Ron Fournier, Kimberly Strassel, Charles Lane, and Karl Rove discuss N.J. governor Chris Christie’s attempts to move beyond investigations into the scandals plaguing his office. Chris Wallace moderates.
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Americans love to crank up the thermostat, especially in bitterly cold times like these.
But a new study suggests turning it down a few degrees could actually help you lose weight.
We know. Not what you wanted to hear right now.
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But Dutch researchers say regular exposure to mildly cold temperatures can make your body burn more calories to keep warm.
“Since most of us are exposed to indoor conditions 90 percent of the time, it is worth exploring health aspects of ambient temperatures,” lead author Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt told CNN. “What would it mean if we let our bodies work again to control body temperature?”
Lichtenbelt and his team have been studying the phenomena for the past 10 years.
While most animals (humans included) shiver to stay warm, another type of shivering — called non-shivering thermogenesis — occurs when the temperature is cool but not cold, according to the research.
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That type of shivering, activating what’s called “brown fat,” can burn up to 30 percent of the body’s energy and contribute to weight loss.
Brown fat, discovered in adults in 2009, burns calories instead of storing them like white fat.
So does this mean you should crank the heat down to 55 degrees and frolic about in a tank top and underwear?
Not necessarily. It’s more theory at this point, but researchers also said it wouldn’t hurt.
“It would do no harm,” Dr. Mitchell Lazar, chief of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania, told HealthDay. “It’s worth a try for someone who is having trouble losing weight by diet and exercise alone.”
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/health/140122/turning-down-thermostat-can-help-lose-weight-study
Finding Meaning in a Trumpeter’s Jagged Life and Death
Top of his game: Chet Baker in Los Angeles in 1954.Mike Zwerin wrote that by the 1980s,‘‘He began to resemble an old Indian, the last of a tribe that had seen a lot of suffering.’’
‘‘He was one of the first generation of masters who created the powerful American urban music that came to be called bebop. He was the last of them to remain faithful to heroin, long after the others had cleaned up or died young. It was a love affair more than a habit.’’
He was Chet Baker, the junkie trumpeter, a legend of sordidness and stone brilliance, who fell to his death at age 58 out the window of room 210 at the Hotel Prins Hendrik in Amsterdam, near the drug-dealing area on Zeedijk. The fall was seemingly drug-induced and probably came as he nodded off while sitting on a windowsill. It was three in the morning on May 13, 1988.
The writer, reporting from the scene a day or two later, was the late Mike Zwerin, the International Herald Tribune’s man on jazz. He had both musical authority — he played trombone with Miles Davis on a couple of tracks of his revered ‘‘Birth of the Cool’’ album (which is like having pinch hit in a baseball lineup alongside Babe Ruth and Willie Mays) — and a warm, approachable style in print that comforted his many strong judgments.
Of Chet, who lived in Europe for most of the ’80s, becoming a romanticized, broken-virtuoso commodity for Continental club owners and record producers, Mike reported:
‘‘The creases on his face had multiplied and deepened and his lips turned in over the dentures he had worn since his teeth were knocked out by angry dealers in San Francisco. He began to resemble an old Indian, the last of a tribe that had seen a lot of suffering.’’
Mike also pointed to a fierce irony: The mythic junkie had become an immense musician. After he embarrassingly won best-trumpeter polls as a ‘‘great white hope’’ in the 1950s in America, Mike insisted that Chet ‘‘on a good night in the middle 1980s was capable of playing jazz as well as it can be played, yet was dismissed as a has-been.’’
On his newspaper’s good days in the ’80s and ’90s, Mike Zwerin represented a big piece of its elegant, Paris-based eclecticism. Looking back to the sixties, Volker Schlöndorff, the Oscar-winning film director, said there were moments ‘‘when nothing could be more sexy than to be seen with a copy of the Herald Tribune sticking out of your coat pocket.’’
The IHT had people who wrote about jazz, fashion, the art markets and eurobonds, but no White House correspondent, or anyone on the front lines in the Balkans — the news turbines of its publishers since 1967, The New York Times and The Washington Post, did those jobs masterfully for the Trib.
Rather, the IHTs editorial page editor, Robert Donohue, wrote about rugby’s Five Nations Tournament, and Sam Abt, the paper’s deputy editor, filled columns for years with insights into cycling and the Tour de France.
The IHT tried to pick its spots carefully.
Tom Buerkle, writing from Brussels, enraged European Union bureaucrats by showing how the bloc’s own statistical service demonstrated that Germany and France had areas of poverty greater than corresponding ones in the United States.
And when the European Union seriously considered taking Turkey in as a member, the newspaper sent Tom Fuller to Turkey’s borders with Iran, Iraq and Syria to report strikingly on how real life appeared at what were projected to become Europe’s frontiers.
For the record, the day of Chet Baker’s death, Mike Zwerin complained like hell about having to stir himself and head for Amsterdam on a couple of hours notice. And in the middle of the afternoon! He was told that breathing the air of the canals would do him great good.
The piece he wrote, probably smoking and still cursing, remains fine reading.
