"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."
~ Bertrand Russell
Image of the day:
BODY~ Why diets so often fail -- "About one in three American adults is trying to lose weight at any given time, and while their track record for trying is good, their track record for succeeding is not."
~ Get Fit and Have a Ball -- "Tone up with four medicine ball moves for a supersculpted bod."
~ Building A Better Breakfast To Manage Weight -- "Breakfast alone may not be the solution to reducing obesity among American consumers, but some reformulation of morning selections could prove beneficial in the battle against the bulge according to the latest issue of Food Technology."
~ Plant-Derived Omega-3s May Aid In Bone Health -- "Plant-based omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) may have a protective effect on bone health, according to a team of Penn State researchers who carried out the first controlled diet study of these fatty acids contained in such foods as flaxseed and walnuts."
~ The Eat-What-You-Want Guide to Losing Weight -- "The best way to peel away pounds and get the body you want is to eat what you want in moderation. Here, Melissa Clark and Robin Aronson, authors of The Skinny, dish their tips on how to dig into the foods you love without sabotaging your weight loss goals."
~ Tamoxifen Yields Long-term Reduction In Breast Cancer Risk -- "Tamoxifen offers long-term benefits for breast cancer prevention among women at high risk of the disease, according to two randomized, blinded clinical trials in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The trials found that the breast cancer risk reduction persists long after women stop taking tamoxifen."
~ 12 Myths About Colon Cancer -- "Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, and the No. 1 cause of cancer death among non-smokers. More than 150,000 Americans will be diagnosed with colon cancer this year, and 52,000 will die from the disease."
PSYCHE
~ Eating Disorders Increasing In Women Of Childbearing Age -- "Remuda Ranch Programs for Eating Disorders, the nation's leading eating disorder treatment center, reports eating disorders are increasing in women of childbearing age. It's estimated that eating disorders affect approximately four percent of women of childbearing age." I'm seeing this a lot at the gym where I work.
~ Male Binge Eating: One Man's Courageous Story -- "Ron Saxen's Problem May Have Cost Him His Modeling Career, but He Says He's Now Under Control."
~ Can Neuroscience Tell Us Anything About the Mind? -- "Neuroscience - essentially brain scanning - has become all the rage in psychology and related fields. Given the headlong rush by, well, practically everyone, into neuroscience I still entertain a quaintly unfashionable stance: I'm skeptical."
~ Standardized Diagnostic Test For Learning Disabilities -- "A revolution in the field of diagnostic testing for learning disabilities - Dr. Evelyn Shatil from The Center for Brain Research and Learning Disabilities and Prof. Baruch Nevo from the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa have developed a standardized test for identifying and diagnosing learning disabilities."
~ Youth Activities Help Teens Gain Independence With Less Family Conflict -- "Organized youth activities help teens develop independence without the conflict and distancing from their families that parents have come to anticipate during adolescence, says a new University of Illinois study."
~ Study Confirms Normal Patterns Of Grief, Highlights Yearning -- ""Is my grief normal?" That is one of the most common questions posed by people who have lost a loved one. A new study by Dana-Farber researchers has helped answer that question by affirming the commonly accepted stages of grief disbelief, yearning, anger, depression, and acceptance and the sequence in which these emotions occur."
~ Signs of Depression -- "You may be at risk for depression because of loss, wonky brain chemicals, or genetics. What's the difference between depression and the blues?"
~ Does this self-help book really help? -- "Oprah lives by it. Millions are reading it. The latest self-help sensation claims we can change our lives by thinking. But this 'new thought' may just be new marketing." Decoding The Secret.
~ Lucid Dreaming -- From Dr Richard Petty.
CULTURE
~ Is the Tide Turning in Britney's Favor? -- "Revulsion is now starting to be aimed at the paparazzi and tabloids as the entertainment industry asks that the troubled star be given a chance to recover in private."
~ Reversal of Fortune -- "[O]ur continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually. Growth no longer makes most people wealthier, but instead generates inequality and insecurity. Growth is bumping up against physical limits so profound—like climate change and peak oil—that trying to keep expanding the economy may be not just impossible but also dangerous."
~ Democrats to Press for More Hearings -- "Even though House and Senate Democrats have so far held an estimated 70 oversight meetings and hearings into key elements of the war in Iraq and other administration programs, top leadership and committee aides this week said there will be no let-up as the session continues."
~ US Generals "Will Quit" If Bush Attacks Iran (Which Pentagon Stands Ready To Do On 24 Hour Notice) -- "SOME of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources. Tension in the Gulf region has raised fears that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely before President George Bush leaves office."
~ Seymour Hersh at The New Yorker: THE REDIRECTION -- Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?
~ Industrial Deevolutionary -- A Look at the history of techno music.
~ Jesus: Tales from the Crypt -- " In a new documentary, Producer Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici, make the starting claim that Jesus wasn't resurrected --the cornerstone of Christian faith-- and that his burial cave was discovered near Jerusalem. And, get this, Jesus sired a son with Mary Magdelene. No, it's not a re-make of "The Da Vinci Codes'. It's supposed to be true."
~ Who's Happy and Why? -- "Adrian White from the University of Leicester has compiled a map of global happiness, using responses to the Satisfaction With Life Scale questionaire, a simple document designed to measure subjective well-being."
~ A Futile Crusade -- "I've been holding off on commenting about the anti-religion campaign being spearheaded by Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett for a number of reasons. But I find myself growing increasingly frustrated with it and I finally feel compelled to put in my two cents."
HABITATS
~ Honeydew Honeys Are Better Antioxidants Than Nectar Honeys -- "A study of 36 Spanish honeys from different floral origins revealed that honeys generated by bees feeding on honeydew have greater antioxidant properties than those produced by bees feeding on nectar."
~ MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain
-- The digital music marketplace could move toward open source technology -- if we are lucky.~ Making Money Work for Change -- There's a lot of money out there not doing anything, so what if it was put to work?
~ Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves -- "Once roofed by ice for millennia, a 10,000 square km portion of the Antarctic seabed represents a true frontier, one of Earth's most pristine marine ecosystems, made suddenly accessible to exploration by the collapse of the Larsen A and B ice shelves, 12 and five years ago respectively." See also: Strange New Creatures Found in Antarctica.
~ Coastal Brits Fret About Climate Change -- "A 12-bedroom guest house, with beautiful views of the North Sea, a lighthouse and sandy beaches, sounds like prime real estate. But Cliff House is nearly worthless."
~ Security Scanner Can See Through Clothes -- "Sky Harbor International Airport became the country's first to begin testing a controversial new federal screening system that takes X-rays of passenger's bodies in an effort to find concealed explosives and other weapons."
INTEGRAL/BUDDHIST
~ From Gary at Integral in Seattle: Sex, Passion & Enlightenment and Sex. Passion, and Enlightenment: The Infomercial.
~ More good stuff from Mystery of Existence: Differentiating allowing, Filtering out awakeness, and leaving emptiness far in background, and Identity goes out of content, and a sense of doer goes out with it.
~ From Mike at Unknowing Mind: Making Good Causes.
~ Announcement: 2007 Blogisattva Award Winners -- Check it out -- lots of good blogs to enjoy.
~ An update from Sean at Deep Surface: A Deconstruction Process.
~ Palestine speaks in Colors -- This is a new update from Elza Maalouf - CEO of Center for Human Emergence Middle East - about the project in progress."
~ Working with anxiety in an integral way -- Over at the Zaadz I-I pod, based on a conference call with KW.
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