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A small yet noteworthy change to our item stats link serving

September 30, 2009 on 2:47 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off

FeedBurner has been busy analyzing, publicizing, optimizing and monetizing your feeds since 2004, and in that time, we've seen our fair share of feed traffic. In fact, we see billions of hits from feed traffic per week, and we watch this data carefully for trends and opportunities to improve what we do in making sure your feed content is delivered as quickly as possible, as accurately as possible, no matter what its destination might be.

Today we are making an improvement that we think will serve our publishers better by making our service more compatible with search engines that crawl feeds.

When we started the service, one thing we were not sure of at the time was how the feed reading ecosystem would treat the links we rewrite in order to give you statistics on how many people click on your feed items.

For instance, on the previous post in this blog, we change the link in the feed item for "FeedBurner Terms of Service Update" from

http://adsenseforfeeds.blogspot.com/2009/08/feedburner-terms-of-service-update.html

to

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MQiv/~3/Z8Es5QuvgEI/feedburner-terms-of-service-update.html

which sends the browser to that original URL, but allows us to first track the click.

As a technical detail, we rewrote these links with a code of "302 Temporary Redirect" which tells the browser or consuming service that the redirect is not permanent, and thus it would need to be read every time.

As of today we are changing this to be a "301 Permanent Redirect" because we've looked at the traffic enough to tell that there some benefit to changing this to a "301 Permanent Redirect" - in that some search engines that index the feeds themselves will consider these to be additional links that should be used in determining the popularity of your site. This is the same way that "URL shortener" services send traffic and get treated by search engines, so we feel that this is consistent with the way that content is distributed today. This update should not change the number of clicks that come to your site from your feed nor should it significantly affect the number of clicks FeedBurner tracks for you.

What do you need to do? Nothin'. Nada. Just keep burning your feeds from FeedBurner or your AdSense account in AdSense for feeds, and we will keep working hard to ensure your content is as accessible as possible – now, hopefully even more so.

Posted by Steve Olechowski - Product Manager, AdSense for feeds and FeedBurner

Weight Loss Basics - Metabolism Posted By : Ulf Wolf

September 28, 2009 on 7:00 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off (Tenth in a Series)

The Body

The human body is a carbon based combustion engine, operating at roughly 37.0 degrees Celsius, or 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

It needs fuel and oxygen to operate, and the way the body changes the food you eat into energy and building blocks for internal consumption is called metabolism (from the Greek metabole "change").

Metabolism - Converting Food Into Energy

This conversion is achieved by a complex biochemical process, where calories-whether from carbohydrates, fats or proteins-are chemically combined with oxygen to form cellular building blocks while also releasing the energy your body needs to function.

The total number of calories you consume in a day is called yourtotal energy intake. The total number of calories your body burns each day is called-you guessed it-your total energy expenditure.

The following three factors constitute your total energy expenditure:

Basic needs

Amazingly, the majority of calories consumed in any one day are used by the body for basic maintenance, for even when at rest your body requires energy as fuel for organs, breathing, blood circulation, adjusting hormone levels, as well as for cell production and repair.

The number of calories used to meet these basic needs are referred to as your basal metabolic rate (BMR)-basal refers to base, fundamental, what forms or belongs to the foundation (of your body).

A person's BMR typically constitutes as much as two-thirds or three-quarters of all calories consumed. It is also noteworthy that basal energy needs stay fairly constant and do not easily change.

Food processing

The process by which the body digests, absorbs, transports and stores the food you consume also requires energy. This activity uses about ten percent of the calories you consume. As with basal energy needs, the energy needed to process food remains fairly constant and is not easily changed.

Physical activity

Physical activity, however, is a factor you can control: by playing tennis, by walking to the store, by hiking, cooking, channel surfing; in other words, by moving
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Physical activity accounts for the remainder of calories consumed, roughly 15 to 25%.

Frequency, duration, and intensity of your movements (activity) determine how many calories you burn.

Metabolism and your weight

While it may seem logical that low metabolism should result in obesity, this is rarely the case. It is, in fact, quite uncommon for low metabolism to cause excess weight.

First Law of Thermodynamics (1LTD)

Instead, it's our old friend 1LTD (which you may want to tattoo somewhere easily viewed as a constant reminder) that again rears its conspicuous head, for weight gain is most often cause by an imbalance between total energy intake, and total energy expenditure; in other words: by consuming more calories than your body burns.

