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http://www.amazon.com/Microlife-PF-100-Meter-Spirometry/dp/B000BH8TUA

Works but has clunky computer interface

Can #AIDS Be Cured? http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/can-aids-cured Now a chronic disease, treatable w/ HAART cocktails? Parallels w/ cancer evolution & resistance

MEDICAL DISPATCH DECEMBER 22, 2014 ISSUE
CAN AIDS BE CURED?
Researchers get closer to outwitting a killer.
BY JEROME GROOPMAN

Are some people doomed to be fat?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429950.400-are-some-people-doomed-to-be-fat.html Overview of metabolism & #obesity; addresses common myths, eg don’t eat before bed

Also:
14 myths and maybes about burning fat
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26549-14-myths-and-maybes-about-burning-fat.html

How Exercise Can Boost Young #Brains
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/how-exercise-can-boost-the-childs-brain Running around & acting like a kid is, in fact, good for kids. Duhh!

Remembering, as an Extreme Sport http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/remembering-as-an-extreme-sport Pharma sponsored competition emphasizes use of "memory palaces" for organizing facts

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The technique the competitors use is no mystery.

People have been performing feats of memory for ages, scrolling out pi
to hundreds of digits, or phenomenally long verses, or word pairs.
Most store the studied material in a so-called memory palace,
associating the numbers, words or cards with specific images they have
already memorized; then they mentally place the associated pairs in a
familiar location, like the rooms of a childhood home or the stops on
a subway line.

The Greek poet Simonides of Ceos is credited with first describing the
method, in the fifth century B.C., and it has been vividly described
in popular books, most recently “Moonwalking With Einstein,” by Joshua
Foer.

Each competitor has his or her own variation. “When I see the eight of
diamonds and the queen of spades, I picture a toilet, and my friend
Guy Plowman,” said Ben Pridmore, 37, an accountant in Derby, England,
and a former champion. “Then I put those pictures on High Street in
Cambridge, which is a street I know very well.”

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Is Sitting At Your Desk Killing You?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2014/09/28/is-sitting-at-your-desk-killing-you @stevensalzberg1 dissects stats of a study relating #standing to telomere length

What Kids Around the World Eat http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/08/magazine/eaters-all-over.html Neophobia: "evo-sensibly" they initially reject unfamiliar food. Sugar is an exception

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Children, and young omnivorous animals generally, tend to reject
unfamiliar foods on the first few tries. Evolutionarily, it makes
sense for an inexperienced creature to be cautious about new foods,
which might, after all, be poisonous. It is only through repeated
exposure and mimicry that toddlers adjust to new tastes — breakfast
instead of, say, dinner. That we don’t put pickle relish on waffles or
eat Honey Bunches of Oats for supper are rules of culture, not of
nature. As children grow, their palates continue to be shaped by the
food environment they were born into (as well as by the savvy
marketers of sugar cereals who advertise directly to the 10-and-under
set and their tired parents). This early enculturation means a child
in the Philippines might happily consume garlic fried rice topped with
dried and salted fish calledtuyo at 6 in the morning, while many
American kids would balk at such a meal (even at dinnertime). We learn
to be disgusted, just as we learn to want a second helping.

Sugar is the notable exception to “food neophobia,” as researchers
call that early innate fear. In utero, a 13-week-old fetus will gulp
amniotic fluid more quickly when it contains sugar. Our native sweet
tooth helps explain the global popularity of sugary cereals and
chocolate spreads like Nutella: Getting children to eat sugar is easy.
Teaching them to eat slimy fermented soybeans, by contrast, requires a
more robust and conservative culinary culture, one that resists the
candy-coated breakfast buffet.

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How to Tame Bad Breath http://online.wsj.com/articles/how-to-tame-bad-breath-1411420070 Emphasizes importance of hydration for shifting #microbiome population. Also, tongue brushing.

Not a nutty idea
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21595404-it-may-be-possible-reduce-sensitivity-those-allergic-peanuts-not Eating a small amount of peanuts desensitizes one to a severe #allergy. #Health & #Diet

The #Paleo Lifestyle: The Way, Way, Way Back http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/fashion/the-paleo-lifestyle-the-way-way-way-back.html #Diet expands to caveman habits for sleep, exercise & gadget use