Science and Technology

  7 Scientific Reasons Why You Gain Weight More than 500 million people around the world are obese, but our weight is the result of many factors and junk food is not always the culprit. We decide to investigate the causes of overweight and obesity and we collected results from several scientific studies. Here are nine surprising causes of weight gain that you should know about. Why Do I Gain Weight When I Eat Less Avoiding Family Meals Studies show that family meals can protect us from obesity and being overweight. The reason is that getting together to eat can provide opportunities to establish emotional connections between family members and encourage healthy eating habits. According to the results of the studies, children who shared family meals at least three times a week were 24% more likely to eat healthy foods than those who shared meals less frequently. Year Of Birth If you were born after 1942, pay attention. The researchers found that the risk of obesity is highly depende...

 Essential Fatty Acid- Omega 3 Omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids are polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), meaning they contain more than one  cis  double bond. In all omega-6 (ω6 or n-6) fatty acids, the first double bond is located between the sixth and seventh carbon atom from the methyl end of the fatty acid.  BEST FOOD RICH IN OMEGA-3 FISH OIL Likewise, all omega-3 fatty acids (ω3 or n-3) have at least one double bond between the third and fourth carbon atom counting from the methyl end of the fatty acid. Scientific abbreviations for fatty acids tell the reader something about their chemical structure. For example, the scientific abbreviation for α-linolenic acid (ALA) is 18:3n-3.  The first part (18:3) tells the reader that ALA is an 18-carbon fatty acid with three double bonds, while the second part (n-3) tells the reader that the first double bond is in the n-3 position, which defines this fatty acid as an omega-3. Double bonds introduce ...

Fitness Motivation: Three Tips to Help You Stay Active The more sedentary you become the harder it is to get yourself moving. Try these exercises to get you back in the fitness groove. Many people find it difficult to get and stay motivated with their exercise and healthy active lifestyle plans. The reasons for this lack of motivation are vast, but two very common ones are: today’s modern sedentary lifestyle and the natural aging process. The more sedentary you become the harder it feels to get yourself moving. Sitting around all day decreases your energy levels and can have a negative impact on your body weight, which in turn makes movement less comfortable. This combination of lack of energy and not feeling good only compounds the desire to remain sedentary. Breaking this vicious cycle is essential if you want to get and stay motivated toward reaching your personal wellness goals. The natural effects of aging can also make it difficult to maintain your exercise motivation, and althou...

Why Immunity Is Your Best Defense and How to Fuel It Our immune system has one job: helping our bodies defend and recover from illness. Unhealthy diets – high on calories from sugars, meats, and dairy products – are usually associated with health problems like obesity and metabolic diseases. But they can also cause a tremendous imbalance in our immune system, thus weakening it. Regularly eating foods that are not nutritious can break down our immune defense, similar to how invaders can damage a fortress. This, in turn, can also make one more susceptible to new and reoccurring illnesses.   Why Is Immunity Our Best Defense? I want you to think of your body as a well-designed fortress. Every day, our body silently defends itself against potential harm through its layered system of defense. It can defend and repair when it is challenged. Our cells are like the army of protectors, each with specific roles to play to help our body defend itself. If unsuccessful, they will repair the body...

Asteroid 2001 FO32: When will it pass Earth and can I watch it?   Astronomers and scientists will be peering into space today as the Earth experiences the largest asteroid flyby of the year. A gigantic chunk of space rock, officially known as Asteroid 231937 (2001 FO32), is hurtling past our planet at a speed of 77,000 mph (124,000 kph) later today. At 1.7km tall, it’s bigger than Ben Nevis and more than twice the size of the tallest building on Earth – the Burj Khalifa.  It will be the largest asteroid to pass by the Earth this year. Because 2001 FO32 is coming within 93 million miles of Earth, it’s designated a ‘Near-Earth Object’ (NEO) by Nasa. The space agency keeps a particularly watchful eye on these asteroids. But, in this case, says there’s nothing to worry about. A size guide showing how big Asteroid 2001 FO32 is (Metro.co.uk) ‘We know the orbital path of 2001 FO32 around the sun very accurately, since it was discovered 20 years ago and has been tracked ever since,’ ...

What is Quantum Entanglement? Firstly: One reason I feel compelled to write this is that many people say something like this: “Take two dissimilar objects that come in a pair (e.g. gloves), put them in two identical boxes, forget which box is which and send them to distant locations. Look inside one box and bam! you immediately (re)discover what’s in the other box! And that is just like entanglement!” This is  worse than useless  as an analogy for quantum entanglement. Physicists call this sort of system a  classically correlated mixed state , and it is totally different from entanglement. Obviously, there is nothing marvellous or extraordinary about classical correlation, and anyone who has ever listened to the terms in which physicists talk about entanglement must suspect that this is a cop-out. If you have ever heard this, please un-learn it right now, and read on. Anyone who confuses entanglement with classical correlation deserves to be glove-slapped. Now, to properl...