3 Dirty Chicken Facts Exposed

does wind up in the meat.

In the study, researchers tested feather meal, a by-product of chicken farming often used as fertilizer, because feathers accumulate important clues as to which drugs and chemicals chickens are exposed to during their short

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How to Burn Body Fat: 3 Common Myths Exposed

May 30, 2012 by admin

Looking for the correct answers on how to burn body fat? Myths and half-truths abound when it comes to permanent weight loss, and it can be very difficult for dieters to tell what advice is correct, and what advice is completely unhelpful.

Ultimately, to achieve permanent weight loss, you need to find an eating program that is geared towards the implementation of healthy lifestyle changes over a long period of time. In addition, you may want to avoid weight loss programs that make the following three claims:

1. Targeting Your Abs Will Help You Burn Fat

Spot toning is a great way to lose inches in specific areas of your body. But focusing only on spot toning is not a healthy way to exercise or lose weight. The only way you can burn fat faster is by increasing your metabolism.

And the only way you can increase your metabolism is to get it in prime condition with healthy lifestyle changes.

An exercise regimen that integrates interval training with strength training is one of the best ways you can speed your metabolism and lose weight. Use spot toning to help tighten your problem areas (abs, buttocks, thighs, and upper arms are the most common), but use an exercise program that brings positive results for your whole body.

2. Eating Certain Superfoods Will Burn Fat

Some superfoods have been touted as the answer for all your dieting woes. Foods like pomegranates, green tea, and acai berries have all been given huge amounts of press, and people can be easily fooled into thinking that eating these foods alone will bring about permanent weight loss.

These foods all offer excellent nutritional value, and are rich in antioxidants. But they are not magic cure-alls for your weight loss woes. You should incorporate them as part of your overall healthy eating plan.  But relying on them alone for weight loss is a recipe for failure.

In addition, consuming any diet pills or products with the extracts of these foods is problematic. You don’t get the nutritional benefit of eating fresh, whole foods. And the additives in these supplements are dubious at best. If you want to use superfoods as part of your healthy diet, use the unprocessed organic version, not the pills.

3. Eating a Low-Fat Diet Is the Best Way to Burn Fat

It sounds counterintuitive, but if you want to know how to burn fat, you must eat fat. The problem is that most Americans choose the wrong kinds of fats in their diets. You need to cut back or eliminate all trans fats from your diet.

However, you should incorporate plenty of healthy fats–those that contain Omega 3 fatty acids–to replace it or your body will not function properly. Some foods that contain healthy fats are avocadoes, organic butter, olive oil, raw nuts and nut butters, and fish such as salmon. In addition, using coconut oil in your cooking is a great way to get healthy fats.

These fats are a great way to get the fatty acids your body needs to function at its prime, and they add to feelings of satiety. And if you feel satiated after a meal, you are less likely to indulge in unhealthy foods.

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U.S. Children Exposed to Hours of Background TV Daily

HealthDay – 14 mins ago FRIDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) -- American children are being exposed to background TV for nearly four hours every day, new research finds.

For the study, researchers surveyed over 1,400 English-speaking households with children ranging in age from 8 months to 8 years old. After taking other variables into consideration, such as the children's gender, ethnicity, race, age and family income, the researchers also found black children and younger children had the highest rate of exposure to background TV.

Prior research has suggested that too much background TV may have negative consequences for children's learning and development, including reading ability, according to the study authors.

The new findings are slated to be presented at the International Communication Association's annual meeting, held May 24 to 28 in Phoenix.

"Considering the accumulating evidence regarding the impact that background television exposure has on young children, we were rather floored about the sheer scale of children's exposure with just under four hours of exposure each day," Matthew Lapierre, of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, said in an association news release.

Parents should remove televisions from their children's bedrooms and remember to turn the TV off when they are finished watching it, experts urged.

"As evidence begins to grow that background television exposure has negative consequences for young children, we need to take notice of the dramatic levels of American children's exposure to background television documented by this international team of communication researchers," Cynthia Stohl, a professor of communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said in the news release.

"This study should be a warning to parents and day-care providers to shut off the television when no one is watching, and certainly to consider the consequences of having a television in a child's bedroom no matter how young they may be," Stohl added.

The conclusions and results of studies presented at medical conferences should be considered preliminary under published in a peer-reviewed journal.

More information

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has more on children and TV watching.

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