General Mobile GM500: Mobile Phone on your Wrist
For some time we were surprised by all kinds of people hurriedly rushing through the street or into the tube, while apparently deeply involved in conversation with themselves. Were they all crazy? Not at all. They were just using headsets or hands free devices to talk to their friends, instead of keeping the mobile held against their ear. The GM500 might cause the same amount of confusion: a mobile phone in a wrist watch, that General Mobile recently introduced at the CeBIT.
The watch mobile only measures 5.81 x 4.42 x 1.64 centimetres, but offers nearly all the functions of a grown up model. A video player, MP3 player, slots for USB and Bluetooth, as well as 128MB of internal memory are all on board. The GM500 is controlled over a small OLED touch screen. According to the manufacturer the built in battery has power for up 120 minutes of conversation and 80 hours in standby. Some great additional features: a menstruation calculator and a BMI calculator.
Though we still don’t know when people will be able to phone with their watch in the UK and how much it will cost. ***
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by Steven
source: ews.idealo.co.uk/news/864/general-mobile-gm500-mobile-phone-on-your-wrist.html
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BMI remains a mystery to most
While it is gaining in popularity among scientists, health professionals and fitness experts, the term "Body Mass Index" remains obscure to many Americans.
One reason might be that finding your BMI requires solving a math problem.
To find your BMI, you must know your height and weight and plug them into a formula, which then arrives at a number that can range from the teens to more than 30. Another reason someone might not want to find his BMI is that the number could reveal that he or she is one of the estimated two-thirds of Americans who are overweight or, worse yet, obese. Yet knowledge is power, and in this case knowing your BMI might be the impetus you need to start down the road toward better health.
To calculate your BMI, you would divide your weight in pounds by your height in inches. You would then divide that result by your height in inches again. Then that result is multiplied by 703. If you guessed the BMI formula was invented by people who routinely wear lab coats, you would be right. In fact, the BMI concept was proposed by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and The World Health Organization as a method for defining obesity. It you have access to the Internet, it is unnecessary to do the math yourself. You can find a BMI calculator at the NIH Web site (www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/).
To find your BMI, you must know your height and weight and plug them into a formula, which then arrives at a number that can range from the teens to more than 30.
According to the NIH, your BMI score means the following:
Underweight: below 18.5.
Normal: 18.5 to 24.9.
Overweight: 25 to 29.9.
Obese: 30 and above.
For many reasons, knowing your BMI is important for your health. If your BMI is too high, you are at greater risk than people with a normal BMI to die prematurely from chronic health problems. Examples are high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, respiratory problems, and breast, prostrate and colon cancer, the NIH says.
The health problems that arise from being overweight are the No. 2 cause of preventable death in the United States, following only smoking. Knowing your BMI is not just for adults. To combat the rising rate of obesity in children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has also published BMI charts for children (http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/Calculator.aspx).
Millions of Americans are overweight or obese, according to the CDC and NIH. This serious health epidemic has doubled in adults since 1980 and tripled in children and teenagers, according to federal statistics from the National Health and Nutrition Survey.
It might be past time for you to calculate your BMI.
SELF HARM
A study of 41 adolescents conducted by researchers from the University of Washington appears to shed light on the self-harming behavior of some teenage girls, linking it to the level of serotonin in the adolescents' blood and mother-daughter interaction. The paper, co-authored by Sheila Crowell, a doctoral student at UW, appears in the February issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
A combination of negative mother-daughter relationships and low blood levels of serotonin, an important brain chemical for mood stability, appears to be dangerous for adolescent girls, leaving them vulnerable to engage in self-harming behaviors such as cutting themselves. The UW research indicates that these factors in combination account for 64 percent of the difference among adolescents, primarily girls, who engage in self-harming behaviors and those who do not.
A combination of negative mother-daughter relationships and low blood levels of serotonin, an important brain chemical for mood stability, appears to be dangerous for adolescent girls. To understand this relationship, the UW researchers recruited 20 adolescents with a history of self-harming behavior and 21 adolescents of the same relative age who did not harm themselves.
Study participants were considered self-injuring if they had harmed themselves three or more times in the previous six months or five or more times in their lifetimes. The average age of the participants was 15. "Girls who engage in self-harm are at high risk for attempting suicide, and some of them are dying," said Theodore Beauchaine, a UW associate professor of psychology and co-author of the study.
Before puberty, boys and girls are equally likely to develop depressive disorders. By age 15, however, girls are twice as likely as boys to have experienced a major depressive episode, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
Mental health experts believe there are many causes of depression. It likely results from a combination of genetic, biochemical, environmental and psychological factors. However, low serotonin levels are believed to be the cause of many cases of mild to severe depression, which can lead to symptoms such as anxiety, apathy, fear, feelings of worthlessness, insomnia and fatigue.
