welcoming in 2010!

so, 2010 starts a whole new chapter in our lives. as you know, we have officially moved...but what you may not know is that we have moved to a new town. we now live in beaufort, sc (kind of a mini charleston about 60 miles away)....and we are going to add a new addition to our family in june....a little boy (which has been another reason i have slacked in blogging...thank goodness the first trimester...

The Body Fat Setpoint

One pound of human fat contains about 3,500 calories. That represents roughly 40 slices of toast. So if you were to eat one extra slice of toast every day, you would gain just under a pound of fat per month. Conversely, if you were to eat one fewer slice per day, you'd lose a pound a month. Right? Not quite.How is it that most peoples' body fat mass stays relatively stable over long periods of...

Mendeley: the reference management software

Yesterday, a friend of mine Dmitry Konstantinov told me about Mendeley. His problem was he had got a lot of papers within his computer and needed to handle them efficiently. After digging the Internet, he found Mendeley reference management system. The system allows you to sort papers, extract the title, abstract, authors, and references from textual PDFs, automatically retrieve meta-information about them from services like CiteSeerx, annotate...

Science vs. Industry

Yesterday I was called by an HR officer from NetCracker, my former employer. She told me they "have a lot of new activities", so now they "fulfil repeated recruiting" and suggested to return to NetCracker. It is really funny, because 1.5 years ago they told me that according to the corporate policy it was impossible to employ somebody who had left the company once. I politely rejected them, but the talk refreshed my memories about previous hesitations.When...

Rabbits on a High-Saturated Fat Diet Without Added Cholesterol

I just saw another study that supports my previous post Animal Models of Atherosclerosis: LDL. The hypothesis is that in the absence of excessive added dietary cholesterol, saturated fat does not influence LDL or atherosclerosis in animal models, relative to other fats (although omega-6 polyunsaturated oils do lower LDL in some animal models). This appears to be consistent with what we see in humans.In...

Hello, world!

Well, I've just started my technical/research blog.Why?I already have a personal blog, which is (I hope) used to be read by a number of my friends. In recent time I noticed that I had begun post a lot of technical stuff my friends were not interested in. Also, that blog is in Russian, which limits its audience. So, I preferred not to change the blog policy but create a new blog. It was also Boris Yangel's amazing blog that inspired me to create mine.Computer...

It's all in the training

Merry Christmas and Happy New Y...

Tomat Alternatif Pengganti AspirinBy Republika NewsroomRabu, 23 Desember 2009 pukul 11:40:00LONDON--Kandungan gel atau gelatin alami yang terdapat dalam tomat telah diidentifikasi peneliti di Inggris sebagai kunci penting untuk kesehatan. Gel ini diyakini para peneliti mampu melancarkan sirkulasi darah.Secara karakteristik, gel pada tomat umumnya berwarna dan memiliki rasa. Peneliti di Inggris bahkan...

What's the Ideal Fasting Insulin Level?

[2013 update.  I'm leaving this post up for informational purposes, but I think it's difficult to determine the "ideal" insulin level because it depends on a variety of factors including diet composition.  Also, insulin assays are not always comparable to one another, particularly the older assays, so it's difficult to compare between studies]Insulin is an important hormone. Its canonical function is to signal cells to absorb glucose from...

ho ho ho.

SERIOUSLY- 4 days until a chubby little man in a red suit comes down your chimney....are you ready?!!me? ha- not so much...but who cares, its our first christmas in this house and we are going to make the most of it. usually we are traveling to see my parents and warren's but this year everyone is coming to us...can you hear the excitement in my typing for not having to travel this year?!! which...

Swimming now part of our training for Medway

Minus 5 degreesA frozen creekA dozen trail runners ready to cross via rocks and tree limbsOne runner wants to show how to run across the iceHe now finds out that ice can be slipperyHis feet fly up & lands on his back and breaks the iceThat sinking feeling He is OK but soakedPRICEL...

The Dirty Little Secret of the Diet-Heart Hypothesis

The diet-heart hypothesis is the idea that saturated fat, and in some versions cholesterol, raises blood cholesterol and contributes to the risk of having a heart attack. To test this hypothesis, scientists have been studying the relationship between saturated fat consumption and heart attack risk for more than half a century. What have these studies found?The large majority of observational studies have found no connection between habitualsaturated...

Sepotong "Tempe" Bisa Mencegah KankerSelain kanker, tempe juga bisa mengurangi risiko terjadinya penyakit gagal ginjal.Senin, 14 Desember 2009, 09:54 WIBAmril AmarullahSURABAYA POST -- Dikenal sebagai makanan rakyat kecil, tempe ternyata memiliki khasiat menanggulangi berbagai macam penyakit. Menurut ahli teknologi pangan dan gizi, Prof Made Astawan, banyak mengonsumsi tempe bisa mengurangi risiko terkena penyakit kanker.Selain kanker, tempe juga...

Butyric Acid: an Ancient Controller of Metabolism, Inflammation and Stress Resistance?

An Interesting FindingSusceptible strains of rodents fed high-fat diets overeat, gain fat and become profoundly insulin resistant. Dr. Jianping Ye's group recently published a paper showing that the harmful metabolic effects of a high-fat diet (lard and soybean oil) on mice can be prevented, and even reversed, using a short-chain saturated fatty acid called butyric acid (hereafter, butyrate). Here's...

*Poof*

dear fairy godmother,please magically come and unpack all of my boxes, explain to my poor readers- if i have any left- why i have been gone so long (not having access to the internet is a real you-know-what), help taylor realize that she doesn't need to wake up at 4:30 AM to tell me to read her a book, and lastly- make me not envious of this beautifully decorated/ perfection of a house.....oh, and...

Manfat Meniran utk Penderita GAGAL GINJAL

Berikut cuplikan artikel tentang Manfat Meniran utk Penderita GAGAL GINJAL semoga bermanfaat. :Untuk meniran, sebenarnya ada 2 tanaman yaitu species Phyllantus niruri dan Phyllanthus urinaria . Saya jelaskan tentang perbedaan kedua meniran di atas. Secara umum perbedaan antara P. niruri dan P. urinaria terletak pada warna batangnya. P. niruri memiliki batangnya berwarna putih sedangkan P. urinaria batangnya berwarna merah.Keduanya memang mempunyai...

Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization, Part IX

A SummaryFor those who didn't want to wade through the entire nerd safari, I offer a simple summary.Our ancestors had straight teeth, and their wisdom teeth came in without any problem. The same continues to be true of a few non-industrial cultures today, but it's becoming rare. Wild animals also rarely suffer from orthodontic problems.Today, the majority of people in the US and other affluent nations...