Beige Fat

It has been studied that white fat, as opposed to brown fat, stores as opposed to burns energy. Scientists have discovered beige fat.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_127172.html

My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on http://www.Authorhouse.com and http://www.Amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories. 

Some Useful Fitness Scientific Articles

Here is a list of just a few great articles. Look in the references to find more. I will only list year, title, and link. You can look around for these on the Internet to see if they are available full text for free.

2012 Effects of Dietary Composition on Energy Expenditure During Weight-Loss Maintenance
http://apps.library.nyu.edu/search/dublincore/dataservices

Exercise intensity: Why it matters, how it's measured http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/exercise-intensity/SM00113

2009 GOAT links dietary lipids with the endocrine control of energy balance. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19503064

Deterioration of physical performance and cognitive function in rats with short-term high-fat feeding.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19667117


 2008 The lipid messenger OEA links dietary fat intake to satiety http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18840358

I think therefore I am: perceived ideal weight as a determinant of health. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18235062

Diet Quality and Academic Performance http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1746-1561.2008.00288.x/abstract

 2006 Consumption of Saturated Fat Impairs the Anti-Inflammatory Properties of High-Density Lipoproteins and Endothelial Function http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16904539
   
My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on http://www.Authorhouse.com and http://www.Amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.

New Study on Fish Oil

This says it may not be so beneficial for the heart. To find more studies, search Google or Pubmed.gov

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/11/us-heart-omega-idUSBRE88A1C020120911

Fat May Still Be Fit

As I ahve written, connect to yourself to see where you are at...This may pertain more to women, which have  a lot more fat, on average, than men have.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2198513/People-fat-AND-fit-study-finds-obesity-doesnt-automatically-lead-ill-health.html?ITO=1490

The Perfect Female Genitalia

Well, this isn't exactly fitness but it has to do with the mind-body connection:

This has been going on for years. I am all for looking and feeling great. I happened to reread Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth lately, though, and this is perfect for it. Let's all run to get the perfect genitalia and make more plastic surgeons happy, in case some beer-bellied man finds an imperfection. WTF http://news.yahoo.com/gynecologists-alarmed-plastic-surgery-trend-130429013.html

Psychology Today Article on Men and Curves

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201206/eternal-curves

This article author states that human women have seven times more body fat than any other animal but hibernating bears or penguins facing a harsh winter. He goes on to say that lower body fat deposits are depleted most in pregnancy and that fat and stored DHA here may be directly proportional to brain health and intelligence of the infant, whose brain is seven times larger than that in other animals.However, women today on average have less DHA in their fat than they did 40 years ago because of diets containing more omega-6 than omega-3 fats.

My third book, Pocket Guide to Fitness, is available on http://www.Authorhouse.com and http://www.Amazon.com. If you look up my name on those Web sites, you will find my other books The Boy in a Wheelchair and Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories.