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If You Aren't Using This Type of Exercise You Are Missing Out Big Time
2007-05-22 04:53:00
New findings suggest that it pays to alternate short bursts of high-intensity exercise with gentle recovery during workout regimens at least once a week.Although this alternating technique, called interval training, has existed for decades, a new study has confirmed that it can dramatically improve cardiovascular fitness and the body's fat-burning capabilities.Researchers asked eight college-age men and women to sprint for 30 seconds, and then either stop or pedal gently for four minutes. After only two weeks of this interval training, 75 percent of them doubled their endurance.A control group, which did not do any interval training, showed no improvement in endurance. The marked improvement in the interval training group was even more startling because the volunteers were already fairly fit. Another study also showed that interval training enhances the body's ability to burn fat. Eight women in their early 20s were told to cycle for 10 sets of four minutes of hard riding, followed b ...
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An Inconvenient Truth Becomes Required Classroom Viewing?
2007-05-21 20:07:00
First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class. In total, 18-year-old McKenzie, a Northern Ontario high schooler, says he has had the film An Inconvenient Truth shown to him by four different teachers this year."I really don't understand why they keep showing it," says McKenzie (his parents asked that his last name not be used). "I've spoken to the principal about it, and he said that teachers are instructed to present it as a debate. But every time we've seen it, well, one teacher said this is basically a two-sided debate, but this movie really gives you the best idea of what's going on."McKenzie says he has educated himself enough about both sides of the climate- change controversy to know that the Al Gore movie is too one-sided to be taught as fact. Even scientists who back Mr. Gore's message admit they're uncomfortable with liberties the politician takes with "science" in the film. But, McKenz ...
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NY Times Attempts To Debunk 9/11 Truth; Fails Miserably
2007-05-20 13:15:00
In a report detailing Rosie O'Donnell's confirmed plans to have 9/11 truthers debate the attacks on The View before she leaves in June, The New York Times has responded by penning an extremely poor attack piece which cites previous shoddy debunking efforts while completely ignoring key evidence often referred to by the many scientific experts, ex government officials, whistleblowers and truthers in general that have declared the event an inside job. In a report detailing Rosie O'Donnell's confirmed plans to have 9/11 truthers debate the attacks on The View before she leaves in June, The New York Times has responded by penning an extremely poor attack piece which cites previous shoddy debunking efforts while completely ignoring key evidence often referred to by the many scientific experts, ex government officials, whistleblowers and truthers in general that have declared the event an inside job.Skipping over the fact that some guys in a cave in Afghanistan were able to coordinate a ...
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Pentagon Lies to Pull Soldiers from Videos
2007-05-20 13:07:00
The Pentagon's claim that its overseas soldiers were sapping too much bandwidth has been contested by the founders of Youtube. Military bigwigs banned Youtube claiming soldiers were blocking its network by watching raucous clips of people falling over and cats mugging children.But Youtube founder, chief executive Chad Hurley, said the Pentagon only thought it would be a bandwidth issue it could not be certain.He pointed out that the US military created the Internet so it should know a bit more about the problem than that.Hurley, chief technology officer Steve Chen and Youtube spokeswoman Julie Supan said that the company is trying to work with the Pentagon in hopes the military will reverse course or at least partially repeal the ban.They were especially puzzled by the block because it came just days after the military launched its own channel on the web site offering what it calls a "boots-on-the-ground" perspective of scenes of combat, they said. ...
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All Employees Must Have Microchip Implants?
2007-05-20 13:01:00
Congress is moving quickly to put into motion measures that will ensure airport employees are subjected to stricter security checks. Everyone from Restaurant employees to airline mechanics could soon be forced to provide biometric finger and iris scans and may even face the possibility of being implanted with a microchip.Currently all airport employees must pass a police and FBI background check, however this may soon be upgraded to include credit checks, routine searches of bags and property and the use of biometric readers with the possibility of microchip implants on the tableThe measures are still under Congressional discussion.Such biometric readers are becoming commonplace in many places of work, yet the use of microchip implants is yet to become widespread.There are however some workers who have been forced to take the chip.Government workers in Mexico are being forced to take the chip or lose their job. Staff of Mexico's attorney general had to take the chip in order to access ...
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YouTube Will Fight US Military Block
2007-05-19 17:51:00
On Monday, the US Department of Defense announced that a number of social networking and media sites would be blocked on its network, citing bandwidth concerns. "This is a bandwidth and network management issue. We've got to have the networks open to do our mission. They have to be reliable, timely and secure," a US Strategic Command spokeswoman told Stars & Stripes. (Marshall Kirkpatrick has a good blog post summing up the reaction across the blogosphere.)For their part, YouTube isn't accepting the ban without a fight. Today, YouTube told the Associated Press they would challenge the US Defense Department's decision. "Watching or uploading online video does use bandwidth and can slow or tie up a network, but [CEO Chad] Hurley expressed doubt that soldiers' use of YouTube could have any real effect on the military's massive network," reported the AP.Hurley joked that since the Defense Department invented the Internet, bandwidth shouldn't be a problem. But he vowed to work with th ...
