Sleep debt

Everyone tells you not to accrue credit card debt, but almost no one tells you not to accrue sleep debt. Sleep debt, do you even know what that is?
The recommended amount of sleep for the average person is about 7-8 hours. The fact of the matter is that with larger work demands, longer commute hours, and just wanting to do more, most Americans are not falling into the recommended bracket. For every hour your body gets deprived of sleep, it tries to make it up in the following day. If deprived for 2 days, it will try to make it up in the third, and so on, racking up your debt like a Saturday night at the bar. Recent studies are now showing however that while the body can easily make up sleep debt here and there, the body loses its ability to do so when sleep loss occurs too often.

Be cautious to eat pizza

For once, I am quite pleased that I cannot eat pizza. Moreover, I’m absolutely not eating Totino’s and Jeno’s frozen pizzas! The lastest news in disease outbreaks is E.coli in humans in the midwest and northeastern states. The outbreak occurred in October 2007 and all of the victims have one thing in common: they’ve all seemed to have eaten pepperonis from Totino’s or Jeno’s pizzas.

CDC reports on the latest E.coli outbreak. E.coli has been of concern in the last two decades. We’ve heard about Jack in the Box and its share of the disease. It has been discovered in Taco Bell as well. E.coli 0157:H7 is a strain of bacterium Escherichia coli. The bacteria can be found in the intestines of healthy cattles, sheep, deer and goats. Ground beef, raw milk, or other parts of the animal that are commonly eaten by humans may be contaminated in various ways. However, cooking meat until it is well done will sufficiently kill the bacteria and protect you from becoming ill. Symptoms include severe bloody diahrrea and abdominal cramps. These symptoms can take place as quickly as 3-4 days after consumption.

Blueberry extract

Blueberry extract may be more than a just another super antioxidant. A new animal study found that it also has the potential to help cut food intake.Researchers found that rats consuming blueberry extract consumed eight percent less food than rats not given the extract, which translated into gaining 10 percent less body weight.Blueberry extract may be a good satiety inducer, concluded one of the researchers.