Why Some People Can Eat A Lot and Stay Thin / Nutrition - FitDay

We all have that one friend who seems to defy all laws of calories and weight gain. You know, the one who can put down jumbo-size fries, jelly-filled donuts and staggering portions of spaghetti and never seem to gain an ounce. Is it just luck, or does this person have a weight-maintenance secret that we can all learn from? The latter is most likely, and adopting the tactics of the thin-yet-well-fed crowd can help the rest of us keep (or restore) our trim waistlines.

Eat A Lot and Stay Thin? Sounds NEAT!

Health experts are beginning to explore the idea that people who eat all they want and don't gain weight are actually more active than the rest of the population, and therefore burn more calories. However, these folks don't necessarily spend more time at the gym. They probably engage in a practice known as non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT), according to the American Council on Exercise (ACE).

NEAT may sound like a lofty concept, but it's actually quite simple: all physical activity--aside from regimented workouts--counts. When you stand up and pace while talking on the phone, chop cabbage for dinner or even twiddle your thumbs sitting at your desk, you are engaging in NEAT. So that friend who can pig out without consequence probably fidgets more than you do and stands on her feet while you're sitting down.

According to ACE, engaging in NEAT throughout the day can increase your metabolism by up to 50 percent--so if you normally burn 2,000 calories per day while sedentary, NEAT can help you burn up to 3,000 calories per day. That translates to a lot of pasta, and definitely entitles you to dessert.

How to Be NEAT

If NEAT doesn't come naturally to you, you may be able to train yourself by consciously including more small movements into your day. Wiggle your legs or tap your fingers at your work desk, rock back and forth on your heels while waiting in line at the post office, and choose standing over sitting whenever possible. You may also burn more calories by purchasing a pedometer and setting goals for yourself, such as 12,000 steps a day.

Lean Muscle Tissue is Also a Factor

Aside from NEAT, people with fast metabolisms may have one other trick up their sleeve: a high percentage of lean muscle tissue. Muscle takes more calories to maintain than fat, so the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn--even as you sleep. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that you can increase your metabolism by up to 15 percent by building more muscle.

Increasing muscle mass takes time (months, rather than seconds as with NEAT), but the payoff is worth it. Not only will weight control become easier, but you'll also be able to perform everyday activities more capably, and may even help curb arthritis, osteoporosis and back pain. To build more muscle, lift weights, take a vigorous yoga class or simply perform calisthenic exercises like push-ups, squats and sit-ups two to three times per week, working all major muscle groups.

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Nina Kate is a certified fitness nutrition specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). She also studied journalism at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and has contributed to numerous major publications as a freelance writer. Nina thrives on sharing nutrition and fitness knowledge to help readers lead healthy, active lives. Visit her wellness blog at BodyFlourish.com.

Source: http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/why-some-people-can-eat-a-lot-and-stay-thin.html

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Scientists analyze genetic makeup of human and mouse embryos in amazing detail

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Scientists have used the powerful technology of single-cell RNA sequencing to track the genetic development of a human and a mouse embryo at an unprecedented level of accuracy. The success of this technique could lead to genetic diagnoses of diseases with higher resolution and in embryos earlier than ever achieved before, even when the embryo consists of only eight cells.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/most_popular/~3/KwcYcz2olnI/130731093917.htm

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Fred Grimm: In South Florida, psychic fraud is a family affair

Peaches? Come on. Really?

Sorry, but Peaches T. Miller does not conjure up images of voodoo queens and black magic and evil curses and a scam worth $838,000.

To be fair, Peaches? well-do-to Indian-American victim from Sunnydale, Calif., thought she was dealing with a mysterious psychic intervener named Shanna.

The woman had been lured to Peaches by an ad in a publication called India Abroad: ? Worried-Troubled-Confused?? The ad offered the services of ?India?s best renowned Psychic Shanna.?

Eight years later, Shanna?s client was out the $838,000 she had turned over to her trusted healer to properly cleanse it of an evil voodoo curse.

As it turned out, India?s renowned Shanna was actually Pompano Beach?s less-than-renowned Peaches T. Miller, the latest in a long and ignominious string of South Florida psychic scammers. Most of them related.