The most concrete evidence for the connection between serotonin and depression is the decreased concentrations of serotonin found in the brain fluid, spinal fluid and brain tissues of depressed people. Beauchaine said the UW found the link between the level of mother-daughter conflict and self-harming behavior was not strong.
There was a stronger link between serotonin levels and self-harming behavior. But when mother-daughter conflict and low serotonin levels were considered together, the relationship to self-harming behaviors was very strong. "Most people think in terms of biology or environment rather than biology and environment working together," Beauchaine said.
"Having a low level of serotonin is a biological vulnerability for self-harming behavior and that vulnerability increases remarkably when it is paired with maternal conflict."
Smoking Study
Smoking has long been accepted as a contributing factor in lung disease.
But now researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have shown that genes also play a significant role in the development of chronic respiratory disease. A long-term study of more than 40,000 Swedish twins goes a long way toward uncovering the extent that behavior, environment and genes each influence the development of chronic lung ailments such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
The research was printed in the March 1 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, a journal of the American Thoracic Society. "Smoking behavior has a known genetic component and smoking is a primary risk factor for chronic bronchitis," writes Dr. Jenny Hallberg of the Department of Public Health Sciences at Karolinska Institutet. Hallberg's team found that heredity accounted for 40 percent of the risk for chronic bronchitis. But its study found that 14 percent of the genetic risk was linked to a genetic predisposition to smoke, whether or not the individual actually smoked tobacco.
The researchers sifted through data from the Screening Across Life Span Twin study in Sweden, which surveyed all known living twins in Sweden born in 1958 or earlier. The survey included questions on subjects of interest to the study:
Smoking history.
A checklist of common diseases.
Questions designed specifically to discover whether participants had chronic bronchitis.
- Whether the twins shared 100 or 50 percent of their genetic material, which is known as zygosity. "(This) study on the population-based Swedish Twin Registry, showing a genetic effect for the development of chronic bronchitis that does not differ by sex is the first to our knowledge to quantify heritability of the disease," Hallberg said.
Hallberg said that the finding should not be interpreted to mean that smoking has no effect on chronic bronchitis. "Although there was some genetic interplay, it is safe to say that smoking itself, and not the genes that predispose one to smoking, is a larger risk factor in developing chronic bronchitis ... than genetic predisposition," said Hallberg.***
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source: www.northernnews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=939646
For some time we were surprised by all kinds of people hurriedly rushing through the street or into the tube, while apparently deeply involved in conversation with themselves. Were they all crazy? Not at all. They were just using headsets or hands free devices to talk to their friends, instead of keeping the mobile held against their ear. The GM500 might cause the same amount of confusion: a mobile phone in a wrist watch, that General Mobile recently introduced at the CeBIT.
The watch mobile only measures 5.81 x 4.42 x 1.64 centimetres, but offers nearly all the functions of a grown up model. A video player, MP3 player, slots for USB and Bluetooth, as well as 128MB of internal memory are all on board. The GM500 is controlled over a small OLED touch screen. According to the manufacturer the built in battery has power for up 120 minutes of conversation and 80 hours in standby. Some great additional features: a menstruation calculator and a BMI calculator.
Though we still don’t know when people will be able to phone with their watch in the UK and how much it will cost. ***
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by Steven
source: ews.idealo.co.uk/news/864/general-mobile-gm500-mobile-phone-on-your-wrist.html
===================================
BMI remains a mystery to most
While it is gaining in popularity among scientists, health professionals and fitness experts, the term "Body Mass Index" remains obscure to many Americans.
One reason might be that finding your BMI requires solving a math problem.
To find your BMI, you must know your height and weight and plug them into a formula, which then arrives at a number that can range from the teens to more than 30. Another reason someone might not want to find his BMI is that the number could reveal that he or she is one of the estimated two-thirds of Americans who are overweight or, worse yet, obese. Yet knowledge is power, and in this case knowing your BMI might be the impetus you need to start down the road toward better health.
To calculate your BMI, you would divide your weight in pounds by your height in inches. You would then divide that result by your height in inches again. Then that result is multiplied by 703. If you guessed the BMI formula was invented by people who routinely wear lab coats, you would be right. In fact, the BMI concept was proposed by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and The World Health Organization as a method for defining obesity. It you have access to the Internet, it is unnecessary to do the math yourself. You can find a BMI calculator at the NIH Web site (www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/).
To find your BMI, you must know your height and weight and plug them into a formula, which then arrives at a number that can range from the teens to more than 30.
According to the NIH, your BMI score means the following:
Underweight: below 18.5.
Normal: 18.5 to 24.9.
Overweight: 25 to 29.9.
Obese: 30 and above.
