Archive for September, 2009
Lack of Sleep and Overeating
One of the things that causes us to overeat, even when we have the best plan out there and tend to stick to a healthy diet most of the moment, is a lack of sleep. that may be hard to believe since the two don’t seem immediately related to one another, however, there are some solid studies on the fact that sleep deprivation and overconsumption of food are definitely related. I guess that it sort of makes sense since your body probably thinks it needs more “fuel” since it didn’t get ample sleep, and it seeks out that “fuel” from the food you eat, thereby making you eat too much and thereupon put on weight.
If you’re watching your weight or you are trying to diet, sleep can be one of the critical components of a successful diet campaign since whether you are an individual who habitually does not get decent sleep, you may be already having a leg down in the fight to lose excess pounds, which are, in essence, excess calories that are stored in not so glamorous places on your body. Even whether you work really early in the dawn, you have to prepare certain that you are getting at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep per night. Not only will your body benefit in weight but you will plus conceivable extend your life expectancy since sleep is one of the factors that determines your mortality rate and age.
The physiological reason for lack of sleep’s contribution to increasing your waistline through increasing your appetite is that when you do not get abundant sleep, two of the key hormones in your body that control the ever urgent appetite, leptin and ghrelin, are diminished quite significantly when you don’t get sufficient shut eye. These two hormones, when diminished, do not have the capability by the body to suppress your appetite when you are satiated. considering they actually determine your satiety, you essentially don’t have the all crucial off switch that tells you to stop eating, or your off switch is greatly delayed, resulting in you cramming more pound increasing calories in your body.
In a study, it was shown that society who were sleep deprived for a night had an instant decline in their leptin and ghrelin levels, to the tune of nearly 20%, which helped to determine how much they were going to eat that day. They nearly always would keep eating beyond what they normally would, considering their bodies didn’t have that inhibition and off switch that they normally do. that is why they say one of the contributing factors to obesity is lack of sleep.
Original post by EatingToLive
Gene that Could Lead to New Therapies
Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists are one step closer to finding new ways to treat Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), a bone marrow disease that strikes up to 15,000 society each year in the United States, and that sometimes results in acute myeloid leukemia. Scientists observed that the gene RhoB is vital to the disease’s progression and could prove to be a therapeutic target for late-stage MDS……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Director of Alzheimer’s Disease Center honored
Dr. Roger Rosenberg, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been awarded the first Medal for Scientific Achievement by the World Federation of Neurology. The federation is made up of more than 100 neurology associations internationally. It established the award, and another for service to universal neurology, in 2008. The prizes are the first ever given by the federation……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Women who assemble poor shoe choices
A recently published study determined that women who compose poor shoe choices early in life suffer with foot pain in later years. Research shows that men do not experience the same foot pain as women, due to type of shoes they wear. Details of that study seem in the recent issue of Arthritis Care and Research, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Living conditions have significant impact on reproductive health
When costs outweigh benefits, successful pregnancies are less likely to occur. Life is all about tradeoffs and recently published research by Virginia J. Vitzthum, a senior scientist at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, and professor in the IU College of Arts and Sciences’ division of Anthropology, has shown that during periods of intense labor and low food intake, rates of early pregnancy loss can more than double……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Healthy Lunch : Kale, Brown Rice, Hummus
I’ve done it again. I’ve fallen in love with a vegetarian style lunch. prepare that a vegan style lunch that duration actually, that dish has no cheese or any other kind of dairy, nor does it have animal protein of any sort. It is comprised of some of the biggest staples in the vegan and vegetarian diet actually, which are brown rice, wild rice, kale and hummus. Heck, hummus is a favorite of vegetarians, vegans and carnivores alike.
Hummus is pretty universal, and whether you buy or produce the kind that only uses oil very sparingly, or not at all, soon after you are additionally eating a very low fat, low calorie meal that is satisfying as well. Oh yeah, did I mention that it bursts with flavor additionally? That’s all urgent as we know, since it is when our tastebuds are bored that we start to go for the most fatty, sugary and flavorful foods that additionally happen to be the least healthy for us. How is that?
Well, we are creatures that were born to love food, and we have positive satisfaction chemicals that go off allover our body when we eat tasty food, so it only makes sense that would biologically drive us to the tastiest foods, naturally.
So, here’s my awesome, low fat, healthy and fiber filled lunch recipe for a vegan, super cleansing meal. And it doesn’t leave you feeling stuffed or lethargic afterwards as a lot of other lunch foods can, which is a huge bonus whether you take that to work with you for your lunch.
You start off with cooking half wild rice and half brown basmati or whole brown rice. I prefer to cook mine in a rice cooker as it yields the most perfectly cooked and fuss free brown rice you can compose, and you don’t have to be around to cook it, you just throw the water or broth and the rice in the proper measurements in, and leave it alone til it’s done.
I like to cook mine in a vegetable broth, it gives it more flavor and texture. thereupon, I take a small zuccini, about half of it, and cube it. I place that in a steamer along with shredded fresh kale, and lightly steam these two veggies. These will top my rice, along with a few other goodies that round out that veggie filled lunch. I additionally dice fresh tomatoes.
I buy a hummus (or you can assemble your own) that contains 30 calories per 2 TB. Some hummus can be double that amount of calories considering it’s loaded with oil. Choose one that is made with only tahini, garbanzo beans and other non oil ingredients (but nothing unnatural of course!)
I put about 4 TB of hummus on top of mine, a little sea salt, the veggies and the diced tomatoes, and voila, you have a very filling, healthy fiber and nutrition filled lunch that you can eat day after day considering it’s SO good!
Original post by EatingToLive
La Jolla Institute scientist earns prestigious NIH Award
A scientist at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology has received one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s top awards — the 2009 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. The prestigious prize carries with it funding for total costs of up to $4.7 million by five years, and is designed to support the work of exceptionally creative scientists, whose novel proposals offer the potential to assemble extraordinary contributions to human health……..
Original post by Heather Craven