She was hunted down by private investigator Bob Nygaard, whose work led to her arrest in Broward County. Nygaard has made a speciality out of chasing down these felonious fortunetellers.

Nygaard, based in Boca Raton, usually doesn?t need to travel far. He described South Florida as a kind of safe haven for mystic miscreants, blaming an utter lack of interest in prosecutions by the state attorneys in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.

In 2008, the detective nabbed the infamous Gina Marie Marks of Hollywood ? author of the 2006 memoir (as Regina Milbourne) Miami Psychic: Confessions of a Confidante ? twice for a similar psychic money-laundering scam. He tracked down Marks after she persuaded five clients to turn over about $65,000 to be cleansed of evil spirits. She pleaded guilty and got probation.

Her psychic powers, however, could not be contained by some temporal decree. Two years later, Nygaard nabbed her again, this time for a $504,000 fraud. Marks was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Mind you, Gina Marks is not be confused with Rose Marks, the Roma matriarch whose fortune-telling family amassed a $40 million fortune, including a waterfront mansion in Fort Lauderdale.

Rose and clan were finally busted in 2011, charged with running a spiritual extortion racket. Either pay up, and big, or else the likes of the Archangel Michael would wreak havoc. Eight of the nine members of the family pleaded guilty in March. Momma Rose, however, still awaits trial.

Then there was Linda Marks, who pleaded guilty to a fortune-telling fraud scheme in 2006, along with Delray Beach policeman Jack Mackler, who was greasing her operation.

Nygaard sent me a kind of fraudster?s family tree Monday evening. ?Gina Marie Marks? father is John Uwanawich. Gina Marie Marks? brother is Gino Uwanawich. Peaches Miller?s estranged gypsy husband is Gino Uwanawich, making Peaches Miller Gina?s estranged sister-in-law.?

Also, Gina?s daughter Hillarie Miller was implicated last year in yet another fortune-telling scheme. Hillarie, Peaches? niece, is still at large.

When it comes to psychic fraud, South Florida style, it?s all relative.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/29/3530116/fred-grimm-in-south-florida-psychic.html

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BlackBerry Q5 Canada release closer following launch

BlackBerry are trying to win back some of its market share it has lost in the smartphone market over the last few years to Android and iOS, and it got the ball rolling earlier this year with the launch of the new BlackBerry 10 OS. To begin with there were only two flagship devices available but now the BlackBerry Q5 Canada release is getting closer following an official launch for the handset.

Surprisingly the handset manufacturer made the BlackBerry Q5 available in other regions ahead of its home country, but now the company has officially announced the device and revealed it will be available to purchase for consumers from August 13th.

The device will be ideal for BlackBerry users that love their Curve handsets but can?t afford to purchase the BlackBerry Q10, and it has been revealed that the device will land on carriers such as Bell, Fido, Koodo, Sasktel, TELUS, and Virgin Mobile.

It will also be available from third party resellers such as Best Buy Canada, Target, The Mobile Shop, The Source, Walmart, and many more retailers across the country. While the BlackBerry Q5 is a small step down from the Q10 it still shares many of the same features such as the 3.1-inch touchscreen display with its 720 x720 resolution.

It has the same 1.2GHz dual core processor paired with 2GB of RAM and while the devices have the same similar shape the keyboard on the Q5 is the smaller of the two handsets. Camera wise the Q5 sports a 5-megapixel rear camera capable of Full HD video capture while around the front is a 2-megapixel shooter.

Will you be getting the BlackBerry Q5?

Source: http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2013/07/30/blackberry-q5-canada-release-closer-following-launch/

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Maybe There Won't Be a Manufactured Fiscal Crisis This Fall

Though several Republicans have been threatening a big showdown over the debt limit and government funding with President Obama this fall, it's possible that maybe we won't approach total fiscal calamity this time. In an interview with The National Review's Robert Costa, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sounds tough, but outlines what could be the outlines of a deal. And top Obama aides have been meeting with eight Senate Republicans to figure out a compromise on these issues, The Wall Street Journal's Peter Nicholas and Kristina Peterson report. But there probably won't be a longer-term "grand bargain."

