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as-ian
Joined: 04 Sep 2007
Location: Busan, South Korea
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 Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:05 am Post subject: ^_~ |
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Glad I could give some people some laughs. ^^
However, it should be mentioned that this isnt my work. These are lyrics from a song. I don't remember where the lyrics originated, but the version I have is from a song by Lazy Boy ~ Underwear Goes Inside The Pants. I cant remember if Lazy Boy wrote the lyrics, but I vaguely remember something about this being by someone else (i am too lazy to look it up right now).
I probably should have mentioned this in the original post. But it is still funny, none-the-less.
EDIT: Yes, i do realize that this comment by me was poorly constructed. But, I am too tired to care. ^^ |
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Hopelessly Human
Joined: 03 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:30 am Post subject: |
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arjuna
Joined: 31 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: Underwear Goes Inside The Pants |
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| lazyboy wrote: |
Americans, let's face it, we've been a spoiled country for a long time. Do you know what the number one health risk in America is? Obesity. They say we're in the middle of an obesity epidemic. An epidemic like it is polio. Like we'll be telling our grand kids about it one day. The Great Obesity Epidemic of 2004:
"How'd you get through it grandpa?"
"Oh, it was horrible Johnny, there were cheesecakes and pork chops everywhere." |
Diminishing Obesity's Risks
Mouse data suggest that, properly managed, obesity can be benign.
Janet Raloff
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20071013/food.asp
Health-care professionals typically refer to an extremely heavy person as being morbidly obese. The term reinforces the idea that the individual is at high risk of diabetes, fatty-liver disease, and heart attacks. Researchers who have been working with mice now report that certain chronic diseases don't have to be consequences of obesity.
The team accomplished the disconnect by tricking the animals' bodies into storing all their excess fat within their fat cells, or adipocytes.
HEALTHY MICE. Despite its enormous girth, the genetically
engineered mouse at left is no more at risk for insulin resistance or
diabetes than the normally slim mouse at right. The reason: Each
rodent stores any excess calories it ingests into normal fat cells�
not muscle and liver.
J.-Y. Kim and T. Schraw, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
That's not what the bodies of rodents�or people�typically do. Initially, excess lipids�fat�are stored in these cells, making up what's called adipose tissue or simply body fat. These deposits lie primarily in the breasts, belly, and thighs. However, once adipocytes fill up, new storage sites take up the overflow. Those new depots usually develop in muscle and the liver.
Of those two depots, the liver is more dangerous when it becomes fatty. Straightforwardly named, fatty liver disease can arise and lead eventually to hepatitis, cirrhosis, and death.
A drop in the hormone called adiponectin is the body's signal to store fat outside adipose tissue. Sometimes referred to as the starvation hormone, adiponectin normally remains high in lean animals. With obesity, however, blood concentrations of the molecule fall.
Philipp E. Scherer of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and his colleagues reasoned that keeping adiponectin concentrations high might fool the body into making extra adipocytes instead of sending surplus fat to muscles and the liver.
The team has now investigated the hypothesis in a strain of mice that make copious adiponectin regardless of how fat they become. In the Sept. 4 Journal of Clinical Investigation, the researchers report that as the novel mice mature, they become unbelievably huge. Indeed, muses Scherer, these are "the fattest mice ever reported," with fat comprising 60 percent or more of their body weight.
As hoped for, the mice deposit all their excess fat in adipose tissue. Also in sharp contrast to other obese mice, the high-adiponectin animals develop no signs of diabetes. They also avoid a metabolic disorder known as syndrome X, which puts animals, including people, at high risk of heart disease (SN: 4/8/2000, p. 236).
So, although these barely mobile, blubbery mounds of flesh look like wrecks, they don't appear to be at high risk for several chronic diseases associated with obesity, Scherer told Science News Online. Actually, he says, from the preliminary data, the mice "appear perfectly healthy."
He suspects that there's a lesson in this for investigators of human-obesity treatments. Drugs exist that raise adiponectin values in even overweight individuals. Most, like pioglitazone (Actos) and rosiglitazone (Avandia), are prescribed to treat diabetes. However, data suggest these drugs also reduce the buildup of fat in the liver.
Unfortunately, diminishing health risks in morbidly obese people may require far more than just supersizing their treatment with the diabetes drugs�especially since data reported earlier this year linked rosiglitazone with an increased risk of heart attack (SN: 6/23/07, p. 397).
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WHEN FATTER IS BETTER. A genetically engineered variant
(right) of the normal obese mouse (left) is far fatter�but also
substantially healthier. In dodging the diabetes bullet, it's not the
amount of body fat�but the number of fat cells per unit of body
fat�that appears to matter most, new data show.
J.-Y. Kim and T. Schraw, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject: Re: Underwear Goes Inside The Pants |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| as-ian wrote: |
Americans, let's face it, we've been a spoiled country for a long time. Do you know what the number one health risk in America is? Obesity. They say we're in the middle of an obesity epidemic. An epidemic like it is polio. Like we'll be telling our grand kids about it one day. The Great Obesity Epidemic of 2004:
"How'd you get through it grandpa?"
"Oh, it was horrible Johnny, there were cheesecakes and pork chops everywhere." |
My definition of spoiled is getting a lot of something for no effort. It seems to me Americans work very hard for their money and they enjoy the fruits of their labor with good food, good medicine, good entertainment, good cars, all the comforts of life a guy in Africa would kill to have 10% of.
Work hard, buying what makes you happy. That's not spoiled. That's the way an economy works.
But I do like your line about the obesity epidemic.
When I was in early university, I couldn't imagine life getting better. I couldn't imagine having a "I had to walk 10 miles in 10 feet of snow" stories for my kid. I imagined things could only go down hill, telling my kids "You don't know how good I had it! I didn't have to walk 10 miles through 10 feet of snow. I had a car in high school. If I couldn't park less than a block away from school I was pissed off! Yeah you kids have no appreciation how well we lived in 1984." |
The New Economy Screwed everything. In the early eighties it was so easy to get a decent job rent was low and going back to school was easy.
I can remember hanging out in my old neighborhood which is now gentrified and overun with yuppies. Back then a pitcher of beer was six bucks. |
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