If you’re too fat, you need to figure out why before you can lose weight successfully. Scientists have discovered that stress makes us eat too much?especially sugar. It’s actually another form of addiction, just like being addicted to gambling, cigarettes, drugs or alcohol.
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In the US we tend to think we’re fairly healthy. We have plenty of food, as well as access to some of the best physicians in the world. But a recent study by the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that we’re not nearly as healthy as we like to think we are. In fact, the health of the RICHEST American is as bad as that of the worst educated, lowest paid English citizen.
Despite their high-fat diet and sedentary lifestyle, the English are still less likely to have Type II diabetes than people in the US. The researchers say, “Americans are much sicker than the English.”
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We now know that prehistoric man did not hunt the mammoth into extinction. The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park 10 years ago has been blamed for the 40% decline in the elk population there?but it turns out that the wolves are not responsible either.
Global warming was what actually made mammoths become extinct, and it turns out that in a way, it has led to the decline in the elk as well, since years of drought have contributed to it. Another extinction pressure comes from human hunters. Also, there is evidence that elks have been dying off from a form of mad cow disease.
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What do month-to-month temperature fluctuations have to do with century-to-century changes in temperature? At first it might seem like: not much. But in a report published in this week’s peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have found some indications that seasonal fluctuations indicate what’s going on in the big picture, when it comes to climate change?even on the macro scale of hundreds of thousands of years.
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