Keeping Yourselves Fit

You may look at the stars like J-Lo or Madonna and see how they manage to keep in good shape. Genetics may play a percentage on how we look, but beyond anything, it is about hard work. And specialists are attentive to the multi-million bottoms or thighs of the divas. 

Here are some advices given by them for keeping fit:

1. The best sports for toning up the buttocks are martial arts like tae kwan do, judo and kick boxing.

2. The trainer is not the key of the success, but just an added factor. The most important thing is to be faithful to a program.
Physical exercise and sports burn extra 2,000 calories weekly. Walking, footing, biking, climbing stairs, swimming...

3. When making cardiovascular exercises, the most important is to vary the degree of intensity, the duration and the activity, for challenging the body to respond to these changes.

4. Do not forget the importance of resting: you never have to train more than three to five times a week and 45 minutes are enough for each session.

5. The emotional fitness is as important as the physical one: that's why the mind part must not be neglected.

6. Regulate the insulin. Eat aliments that are rich in fibers, which require more chewing and keep constant the levels of sugar in the blood, satiating it for longer periods.

7. 'Trick' the feeling of hunger. Drink a lot of water combined with fibers. For example, if you consume glucomanana and guar gum, drink 2-3 cups of water in the meantime. If eating in small amounts and very often, a regular repartition of the food is ensured all over the day, with a constant efficiency.

8. Avoid pigging out during the night. Various researches showed that, after the breakfast, the body experiences the highest calories consumption, while the lowest occurs during the night. The food processing is made in cycles linked to hormones. If during the night you consume sugars instead of proteins, the former boost the synthesis of serotonin, which favors sleep and increases the sensation of being 'full'.

7. Increase fat burning. Green tea infusion stimulates this and slows down the absorption of sugars and fats.

8. Fight against 'swelling'. Take diuretic infusions, which also remineralize (like horsetail) and follow a diet poor in salt and rich in potassium (citrus fruits, tomatoes, green vegetables, potatoes).

9. Stimulate your thyroid gland: the Fucus alga is extremely rich in iodine, which stimulates the synthesis of thyroid hormones, and also mucilage that decreases the hunger sensation. Decrease the consumption of cabbages, turnip and raw soy beans.

10. Satiate the sweet tooth. Eat fruit. The healthiest sugar is found in fresh fruit, with high fructose content, which satisfy and stabilize the sugar levels in the blood. Moreover, fruit come with vitamins and minerals.

Engineered Tissue Scaffolding Gets Electrical Sensors

A collaboration of American researchers announces that it was recently able to introduce a new function into the scaffolds used to create the 3D shape of engineered tissues. The addition could enable scientists to get feedback on how the cells are developing, and guide their development accordingly.



The aforementioned scaffolds are used for a variety of applications in biotechnology, including growing new organs. A new heart can be obtained by taking the heart of a pig, cleaning it of cells, and using the remaining cellular scaffolding as a support for human stem cells.

What happens inside the sponge-like structure has long since been a mystery to researchers, as they were never able to develop a technique that enabled real-time observations of how the new tissues are developing. The new approach brings this goal to reality.

In addition to biotechnology, the capability could from now on be used in drug research. Experts with pharmaceutical companies will be able to monitor how patients or test animals in the lab react to various chemicals or drug combinations.

The researchers behind the new work say that they were able to use silicon nanowires to create electronic sensors, which were then successfully introduced into cellular scaffolding. The devices appear to be capable of controlling drug release times, too.

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital publish details of their device in the August 26 online issue of the top scientific journal Nature Materials.

The MIT David H. Koch institute Professor, Robert Langer, was the senior author of the new paper. “We are very excited about this study. It brings us one step closer to someday creating a tissue-engineered heart, and it shows how novel nanomaterials can play a role in this field,” he explains.

“The scaffold is not just a mechanical support for cells, it contains multiple sensors. We seed cells into the scaffold and eventually it becomes a 3-D engineered tissue,” says former MIT postdoctoral researcher Bozhi Tian, also one of the lead authors on the paper.

Thus far, the new scaffolds have been used to grow cardiac, neural and muscle tissues, but the team believes that other types of cells can be used as well. More studies are planned in order to determine the limits of the new sensors, as well as ways to improve them.

Losing weight

At it's most basic, losing weight is about burning more calories than you eat. That seems simple enough, but if were really that simple, none of us would have a weight problem. Too often we take drastic measures to see results -- diets, pills or those weird fitness gadgets on infomercials that promise instant success. Maybe you lose weight but what happens when you go off that diet or stop that crazy workout program? You gain it all back and more. The real secret to weight loss is to make small, lasting changes. The key is to forget about instant results and settle in for the long run.

Rules of Weight Loss

 
To lose one pound of fat, you must burn approximately 3500 calories over and above what you already burn doing daily activities. That sounds like a lot of calories and you certainly wouldn't want to try to burn 3500 calories in one day. However, by taking it step-by-step, you can determine just what you need to do each day to burn or cut out those extra calories. Below is a step by step process for getting started.

