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Atlanta Fitness Studio Body Solutions Offers Advice on Healthy Eating at Parties

2011-01-28
Body Solutions, an Atlanta personal training and fitness studio founded by Dan McGrath, encourages clients to incorporate a healthy eating plan into all aspects of their lives, knowing that true success does not come from shutting yourself out from every situation that might tempt one to eat, such as parties or dining out. Atlanta personal trainer McGrath says, "Many people have a hard time not overindulging at parties or out with friends. It can be a major obstacle for health, fitness and especially watching your weight." Body Solutions has created a plan for success ...

Debenhams Announces Plans to Banish the Muffin Top

2011-01-28
Debenhams has announced the launch of a new range of underwear to wipe out muffin tops and visible panty lines (VPLs) forever.  The muffin top came was the most popular choice in a recent customer survey asking women to identify their most annoying lingerie pet-peeves.  This unsightly bulge was followed by VPLs, mismatched underwear and quad boobs - where the cup size is too small, causing breasts to bulge out from the top of the bras making women look like they have four breasts. The survey also revealed that over 75% of women want their underwear to tick every box. ...

Lowcostholidays.com Selects bigmouthmedia to Lead its Expansion into Europe

2011-01-28
Lowcostholidays.com, the leading holiday provider, has announced that it has selected digital marketing agency, bigmouthmedia, to launch its SEO and PPC marketing strategies for the roll out of its European sites. The travel expert, which has built a reputation for bringing new levels of online technological innovation to the holiday sector, has appointed bigmouthmedia, Europe's largest independent digital marketing agency, to spearhead its plans for rapid expansion. Responsible for establishing advanced search engine optimisation and Pay Per Click (PPC) programmes targeting ...

Ideasbynet Reveals Economic Downturn Fuelling Change in Marketing Strategies for Businesses

2011-01-28
Ideasbynet has noted an important change in marketing strategies during the current economic downturn. While promotional gifts remain a simple and effective marketing method, companies are now choosing products which have a practical use, rather than mere novelty value. In 2010, Ideasbynet saw a steady drop in sales of promotional logobugs, fridge magnets and stress toys, and large increases in the likes of cotton shopping bags, ice scrapers and pocket diaries. 2010 also saw a threefold increase in tax disc holders, as well as large increases in sales of both branded ...

Junior Johnson Joins Motorsportsunplugged.com Editorial Team

2011-01-28
Motorsportsunplugged.com is pleased to welcome American racing icon Junior Johnson to its growing team of writers and expert contributors. "Junior's exceptional life and unique insights make his comments of great interest to racing fans across the country. We are privileged to have him offer his opinions for our Motorsportsunplugged.com visitors," said Steve Waid, senior editor. "I like what they're doing at Motorsportsunplugged.com and am happy to be a part if it." said Johnson. Johnson's articles will appear on Motorsportsunplugged.com every second Friday throughout ...

Breast Augmentation in Raleigh, NC: Dr. Michael Law, a Raleigh Plastic Surgeon, Introduces New Comprehensive Guide to Women Considering Breast Implants in NC

2011-01-28
Breast augmentation in Raleigh, NC Dos and Don'ts Breast augmentation: Everything a woman needs to know about breast augmentation and breast implants is included in a new website by Dr. Michael Law a board certified plastic surgeon in Raleigh, NC. The new website, http://www.michaellawmd.com/breast-augmentation_breast_implants.html, includes a breast augmentation before and after gallery: http://www.michaellawmd.com/gallery/breastaug1.html. Breast augmentation surgery remains a top plastic surgery procedure. Raleigh plastic surgeon Michael Law introduces a comprehensive ...

Fitness Trainers Invited to Build Their Own Businesses at Spa Galleria with Free Marketing Help

Fitness Trainers Invited to Build Their Own Businesses at Spa Galleria with Free Marketing Help
2011-01-28
Salon and Spa Galleria is now looking for qualified personal trainers who would like to own and operate their own personal training businesses without the cost of equipping a gym and renting a dedicated space. "A lot of trainers would like to open a gym but can't afford to pay the rent, buy the equipment and do all the marketing to build a following," says Ron Sturgeon, the new owner of the Grapevine Mills property where Salon and Spa Galleria is located. "A personal trainer has a lot better chance of being successful if he or she spreads the costs of the venture out ...

