Health (10 unread) Blogs
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Vacation weight loss is staying off, and then some
Number of comments: 0I know I don't do my weigh-ins until Friday, but I was getting a little concerned that the vacation weight loss might be coming undone, what with the return to home and my late-night ways, so I just weighed myself:
Ladies and gents, we're back to PRE-BABY WEIGHT again, [...]
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MPFI neuroscientist nabs $2.4 million NIH grant
Dr. Ryohei Yasuda of The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience has been awarded a $2.4 million, five-year research grant by the National Institute of Mental Health at the National Institutes for Health (NIH).
Dr. Yasuda is a scientific director at the Max Planck Florida Institute and leads the Neuronal Signal Translation research group [...]
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Tunes for Tuesday: The Way I Am, by Ingrid Michaelson
Number of comments: 0This one is too languid for a workout song, per se, but it'd be a great cooldown song, since it's freakin' adorable and a self-esteem booster. (I could do without the clowns, though.)
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My post-Fitbloggin’ lament and love letter
Number of comments: 4 At the first Fitbloggin’ in 2010 I was 250. In 2011 and 2012 I was in the 240s. This year I was in the 230s.
Progress, yes, but GLACIAL.
Not at goal: My inconvenient truth.
(Actually, the glaciers are probably melting quicker than my saddlebags, with climate change and all.)While the weight loss [...]
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Urban Scale Project Using Oxitec GM Mosquitoes in Battle Against Dengue
Moscamed pest management made the first releases of Oxitec GM mosquitoes to mark the launch of a new programme to control the dengue mosquito Aedes aegypti in the town of Jacobina in the State of Bahia, Brazil.
In previous trials Moscamed demonstrated that, using the Oxitec mosquitoes, it is possible to rapidly [...]
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The yin and yang of eating on vacation, or ‘Yay me!’
Number of comments: 4Sorry for the late post today. We spent the day doing exciting things like getting me new tires (I’m  HORRIBLE at maintaining my tires), grocery shopping and celebrating the teenager’s birthday (15! How’d that happen so soon?).
But I did get on the scale this morning, gleefully, I might add, because I knew this would [...]
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Tunes for Tuesday: Lazy Eye, by Silversun Pickups
Number of comments: 0Heard this song yesterday at the Portland ice cream shop Salt and Straw, where we had ice cream for dinner (yeah, we roll like that), and I remembered how much I love the roller coaster of sound in it, perfect for building up from a walk to a jog.
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New Way to Block Inflammation in Alzheimer’s, Atherosclerosis and Type-2 Diabetes
Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered a mechanism that triggers chronic inflammation in Alzheimer’s, atherosclerosisand type-2 diabetes. CD36 coordinates NLRP3 inflammasome activation by facilitating intracellular nucleation of soluble ligands into particulate ligands in sterile inflammation, published in Nature Immunology, suggest a common biochemical thread to multiple diseases [...]
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Telescopic contact lens switches between magnified and normal vision
Contact lenses correct many people’s eyesight but do nothing to improve the blurry vision of those suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness among older adults in the western world. That’s because simply correcting the eye’s focus cannot restore the central vision lost from a retina [...]
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