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What Does the Zodiac Sign Say about You Losing Weight? Part 2

Libra

In order to be beautiful and healthy you need to include foods that can cleanse your organism:

+ carrots, asparagus, beet, corn, rice; and fruits like figs, apples, strawberries, peaches, blueberries, raisins.

Sometimes you get nervous, like we all do, but in order to cope with your anger easier you need to eat more foods rich in cooper and these are:

+ cucumbers, radishes, green salad; and meats like sea food; and of course cereals made of oats, wheat germ; more foods you need to include in your menu are: potatoes, apricot, pear, grapes.

Scorpio

Avoid fatty foods. But that is valid for everyone who wants to lose weight no matter what zodiac sight they are.

- Exclude butter and cream from your menu.

+ Instead include more fish and sea food rich in proteins; also eat more eggs, milk products and game.

You will feel much better and in very good health if you eat plenty of fresh and dried fruits. They aid in toxins excretion, support your immune system and help you be in high spirits.

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Aries

These are the foods you need to include into our daily menu (or if you are already eating them - you should increase the amounts you eat):

+ Beet, celery, cauliflower, spinach, onion, mustard, radishes, carrots, cucumbers, dates, apples, lemons and walnuts.

Using more from these foods you will cope one and for all with the nasty headache and nervousness you experience sometimes.

You need enough amounts of iron and proteins to keep you muscle tissue in good condition, so no more muscle aches if you eat plenty of beans, lentils, peas and of course - meat.

Taurus

You are known for your passion for sweets and pastry. Your metabolism is slower and needs a boost, so it is recommended to eat more foods rich in Vitamin A such as:

+ meat (pigs liver), cod liver oil, liver pate, raw carrots, sweet potato.

To cope with the excess amount of water your body keeps you need to eat more:

+ spinach, beet, cauliflower and cabbage, onion, pumpkin and radishes.

You need more Vitamin E (sun flower seeds, almonds, tomatoes) and iodine (haddock, cod, condensed milk, eggs).

Gemini

To keep your neuro system in good condition you need more calcium, so eat more milk products and cabbage.

What else you should add to your menu is:

+ Protein rich foods, lean meat, fish, eggs, cheese, walnuts, sesame and soy.

You also need extra potassium for your heart from:

+ peas, beet, carrots, cauliflower, corns; and fruits like apricots, peaches, plums and pineapple.

Cancer

In order to lose weight you should not overeat with too much sweets, pastry and fats (but that applies for all the zodiac signs).

You need more proteins and sea foods, which supply your organism with enough iodine.

These are the foods you need to include in your daily menu (or to increase their consumption if you are already eating  them):

+ More milk products, citrus fruits, raisins, cabbage, onions, pumpkin, and rye bread.

Leo

To balance your diet plan and make it healthier you need to include the following foods to your menu:

+ Lemons, plenty of fruits and vegetable, salads, wholegrain rye bread, almonds.

You should avoid animal fats as they can cause arteriosclerosis.

Milk products are very healthy for you, as well as lean meat, soy and fruits rich in Vitamin C.

You might recall the recently voiced suggestion that it's something of an accident of history that the cryonics movement is the cryonics movement versus the plastination movement. Plastination is plausibly just as good a way of preserving the fine structure of the brain into a future where a patient can be restored to life as low-temperature storage.

Twenty years ago, Charles B. Olson published an article called "A Possible Cure for Death" in the journal Medical Hypotheses. In it, he favorably compares methods of chemical preservation to cryogenic preservation. Unfortunately, this article provoked no wide discussion or attempts at implementation. As the author notes on his website, other than requests for reprints, "nothing more came of it." And yet the arguments in it are still sound and just as persuasive today as they were then.

Not so long ago on the Cryonet list, a fellow asked: "How can we help those who cannot afford cryonics?" This is a valid question, given that the high level purpose of cryonics is to offer some alternative to oblivion for those who die before the advent of working rejuvenation medicine. While cryonics is very affordable if you plan ahead and take out a low-cost life insurance plan, there will always be those who get caught short through no fault of their own.

Here, plastination steps forward as a possible alternative that would cost little more than what is already spent on the disposal of remains. Plastinate the brain for the cost of an embalming, and cremate the rest. You're now set for a good number of decades in any very low-cost storage facility.

The way we do it is chemical preservation with the option to convert to cryopreservation. ... A hospital pathologist can remove the brain and submerge it in fixative. It would be shipped after 1 week in fixative. Permanent storage could be in fixative for the truly indigent. But a better option for those who could afford it would be to convert to cryopreservation. The cost might start at about $20,000, but could get down to about $12,000 after the first few due to economies of scale. The brain would remain in fixative until the full cryopreservation cost was paid for, and only then go into a dewar.

The economic advantages are considerable due to cutting out the need for a standby team to prepare a patient for cryopreservation - though as noted in the past, open questions remain as to how important it is to act quickly and whether and to what degree different types of preservation strategy affect the preservation of brain structures important to the mind's data.

But all of the above discussed options are better than no plan at all, a path that leads to oblivion and the grave. This is just another of the many ways in which the world we live in is a madhouse of waste, death, and destruction compared to other plausible worlds - such as the one in which people generally chose to have their brains plastinated and stored at death for the past few decades, allowing hundreds of millions of the deceased a shot at living again in the future. But in this world, they are all dead and gone, lost forever.

If you've been following along for the past couple of years, you'll recall that one important part of aging is the build-up of damaging biochemicals both within and between our cells. These by-products of metabolism eventually grow to a level at which they greatly interfere with the functioning of our cells, tissues, and organs - or even kill us.

What we'd really like to see developed over the next decade or two is an outgrowth of the targeted nanotechnology, immune therapies, and viral therapies presently in the laboratory aimed at these aggregates. Given that we make it to 30 years of age without too much harm resulting, getting the build-up cleaned out every decade should prevent it from contributing to aging in any way.

Of course that's much easier to say than accomplish, and there are many, many different forms of unwanted biochemical involved in this part of the aging process. Fortunately for us, I think that the parallel labor of listing and then figuring out how to safely break down many different biochemicals is a task well suited to the years ahead, in which biotechnology becomes very cheap, and many new hands join the workforce.

Meanwhile, a wide range of potential strategies for attacking, slowing, or preventing the build up of specific biochemicals are emerging. I noted a couple not so long ago. Here's another recent line of work.

Survival mode that protects cells when oxygen is low also slows aging:

A cell's protective reaction to a drop in oxygen is called the hypoxic response. Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have found that nematode worms live longer if their genetic make-up permits their cells to turn on the hypoxic response under normal oxygen conditions.

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"The research findings suggest that the hypoxic response promotes longevity and reduces the accumulation of toxic proteins by a mechanism that is distinct from both dietary restriction and insulin-like signaling. It appears to be an alternative pathway, "Kaeberlein said. "However, we don't know if future studies might reveal that all of these different genetic pathways converge somewhere down the line into a common mechanism for delaying the effects of age."

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The key factor that controls the hypoxic response is called HIF. HIF is regulated by another protein called VHL-1 ... animals lacking VHL-1 were resistant to the toxic proteins known to cause Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's diseases, and that their cells accumulated less of an age-pigment called lipofuscin. Lipofuscin is thought to be one indicator of an animal's health during aging. According to Kaeberlein, "these observations may suggest that the hypoxic response not only increases life span, but also lengthens health span and protects against the molecular processes that lead to