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Wired DATA | Life Conference Intros The Big Data And Analytics Wave To Health

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Featured, Highlights, Video

Wired DATA | Life Conference Intros The Big Data And Analytics Wave To Health
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Wired DATA | Life Presents The AI+ML+Big Data Future Of Health & Medicine:
After MD Anderson’s 41 Cancer-Fighting Foods, I was reminded of one more thing:

Back in November, there was a health conference that both MDACC & Wired put on called Wired DATA | Life.

It was a small invitation-only shindig, mostly for people really into the health space, like doctors and biotech entrepreneurs; so it didn’t really get a lot of press coverage.

Nevertheless, for those of you interested in the subject, -ESPECIALLY- its intersection with “Big Data”, some of the segments are really not bad.

So below, there is a list…

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Woman Loses ½ Her Bodyweight Through Simple Yet Impressive Means

Filed Under: Disease, Exercise, Favorites, Featured, Popular Diets, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Woman Loses ½ Her Bodyweight Through Simple Yet Impressive Means
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Nothing too revolutionary here. -At least not in-terms of biotech inventions or hidden health-hacks and freakonomics.

Just a very determined average person trying whatever she could do, one baby-step at a time.

Teena Henson’s story is “Biggest Loser”-weight loss without all the BS or reality-TV-salaciousness.

 
Among those small steps were: Finding a gym with workable hours, Quitting soda immediately, Losing other fast carbs, Phasing-in exercise, Switching …

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I Was Just Going To Complain About My Diet Until TheChive Reminded Me Of Christian Bale

Filed Under: Exercise, Featured, Nutrition, Other, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

I Was Just Going To Complain About My Diet Until TheChive Reminded Me Of Christian Bale
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1 Apple, 1 Can of Tuna, Coffee, Cigarettes & Vitamins to lose 63lbs. -or 34% of his mass in 4 months for “The Machinist”?

A little tiny bit more food, but running 4+ hour Ultra-Marathon-equivalents to lose almost as much between “Terminator Salvation” and “The Fighter”?

 
…-My Complaining? -OVER!…

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8 ½ Reasons You Should Eat Whole Fruit Instead Of Drinking Juice

Filed Under: Featured, Nutrition

8 ½ Reasons You Should Eat Whole Fruit Instead Of Drinking Juice
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So this interesting study came out echoing some previous thoughts on fast-carbs, and ultimately supported the idea of eating your fruit instead of drinking it.

One of the more clever things it Did do, was to note that some fruits more than others were associated with health problems like Diabetes.

But some of the other things it wasn’t really focused on, was to suggest reasons Why, or to fill in too many of the blanks.

So on that note, here are a few thoughts on it you might want to consider:…

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Weight-Loss Champ Confirmed By Karolinska Institute: Nutrition Is Still Muhammad Ali

Filed Under: Favorites, Featured, Nutrition

Weight-Loss Champ Confirmed By Karolinska Institute: Nutrition Is Still Muhammad Ali
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So this new study by the Karolinska Institute tells us a few things we already knew about weight-loss nutrition, and some we didn’t.

After looking at 20 programs that put people on a straight-bonkers weight-loss diet of 1,000 calories/day,

The analysis concluded that high-protein [and I’m assuming Low/Slow Carb] diets after the program helped people keep off the rebound weight.

Where have we heard that before?

It’s hard to imagine anyone, or their body, not having a bit of a freakout…

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I For One Do Not Welcome Our New 3-D-Printed Brain Overlords In Jars

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Featured, Mind/Brain, Thinking Out Loud

I For One Do Not Welcome Our New 3-D-Printed Brain Overlords In Jars
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“I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.”*

Imagine if you had to learn how to be an Architect or Civil-Engineer, but you weren’t allowed 2x4s, wood, bricks, cement, steel I-beams, bolts, nails, mud, hay, cow-butts; -nothing in the way of building-supplies,

And all you were allowed to do was take apart existing skyscrapers, experiment, and sketch?

Well, that phase in Brain-Science is over…

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Hygiene Hypothesis, Histamines, And Hookworm: RadioLab Talks Hacking Allergies & Auto-Immune

Filed Under: Disease, Featured

Hygiene Hypothesis, Histamines, And Hookworm: RadioLab Talks Hacking Allergies & Auto-Immune
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[Ok first, if you haven’t checked out Dirty=Good & The Hygiene Hypothesis, start there; otherwise:]

Just a short while ago, RadioLab replayed their fantastic September ’09 episode on Parasites!

 
was called “Sculptors of Monumental Narrative”,

About Jasper Lawrence, a man who cured himself of basically ALL allergies,…

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