Fasting May Help Your Brain

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. More than one billion Muslims around the world observe Ramadan, Islams holy month. Fasting during Ramadan is a requirement for believers. This means they are barred from having sex, smok

Rare but Deadly

Rare but Deadly By Susan Brink /2005, U.S. News World Report . All rights reserved with permission. Distributed by Tribune Media Services International. Simple, cheap blood tests could save thousands

科学美国人60秒 SSS Individuals' Blood Glucose Levels after Meals May Be Predictable

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Michael从狱友那得到并服用了那种可以提高血糖含量的药后，来到监狱医务室来做血液测试，结果他如愿地骗过了那位女医生，被诊断为糖尿病，自此，他得到了频繁进出医务室的机会，他的越狱计划也由此迈开了第一步 [00:07.37]Listen and Share [00:44.13]Michael [01:15.0

SSS 2009-04-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christie Nicholson . Got a minute? Altruism poses a problem for the theory of survival of the fittest. If we help others at a cost to ourselves, nice-guy behavior should die out, because we are giv

SSS 2009-05-12

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Exercise is good for you. Antioxidants are good for you, but put them together, and its not as good as you think because a recent study shows that some v

SSS 2012-05-17

Turns out youre not just what you eat. Youre when you eat. Because a new study in mice suggests that, in the battle of the bulge, the timing of meals influences the piling on of pounds. In the experiment, researchers gave groups of mice either standa

新鲜水果对身体好处多多

WASHINGTON, April 6 (Xinhua) -- There seems to be some truth in the old saying: An apple a day keeps the doctor away. A new study in the Chinese population said Wednesday that people who eat fresh fruit on most days are at lower risk of heart attack

早餐吃冰淇淋让你变聪明

In a discovery that will give nutritionists the shivers, a Japanese scientist has discovered that consuming ice cream for breakfast improves a person's alertness and mental performance. 一位日本科学家的发现让营养学家们不寒而栗，他

抵抗糖尿病的草药和香料

You can make your meals even healthier (and tastier, too!) while strengthening your fight against the diabetes-inducing inflammation in your body. How? You can look to nature and whole plant foods. 你可以让你的饮食更加健康（还可以更加

Keep Fit During the Holidays

We all make resolutions every year to keep fit whether we have diabetes or not. The difference is that as people with diabetes, we need to keep fit, and we know that even if we don't do anything about it. One only has to read the medical abstracts an

Traveling With Diabetes

Follow this advice before you hit the road: Keep glucose goods close at hand. If you are traveling by plane, pack your medications, insulin, syringes, test strips, lancets, ketone strips, and other supplies so there's no chance of losing them. Consid

经济学人256:挺过中风 继续活着

Science and technology 科学技术 Surviving strokes 挺过中风 Living on 继续活着 Why some cells survive strokes while others don't 为什么有些细胞能幸免于中风，而另一些则不能 WHEN dealing with a strokea loss of blood supp

经济学人449:医用植入设备 一个甜美的想法

Science and technology. 科技。 Medical implants. 医用植入设备。 A sweet idea. 一个甜美的想法。 Researchers are trying to harness glucose-the body's own fuel-to power implantable gadgets such as pacemakers. 研究人员正试图利用葡

美科学家:糖尿病治疗的未来

Reporter: Keeping track of carbohydrate intake, monitoring blood-sugar levels, and injecting insulin is a never-ending cycle for diabetics trying to stay healthy. Labs at Harvard University and MIT have realized major advances in engineering to maint

高效能人士的七个秘笈

1.Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks. 化整为零。 Writing launch company website at the top of your to-do list is a sure way to make sure you never get it done. Break down the work into smaller and smaller chunks until you have spec

想要减肥？别穿外套

Being cold helps you lose weight, a new study found. 一项新的研究表明，寒冷可以使人减肥。 Exercise or being exposed to low temperatures creates more 'good' brown and beige types of body fat which burns calories in the body. 运动或暴

吃进什么食物影响你的产出力

Think back to your most productive workday in the past week. Now ask yourself: On that afternoon, what did you have for lunch? 回想一下你在过去一周里最有效率的那个工作日，再问问自己：那天的午饭你吃了些什么呢？

自我管理降低糖尿病死亡率

自我管理降低糖尿病死亡率 BERLIN, March 26 (Xinhua) -- People with type 2 diabetes who report good self-management behavior have a reduced mortality risk, a population-based study conducted by scientists at Helmholtz Center Munich (HMGU) s

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