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Granular materials are widely found both in nature and in industrial applications and although we use them every day, theoretical physicists and manufacturers are still puzzled by their weird behavior. Although they are solid, they refuse to comply to the laws of physics that govern the movement of solids and they d... |
24 July 2007
06:34 GMT |
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For a self conscious couch potato, light variant of the sodas (the so-called sugar-free types) would be the solution against the sumo belly and all its accompanying metabolic syndrome issues, like diabetes and cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, elevated levels of the blood triglycerides (saturated fats) and... |
24 July 2007
02:55 GMT |
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The invisible villain attaches to your brain cells while you're smoking. But how does the state of high invade a smoker's brain? It appears that sugar is the cause. A new research made at University of Southern California reveals the role of sugar as the hinge that opens a gate in the cell membrane and info... |
23 July 2007
02:58 GMT |
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They advertise for energy drinks as if the drinks themselves were the ones pulling the weights when you go to the gym. Hold on! Besides pure advertisement, some of these chemicals can after all induce the contrary effect of what you really want. That's because the active ingredient in energy drinks, varying in d... |
9 July 2007
14:51 GMT |
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The orange skin that increases with each passing year is a sign of aging. If you're a woman, you have 90 % more probabilities to have cellulite than a man has. This is because cellulite is the product of a hormonal cocktail, fat, bad circulation, liquid retention, genetics and lifestyle. Depending on the predomi... |
18 June 2007
14:16 GMT |
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No sugar food, no body fat. This is the principle of the high-fat, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet. But how does this work?Two new researches link this to a hormone that regulates fat burning when the body turns from carbohydrates to its own fat reserves for getting energy, a discovery crucial for treating metabolism co... |
7 June 2007
15:46 GMT |
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It's easy to see on a product pack its nutritional content, but can you know this when it's about meat? And especially the fat content?Now, New Zealand food industry use a breakthrough x-ray based technology to ensure that beef exported to make American beefburgers obeys the US fat content regulations. Thes... |
4 June 2007
03:35 GMT |
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It seems that what you mustn't eat when you try to lose weight is linked to your insulin levels. This is the conclusion of a research made on 73 obese young adults. "A major question in the field of obesity is, why can some people do well on conventional weight-loss diets, while others on the very same diets do ... |
28 May 2007
04:54 GMT |
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No meal is complete without a little bit of sugar. In fact, adding a little sugar even to a salty meal enhances its taste. By 2020, you could add sugar to your car to make it more efficient in producing hydrogen.This is not a sci-fi theme and even the U.S. Department of Energy's 2006 Advance Energy Initiative p... |
23 May 2007
04:30 GMT |
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After a long run in the heat, the only thing you can think about is a bottle of cold water that you'd just drink at once. Water is refreshing, but is it healthy in this case?W. Larry Kenney, Penn State professor of physiology and kinesiology, says a sports drink would be more appropriate. "Sports drinks have ext... |
12 May 2007
06:22 GMT |
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You ingest a peanut and get fat while the skinny dude in front of you eats five hamburgers and stays just as slim as always...Well, I don't know if it's really "a peanut" that you eat, since quite often you fell like "devastating" a bag of potato chips or a huge chocolate bar and not an apple or an orange. ... |
12 May 2007
05:24 GMT |
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As you might have already heard, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association is a non-profit organization set up by some faculty members of the MIT Media Lab that aims to develop low-cost (US$ 100) laptops and distribute them among children all over the world, especially to those in less developed countries, through the... |
26 April 2007
06:44 GMT |
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No Cola or no bacon?Hard to say ...Staying out of junk food is the hardest drudgery. A team at Stanford University Medical School made a year-long research comparing four popular diets, from low-carb to low-fat, and the Atkins resulted to be the best. Thus, in the end, meat lovers laugh at vegetarians. The research i... |
12 April 2007
08:54 GMT |
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After you get drunk to the bone, you are surely craving for sweets the next day. Well, researchers led by Francisco Sanchez from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) remained open-mouthed when they found that Egyptian fruit bats, close but smaller relatives of the huge flying foxes, also crave for specific... |
2 April 2007
07:15 GMT |
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A new Australian research on schoolchildren who consume fruit juices and fruit drinks showed they are more prone to be overweight or obese than those who don't. The Deakin researchers investigated a sample of 2184 children, 4 to 12 years old from the Barwon South Western region. The team discovered that children... |
30 March 2007
06:28 GMT |
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Water pollution is a large set of adverse effects upon water bodies such as lakes, rivers, oceans and groundwater caused by human activities. Although natural phenomena such as volcanoes, storms, earthquakes etc. also cause major changes in water quality and the ecological status of water, these are not deemed to b... |
30 March 2007
05:47 GMT |
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