Posts Tagged ‘#health’

Deprive yourself: Real benefits of fasting, 11/22/12 New Scientist; appears to be better than caloric restriction

Friday, February 15th, 2013

Deprive yourself: The real benefits of fasting – health – 22 November 2012 – New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628912.400-deprive-yourself-the-real-benefits-of-fasting.html

Calorie Detective

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

amazing that labeled foods from large vendors would be so inaccurate
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/02/12/opinion/100000002061153/calorie-detective.html

Omega 6 debate: Omega 3 is good but things not so clear for 6 – clinicans say it’s good but biochemists disagree

Saturday, February 9th, 2013

http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/asbmbtoday_article.aspx?id=18365

Meat of the Matter: Are Our Modern Methods of Preserving and Cooking Meat Healthy?: Scientific American

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=meat-of-the-matter-modern-methods-preserving-cooking-meat-healthy&print=true

Next Generation: Fitness & Health Monitoring Bands | Apartment Therapy

Friday, January 25th, 2013

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/get-fit-with-these-3-fitness-bands-182946

Search of DNA Sequences Reveals Full Identities – NYTimes.com

Friday, January 18th, 2013

hapmap ceph people revealed
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/health/search-of-dna-sequences-reveals-full-identities.html?_r=0

Alexander Leaf Dies at 92 – Linked Diet and Health – NYTimes.com

Monday, January 7th, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/us/alexander-leaf-dies-at-92-linked-diet-and-health.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&seid=auto

BBC – Future Quantified self: The tech-based route to a better life?

Saturday, January 5th, 2013

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-self-track-route-to-a-better-life/print

iPod Hearing Loss Danger

Sunday, December 30th, 2012

Why loud jazz is bad.

See
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1881130,00.html

More detail at:
http://www.noisehelp.com/ipod-hearing-loss.html

Volume Level Maximum Listening Time per Day
50% or below No limit
60% 18 hours
70% 4.6 hours
80% 1.2 hours
90% 18 minutes
100% 5 minutes

add 10% to vol. level for headphones

Childhood: A Little Sugar Does Seem to Ease the Pain – NYTimes.com

Sunday, December 23rd, 2012

Sugar for shots
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/childhood-a-little-sugar-does-seem-to-ease-the-pain/