Archive for November, 2009
Is There Such a Thing as a “Light” Cocktail or Beer?
In the quest to still get our jollies from drinking alcohol, and still maintain our trim waistlines and not blow up out of control, which is what a lot of drinking tends to get you considering of it’s large amount of empty calories, many folks have searched for the alternatives to typically heavy caloried drinks so that they can still get a buzz, but not ingest all that sugar and carbs, which inevitably don’t break down the way they should, are harmful to our livers, and inevitably additionally invent us lethargic and lazy, and generally not very ambitious the next day.
Sure, there are drinks that you can enjoy that are the lesser of two evils, such as reduced sugar cocktail mixes or sugar free ones, or you can enjoy the lower calorie and lower sugar alcohols like plain vodka, instead of drinking all the heavily flavored fruity vodkas and other hard flavored alcohols, but what else can you do? Well, the key, and you’re not gonna like that much, is moderation. Even whether you think enjoying those “Skinny Bitches” is harmless, your are still essentially ingesting alcohol, which is broken down by your body much like sugar is. It additionally has no filling effect, which is why public shout it empty calories.
It really is like ingesting totally empty nutrition, and the real danger of course is to our organs, but it’s plus to our inhibition. How many times have you been steadfastly dieting, only to ruin it when you’re drinking considering your guards go down and your starvation is essentially fueled by all the additional sugar you’re partaking in. What I like to do is occasionally enjoy a really good beer. One that really fills you up, considering not only do you get a pleasant buzz from it, but you plus get a little bit of a feeling of fullness that acts as a sort of natural appetite suppressant, whereas with the sugary sweet cocktails, you aren’t getting any substance.
From the beer at least, whether it’s light or dark, but particularly darker and higher in calories, you are getting all those barley and hops, which actually assemble you feel full. That’s why humans say “not filling” – yeah, like that’s a good thing, the whole view is to NOT by do it on your beer, that’s why you’re drinking light in the first place. I say ditch the light beer and instead enjoy one that may be higher in calories, but is plus much stronger, you can sip it slower and savor it, and it actually does fill you up – many times just one does.
Original post by EatingToLive
Antioxidant in Broccoli may be useful in treating Cystic Fibrosis
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that a dietary antioxidant found in such vegetables as broccoli and cauliflower protects cells from damage caused by chemicals generated during the body’s inflammatory response to infection and injury. The finding has implications for such inflammation-based disorders as cystic fibrosis (CF), diabetes, heart disease, and neurodegeneration……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Pediatric onset multiple sclerosis is more aggressive
Magnetic resonance images (MRI) of patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in childhood show that pediatric onset multiple sclerosis is more aggressive, and causes more brain lesions, than MS diagnosed in adulthood, scientists at the University at Buffalo have reported. Interestingly, however, patients with pediatric-onset MS — which comprise up to 5 percent of total MS cases — develop disabilities at a slower pace than patients with adult-onset MS, the details showed……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Smoking is a risk factor for ALS
While prior studies have indicated a “probable” correlation within smoking and ALS, a newly released study reported in the Nov. 17, 2009 issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, states that smoking may now be considered an “established” risk factor for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), additionally known as Lou Gehrig’s disease……..
Original post by Heather Craven
How immune cells chase down bacteria
A team led by Yale University researchers has developed a new approach to studying how immune cells chase down bacteria in our bodies. Their findings are described in the November 15 issue of Nature Methods Advanced Online Publication. When bacteria enter our bodies they secrete molecules, leaving behind chemical trails as they move through our system. It has been known for some duration that immune cells follow these trails in order to hunt the bacteria. However, studying precisely how immune cells process these chemical signals has been challenging……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Pet therapy while recovering from total joint-replacement surgery
Adults who use pet treatment while recovering from total joint-replacement surgery require 50 percent less pain medicine than those who do not. These findings were presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the universal Society of Anthrozoology and the First Human Animal Interaction Conference (HAI) in Kansas City, Mo……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Cheerleading injuries in US due to stunts
Whether rallying the crowd at a sporting event or participating in competition, cheerleading can be both fun and physically demanding. Eventhough integral to cheerleading routines, performing stunts can lead to injury. Stunt-related injuries accounted for more than half (60 percent) of U.S. cheerleading injuries from June 2006 through June 2007, as per a newly released study conducted by scientists at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital……..
Original post by Heather Craven
