Reducing Your Weight With Raspberry Ketones How Factual Or Fake Is The Claim

By Gonzalo J. Harrison

There are a number of people nowadays who claim that raspberry ketones are great fat busters and can act as the best solution to one's weight concerns.

Just how true is this claim? It is actually difficult to believe that the tiny scarlet fruits of raspberries can help people drop some weight.

Keep reading to have a deeper understanding of the weight reducing capabilities of raspberries.

Here we go through the authenticity and accuracy of the various claims regarding the ketones of raspberry and then try to figure out if they're really good:

Natural Weight Loss with Raspberry Ketones : Make it Works for You Too

Studies convey that raspberry ketones do burn fat. They have a positive influence on the regulation of adiponectin, a hormone responsible for eradicating excessive fat from one's body.

Take note: all people have adiponectin. On the other hand, those with naturally slim bodies actually have more of this hormone compared to those with larger frames. Additionally, it has also been discovered that as a person gains weight-his or her adiponectin levels decreases, which in turn, results to much more weight gain.

Given below are a few more ways in which raspberry ketones aid weight reduction:

- This makes you lose appetite (aka: less food intake, more pounds lost) - Produces an increase in metabolism - This makes your body think it's thin (thereby resulting to burning of fats-biologically) - Makes you lose weight without any unnatural resources - And many more ways.

What are the various side effects of using Raspberry Ketones?

Too much consumption of sweet raspberries can result to an increase in sugar and glucose levels -leading to hypertension, diabetes, and other health issues.

Generally speaking, raspberry ketones don't have any negative side effects but yet eating too much of red raspberries (which provide raspberry ketones) can lead to serious concerns.

To avoid this issue, people need to know where to draw the line and how to deal with their overall intake of raspberry supplements. With a wide range of effective supplements you can find, it becomes important to choose the one that promises the most benefits.

Where you can Buy Raspberry Ketones?

Raspberry ketones are available in diverse places.

Apart from finding them in health food stores and well centers, you can also try to find thee supplements in the places recommended by your friends (those who have previously tried these products).

Oh, one more suggestion; you can choose to buy them online too.

Log on to Amazon.com or start a Google search for the keywords "Dalvia Wellness raspberry ketones". The digital world will help you find your raspberry ketones products!

To get the best results from raspberry ketones, you need to get access to the right manufacturers for your supplements and products. This will help you enjoy all the benefits to the core--a point that needs careful consideration from your end too.

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Skin Cancer Anxiety Fear Vigilance and All or Nothing Thinking

About 10 years ago, I noticed a small bump at the top of my ear, under the helix, and I'd fool with it, and it would bleed and then scab over. With my selective OCD hypervision, since the bump was hidden from my sight, I went at least 6 months before I started to worry about it. I did acrobatics with a mirror, but couldn't get a good view. I'd had several moles removed over the years, none of which were malignant, and I felt ashamed of my vigilance, and sad about the little white scars. But it was bleeding and never completely healed, and this was unusual. This was one of those things on a public health warning poster.

After a deluge of anxiety and indecision, I made an appointment. I'd seen this doctor several times before for anxiety symptoms--a gland I thought was swollen, a bladder infection that turned out not to be one, and had asked for a referral to a psychologist. I will credit him with telling me I'd done the right thing in coming to have him check it out, but then he said, "I don't know what it is, but it's benign. Maybe it's an infection." He put a dab of antibiotic ointment on it, told me not to traumatize it, and said if it changes, come back in.

This only stoked my anxiety, and my OCD need for certainty. To be told "I don't know what it is, but it's fine" was enough to cause a firestorm of fear. I felt too ashamed of my anxiety history to assert myself and say, "It's bleeding. I'm not gouging it, it just bleeds at the slightest provocation. I've had it for over a year." I may have mentioned some of these things, but I don't remember doing so. I decided after much angst to get a 2nd opinion from a dermatologist, but I never went. In the interim 3 months until I could get an appointment, I found a therapist, and my anxiety level went down, and I assumed that it was my anxiety causing me to second guess my family doctor, and rather than risk more humiliation, I canceled my appointment.