RELATED: McConnell's Escape Hatch: Let Democrats Raise the Debt Limit

And McConnell, who is up for reelection in 2014 and facing a conservative challenger in the Republican primary, says lots of aggressive-sounding things that might play well with conservative voters. He even makes a gay joke about Sens. John McCain and Chuck Schumer, who worked together on immigration:?"You know, I was kidding [New York Democrat Chuck Schumer] and McCain the other day, and asked, 'When are you all getting married? It's getting almost embarrassing.'"

RELATED: Boehner Declares GOP Victory But Still Faces Tough Math

McConnell warns Democrats, "The tax issue is over." But he suggests Republicans are open to preventing a second year of the sequester. "You want sequester relief? Then let?s talk about a reduction in entitlement spending," he says. "I think a place to talk is on things like chained CPI." Obama has already said he'd support chained CPI, which is a less generous way of calculating the cost-of-living adjustments to Social Security benefits. McConnell also floats raising the age of eligibility for Medicare, which Democrats do not like. McConnell says, "In return for that, we could trade less spending reduction on the discretionary side, because we all know the biggest challenge is actually not on the discretionary side, but on entitlements. To me, that?s a better place to go in the fall than signaling that you?re open to raising taxes."

RELATED: Forget Peas: Jon Stewart Wants the GOP to Start Paying for Beer

There are still big sticking points. A dozen Republican senators have said they'll shutdown the government unless Obama agrees to defund Medicare.?Marco Rubio even has an essay titled "Shut Down ObamaCare, Not Government" at the conservative blog RedState on Monday. The senator who got that movement started, Utah's Mike Lee, suggested on Sunday that he wanted to keep deep cuts, but spare the Pentagon. "What we need to do is make sensible cuts, not back away from the cuts, but make sure that we're not taking them disproportionately out of those brave men and women who are protecting us," Lee said. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the White House would not accept bills that only spared the Pentagon from those spending cuts.

RELATED: How the Debt Limit Deal Passed the House

Even so,?many other Republican senators have said threatening a shutdown over Obamacare is a dumb idea.?Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee tells the Journal that the GOP senators are meeting with White House aides to "deal with our fiscal issues in more intelligent ways than now exist."?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/maybe-wont-manufactured-fiscal-crisis-fall-134528776.html

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Upper Merion Police: Car keyed, animal bites

Sheraton Hotel 480 North Gulph Road ? occurred between 4 p.m. on July 20 and 8:49 a.m. on July 21.

An employee called UMPD when she saw a vehicle in the parking lot with a rear passenger window smashed out. The owner arrived at the vehicle and stated the wife?s purse had been stolen. He stated the bank called him about a suspicious purchase that was made with a credit card.

King of Prussia Plaza 160 North Gulph Road ? occurred July 20 between 1 and 1:30 p.m.

Victim stated she was at the Apple Store for a training session and placed her laptop in a backpack. She later discovered her laptop was missing.

Vehicle Theft

Pole 30 King of Prussia Plaza Lot 160 North Gulph Road ? occurred July 25 between 3 and 4 p.m.

Stolen was a red 2012 Kia Optima.

Warrant Service other Agency

West DeKalb Pike and Shaffer Road ? occurred July 22 at 1:27 a.m.

Police stopped a vehicle for an equipment violation. The driver was wanted out of Chester Continued...

County for a probation violation; she was turned over to Chester County officials.

AREA NORTH OF ROUTE 202 AND WEST OF HENDERSON ROAD

Animal Bite

300 block West Beidler Road ? occurred July 9 at 11:21 a.m.

Victim was taking his dog and child for a walk when a pit bull from ran from a house and attacked them. The victim was taken to the hospital for his injuries and his dog was taken to the vet for injuries to his head. This is the second time this dog has bitten someone. The owner was cited for the last incident and will be cited again for this incident. An additional charge of ?harboring a dangerous dog? will be filed.

Criminal Mischief

Walker Field 515 Williams Road ? occurred July 25 at 12:29 a.m.

On patrol police found the lights on at the basketball courts. Unknown actors pushed the bleachers up against the light post to the control box. There was trash, t-shirts, water bottles and a basketball left behind. The actors also broke out one of the lights that were center court and attempted to burn items on the court.

