Jillian Michaels counts Keto Diet a Bad Plan for health

Fitness expert Jillian Michaels has criticized the ketogenic diet, which has become increasingly popular in recent months. Jillian Michaels stopped at the Women's Health Offices to talk about health counseling and started a modern diet that, she said, "lights up": the keto diet.

The diet for weight loss, which applies to everyone from Halle Berry to Mick Jagger, has no basic nutritional value, said the coach of NBC's "The Biggest Loser." Michaels spoke in a video for Women's Health about the high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet and said it should not be followed.

"I do not understand, why would anyone think that this is a good idea?" Michaels, 44, said the magazine, calling the keto diet a "bad plan, for millions of reasons."

The keto diet has devotees who consume a 4: 1 ratio of fats to carbohydrates with the ultimate goal of burning fats for energy instead of carbohydrates. Many, including Jenna Jameson, have promoted the diet as a great weight loss plan, but Michaels disagrees. According to Michael, the diet rich in fat and carbohydrates ignores the reality that "its macromolecules literally consist of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids".

Michaels, 44, voiced the idea that people need to eat a variety of healthy foods to satisfy the needs of the body. And getting rid of the three macronutrients: proteins, fats, or, in this case, carbohydrates, cause the cells to starve, which threatens the overall health of the body.

"To sum up a very long story: Avoid the keto diet, common sense," he told Women's Health. These macronutrients generally have a very important purpose for your health and well-being, "he continued. Every single one of them.

Zeitlin explained that the keto diet was first developed by doctors to treat children with epilepsy and other seizure disorders that had stopped treatment with the drugs. Dr. Eric Koss off, director of the Children's Neurology Residency Program at Johns Hopkins, told the US. TODAY 2017, as the lack of carbohydrates in the diet forces the body to break down fat but suggested that most devotees do not fully understand the effects.

Phillip Go glia, a nutritionist who claims Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are customers, doubted the keto diet in the same report, saying that their success depends on how the body uses fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. Based on Michaels, the high fat and carbohydrate weight loss plan ignores the truth that "your cells, your macromolecules, actually consist of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids."

"In a state of metabolic ketosis, the body will quickly lose kilos," Go glia said, noting that the diet "is used for temporary but rapid weight loss." To make a really short story: Stay away from Keto's weight loss plan. Frequent sense "said the welfare ladies.

Bryant Stamford, professor of kinesiology at the faculty of Hannover in Indiana, mentioned in a column of the Courier-Journal that the weight loss plan can be successful in the short term, but generally unsustainable.

Phillip Goglia, a nutritionist claiming Kim Kardashian and Kanye West as buyers, doubted Keto's weight loss plan in the identical report. He said that his success is determined by the way in which a certain physicist uses fats and proteins and carbohydrates. She does not understand why, for example, should anyone think that this is a good idea? "Michaels, 44, told the magazine he calls the" bad plan "for a million reasons.

know the days of coming Lunar Eclipse and Supermoon

The first total eclipse of 2019 with supermoon of blood is coming. Here we tell you when it will be for you to prepare and enjoy this astrological phenomenon.

2019 paints to be a year full of space phenomena and to start the first total eclipse of the moon that will happen in conjunction with a supermoon of blood. The San Juan astronomer Carlos López told Channel 8 that the phenomenon will be seen in the province in all its splendor. The most important point will be between 1 and 2 in the morning of the 21st.

This year we expect approximately five eclipses, a meteor shower, a planetary transit, a blue moon, the approach between the moon and Jupiter; and three superlunas. This month we will be able to appreciate the first of the five eclipses and here we leave you all the details. One of the most striking points of this type of eclipse is the color acquired by the moon. From there it receives the name of "Superlunary de Sangre de Lobo".

Stargazers are thus calling this astronomical event for the following reasons: it is a lunar eclipse, meaning that the sun and the moon will be aligned on opposite sides of the Earth, the moon will be completely covered with its shadow and will acquire a reddish tone, hence the nickname "Blood Moon".

• Where? North and South America. It can be seen partially in CDMX. 

• When? It will begin on January 20 23:37 and end at approximately 02:43 on January 21. 

To begin with these astronomical events of the year, on Sunday, January 6, the Moon will pass between the Earth and the Sun, which will result in a partial solar eclipse. The bad news is that NASA announced that it can only be seen in Northeast Asia and the North Pacific. The eclipse will also occur when the lunar orbit is closest to our planet, making the satellite look slightly brighter and larger than normal, which is called "Supermoon.

