Personal trainer Dan Smullen runs us through what we should be eating to get the most out of our workouts, since the battle is mostly won in the kitchen
By Dan Smullen BSc
You might have heard me mention in one of the JOE Gets Ripped videos that the battle to lose weight is 70% down to your diet. If you're a member at the Fitness Dock gym, and you've ever asked me how to burn belly fat and get a six pack, my answer would have been incredibly simple: ?It happens in the kitchen?!
Physiologists, dieticians or even doctors for years have been led to believe that weight loss occurs only when the amount of energy we consume is at a deficit to the amount of energy we expend. Wait, what does all that mean?
In other words, the theory we are talking about here is that the calories yout take in must be lower than the calories you use up, the famous ?eat less exercise more phenomenon?. Wow wasn?t that a scientific breakthrough! Unfortunately it?s not quite as simple as that in order to burn fatand reshape our bodies in the long run.
The best diet out there does not concern itself with counting calories, cutting out carbs or even making you feel starved, it's a diet we got from our ancetors.
The?Paleo diet?is the healthiest way you can eat because it is the ONLY nutritional approach that works?with your genetics to help you stay lean, strong and energetic.
Research in biology, biochemistry, dermatology and many other disciplines indicate it is our modern diet, full of refined foods, trans fats and sugar, that is at the root of degenerative diseases such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson?s, Alzheimer?s, depression and infertility.
The Paleo Diet in a nutshell
So what should we be eating? Let's look at it in its most simple terms.
Eat this: Berries, Vegetables, lean meats and eggs, seafood, nuts and seeds, healthy fats
Not that: Dairy, grains, legumes, straches, alcohol, processed foods and sugars
Three reasons why the paleo diet works!
1.Lean proteins
Lean proteins are essential for our muscles, healthy bones and optimal immune function. Protein also helps you to feel satisfied between meals and stop snacking.
2.Fruits and Vegetables
Fruits and vegetables are rich in antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients that have been shown to decrease the likelihood of developing a number of degenerative diseases including cancer, diabetes and neurological decline.
3.Healthy fats from nuts, seeds, avocados, olive oil, fish oil and grass-fed meat
Not only will this way of eating burn belly fat, but scientific research shows that diets rich in Monounsaturated and Omega-3 fats dramatically reduce the likelihood of problems with obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and cognitive decline.
The diet is very simple and can be summed up like this: "If it doesn't swim, run, or fly, or isn't green and grows in the ground, don't eat it!"
For a list of over 1000 free online recipes check out this website dedicated to Paelo recipes.
For more about the Fitness Dock gym and how Dan Smullen can help you get in shape, head over to the Fitness Dock website.
The JobRaising Challenge, HuffPost's initiative in partnership with The Skoll Foundation, CrowdRise and McKinsey & Company to help job-creating nonprofits raise money and awareness, will conclude at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, March 1.
The Challenge has already resulted in over 3,500 donations from across the country, with 80 percent of those being under $100.
It even received a shout-out Thursday evening from CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. Arianna was on CNN discussing the sequester with former Senator Jim DeMint (R- S.C). She argued that the focus of the economic debate should be on creating jobs, not European-style austerity. After the divisive partisan debates of recent weeks, Wolf congratulated Arianna on the JobRaising initiative's success, calling the project "something that we can all agree on."
HuffPost readers are encouraged to donate, spread the word via social media, and can read stories of the nonprofits on the "Opportunity: What is Working" section.
If you have one of those stereos that was released in that awkward time between CDs and MP3 players, then it might be missing the now-standard auxiliary port for easy playback. Redditor Esplodies found themselves in this exact situation, and cleverly hacked together an auxiliary port for about $2.50.
This trick only works on CD players that don't have an aux port, but it's surprisingly easy to do. Esplodies used a CD-ROM audio cable and a resistor to plug into the rear port of the CD player. Then, they just wired that up to an auxiliary port, drilled a small hole in the front of the stereo, and that was it. It'll only work on a few different models of stereos, but if yours doesn't fit the bill, you can do it with a little solder, or go all out and add Bluetooth instead. Head over to Reddit for the full picture guide.
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Transplanted organs can distinguish between colors
By Tina Hesman Saey
Web edition: February 28, 2013
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SEEING WITHOUT EYES
A tadpole with no eyes in its head can nonetheless see from an eye transplanted to its tail, provided that nerves from the eye wire into the spinal cord.
Credit: D. Blackiston and M. Levin/Tufts University
If someone shouts ?look behind you,? tadpoles in Michael Levin?s laboratory may be ready. The tadpoles can see out of eyes growing from their tails, even though the organs aren?t directly wired to the animals? brains, Levin and Douglas Blackiston, both of Tufts University in Medford, Mass., report online February 27 in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
Levin and Blackiston?s findings may help scientists better understand how the brain and body communicate, including in humans, and could be important for regenerative medicine or designing prosthetic devices to replace missing body parts, says G?nther Zupanc, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston.
