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Study: Vibration plate machines may aid weight loss and trim abdominal fat

...ter six months and 7.5 square centimetres after a year. "These are very encouraging results, but it doesn't mean people trying to lose weight can ditch aerobic exercise and jump on the vibration plate instead. They still need a healthy diet and aerobic exercise, but this could be a viable alternative ...

The paradox of temptation

... by making a tempting sweet readily available, we make it less tempting. But what if you could just change your mind? What if you had the option to ditch the health food and scarf down the chocolate instead? Does the mind keep desire flat for as long as the temptation remains an option? The psychologist...

Discovery Health's NATIONAL BODY CHALLENGE Weighs in for a Sixth Season, Urging Americans to Break up With Bad Habits

...king up is hard to do-but with the sixth annual NATIONAL BODY CHALLENGE, Discovery Health eases the transition with all of the tools to help Americans ditch their bad habits and gain a healthier lifestyle in 2009. America's largest and most comprehensive multiplatform fitness and weight loss initiative, N...

NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/September 1, 2008 Issue (on newsstands Monday, August 25, 2008).

...ing diabetes, asthma, food allergies and HIV, hit adolescence and need to learn to take charge of their own health when what they really want to do is ditch the meds and hang out with their friends. "Testing the limits is a normal part of adolescence," says Dr. Paul Strumph, chief medical officer of the Ju...

LifeMasters Provides Tips for Maintaining a Healthy Blood Cholesterol Level

...cholesterol "numbers." Dr. Osmick offers suggestions for battling high cholesterol: LifeMasters Tips to Maintaining Healthy Cholesterol Levels 1. ditch the Fats: A prime contributor to high cholesterol is a fat-rich diet. Foods with high amounts of saturated and trans fats, like fast foods, eg...

Inquest of Date-rape Drug Victim Attracts Wide Attention in Australia

...nfavourably on the appearance of female passengers. He said he'd only come to know two of the men before he left Adelaide and decided he'd try to ditch them on the cruise because of their behavior on the plane. Her body was found on the floor of the cabin Slade shared with three of the other seve...

Chinese City Turns Off the Air-con

...ether energy consumption in buildings met national standards, the report said. Members of China's cabinet have also called on office workers to ditch business suits in favour of t-shirts in an effort to cool down cheaply, and ordered that air-conditioning units in most public buildings be set no co...

Children's Killer Preyed On Victims For Two Years

...arly to reveal the details of the investigations. The two men would strangle the children, cut them into pieces and bury the bodies in a two-feet deep ditch behind the house," said the police official. "We have recovered blades from the house that must have been used as cutters." "Both the men have a...

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Tracking poultry litter phosphorus: Threat of accumulation?

...supporting analytical methods, they found that phytate concentration was high in manures (about 50% of total P) but was not retained in crop soils and ditch sediments, where concentrations dropped to 2 to 15% of the total P. A corresponding increase in soil and sediment orthophosphate was also measured. ...

New study points to agriculture in frog sexual abnormalities

... GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot. But University of Florida scientists have found the opposite is true. In a study with wide implications for a longsta...

Mitochondrial genes move to the nucleus -- but it's not for the sex

... Why mitochondrial genes ditch their cushy haploid environs to take up residence in a large and chaotic nucleus has long stumped evolutionary biologists, but Indiana University Bloo...

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Stay in the driver's seat, but don't ditch technology

Technology drives business. Whoa! Put down those pitchforks and torches! Calm down, people! Easy. I am not trying to start some kind of technology for technology's sake argument here. It's very clear that not even the people who are in the business of building and selling technology should head...

Technology in the ditch

Weve all worked on those projects. You know the ones. They start with a glorious vision: Suns out, tops down, tunes are cranked and were cruising down the highway to implementation. And then theres a revenue shortfall, or a revolt by some neglected stakeholder or the next new thing or whatever. The...

World's smallest radio fits in the palm of the hand...of an ant

...al action is what amplifies and demodulates, or decodes, the radio signal. Returning to Zettl's runner analogy, the vibrating nanotube is akin to a ditch with a constantly changing width. Just as the runner's chances of making the leap depend on how far the gap is, the chances of electrons making the le...

Sprecher Brewing unveils award-winning digital office

...n office makeover. The makeover was part of Xerox Corp.'s and Entrepreneur magazine's office makeover contest. The makeover let Sprecher Brewing ditch its dark-paneled walls, unproductive printers and shabby chairs at its suburban Milwaukee facility. It now boasts state-of-the-art Xerox document syst...