Health problems associated with consumption of fast food, junk food and other prepared items.

-Garry Kasparov uses 350 to 400 calories per hour during a chess match. The concentration it takes for error-free coding uses 250 to 300 calories an hour. Typing, surprisingly, already uses 130 calories an hour. Compare that to 30 calories an hour for standing still, 90 calories for casual walking and 300 calories for shoveling snow. Not bad. So the sugar and energy we take in IS being used.

The average (not triple cheese) pizza that is medium-sized only contains 350 calories. You can use that up easily with all your brain power needs. As we’ve previously said,the fat and cholesterol you eat is not what causes weight gain. Regardless of your weight or shape, it’s the amount of heart and muscle activity you get rather than your food intake or genetics that determines your likelihood for heart conditions, stroke, and so on. Thin people can be just as unhealthy as fat people if they don’t exercise. In fact, the fat surrounding your neurons must be replenished from time to time to keep your brain functioning properly.

The average geek diet is no more unhealthy than that of the average American. Find out what’s in the fast food you eat here. Frozen food gets a bad image, but it is certainly nutrient-filled, as much so as pizza. As long as the frozen meal package says it’s under 300 calories, has adequate portions of meat and vegetables, and contains under 8 grams of sodium, there’s nothing inherently bad about eating frozen meals on a regular basis. Dietitians tell us that all you need to do is add a cup of fruit yogurt, fresh fruit or salad for a complete meal, so head to your grocer’s freezer and experiment till you find the brands that suit your tastebuds.

–Let’s take a look at the common myth is that geeks and technophiles in general have a low sex drive and high incidence of impotence. According to the research papers we’ve reviewed, geeks have a larger sex drive than the average male population. Intersex.com pegs its visitors at about 60 percent who work in a tech, engineering or R&D related field, which tells us geeks have a normal male sex drive.

Caffeine, of which we consume a great deal, also has been found to have an aphrodisiac-like effect. It is still unclear whether caffeine works to increase and enhance erectile function, or whether it affects the male sexual organs because it stimulates the central nervous system overall.

Testosterone is also elevated in geeks compared to the average male population. British researchers believe the excess testosterone also increases left brain such as mathematical, musical and spatial orientation functions, as well as the ability to concentrate on an idea, concept, game or product with single-mindedness only men have displayed so far in neuroscience studies of brain function in gamers and coders. Check out our Boys and Toys articles on increasing testosterone.

Environmental toxins have been implicated in cancer, impotence and asthma. But so have an overly clean living environment. Studies show children who live in households that regularly use solvents, detergents, air fresheners and antibacterial cleaning soaps have higher incidence of asthma, attention deficit disorder, antibiotic resistance, as well as colds and flus. In our two-year study geeks who seldom wipe the dust off anything except their monitors had fewer colds and general health problems. Geeks also have little exposure to meningitis and other viral afflictions compared to the average male population.
to be continued…

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Size Matters

In the spirit of honesty and delivering a clear cut message, I would like to make the announcement that this article is not about:

a. Sex

b. People’s concern about weight control.

There. Move along will you…those of you who are looking for the secrets of being big in one area, or getting smaller in another.

I’m up to something else in this article—and trying very hard not to feel like a female Andy Rooney, complaining about things that aren’t worth our Limited Worry Time. Life is too short as it is, but I cannot help noting that even after all these years, there are some things I just don’t get.

I don’t understand what SIZE actually means. By what do we measure?

What I don’t understand about SIZE, is what people and products intend when they determine what size something is.

Here are the questions that are bothering me:

1. When I buy the large box of cereal, why is there a Family Size box looming, right next to it?
How big is a Family when determining how large a box is large enough.

2. Why is a junior size an odd number of any size ( 7, 9, 11) while “ladies” department sizes are even (8,10,12,14). How odd is it being a junior? And wait! If you are a woman, not a lady, you have a separate department to shop in: Women’s World. And get a W attached to your size number.