To lose weight-and yes, the broken record analogy springs to mind-you simply need to create an energy deficit by consuming fewer calories than you burn-by eating less while increasing your physical activity.

Your Calorie Needs

If everyone had identical bodies, we could easily determine basal energy needs. But-luckily-this is not the case. Therefore, to establish your calorie needs you need to take into account your body size and composition, your age, and sex.

Body Size and Composition

In a nutshell, larger body mass requires more energy (that's to say more calories) than smaller body mass. Also, as you probably know, muscle burns more calories than does fat; so the higher your muscle to fat ratio, the higher your basal metabolic rate.

Age

Age brings with it a decrease of muscle in favor of fat, which lowers the basal metabolism; and metabolism itself tends to grow more inefficient with age. This means that your calorie needs naturally decrease as you grow older. Keep that in mind.

Sex

As a rule, men have more muscle and less body fat than women of the same age and weight do. This is why men generally have a higher basal metabolic rate and burn more calories-just sitting still (or changing the channel)-than women do.

Burning Calories

When it comes to burning calories, there isn't very much you can do about your metabolism or digestive system, speeding them up or slowing them down; your only option-realistically speaking-is to increase daily exercise and activity to both burn calories through movement and build muscle tissue which in turn burns more calories.

And the key to exercise is regularity. As in daily. Take a 30-minute walk every day. It's an excellent aerobic way to burn calories.

As you age, you may also want to add weight training to help counteract muscle loss.

That said, any movement burns calories. This means walking to the store rather than driving, taking the stairs rather than the elevator, playing with the dog rather than watching television, hiking, swimming, dancing. You name it.

Bottom Line

While it is true that the majority of your energy needs are determined by your metabolism, you ultimately determine your weight by what you eat and how much of that intake you burn through physical activity.

1LTD.

Selecting Fast Weight Loss Pills Posted By : Liz Canham

September 26, 2009 on 7:00 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off When you are looking for the most effective fast weight loss pills, you may find it tough to resolve which is most suitable for you. Without doubt, any firm selling their weight loss pills are going to state that theirs work more effectively than those of the competition, but they aren't aware of your physiological needs.

When choosing the weight loss pill you're going to use, make sure that you fully check out the company who is selling it. Read critiques of the product so that you can get a good idea on how well you can expect it to work for you. Just make sure that you read professional reviews that are impartial. Alternatively read reviews by people who have actually used the product. Contact them, if you can and ask if they're prepared to tell you what sort of size and shape they were before using the pills and what sort of lifestyle they have. This will help you to ascertain the similarity with your own and the likelihood that the same pills will work for you.

Another thing you should when purchasing weight loss pills is the list of ingredients. You would be surprised at the rubbish that goes into some of them. Familiarise yourself with every constituent part so that you can be certain that you are comfortable with the idea of taking it and that you don't have any known allergies.

Regardless of which pill you opt for, it is absolutely necessary to use it only as a supplement. Using a fat burning pill only is not going to give you the best wieght loss results. It is important to eat a healthy diet that is full of all the nutrition that your body needs. Exercise is also very important because it will help you burn calories and consequently to lose weight more efficiently.

Finding the best fast weight loss pills doesn't have to be a complete nightmare. If you follow the few tips above, you will be able to buy based on knowledge, not guesswork, and it will help you achieve your weight loss goals.

Weight Loss Basics - Eat To Live Posted By : Ulf Wolf

September 25, 2009 on 7:00 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off (Ninth in a Series)

In his book, Mindfulness with Breathing, Buddhadasa Bhikku, a rather famous Buddhist monk-at least in Theravada circles-had these very wise words to say about food: "We should eat food that is food. Do not eat food that is 'bait.' We eat food for the proper nourishment of life. We eat bait for the sake of deliciousness. Bait makes us unwise and causes us to eat foolishly, just like the bait on the hook that snags foolish fish. We must eat the kinds of food that are genuinely beneficial for the body, and we must eat in moderation."

That is probably the best statement on the subject of "Eat to Live vs. Live to Eat" that I have come across.

In the same book, he goes on to say: "Eating bait means eating for the sake of deliciousness and fun. It is also usually expensive. We must stop swallowing bait and learn to eat only food that is proper and wholesome.

"If you are eating bait, you will be constantly hungry all day and night. You will always be sneaking off to eat yet more bait. Eating bait impairs our mental abilities. The mind surrenders to the bait."

Live to Eat

It is a sad testament to our western culture-especially here in America-that living to eat is a predominant philosophy, if not a religion.

