do i dare disturb the universe?

Rule 32: enjoy the little things

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:30:00 -0700

Rule 32: enjoy the little things

Artsy and existential. Plus look at the perky little tail…...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:27:16 -0700

Artsy and existential. Plus look at the perky little tail… Hahaha

Too much time on my hands… Or finally enough? :) #adorable...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:22:34 -0700

Too much time on my hands… Or finally enough? :) #adorable @tesanderrson #recognizethisguy?

This is where I am right now. #cueiron&wine #getit;) (at St....

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:56:55 -0800

This is where I am right now. #cueiron&wine #getit;) (at St. Louis, Senegal)

"I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest..."

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:07:35 -0800

“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was — I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I’d never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn’t know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn’t scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.”

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via pavorst)

all-fitness: All About Fitness

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:02:09 -0800

all-fitness:

All About Fitness

fitness-pro-live: Live Like Fitness Pro

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:57:38 -0800

fitness-pro-live:

Live Like Fitness Pro

muffintop-less: <3

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:41:39 -0800

muffintop-less:

<3

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muffintop-less: Unlike typical strength training exercises that...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:28:59 -0800

muffintop-less:

Unlike typical strength training exercises that involve long, slow movements designed to increase muscular strength and mass, plyometric exercises involve quick, explosive movements designed to increase speed and power. A plyometric exercise consists of three phases. The first is a rapid muscle lengthening movement called the eccentric phase. Second comes a short resting period called the amortization phase. Finally, the athlete engages in an explosive muscle shortening movement called the concentric phase. The athlete repeats this three part cycle as quickly as he can.

The goal of plyometric exercises is to decrease the amount of time in-between the eccentric and concentric movements. By reducing the time in-between these two movements, a man can become faster and more powerful.

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Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:48:37 -0800

muffintop-less: <3

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:37:03 -0800

muffintop-less:

<3

muffintop-less: Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:19:54 -0800

muffintop-less:

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best <3

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Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:19:47 -0800

muffintop-less: Why I love mornings <3

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:18:37 -0800

muffintop-less:

Why I love mornings <3

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Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:18:06 -0800

muffintop-less: You are worth more than you realize <3

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:17:17 -0800

muffintop-less:

You are worth more than you realize <3

muffintop-less: “In the moments before people begin to binge...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:16:46 -0800

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“In the moments before people begin to binge eat, they often feel some kind of negative emotion – from sadness to anxiety to loneliness. Does binge eating make them feel better? Why do some people have an urge to eat when they’re down while others don’t? New research released online this month investigates how the brain reacts to food when people with bulimia are experiencing negative emotion.

Researchers at UCLA gathered data on a small group of women with and without Bulimia Nervosa. They showed the women pictures of a chocolate milkshake or water and gave them tastes of both, all the while examining images of their brain using an fMRI. Women with bulimia nervosa who reported experiencing negative emotion just before the experiment exhibited greater neural activation in their brains (putamen, caudate, and palladium) in anticipation of the milkshake. In other words, when a bulimic woman is sad, for example, her brain reacts strongly to the thought of drinking a milkshake. The specific parts of the brain that were activated are associated with our “reward circuitry.”

The authors suggest that a bulimic person’s brain may become conditioned to make a strong connection between experiencing a negative emotion and having a craving to binge. This means that, for women with bulimia, simply feeling sad can trigger the brain to crave food. However, the brain did not react in the same way when these women actually tasted the milkshake, only when they saw the picture of it and anticipated drinking it.

The authors suggest that this might help explain why it’s so hard for people with bulimia to resist temptation when they’re feeling down (e.g. staying away from a fast food restaurant with tempting signs). And at the same time, they aren’t satisfied with a few tastes and end up binging in an effort to feel as good as they had hoped at the first sight of the food. The study is one of the first to examine images of the brain in women with bulimia.

As a result, it’s a preliminary finding – the sample was small and nobody actually engaged in binge eating during the experiment. Nevertheless, the study sheds light on how neural activity in the brain is related to why people may crave food when they’re feeling down, be unsatisfied by the first few tastes, and end up binge eating.”

By Sumati Gupta, PhD.

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