You can only be a lady AND a woman if you are a 14-16 (which is a Large size, but larger than a box of cereal) because a size 1X is pretty much also a 12-16, except you might often have to pay a couple of dollars more to be a woman instead of a lady, if you order from a clothing catalogue.

3. Why is a man’s size 8 shoe a different size than a women’s size 8 shoe, even if we are talking about sneakers, and not a snappy pair of pumps?

4. If you buy large shrimp are you being a cheapskate? Because you could have bought giant shrimp, which cost more, but are fewer in number. Don’t even talk to me about why I might want colossal shrimp, which are bigger than giant shrimp. It’s way too much opportunity and tension in the seafood section for me.

5. Which naturally leads you to consider candy.

After all, despite such size dilemmas in both food and clothing, buying good food and clothing ARE most satisfying reasons for anyone to go shopping, unless you are a man who hates shopping in favor of convenience stores. Then all you might care about regarding size is checking out the six packs. Cans of beer—good. Fosters? Big as a can of 30 weight oil? Better.

Oh, yes. Candy. What does “Trial Size” mean? What does “Bite Size” mean? What in the world does “Fun Size” mean? You have yourself enough fun in the candy department, you can go from a junior to a lady to a woman within a fashion season.

All this confusion is enough to make someone say, “Make that a Jumbo,” just to cover all of the bases, and possibly one’s butt.

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I got an unlisted number, moved and had my mail forwarded to Mailboxes, Etc. so the post office couldn ‘t give him my new address. After that, he called me at work instead. He has even sent gifts to me at work.

Yes, caution is advised when meeting people through the Internet. It ’s hard to know what someone is like through chat, e-mail and talking on the phone. It doesn ‘t stop there, though. When meeting anyone, through the Internet or not, be cautious about how much personal information you give out, especially your home address.

And if someone you go out with says they don ‘t want to see you again, by all means, please leave them alone and find someone who enjoys your company as much as you enjoy theirs.

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HGH Injections vs HGH pills: overview of HGH, supplemental nature, problems and advantages to use

While the human growth hormone has been studied for years, it was in 1986 when Eli Lily came to the conclusion that this new, miracle product can affiliate or stimulate the hormone to reverse the aging process. Eli discovered the solution in finding the exact match of the 191 amino acid hormone, which is biosynthetic in nature, yet indistinguishable from human growth hormone. Ever since then it has been thoroughly studied and used by athletes, children with growth issues, and adults with growth hormone deficiencies.

A lot of people choosing HGH therapy are told by a doctor to use prescribed HGH, which is injected everyday as biosynthetic hormone therapy. These can have possible side effects such as cardiovascular malfunctioning, can cause pain, and be very expensive — $10,000 and up for therapy for one year, although positive results can be swift. For persons requiring a lesser potency of HGH, the pills are a wiser and less dangerous option, along with HGH powders and spray supplements. Non-prescription with an essential amino acid blend that is balanced, and cheaper by a fraction of the price of injection of HGH, these HGH supplements and pills, less the side effects, show slower, but sure results in 3 to 6 months.

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The typical Friday night at college has transformed from kicking back and enjoying a few beers with friends, to drinking battles between the sexes. While college men have traditionally been stigmatized as binge drinkers, recent studies show that college women—in some attempt to prove that they can be one-of-the-boys—are becoming more prominent culprits of the binge drinking culture. (While there can be many definitions of binge drinking, the accepted definition is five or more drinks in a row for men and four or more drinks in a row for women). As senior Syracuse University student Lisa Diebold told TIME magazine, “To be able to drink like a guy is kind of a badge of honor.”

