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  • Calorie Restriction and Fasting Effects

    Posted on by Sierra Knapp

    People are always trying to lose weight and get into a healthy lifestyle these days and the effects on the body can range from good to bad – depending on what their diet and new lifestyle contains. Calorie restrictions and fasting can have similar effects that can be good or bad, depending on how they do it.

    Calorie restriction is simply reducing the amount of regular calorie intake by 30-60%, while still “maintaining a diet that provides enough nutrients to prevent malnutrition” (Edward). The article also states that “[s]scientists believe calorie restriction stimulates a defensive state designed to help an organism survive environmental and metabolic adversity” (Edward). Continue reading → Post ID 600

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  • Natural Gas brings end to Coal

    Posted on by Sierra Knapp

                Coal is mainly used for electricity, but there are other ways to generate electricity including natural gas, hydro and nuclear power. Coal is dying though. How can this be? Why is this happening? Furthermore, why is it not coming back as an economic force in the United States?

    What is coal exactly? “Coal is a fossil fuel and is the altered remains of prehistoric vegetation that originally accumulated in swamps and peat bogs. The energy we get from coal today comes from the energy that plants absorbed from the sun millions of years ago” (World Coal Association). Basically, when plants die, their energy gets trapped because their “decaying process is interrupted, preventing the release of the stored solar energy,” and that’s where the energy gets locked in the coal (World Coal Association).

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