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Hamburg - For some, just a small piece of cake with coffee is a setback in the battle of the bulge, while not even a couple of cream puffs can tip the scales in other people’s disfavour.
Genes affect weight more than environment and upbringing or so it seems to many people, especially if they are fat.
In a pioneering study of more than 500 adopted children in the 1980s, United States psychiatrist Albert Stunkard found that their weight correllated largely to that of their biological, not adoptive, parents.
Earlier this year, a University of St Louis team headed by James Romeis presented results of a long-term study of male twins, identical and fraternal, who served in the US military during the Vietnam War. The team concluded that about 50 percent of the men’s weight change was genetic.
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Genetic tests may help guide eating
Clearly, our genes fat-storing capacity has been selected by evolution for physically active people facing periods of going without food. So office workers who constantly snack are often overweight.
But genes’ influence on weight, though considerable, is not total, said Professor Volker Pudel, a nutritional psychologist from the University of Gottingen.
“Environmental factors are also important. And people can shape their environment to a degree.”
But why are there slim office workers who neither exercise nor diet? Again, part of the answer is genetic predisposition.
“The rate at which food is metabolised depends on one’s genetic make-up,” explained Annette Schurmann, a pharmacologist at the German Institute of Nutrition Research in Potsdam.
‘You can eat more intelligently when you know what your personal risks are’
The chemical basis of obesity is known to some extent. Some overweight people have a defective melanocortin-4 receptor, which means their brains receive messages from leptin, the appetite-blunting hormone, poorly or not at all. Other overweight people, though very few, have a defective gene for leptin.
Released by the body’s fat cells, leptin plays a major role in obesity in any case, Schurmann said. The more fat cells a person has, the more leptin the cells release. But the body develops resistance to the excessive amounts of the hormone, and does not react normally to it.
“For example, the hormone doesn’t bind to the receptor as well, or the message is passed on in a weakened form,” she said. So the urge to eat is not curbed - a vicious circle that is hard to break.
The trick is to monitor one’s weight early, and adjust eating habits before the scale shows 20 kilogrammes too many. The more out of balance the various chemical messengers are, the harder it is to establish the balance, Schurmann said.
Genes not only affect metabolism and appetite, but also taste. People with a certain gene type, for instance, have an aversion to cabbage and spinach.
As Professor Wolfgang Meyerhof from the Institute of Nutrition Research discovered, such people are especially sensitive to the bitter constituents of those foods.
On the other hand, people who do not taste the bitterness at all, tend to eat more fat and be overweight.
Pope condemns gay marriages as fake and anarchic
06 Jun 2005 19:50:57 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds quote from gay community leader, 9th paragraph)
By Philip Pullella
ROME, June 6 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, in his first clear pronouncement on gay marriages since his election, on Monday condemned same-sex unions as fake and expressions of “anarchic freedom” that threatened the future of the family.
The Pope, who was elected in April, also condemned divorce, artificial birth control, trial marriages and free-style unions, saying all of these practices were dangerous for the family.
“Today’s various forms of dissolution of marriage, free unions, trial marriages as well as the pseudo-matrimonies between people of the same sex are instead expressions of anarchic freedom which falsely tries to pass itself off as the true liberation of man,” he said.
The Pope spoke to families at Rome’s St. John’s Cathedral on an issue that has become highly controversial around the world, particularly in Europe and the United States.
In April, parliament in traditionally Catholic Spain gave initial approval to a law legalising gay marriage. It is widely expected to be approved by the Senate and to become law.
Gay marriages are already legal in several European countries.
However, just last week, California’s Assembly killed off a bill that would have allowed gay marriage in the most populous U.S. state. U.S. President George Bush favours a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages.
The Pope, who as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger headed the Vatican’s doctrinal department for more than two decades, said “pseudo freedoms” such as gay marriages were based on what he called the “banalisation of the human body” and of man himself.
Aurelio Mancuso, president of Arcigay, Italy’s largest gay rights group, hit back at the Pope. “Ratzinger pretends not to understand that gay unions are no threat to heterosexual marriages,” he said in a statement.
FAMILY’S VITAL ROLE
The Pope, who read his 14-page speech in a steady, professorial manner while seated at a writing table, spoke of the family’s vital role for the future of society.
“Matrimony and the family are not, in reality, a casual sociological construction or the fruit of specific historic and economic situations,” he said.
In a clear reference to contraception, the Pope said couples went against the nature of love itself when they “systematically shut off” the possibility of “the gift of life”.
The 78-year-old Pope’s wide-ranging speech, interrupted by applause several times, touched on themes such as human sexuality and freedom. It clearly showed his background as one of the Roman Catholic Church’s leading theologians.
“The greatest expression of freedom is not the search for pleasure,” he said, adding that society seemed to want to tear down the moral goalposts he said were needed for its future.
“Today, a particularly insidious obstacle to (moral) education is the overwhelming presence in our society and culture of a type of relativism that recognises nothing as definitive…,” he said.
Ratzinger has already backed a controversial campaign by bishops who have urged voters to boycott an emotionally-charged referendum in Italy this weekend that would lift bans on embryo research.
The Pope’s words on Monday were no surprise. In an address to fellow cardinals before the start of the conclave that elected him in April, he denounced what he called an “anything goes” mentality that marked modern times.
