Assorted Links
- A well-done study about the July spike in medication deaths. From The Browser.
- How microbes protect us
- Correlation between sitting and mortality, equated for physical activity.
- Exercise and weight loss. I had a similar experience: After an extremely intense racquetball session, I lost 6-8 pounds over the next two weeks.
Thanks to Peter Couvares and Casey Manion.
July 28th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Point of clarification: you had ONE intense racquetball session, followed by 6-8 pounds of weight loss, rather than taking up intense racquetball regularly?
July 28th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Zubon, I played raquetball regularly. I didn’t lose weight. Then I had ONE extremely intense session and did lose weight.
July 29th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
From the second link:
“Dr. Khoruts mixed a small sample of her husband’s stool with saline solution and delivered it into her colon[...]Her Clostridium difficile infection disappeared[...]and has not returned since.”
Apparently Miranda July was on to something! http://www.thechurning.com/2005/10/25/poop-back-and-forth/