Physical Activity Keeps the Mind Sharp

Physical Activity Keeps the Mind Sharp

Two recent studies have found that elderly women who are physically active are less likely to suffer from cognitive decline, that is, their minds remained sharper than others' who were sedentary.
Italian researchers measured the mental status of 1,200 70- to 75-year-old women and then followed up 12 years later with 364 who were still living. They defined a high level of physical activity as walking at least 2 km (about 1-1/4 miles) a day.
They found that women with low levels of physical activity at the beginning of the test were more than twice as likely to experience mental decline during the 12 years of follow-up. Cognitive decline occurred in 16.7% of the high-activity women but in 39.5 percent of those with low activity levels.
Additional research will be needed to clarify why this is so. But meanwhile, findings such as these are another good reason to keep physically active.

Health Benefits of Physical Fitness

Health Benefits of Physical Fitness

Regular activity has a number of proven, positive health effects, especially on heart health. Vigorous exercise strengthens the heart as a pump, making it a larger, more efficient muscle. Even moderate activity can boost HDL ('good') cholesterol, aid the circulatory system, and lower blood pressure and blood fats. All these effects translate into reduced risk for heart disease, heart attack, and stroke.
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Exercise can also offer other benefits, including strengthened muscles, increased flexibility, and stronger bones, which can help ward off the bone-thinning condition called osteoporosis.
Regular activity also promises mental-health benefits, like relieving stress and anxiety. It can help you sleep better and renew your energy. If exercise could be bottled, it would be a best-selling potion at the local pharmacy.
Activity is for Everyone
Virtually everyone can get health benefits from activity. But every few years, surveys confirm the well-known fact that most people aren't active enough. Unfortunately, we pay for it. The American Heart Association attributes about 250,000 deaths a year in the US - about 12 percent of total deaths - to lack of regular physical activity.
The reasons for inactivity aren't hard to figure out. Most of us have jobs where we sit most of the time, so chances are limited to be physically active at work. We also rely heavily on modern, labor-saving devices - cars, appliances, and power tools - to spare us manual effort.
But there's another reason why many people, especially the overweight, avoid activity. Check out the firm, supple bodies shown exercising on television or on magazine covers. They give the impression that exercise is sweaty, strenuous work best reserved for the young, super-fit, and athletic. But the latest research is proving that picture false: Benefits can be gained even from low-intensity activity, like gardening.


Activity and Weight Management
If you burn more calories than you consume, then you'll shed pounds. For every extra 3,500 calories you spend, you'll drop one pound. Do strenuous exercise, and you'll burn calories in a hurry. And you can burn the same number of calories with gentler activity: You just have to do it longer and/or more often.


If you're not familiar with the number of calories burned during exercise, you may be discouraged when you first learn about it. For instance, if you weigh 150 pounds and go on a brisk, 1-mile walk for 20 minutes, you'll expend about 100 calories, considerably short of the 3,500 calories needed to drop a pound.


But such efforts add up. If you expend an extra 300 calories a day through activity and reduce your dietary intake another 200 calories, then by the end of a week, you'll have a calorie deficit of 3,500, comparable to a one-pound weight loss. This is precisely the kind of gradual success that experts recommend for long-term weight management.


Exercise also has other body-slimming effects. It builds muscle and displaces fat. A given volume of muscle weighs more than the same bulk of fat. So your bathroom scale may not record dramatic changes, but your clothes will be looser, and you'll have a trimmer body shape.


Because exercise builds muscle, it may also help counter a problem caused by dieting. When you reduce calories, your body metabolism may slack off and burn calories more slowly. This makes further weight loss more difficult. But some research suggests regular activity helps correct this slowdown and makes it easier to keep shedding pounds.


How Activity Affects Calorie Needs
The more active you are, the more calories you'll burn, which can help with weight loss. And exercise also promotes fat loss and builds muscle. This, in turn, increases your body's metabolic rate, the rate at which you burn calories, even after you've finished exercising.


