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Zombie Food Pyramid

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:25:52 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: Cute shirt.

Clip Source: www.threadless.com

Tags: zombie, food, diet, health, illustration, shirt, design

Killer Smiles

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:00:23 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: Killer dentists...

Clip Source: img.photobucket.com

Tags: creepy, teeth, dentist, mask, health, humor, funny, advertising, promotion, design, smile, brand

City Life? It's Like Jet Lag

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:56:56 GMT

clipped by: haraya

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

City dwellers suffer a form of chronic jet lag that may make them more vulnerable to health problems, according to research.

The body is ruled by a "clock" that evolved to keep our metabolism in tune with the rising and setting of the sun. But because that clock is inaccurate it needs to be reset regularly to stop it drifting out of synchronisation with the day/night cycle, as occurs with shift work and aeroplane travel across time zones.

Sunlight is a key resetting stimulus to keep the body clock on track and today a major study concludes that it has less effect on city dwellers than those living in the country.

As a result, urbanites may suffer a kind of jet lag linked with decreased mental dexterity, worse memory, diminished immunity and health, as well as being placed at greater risk of accidents.

The findings appear in the journal Current Biology.

The research team concludes that changes in daylight saving time could be more disruptive than thought and that the human clock appears not to be adjustable to so-called social cues such as wristwatches. Instead, the clock is highly responsive – like that of all other animals – to natural daylight.

Tags: life, health, research, body, city, living, environment, sun, science, urban, accident, biology, travel, memory

An Example of Modern Life Absurdities

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:23:49 GMT

clipped by: jonasE

Clip Source: joneri.blogspot.com

A lot of people are concerned about their health, spending precious time in health clubs and gyms. If people would spend their calories on transporting themselves to work by foot or bike instead, they wouldn't have to worry about the waist line and they would save a lot of time, money and carbon. The fitness business is quite absurd when you see it from this perspective.

Fitness
vs
Pedal power

Tags: absurdities, modern life, health, environment, humor

Social Status Helps You Live Longer

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:27:50 GMT

clipped by: haraya

Clip Source: www.newscientist.com

Scientists who have won a Nobel prize live nearly two years longer than those who were merely nominated, according to a new study. The findings suggest that social status confers "health-giving magic", the researchers say.

Previous research has found a link between status and health in monkeys, but it has been difficult to investigate the link in humans because status often brings more wealth, which improves living standards and medical care.

Andrew Oswald and Matthew Rablen, economists at Warwick University in the UK, focused on Nobel prize winners "as an ideal group to study as the winners could be seen as having their status suddenly dropped on them".

The researchers studied 524 men – 135 winners and 389 nominees – in the competition for the physics and chemistry prizes between 1901 and 1950 – the cut-off point because the full list of nominees are kept secret for 50 years. They looked only at men to avoid differences in life span between sexes, and because the male winners provided a bigger sample size.

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Prize winners lived 1.4 years longer on average – or 77.2 years – than those who were nominated for the award. But when the survey was restricted to only comparing winners and nominees from the same country, the longevity gap widened, by about another eight months on average, the researchers found.

"Walking across that platform in Stockholm apparently adds about two years to a scientist's life-span. How status does this, we just don't know," Oswald says.

Though the prize money increased with time, the actual amount had no effect on the longevity of the recipient, he says. "Actually winning the Nobel prize was what counted," Oswald says.

Tags: life, health, science, society, scientists, research, nobel, prize, contest, medicine, wealth, lifestyle, environment, winners, competition, longevity

No One Dies of Old Age

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:43:17 GMT

clipped by: haraya

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

There are various ways of shuffling off this mortal coil, but people actually die from injury (such as a fall or car accident) or disease (such as cancer). No one dies of old age. Usually when a person is said to have died "of old age," it means that he or she succumbed to one of the diseases common in our later years.

While many older people do suffer from health problems, disease does not automatically accompany aging, and seniors are living longer and healthier than ever. Just as youth does not guarantee good health, old age does not guarantee poor health.

It is true that living cells have a finite life span, but that doesn't mean that the organism simply dies because the cells are old. Instead, genetic mutations, diseases, and damaging effects of the environment can foster a specific disorder or disease. As people get older, their cells simply don't work as well, and can't stave off disease as easily or heal as well as they once could. As a result, older people may die from injuries or diseases that a younger person would easily survive. But nothing dies from simply being old.

Tags: science, biology, man, environment, medicine, life, health, death, age, body, life span

Chinese people getting taller, heavier

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:00:28 GMT

clipped by: haraya

Clip Source: www.chinadaily.com.cn

Beijing - China as a nation has grown in stature since unleashing its economy more than two decades ago but so have its people, who are getting taller, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Chinese children are an average 6 cm (2.34 inches) taller and roughly 3 kg (6.6 pounds) heavier than they were 30 years ago, Xinhua said, citing a report released by the Ministry of Health on Saturday.

