Improve Your Maths by Eating Chocolate?
April 6, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Addiction, Cute Rx, Food and Drink, Happy Living Tip
It’s a good month for coffee and chocolate.
First, there was news about a study that found that caffeine reduces muscle pain caused by exercise and now researchers in England seem to think that mental arithmetic becomes easier when chocolate is involved.
But before those of you trying to complete your tax returns go nuts on chocolate, you’d better have a good read of the study because it’s not as clear cut as us chocoholics would like it to be. Yes, it seems that the study participants, after partaking in large amounts of flavanols (the compounds found in chocolate), did do better …read more
Walk Off that Chocolate Craving.
November 18, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Addiction, Diets and Dieting, Exercise, Fitness, Food and Drink
Chocolate cravings are hard to resist, especially during the holiday season when chocolate seems to be everywhere, just tempting you to take a bit.
Not to worry. A new study has the answer. Just walk away and keep on walking – fast. They took a group of ‘known’ chocoholics (who usually ate at least two 50 gram bars of chocolate a day) and deprived them of chocolate for three days in an effort to induce the chocolate cravings. The participants were also not allowed to drink coffee or exercise in the two hours prior to the test period.
On test day, one …read more
NASA Wants You…to stay in bed!
So who hasn’t dreamed of spending a day or two in bed? Maybe even a week?
But what about lying around in bed for three months and getting paid $5000 a month for doing so?
Well, according to Wired Science that’s just what NASA is asking people to volunteer for.
NASA is running a ‘Bed Rest Study’ at it’s Human Test Subject Facility at Johnson Space Center to examine the effects of microgravity on the human body.
Want to know more – check out this Q&A with a NASA Scientist about the study.
It might sound like a dream but it could easily turn into …read more
The Sunday Monday Sidebar.
A day late, but I think it’s worth the wait.
Free Viagra
Now here’s a politician that really cares about his constituents. Gonzalo Navarette Munoz, mayor of a municipality near the Chilean capital Santiago, wants to improve the quality of life for the older people in the working class suburb of Lo Prado by handing out potency pills.
Jailhouse Menu – could this be the next new diet?
Do you believe this? An inmate in an Arkansas jail awaiting trial on a murder charge is suing the county jail for weight loss. Apparently he’s lost over 100 pounds in the last eight months …read more
