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#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - fasting hypothermia, anthrax vaccine, neuroscience of magic, and more.
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Nighttime fasting may foster weight loss
A study involving mice suggests that someone on a high-fat, high-calorie diet can stay lean with sufficient fasting between day's end and breakfast the next morning. A study involving mice suggests that someone on a high-fat, high-calorie diet can stay lean with sufficient fasting between day's end and breakfast the next morning.
www.latimes.com
Researcher: Fasting preserves brain as well as body
The scientific evidence is compelling, Mark Mattson says. Reducing your caloric intake and fasting regularly can prolong life, lead to a healthier life, and particularly help preserve brain function.
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Extended daily fasting overrides harmful effects of a high-fat diet: Study may offer drug-free intervention to prevent ...
It turns out that when we eat may be as important as what we eat. Scientists have found that regular eating times and extending the daily fasting period may override the adverse health effects of a high-fat diet and prevent obesity, diabetes and liver disease in mice.
www.sciencedaily.com
India fasting woman in Ripley's
An Indian woman, on fast for nearly 12 years to protest against an anti-insurgency law, is featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not.
www.bbc.co.uk
Regular eating times, extended daily fasting may prevent diabetes, obesity
It turns out that when we eat may be as important as what we eat. Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found that regular eating times and extending the daily fasting period may override the adverse health effects of a high-fat diet and prevent obesity, diabetes and liver disease in mice.
www.news-medical.net
Salk Study May Offer Drug-Free Intervention to Prevent Obesity and Diabetes
Extended daily fasting overrides harmful effects of a high-fat diet.
www.newswise.com
Fasting for peaceful solutions
More than most, the teachers and students at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience know the agony of Oakland's violent streets, which claimed 110 lives last year. Special Report: Oakland Homicides
www.insidebayarea.com
Prayer, fasting and marriage
Q.1. If someone passes wind during prayer, is his prayer invalidated? What if he suffers from wind? Q.2. If a woman wishes to fast 6 days in the month of Shawwal, as recommended by the Prophet, should she first complete her Ramadan fasting?
www.arabnews.com
Fasting for justice in Dubai
Belgian prisoner on weeks-long hunger strike in "critical condition", as expatriates protest against bounced-cheque law. A Belgian man jailed in Dubai for writing cheques which bounced is in a critical condition as a result of a weeks-long hunger strike, according to a member of his family.
www.aljazeera.com
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