Calorie restriction, involves eating about 30 percent fewer calories than normal while still getting adequate amounts of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Aside from direct genetic manipulation, calorie restriction is the only strategy known to extend life consistently in a variety of animal species.
Read on and eat well to live well.
Read on and eat well to live well.
More on the Schneider story from a week or so ago.
The German feuilletonists were quick to react negatively to Gregor Schneider's proposal to create an artwork showing someone on their deathbead, opines Brigitte Werneburg in the Tageszeitung. Werneburg reminds readers that Schneider is not the first to attempt to capture death with art. She cites Bill Viola and Sophie Calle, who both made films about the death of a parent. For Werneburg, Schneider—who is looking for a willing volunteer—is closer to Joseph Beuys, albeit "the Big Brother Version" of Beuys's social sculpture. Werneburg notes another similarity with German history: Schneider was born in Rheydt, just like Joseph Goebbels, "a master not only of propaganda but also self-propaganda." Haus Lange Museum in Krefeld, Germany, where the artist proposed to create his work, declined to comment. According to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, German politicians, the Protestant Church, and the National Association of German Undertakers are all indignant over the proposal.
Yet there may be some bright news for Schneider's morbid project. TheFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's Andreas Rossmann reports that Father Friedhelm S. J. Mennekes, who led Cologne's Artstation St. Peter from 1981 until recently, believes that it's "not taboo" to think about death. In fact, in 2006, Father Mennekes recalls having lengthly conversations with an artist about doing an exhibition "in this sphere." "The question of exhibiting a dead person was posed at that time," Father Mennekes told the FAZ. "We took distance because it was too close to the church and we believed that it belongs in the museum." He sees the museum as a parallel space to the church "for reflecting and thinking" that is predestined to debate "the existential perspectives of meaning of man."
fights cancer cells and makes them want to kill themselves. That's all, just believe in yourself and go for some Indian food, it's mad good for you.
This woman was super old when she died.
122 years of super oldness.
Here's three crazy things about this old super woman:
1) She was riding a bike until she was 100!
2) She met Van Gogh!
3) She only gave up smoking because she went blind
and wanted to light her own cigarettes! (this is funny but for real, don't smoke!)
Watch this vid it is cheezy and hilarious, she was only 114 in this!
This is mental. What we except as the truth about healthy water consumption is actually kind of made up. Read below and decide for yourself.
Drinking a lot of water is supposed to be healthy, but there is apparently little scientific support for the belief. A review of clinical studies has found no evidence that drinking eight glasses of water a day, the usual recommendation, is beneficial to a healthy person.
Numerous claims have been made about water — that it prevents headaches, removes dangerous “poisons,” improves the function of various organs and is associated with reduced risk for various diseases. But none of these is supported by scientific evidence. The authors were not even able to find a study leading to the “eight glasses a day” rule,
whose origin remains unknown.
The researchers, in the June issue of The Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, say some studies have found evidence that drinking extra water helps the kidneys clear sodium, and long-term sodium retention might increase the risk of hypertension, but no clinical significance for the phenomenon has been established. Water also helps clear urea, but urea is not a toxin.
There is “intriguing” evidence that water might help decrease appetite and control weight gain, write the authors, who say this might be worth more research.
“Under normal circumstances,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a co-author and a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, “drinking extra water is unnecessary. I want to relieve people of the burden of schlepping water bottles around all day long.”
Source: NICHOLAS BAKALAR. New York Times.
Rise early, raise testosterone naturally.
Researchers from the University of California/San Diego School of Medicine found that early-morning light raised levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) by 70%. LH is involved in the production of testosterone, a hormone which can help men to build muscle, cut fat, and raise mood.
Testosterone is slowly depleted as we get older, some theories suggest that stabilizing it's levels can prolong life and reduce the signs of ageing.
Seen above is a diagram of Testosterone that clearly does not illustrate anything to do with what we're talking about.
Links to his past shows:
And here's more info on the Silence = Death slogan.
From the Encyclopedia of AIDS:
“The pink triangle was established as a pro-gay symbol by activists in the United States during the 1970s. Its precedent lay in World War II, when known homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps were forced to wear inverted pink triangle badges as identifiers, much in the same manner that Jews were forced to wear the yellow Star of David. Wearers of the pink triangle were considered at the bottom of the camp social system and subjected to particularly harsh maltreatment and degradation. Thus, the appropriation of the symbol of the pink triangle, usually turned upright rather than inverted, was a conscious attempt to transform a symbol of humiliation into one of solidarity and resistance. By the outset of the AIDS epidemic, it was well-entrenched as a symbol of gay pride and liberation.
In 1987, six gay activists in New York formed the Silence = Death Project and began plastering posters around the city featuring a pink triangle on a black background stating simply ‘SILENCE = DEATH.’ In its manifesto, the Silence = Death Project drew parallels between the Nazi period and the AIDS crisis, declaring that ‘silence about the oppression and annihilation of gay people, then and now, must be broken as a matter of our survival.’ The slogan thus protested both taboos around discussion of safer sex and the unwillingness of some to resist societal injustice and governmental indifference. The six men who created the project later joined the protest group ACT UP and offered the logo to the group, with which it remains closely identified.
Since its introduction, the ‘SILENCE = DEATH’ logo has appeared in a variety of manifestations, including in neon as part of an art display and on a widely worn button. It was also the forerunner of a range of parallel slogans such as ‘ACTION = LIFE’ and ‘IGNORANCE = FEAR’ and an entire genre of protest graphics, most notably including a bloodstained hand on a poster proclaiming that ‘the government has blood on its hands.’ Owing in part to its increasing identification with AIDS, the pink triangle was supplanted in the early 1990s by the rainbow as the dominant image of ‘gay pride.’ By force of analogy, however, the rainbow itself has, in some countries, become an image associated with AIDS.”
Figuratively and possibly literally.Artist Wayne Martin Belger has created a camera that contains blood that is HIV positive. The blood is used as a filter through which images of people diagnosed with HIV are photographed by Belger.$20 says he has at least one Danzig album in his collection.
A pretty potent and might I say high-risk effort by the photographer, and candid undertaking on the part of the subject.
Click here to read more and see images made using the camera.
(Via OMG via Greydon)
This just in, via Artforum.com:
(from Jon Knowles)
GREGOR SCHNEIDER SEEKS SOMEONE WILLING TO DIE FOR ARTNot awesome.
Never one to shy away from controversy, the artist Gregor Schneider has begun a search for someone willing to die as part of a performance. “I want to display a person dying naturally in the piece or somebody who has just died,” he told the Art Newspaper's Gareth Harris. “My aim is to show the beauty of death.” Schneider has noted his desire to stage the performance at the Haus Lange museum in Krefeld, Germany, also saying that if the museum refuses, he will stage the performance in a studio space in his hometown of Rheydt, also in Germany. The museum declined to comment.
(from Jon Knowles)
In a post a few months back we told you about how Allen Ginsberg came up with the name for our foundation. Well here he is again making things lovely by speaking through Beck about himself online. Amazing!
