Tag Archives: nutrition
9-Year-Old Critiques School Lunches Online
Nutrition never seems to get enough attention in schools, so says child obesity and this young girl.
That’s what Martha discovered two weeks ago, when she started the blog NeverSeconds, a daily review of her flimsy cafeteria lunches.
With help from her dad, Dave, the Argyle-based student, photographed her sparse lunch tray daily and offered a Zagat-style rating system based on the following criteria: food-o-meter (or overall taste), mouthfuls (or portions), health, courses and pieces of hair. So far there’s been one or two hairs on her lunch tray, but not much else.
Does Yogurt Make Your Balls Big?
That’s the recent results of an MIT study which revealed a link between mice’s big balls and yogurt consumption.
Their goal was to understand how a probiotic diet affects rates of obesity and its related complications, including cancer. But “the most entertaining aspects of all this were things we didn’t anticipate,” Erdman says.
First, the scientists noticed that the yogurt-eating mice were incredibly shiny. Using both traditional histology techniques and cosmetic rating scales, the researchers showed that these animals had 10 times the active follicle density of other mice, resulting in luxuriantly silky fur.
Then the researchers spotted something particular about the males:
[Photo] Magazine Says It Has The Workout To Make You Look Like The Hulk
Men’s magazines aren’t all about sex and women’s bodies; they are also about health and fitness, by which I mean unhealthy body image and steroid use. On top of that, steroids may be the least of your problems if you are trying to look like the hulk.
