Top Fat Burning Food Strategies : 1 Introduction

Amy McGorry: Forget the fat diets with crazy tips that no one can sustain. If you want to really lose weight, your best eating bet is to keep it simple. Here are three food strategies that can help.

First get your protein. Protein provides essential building blocks for the daily repair of nearly every cell in your body. Getting enough is critical to your health and vitality and research shows that protein rich food keeps you feeling fuller, longer than either carbs or fats. So you can eat less and still feel satisfied.

Some great sources of proteins include eggs, yogurts, skinless white meat and beans. Second, eat early. Make sure to have breakfast every morning, it jump starts your metabolism and prevents late day binge.

Studies have food that dieters are most successful at weight loss when they start their day with a meal. Mix quick cooking oats with low fat milk and adding in some banana, will add a dash of all natural sweetness. Toss in some nuts to make the meal more filling.

Third, get a handle on portions, most of us each too much. To lose weight you have to eat proper portions. Don't have measuring cups or teaspoons around? Use your hand to measure. For me fish and poultry, one serving is about 3 ounces worth the size of the palm of your hand.

When eating mix nuts or raisins, aim for one quarter cup or one layer on your palm, one handful. For cereal or popcorn, one cup is a standard serving size, so use two cup hands to measure and those are just a few easy fat burning strategies to help you drop those last few unwanted pounds.

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Daily Orbit - Studying Saturn's Magnetosphere : 1 Introduction

Emerald Robinson: Has a hundred year old mystery been solved? Mind over robots, RoboBees have a lift off and honoring Tesla on today's Daily Orbit!

Hello and welcome to the Daily Orbit, I'm Emerald Robinson. Well Saturn is making headlines again this week, as researchers say they finally understand how the gas giant's magnetosphere changes with the seasons.

Why is this interesting? Scientists say this provides an important clue in understanding the planet's radio signal, which was once thought to be able to give an accurate measurement to the length of a Saturn day.

The new results could also help scientists better understand variations in the Earth's magnetosphere and the Van Allen radiation belts, which both affect things like spaceflight and cell service. Hey I'm all about research that keeps my cell service intact.

A blast lit up the sky in 1908, the force of which was a thousand times greater than the Hiroshima bomb and took out 80 million trees in an 800 square mile area. This has been known as the Tunguska Event. No one really knew the culprit, until now that is.

One scientist in Russia says that among rock samples he took from that area more than 20 years ago, three rocks are not Earthly in origin. He claims they are characteristic of meteorites with evidence of melting and regmaglypts, impressions typically caused by ablation as a rock falls through the atmosphere. He concludes a comet or asteroid collided with Earth that day. He named his three rocks; dental crown, whale and boat, which is which well, we'll let you be the judge.

And one of the most famous scientists of the twentieth century is being honored by what better than a science learning center and museum. Friends of Science East Incorporated partnered with the online comic Matthew Inman of TheOatmeal.

com, to raise enough money via crowd sourcing to purchase Wardenclyffe, the site in Shoreham, New York, where scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla planned to build his wireless communications and energy transmission tower in the early 1900s.

Due to financial woes, Tesla's dream was never realized. Known for his contributions to radio and electricity, Tesla's eccentricity earned him a mad scientist title. However, supporters of Tesla dream to restore the Wardenclyffe site laboratory and continue on Tesla's legacy. They say they'll need $10 million to complete the project and are calling on science lovers for contributions.

And as a robotics enthusiast himself, Tesla would have loved this next story. Engineers at Harvard have had their own robotic dreams come true, creating a flying insect robot known as RoboBee.

The team has been working more than a decade on this robot that is half the size of a paperclip, weighs less than a tenth a gram, and can flap its wings 120 times per second. The bug-bot currently has to be tethered to an energy source to fly and high energy-density fuel cells must be developed before the RoboBees will be able to fly with much independence.

Researchers say these tiny flying robots could one day help with environmental monitoring and crop pollination. And I loved what one engineer had to say; it's about the excitement of pushing the limits of what we think we can do the limits of human ingenuity. Well said, Mr. Scientist.

And here is another one the mad scientist would have loved, manipulating robots with your mind. Students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology are making all kinds of advancements in robotics.

One Master's student says he can control a robot with movements of his eyes, eyebrows and other parts of his face by hooking himself up to an EEG machine where electrodes read the activity of the brain and send a message to the robot to move in a pre-defined way.

Another team is working on controlling a robot with arm movements alone, attempting to train it to imitate human movements using the Kinect camera. And one supervisor at the University has developed a three-fingered grasper to improve robots' effectiveness in the manufacturing industry. So much Mr. Tesla would have loved. Well that does it for the Daily Orbit, I feel inspired to do the Robot, join me, Mr. Robotic.

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Make Better Food Choices At A BBQ : 1 Introduction

John Basedow is the creator of the best-selling Fitness Made Simple video series, which has helped to improve the bodies and lives of thousands of men and women. From starting out in his parent’s basement to being seen on television sets across the country and deemed a “pop culture icon” by the media, John’s journey is an American dream come true “rags to riches” story. Fueled by an undying persistence and his personal motto “believe in yourself and you can accomplish anything”, John has achieved international recognition and created a media empire with Fitness Made Simple, which includes DVD's, CD’s, supplements, and infomercials all aimed at raising awareness about the importance of making fitness a part of your life. John has been featured on numerous TV and radio shows as well as in print media ranging from the Los Angeles Times to the National Examiner. In fact, The New York Times places him alongside NASCAR and figure skating in the contemporary pantheon of “great American sports television phenomena” and Muscle & Fitness Magazine named him the top infomercial star of the past 10 years. In addition to being a model that’s graced the pages of many major magazines, John’s also a well respected columnist and author of Fitness Made Simple: The Power to Change Your Body & Life, his book, published by literary powerhouse McGraw-Hill, that details his personal story and highlights his complete exercise and nutrition program. He’s a frequent guest on FOX News Channel, a regular on the popular Sirius/XM Radio program Covino & Rich and a new personality on the national cooking series Taste This TV. Along with being a spokesmodel for Chamonix Skincare and Energize sports drink, John works with various charities, including the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association, for which he received an award and was the Honorary Spokesperson at their StepOut Walk To Fight Diabetes. John currently hosts & produces a popular YouTube show called New Media Stew, which started in August 2010 and features Motivational Minutes, Celebrity Nuggets Of Wisdom, Fit Tips, WTF segments, movie reviews, current event coverage and viewer interaction. John also speaks at the prestigious NAVEL Health & Wellness Expos and motivates people of all ages, from teenagers to grandparents, to follow their dreams with his popular Power To Change Your Body & Life Seminars. As John says, “If you can think it, you can do it. Don’t listen to negative people. If you focus on your goals, work hard and never quit, you can achieve anything.”

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