The total eclipse of the moon and the supermoon of blood, these two we will be able to appreciate in Mexico. Finally, the full moon of January is traditionally called "Wolf Moon" in the United States, according to Farmer's Almanac.

The supermoon of blood is due to an optical effect that happens when the planet Earth interposes between the Sun and the Moon that is when there is a total lunar eclipse. So get ready to enjoy this phenomenon that will give us the Universe. This "Supermoon of Wolf Blood" can be seen from anywhere in North and South America, Western Europe and Africa.

It can be seen between January 20 and 21 only in the western hemisphere of the Earth, according to information from NASA.

WHO ranked Mediterranean diet at top for health

Surely you've heard of the Mediterranean diet as a benchmark for healthy eating. But are there other models to follow?

A review by the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed evidence that both the Mediterranean diet and the Nordic diet can help reduce the risk of no communicable diseases, such as cancer, diabetes or cardiovascular problems, which are often linked to obesity.

But while the Mediterranean diet is well known, what is the Nordic diet?

According to the WHO report, the Nordic diet shares many characteristics with the Mediterranean diet but is based on foods traditionally imported from Northern Europe: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

Several European countries have promoted this diet as a beneficial food model for health, mainly in that region, with positive results, according to WHO.

The Nordic diet is based on the consumption of these foods: 

• Green leaf and root vegetables, 

• Berries or forest fruits, 

• Fruit, 

• Whole cereals, such as barley, oats or rye, 

• Legumes, 

• Low-fat dairy 

Fish, including fatty ones such as salmon, mackerel or herring, which are eaten several times a week.

Perhaps the biggest difference with the Mediterranean diet, according to the WHO, is that instead of olive oil in the Nordic diet, rapeseed oil predominates. According to the WHO report, for non-Nordic populations, the principles of this Northern European diet may be easier to adapt than the foods themselves. 

In general terms, it is about promoting the consumption of whole grains, fruit, and vegetables while excluding saturated fats.

The WHO notes that several studies have linked it to improvements in the risk factors of both cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, although it has not been as studied as the Mediterranean diet.

The "New Nordic Diet" is a gastronomic interpretation of this traditional diet of the northern European area. It was developed in 2004 by several reference Nordic chefs who signed a manifesto of the same name.

This interpretation is based on four essential principles: health, gastronomic potential, sustainability, and Nordic identity. These principles promote the consumption of local, wild and fresh ingredients.

Throughout the region, policies and events have been developed to promote this new version of the traditional diet, not only from the point of view of health but also from a cultural and even tourist perspective.

In 2012, the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries of Denmark published this general food guide according to this manifesto:

1. Eat more fruits and vegetables every day

2. Eat more whole grain products

3. Eat more seafood and lakes

4. Eat meat of better quality, but in less quantity

5. Eat more food from wild landscapes

6. Eat organic products whenever possible

7. Avoid additives in food

8. Eat more dishes based on seasonal foods

9. Eat more dishes of homemade food

10. It generates less waste.

3 in 1: diet, culture, and health

According to the WHO, both the Mediterranean diet and the Nordic diet are examples of how cultural resources can be used for novel and beneficial health purposes.

"The culinary culture is based on tradition but is also open to change and the adoption of new ideas, as evidenced by the rise of the Nordic diet and the multiple variants of the Mediterranean diet, which are both new and culturally authentic".

A study carried out by researchers from the Irccs Neuroma (Italy) and published in the "International Journal of Cardiology", verified, after analyzing 1,000 people, that "the combo" reduces the risk of death in patients who have suffered a heart attack or an ACV.


The Mediterranean diet is composed of fruits, vegetables, legumes, cereals, olive oil, wine in moderation and fish, and low in meat and dairy products, and in the opinion of experts, this effect is due to the fact that, probably, the Mediterranean diet facilitates the beneficial effect of statins.

The scientists also analyzed the possible underlying mechanisms of this positive interaction between drugs and eating habits and found that the combination of statins and the Mediterranean diet also reduces inflammation, a condition that predisposes to an increased risk of disease and mortality.

Our data suggest that we should focus more on these interactions, a much neglected aspect of epidemiological research. Of course, controlled clinical trials will be needed to clarify these findings, but if they are confirmed, new therapeutic possibilities could be designed for those who have already had a cardiovascular event, "the researchers proposed.

