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Thursday, January 05, 2012

The effects of Sugar Binge on Our Body

Here are 5 effects of a Sugar Binge

1. Your Teeth
The remnants of candy and other sticky-sweet treats cling to molars, where the sugar begins mixing with bacteria in your mouth, creating an acid that can start breaking down protective tooth enamel, explains Kimberly Harms, D.D.S., a spokeswoman for the American Dental Association.


2. Your Stomach and Gut
After about 15 minutes in your stomach, the goody passes to the small intestine, where your body metabolizes sugar into glucose and fructose molecules, says Suzanne Hendrich, Ph.D., professor of food science at Iowa State University. Both are then broken down further, enabling them to pass into the bloodstream.

3. Your Blood

A surge of glucose enters your bloodstream, with levels peaking about 30 minutes after you've eaten, Hendrich says. At this point, your pancreas is working overtime to pump out extra insulin to deal with the glucose influx. Meanwhile, the fructose is heading for your liver.

4. Your Brain

Insulin begins rushing the glucose throughout your body, giving you a surge of energy for the next two hours. "Brain cells run solely on glucose," Hendrich says, "so a binge delivers a huge fuel infusion here, too, and you may feel more alert." Sugar also activates the production of serotonin and dopamine, neurochemicals linked with pleasure and reward—hence, the sugar high. The effects, however, are short-lived.

5. Your Cells

About two hours after eating, your body has burned through all the glucose it could process and stored any extra as fat, and disposed of fructose or turned it into blood fat. With no sugar available, insulin and blood glucose levels dip, leaving you cloudy and lethargic, Hendrich says. Reaching for more sweets will only cause the cycle to repeat. Grab a piece of fruit and get a natural (and longer-lasting) sugar boost instead.

Adapted from MSN

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Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Torching Cars Called Common Crime in Germany


A German man whose mother was threatened with deportation is accused of a crime that has become a popular way in Germany for young people to express anger: burning cars.
A car owner tries to retrieve possessions from his vehicle as it burns in an arson fire early Monday in a parking lot in Los Angeles.

Harry Burkhart, 24, watched as his mother was arrested last week on a warrant from their native Germany on fraud charges that include not paying for breast-augmentation surgery.
Two days later, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck alleges, Burkhart began a nighttime rampage of arson attacks that terrorized the city.

Authorities have yet to disclose why they believe Burkhart, whom Sheriff Lee Baca called the "most dangerous arsonist in Los Angeles County," set the fires over four days.
"He loved his mom, the way every son loves his mom," said Shlomo Elady, a hair stylist who cut Burkhart's hair.

In court Tuesday, Dorothee Burkhart repeatedly asked a magistrate judge where her son was and wondered aloud whether he was dead or had disappeared.
Harry Burkhart was being held without bail.

"What did you do to my son?" she asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Margaret Nagle.
The burning of cars is a common phenomenon in Berlin and also other northern German cities such as Hamburg, which are magnets for young, "left-wing" idealists protesting the establishment, gentrification of their neighborhoods and globalization.

On May 1, Labor Day in Europe, residents with especially flashy cars move them to paid garages or to neighborhoods deemed safer.

For example, in October, a man in Berlin was arrested for torching 100 luxury cars, and 470 cars had been set on fire in the city by that time last year, the BBC reported.

"He wasn't motivated by politics but rather social envy," senior police official Oliver Stepien said. "He said in essence: 'I've got debts, my life stinks, and others with fancy cars are better off and they deserve this.' "
Websites such as http://www.brennende-autos.de/ mark where cars in Berlin have been torched as well as the models — nearly all high-end cars.

Recently, certain bookstores in Berlin were threatened by police with closure for carrying "seditious" literature that contained information on how to burn cars, according to pamphlets in the stores reading "Solidarity with Leftist Bookstores."

Hamburg criminologist Ingeborg Legge, 56, told weekly German magazine Der Spiegel that she believes many arsonists are part of groups with certain things in common: a fundamentally aggressive position toward the state, too much strength for their own good, dissatisfaction with their current situation and a vague feeling of rage that they sometimes direct toward themselves and sometimes against external objects — such as cars.

Adapted from USAToday
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Look Back at Selena & Justin's Year of PDA

JUSTIN AND SELENA CELEBRATE NEW YEAR

It's been a whirlwind of a year for teen lovebirds, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber. Rumors of a romance between the teen sensations started in the fall of 2010, and in early 2011, the couple finally went public with their romance. Since then, they've adopted a puppy together, engaged in red carpet PDA, and taken steamy beach vacations to the Caribbean, Hawaii and Mexico. Check out the best photos of them meeting each other's families, canoodling on water skis, and demonstrating the all-around cuteness of a young couple in love over the course of the year.

