Friday, July 10, 2009

Orthorexia

Orthorexia refers to the condition characterized by excessive focus on eating healthy foods. In rare cases, this focus may turn into a fixation so extreme that it can lead to severe malnutrition or even death. The term Orthorexia was caused by Steven Bratman from the Greek orthos, "correct or right", and orexis for "appetite" thus making Orthorexia mean "correct Appetite."
Steve Bratman says that "Obsession with healthy food can progress to the point where it crowds out other activities and interests, impairs relationships, and even becomes physically dangerous. When this happens, orthorexia takes on the dimensions of a true eating disorder, like anorexia nervosa or bulimia".
Most often, orthorexia is merely a source of psychological distress, not a physical danger. However, emaciation is common among followers of certain health food diets, such raw foodism, and this can at times reach the extremes seen in anorexia nervosa. Eating disorder specialists may fail to understand this distinction, leading to a disconnect between orthorexic and physician.

Tour De France Stage 7

Tour De France Stage 7 from Ordino to Orcalis is about 2,231 feet vertical. This is a wonderful place for skiing at winter yet we will find our here who is probably better in the Tour De France. Will Lance Armstrong win this stage setting himself a duel with Contador? The Stage 7 of the 2009 Tour De France will tell us if Lance Armstrong can keep up with his fellow team mate Alberto Contador and the likes of defending champion Carlos Sastre and runner up Dennis Menchov.
When it comes to Pyreenes, Lance smells blood while the sprinters smell death. I will provide you the 2009 Tour De France Stage 7 Results just after the event. Tour De France Stage 7 2009 is from Ordino Barcelonan to Arcalis Andora. Less than a week in and the mountains arrive with the first Hors Category climb of the race. Not only does this stage introduce the peloton to this Tour's mountains but it is also the longest stage of the race at 224kms.
Early on the riders crest and descend the fourth category Cote de Montserrat, from then on it is virtually a non stop drag up towards the Pyrenees. The peloton's legs get their first real test on the category one Col de Serra-Seca, a climb of over 7.5kms to 1,160 metres, they then climb higher, to 1,249 metres on the Port del Comte before plummeting back down to 560 metres. And then the fun begins.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Google Operating System

Google Chrome has always been a little more than a browser: it's optimized for running web applications, each tab runs as a separate process, the interface is minimalistic and there's even a task manager. "We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser.
Google's blog announces a natural extension of the Chrome project: an operating system for netbooks. "Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.
This idea is not new and there are already operating systems optimized for the browser. For example, Good OS announced last year Cloud, an operating system that "integrates a web browser with a compressed Linux operating system kernel for immediate access to Internet, integration of browser and rich client applications, and full control of the computer from inside the browser".
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