Social Media Agency Umpf Creates Lucrative Foursquare Check In

2011-01-28
Following the appointment of two new staff and to celebrate its move into larger riverside premises, UK-based PR and social media agency Umpf has created a unique campaign - the UK's most lucrative Foursquare check-in. The agency's social media campaign includes a tilt-shift style film showing its office move and the special offer - a GBP1,000 (US$1,500) discount voucher. The voucher, redeemable against the agency's social media services, is available throughout 2011 for anyone who checks in to its new offices on Foursquare, and then Tweets the check in. Umpf ...

Neuroscientists learn how channels fine-tune neuronal excitability

2011-01-27
Scientists in the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, have discovered a new mechanism that nerve cells (neurons) use to fine-tune their electrical output. The exciting discovery, published this week in the prestigious journal Nature Neuroscience, provides new insights about how the activity of the nervous system is regulated at the cellular level. Nerve cells in our nervous system use electrical impulses to transmit signals throughout our body. One way that they do this is through the trafficking of calcium channels through to ...

Nanowires exhibit giant piezoelectricity

2011-01-27
Gallium nitride (GaN) and zinc oxide (ZnO) are among the most technologically relevant semiconducting materials. Gallium nitride is ubiquitous today in optoelectronic elements such as blue lasers (hence the blue-ray disc) and light-emitting-diodes (LEDs); zinc oxide also finds many uses in optoelectronics and sensors. In the past few years, though, nanostructures made of these materials have shown a plethora of potential functionalities, ranging from single-nanowire lasers and LEDs to more complex devices such as resonators and, more recently, nanogenerators that convert ...

The world can be powered by alternative energy, using today's technology, in 20-40 years

The world can be powered by alternative energy, using todays technology, in 20-40 years
2011-01-27
VIDEO: A new study -- co-authored by Stanford researcher Mark Z. Jacobson and UC-Davis researcher Mark A. Delucchi -- analyzing what is needed to convert the world's energy supplies to clean... Click here for more information. If someone told you there was a way you could save 2.5 million to 3 million lives a year and simultaneously halt global warming, reduce air and water pollution and develop secure, reliable energy sources – nearly all with existing technology and ...

Molecular mechanism links stress with predisposition for depression

2011-01-27
A new study provides insight into how stress impacts the brain and may help to explain why some individuals are predisposed to depression when they experience chronic stress. The research, published by Cell Press in the January 27 issue of the journal Neuron, reveals complex molecular mechanisms associated with chronic stress and may help to guide new treatment strategies for depression. "Many individuals exposed to stressful events do not show signs or symptoms of depression; however, some individuals exposed to psychological stress are predisposed to major depression," ...

Brain 'GPS' illuminated in migratory monarch butterflies

2011-01-27
A new study takes a close look at the brain of the migratory monarch butterfly to better understand how these remarkable insects use an internal compass and skylight cues to navigate from eastern North America to Mexico each fall. The research, published by Cell Press in the January 27 issue of the journal Neuron, provides key insights into how ambiguous sensory signals can be integrated in the brain to guide complex navigation. Previous research has shown that migrants use a time-compensated "sun compass" to maintain a southerly direction during flight. "In general, ...

'Hidden plumbing' helps slow Greenland ice flow

2011-01-27
Hotter summers may not be as catastrophic for the Greenland ice sheet as previously feared and may actually slow down the flow of glaciers, according to new research. A letter published in Nature on 27 January explains how increased melting in warmer years causes the internal drainage system of the ice sheet to 'adapt' and accommodate more melt-water, without speeding up the flow of ice toward the oceans. The findings have important implications for future assessments of global sea level rise. The Greenland ice sheet covers roughly 80% of the surface of the island and ...

Data point to role of cellular bioenergetics as a new mechanistic approach to treat immune disorders

2011-01-27
Plymouth, Mich. – January 26, 2011 – Lycera Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company pioneering an innovative approach to developing novel oral medicines to treat autoimmune diseases, today announced positive data from the University of Michigan demonstrating the role of bioenergetics in selectively inhibiting pathogenic lymphocytes while preserving and enhancing the normal immune system. The findings, published online today in Science Translational Medicine, support Lycera's promising novel therapeutic approach to treating a broad spectrum of immune diseases. Cellular ...

Little-known growth factor enhances memory, prevents forgetting in rats

2011-01-27
A naturally occurring growth factor significantly boosted retention and prevented forgetting of a fear memory when injected into rats' memory circuitry during time-limited windows when memories become fragile and changeable. In the study funded by the National Institutes of Health, animals treated with insulin-like growth factor (IGF-II) excelled at remembering to avoid a location where they had previously experienced a mild shock. "To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of potent memory enhancement via a naturally occurring factor that readily passes through ...

