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An Anti-Stress Pill that Prevents Your Body from Aging. In Pictures: 14 Reasons You're Not Sleeping - Marital Strife - Forbes.com. Use your noodle: The real Chinese diet is so healthy it could solve the West's obesity crisis - Healthy Living, Health & Families. 1. Stop counting calories The Chinese don't have a word for "calories". They view food as nourishment, not potential weight gain.

A 1990 survey found that Chinese people consumed 30 per cent more calories than Americans, but were not necessarily more active. Clissold says their secret is avoiding the empty calories of sugary, nutrient-free foods. Holford says: "The latest research into weight loss shows that calorie-controlled, low-fat diets are less effective than low glycemic load diets, which is exactly what a traditional Chinese diet is. " Marber says: "There is one calorie in a Diet Coke, and 340 calories in an avocado. 2. Rather than an uninspiring accompaniment to meat or fish, the Chinese treat vegetables as meals in their own right, rather than add-ons, as in the West.

Marber says: "I'm a great believer in combining protein and carbohydrate. Holford says: "Vegetables should make up half of what's on your plate in any given meal, so this fits perfectly with the Chinese diet. " 3. 4. One hundred push ups. So, you've completed your initial test and keen to start the program? Excellent news! If you managed 5 or less pushups in the test, follow column 1. If you completed between 6 and 10 pushups, column 2 is for you.

Between 11 and 20 consecutive pushups? For example: let's say you managed 8 pushups. Treat yourself to a rest day before moving on to Day 2, and then again before you complete Day 3. Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter. In 1865 Friedrich August Kekulé woke up from a strange dream: he imagined a snake forming a circle and biting its own tail.

Like many organic chemists of the time, Kekulé had been working feverishly to describe the true chemical structure of benzene, a problem that continually eluded understanding. But Kekulé’s dream of a snake swallowing its tail, so the story goes, helped him to accurately realize that benzene’s structure formed a ring. This insight paved the way for a new understanding of organic chemistry and earned Kekulé a title of nobility in Germany. Although most of us have not been ennobled, there is something undeniably familiar about Kekulé’s problem-solving method. Select an option below: Customer Sign In *You must have purchased this issue or have a qualifying subscription to access this content.