Imagine a Christmas on Moon by Apollo 8

The first flight of astronauts to the moon is the 50th anniversary. Since then we also see the planet Earth with different eyes.

On Christmas Eve 1968 - that is, tomorrow 50 years ago - an estimated 600 million television viewers around the world experienced something out of the ordinary. The Apollo 8 astronauts made live recordings from the lunar surface to the earth and read from the creation story.

 Capsule Commander Frank Borman (today 90) solemnly ended the transmission with the phrase, "We conclude with a good night, good luck, happy Christmas and God bless you all - all of you on the good earth."

Borman and Jim Lovell, 90, and Bill Anders, 85, were on a truly historic mission. Two and a half hours after the launch on December 21 at the Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida, USA, they received permission for TLI - Trans-lunar Injection, the Journey to the Moon.

An image that changed the view of the Earth dwellers

For the first time in history, humans left the earth's magnetism and stared at a strange celestial body - the earth satellite 384,400 kilometers away.

Borman shot perhaps the most important recording of the twentieth century during her orbit around the moon on December 24th. In the foreground the gray, repellent moon with its cratered surface, behind it the blue planet, which in the pitch-black universe shimmers invitingly, but also touching blue and white.

Hardly any other image has changed the view of the Earth dwellers on their planet more.

The earth, "a great oasis in the wastelands of space"

Suddenly, many were aware of how vulnerable and fragile our home planet is. The photo has greatly inspired the environmental movement and promoted "global awareness," say many astronauts today.

Bill Anders was obviously aware of this effect. During the journey, he called the earth «a great oasis in the wastelands of the universe. Ulrich Koehler, planetary scientist at the German Aerospace Center, said this week in a broadcast by SWR Wissen: "This photo has certainly not only moved NASA's technocrats and astronauts and engineers and scientists but of course, of course, the humans themselves, who have seen that the earth is a small grain of sand in the infinity of the universe. "It is forever a photo icon of humanity.

The moon has been free of humans for 46 years

After Apollo 8, two more missions followed until on 20 July 1969, for the first time, people set foot on the Earth's satellite. By the end of 1972, the Americans carried out six more missions to the moon - ten more astronauts reached the celestial body.

Then it was over. The moon has been free of humans for 46 years. When it comes to a new journey, is in the stars.

VitaminWater invests $100,000 for phone free generation

An original contest offers a large amount in dollars to the person who dares to live without their smartphone for a year. Would you accept the challenge?

The company VitaminWater offers $ 100,000 to the person who can get rid of their smartphone and be without it for a year. 365 days. 525,600 minutes. 31557600 seconds.

If you think you can do it, the company asks you to participate in your contest and tell them what you would do for a year while you do not have your mobile phone through Twitter or Instagram with the "hashtag" #nophoneforayear #contest

A participant will be selected and will have to give up their mobile phone per year.

But if you can not support a whole year without a cell phone, the contestant can still receive $ 10,000 to spend without his cell phone for six months. If you accept the challenge, you must participate before January 9, 2019.

The Vitamin Water brand is offering a prize of $ 100,000 for those who manage to spend a year without using their cell phone.

The contest was announced by the company in their social networks and they assure that they will grant that sum of money to the person who lives without their Smartphone for a year, or they will give 10 thousand dollars to whoever achieves the half-way challenge, that is, only for six months, reports the New York Post.

To corroborate this, Vitamin Water says that it will use a lie detector after the established period, to verify that the person has not used or touched any smartphone during the 365 days.

Those who wish to participate can make their posts on Instagram or Twitter, using the hashtags "#nophoneforayear" and "#contest" before January 8th. From there the participants will be selected.

Vitaminwater, the brand of energy drink of the company Energy Brands, owned by Coca-Cola, offers a prize of $ 100,000 to a person who agrees not to use a telephone.

Vitaminwater, the brand of energy drink of the company Energy Brands, owned by Coca-Cola, offers a prize of $ 100,000 to a person who agrees not to use a smartphone for a year.

People interested in meeting the challenge should send a message on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtags #nophoneforayear and #contest, and describe in them what that person would do if a smartphone cannot be used for a year.

The deadline to do so expires on January 8, 2019. The company will select a participant around January 22, according to the rules of the contest.

The selected person will receive a cell phone from 1996, prior to the development of smartphone technologies. The person chosen will not be able to use any smartphone or tablet, even those belonging to other people. However, the rules will allow anyone who is selected to use laptops, desktops, and devices such as personal assistants Google Home and Amazon Echo.