For many reasons, knowing your BMI is important for your health. If your BMI is too high, you are at greater risk than people with a normal BMI to die prematurely from chronic health problems. Examples are high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, respiratory problems, and breast, prostrate and colon cancer, the NIH says.
The health problems that arise from being overweight are the No. 2 cause of preventable death in the United States, following only smoking. Knowing your BMI is not just for adults. To combat the rising rate of obesity in children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has also published BMI charts for children (http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/Calculator.aspx).
Millions of Americans are overweight or obese, according to the CDC and NIH. This serious health epidemic has doubled in adults since 1980 and tripled in children and teenagers, according to federal statistics from the National Health and Nutrition Survey.
It might be past time for you to calculate your BMI.
SELF HARM
A study of 41 adolescents conducted by researchers from the University of Washington appears to shed light on the self-harming behavior of some teenage girls, linking it to the level of serotonin in the adolescents' blood and mother-daughter interaction. The paper, co-authored by Sheila Crowell, a doctoral student at UW, appears in the February issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
A combination of negative mother-daughter relationships and low blood levels of serotonin, an important brain chemical for mood stability, appears to be dangerous for adolescent girls, leaving them vulnerable to engage in self-harming behaviors such as cutting themselves. The UW research indicates that these factors in combination account for 64 percent of the difference among adolescents, primarily girls, who engage in self-harming behaviors and those who do not.
A combination of negative mother-daughter relationships and low blood levels of serotonin, an important brain chemical for mood stability, appears to be dangerous for adolescent girls. To understand this relationship, the UW researchers recruited 20 adolescents with a history of self-harming behavior and 21 adolescents of the same relative age who did not harm themselves.
Study participants were considered self-injuring if they had harmed themselves three or more times in the previous six months or five or more times in their lifetimes. The average age of the participants was 15. "Girls who engage in self-harm are at high risk for attempting suicide, and some of them are dying," said Theodore Beauchaine, a UW associate professor of psychology and co-author of the study.
Before puberty, boys and girls are equally likely to develop depressive disorders. By age 15, however, girls are twice as likely as boys to have experienced a major depressive episode, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
Mental health experts believe there are many causes of depression. It likely results from a combination of genetic, biochemical, environmental and psychological factors. However, low serotonin levels are believed to be the cause of many cases of mild to severe depression, which can lead to symptoms such as anxiety, apathy, fear, feelings of worthlessness, insomnia and fatigue.
The most concrete evidence for the connection between serotonin and depression is the decreased concentrations of serotonin found in the brain fluid, spinal fluid and brain tissues of depressed people. Beauchaine said the UW found the link between the level of mother-daughter conflict and self-harming behavior was not strong.
There was a stronger link between serotonin levels and self-harming behavior. But when mother-daughter conflict and low serotonin levels were considered together, the relationship to self-harming behaviors was very strong. "Most people think in terms of biology or environment rather than biology and environment working together," Beauchaine said.
"Having a low level of serotonin is a biological vulnerability for self-harming behavior and that vulnerability increases remarkably when it is paired with maternal conflict."
Smoking Study
Smoking has long been accepted as a contributing factor in lung disease.
But now researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have shown that genes also play a significant role in the development of chronic respiratory disease. A long-term study of more than 40,000 Swedish twins goes a long way toward uncovering the extent that behavior, environment and genes each influence the development of chronic lung ailments such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
The research was printed in the March 1 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, a journal of the American Thoracic Society. "Smoking behavior has a known genetic component and smoking is a primary risk factor for chronic bronchitis," writes Dr. Jenny Hallberg of the Department of Public Health Sciences at Karolinska Institutet. Hallberg's team found that heredity accounted for 40 percent of the risk for chronic bronchitis. But its study found that 14 percent of the genetic risk was linked to a genetic predisposition to smoke, whether or not the individual actually smoked tobacco.
The researchers sifted through data from the Screening Across Life Span Twin study in Sweden, which surveyed all known living twins in Sweden born in 1958 or earlier. The survey included questions on subjects of interest to the study:
Smoking history.
A checklist of common diseases.
Questions designed specifically to discover whether participants had chronic bronchitis.
- Whether the twins shared 100 or 50 percent of their genetic material, which is known as zygosity. "(This) study on the population-based Swedish Twin Registry, showing a genetic effect for the development of chronic bronchitis that does not differ by sex is the first to our knowledge to quantify heritability of the disease," Hallberg said.
Hallberg said that the finding should not be interpreted to mean that smoking has no effect on chronic bronchitis. "Although there was some genetic interplay, it is safe to say that smoking itself, and not the genes that predispose one to smoking, is a larger risk factor in developing chronic bronchitis ... than genetic predisposition," said Hallberg.***
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