Police Information

Upper Merion Baptist Church 585 General Steuben Road ? occurred July 23 at 3:54 p.m. Continued...

Neighbors have advised the pastor of the church that juveniles have been loitering and smoking behind the shed at night.

Theft Report

1000 block Penn Circle?between 1:30 p.m. on July 19 and 11:30 p.m. on July 21

Resident had two large packages delivered. When he returned home one was undisturbed and the other was cut open and contents missing.

900 block of Parkview Drive? occurred July 23 at 8:13 p.m.

Victim was selling a car on Craig?s List. A male called and stated he wanted to buy the vehicle and was sending the victim a check for $3,500. He requested the victim send two checks in return to two addresses for a total of $2,200. Victim deposited the check and wired the money as requested. The $3,500 check the buyer sent was eventually discovered to be counterfeit.

The victim was advised this practice is a common internet scam.

AREA EAST OF HENDERSON ROAD

GULPH MILLS AND VICINITY

Found Property

Executive Estates Park Longview Road ? occurred July 22 at 5:17 p.m.

A resident stated there are vehicles at the park after dark and while in the park he found rolling papers and baggies that appear to have contained marijuana.

MALL AND VICINITY

Criminal Mischief

King of Prussia Plaza Lot ? occurred July 22 between 1:25 and 1:45 p.m.

Victim stated she was approached by a female who started screaming at her as she parked her vehicle out by a Rite Aid. When she returned, the word ?bitch? was keyed onto the passenger side rear door.

Retail Theft

Sears 160 North Gulph Road ? occurred July 24 at 6:59 p.m.

An employee observed a male remove the security sensor from a 55-inch TV and walked out of the store. The employee watched the subject put the TV in an unknown make black vehicle.

Theft Report

Go Games 690 West DeKalb Pike ? occurred July 20 between 3 and 9 p.m.

A lone employee reported money missing from the safe.

Sheraton Hotel 480 North Gulph Road ? occurred between 4 p.m. on July 20 and 8:49 a.m. on July 21.

An employee called UMPD when she saw a vehicle in the parking lot with a rear passenger window smashed out. The owner arrived at the vehicle and stated the wife?s purse had been stolen. He stated the bank called him about a suspicious purchase that was made with a credit card.

King of Prussia Plaza 160 North Gulph Road ? occurred July 20 between 1 and 1:30 p.m.

Victim stated she was at the Apple Store for a training session and placed her laptop in a backpack. She later discovered her laptop was missing.

Vehicle Theft

Pole 30 King of Prussia Plaza Lot 160 North Gulph Road ? occurred July 25 between 3 and 4 p.m.

Stolen was a red 2012 Kia Optima.

Warrant Service other Agency

West DeKalb Pike and Shaffer Road ? occurred July 22 at 1:27 a.m.

Police stopped a vehicle for an equipment violation. The driver was wanted out of Chester

County for a probation violation; she was turned over to Chester County officials.

AREA NORTH OF ROUTE 202 AND WEST OF HENDERSON ROAD

Animal Bite

300 block West Beidler Road ? occurred July 9 at 11:21 a.m.

Victim was taking his dog and child for a walk when a pit bull from ran from a house and attacked them. The victim was taken to the hospital for his injuries and his dog was taken to the vet for injuries to his head. This is the second time this dog has bitten someone. The owner was cited for the last incident and will be cited again for this incident. An additional charge of ?harboring a dangerous dog? will be filed.

Criminal Mischief

Walker Field 515 Williams Road ? occurred July 25 at 12:29 a.m.

On patrol police found the lights on at the basketball courts. Unknown actors pushed the bleachers up against the light post to the control box. There was trash, t-shirts, water bottles and a basketball left behind. The actors also broke out one of the lights that were center court and attempted to burn items on the court.

Police Information

Upper Merion Baptist Church 585 General Steuben Road ? occurred July 23 at 3:54 p.m.

Neighbors have advised the pastor of the church that juveniles have been loitering and smoking behind the shed at night.