If you complete the 365 days of using only a basic phone, the person will earn $ 100,000. If for some reason you abort after six months, you will be awarded only 10 thousand dollars. Vitaminwater will verify the contestant's honesty. Before receiving the money the participant must submit to a test of detection of lies, according to the rules.

Data collected by the Pew Research Center indicate that 92 percent of the generation of millennials, those born in the eighties and nineties, has a smartphone. Generations a little older, such as the so-called Gen-Xers and baby boomers, have an X at this point, 85 percent and 67 percent, respectively. Those between 18 and 34 spend more than two and a half hours a day simply consuming entertainment content on their smartphones, according to Nielsen's latest 2018 Total Audience Report. A poll conducted earlier this year found that 43 percent of millennials say they check their phone at least every 20 minutes.

NASA arrived on Red Planet and InSight on Mars

The NASA robot "InSight" landed on Mars and has already sent first images of the Red Planet. A video of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) shows a virtual overflight over the landing site Elysium Planitia.

After a journey of approximately 485 million kilometers, the lender launched in May "InSight" set off on the Elysium Planitia plain north of the Mars equator on the red planet on Monday.

In the photographs of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the supraregional topography of the landing site can be seen within a radius of a few hundred kilometers from different perspectives. The first scene is approaching from north to south with the Elysium Mons, about 13 kilometers high, followed by a loop and overflight of the Elysium Planitia plain from southeast to northwest with a view to the landing ellipse and finally a third "flight leg" Northeast to southwest on the area north of the crater Gale, the NASA Rover Curiosity examined since 2012.

The two round awnings with a diameter of about 2.20 meters have already collected sunlight on Mars, said NASA. In clear air, they can generate 700-watt energy for the probe. "The InSight team is able to rest a little easier tonight - now that we know the awnings are extended and recharge the batteries," Project Manager Tom Hoffmann said.

What is InSight?

InSight is a stationary geophysical observatory and a mission of the NASA Discovery Program. On board, the provincial probe is, inter alia, a French seismometer for recording quake waves and vibrations resulting from meteorite and asteroid impacts as well as the thermal probe HP developed and built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package).

From January 2019, the Mars mole will hammer fully automatically down to five meters into the underground of the Red Planet and help measure its internal warmth. A few hours earlier, the probe had landed on Mars. "Landing confirmed!" NASA said from her control center in Pasadena, California. Their loud cheers broke out, scientists jumped up and hugged each other.

A few minutes later, InSight already sent a first photo of the Red Planet. Although the picture was very blurry, that was probably due to the clouds of dust raised during the landing. In the coming days, InSight may be busy finding suitable locations to place their gauges with a robotic arm.

Although Europe has not yet managed its own successful Mars landing but is involved with various high technology on the InSight mission. The Graz Institute for Space Research (IMF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is involved in the evaluation of the data.

The experimental equipment aboard the landing platform includes a ramming probe built in Germany, which is to hammer a hole on the surface of Mars down to a depth of five meters. A French seismometer is on board. 

With the InSight stationary geophysical observatory, the scientists want to investigate the interior of Mars and its structure for the first time in the next two years. This should be measured possible shocks and earthquakes on the planet. The researchers hope to discover, among other things, how Mars arose billions of years ago.

CDC asks Americans to do not eat romaine lettuce

Both Canadians and Americans must abstain from eating romaine lettuce because of a new outbreak of E. coli bacteria that has left dozens of patients on both sides of the border.

In Canada, 18 cases of infections related to this outbreak are being investigated, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) reported on Tuesday. Of the total, 15 cases were detected in Quebec, while the other three affected Ontarians.

"People became ill between mid-October and the beginning of November 2018. Six people were hospitalized and one person suffered from the hemolytic uremic syndrome, which is manifested by serious complications that may result from an infection. E. coli, "said PHAC.

South of the border, 32 cases that were reported between October 8 and 31 in 11 states. Thirteen patients had to be hospitalized, the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control reported. No deaths have been reported, both in Canada and the United States, health authorities said.

As a result of this outbreak, public health officials have asked consumers to avoid consuming Roman salad. Distributors must also stop selling, while restaurant owners must stop using them.

In the US, called on to refuse romaine lettuce due to an outbreak of intestinal infection

Patients infected in the United States and Canada were affected by the same strain of E. coli, O157: H7. According to the CDC, outbreaks of infection caused by the bacterium Escherichia coli strain O157: H7, have been identified in eleven states of the United States and two provinces of Canada. According to reports, 13 patients in the United States needed hospitalization, deaths have not yet occurred.