For the next 5 years, I kept checking the bump. It didn't change or get bigger. It just kept bleeding and scabbing. I'd go as long as I could without touching it at all, and feel sinking disappointment when it was still there. Finally, I decided that I wanted a second opinion, that it was ok to want this, in spite of my health anxiety history. I'd done massive research, reassured myself that I had very few risk factors. I was young, stayed out of the sun, and the bump wasn't exposed to the sun anyway, hidden in the curve of my ear, but I realized that my research couldn't diagnose it, and the research was sucking up my time.

I went to dermatologist who said, "I don't know what this is. But it's kind of odd and I'm going to biopsy it." A couple days later she called me to say it was Stage 1 Squamous Cell Skin Cancer, and that I needed to have it surgically removed with Moh's microsurgery. She was truly surprised that it was cancer. It's an odd location, and I have very little sun damage. Every follow up appointment she tells me what a freak occurrence this was.

My OCD was all over this in a flash. "See I saved your ear! You have me to thank. Keep obsessing. Don't let up." But after careful thought, I know that it wasn't my obsessing that protected me. My all-or-nothing thinking, common in OCD, said "I must always be right about my diagnosis before I go to the doctor or I am defective. Just keep researching."

It was my struggles with OCD in the past that made me second-guess my decision to get a second opinion. I felt I wasn't reliable, that in fact I was crazy. Part of being human though, is not knowing exactly what is happening in your body, and guessing wrong. And doctors, being human, sometimes assume that anxious patients don't actually have anything wrong with them, even when they do, and there is research that family doctors aren't necessarily good at identifying non-Melanoma skin cancers. I haven't researched my ear lately. The health anxiety kicks up every so often and insists I need to research, but research wouldn't have saved my ear. That is an illusion.

What is Okra or Lady Fingers

[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]


Okra, also known as lady's finger, is a flowering plant in the mallow family (along with such species as cotton and cocoa) valued for its edible green fruits. Its scientific name is Abelmoschus esculentus.



The species is an annual or perennial, growing to 2m tall. The leaves are 10–20cm long and broad, palmately lobed with 5–7 lobes. The flowers are 4–8cm diameter, with five white to yellow petals, often with a red or purple spot at the base of each petal. The fruit is a capsule up to 18cm long, containing numerous seeds.

The species apparently originated in the Ethiopian Highlands, though the manner of distribution from there is undocumented. The Egyptians and Moors of the 12th and 13th centuries used the Arab word for the plant, suggesting that it had come from the east. The plant may thus have been taken across the Red Sea or the Bab-el-Mandeb strait to the Arabian Peninsula, rather than north across the Sahara. One of the earliest accounts is by a Spanish Moor who visited Egypt in 1216, who described the plant under cultivation by the locals who ate the tender, young pods with meal.

From Arabia, the plant spread around the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and eastward. The lack of a word for okra in the ancient languages of India suggests that it arrived there in the Common Era. The plant was introduced to the Americas by ships plying the Atlantic slave trade by 1658, when its presence was recorded in Brazil. It was further documented in Suriname in 1686. Okra may have been introduced to the southeastern North America in the early 18th century and gradually spread. It was being grown as far north as Philadelphia by 1748, while Thomas Jefferson noted that it was well established in Virginia by 1781. It was commonplace throughout the southern United States by 1800 and the first mention of different cultivars was in 1806.

Abelmoschus esculentus is cultivated throughout the tropical and warm temperate regions of the world for its fibrous fruits or pods containing round, white seeds. The fruits are harvested when immature and eaten as a vegetable.

In Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Yemen, and other parts of the eastern Mediterranean, okra is widely used in a thick stew made with vegetables and meat. In Indian cooking, it is sauteed or added to gravy-based preparations and is very popular in South India. In Caribbean islands okra is cooked up and eaten as soup, often with fish. In Haiti it is use in rice and maiz and also with meat for sauce. It became a popular vegetable in Japanese cuisine toward the end of the 20th century, served with soy sauce and katsuobushi or as tempura. It is used as a thickening agent in gumbo. Breaded, deep fried okra is served in the southern United States. The immature pods may also be pickled.



Okra fruits used as a vegetable

Okra slices show the pentagonal cross-section of the fruit. Okra leaves may be cooked in a similar manner as the greens of beets or dandelions. The leaves are also eaten raw in salads. Okra seeds may be roasted and ground to form a non-caffeinated substitute for coffee. As imports were disrupted by the American Civil War in 1861, the Austin State Gazette noted, "An acre of okra will produce seed enough to furnish a plantation of fifty negroes with coffee in every way equal to that imported from Rio."

Okra forms part of several regional 'signature' dishes. Frango com quiabo (chicken with okra) is a Brazilian dish that is especially famous in the region of Minas Gerais. Gumbo, a hearty stew whose key ingredient is okra, is found throughout the Gulf Coast of the United States. The word "gumbo" is based on the Central Bantu word for okra, "kigombo", via the Caribbean Spanish "guingambó" or "quimbombó". It is also an expected ingredient in callaloo, a Caribbean dish and the national dish of Trinidad & Tobago. Okra is also enjoyed in Nigeria where okra soup (Draw soup) is a special delicacy with Garri(eba)or akpu.



Okra oil is a pressed seed oil, extracted from the seeds of the okra. The greenish yellow edible oil has a pleasant taste and odor, and is high in unsaturated fats such as oleic acid and linoleic acid. The oil content of the seed is quite high at about 40%. Oil yields from okra crops are also high. At 794 kg/ha, the yield was exceeded only by that of sunflower oil in one trial.

Unspecified parts of the plant reportedly possess diuretic properties.

Cultivation

Okra flowers range from white to yellowAbelmoschus esculentus is among the most heat-and drought-tolerant vegetable species in the world. It will tolerate poor soils with heavy clay and intermittent moisture. Severe frost can damage the pods. It is an annual crop in the southern United States.

In cultivation, the seeds are soaked overnight prior to planting to a depth of 1-2 cm. Germination occurs between six days (soaked seeds) and three weeks. Seedlings require ample water. The seed pods rapidly become fibrous and woody and must be harvested within a week of the fruit being pollinated to be edible.



The products of the plant are mucilaginous, resulting in the characteristic "goo" when the seed pods are cooked. In order to avoid this effect, okra pods are often stir fried, so the moisture is cooked away, or paired with slightly acidic ingredients, such as citrus or tomatoes. The cooked leaves are also a powerful soup thickener.

Putins unusual walk KGB or Parkinsons

Is Putin's odd gait due to disease or military training?

Each Christmas, The BMJ release a series of papers showcasing research of a more left-field bent than their normal fare. Today, we take a look at one of these intriguing and original studies.

Despite the Christmas topics being slightly unusual, the research is still peer-reviewed and based on detailed work.

Science owes a huge debt to serendipity; the discovery of penicillin springs to mind, as does Viagra, which was initially designed to treat angina.

Important scientific discoveries can appear from the most unlikely of corners. Because of this, all rigorous research has a certain inbuilt validity.

The paper covered below is entitled '"Gunslinger's gait': a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing". The work was carried out by Prof. Bas Bloem and his pan-European team of self-declared, unabashed movement disorder enthusiasts.

YouTube-based research

The team of gait-obsessed researchers were struck one day while watching YouTube videos of Russian President Vladimir Putin walking. His left arm behaved as expected, but they noticed he had a much-reduced swing in his right arm.

They searched on and found a wealth of examples. When walking, Putin's left arm swings normally, but his right arm stays almost static by his side.

While considering potential reasons for Putin's modified gait, the team came across a KGB training manual. In a section discussing how an operative should move in the field, they found the following paragraph:

"When moving, it is absolutely necessary to keep your weapon against the chest or in the right hand. Moving forward should be done with one side, usually the left, turned somewhat in the direction of movement."

