DNA Science and What Russian Researchers Have Surprisingly Discovered… Get a Standing Desk | Wired Science. InShare0 Illustration: Joel Kimmel Your job is killing you. If you sit at a desk for more than four hours a day, you increase your risk of death from any cause by nearly 50 percent and boost your risk of heart problems by 125 percent.
Dr. Buy Locus Workstation Created by industrial designer Martin Keen—yes, the footwear guy—the new Locus workstation from Focal strikes a posture that’s halfway between standing and sitting. The Focal has multiple seat pan and cushion options, with an adjustable desktop that comfortably accommodates a height range of 4’11″ to 6’11″. $1,800 and up Hack Ikea DIY Desk Inspired by Colin Nederkoorn, who offers instructions and a shopping list for his smart Ikea hack, the Standesk 2200, on his web page, Wired senior writer Mat Honan rigged this cheap-and-dirty desktop in our Gadget Lab. Lack side table: $811-inch Ekby Viktor Shelf: $611-inch Ekby Valter bracket (two): $4 eachScrews from office supply cabinet: free Ikea photo: Mathew Scott.
High-intensity interval training. Exercise strategy High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is a training protocol alternating short periods of intense or explosive anaerobic exercise with brief recovery periods until the point of exhaustion, which thereby relies on "the anaerobic energy releasing system almost maximally. "[1] The method involves exercises performed in repeated quick bursts at maximum or near maximal effort with periods of rest or low activity between bouts.
Procedure[edit] HIIT exercise sessions generally consist of a warm up period followed by repetitions of high-intensity exercises separated by medium intensity exercises for recovery, then a cool-down period. There is no specific formula for HIIT. The entire HIIT session may last between four and 30 minutes, meaning that it is considered to be an excellent way to maximize a workout limited by time constraints.[12] Use of a clock or timer is recommended to keep accurate times, the number of rounds, and intensity.
Branches[edit] Peter Coe regimen[edit] Conserve Your Willpower: It Runs Out | Wired Science. Ever wonder why your resolve to hit the gym weakens after you’ve slogged through a soul-sapping day at work? It’s because willpower isn’t just some storybook concept; it’s a measurable form of mental energy that runs out as you use it, much like the gas in your car. Roy Baumeister, a psychologist at Florida State University, calls this “ego depletion,” and he proved its existence by sitting students next to a plate of fresh-baked chocolate-chip cookies.
Some were allowed to snack away, others ordered to abstain. Afterward, both groups were asked to complete difficult puzzles. The students who’d been forced to resist the cookies had so depleted their reserves of self-control that when faced with this new task, they quickly threw in the towel. The cookie eaters, on the other hand, had conserved their willpower and worked on the puzzles longer. Further studies have suggested that willpower is fueled by glucose—which helps explain why our determination crumbles when we try to lose weight. Antibiotics Might Be Fueling Obesity Epidemic | Wired Science. Expanding waistlines may be caused by more than bad diets and sedentary habits. Antibiotics could be disrupting our gut bacteria, helping people pack on fat like farm animals. This scenario is, for now, a hypothesis, but one that’s fleshed out in two new studies. In the first, mice given antibiotics experienced profound changes to internal microbe communities that process food and regulate metabolism.
In the other study, body weight in children rose with antibiotic exposures as infants. “Early life antibiotics are changing the microbiome, and its metabolic capabilities, at a critical time in development,” said microbiologist Martin Blaser of New York University. Blaser was among the first researchers to investigate what’s become one of the hottest areas in biology: the microbiome, or the vast community of bacteria, viruses and even fungi that live inside our bodies, breaking down food and regulating physiological processes. 'Our microbiome is part of human physiology.
Trying to Catch His Breath With a Hole-Ridden Safety Net | EvoEcoLab. I’m sitting here on a bed that constantly readjusts itself. It’s terribly annoying and when I lay down on it there is a low rumbling of the motor that pushes air to my legs and sucks it from butt. The noise makes that grey matter between the ears in my head shake. Probably a malfunctioning bed, but it’s nothing to complain about given what is sitting next to me, 2 meters over, in the next adjustable bed. I’m at Carteret General Hospital on North Carolina’s scenic Crystal Coast, where I live. My beautiful, precious 6 year old son was admitted this past Tuesday for Pneumonia. It started 6 days before on a Wednesday. On Thursday we kept him home as he was obviously feverish and had flu like symptoms. We should have taken him to the Urgent Care right then and there. My poor decision-making capabilities in this regard was influenced by my lack of experience with any major disease (I have an immune system of steel, fortified by coffee and whisky), and our lack of insurance.
Eyeglasses. Under-the-radar tick diseases spreading across U.S. - Health - Infectious diseases. Wild raspberries lured Jacqueline Moore over the wall of her new garden in Westchester County, New York. It was July 2008, and Moore, her husband and their two small kids had just moved up from Manhattan. She was painting the kitchen, up on a ladder, when she glanced out the window and spotted the flash of red. She was thrilled: This was what they had left the city for. She called the kids, and they hopped over the wall. They picked raspberries every day for two weeks. Don't miss these Health stories Trampolines no place for kids, docs warn Trampolines are too dangerous for children to use, the American Academy of Pediatrics warned Monday. Texting blamed for rising teen pedestrian injuries Trader Joe's peanut butter recalled for salmonella View: Best kidneys should go to right recipients If you think we're fat now, wait till 2030 About the time the berries ran out, Moore—who was 34 then, a personal trainer and marathoner—started feeling an ache in her neck and shoulder. 'Like' TODAY Health?
Seasonal Affective Disorder – The Basics | A Blog Around The Clock. First published on February 05, 2006. So, why do I say that it is not surprising the exposure to bright light alleviates both seasonal depression and other kinds of depression, and that different mechanisms may be involved? In mammals, apart from visual photoreception (that is, image formation), there is also non-visual photoreception. The receptors of the former are the rods and cones that you all learned about in middle school.
The receptors for the latter are a couple of thousand Retinal Ganglion Cells (RGCs) located in the retina in each eye. Each of these cells expresses a photopigment melanopsin (the cryptochrome challenger apparently lost the contest about a year ago after several years of frantic research by proponents of both hypotheses). The axons – nerve processes – from these cells go to and make connections in three parts of the brain. The second is the brain center involved in the control of mood.
During the day, the SCN inhibits the secretion of melatonin. Lark. Introducing Available at the Apple Store™. Watch the video. See how it works... We got in bed with sleep experts and a pro sports sleep coach to develop LARK. The result was a real eye-opener. Wall Street Journal Reviews LARK.
Is sugar a poison? Gary "Big Fat Lie" Taubes wrote a long feature for the NYT Magazine analyzing the claims made by UCSF childhood obesity expert Robert H. Lustig in his infamous lecture Sugar: The Bitter Truth , which has gotten about a million YouTube views (it's also had other exposure: I watched it last year on UC cable access while in LA). Lustig claims that sugar is a "chronic toxin" -- a poison that will make you sick if you eat it for long enough -- and he blames it for everything from cancer to heart disease. Taubes traces the history of this theory about sugar through the past century, and concludes that while not conclusive, the evidence is worrying.
I've tried to eliminate sugar from my diet with varying success since 2003, when I did a year of "strict Atkins" and lost 80 lbs, most of which I've kept off since by avoiding processed carbs where possible. Is Sugar Toxic? (via /.) Studying sleep patterns to optimize your sleep-wake cycle (Video)