Weight loss by reducing your calorie intake without activity can have just the opposite effect: It can cause your body to break down muscle, which ultimately lowers your metabolic rate and makes losing weight even harder.


The problem of reducing your calorie intake without exercise is compounded when people go off their diets. Because they've lost muscle, they tend to regain their weight quickly and then some.


A better approach is to increase activity, which builds muscle, at the same time that you're cutting back on excess calories from food. Physical activity can also reduce stress and regulate your appetite, making it easier to curb the urge to overeat.


The amount of energy needed for any activity, whether it's raking leaves or playing a computer game, depends on three factors: your muscle mass, your body weight, and the activity itself. The larger the muscle mass and heavier the body part being moved, the more calories you use. The duration, frequency, and intensity of exercise also count.


http://www.lifeclinic.com/focus/nutrition/fitness-benefits.asp

cara membuat label berputar (label cloud)

cara membuat label berputar (label cloud)

Dalam potingan kali ini curny-awant akan membuat label berputar (label cloud) langsung aja deh.
caranya :

1. Masuk ke Blogger dengan ID sobat!
2. Pilih Rancangan
3. Edit HTML
4. Kasih tanda ceklis pada Expand Template Widget
5. aku ingatkan lagi nieh!! "back up dulu template kalau sobat takut gagal"
6. Cari kode ini : <b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'>
   cara mencarinya tekan "ctrl+f (menggunakan keyboar)" paste kode di atas "klik find next". ketemu kan??.. kalau tidak ktmu cari yang ini saja <b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar1' preferred='yes'>
   jika tidak ketemu juga cari saja kode yang mirip seperti itu.. masalahnya template blogger berbeda2
7. Copy seluruh kode dibawah ini, terus paste tepat dibawah kode di atas (yang tadi di cari).

<b:widget id='Label100' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'>
<h2><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<script src='http://sites.google.com/site/bloggerustemplatus/code/swfobject.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<div id='flashcontent'>Blogumulus by <a href='http://www.roytanck.com/'>Roy
Tanck</a> and <a href='http://www.bloggerbuster.com'>Amanda Fazani</a></div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var so = new SWFObject("http://sites.google.com/site/bloggerustemplatus/code/tagcloud.swf", "tagcloud", "240", "300", "7", "#ffffff");
// uncomment next line to enable transparency
//so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
so.addVariable("tcolor", "0x333333");
so.addVariable("mode", "tags");
so.addVariable("distr", "true");
so.addVariable("tspeed", "100");
so.addVariable("tagcloud", "<tags><b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'><a expr:href='data:label.url' style='18'><data:label.name/></a></b:loop></tags>");
so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always");
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</div>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

8 Gantilah tulisan yang berwarna merah dengan tulisan yang ingin sobat tampilkan
Angka 240 dan 300 merupakan width dan height dari label clouds, ganti oleh sobat sesuai dengan ukuran lebar dan panjang sidebar blog anda
Kode warna #ffffff merupakan kode dari warna hitam yaitu warna dari lay out label clouds, gantilah dengan warna pilihan sobat
Kode 333333 merupakan kode warna putih dari tulisan yang akan muncul, ganti kode warna tersebut dengan warna pilihan sobat.
Angka 100 merupakan kecepatan perputarantulisan dalam label clouds, semakin besar angkanya semakin cepat berputarnya tulisan dalam label clouds, begitu juga sebaliknya,
Angka 18 merupakan ukuran tulisan yang akan muncul di dalam label clouds.

9. klik tombol (save) Simpan template.

selesai

Dual-Touch Screen Mini Laptop

Dual-Touch Screen Mini Laptop

Toshiba has launched a new dual-screen, touch-screen mini laptop designed for surfing the internet, sending and receiving emails and keeping up to speed with social networking sites on the move. 
The Libretto W100 runs Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system, and has two 7in, LED-backlit touch-screens. Toshiba says its compact size and clamshell form factor provides "unrivalled flexibility". 
"One screen can be used for content creation, like Word documents or emails, while the other could be used to browse the web, social networks or multimedia programs," said Toshiba, the company that invented the laptop 25 years ago. "Additionally, the device can also be used vertically thanks to an integrated accelerometer." 
Users type on a virtual keyboard, which boasts hectic feedback to provide a physical sense of keys being pressed. The Libretto W100 uses an Intel processor and a 62GB solid state drive to store applications, documents and movies, photos and music. It features integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and there is also a 3G version that will enable users to surf the web using the mobile phone network.