Theft Report

1000 block Penn Circle?between 1:30 p.m. on July 19 and 11:30 p.m. on July 21

Resident had two large packages delivered. When he returned home one was undisturbed and the other was cut open and contents missing.

900 block of Parkview Drive? occurred July 23 at 8:13 p.m.

Victim was selling a car on Craig?s List. A male called and stated he wanted to buy the vehicle and was sending the victim a check for $3,500. He requested the victim send two checks in return to two addresses for a total of $2,200. Victim deposited the check and wired the money as requested. The $3,500 check the buyer sent was eventually discovered to be counterfeit.

The victim was advised this practice is a common internet scam.

AREA EAST OF HENDERSON ROAD

GULPH MILLS AND VICINITY

Found Property

Executive Estates Park Longview Road ? occurred July 22 at 5:17 p.m.

A resident stated there are vehicles at the park after dark and while in the park he found rolling papers and baggies that appear to have contained marijuana.

Source: http://www.mainlinemedianews.com/articles/2013/07/28/king_of_prussia_courier/news/doc51f2b3099dc51231070566.txt

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Republicans weigh short-term U.S. budget measure

By David Lawder and Caren Bohan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With time running out for the Congress to agree on next year's budget, some Republicans are pushing for a short-term fix that would delay the confrontation over a government shutdown until November.

If lawmakers agree on a short-term plan to fund the government for a few weeks past the current October 1 deadline, it would mean that the fight over government funding for next year would coincide with a potentially more consequential clash over raising the federal borrowing limit.

House Republican aides said a growing number of party lawmakers want to try to buy more time to agree on funding levels for government agencies and programs, though no decisions have been made.

One aide said a short-term spending measure would be a "no-drama" way to allow the House and Senate extra time to work on annual spending bills.

Another Republican aide said there would be advantages to tackling differences over government funding at the same time Congress is debating conditions for increasing the debt limit.

House Republican leaders have not made any decisions yet on whether to seek a short-term spending measure known as a "continuing resolution" because the chamber is still focused on passing its 12 appropriations bills, said Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner.

President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans are bracing for a major budget battle this fall as they try to resolve deep divisions over taxes, automatic spending cuts known as the sequester, and whether to rein in costly federal benefits programs.

BACK-TO-BACK DEADLINES

As Congress prepares for a five-week recess that starts on Friday, it is grappling with two deadlines - the need for government funding legislation as it starts the new fiscal year on October 1 and the need to raise the $16.7 trillion debt limit to avoid default, likely sometime in November.

Once lawmakers return from their break on September 9, they have only nine legislative days to work out differences before the October 1 deadline to avert a government shutdown.

"There's not much time," said Tad DeHaven, a budget analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington. "So it looks to me like a continuing resolution. The only question is what number."

Obama's Democrats and congressional Republicans are deeply divided over spending levels for the new fiscal year. Republicans want to keep savings from the automatic cuts in place and have written their spending bills to a $967 billion cap, the lowest in a decade.

Democrats, meanwhile, view that spending limit as far too austere and are proposing a higher cap of $1.058 trillion. The caps apply to programs ranging from education to national parks to the military.

Some aides say one way to find common ground on a short-term funding fix would be to keep funding at this year's annualized level - about $988 billion - for a few additional weeks.

Given the polarization between the two parties, even hammering out a short-term agreement could be challenging, though Congress has often resorted to temporary funding extensions at the start of a new fiscal year.

Democrats are likely to insist that any funding extension replaces the sequester cuts, which are now causing temporary layoffs at government agencies and military contractors alike.

"We want sequestration to be turned off, not extended," said Matthew Dennis, spokesman for Representative Nita Lowey, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.

Many Republicans want to keep the sequester in place and view the debt limit as a key leverage point to demand even deeper spending cuts, particularly reforms to the Social Security and Medicare programs for the elderly.

However, pushing the government too close to a debt default would likely cause turmoil in financial markets. This happened during the bruising budget fight of 2011, when congressional dysfunction over the issue prompted Standard and Poor's to strip the United States of its top-tier credit rating.

(Reporting by David Lawder; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-weigh-short-term-u-budget-measure-001818379.html

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