Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

10 Things You Need to Know About Losing Weight

Every year millions of individuals in Britain try to lose weight, and most fail. We are constantly bombarded with advice about dieting and the latest slimming fads. But what truly works? In this programme, medical journalist Michael Mosley investigates the latest scientific breakthroughs in slimming, uncovering ten from the simplest ways you can shed those pounds. From the slimming secrets of soup to our brain’s response after skipping meals, what he discovers might completely change the way you think about diets, health and losing weight.

Michael does not look like he is at all overweight, but while making this film he discovered that he, like millions of others, has internal body fat around his kidneys and liver that he truly needs to lose. So he tries out the scientific tips himself, and by the end from the film he succeeds in losing the weight he wants. Plus, musician Alex James, who is a passionate cheese maker, tries out an intriguing scientific discovery – that low-fat dairy products can help you excrete much more excess fat from all of your meals.

Posted by Sara on November 19th, 2010 No Comments

Why Are Thin People Not Fat?

The world is affected by an obesity epidemic, but why is it that not everyone is succumbing?

Health-related science has been obsessed with this subject and is coming up with some unexpected answers. As it turns out, it is not all about exercise and diet.

At the center of this programme is a controversial overeating experiment that aims to identify exactly what it is about some individuals that tends to make it tough for them to bulk up.

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Can GM Food Save The World?

Together with the globe shocked by growing meals costs, and thousands and thousands within the creating globe struggling to obtain sufficient to consume, the dilemma of meals safety is proper back again around the world’s agenda. And together with the world’s population most likely to rise to 9 billion within the subsequent couple of decades, feeding the globe will turn out to be an ever-greater dilemma.

Are transgenic crops the solution for the dilemma, or do they, as Prince Charles has argued, threaten an environmental catastrophe? What’s the proof around the good results or failure of GM up to now?

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THIN

The 2006 cinéma vérité documentary movie, Skinny, directed by Lauren Greenfield and distributed by HBO, is definitely an exploration on the Renfrew Heart in Coconut Creek, Florida; a 40-bed residential facility for that remedy of girls with consuming problems. The movie largely revolves about 4 girls with anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia and their struggles for recovery.

Skinny will be the centerpiece of a multi-faceted marketing campaign created to discover problems surrounding physique picture and consuming problems, which includes a companion e-book, traveling exhibition of Greenfield’s do the trick along with a web page.

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Nuclear Nightmares

Nuclear Nightmares talks about how “radiophobia”, the concern of radioactivity, is widespread and but not depending on scientific proof. Right after the Chernobyl accident, a great deal of loss of life toll numbers appeared inside the information, some near to 400.000 people today dead, however the fact will be the only fifty seven (yes, fifty seven) deaths may be straight or indirectly linked to your accident.

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Strange Culture

Alternately teasing and terrifying, Strange Culture molds one man’s tragedy into an engrossing narrative.

In 2004, Steve Kurtz (Thomas Jay Ryan), an associate professor of art at the State University of New York, Buffalo, was preparing an exhibition on genetically modified food for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art when his wife, Hope (Tilda Swinton), died in her sleep of heart failure.

Posted by Sarah on January 19th, 2010 No Comments

When Food Kills

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. One moment their child is perfectly healthy. The next, they’ve stopped breathing and are turning blue. For many children, the merest hint of nut is all it takes to send them into anaphylactic shock. Food allergies are on the increase and the number of children affected has more than doubled in the past ten years. Yet simple precautions could significantly cut the death rate. This week’s documentary, When Food Kills is a wake up call to the rising danger of food allergies.

Posted by Sarah on January 19th, 2010 No Comments

The Way of All Flesh

In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, America. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she died. They have been growing and multiplying ever since.

There are now billions of these cells in laboratories around the world. If massed together, they would weigh 400 times her original weight. These cells have transformed modern medicine, but they also became caught up in the politics of our age. They shape the policies of countries and of presidents. They even became involved in the cold war because scientists were convinced that in her cells lay the secret to how to conquer death.

Posted by Sarah on January 19th, 2010 No Comments

Nutrition and Behavior Aspartame (Lecture)

In this lecture, Dr. Russell Blaylock explains one of the most important connections between nutrition and our health, how nutrition affects our behavior.

Citing a series of important studies, he shows that good nutrition can powerfully enhance our memory, mood, and behavior in a socially desirable way.

Like wise he shows us that poor nutrition can lead our youth into a world of violence, crime, depression and suicide.

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The Age of AIDS

On the 25th anniversary of the first diagnosed cases of AIDS, FRONTLINE examines one of the worst pandemics the world has ever known in The Age of AIDS. After a quarter century of political denial and social stigma, of stunning scientific breakthroughs, bitter policy battles and inadequate prevention campaigns, HIV/AIDS continues to spread rapidly throughout much of the world, particularly in developing nations. To date, some 30 million people worldwide have already died of AIDS.

Posted by Sarah on January 19th, 2010 No Comments