Several tips to lose weight:

1)  Replacing regular drinks (pop, juice, etc.) with water. It will seem awkward in the beginning, but you eventually get used to it. You don’t need the sugar or the taste. You lose weight and you save money.

2)  Cut your portions slowly. Don’t do it abruptly, otherwise your stomach will be screaming for more. Eventually, eating less will become the norm.

3) Make healthier food decisions. Cut out the trans fats, increase antioxidant-rich food. Lose the chips, crackers, snacks, and crap like that. Replace a half-bag of chips (or whatever your favourite junk food is) with a pear, apple, or equivalent.

4)  Exercise once in a while. The more, the better. Jogging, boxing, swimming — all great activities. Walking gives you fresh air, but it doesn’t do much for weight loss.

5)  Swap a glass of water with a frozen fruit smoothie. There are greater benefits to this than the taste.There are many more small tips that can be added here, but the point is, everyone should be taking care of themselves more than we usually do. Being energetic enough to read the labels for transfats will pay dividends later in life, and that’s only one example.

A Couple more tips,

1. Eat larger meals in the AM, smallest meal for dinner as it is more difficult to burn the heavy dinner calories while at rest….Obviously.

2. Eat an apple every day. This will boost metabolism as well as taking in the beneficial nutrients you receive from this wonderful fruit.

3. Boost metabolism with vitamin supplements like B complex, Lecithin and Grapefruit tabs.

4. Do not omit all fats, as your system will store the essential fats more rigorously should one deny them all together and at once.

5. I like to eat a high fiber breakfast while dieting to keep all the pipes rolling along. Use a small amount of real butter on wheat toast for your fat intake for the day.

6  As said a bunch of times, water, water, water.

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From digg.com
Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know it should be no problem to use it for other purposes.

comments: If you are dying of cancer right now, the Canadian Cancer Society is urging you to die rather than risk taking this medicine. If you take it and don’t die, that would be a catastrophe for the pharmaceutical industry and you wouldn’t want that on your head. Finding the connection between the Canadian Cancer Society and large pharmaceutical industry concerns is left as an exercise to the reader. Expect dichloroacetate to be utterly demonized and soon banned across the western world.

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Found it on digg, quite interesting.

Dr Indrani Sarkar has has every reason to be excited. Her PhD thesis, which started in 2002 at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany, has thrown open the doors for developing enzymes that can destroy the dreaded Human Immuno-deficiency Virus or HIV within infected cells permanently.

Chosen comment:
Another exciting part of this development is that it could possibly be re-used to other viruses, especially those that have grown resistance. That’s the issue with HIV, but just imagine the possibilities if we can identify gene sequences like this instead of more blindly attack. We’d perhaps be able to develop specialized vaccines by detection of genes. If a resistant virus is detected that way, it could be applied a specialized treatment instead of more general, “blinder” treatments with possibly more side effects too.

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Found this news from digg.com that might be useful.

During the early 1900’s, Dr. William Coley re-discovered a cancer treatment that was surprisingly effective. By infecting tumors with common bacteria, Coley learned the body could be triggered to kill off cancerous tumors. Conventional modern medicine rarely employs Coley’s technique today for 1 reason: they still don’t understand how it works.

Chosen comments: The thing I remember regarding this subject from college biology classes is that the immune system naturally finds and kills cancerous cells all of the time since they are designed to give signals that there is something wrong with them. It is when they don’t give these signals that they are left to continue growing and eventually kill us. So, it makes sense then to this layman that if you could prompt an immune response though other means, such as infecting those cells with a virus that our systems can identify and fight, you could deal with the cancerous cells by fighting the other infection.

Of course, you would have to figure out a way to ensure that all the cells in question become infected in order for them all to be targeted by this immune response. And different types of pathogens would be needed depending on the body cells you are wishing to kill.

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