6.07.2012

Lose 5 Pounds in 7 Days















-60 ounces of distilled pure water
-1 tablespoon of sugar free cranberry juice
-1 dandelion root tea bag
-2 tablespoons of lemon juice

Drink 60 ounces of this beverage every day for 7 days. This recipe works becasue it helps fluch out excess water weight you may be carrying around in your body.

Fitness at Home Routine



The World's Biodiversity Down



The world's biodiversity is down 30 percent since the 1970s, according to a new report, with tropical species taking the biggest hit. And if humanity continues as it has been, the picture could get bleaker.

Humanity is outstripping the Earth's resources by 50 percent — essentially using the resources of one and a half Earths every year, according to the 2012 Living Planet Report, produced by conservation agency the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Colby Loucks, the director of conservation sciences at WWF, compared humanity to bad houseguests.

"We're emptying the fridge, we're not really taking care of the lawn, we're not weeding the flower beds and we're certainly not taking out the garbage," Loucks said. 


Exercise vs Sugar on Your Intelligence

We already know that regular exercise makes you healthier, happier and, well, hotter. But did you know it could also make you smarter? That's the premise of an emerging area of neuroscientific research, in which scientists are exploring the neurological effects of getting your regular dose of cardio.


It turns out that exercise does a lot more than get the blood pumping: in about 60 percent of the population, it may be responsible for the expression of a gene that floods your cells with “brain derived neurotrophic factor" -- or BDNF – a protein that is thought to help with mental acuity, learning and memory.


“For mental health benefits, what really counts is exercising on a regular basis -- not the intensity. You don’t have to wipe yourself out,” Michael Hopkins says. “The basic goal is, get up and move your whole body more than half of the days of the week.”
On the flip side to that equation....recent studies show that high fructose corn syrup seems to deter the ability of the synapses in the brain to change, a key factor in learning. High fructose corn syrup also disrupts the sugar-regulating protein insulin in a brain area called the hippocampus, which play a role in memory formation in both rats and humans