Ice Cream in Toilet
Modern Toilet, Taiwan and Hong Kong: At this toilet-themed restaurant chain, patrons sit on toilet-shaped seats and eat chocolate ice cream out of mini toilet-shaped bowls.
In and out easier.
Eat Ice Cream in Toilet
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Woman Naked Eating Ice Cream with Children in Wrecked Car.
Green tea (matcha) ice-cream with red bean. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
‘ A mom was found naked and eating ice cream in a Houston drug store after leaving her three children alone in a car when she crashed it.
Stephanie Dillard, 34, was charged with endangering a child after her vehicle collided with a METRO bus on Friday, KPRC reported.
Her three children — ages 5, 12 and 16 — suffered minor injuries and were shaken up after the crash.
Detectives said Dillard got out of the car after the collision and walked away. She then went to a nearby CVS store and began to undress as she ate ice cream.
The children were given to a grandmother after Dillard was arrested. She is being held at Harris County Jail on a $2,000 bond
Ice-Cream Causes Head Aches,Brain Freeze
日本語: 黒ゴマソフトクリーム。秋田県角館市にて。 English: Black sesame soft ice cream. in Kakunodate, Akita, Japan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Despite knowing and experiencing this, I can not resist ice-cream(minimum Three Scoops)
To remind you,I am 61!
And I love spoiling my Grandson with Sweets ,Chocolates and Ice-cream, despite my Daughters’ protest.
No wonder my Grandson, aged three years, likes me!
“Everyone’s experienced that sharp, shooting headache as a result of stuffing their face with ice cream. Previously, scientists have suggested it’s just a result of the rapid cooling and rewarming of blood vessels in the sinuses—but a new study shows that the cause is actually buried much deeper.
The research, carried out in part by Harvard Medical School, used trans-cranial Doppler imaging to study blood flow in the brains of patients while they had ice cream headaches—sometimes referred to as brain freeze—induced using iced water. They also performed the experiment with normal water as a control.
The results, which are being presented at the Experimental Biology 2012 conference, show that brain freeze is accompanied by a rapid dilation of the anterior cerebral artery, which floods the brain with blood and in turn causes pain. When the vessel constricts, patients report that the pain disappears. The researchers speculate that it’s a form of self-defense for the brain:
“The brain is one of the relatively important organs in the body, and it needs to be working all the time,… It’s fairly sensitive to temperature, so vasodilation might be moving warm blood inside tissue to make sure the brain stays warm.”
They also explain that, because the skull is rigid, an increase in blood volume in the brain causes an increase in pressure, which is what induces the pain.
While it’s neat to get a better understanding of what causes those nasty ice cream headaches, the findings could prove far more useful than that. The researchers point out that similar blood flow alterations could be behind migraines and other types of headaches. If that’s the case, targeting headaches with drugs that can specifically affect dilation of blood vessels could bring a lot of relief to an awful lot of people. [Medical Daily]
http://gizmodo.com/5904298/we-finally-know-the-real-cause-of-ice-cream-headaches
Human milk ice cream on sale.
Hope this does not /start spread a new disease.
A central London ice-cream parlour has started selling ice-cream made with human breast milk. The Icecreamists in Covent Garden, London, have named their unusual delicacy Baby Gaga.
The treat is made by mixing breast milk with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest. The milk has been donated by women who were paid £15 for every 10 ounces of their bodily fluid.
The dessert is offered up in a martini glass to those daring enough to try it for £14. Liquid nitrogen is also poured into the glass using a syringe.
Despite its unusual ingredient, the company said the “organic, free-range and totally natural” product sold out when launched today.
“The response has been amazing. People at first say it’s disgusting because it’s a bodily fluid, but so is cow’s milk,” said owner Matt O’Connor. “People love it when they try it.”
The company paid women who donated their breast milk after health screening. The Food Standards Agency says there are no specific laws prohibiting businesses from selling human milk products, but they must comply with general food safety laws to ensure the product is safe for consumption.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/25/human-milk-ice-cream-sale
On Diet and Why Dieting does not help.
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Causes for Obesity and weight gain have not been found conclusively.
By Dieting with the scant knowledge we have often impairs Health and results in loss of Stamina.
I have seen people who have been on Diet looking shrunken,frame is there but some thing is missing.
Also Dieting may damage metabolism.
Individuals are unique.
There can never be a standard Diet for all of us.
My suggestion,in the interest of your health, is,eat what you want in moderation.
Avoid junk food.
Shun snacks.
Take one breakfast , two meals a day.