The average height of six-year-old boys grew from 112.3 centimeters in 1975 to 118.7 cm, according to the survey conducted in 2005.

Girls averaged 117.7 cm tall, 6.2 cm more than in 1975, the survey said. The survey has been conducted every 10 years since 1975.

China's people suffered from decades of privation, but have seen incomes and nutrition blossom more recently.

The survey polled 138,775 children in urban and suburban areas of nine major cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.

The average weight of boys in 2005 was 21.7 kg, up 3 kg from 1975, while girls averaged 20.8 kg -- 2.7 kgs heavier, Xinhua said.

Being better fed has brought problems, however, including an alarming rise in obesity -- once unheard of in China -- and related illnesses such as diabetes.

Health officials have blamed the problem on reduced consumption of grains and vegetables in favor of more fatty junk foods.

Saturday's report pointed out some adjustments made necessary by China's growth spurt, including Beijing's move this year to raise the height under which children get free public bus rides.

Despite the better nutrition in cities, countless children in China's still-backward rural areas suffered from malnutrition, the report noted.

Tags: asia, china, people, society, research, weight, height, chinese, health, children, nutrition, news

Are you a Tofi? (That's thin on the outside, fat inside)

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:14:06 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: I might just be one.

Clip Source: www.thisislondon.co.uk

It Is commonly assumed that people who are slim must be much healthier than those who are obviously overweight.

Thanks to advancements in hi-tech magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) doctors can look inside the human body in far more detail.

What they have found is that many people who look slim carry large amounts of fat located around important organs such as their heart and liver.

It is this fat, rather than the subcutaneous fat found under the skin, which can eventually lead to serious health problems.

So a person who appears overweight can often be far more healthy than an individual who looks thin but whose internal organs are shrouded in fat.

Scientists have branded these people Tofi - Thin on the Outside, Fat on the Inside - but say the physiological phenomenon could have serious health implications for milllions of people.

Professor Jimmy Bell, at the Medical Research Council's centre at Imperial College, London, said: "This is particulary true of men who have a slim build but who do little or no exercise."

"Our work so far has shown that you can take two men of the same age, with the same BMI (body mass index) and find one with five litres of fat within him and another with two litres.

"What we don't yet possess is enough information about how different genetic groups store fat. But we do know that you can manipulate the way the body stores it by changing the diet."

But judging one's fat by BMI alone can be misleading because it does not take into account how much fat is stores around organs.

He said: "Over the past five years, we've demonised fat and become obsessed with obesity, which is mostly talked about in terms of weight loss. But what matters is where it is distributed.

"As you lose weight, it tends to go from the bottom and bottom of your body first, so it can become concentrated in the abdomen.

"That is the most dangerous zone of all and it's possible that going on a constant series of diets actually encourages the storage of fat in this region."

Tags: health, body, fat, obesity, appearance, technology, medicine, weight, study

Blaming the Obese for (almost) Everything Bad

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:58:33 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: Crazy cartoon, interesting article.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Last week the list of ills attributable to obesity grew: fat people cause global warming.

This latest contribution to the obesity debate comes in an article by Sheldon H. Jacobson of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and his doctoral student, Laura McLay. Their paper, published in the current issue of The Engineering Economist, calculates how much extra gasoline is used to transport Americans now that they have grown fatter. The answer, they said, is a billion gallons a year.

Their conclusion is in the same vein as a letter published last year in The American Journal of Public Health. Its authors, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, did a sort of back-of-the-envelope calculation of how much extra fuel airlines spend hauling around fatter Americans. The answer, they wrote, based on the extra 10 pounds the average American gained in the 1990’s, is 350 million gallons, which means an extra 3.8 million tons of carbon dioxide.

“People are out scouring the landscape for things that make obese people look bad,” said Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale.

Tags: obesity, health, society, people, environment, food, cartoon, life, humor, global warming

10 Reasons To Drink More Water

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:23:51 GMT

clipped by: jarek69

Clip Source: projectririan.blogspot.com

I know you've heard this many times - "Drink more water!". Yet, 99% of the people don't heed this advice. Maybe if water was more expensive, people would pay more attention to consume enough of it on a daily basis. We are living in a dehydrated world of carbonated beverages, caffeine and alcohol.

I bet you don't know how important is water for your health, figure and well-being. But drinking water is not just a trend, it's essential! Everything your body does it does better with a healthy supply of water, every system in your body depends on water.

So here are 10 reasons why drinking water is good for you and why you should make drinking water part of your daily routine:

1. Get Healthy Skin

2. Flush Toxins

3. Reduce Your Risk Of Heart Attack

4. Cushion And Lube Your Joints And Muscles

5. Get Energized And Be Alert

6. Stay Regular

7. Reduce Your Risk Of Disease And Infection

8. Regulate Your Body Temperature

9. Burn More Fat And Build More Muscle

10. Get Well

Tags: water, health, diet