and Mirrors?
    Did you ever notice that the bar is continually being raised on exactly
    what physical characteristics define beauty? As I sit in front of the
    TV, I am bombarded by beauties with pouty lips, perfect bone structure,
    flawless skin, more "voluptuous" upper regions, size 2 waists, and hair
    that resembles spun silk. Take these same beauties and plop them back
    in time 20-30 years, when the advent of modern cosmetic technology had not even begun to reach its full potential. Do you think they would have had those same attributes you find yourself longing for when faced with these image ...
    Author:     Danna Schneider
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    Newly Discovered Genetic Disease Sheds Light on Body's Water Balance
    Two infant boys whose bodies were overloaded with excess fluid have led UCSF pediatricians to the discovery of a new genetic disease. In the process, they have discovered a rare type of mutation where different substitutions in a single amino acid cause two different, opposite genetic disorders.


    An emerging role for PtdIns(4,5)P(2)-mediated signalling in human disease.
    Publication Date: 2005 Oct 24 PMID: 16253350Authors: Halstead, J. R. - Jalink, K. - Divecha, N.Journal: Trends Pharmacol SciAlthough an established regulator of many cellular functions, the phosphoinositide phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate [PtdIns(4,5)P(2)] appears to have evaded the attention of drug-discovery companies. An increasing number of reports have identified potential links between PtdIns(4,5)P(2)-mediated signalling pathways and the aetiology of many human diseases. Here, we review current knowledge of the regulation and function of PtdIns(4,5)P(2) and discuss how aberrant PtdIns(4,5)P(2)-mediated signalling might contribute to human pathologies such as cardiac failure, bipolar disorder, channelopathies and the genetic disorder Lowe syndrome.


    Imaging study links key genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease to myelin breakdown
    A new UCLA imaging study shows that age-related breakdown of myelin, the fatty insulation coating the brain's internal wire, correlates strong with the presence of a key genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. The findings add to a growing body of evidence that myelin breakdown is a key contributor to the onset of Alzheimer's disease later in life.


    Genetic defenders protect crops from fungal disease
    Like waves of soldiers guarding a castle gate, multiple genetic defenders cooperate to protect plant cells against powdery mildew disease, according to a new study. Powdery mildew is a common fungal infection in plants that attacks more than 9,000 species, including many crops such as barley and wheat, and horticultural plants such as roses and cucumbers. The researchers, including Shauna Somerville and Monica Stein of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology, are the first to document how these defense genes team up in plants. The discovery could help combat fungal parasites that devastate crops and cost growers billions of dollars in pesticides every year.


     
    		 
     


  • The Honeybush Miracle

    Perhaps a little eclipsed by the world-wide success of Rooibos, another natural South African health tea, Honeybush; is finally getting the attention it deserves.

    Honeybush tea ( botanical name: Cyclopia intermedia ) grows along mountain slopes in the Cedarberg and Langkloof area, and has a naturally sweet, almost honey-like taste. Its brewing colour is a pinky red. South Africa produces only 200 tons of Honeybush tea per year. Not much when compared to the annual Rooibos tea crop of around 4000 tons. This lesser known tea has, however, apparently plenty to offer.

    Just like the ...
    Author: Janet Holmes
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  • Growing Veal Without Animal Abuse

    Let us discuss an interesting new innovation in the process of feeding the World. Researchers have found a way to grow flesh without the Chicken. Very good. Why is this good? Bird Flu Virus for one. Let us look at the problems of growing a whole chicken simply to make the ‘Chicken Mc Nuggets’. That produces a lot of waste for instance high in protein chicken feathers. In South Carolina Chicken feathers, carcasses and waste has polluted the water and caused flesh-eating bacteria to eat through fish and leave a hole the circumference of a quarter.

    Killing the fish. Of course this same f ...
    Author: Lance Winslow
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  • A Stitch In Time Saves Nine - Prevention not Cure

    It is a sad fact that most people pay little attention to their health until it is at risk. It is only then that people truly realise that health and wellbeing is far more important than money, and that all the money in the world cannot always buy health.

    From an early age we learn that prevention is better than cure - a stitch in time saves nine. Nowhere is this more true than in caring for our health, and with our health we don't always get a second chance if something goes wrong.

    With the exception of some factors determined by genetics our general state of health is essentia ...
    Author: Peter Sachford
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