Take fibrous food , vegetables and Fruits9( eat food not simply as a dessert, but eat when hungry-read my blog on How to eat fruit?)
Eat Dinner before 10 pm.
Have a good sleep.
Story:
The most immediate reason that diets don’t work over the long term is that they promote a loss of the internal signals for hunger and fullness that are necessary for normal eating. This was the finding of a classic study conducted by Janet Polivy and Peter Herman at the University of Toronto, published in 1999. In this experiment, a group of dieters and a group of nondieters were given the task of comparing ice cream flavors. Participants in each group were divided into three subgroups. Before getting the ice cream, the first subgroup was asked to drink two milkshakes, the second subgroup was asked to drink one milkshake, and the third subgroup wasn’t given any milkshakes. Next, the researchers offered the groups three flavors of ice cream and asked the participants to rate the flavors, eating as much ice cream as they desired.
The results revealed that the nondieters ate as you might expect: those who hadn’t consumed any milkshakes ate the most ice cream, those who’d consumed one milkshake ate less ice cream, and those who’d consumed two milkshakes ate the least. The dieters, by contrast, reacted in the opposite way. Those who were offered no milkshakes before the taste test ate small amounts of ice cream, those who drank one shake ate more ice cream, and those who’d consumed two milkshakes ate the most ice cream!
The researchers termed what had happened to the dieters “disinhibition,” which occurs as a result of a “diet-mentality.” The milkshake preload had a different effect on dieters than on nondieters. Nondieters, eating in an unrestrained and normal manner, tend to regulate their food consumption according to internal physical cues of hunger and satiety. Therefore, in the experiment, nondieters regulated the amount of ice cream they ate based on perceived fullness. What could be more obvious and natural?
The dieters, however, reacted in the opposite way — the more milkshakes they consumed, the more ice cream they ate. Why did they lose the capacity to regulate their intake? According to the researchers, this “counterregulation” occurs because a milkshake preload disinhibits a dieter’s usually inhibited or restrained eating, almost like a switch: “I’ve blown it anyway, so I might as well keep eating before I go back on my diet.” This is an almost irresistible incentive to go on eating well past physical fullness.
The dieters, however, reacted in the opposite way — the more milkshakes they consumed, the more ice cream they ate. Why did they lose the capacity to regulate their intake? According to the researchers, this “counterregulation” occurs because a milkshake preload disinhibits a dieter’s usually inhibited or restrained eating, almost like a switch: “I’ve blown it anyway, so I might as well keep eating before I go back on my diet.” This is an almost irresistible incentive to go on eating well past physical fullness.
For example, metabolism plays a significant role in determining our weight. Resting metabolic rate refers to the amount of energy the body burns when not engaged in physical activity; it accounts for approximately 70 percent of the calories we burn each day. About 40 to 80 percent of the influence for resting metabolism is apparently inherited. In the journal Nature Medicine, Jeffrey Friedman, director of the Starr Center for Human Genetics, writes, “The commonly held belief that obese individuals can ameliorate their condition by simply deciding to eat less and exercise more is at odds with compelling scientific evidence indicating that the propensity to obesity is, to a significant extent, genetically determined.”
This inherited weight range, known as the set point, is the weight your body settles at when you’re eating in response to signals of hunger or fullness and engaging in some level of physical activity. Our set point acts like a thermostat, seeking to maintain our natural body weight within a range of 10 to 20 pounds. When we take in less food as fuel, our body deals with this reduction by slowing down to conserve energy. Metabolism is lowered, reducing the rate at which calories are burned. Within 24 to 48 hours of beginning a calorie-restricted diet, metabolic rate decreases 15 to 30 percent. Our body has successfully slowed itself down to defend against this self-imposed famine. By contrast, when our body takes in more food than it needs as fuel, the metabolism speeds up and burns calories more quickly. In her book Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight, Linda Bacon, a physiologist specializing in nutrition and weight regulation, explains that when this mechanism is working properly, it functions as a force that pulls you back to your comfortable range whenever you veer away; however, if you consistently override your body’s signals of fullness, this system becomes broken. The goal is to find your healthy weight, keeping in mind that even if we all ate the same and exercised the same, we wouldn’t weigh the same. Weight is a complicated matter, which can be affected by a variety of factors, including medical issues, such as thyroid problems or polycystic ovary syndrome, the side effects of medications, poverty, stress, and lack of sleep.
http://www.alternet.org/story/149702/why_diets_make_you_fatter_–_and_what_to_do_about_it?page=1
