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This video tour of life in Norway is not particularly new or accurate, but it sure is interesting! It was produced by Norwegian YouTube member petepants. -via Breakfast Links
With today’s obesity epidemic, scientists are working non-stop to better understand weight gain and how to lose the excess pounds. While losing a lot of weight can be a challenge, recent studies have come up with a number of simple tips and tricks that can help you slim down without putting too much of a cramp in your daily routine.
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You probably already know that you’re supposed to drink a lot of water if you’re trying to lose weight, but you might not know just how important water intake is to the cause. Simply drinking two glasses of water (around half a liter) prior to meals can make you think you are fuller and reduce your meal portions. Water can also help you digest. In fact, the average woman eats around 2,000 calories a day, but when she consumes water first, that number drops to around 1,200 calories. Similar decreased calorie consumption was seen in men as well.
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Water’s not the only thing you should be drinking. A Tufts University study has shown that drinking three cups of green tea a day can help you lose twice as much weight as you would otherwise. White tea is also beneficial and a German study found that it can help decrease the number of new fat cells you develop while helping you burn off the existing fat cells in your body.
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Speaking of beverages, if you just have to drink soda, put down your regular Pepsi products and grab some Throwback, which is made with real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. While both add on calories, a Princeton University study has shown that corn syrup prompts far more weight gain than sugar does.
Of course, soda isn’t the only source of high fructose corn syrup. It seems to be in everything these days and it can even be hard to avoid. On a personal note, I can tell you that I cut almost all sources of corn syrup out of my diet and I’ve felt a lot healthier afterwards. Most noticeably, the shaking I get between meals if I wait to long to eat is mostly gone when I don’t have corn syrup for a whole week.
Talk about inspirational -Ben Davis lost 120 pounds! But that’s not all he accomplished, as you’ll see in this video. Davis also chronicled his progress on his blog. Link -via reddit
Daniel Suelo lives in a tiny cave in Utah. Instead of working for money, he spends his time foraging for food because he believes that living without money is a better way. Nine years ago, after volunteering with the Peace Corps, working in a women’s shelter, and living in Thailand and India, he decided to be a “vagabond in America”.
I tell him that living without money seems difficult. What about starvation? He’s never gone without a meal (friends in Moab sometimes feed him). What about getting deadly ill? It happened once, after eating a cactus he misidentified—he vomited, fell into a delirium, thought he was dying, even wrote a note for those who would find his corpse. But he got better. That it’s hard is exactly the point, he says. “Hardship is a good thing. We need the challenge. Our bodies need it. Our immune systems need it. My hardships are simple, right at hand—they’re manageable.”
Is this a grand experiment or a retreat from reality? Read the entire story at Men.Style. Link -via Digg
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Or: Hello, GeekAlerts! Yes, it’s true – the blog is back.
January has been a crazy month for me to say the least. Some of you might have read here on Neatorama that I had decided to close down GeekAlerts. It was a very hard decision, but I felt I had to do it because it took too much time – “a luxury I don’t have,” as I wrote back then.
But guess what? About two weeks later, GeekAlerts was back in the gadget blogosphere with a new and improved author (still the same guy, though).
All the wonderful emails, comments and instant messages I received from the readers of course meant a lot to the decision of bringing the blog back. But there was something else too: I came to realize that there were so many things I could do to simplify my life – all without having to kill my darling blog.
Many books have been written on the subject of simplifying your life, so many that your life will be very complicated if you try to read them all. For me it was Leo Babauta and his book The Power of Less
Maybe that the easiest and most obvious solutions are not always the right ones. Anyway, it feels great to be back and I’m happy to have more Neatorama time on my hands for writing about the stuff I like.
I’ll leave you with this quote that I picked up from Jared Spool on one of his podcasts:
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
