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In the newest research on tanning beds out this week, researchers concluded:
Following exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR), frequent tanners had increased regional cerebral blood flow in areas of the brain associated with experiencing reward — the dorsal striatum, anterior insula, and medial orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), writes MedPage Today
The cerebral blood flow did not increase when the tanners were exposed to filtered UVR. Moreover, study participants expressed less desire to tan after exposure to UVR than against the placebo tanning experience with no URV rays. This result suggests that the addictive need to tan was temporarily met by the real exposure to UVR rays.
Obesity & Low Body Temperature
If Fat Dogs Are Cool, Could Fat People Be, Too? Science Daily
The new research is not focused on a popularity contest, but body temperature. University of South Carolina Salkehatchie professor Dr Roberto Refinetti believes that lower body temperature could be a factor in weight gain and obesity.
His study compared the rectal temperatures of 287 lean and obese dogs over several years. Findings confirmed that larger dogs have lower temperatures than smaller dogs. Comparing dogs of similar body size, obese dogs have lower temperatures than lean dogs.
Salkehatchie is exploring the idea that humans with a lower body temperature (Anne’s, for example, is never 98.6 but typically 97.6 - 97.8 when temp is taken orally) don’t need to expend as much energy to keep warm. If so (Anne is always warm and never has cold fingertips), people with lower body temperature should eat less. That would be her.
This is preliminary research, and we note that body temperature varies in the same person varies for multiple reasons: exercise, hormonal fluctuations, sleep and eating more protein than carbs — to state a few causes.
Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life
Abortion opponents have a new voice CSMonitor
Do prochoice women just not smile enough? Think Bachmann, Palin and now Charmaine Yoest, who has completed trounced the existing prochoice lobbies and organizations like NARAL, with ‘an easy laugh and ample charm’, writes CSM. How could such a charming women be Public Enemy No. 1 for the pro-abortion rights community?
Read this in-depth story about the woman who is committed to turning back the clock for American women, this mother of five who sadly mad a miscarriage in her first pregnancy. Yoest boasts that 22 of this year’s record 86 measures were initiated by her organization or under their keen influence.
Many could call Yoest a feminist, although she denies the term:
She holds a doctorate of philosophy in government from the University of Virginia, a degree she achieved after 10 years of study while raising her children. She is the daughter of two PhDs – a Fulbright-awarded economist father and a mother who specializes in communication theory. She is a breast cancer survivor, a marathoner, and the mother of an athlete on the Junior National World Development Rowing team.
Yoest formerly worked as an intern with Gary Bauer in the Reagan White House and then studied with conservative ethicist David Cook at Oxford University in England.
In this must-read article fo all people interested in this women’s rights discussion, it’s worth nothing that Yoest’s AUL organization doesn’t take a position on birth control, which many social conservatives want to end.
Yoest is against Planned Parenthood and has led the attack against the organization.
As the CSM article points out, people must understand the ideological, male-driven, confrontational, kill them if necessary vision of anti-abortion opponents has a new face in Charmaine Yoest, Palin and Bachmann. All should take these women very seriously, whatever side of the topic one believes in. Consider them a charming, prolife offensive.
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