Long before rumors of romance between these two started, Justin and Selena showed just how good their chemistry was when they performed together during "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest" 2010 on Dec. 31, 2009.

Just months after ringing in the new year together, Selena and Justin looked very affectionate with each other backstage at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in March 2010.
By the fall of 2010, rumors that Selena and Justin were an item reached fever pitch. When Ellen DeGeneres asked Selena about the rumors in September, she told the talk show host, "He's little. He's like my little brother. That's weird to me." But when paparazzi caught Justin and Selena looking smitten with each other on a beach walk in Miami in December 2010, they couldn't deny their
romance for much longer.


But then these two lovebirds were spotted together in Caribbean on Jan. 1, 2011, and the jig was up. It would be months before they would willingly come out as a twosome. As soon as these photos surfaced, Justin's fans took to twitter to send his ladylove some hateful messages. One wrote, "Roses are red, violets are blue, @selenagomez if you'll break @justinbieber's heart I'm
gonna kill you :3".





Justin and Selena made sure their first official appearance as a couple was done in style. At the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 27, 2011, the couple coordinated their outfits and lovingly posed together on the red carpet.


After the Academy Awards, these two continued their romance with cute dates like to the Santa Monica Pier.



Never ones to stay still for too long, Justin and Selena hit the road for a PDA-filled vacation in Hawaii on May 26, 2011.

Their vacation included a lot of time hitting the beach together and, of course, lots of handholding.


Adapted from MSN





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Monday, January 02, 2012

NASA Probe Circling Moon on 2012 Eve

(PASADENA, Calif.) — As planet Earth rang in the new year, a different kind of countdown was happening at the moon.

After a 3 ½-month journey, a NASA spacecraft flew over the moon's south pole, fired its engine and dropped into orbit Saturday in the first of two back-to-back arrivals over the New Year's weekend.
NASA probe circling the moon on New Year's Eve
Mission control at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers and applause after receiving confirmation that the probe was healthy and circling the moon. An engineer was seen on closed-circuit television blowing a noisemaker to herald the New Year's Eve arrival.

"Everything went just as we hoped. The burn was spot-on," chief scientist Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said in a post-mission interview with The Associated Press.

The team toasted sparkling cider, but the celebration was brief. Despite the successful maneuver, the work was not over. Its twin still had to enter lunar orbit on New Year's Day.

The Grail probes — short for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory — have been cruising independently toward their destination since launching in September aboard the same rocket on a mission to measure lunar gravity.

Hours before revelers in Times Square watched the ball drop, Grail-A approached the moon and fired its engine for about 40 minutes to get captured into orbit. Deep space antennas in the California desert and Madrid tracked every move and fed real-time updates to ground controllers. About 270 family members and friends of the mission team descended on the NASA campus to watch the drama unfold on a live feed.
"This is great, a big relief," deputy project scientist Sami Asmar told the jubilant crowd.

Grail is the 110th mission to target the moon since the dawn of the Space Age including the six Apollo moon landings that put 12 astronauts on the surface. Despite the attention the moon has received, scientists don't know everything about Earth's nearest neighbor.

Why the moon is ever so slightly lopsided with the far side more mountainous than the side that always faces Earth remains a mystery. A theory put forth earlier this year suggested that Earth once had two moons that collided early in the solar system's history, producing the hummocky region.

Grail is expected to help researchers better understand why the moon is asymmetrical and how it formed by mapping the uneven lunar gravity field that will indicate what's below the surface.

Previous lunar missions have attempted to study the moon's gravity — which is about one-sixth Earth's pull — with mixed results. Grail is the first mission devoted to this goal.
Once in orbit, the near-identical spacecraft will spend the next two months refining their positions until they are just 34 miles above the surface and flying in formation. Data collection will begin in March.
The $496 million mission will be closely watched by schoolchildren. An effort by Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, will allow middle school students to use cameras aboard the probes to zoom in and pick out their favorite lunar spots to photograph.

Despite the latest focus on the moon, NASA won't be sending astronauts back anytime soon. The Obama administration last year nixed a lunar return in favor of landing humans on an asteroid and eventually Mars.
A jaunt to the moon is usually speedy. It took the Apollo astronauts three days to zip there aboard the powerful Saturn V rocket. Since NASA wanted to economize by launching on a small rocket, it took Grail a leisurely 3 1/2 months to make a roundabout trip.

NASA's last moonshot occurred in 2009 with the launch of a pair of spacecraft — one that circled the moon and another that deliberately crashed into the surface and uncovered frozen water in one of the permanently shadowed lunar craters.

Adapted from TIME
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