TIME’s April 1 headliner article “Women on a Binge” reveals that binge drinking among college women is on the rise, which is making campus administrators a little uneasy. The University of Colorado at Boulder, for example, has seen a 67% increase in binge drinking among women between 1993 and 2000. Last year at Syracuse University twice as many women as men were rushed to the hospital for alcohol poisoning and/or accidents as a result of excessive drinking. However, these statistics are not limited to large co-ed universities known for their wild parties. In fact, since 1993, women’s colleges have experienced a 125% increase in binge drinking, according to research released in late March by the Harvard School of Public Health. So, is female binge drinking a case of girl-pride gone wrong or is it just a new reality on today’s college campus?

Carolyn Hurwitz, the Sexual Assault and Women’s Health Coordinator at Georgetown University, says, “I don’t think that binge drinking is the way that girls claim their feminism.” Hurwitz, who was not at all surprised at the statistics in the TIME article, asserts that, “For a certain group it may be popular to drink as much as guys so not to be a light-weight. For others, it’s not a competition, but a form of socialization like ‘Work hard, Play hard’.”

Perhaps it’s this motto that’s caused Georgetown to see a 35% rise in women sanctioned for alcohol violations over the past three years. Students at Georgetown do not deny the social utility of drinking as sophomore student Pilar O’Brien said, “At the end of the week it’s time to drink because we’ve had a lot of work. … Drinking starts out with a social purpose and then things just get bad.” Yet, another sophomore, Chris Lowe, put it more simply adding, “a lot of girls go out just to get drunk.”

While most Georgetown students agree that women’s primary motivation to binge drink is not to compete with the boys, they do say that there is still a lot of pressure from guys to pound back the drinks. A female student, who was recently hospitalized for alcohol poisoning, said, “Girls get pressured into drinking because of guys. They want to prove that they can [drink a lot].” The boys, however, are not the only problem. Other girls also serve as instigators for binge drinking, as one student said, “Girls who don’t drink will look inferior to those who do.”

And, how do guys feel about girls who binge drink? Well, according to my informal survey, the results are mixed. Some guys think that binge drinking “makes them [girls] looser and more fun,” according to Lowe. Others strongly disagree. Mark Lukach, a junior at Georgetown, finds girls who binge drink very unattractive, but unfortunately it’s something he sees regularly. He recounted that two weekends ago he saw two dangerously drunk girls walking each other home and wanted to offer his help, but decided not to get involved.

Not only do women who abuse alcohol have a higher risk of becoming depressed, but binge drinking also has different physiological consequences for women. According to the TIME article, emerging research shows that liquor corrodes women’s bodies more quickly. Also, “as adults, women tend to develop liver disease 10 to 15 years earlier than men, even if women consume only a fraction of the daily alcohol that men do.” However, when asked, the Georgetown students had no idea that excessive drinking had different long-term health effects for women than men.

While many college women around the country pick up and pound beer after beer, many others have decided to refrain from drinking. In fact, the research conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health also showed that over the past few years an increasing number of women reported abstaining from alcohol altogether. As alcohol is becoming a bigger part of the college party scene, so are sexual assaults. Hurwitz revealed that three-fourths of the time drinking is directly involved in cases of sexual assault and rape. College women who chose not to drink may be safer from these horrible consequences, but their binge-drinking girlfriends may not.

It is a fact. Alcohol on college campuses is here to stay. But, college women must decide how much they want to live it up. It’s the choice between remembering a great night with your friends or blacking out at 10 p.m. It’s either waking up in your own comfortable bed or waking up in the bed of some guy you’ve never met, but now will.

In part, it’s the U.S., suggests Sunday Times (Ireland edition) columnist David Quinn. Writing in the National Review On-Line last week, Quinn pointed the finger at the failure of the U.S. Embassy in Dublin to effectively counteract the anti-U.S. bias exhibited by much of the Irish media.

On one level, I would agree. In the Irish Times a columnist laments, “How did the world get to believe that terror and slaughter delivered by a bomb in a car was an atrocity; while much more terror and much more slaughter by airplane or missile is morally ok?” In the Irish Examiner another columnist mocks the futile “Bush fire…to smoke out Osama Bin Laden.”