If Death is like a thief in the night, getting victimized by a flash flood is also sudden and traumatic.
What happened to the cleaning of the storm drains. I was flooded last night June 4, 2005 in quezon City. Edsa was a parking lot, the following roads had patches of flood waters so that persons took more than two hours to get home., Quezon Memorial Circle fronting Quezon City hall, Anona corner Kamias, the road of Little Quiapo, Pajo st in Proj 2. This is a night I regretted I was out on the road, after going to the supermarket. Instead of eating at home , we were stuck on the road with one umbrella. Now every member of the family say they must have their clothes left in the car.
Where do we go for relief? Quezon City govt ? MMDA ? DPWH? Surely our taxes
spent on flood control did not work’ Could it be that the excavation by the water utility all over the metropolis put sand and soil in the storm drains.
What a pain. Several persons drowned, can thay claim damages?
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I have asked Padre Pio to intercede in the life of my clients and in my life.
Padre Pio died on September 23, 1968 in Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. He was gifted with discernment who can read the sins of penitents, can answer letters without reading them in his italian language even if the letters were written in other languages.
He had bilocation, most extraordinarily, during world war 2, he would fly alongside the planes of allied forces who wanted to bomb giovanni rotondo.
He is the patron of families and overseas workers.
His father had to be an overseas worker in the US to provide for the family who was poor. He wanted to be a priest at a young age as angels would appear to him. He maximized the apprexciation and use of his guardian angels and guardian angels of others. He started his day at 2:30 in the morning h, hear mass and hear confessions for several hours. He had the five wounds of Christ for 51 years AND ENDURED THE PAIN.
One couple who sought advice on their marriage. the husband would beat up his wife and his wife complained. I introduced the couple to Padre Pio and the husband asked for his intercession. the husband reformed sought counseling and stopped beating his wife. They have worked out their marriage and remains married.
The St Paul Sisters have publishewd a novena to Padre Pio, who was canonized on June 16, 2002 in Rome by Pope John Paul II (it was fathers day).
and there is a capilla to Padre Pio just off the Calamba exit in the south expressway to sto tomas batangas. Ask Padre Pio to intercede in your life now.
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Saint Justin knows how to talk about the greatness of the Christian Faith and how to compare it with all the different ways of thinking and ideologies fashionable in his day: For, he points out, nobody believes Socrates to the point of giving his life for his teaching. However, not only philosophers and men of learning, but lowly workers and totally uneducated men and women have believed in Christ. Such people have taken no notice of the opinion of the world at large. They have scorned fear and even death itself. Justin himself was later to die giving witness to his faith. God asks us to be every bit as steadfast as he was, whatever our condition in life, even if we sometimes find ourselves in an environment that is completely opposed to Christ’s teaching.
Saint Justin was born in the region of Samaria at the beginning of the second century. Like some other thinkers of his day he opened a school of Philosophy in Rome. After his conversion he carried out an effective apostolate from the school. He defended the Christian Faith with his knowledge in times that were difficult for Christianity. The Apologia addressed to the Emperors Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius have been preserved. He died a martyr in Rome during the persecution of the latter Emperor. Because of the effort he made to defend the Faith with his learning and with his knowledge, and for the exemplary value this has for everyone, Leo XIII extended his liturgical feast to the universal Church.
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There is a radio show for you every Saturday from 2.30 pm to 3pm on Radio Veritas 846 khzs from Manila, on the internet go to www.forexworld.com then click the radio veritas logo 846.
This Saturday September 10, 2005 we have Pilar Almira on Employee relations.
The program is called EDUCATION ON THE AIR (EDUKASYON SA RADYO)
which aims to enhance the skills of managers, supervisors and entreprenuers of micro, small and meduim enterprises. THE PROGRAM IS AIRED IN ENGLISH AND FILIPINO
There will be a series of guest lecturers on the show.
On June 04, 2005, our guest is Dean Gerrie Baricaua who shall discuss the important differences of management and leadership. For the four Saturdays of May, our teacher and sharer was Atty Pilar Almira who discussed values and universal truths that every person and business entrepreneur must have and practice.Listen this afternoon June o4, 2005 at 230pm to 3pm Radio Veritas 846 khz on the MW or AM band and on the internet go to www.forexworld.com and click the radio veritas logo to listen.
Read Stephen Coveys’ 8th HABIT.
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Ideas are picked up as we go on with life. Life is short so we have to make the most of what you have. Live every day to the fullest in Gods way, one day you will be right, no regrets.
I have developed a check list for various situations.
FOR UPBRINGING OF OUR CHILDREN
I observed we have to teach our children,
a. how to say no.
b. how to resolve conflicts
c. how to maintain ones sense of humour
d. how to be kind, modest, friendly
e. how to be forgiving
f. how to choose ones partner
g. how to pray
h. how to dwell on the positive
i. to share their ideas
j. to be open to any topics like sex, relationships, crushes etc
CHOOSING A PARTNER
a. he or she must be your best friend who is also your type
b. never the jealous type
c. same religion or doctrinal faith
d. balanced between work and play
e. someone who is forgiving
f. no vices
g. relatively healthy in body, soul,emotion and mind
h. someone with a sense of humour
i. will allow you to grow
j. is not intimidated with who you are
k. loving and thoughtful
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