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For those folks who love the taste of seafood but hate all the trouble of fishing it from the ocean, one recently unveiled invention in China has a cruelly-convenient solution — a vending machine that dispenses crabs, guaranteed to be alive or your next meal is free! That’s right, for around $1.50 you can now buy a living, breathing snack with the same ease normally reserved for a can of soda or a bag of chips, perfec… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bitter taste receptors we have in our mouths were found to also exist in our lungs – what researchers discovered about these functioning receptors in the smooth muscle of the bronchus in the lungs may transform future treatment for asthma and obstructive lung diseases, scientists wrote in an article published in Nature Medicine. When bitter taste receptors in the lungs were exposed to certain doses of substances known to activate bitter taste receptors in the tongue, they opened up the airways better than most current medications are able to do. Senior author, Stephen B. Liggett, M.D…

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One of the best benefits of losing weight, working out, and getting in shape, is the greater self-confidence many people gain.��

However, in order to achieve this improved self-confidence you must change your personal feedback. What this means is that although you won’t attain the body you want overnight you do need to give yourself a pat on the back after each healthy choice. You could have chosen not to eat healthy or exercise, but instead you did make the healthier decision. You should recognize this positive movement towards your goals and congratulate yourself since reaching your goals is nothing more than the accumulated sum of your actions.��

Therefore, if you’re still beating yourself up over not having reached your ideal weight it’s time to associate more helpful feelings in terms of keeping you motivated. Sure, you haven’t made it yet, but you know you’ll get there and now you just have to appreciate each step along the way knowing in the back your mind that it’s just a matter of time before your staring at the mirror and looking back at the healthy body you’ve always wanted to live in.

Change your outlook and your feedback and you’ll be well on your way to getting the desired outcome you want.
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We believe what we tell ourselves, whether it’s true or not.  And when we talk negatively about our bodies, we start to feel negatively about them.  That creates problems with our motivation to do the things necessary to take care of them.  

Helping people understand that is one of the reasons behind Fat Talk Free Week, a campaign started by the Delta Delta Delta sorority to help women stop the negative focus on their bodies that is rampant in the US and elsewhere. 

Fat talk doesn’t help and, indeed, harms by fostering body dissatisfaction that is linked to eating and weight struggles, and eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder.  It’s estimated that 10 million women suffer from anorexia and bulimia.   But even more of us struggle with binge eating disorder, which is thought to affect three times as many people as anorexia and bulimia combined and at least one-third of people who participate in weight loss programs.

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For the health conscious like me, Halloween candy that can lend to ill health is as spooky as un-fairly traded choco treats. I hate sounding like the grim reaper and all, but it’s science — not this blogger — linking childhood obesity, diabetes and cancer to refined sugars.

Unless you want to be the “granny” on the block handing out… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Today´s 70-year-olds do far better in intelligence tests than their predecessors. It has also become more difficult to detect dementia in its early stages, though forgetfulness is still an early symptom, reveals new research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, based on the H70 study. The H70 study provides data on cognitive symptoms that researchers have used to predict the development of dementia, and also to investigate whether the symptoms have changed in recent generations…

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Has this ever happened to you?

It’s 9 or 10 at night. You’re tired. Maybe you’re relaxing, or maybe you’re anxious about your work or family. You stuck to your healthy eating plan all day; you did your exercise, and you know you should be getting ready for bed. But you have this nagging feeling, this craving for something sweet and satisfying.

Do you give in to the urge to indulge?

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Despite the promising results of the “Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valves (PARTNER) trial,” featured in the Oct. 21 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a cardiothoracic surgeon from Boston Medical Center (BMC) believes that surgical aortic-valve replacement should remain the standard treatment of aortic stenosis. In the accompanying editorial, the author argues that Transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) should be reserved for patients at inordinately high risk who are not suitable candidates for surgery and who have decreased life expectancy…

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I hate to say it, but most people put down the weights that they are lifting just at the point where they are about to make some new breakthroughs. By breakthroughs I mean begin to reshape their body by pushing it to a point it hasn’t been before. 

You see, the only real way to begin noticing change in your body is to force it to adapt to a new stimulus. That stimulus can come from running the extra half-mile or pushing out 1 more rep when you think you don’t have it in you. By taking one of those actions you will be telling your body it’s time to change in order to keep up with the new demands.

This is how you improve and get the results you’re looking for.

Of course, you have to keep proper form and always stop if you feel any pain (there’s a difference between the muscles burning and the joints screaming in pain). My suggestion is to simply keep an exercise journal and try to push yourself just a little bit more each week until you plateau. At that point you can switch up your program and safely begin the cycle again.

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It’s the battle of the toothpaste titans: In the red corner we have Colgate Palmolive, the the world’s largest producer of toothpaste, who have taken out a patent for an Indian herbal toothpaste. In the blue corner we have the Ayurvedic medicine manufacturer… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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