There’s a proclivity among journalists here to focus on the negative humanitarian impact of the bombings with little or no emphasis on the reasons behind them. Of course, it doesn’t help that former Irish president and now UN Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson has called for the suspension of the U.S. air strikes against Afghanistan. How about calling for the destruction of Osama Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network? How about acknowledging that Bin Laden and his cohorts in the Taliban regime are the ones responsible for the suffering of the Afghan people?

But beyond the general media bias, the Emerald Isle is, itself, a study in contradictions. Externally pacific and internally riven, it has long grappled with its own versions of homegrown terrorism. The last thing the Irish want (or anyone else for that matter) is to be confronted with a Third World War. They have enough problems in their own backyard. Neutrality—at the international level—is in their blood. This is the same nation who sat out WWII, if you recall.

On a deeper level, the anti-U.S. sentiment has much to do with the fundamentals of power and human nature. After all, everybody wants power and nobody likes the guy who has too much of it. With our European allies and friends, this tension has always existed. Their sudden “concern” for Afghanistan can be seen as a symptom of this deeper cleavage. Despite official expressions of support, many Europeans, at heart, don’t really like U.S. power. They would prefer that they, not the U.S., call the shots.

As one of my Irish roommates explained to me, “If we [the European states] were all joined together, we would have been as powerful as you guys [the U.S.]. And if we had also been joined with Russia, we could have had you beat.”

Whoever said realpolitik was out of date?

I arrive at the University of Limerick just one week after “911.” Irish sentiment on the ground, at least initially, is sympathetic. Professors offer condolences. Fellow classmates want to know if I knew anybody hurt in the attacks. “It’s a horrible thing that happened,” every taxi driver from Dublin to Belfast tells me. At the Northern Ireland Assembly, former IRA leader and now Northern Ireland Education Minister, Martin McGuinness, declares that what happened was, “totally diabolical, absolutely wrong.”

But as the U.S. response unfolds, public opinion, at least from my vantage point, begins to turn. In a local hardware store, I overhear a prim pensioner tell the salesclerk, “If those Yanks think one of our boys is going to die in Afghanistan, they’ve got another thing coming.”

The director of the Peace and Development Studies program at my university reduces the conflict to a matter of perception. “Who’s right?” He questions us. “In our nice, capitalist West, he’s [Osama bin Laden] a terrorist, but in much of the world, he’s a hero.” He challenges the legitimacy of the U.S. retaliation; he worries about the plight of the Afghan people.

Many of my fellow classmates echo his sentiments. Several see U.S. support for Israeli “terrorism” as the root of the conflict. They say the U.S. is being hypocritical when it supports the tactics of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, then takes up arms against the Taliban. War, they assert, must be avoided at all costs. The answer: negotiation.

How do you negotiate with a man who has declared war on America and the government that supports him, I wonder aloud? Nobody seems to care. Even the professor shrugs off my question.

My classmates’ reactions were not the exception, however. Student activism, at least among the most visible elements here, is hardly in the U.S. corner. Around the student center, bulletin boards are crowded with notices decrying U.S. refueling rights at Shannon Air Base and advertising rallies in favor of the ever popular, but proverbially elusive, “Peace.” Other fliers highlight Afghani suffering, or ominously urge students to learn more about “Bush’s War.”

The other day in the cafeteria a young man approached me and asked me if I would sign an anti-war petition. “Absolutely not,” I replied, making no attempt to mask my accent. He retreated quickly, even apologetically, but around his table, a cluster grew. There was seemingly no lack of willing signatories that afternoon.

To be abroad implies a degree of isolation, but to be abroad in time of war can be downright suffocating. In class, I’m no longer one of many, but rather “The American.” I suffer through snide, anti-U.S. comments and stifle the desire to scream. In search of solace, I turn to the internet. I’ve become addicted to the on-line versions of CNN and the Washington Post. Anything to stay connected with my country, my people. Countries are like relatives, I’ve learned. It’s one thing to bash your own, but quite another to have someone else do it.

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