Orangutan DNA more diverse than human's, remarkably stable through the ages

Orangutan DNA more diverse than humans, remarkably stable through the ages
2011-01-27
VIDEO: Researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis have decoded the DNA of 11 orangutans. An analysis of their genomes reveals intriguing clues about the evolution of great apes, including... Click here for more information. Among great apes, orangutans are humans' most distant cousins. These tree dwellers sport a coat of fine reddish hair and have long been endangered in their native habitats in the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo in Southeast Asia. Now, ...

Astronomers find most distant galaxy candidate yet seen

2011-01-27
SANTA CRUZ, CA--Astronomers studying ultra-deep imaging data from the Hubble Space Telescope have found what may be the most distant galaxy ever seen, about 13.2 billion light-years away. The study pushed the limits of Hubble's capabilities, extending its reach back to about 480 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just 4 percent of its current age. "We're getting back very close to the first galaxies, which we think formed around 200 to 300 million years after the Big Bang," said Garth Illingworth, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University ...

Genome analysis outlines variations in orangutans of Borneo, Sumatra

2011-01-27
HOUSTON -- (Jan. 27, 2011) – In the forests of Borneo and Sumatra, orangutans – the "men of the forest" in the language of Malaysia–swing among the trees, an endangered primate population so similar and yet different from man – and from each other, according to a recently published genome analysis of the two populations of orangutans still existing in the world. The multi-national study led by scientists from Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu) and Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., define many of the similarities between the two populations – one in Sumatra ...

The cryptic African wolf: Canis aureus lupaster is not a golden jackal

2011-01-27
New molecular evidence reveals a new species of grey wolf living in Africa. Formerly confused with golden jackals, and thought to be an Egyptian subspecies of jackal, the new African wolf shows that members of the grey wolf lineage reached Africa about 3 million years ago, before they spread throughout the northern hemisphere. As long ago as 1880 the great evolutionary biologist Thomas Huxley commented that Egyptian golden jackals – then as now regarded as a subspecies of the golden jackal – looked suspiciously like grey wolves. The same observation was made by several ...

Racial stereotyping found in US death certificates

2011-01-27
Death by homicide, the victim is probably black. By cirrhosis, the decedent is likely Native American. These stereotypes have small but clear effects on the racial classifications used to calculate official vital statistics, according to a new study by sociologists at the University of Oregon and University of California, Irvine. When coroners, medical examiners or funeral directors across the United States fill out death certificates, it appears the racial classifications they make are influenced by the decedent's cause of death in ways that reflect long-running stereotypes ...

Eating poorly can make us depressed

2011-01-27
Researchers from the universities of Navarra and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria have demonstrated that the ingestion of trans-fats and saturated fats increase the risk of suffering depression, and that olive oil, on the other hand, protects against this mental illness. They have confirmed this after studying 12,059 SUN Project volunteers over the course of six years; the volunteers had their diet, lifestyle and ailments analyzed at the beginning of the project, over its course and at the end of the project. In this way the researchers confirmed that despite the fact that ...

Scripps Research study shows map of brain connectivity changes during development

2011-01-27
LA JOLLA, CA – January 24, 2010 – Embargoed by the journal Neuron until January 26, 2010, noon, Eastern time – Connected highways of nerve cells carry information to and from different areas of the brain and the rest of the nervous system. Scientists are trying to draw a complete atlas of these connections—sometimes referred to as the "connectome"—to gain a better understanding of how the brain functions in health and disease. New research conducted at The Scripps Research Institute shows that this road atlas undergoes constant revisions as the brain of a young animal ...

Female lizard turns the table: Why exaggerated coloration makes her a good mate

2011-01-27
Most nature lovers know that the more colourful a male fish, reptile, or bird, the more likely it is to attract a female and to have healthy offspring. Females, on the other hand, tend to be drably coloured, perhaps to avoid predators while carrying, incubating, and caring for young. Curiously, the female striped plateau lizard, which lives in the rocky slopes of Arizona's south-eastern mountains, is an exception to this rule in the animal world. Females are more colourful than males – displaying an orange patch on their throats during reproductive season – and the more ...

Ancient body clock discovered that helps to keep all living things on time

2011-01-27
The mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all forms of life from human cells to algae has been identified by scientists. Not only does the research provide important insight into health-related problems linked to individuals with disrupted clocks – such as pilots and shift workers – it also indicates that the 24-hour circadian clock found in human cells is the same as that found in algae and dates back millions of years to early life on Earth. Two new studies out today in the journal Nature from the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh give insight ...
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