sources :http://www.bukisa.com/articles/535112_dual-touch-screen-mini-laptop 
Toshiba also unveiled two other new laptops, the Portege R700 and AC100. The R700 is a lightweight laptop with a 13in screen, which uses a new cooling system to ensure it doesn't overheat, while the AC100 is only 14mm thick and runs Google's Android operating system. Toshiba said it could boot up in less than a second, allowing users to get online quickly and easily. 
All three new laptops will go on sale next month. Toshiba has not yet confirmed pricing details for any of the devices. 
The Toshiba Libretto W100 is an innovative little computer which is either a dual screen tablet or a mini-laptop with a virtual keyboard instead of a physical one, depending on how you look at it. Toshiba plans to offer a limited number of the devices soon, but right now it’s only available in Japan — 
unless you’re willing to drop $1400 to order a unit from Conics, a retailer that specializes in exporting Asian computers to the West. 
The folks at Wow Pow managed to get their hands on a unit from Conics, with the Japanese operating system converted to English. The site has the first unboxing video for the Libretto W100 that I’ve seen. There are also a couple of video overviews of the device. You can check out all the videos after the break.
As a quick refresher, the Toshiba Libretto W100 has two 7 inch capacitive touchscreen displays with resolutions of 1024 x 600 pixels. It has a 1.2GHz Intel Pentium U5400 processor, 2GB of DDR3 memory, and a 62GB solid state disk. The device supports 802.11b/g/n WiFi, WiMAX, and Bluetooth and has a webcam, USB port, microSD card slot, and comes with 2 or 4 hour batteries. It weighs just over 1.5 pounds. 
Probably one of the most interesting things Toshiba has done with this device is give it several different virtual keyboards, allowing you to hold it in two hands and type with your thumbs or place it on a tablet and treat it like a traditional laptop. You can see more about the virtual keyboards in my first look video. 
The list price is expected to be around $1100, but Conics charges a premium for exporting the tablet from Japan. There’s no word on when the Libretto W100 will officially launch in the US.

V-Class

V-Class

V-class (Virtual class)

mungkin buat mahasiswa baru universitas gunadarma bertanya-tanya apa sih v-class itu?, apa sih keuntungan dan kerugian dari v-class? nah saya akan membahas satu persatu dari pertanyaan diatas.

apa sih v-class itu?

jadi v-class itu sebuah situs yang disediakan oleh universitas gunadarma yang digunakan untuk belajar dalam bentuk online (kaya chat diroom gitu) jadi mahasiswa ga usah jauh-jauh ke kampus buat belajar trus bagi yang lagi keluar kota dalam beberapa hari masa kita harus jauh-jauh datang ke kampus enggak kan !

keuntungan v-clas

• mahasiswa ga usah jauh-jauh dateng ke kampus
• bisa belajar sambil dengerin musik
• bisa belajar sambil tiduran
• pokonya banyak deh

kerugian v-class

• mahasiswa tidak belajar dengan serius (itu tergantung dari mahasiswanya sendiri)
• kalo mati lampu (mati listrik) kita ga bias hadir (itu bagi yang memakai PC)
• boros bagi yang ga pasang internet dirumah tapi jangan khawatir universitas gunadarma berfasilitas wifi

sedikit saja dari saya, karena saya juga belum pernah belajar dalam bentuk v-class kalo mau tau fitur v-class klik aja http://v-class.gunadarma.ac.id kalo mau tau lebih lanjut daftar aja tahun depan di universitas gunadarma !

Catatan: v-class ini hanya bias digunakan bagi mahasiswa unviersitas Gunadarma yang sudah memiliki akun studentsite