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A quote from a fantastic, in depth article in Harvard Magazine sums it up:
“As far as our hormones and metabolism are concerned, there’s no difference between a bowl of unsweetened corn flakes and a bowl of table sugar. Starch is 100 percent glucose [table sugar is half glucose, half fructose] and our bodies can digest it into sugar instantly.”
Medical research has it’s limits and it seems to be about 170 pounds.
For those who want to donate their bodies to scientific research they and their loved ones need to be aware that there is a size limit.
It can be difficult for technicians to handle huge corpses, which have to be lifted and transferred frequently, often by slim technicians or students, said John Lee Powers, curator of anatomical materials at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. That program limits donors to between 170 pounds and 180 pounds, though an exceptionally tall donor might be allowed at 190.
This could get complicated if you’re coupled; it seems that there are cities which are healthy for women and cities which are healthy for men.
Women tend to be healthiest in the South and men in the North and the unhealthiest cities are the same for both and included Memphis, Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Detroit, Michigan; St. Louis, Missouri; Jackson, Mississippi; Cleveland, Ohio; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Toledo, Ohio; and Kansas City, Missouri.
Raleigh in North Carolina has been rated the healthiest U.S. city for women, while Burlington, Vermont has earned the same accolade for men, according Men’s and Women’s Health magazines.
Both cities scored top marks in the magazine polls that ranked 100 of the largest U.S. cities in 30 categories ranging from obesity and the amount of time they spent working out to how often they saw their doctor.
Read the whole article here and get the complete list of the healthiest and unhealthiest cities for men and women at www.menshealth.com and www.womenshealthmag.com.
People will say that they are looking for compatibility and intelligence in a partner but what really brings two people together is sexual attraction.
And is this really a surprise?
Isn’t this the ultimate goal of anyone searching for love? To find an emotionally compatible mate to whom you are attracted.
The problem starts when you eschew all the other qualities and go for looks alone.
“People will readily tell you what they value in a romantic partner,” study researcher Eli Finkel, of Northwestern University, said in a statement. “But study after study shows that those preferences don’t predict whom daters are actually attracted to when they meet flesh-and-blood partners. Now we can get under the hood with this quirky methodology to see what people actually prefer in live-interaction settings.”
The overall cost of diabetes on society is greater than the dollars and cents spent to treat and care for patients.
A new study from researchers at Yale suggests that the disease, which currently affects nearly 8 percent of the U.S. population, could have significant nonmedical costs to society as well.
The study, which appears in the January issue of the policy journal Health Affairs, suggests that young people diagnosed with the disease are more likely to drop out of high school and to forgo or fail to finish college. As a result, they’re likely to earn less than those without diabetes.
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