| Dieting again? This year, keep it real
Instead of starting a healthful regimen on Dec. 1, they've stuffed themselves through the holiday season, making the challenge of losing weight even more difficult.
"We joke that we'll either start on Jan. 1 or another landmark day: a birthday or a Monday or an anniversary," says Sandee Nebel, a Winter Park licensed mental-health counselor who specializes in eating behavior and eating disorders.
Invariably, even those procrastinators make resolutions with great enthusiasm. "Basically what happens is, people get very excited," Nebel says. "They have a plan. They're going to work out, they're going to join a gym. They're going to walk 10 miles a day. So we feel a kind of power surge -- we get very excited about change."
So what goes wrong?
Almost immediately, most of us do something inherently human: We falter.
FDA Approves New Blood Pressure Medication
Tablets containing a combination of the blood pressure medication aliskiren and water pill hydrochlorothiazide have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the product's manufacturer, Novartis AG, said Monday. Sold under the name Tekturna in the United States, the hypertension compound aliskiren was approved last March. It acts by targeting renin, an enzyme responsible for high blood pressure. The newly approved version also includes hydrochlorothiazide, a compound that inhibits the kidney's ability to retain water. This water pill is commonly used to treat high blood pressure. Tekturna HCT tablets are intended for patients whose blood pressure has not been controlled by a single drug. They will be available in early February the company said. Side effects associated with the new combination tablets include dizziness, flu-like symptoms, diarrhea, cough, tiredness and skin rashes.
CHILI BOWL MIDGETS
He said he had just received the final accounting last week on Eldora Speedway's Prelude telecast that was run in June 2007. … Chili Bowl starter Roger Slack as usual waved his flags at the inside edge of the track, not from an elevated platform. The reason could be tradition or that drivers see a track-level starter better than an elevated starter because of the close competition on the indoor quarter-mile. The $8.00 CB program had 100-pages plus an insert with the entire entry list. People at the speedway heard an announcement that the programs had sold out. I watched the inaugural Chili Bowl live telecast of the final five main events of the 21 main events Saturday on a friend's 52" plasma TV and enjoyed it. If you did not see the CB telecast live, try to catch a re-telecast through January 26 or a taped version of it ASAP.
Jones - blamed poor performance on injuries (Allsport)
Max Jones has blamed a nightmare catalogue of injuries for Britain's poor performance in the World Championships. The British team will leave Canada with just two medals between them, which meant they finished a lowly joint 18th in the medal table, behind the likes of the Bahamas. Jonathan Edwards struck Britain's only gold in the triple jump, while Dean Macey grabbed a bronze in the decathlon. But virtually everything which could have gone wrong, did go wrong, to leave the team with their worst medal total in championship history. First injuries to Olympic medallists Katherine Merry and Darren Campbell, and world indoor champion Daniel Caines, meant the trio were unable to travel to Edmonton. Then Denise Lewis, the Olympic heptathlon champion, pulled out on the eve of her event with a stomach complaint.
Common human viruses threaten endangered great apes
Christophe Boesch, director of Chimpanzee Projects at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, calls for better hygiene measures for Great Ape tourism. Credit: Sonja Metzge, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology .
The Curse of Atomic Weapons and Power
America, right now, is poisoning the area known as the cradle of civilization. We grew up calling it Mesopotamia. The name Iraq doesn't convey its 10,000+ year history of human settlement. An interesting side-effect of our use of Depleted Uranium weapons is that, because of their extraordinarily-long half-life of four and a half billion years, the evidence of our assault on civilians who have not even been born yet, will be detectable (with sophisticated equipment) for about 50 to 100 billion years. The earth is only about 5 billion years old, according to the geological record! Two, or ten, or a hundred generations from now, or a thousand, anyone will be able to find clear evidence of our use of uranium weaponry. Uranium fragments. Deformities among the local population. All these things will be discernable.
Quackery and superstition - available soon on the NHS
Put not your trust in princes, especially not princes who talk to plants. But that's what the government has decided to do. The Department of Health has funded the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health to set up the Natural Healthcare Council to regulate 12 alternative therapies, such as aromatherapy, reflexology and homeopathy. Modelled on the General Medical Council, it has the power to strike therapists off for malpractice. This is perplexing. How does a regulator decide what is good practice and what is charlatanry when none of it has peer-reviewed, scientific evidence that it works? The prince's foundation says the new council will only register those who have qualifications from their "professional" bodies. That will encourage the burgeoning number of degrees and diplomas in complementary therapies offered by universities, such as the Thames Valley, Westminster or the University of Wales.
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