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Most nutritionists will tell you that controlling calorie intake is the key to losing weight (or avoiding weight gain.)  But a new animal study indicates that some calories are far more fattening than others! A six-year study at Wake Forest University, (published in the journal Obesity) found that monkeys fed a diet high in trans [...]

Illegal logging is on the increase in the Terai, the lowland areas of Nepal. Photo: Librex via flickr. A quickie on a seriously shocking situation: As Mongabay and BBC News report, Nepal has announced a two month temporary ban on all logging in the country. This comes as forestry officials learned that in the past [...]

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I had a big dinner party last week and I served fresh strawberries in chocolate cups for dessert. As usual, I bought too many strawberries, and we had lots left over. They were quite ripe, so eating them before they went bad was proving to be a bit of a challenge. I [...]

In my last post I spoke about the theory and practical application of muscle confusion and why it’s being so hyped up in the media lately. Today, though, I want to share with you an alternative plan that may just help you achieve even greater results. Instead of giving this method a fancy title let’s [...]

Boreal Forest Losing the Most Ground A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) concludes that over a million square kilometers of forest were lost around the world between 2000 and 2005, and that both the U.S. and Canada had higher percentages of forest losses than even Brazil (a country [...]

The Times of London recently published an article covering the effects of Vitamin D in children as a flu preventative. While it may not be a huge surprise to those of you who regularly frequent this blog, to much of the medical scientific community, it is. source Researchers at Japan’s Jikei University School of Medicine [...]

Even coral that looks the same, new research shows, may be part of a completely different species. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Some types of coral are abundant across reefs—turning up in a wide range of depths. Researchers have long assumed that this demonstrated versatility of the species—something that could be useful when rebuilding reefs damaged [...]