Putin did indeed receive KGB training, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Could it be that ingrained training in the secret service permanently affected the way he walked?
The video below shows an example of Putin's walk, as he enters for his presidential inauguration ceremony:

YouTube-based research

The team of gait-obsessed researchers were struck one day while watching YouTube videos of Russian President Vladimir Putin walking. His left arm behaved as expected, but they noticed he had a much-reduced swing in his right arm.

They searched on and found a wealth of examples. When walking, Putin's left arm swings normally, but his right arm stays almost static by his side.

While considering potential reasons for Putin's modified gait, the team came across a KGB training manual. In a section discussing how an operative should move in the field, they found the following paragraph:

"When moving, it is absolutely necessary to keep your weapon against the chest or in the right hand. Moving forward should be done with one side, usually the left, turned somewhat in the direction of movement."

Putin did indeed receive KGB training, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Could it be that ingrained training in the secret service permanently affected the way he walked?
The video below shows an example of Putin's walk, as he enters for his presidential inauguration ceremony:

'Gunslinger's gait' may result from behavioral adaptation

To see if their theory held any water, the avid researchers widened their net. They searched for videos showcasing the gait of other Russian officials.

They found that, as predicted, other top Russian brass displayed a similarly muted swing with their right arm as they walked.
 
The gait was spotted in several Russian officials of significant rank; these included the current prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, two ex-ministers of defence - Anatoly Serdyukov and Sergei Ivanov - and a highly ranked military commander - Anatoly Sidorov.

They termed this striking asymmetrically reduced arm swing as "gunslinger's gait."
The authors say:

"We propose that this new gait pattern, which we term 'gunslinger's gait', may result from a behavioral adaptation, possibly triggered by KGB or other forms of weaponry training where trainees are taught to keep their right hand close to the chest while walking, allowing them to quickly draw a gun when faced with a foe."

To ensure that the reduced movement in the right hand was not due to some underlying pathology, the team watched videos of the officials writing or carrying out other tasks with their right hand. All were found to have fluid, normal use of their right limb in these situations.

KGB links with Russian officials

Putin's KGB career is well known; Ivanov also spent time in the KGB, but Medvedev, Serdyukov and Sidorov did not.

Serdyukov did, however, spend a year in the Soviet Army and 5 years as the minister of defense. Sidorov is a current member of the Russian military.

The link is weakest for Medvedev, who has no links to military or intelligence agencies. It could be that his gait is due to the "imitate the boss" phenomenon. This theory holds some water, as Medvedev is constantly being groomed to look and sound more like Putin. Whether this different gait is a purposeful imitation or a subliminal affectation is up for debate.

Unilaterally reduced arm swing pathology

A walk that shows a marked reduction in arm swing on just one side is a diagnostic sign for a number of disorders, including Erb's palsy (a paralysis of the arm caused by nerve damage), stroke and Parkinson's disease.

Pre-Parkinson's symptoms are an interesting area of research. Spotting the signs early has obvious benefits. Among these early markers are constipation, a reduced sense of smell and a unilaterally reduced arm swing.

In the past, Putin's slightly unusual walk has been questioned. Some wondered if he has Erb's palsy or if he was showing early signs of Parkinson's.

This does not seem to be the case; neither Putin nor the officials displayed any of the other symptoms associated with early Parkinson's, such as rest tremor or rigidity. Additionally, Putin is an excellent swimmer, has no problem lifting weights and is a judo black belt. This rules out any of the other disorders.

The authors of the study note that Putin's walk has remained constant over a number of years without any marked decline in function. This adds weight to their KGB theory.

This intriguing research might add a useful note of caution for any doctors considering the early diagnosis of Parkinson's in an individual who has had experience within the military or secret services.

Medical News Today recently covered research showing that ex-military personnel who serve less than 4 years "are at increased risk of suicide".

Written by Tim Newman