Researchers have transplanted frog eyes to other body parts for decades, but until now, no one had shown that those oddly placed eyes (called ?ectopic? eyes) actually worked. Ectopic eyes on tadpoles? tails allow the animals to distinguish blue light from red light, the Tufts team found.
Levin wanted to know whether the brain is hardwired to get visual information only from eyes in the head, or whether the brain could use data coming from elsewhere. To find out, he and Blackiston started with African clawed frog tadpoles (Xenopus laevis) and removed the normal eyes. They then transplanted cells that would grow into eyes onto the animals? tails.
The experiment seemed like a natural to test how well the brain can adapt, Levin says. ?There?s no way the tadpole?s brain is expecting an eye on its tail.?
Expected or not, some of the tadpoles managed to detect red and blue light from their tail eyes. The researchers placed tadpoles with transplanted eyes in chambers in which half of the chamber was illuminated in blue light and the other half in red light. A mild electric shock zapped the tadpole when it was in one half of the dish so that the animal learned to associate the color with the shock. The researchers periodically switched the colors in the chamber so that the tadpoles didn?t learn that staying still would save them.
Tadpoles in which nerves from the tail eye had grown to connect to the spinal column were able to learn the color-shock association and swim away from the light that accompanied a shock. Tadpoles whose tail eyes had connected to the stomach or some other part of the body did not learn the association. Neither did tadpoles with no eyes. The finding suggests that visual information from the eye travels up the spinal cord to the brain, which can process it, Levin says.
That result was a surprise, Zupanc says, because previous research had suggested eyes need to be directly connected to the brain to transmit visual information. Somehow the brain is able to distinguish the color messages from other data travelling through the spinal cord. All of those messages arrive as electrical signals that look alike to the experimenters, but Levin and Blackiston?s study suggests the brain can tell the difference.
Learning how the brain sorts visual information from other types of data may be important, Levin suggests, in designing artificial eyes or correcting some forms of blindness in which the brain doesn?t process visual information correctly.
Developmental biologist Arthur Lander named Donald Bren ProfessorPublic release date: 28-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Andrea Burgess andrea.burgess@uci.edu 949-824-6282 University of California - Irvine
UCI researcher is noted for advancing nascent field of systems biology
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 28, 2013 Arthur Lander, a recognized leader in the emerging field of systems biology whose research has helped identify underlying causes for some cancers and birth defects, has been named the Donald Bren Professor of Developmental & Cell Biology at UC Irvine.
The Bren Professors Endowment was established with a gift from Donald Bren, chairman of the Irvine Company, to help UC Irvine attract and retain the nation's foremost scholars. Lander joins a distinguished group of faculty researchers, including two School of Biological Sciences colleagues, evolutionary biologist Francisco J. Ayala, a 2001 National Medal of Science honoree, and evolutionary biologist Michael Clegg, foreign secretary of the National Academy of Sciences.
Lander, 54, holds appointments in both developmental & cell biology and biomedical engineering at UC Irvine and is founding director of the campus's Center for Complex Biological Systems. He chaired the Department of Developmental & Cell Biology from 2000 to 2007. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he earned a Ph.D. and an M.D. at UC San Francisco and joined the UC Irvine faculty in 1995.
"Arthur Lander is an exemplary, world-class leader in systems biology, and this endowment recognizes his success and continued dedication to understanding how complex cell interactions can lead to serious diseases and conditions," said Albert Bennett, the Hana & Francisco J. Ayala Dean of UC Irvine's School of Biological Sciences.
Lander and his laboratory team study how cells communicate with each other to coordinate the elaborate behaviors that underlie development and regeneration. The research helps explain why birth defects happen, how tissues control their size and how cancers grow. Lander helped identify the gene for Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a disabling, multisystem, genetic disease that affects one in 10,000 children and, with collaborators at UC Irvine, created animal models that are being used to find ways of preventing and treating it.
For more than a decade, he has also been an acknowledged pioneer in systems biology, an emerging field that exploits the tools of mathematics, engineering and computer science to examine how networks of molecules, cells, tissues and organs interact to ensure that biological systems function reliably.
In 2001, Lander founded UC Irvine's Center for Complex Biological Systems, the first of its kind in California. Since then, the facility has helped UC Irvine garner more than $36 million in federal and private aid for research, education and outreach by teams of biologists, mathematicians, physical scientists and engineers. It's currently among 15 National Centers for Systems Biology funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health.
"I am grateful to UC Irvine and the Bren Professors Endowment for giving me this exciting opportunity to continue and expand my efforts in research, teaching and community engagement," Lander said. "I have found UC Irvine to be a great environment for doing crosscutting, interdisciplinary research, because the academic culture here really rewards openness and collaboration. The ease with which one can form a team of colleagues from different disciplines has been critical to my ability to work on some of the most complex and difficult biological problems out there."