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Secret Bill Written for Amnesty to Illegal Immigrants
2007-05-19 17:39:00
The Senate is on the verge of passing a bill that has been written in secret and has not even be read which provides total amnesty for 12 million (if you are to believe official figures) illegal aliens already inside the US, allows them to bring in their entire families from outside and ultimately paves the way for foreign occupation of the United States.The immigration reform bill, which has been hailed by President Bush, has been denounced by many commentators and Senators as total amnesty by stealth.It has been drafted in total secrecy with the help of liberal think tanks and Latino national interest groups such as the National Council of La Raza and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which as the Washington Post reported now have virtual veto power in the immigration debate. Some of these groups are notoriously racist and have openly called for revolution . ...
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Ban lifted to allow animal-human embryos
2007-05-18 13:25:00
A major shift of position by ministers today cleared the way for scientists to create hybrid animal-human embryos for stem cell research.The move followed a White Paper proposal banning the hybrids that attracted criticism from scientists, charities, patient groups and MPs.Today the Government published a draft Bill that effectively sweeps away the ban. Under the Human Tissue and Embryos Bill, scientists will be allowed to produce "cytoplasmic" hybrid embryos that are 99.9% human and 0.1% animal.The Bill goes further and permits human embryos to be altered by the introduction of animal DNA.Health Minister Caroline Flint, the Bill's chief architect, denies that the Government had staged a climbdown.She said that while recommending a "general prohibition", the White Paper had always left the door open for specific research to be allowed on a case-by-case basis.But the immediate ban called for by the White Paper has now been removed.The Bill also allows human-animal chimeras - human embr ...
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Ron Paul Introduces Legislation to Limit the FDA's Authority Over Supplements And Other Medicine.
2007-05-18 10:23:00
Not only has U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) been making quite an impression during the recent Republican presidential debates, he's introduced a bill that would curb restrictions imposed by the FDA and FTC regarding health claims for dietary supplements.The Health Freedom Protection Act would prevent the FDA from censoring truthful claims about the curative or preventative effect of dietary supplements, a popular issue for Americans but not necessarily Congressmen, especially for those receiving donations from the mega-drug company cartel.According to this interesting Lew Rockwell report, one of the more recent flashpoints in the debate over dietary supplements occurred eight years ago after studies emerged that tart cherries may do more good than aspirin or other anti-inflammatory drugs when it comes to pain relief.When cherry growers began to cite this research, the FDA came down hard on 29 of them, threatening legal action if they didn't remove the scientific evidence about cherries ...
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Milk is The Weight Loss Cure?
2007-05-18 10:00:00
Even with the pending flood of organic milk hitting a grocery store near you very soon, the dairy industry won't be profiting from erroneous claims that drinking pasteurized milk can help anybody loss weight, thanks to a Federal Trade Commission ruling late last week.The Body by Milk campaign that was overseen by the USDA (featuring teen-oriented ads with baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez and singer Carrie Underwood) was called "ridiculously misleading" by noted nutritional expert Marion Nestle. No doubt, it was probably allowed to hang around far longer than it should have, however, no thanks to excessive lobbying by the dairy industry.An interesting factoid about this news story worth noting: The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), led by Dr. Neal Barnard, led the charge to have this campaign killed. If that group doesn't ring a bell with you, it's the very same one who terribly distorted the facts behind the death of Dr. Robert Atkins.Fact is, the PCRM's agend ...
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Record Numbers on Anti-Depressants
2007-05-16 12:44:00
The number of prescriptions for anti-depressants has hit an all-time high, a mental health charity has revealed.More than 31 million prescriptions for anti-depressants were written last year - a rise of 6 per cent on the year before, according to Mind.It comes as the charity released research showing that country walks can help reduce depression and raise self-esteem, leading to calls for "ecotherapy" to become a recognised treatment for people with mental health illnesses.The study by the University of Essex compared the benefits of a 30-minute walk in a country park with a walk in an indoor shopping centre on a group of 20 members of local Mind associations.After the country walk, 71 per cent reported decreased levels of depression while 90 per cent reported increased self-esteem. This contrasted with only 45 per cent who experienced a decrease in depression after the shopping centre walk, and 22 per cent even said they actually felt more depressed. ...
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Giuliani Uses 9/11 to Get Rich
2007-05-15 05:03:00
Just months after the terrorist attacks on New York City in September of 2001, "America's mayor" Rudolph Giuliani "took the first official step toward making himself rich," writes the Washington Post.It was on December 7, 2001, three weeks before leaving office as mayor of New York City, that Giuliani sent a letter to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board asking permission to form a consulting firm.The broadly defined company, Giuliani Parters, would bring in more than $100 million providing "management consulting service to governments and business" over the next 5 years, according to a Washington Post source.That fame and success turned Giuliani into a Republican front-runner for the 2008 presidential election, and transformed him from "a moderately well-off public servant into a globe-trotting consultant whose net worth is estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars." ...
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Simple Fat Change Radically Improves Mental and Physical Health
2007-05-13 13:33:00
A new study adds to the evidence suggesting that the imbalance of fatty acids in the typical American diet could be associated with a sharp increase in heart disease and depression over the course of the last century.The more omega-6 fats people had in their blood compared with omega-3 fats, the more likely they were to suffer from depression, and the more likely they were to have higher blood levels of inflammation-promoting compounds.Inflammation-promoting compounds, such as tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin-6, have been linked to heart disease, type 2 diabetes, arthritis and other ailments.Omega-3 fats are found in foods such as fish, flax seed oil and walnuts. Omega-6 fats are found in refined vegetable oils, which in modern times are used in many products ranging from margarine to baked goods to snack foods.The amount of omega-6 fats in the Western diet increased greatly when refined vegetable oils became part of the diet in the early 20th century. ...
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