Most of us, deep down, know this. We know that fruit is better than grease-dripping French fries. We know that greens and rice is healthier for the body than a thick, juicy (as in bloody) steak with baked potatoes (and scoops of sour cream).

Quite apart from the fact that we could feed seven persons with the soy beans we feed the pig that slaughtered will feed only one person-which is just bad economy-the human body does not run well on salty, greasy, high-cholesterol, high-calorie food. Yet this is the daily menu for a majority of our citizens today.

A Pact

In fact, this is so much the case that it makes one wonder: Could there be a secret pact between the Fast Food and Medical Industries? A pact that goes something like this:

Medical Industry: "As long as you keep sending them to us for expensive and very profitable treatment, we will not expose how terribly bad your foods actually are for them."

A nodding-head Fast Food Industry: "Deal."

This is not to say that such a conspiracy is afoot; it is to say that by the statistics alone, one is justified in wondering.

Pleasure and Taste

For many the battle comes down to taste, and the pleasure it gives.

We can go a whole day-if not a whole week, and with great anticipation-looking forward to a particular dinner course, one which in the past has given us great pleasure (enter your favorite food here). The quiet voice that tries to point out that this sumptuous meal, strictly speaking, is not at all good for us-and that afterwards we will wake up in the night with heartburn and a bad conscience-eventually goes all silent, and as comes the day, we sit down to dig in.

Short Term vs. Long Term

It may be that true pleasures are few and far between. It certainly is true that pleasure is far preferable to pain. But it is also true that long-term pleasure, say a rejuvenated body that will allow you to make that twenty mile hike to the top of Mount so-and-so-and with it that most fantastic view and feeling you've ever experienced-is far stronger, and far preferable to the short-term pleasure of an indulging meal.

But short term is much easier to confront than long term, and that's the crux. Working toward long-term pleasure, and survival, takes effort, will power, and time. Even though we know the rewards outweigh the short-term pleasure by a huge factor, we would rather go with the burger in hand than the long-term survival in the woods.

Eat to Live

It takes less effort to start the car than to walk. It takes less effort to turn on the television than to read a book. It takes less effort to drive to the fast food restaurant than to cook a healthy meal.

It takes less effort to be unhealthy than healthy. It takes less effort not to live than live.

Living life to the fullest takes effort. It takes dedication and will power. It takes knowing what fuel makes your body function the best and to choose that fuel, no matter how much work is involved. It takes sticking to that resolve every day of every week, month, year.

Eating to live is not a short-term project; it's a philosophy and a lifestyle that in the end brings far, far more happiness to those who make it, than any amount of bait ever can.

Using Bariatric Centers to Safely Lose Weight Posted By : Mark Sierra

September 18, 2009 on 7:00 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off Health experts recommend us to maintain a healthy weight we should eat reasonable portions of healthy foods and by adopting regular exercise routine. But with the abundance of fast food restaurants, snack machines, television commercials enticing us to try their delicious products, and even an entire television network devoted to the art of preparing food, it is no wonder why Americans turn to bariatric centers for help with managing their weight. When those efforts fail, as they often do, we suffer from overweight issues that sometimes escalates to the level of obesity. When this occurs, it is quite possible that surgery is our only option.

One type of bariatric procedure is called gastric bypass surgery. This alters the construction of the digestive system to physically limit the amount of food your stomach can hold and digest. Specifically, it achieves this by reshaping the stomach so that it can hold less food. This causes the patient to fill full quicker. The formula is simple: the less food you consume means fewer calories. Fewer calories mean fewer pounds and a longer, healthier life.

To determine if bariatric centers are the best solution for you, your doctor will have to assess your situation. You might be an ideal candidate for this surgery if your body mass index (BMI) is 35 to 39.9 and you have weight-related health problems such as high blood pressure or diabetes. Other candidates for this surgery include the morbidly obese who have a BMI of 40 or higher. A person of this weight would be at higher risk for any surgery and the doctor will determine if the risks are greater than the benefits.

A patient's motivation is a critical part of the weight loss process. A medical team will define significant changes in the life ahead of surgery to determine if the patient is willing to do their part. They will suggest restrictions on eating and drinking habits, they will ask to stop smoking or chewing tobacco. And they will develop an exercise schedule. The professionals who work in bariatric centers will get the qualified patient started on the road to a healthy, more wonderful life due to an improved outlook and lifestyle.