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About the University of California, Irvine: Founded in 1965, UC Irvine is a top-ranked university dedicated to research, scholarship and community service. Led by Chancellor Michael Drake since 2005, UC Irvine is among the most dynamic campuses in the University of California system, with more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 1,100 faculty and 9,400 staff. Orange County's second-largest employer, UC Irvine contributes an annual economic impact of $4.3 billion. For more UC Irvine news, visit news.uci.edu.
News Radio: UC Irvine maintains on campus an ISDN line for conducting interviews with its faculty and experts. Use of this line is available for a fee to radio news programs/stations that wish to interview UC Irvine faculty and experts. Use of the ISDN line is subject to availability and approval by the university.
Contact:
Andrea Burgess
949-824-6282
andrea.burgess@uci.edu
UCI maintains an online directory of faculty available as experts to the media. To access, visit www.today.uci.edu/experts.
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Developmental biologist Arthur Lander named Donald Bren ProfessorPublic release date: 28-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Andrea Burgess andrea.burgess@uci.edu 949-824-6282 University of California - Irvine
UCI researcher is noted for advancing nascent field of systems biology
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 28, 2013 Arthur Lander, a recognized leader in the emerging field of systems biology whose research has helped identify underlying causes for some cancers and birth defects, has been named the Donald Bren Professor of Developmental & Cell Biology at UC Irvine.
The Bren Professors Endowment was established with a gift from Donald Bren, chairman of the Irvine Company, to help UC Irvine attract and retain the nation's foremost scholars. Lander joins a distinguished group of faculty researchers, including two School of Biological Sciences colleagues, evolutionary biologist Francisco J. Ayala, a 2001 National Medal of Science honoree, and evolutionary biologist Michael Clegg, foreign secretary of the National Academy of Sciences.
Lander, 54, holds appointments in both developmental & cell biology and biomedical engineering at UC Irvine and is founding director of the campus's Center for Complex Biological Systems. He chaired the Department of Developmental & Cell Biology from 2000 to 2007. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he earned a Ph.D. and an M.D. at UC San Francisco and joined the UC Irvine faculty in 1995.
"Arthur Lander is an exemplary, world-class leader in systems biology, and this endowment recognizes his success and continued dedication to understanding how complex cell interactions can lead to serious diseases and conditions," said Albert Bennett, the Hana & Francisco J. Ayala Dean of UC Irvine's School of Biological Sciences.
Lander and his laboratory team study how cells communicate with each other to coordinate the elaborate behaviors that underlie development and regeneration. The research helps explain why birth defects happen, how tissues control their size and how cancers grow. Lander helped identify the gene for Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a disabling, multisystem, genetic disease that affects one in 10,000 children and, with collaborators at UC Irvine, created animal models that are being used to find ways of preventing and treating it.
For more than a decade, he has also been an acknowledged pioneer in systems biology, an emerging field that exploits the tools of mathematics, engineering and computer science to examine how networks of molecules, cells, tissues and organs interact to ensure that biological systems function reliably.
In 2001, Lander founded UC Irvine's Center for Complex Biological Systems, the first of its kind in California. Since then, the facility has helped UC Irvine garner more than $36 million in federal and private aid for research, education and outreach by teams of biologists, mathematicians, physical scientists and engineers. It's currently among 15 National Centers for Systems Biology funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health.
"I am grateful to UC Irvine and the Bren Professors Endowment for giving me this exciting opportunity to continue and expand my efforts in research, teaching and community engagement," Lander said. "I have found UC Irvine to be a great environment for doing crosscutting, interdisciplinary research, because the academic culture here really rewards openness and collaboration. The ease with which one can form a team of colleagues from different disciplines has been critical to my ability to work on some of the most complex and difficult biological problems out there."
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About the University of California, Irvine: Founded in 1965, UC Irvine is a top-ranked university dedicated to research, scholarship and community service. Led by Chancellor Michael Drake since 2005, UC Irvine is among the most dynamic campuses in the University of California system, with more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 1,100 faculty and 9,400 staff. Orange County's second-largest employer, UC Irvine contributes an annual economic impact of $4.3 billion. For more UC Irvine news, visit news.uci.edu.
News Radio: UC Irvine maintains on campus an ISDN line for conducting interviews with its faculty and experts. Use of this line is available for a fee to radio news programs/stations that wish to interview UC Irvine faculty and experts. Use of the ISDN line is subject to availability and approval by the university.
Contact:
Andrea Burgess
949-824-6282
andrea.burgess@uci.edu
UCI maintains an online directory of faculty available as experts to the media. To access, visit www.today.uci.edu/experts.
NOTE TO EDITORS: Photo available at
http://news.uci.edu/press-releases/developmental-biologist-arthur-lander-named-donald-bren-professor/
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If you have one of those stereos that was released in that awkward time between CDs and MP3 players, then it might be missing the now-standard auxiliary port for easy playback. Redditor Esplodies found themselves in this exact situation, and cleverly hacked together an auxiliary port for about $2.50. 
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