Saturday, May 22, 2010
Ira Glass Talks About Chicken Rights Lady Karen Davis
Ira says the meeting with karen Davis has made him into a proponent of the vegetarian lifestyle.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Affirmations For Artists
"I will be organized. To that end, I will take stock and see what organization I really need. I will not stop at straightening my desk, but will better organize my thoughts and more clearly envision the great work I intend to do. I will risk re-organizing the pieces that comrise the puzzle of my life."
~Eric Manzel
~Eric Manzel
Saturday, April 3, 2010
junk food
Junk Food Jones Is Wired In Your Brain
March 29, 2010
By Scott Hensley
From the science-you-always-knew-was-true file comes evidence that eating junk food is addictive, triggering the same sorts of responses in the brain that lead to drug dependence.
A couple of clever researchers from the Scripps Research Institute in Florida put electrodes in rats' brains and trained the animals to give themselves a jolt of electricity to their pleasure centers.
Some rats then got just lab chow, others got access for an hour a day to a buffet of high-fat, caloric food, and 11 really lucky animals, known as the "extended-access rats" got to graze at the rodent equivalent of a fast-food cafeteria for up to 23 hours a day for 40 days.
The rats with full access to the junky stuff just loved it, gorging on bacon, cheesecake and Ho Hos. As you might expect, they got pretty fat pretty fast.
Inside their little brains, the junk-food eating rats developed a big problem. Just like drug takers, the rats needed a bigger fix of junk food over time to maintain their pleasure. So they kept on eating, and kept on getting fatter. As the scientists explained in their paper, "extended access to palatable high-fat food can induce addiction-like deficits in brain reward function," which can spur overeating and lead to obesity.
Or, in layman's terms, "the animals completely lost control over their eating behavior, the primary hallmark of addiction," neuroscientist Paul Kenny said in a statement describing the work.
He and a grad student did all sorts of other experiments to tease apart the connection between overeating and the pleasure response. Bottom line: eating a lot of junk food makes you want to eat more junk food.
We figured as much last night over a second bowl of ice cream just before bed. But for the scientific details, you can check out the results, which were just published online by the journal Nature Neuroscience.
March 29, 2010
By Scott Hensley
From the science-you-always-knew-was-true file comes evidence that eating junk food is addictive, triggering the same sorts of responses in the brain that lead to drug dependence.
A couple of clever researchers from the Scripps Research Institute in Florida put electrodes in rats' brains and trained the animals to give themselves a jolt of electricity to their pleasure centers.
Some rats then got just lab chow, others got access for an hour a day to a buffet of high-fat, caloric food, and 11 really lucky animals, known as the "extended-access rats" got to graze at the rodent equivalent of a fast-food cafeteria for up to 23 hours a day for 40 days.
The rats with full access to the junky stuff just loved it, gorging on bacon, cheesecake and Ho Hos. As you might expect, they got pretty fat pretty fast.
Inside their little brains, the junk-food eating rats developed a big problem. Just like drug takers, the rats needed a bigger fix of junk food over time to maintain their pleasure. So they kept on eating, and kept on getting fatter. As the scientists explained in their paper, "extended access to palatable high-fat food can induce addiction-like deficits in brain reward function," which can spur overeating and lead to obesity.
Or, in layman's terms, "the animals completely lost control over their eating behavior, the primary hallmark of addiction," neuroscientist Paul Kenny said in a statement describing the work.
He and a grad student did all sorts of other experiments to tease apart the connection between overeating and the pleasure response. Bottom line: eating a lot of junk food makes you want to eat more junk food.
We figured as much last night over a second bowl of ice cream just before bed. But for the scientific details, you can check out the results, which were just published online by the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Leaders Try To Cap Russia's Vodka Habit ... Again : NPR
Leaders Try To Cap Russia's Vodka Habit ... Again : NPR
A Historical Problem
Legend has it that the 18th century Russian czar Peter the Great, who liked to drink, would throw lavish parties drenched in vodka. But guests drank so much that some of them died.
Kamaletdinov says one of the czar's ideas to try to get things under control was to force people to drink so much they became embarrassed and learned a lesson.
Fast forward 300 years: Alcoholism remains a serious problem, and Medvedev has his own ideas on how to combat it.
In a speech last year, the president said that when he saw new government data on how much Russians drink, it took his breath away. Eighteen liters — or nearly 5 gallons — of pure alcohol is what the average Russian drinks each year. That, he said, is twice the amount the World Health Organization considers dangerous.
And while the problem isn't limited to vodka, that's the president's target for now.
Target: Cheap Vodka
The government's decision to raise the minimum price of vodka has mostly affected places likeprodukti stores — Russian versions of convenience stores. Olga Shibitova, a cashier at one store, said prices there are within the law, but so far, the store has seen no drop in business.
Russians will keep drinking...
A Historical Problem
Legend has it that the 18th century Russian czar Peter the Great, who liked to drink, would throw lavish parties drenched in vodka. But guests drank so much that some of them died.
Kamaletdinov says one of the czar's ideas to try to get things under control was to force people to drink so much they became embarrassed and learned a lesson.
Fast forward 300 years: Alcoholism remains a serious problem, and Medvedev has his own ideas on how to combat it.
In a speech last year, the president said that when he saw new government data on how much Russians drink, it took his breath away. Eighteen liters — or nearly 5 gallons — of pure alcohol is what the average Russian drinks each year. That, he said, is twice the amount the World Health Organization considers dangerous.
And while the problem isn't limited to vodka, that's the president's target for now.
Target: Cheap Vodka
The government's decision to raise the minimum price of vodka has mostly affected places likeprodukti stores — Russian versions of convenience stores. Olga Shibitova, a cashier at one store, said prices there are within the law, but so far, the store has seen no drop in business.
Russians will keep drinking...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Actuarial Table can guide your choices.
- "I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so." - Stephen Leacock
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