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CiCi’s All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet-buzzkilling researchers at Trinity College Dublin have discovered both an interesting and depressing quirk about a particular fat-fighting type of cell in the body.
Their potency to regulate obesity goes down the fatter you get. Oh; And then it just quits.
It turns out these cells, called INKTs, help keep most people from getting obese.
But there comes a tipping-point, where they just seem to stop and teir efficacy then approaches zero; However…
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-Saving at least a little face in the bottom of the 9th.
A recent study on obesity in children showed that the fattest group of was 2x as likely to have BPA in them, but only provided they were white.
The jury is still out, with the more likely candidate being Soda Consumption, as BPA is part of the plastic bottles it comes in…
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UPDATE!: NYT Finds Counter-Study!
And on a similar note to the EWG List,
What the EFF was Stanford trying to prove with that meta-analysis-study on Organics?
The whole thing was presented to make you feel like Organic is just as bad as regular food and not worth the outlay.
The first thing I’ve always thought about Organic is this: Lower Chemical Load in the Body.
-You get less of less-toxic pesticides, antibiotics, growth-hormones, etc.
-Therefore, there is less of a chance those will STAY in your body and cause problems over time…
Here’s a good small list of fruits and vegetables, published by the Environmental Working Group, that gives you a good look into which have the most & worst persistent Pesticide Residue.
If any of you out there have blanched at the prices on some organic foods, then this list is also for you,
-Especially because the EWC has been nice enough to include another list of the Cleanest foods in the same pesticide-load terms as the dirty ones.
That should help the budget abit…
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BULLSH**! I respectfully disagree. So far, CR is looking like the ONLY thing that works.
The only thing this proves is that there are differences in the 2 methodologies.
-That and monkeys are not to be trusted.
In fact, I’m sure they conspired to screw the results for the indignity of being kept in restricted conditions so blood samples could be taken regularly.
+And at least 1/2 of them were sneaking cigarette breaks…
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Yeah, yeah, yeah; BMI is not the end-all be-all indicator for 100% of the population and you know some power-lifter who has a BMI of 80 but 4% bodyfat.
BUT CHECK IT OUT ANYWAY! -It’s fun. Compare your score to the averages of people from around the world and report back.
And Yes, the ‘Murica-Hating Brits made the one super-fattie included on their page, Michelle, an American. -Thanks ‘Beeb, thanks alot!…
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(if you’ve had your wisdom teeth out)
In a vein similar to our wily friends on Long Island, Jose Cordova, heir to the Chrysler Cordoba Fortune and Erich Astudillo have discovered an interesting molecule that fights cavities.
But unlike “Cavistat”, the Chilean scientists aren’t introducing a molecule-set that reinforces teeth.
It supposedly kills off Streptococcus Mutans, the bacteria that creates the greatest number of…
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A few adults in Scotland are lacking in the awesomeness department.
-As put on display by their reaction to school-lunch nutrition blogger and awesomeness expert, Martha Payne.
Not only couldn’t they handle the public discussion heat brought on by Martha’s photo-reviews,
The local council tried to silence her with some ne-plus-ultra-idioticratic bullying…
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