I was always told that rapid weight loss leads to rapid weight regain of those unnecessary pounds .... wrong!
Is Rapid Weight More Or Less Likely to Stick? Epoch Times - October 19, 2014
Losing weight gradually doesn't change the amount or rate of weight regained, compared with more rapid weight loss, say researchers. The study also finds that substantial weight loss is more likely if undertaken rapidly. However, our results show that an obese person is more likely to achieve a weight loss target of 12.5 percent weight loss, and less likely to drop out of their weight loss program, if losing weight is done quickly. The researchers found that the initial rate of weight loss did not affect the amount or rate of weight regain. After three years, participants in both diet groups who completed both phases of the study (about 71 percent) regained similar amounts of weight.
In case you haven't figured it out - bullying starts in childhood usually by children who are abused at home. It's the old mental illness genetic factor where those abused by mentally ill family members grow up and become abusers. Bullying usually goes with anger, frustration, and rage disorder. Sometimes bullies at work are referred to as micro-managers. They prey upon the weak and those with low self-esteem. This is another really sad/bad subroutine of the hologram to create negative emotions.
What to Do When You Work With a Bully Epoch Times - October 19, 2014
Approximately 54 million workers, or 35 percent of employees in the United States, report being the target of a bully at some point in their career, according to a new report. No one expects to go to work and feel as though they are back on the school playground, but bullying is all too common for many workers. And much of the bullying goes unreported.
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Comet Siding Spring set to have rare near miss with Mars The Guardian - October 19, 2014
Comet Siding Spring's Close Encounter With Mars Draws Near Epoch Times - October 19, 2014
Astronomers world-wide are gearing up for what NASA calls a "once in a lifetime" event: the Comet Siding Spring will swing past Mars on its maiden voyage through the solar system thanks to a fleet of spacecraft and rovers on and around the Red Planet, we'll have a front row view.
One of the Year's Best Meteor Showers, Thanks to Halley's Comet Epoch Times - October 19, 2014
As Earth orbits the sun, it continually ploughs through dust and debris left behind by passing comets and asteroids. On any night of the year, a keen-eyed observer might see five, or even ten, meteors (shooting stars) per hour. But over the next week, that number will rise markedly, as Earth moves through the centre of a stream of debris left behind by the most famous of all comets, comet 1P/Halley. Most meteor showers have a short, sharp maximum that is best observed over a single night or two. But the Orionid meteors (which have already been active for a couple of weeks) will really kick into action this weekend, and should remain close to their peak for most of next week. Best viewing is likely on or around Tuesday evening, October 21.
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The Orionids are annual meteor showers located near the constellation Orion.
There's nothing I like better than a blog about education that makes a valid point. I've been an educator since I was 20 years old and have always felt that academic systems do not evolve as quickly as society and the minds of the students. From middle school up - children should be shown how education and their future will work hand-in-hand so that they can make a difference even at their age. If someone is programmed to be interested in something, they get smart at it either by personal experience, text, or visual learning. We only focus on subjects that connect to our personal grids. The rest is generally, though not always, a waste of time. From what I remember in the public school systems of New York City, there were never enough supplies, nor enough specialized teachers, for the ever changing developmental and emotional issues of the students. Not only are children being trained for a world that doesn't exist - they are not being prepared for one with an uncertain future.
American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn't Exist Wired - October 18, 2014
Are Americans getting dumber? Our math skills are falling. Our reading skills are weakening. Our children have become less literate than children in many developed countries. But the crisis in American education may be more than a matter of sliding rankings on world educational performance scales. Our kids learn within a system of education devised for a world that increasingly does not exist.
To become a chef, a lawyer, a philosopher or an engineer, has always been a matter of learning what these professionals do, how and why they do it, and some set of general facts that more or less describe our societies and our selves. We pass from kindergarten through twelfth grade, from high school to college, from college to graduate and professional schools, ending our education at some predetermined stage to become the chef, or the engineer, equipped with a fair understanding of what being a chef, or an engineer, actually is and will be for a long time. We learn, and after this we do. We go to school and then we go to work. This approach does not map very well to personal and professional success in America today. Learning and doing have become inseparable in the face of conditions that invite us to discover.
