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POPSGary Taubes: The great diet delusion More: The institutionalised conviction that we get fat simply because we overeat is based on the kind of fallacious reasoning that would lead to a failing grade in a high-school logic class. The first law of thermodynamics tells us that energy is neither created nor destroyed, so the calories we consume must be either stored, expended or excreted. If we are getting fatter, we must be taking in more energy than we are giving out: we are overeating. But this does not tell us which direction the arrow of causality is pointing. Do we get fat because we overeat, or is some regulatory or hormonal phenomenon driving us to fatten and in turn causing us to overeat? Saying that obesity is explained by overeating and/or sedentary behaviour is like saying that chronic fatigue syndrome is explained by a lack of energy. It sounds obvious; it tells us nothing.
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POPSDoes exercise boost immunity? More: “It is okay to exercise if you have a simple head cold or congestion — in fact, it may improve the way you feel. I would avoid heavy, prolonged exercise with a head cold, though,” since it can unbalance that important T1 and T2-helper cell response. And take comfort in the results of the most recent study to look at actual, practicing marathoners. In it, 1,694 runners at the 2000 Stockholm Marathon informed researchers about any colds or other infectious illness they developed in the three weeks before or three weeks after the race. Nearly one-fifth of the runners fell ill during that time period. That’s higher than the rates in people generally, but it still means that the overwhelming majority of runners didn’t get sick.
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POPSFast Food Industry’s 7 Most Heinous Concoctions The American fast food industry, in its attempt to survive at the expense of our health, has come up with some creative gastronomical mashups that not only play on our weakness for artery-hardening, sugar-saturated, taste-bud tantalizers but also keeps the U.S. health care system fat with wasted spending. The best way to ‘reform’ this country’s health care system is to stop feeding it with our extremely unhealthy diets and sedentary lifestyles that leads to heart disease, cancer, stroke, COPD, diabetes, etc. We like the convenience of fast food, but we can force fast food chains to come up with healthier fare by educating ourselves on what a healthy diet actually consists of, and what it doesn’t. Trust me, a healthy diet is not offered at fast food restaurants. Education and a desire to live a longer healthier life is key.
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POPSPosture Makes Perfect: Correcting postural misalignments helps ease chronic pain
More: Back, neck and shoulder pain frequently occur when the body tries to compensate for weak or underused muscles. “Lower back pain is the most common complaint from new clients… vertigo…TMJ (jaw pain), rotator cuff problems and neck, shoulder, knee and foot pain.” He adds that while many patients are at first skeptical as to the relationship between posture and, say, jaw pain, they often feel relief after just one session. After a thorough postural evaluation from an Egoscue therapist, the client receives a “menu,” or series of exercises and stretches called E-cises. While the specific exercises often do not appear directly related to the pain site—for example, thigh strengtheners and/or an upper back stretch may be prescribed for lower back pain—they are based on the muscles that are currently moving improperly. Muscles that may be compensating or substituting for other muscles now return to performing their proper roles, which in turn relieves the pain.
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POPSRipt: Man-girdle t-shirt for the soft-&-jiggly crowd You're a soft, sedentary, non-active guy. You drive a desk, ride home in a personal automobile, and play videogames depicting strong active men running around with guns & knives. You've got a sugar-cola in your glass, fried crap on your plate, and 873 hours of entertainment waiting on your TiVo in front of your big-screen TV. You've also got a spare tire that came off a tractor trailer and a back that spasms in pain if you try to lift anything heavier than a jumbo box of cookies. What you need is a man-girdle t-shirt.
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POPSTerrorism, schmerorrism. The REAL threats to your life “Microbial Agents” (read bugs like flu and pneumonia) will send 75,000 of us to meet the Reaper this year... the next greatest danger is “Toxic Agents” – asbestos in our ceiling, lead in our pipes, the stuff we spray on our lawns or pour down our clogged drains. Annual body count from these handy consumer products is around 55,000. After that, the most dangerous person in our lives is the one behind the wheel. About 42,000 of us will cash our chips in our rides this year. More than half will do so because we didn’t wear a seat belt... Over 16,000 Americans will be murdered this year, most often by a relative or friend... After that, it’s an overdose on “non-steroidal anti-inflammatories”, acetaminophen or aspirin. About 7,600 hundred a year...
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POPSCoke's no joke, says cancer research report Return the cocaine to the Coke and you have a pain killer to cope with the cancer. Considering it's history of holding people in contempt, Coca Cola will be unable to fight this on facts, just bullshit.
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POPSA New Drug Delivers “Fitness” Without the Workout What about athletes who want to use them for performance enhancement? “You can’t keep a drug that has obvious potential benefits to individuals away from them,” Evans says. “Athletes will definitely want to go for these drugs, as will other people.”
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POPSWeight Loss and Diet Pills Explained Simply Obesity is one of the leading preventable causes of death. Most researchers agree that a combination of excessive calorie consumption and a sedentary lifestyle are the primary causes of obesity. What are the solutions of this problem? Surgery is always an emergency solution and it is the unsafest way to lose weight - too big is the risk of complications. Find out more about weight loss options
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POPSHow To Cope With Obesity And Extra Weight It's nothing new to know that excess weight is often accompanied by health problems. Most researchers agree that a combination of excessive calorie consumption and a sedentary lifestyle are the primary causes of obesity. Weight Loss or Weight Management includes bariatric or weight loss surgery, dieting and physical exercise, medications - so-called 'diet pills' or 'anti-obesity' drugs. Learn more about weight loss pros and contras.
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POPSWeight Loss and Diet Pills Explained Simply Obesity is one of the leading preventable causes of death. Most researchers agree that a combination of excessive calorie consumption and a sedentary lifestyle are the primary causes of obesity. What are the solutions of this problem? Surgery is always an emergency solution and it is the unsafest way to lose weight - too big is the risk of complications. Find out more about weight loss options
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