In connection with the outbreak of the disease, which experts, previously, associated with Roman salad, consumers are asked not to eat it, and also to disinfect the dishes and shelves of refrigerators, where the potentially dangerous product was stored. In the case of poor health, Americans are asked to remember what they ate during the last week, and immediately consult a doctor.

"It shows us that the same strain of E. coli is the source of disease in Canada and the United States, as we saw in 2017, and suggests that there may be a recurring source of contamination, "said PHAC.

By the end of 2017, dozens of people, including 42 in Canada, had contracted the same strain of E. coli after eating romaine lettuce on both sides of the border. The source of contaminated salads, however, has never been identified.

CDC Says E. Coli Outbreak Is From Romaine Lettuce

The representative of the CDC also said that if during the first outbreak, the source of E. coli was quickly located - a company in Arizona, now it was not possible to find the source, which makes all products dangerous.

In connection with the outbreak of the disease, which experts associate with the salad, consumers are asked not to eat it, and also to disinfect the dishes and shelves of refrigerators, where the potentially dangerous product was stored.

However, the source of this new outbreak of the disease does not appear to be the same one that had eight patients in Canada and 210 in the United States last spring. This major outbreak resulted in five deaths in the United States.

NASA sends space a laser to study ice on Earth

NASA launched on Saturday its most advanced laser ever placed in orbit, the ICESat-2, a billion-dollar mission to reveal the extent of melting ice on a warming Earth.

The half-ton satellite was powered by a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg's US Air Force base in California at 06:02 (1302 GMT).
"Three, two, one, take off!", Said a NASA official on the television channel of the US space agency.

"Launch of ICESat-2 to explore the polar ice sheets of our ever-changing planet". 

The countdown has begun. The NASA must launch Saturday, September 15, a satellite of a half ton, the most advanced it has ever placed in orbit. ICESat-2 is to be powered by a Delta II rocket from the US Air Force Vandenberg Base in California. The shooting window, forty minutes, should open at 08:46 local (2:46 pm Paris time). We present you this new space mission to a billion dollars. This mission is "extraordinarily important for science," Richard Slonaker, NASA's ICESat-2 Program Manager, told reporters earlier.

For almost ten years, the agency no longer had an instrument in orbit to measure the thickness of areas covered by ice across the planet. ICESat-2 is intended to reveal the extent of melting ice (glaciers and pack ice) on a warming Earth. It takes over from a previous mission, ICESat, which was launched in 2003 and was completed in 2009. Thanks to it, scientists had learned that the pack ice was getting finer and the surfaces covered with ice disappeared from the coastal regions of Greenland and Antarctica.

The previous mission, ICESat, started in 2003 and ended in 2009. Thanks to it, scientists learned that the pack ice was becoming finer and that ice-covered surfaces were disappearing from the coastal regions of Greenland and Antarctica.
Since then, surveys have been conducted using an aircraft as part of a mission called Operation IceBridge overflight of the Arctic and Antarctic.

But an update is urgently needed.

With ICESat-2, the measurements will be "extremely precise", the thickness of a pencil, assured a member of the team, Kelly Brunt. "We are going to be able to look specifically at how the ice is changing over a single year," said Tom Wagner, a researcher with NASA's cryosphere (ice) program.

The increasing use of fossil fuels on Earth is leading to a steady rise in greenhouse gas emissions, which are considered to be the main drivers of climate change.

The average global temperature is increasing year after year, with the four warmest years of modern times recorded between 2014 and 2017.

The all-new ICESat-2 is expected to help scientists understand the extent of the contribution of ice melt to rising sea levels. This mission is "extraordinarily important for science," said Richard Slonaker, head of ICESat-2 at NASA. For nearly a decade, the agency no longer had an instrument in orbit to measure the thickness of ice-covered areas across the globe. Surveys were done by aircraft on a mission called Operation IceBridge that flew over the Arctic and Antarctic, but new data is needed.

Especially since global warming is going well, the four hottest years of modern times having been recorded between 2014 and 2017. The thickness of glaciers in the Arctic and Greenland is shrinking, increasing the phenomenon of rising levels of oceans that threaten hundreds of millions of people in coastal regions around the world.

The mission is supposed to last three years but the satellite has enough fuel to last for a decade if its officials decided to extend its life.