1. Calculate your BMR (basal metabolic rate). Your BMR is the amount of calories your body needs to maintain basic bodily functions like breathing and digestion. This is the minimum number of calories you need to eat each day. Keep in mind that no calculator will be 100% accurate, so you may need to adjust these numbers as you learn more about your own metabolism.
2. Calculate your activity level. For a week or so, keep an activity journal and use a calorie calculator to figure out how many calories you burn while sitting, standing, exercising, lifting weights, etc. throughout the day. Another, easier option is to wear a heart rate monitor that calculates calories burned. After a week, add your totals for each day and average them out to get a general idea of how many calories you burn each day.
3. Keep track of how many calories you eat. For at least a week, enter and track your calories online (e.g., with Calorie Count) or use a food journal to write down what you eat and drink each day. Be as accurate as possible, measuring when you need to or looking up nutritional information for restaurants, if you eat out. After a week, add your totals for each day and average them out to get a general idea of how many calories you eat each day.
4. Add it up. Take your BMR number and add your activity calories. Then subtract your food calories from that total. If you're eating more than your BMR + your activity calories, you're at risk for gaining weight. 

Example:

Mary's BMR is 1400 calories and she burns 900 calories with regular exercise, walking around and doing household chores. To maintain her weight, she should be eating 2300 calories (1400 + 900= 2300). However, after keeping a food journal, Mary finds that she's eating 2550 calories every day. By eating 250 more calories than her body needs, Mary will gain about a pound every 2-3 weeks.
This example shows how easy it is to gain weight without even knowing it. However, it's also easy to lose weight, even if the process itself can be slow. You can start by making small changes in your diet and activity levels and immediately start burning more calories than you're eating. If you can find a way to burn an extra 200 to 500 calories each day with both exercise and diet, you're on the right track. Try these ideas:

Instead of...	Do this...
An afternoon Coke	Drink a glass of water. (calories saved: 97)
An Egg McMuffin	Eat a small whole wheat bagel +1 Tbsp of peanut butter (calories saved: 185)
Using your break eat sweets	Walk up and down a flight of stairs for 10 minutes (calories burned: 100)
Hitting the snooze button	Get up 10 minutes early and go for a brisk walk (calories burned: 100)
Watching TV after work	Do 10 minutes of yoga (calories burned: 50)

Total Calories Saved: 532 (based on a 140-pound person)  

How Much Exercise Do I Need?
Exercise is an important weight loss tool, but how much you need varies from person to person. The guidelines recommend at least 250 minutes per week, which comes out to about 50 minutes, 5 days a week. If you're a beginner, start small, for example with 3 days of cardio for 15-30 minutes, gradually adding time each week to give your body time to adapt. Learn more about getting in shape and getting started with exercise.

Schwarzenegger Dog

The type of dog pictured here is a “bully whippet,” a type of whippet with a genetic mutation that makes it more muscular and faster than standard ones.
Wendy, the bully whippet in this photograph, lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and is remarkable in that she has two mutated copies of the gene and is therefore a “double-muscled” bully whippet who weighs twice as much as a standard one. The increased muscle mass, along with metabolism and extremely low levels of body fats, can translate to impressive super-feats, including marked increases in speed, agility and power.

Pretty sure that you don't believe what your eyes are seeing, you might think that this picture is photoshoped, but everything is real.

Biggest snake

Photograph purporting to show a 55ft snake found in a forest in Malaysia has become an internet sensation. Biggest snake in the world

The thread claimed the snake was one of two enormous boas found by workers clearing forest for a new road. They apparently woke up the sleeping snakes during attempts to bulldoze a huge mound of earth. This is Biggest snake in the world!!
“On the third dig, the operator found there was blood amongst the soil, and with a further dig, a dying snake appeared,” said the post.
“By the time the workers came back, the wounded boa had died, while the other snake had disappeared. The bulldozer operator was so sick that he couldn’t even stand up.”
The post claimed that the digger driver was so traumatised that he suffered a heart attack on his way to hospital and later died.
The dead snake was 55ft (16.7m) long, weighed 300kg and was estimated to be 140 years old, according to the post. Biggest snake in the world

Cristiano ronaldo vs Lionel Messi 2012 (video)

 Lionel Messi Vs Cristiano Ronaldo 2011-2012

World Cup 2010 - Top 10 goals

The 10 best goals from the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South - Africa (My 10 best goals)
Music: Shakira - Waka Waka (Time For Africa)









The Goals:

10. Siphiwe Tshabalala
9. Mesut Oezil
8. Luis Suarez
7. Fabio Quagliarella
6. Carlos Tevez
5. David Villa
4. Diego Forlan
3. Maicon
2. Keisuke Honda
1. Giovanni Van Bronckhorst