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Paul Wall Reveals Massive Weight Loss

By
patty
– December 21, 2010Posted in: Misc.

I'm always very skeptical about weight loss surgery. I just don't feel like there's enough post op support for patients. A lot of people's issues with food are mental and/or emotional and a quick physical fix doesn't automatically re-wire that connection. But what do I know?

Southern rapper Paul Wall has revealed taking part in massive weight loss surgery and the aftermath of losing more than 100 pounds.

Wall's decision to get the surgery done came at the heels of outside influences pointing out his weight.

"Honestly, when we were in Afghanistan and [reps for VH1's] Celebrity Fit Club were contacting [me] about coming on the show, that was a h*ll of a wake-up call," Wall said in an interview. "[Being fat] isn't a secret. You can look in the mirror and try to hide it and cover it up, and it may work here or there, but there ain't no shirt or hat you can put on or haircut you can get to hide the fact that you're morbidly obese. That's what the doctor said: I was 'morbidly obese.' I decided not to do [the show] but it was still a wake-up call to have people calling you saying, 'Hey, you're really, really fat.'" (Ozone Magazine)

Read more —>http://www.sohh.com/2010/12/paul_wall_reveals_massive_weight_loss_i.html

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Carcinogens Found in Tap Water of 31 Cities

By
patty
– December 21, 2010Posted in: Misc.

This is great news for Poland Spring and all the other bottled water companies caking off of people's fear of tap water.

According to a new study released by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), 31 of 35 American cities’ tap water are highly contaminated with hexavalent chromium, also known as chromium-6, a dangerous carcinogen. Carcinogens are substances that may cause cancer.

Norman, Oklahoma; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Riverside California are on the top of the EWG’s list of cities with contaminated water supply. Most contaminations have been found out west and in the New England area.

“I was expecting to find hexavalent chromium in some of the cities we checked but I didn’t expect it to be so widespread,” Rebecca Sutton, a senior scientist with the EWG and the lead author of the study, told CNN.

Read more –>http://clutchmagonline.com/newsgossipinfo/carcinogens-found-in-tap-water-of-31-cities/

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Woman Fears Nothing Because of Severe Brain Damage

By
patty
– December 20, 2010Posted in: Misc.

What a phenomenal story! Can you imagine all the things you would and could accomplish if you weren't paralyzed by fear?!

Meet SM, a 44-year-old woman who literally knows no fear.She's not afraid to handle snakes. She's not afraid of the "The Blair Witch Project," "The Shining," or "Arachnophobia." When she visited a haunted house, it was a monster who was afraid of her.

SM isn't some cold-blooded psychopath or a hero with a tight rein on her emotions. She's an ordinary mother of three with a specific psychological impairment, the result of a very rare genetic disease that damaged a brain structure called the amygdala (uh-MIG'-duh-luh).

Her case shows that the amygdala plays a key role in making people feel afraid in threatening situations, researchers say.

Her life history also shows that living without fear can be dangerous, they said.

A study of her fearlessness was published online Thursday in the journal Current Biology by University of Iowa researcher Justin Feinstein and colleagues. As is typical, the paper identifies her only as "SM." Feinstein declined to make SM available for an interview with The Associated Press, citing laboratory policy about confidentiality.

An expert unconnected with the study cautioned against drawing conclusions about the amygdala, noting that her own work with a similarly brain-damaged woman found no such impairment. But another expert said the new finding made sense.

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Abuse in Childhood and Adolescence as a Predictor of Type 2 Diabetes in Adult Women

By
doc
– December 11, 2010Posted in: Misc.

New research has found that moderate-to-severe physical and sexual abuse in childhood and adolescence is associated with type 2 diabetes risk in adult women.  Investigators analyzed the associations of child and adolescent abuse with adult diabetes, comparing lifetime abuse reported in 2001 with risk of diabetes from 1989 to 2005 among 67,853 women in the Nurses' Health Study II.

Read More: http://professional.diabetes.org/News_Display.aspx?TYP=9&ori=rss&CID=83228

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Paul Wall Quits Sippin’ Sizzurp

By
patty
– December 10, 2010Posted in: Misc.

i’m surprised it’s taken him this long considering he’s from Houston and has seen what happens as a result

“I’ve always been a big defender of [sippin] syrup. Even when [Pimp C] passed, when Screw passed, when Moe passed, I kinda made excuses. I said it was other things that killed them, just their whole lifestyle. That’s part of being a drug addict. You make excuses and try to validate what you’re doing . . . My kids would wake me up in the morning and I wouldn’t want to get out of bed. It was just the way they looked at me, and the way my wife would look at me. She was constantly trying to get me to stop. I wouldn’t have any energy at times. The syrup makes you real irritable . . . I can’t be a good father to my kids and be addicted to a drug, regardless of what drug it is. Growing up, I went to all the drug programs for the families of drug addicts. So I was always aware of the problem. Since I was related to a drug addict, I found myself turning into what I’d hated all my life. That’s exactly what I was afraid of.”
http://www.crunktastical.net/2010/12/10/quick-quotes-paul-wall-prompted-stop-sippin-syrup/

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Sports Training Has Begun for Babies and Toddlers

By
doc
– December 10, 2010Posted in: Misc.

As a fitness coach in Grand Rapids, Mich., Doreen Bolhuis has a passion for developing exercises for children. The younger, it seems, the better. “With the babies in our family,” she said, “I start working them out in the hospital.”

…“This is Baby Mozart stuff; you play Mozart for the baby in utero and it comes out some sort of fine arts major,” he said. “There are millions of American parents worried to death that their children might fall behind somebody else’s kid. So the emphasis in youth sports has become more, more, more, younger, younger, younger.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/sports/01babies.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Do Energy Drinks Improve Athletic Performance? #Health

By
doc
– December 10, 2010Posted in: Misc.

But the evidence that energy drinks can make you a better athlete is sketchy at best. “There’s good evidence that caffeine is ergogenic,” said Dr. Erin Duchan, a pediatrician and co-author of a review of the current science about energy drinks for athletes, published recently in The Physician and Sports Medicine. “It can, in the right circumstances, improve athletic performance,” she added.

…should you or your teenage soccer player be drinking energy drinks? Not if your aim is to improve sports performance, Dr. Higgins said. “I wouldn’t recommend energy drinks to athletes,” he said. “Look at the name. These are not sports drinks.”

More here: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/phys-ed-do-energy-drinks-improve-athletic-performance/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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