Still, it’s evidence that the benefits of regular exercise are more than physical.

Dr. Alan J. Gelenberg, who chairs the department of psychiatry at Penn State told Reuters that there is evidence that exercise is useful in the prevention of and treatment for depression.

Research from 90 previous similar studies found that people’s depressive symptoms, as rated on a variety of psychological scales, dropped about 22 percent with exercise overall.

So get moving, you’ll feel better!

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Texas Republican Congressman Lamar Smith

Cue the little orange people, the wicked bill aimed to destroy the Internet has died (for the time being)!

Mashable reports that Texas Republican Lamar Smith has pulled the bill “until there is wider agreement on a solution.”

The decision comes just two days after a widespread public boycott of the bill by Wikipedia, Reddit and others made it extremely clear that there was growing disdain for the bill. Several key members of Congress shifted their position on the bill, and it’s counterpart in the Senate, the Protect IP Act is also stalled out due to a lack of support.

What remains clear is that our elected officials do not fully understand how the Internet works, nor do they fully represent the interests of the people who have voted them into office.

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• SOPA and PIPA both shelved for now. (arstechnica.com)
• SOPA Author Attacks Wikipedia, Schedules Debate on Bill (mashable.com)
• Rep. Lamar Smith, SOPA Author, Blasts Wikipedia over Blackout (blippitt.com)
• Photo Du Jour: Stop SOPA (sfist.com)
• The Web Wins: SOPA & PIPA Now Dead in the Water (omgubuntu.co.uk)

The topic of diabetes has gotten a lot of attention in the past week. While I’m happy to see the disease getting more general exposure, and Americans gaining a better understanding about the disease, I have found myself extremely frustrated that its quickly jumped onto that growing list of conditions and problems that can be solved by taking “medicine” (there’s a pill for that, right?).

Prevention is THE BEST medicine. Diabetes can be cured without a needle or a pill. But there lies the challenge. It takes a ton of discipline and often times a person has to undo decades of bad habits to get healthy. From my perspective, most unhealthy Americans lack the ability to change their lifestyles to make themselves well.

Sure you could eat like crap, avoid exercise and otherwise take very bad care of yourself and never have a problem. A lot of people do. But that is essentially playing Russian roulette with your future. You could skate by “scott-free.” The alternative: someday in your future you could find yourself in a doctor’s office staring at a dramatically altered future full of alarming news and warnings. Unpleasant realities that could include a loss of vision, a lack of feeling in your hands and feet, the loss of a toe, or worse, losing a limb. My father was a type 2 diabetic, and I had a front row seat with how evil the disease can be.

While a lot depends on genetic makeup and a predisposition to the disease, diabetes does not play favorites. It needs no celebrity messenger, no messiah.

Does it need a cure? Before we cure diabetes, we need to cure our own ignorance toward our own health. The things that prevent diabetes are largely within our control; diet, exercise, sleep. Be your own cure. Never get diabetes in the first place.

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I’m still confident that the majority of lawmakers have no idea what the bills would actually do, they just know their constituents are not happy with their support of both bills.

According to Fight for the Future (an online petition site leading the charge against SOPA/PIPA), as of Wednesday night, there are now 35 Senators publicly opposing PIPA.  Last week there were 5.   And it just takes just 41 solid “no” votes to permanently stall PIPA (and SOPA) in the Senate.

Mashable has the full write-up here.

If you have not yet contacted your federal lawmakers, please do so, here

Also, you should sign the petition at Fight for the Future

Wikipedia goes dark for 24 hours in protest of SOPA, raising the question: do they expect us to go to the library like a common masturbator?

Tobyotter via flickr

While it’s not yet time for a music festival or rubber wristbands, hipsters are in trouble.

Those iPod listenin’, skinny-jeans wearin’, too kool for skool — but never too hot to wear a wool beanie — hipsters are getting taken out at an increasingly alarming rate as serious injuries involving pedestrians wearing headphones have more than tripled since 2004, a U.S. study showed.

In 70 percent of cases, the headphone-wearing pedestrians died as a result of the injuries hey sustained from being hit by traffic. Nearly 70% of those that died in the accidents were under the age of 30. Surprisingly, almost half of the vehicles involved in the accidents were trains and not cars.

The rapid increase in these accidents directly correlates to the rapid growth of the MP3 player market.

Experts call this growing trend “in-attentional blindness“. (Is there a pill for that yet?)

When told of the growing trend a grumpy old man responded, “They just need to pay attention to what the hell they are doing and where the hell they are going.”

So hipsters, turn the music down from 11, mind the gap, and pay attention to what you are doing and where you are headed.

Hence we have Reece’s peanut butter cups and a whole host of other similar products.

Now comes a similar approach from a French fast food chain. Quick is introducing a line of Star Wars themed burgers like the Dark Vador, which predominantly features a freakishly dark bun.

Full story at MSNBC

Bon Appetit?