【推荐2】Yoga has a well-deserved reputation for helping improve balance and flexibility and for inducing calm and relaxation.     1     While you might not burn as many calories by practicing yoga as you would by running or doing some other high-intensity activities, yoga can still raise your heart rate and help build muscle. Here’s more about how yoga is a complete body and mind workout.

·Reduce stress and reduce pounds. Yoga helps deal with stress.     2     Yoga has an impact on the body’s stress response and reduces the production of chemicals linked to weight gain, such as cortisol (皮质醇), a stress hormone.

·Move well and eat well.     3     Participants involved in yoga practice realize that they tend to notice not only the amount of food they eat, but also what type of foods they eat and the impact of eating those foods. They become aware of the effect of certain foods on their bodies during their yoga practice.

·    4     Doing yoga long term not only can help people lose weight but also can strengthen cognitive skills to help keep it off. A multiyear study examines the possibility of yoga maintaining weight loss. Its findings suggest that yoga may help to improve long-term weight loss outcomes via improvements in distress tolerance, self-compassion and a more positive mood.

Yoga is a very reasonable form of exercise, but you have to choose the right type. A 2021 study found no difference in weight loss totals for participants practicing a gentle, restorative yoga versus a more vigorous type of yoga.     5     Everybody can benefit from a yoga practice.

【推荐3】The Link between Fitness and Career Success

It’s no mystery to successful people that there is direct link between sound health & fitness and success in their cancer and personal lives. Successful persons likely show up at the health club consistently, work with a personal trainer, or get up a few minutes early for a heart elevating jog. Successful people like to jump start their day with plenty of energy and the feel-good endorphins(内啡肽)that exercise offers. Recent studies prove the direct link between fitness and success.

Better ability to focus, improved confidence and enhanced ability to follow through were directly attributed to improved fitness levels according to a 2007 University of Georgia study.

Further, a leading manager search company surveyed more than 1,300 managers. When asked to describe their viewpoints of weight and work, 75% said good physical fitness is “critical for career success at the manager level.” 17%, by contrast, said staying in shape is “a nice goal, but secondary to good fitness.”

The CEO of that manager search firm said, “Good physical fitness is critical to success as a manager in today’s work world.” When asked about obesity, 75% of managers said that being overweight is a “serious career impediment (妨碍)”. Do these responses reflect our obsession with weight loss and mirror the constant reports of skinny images in popular culture? Probably not. Rather, there is a very strong link between improved fitness and increased productivity, enhanced ability to solve problems, superior energy, not to mention reduced stress and tiredness, all leading to better job performance. It goes well beyond looking good. Fit people tend to have better eating habits and miss fewer days at work due to a higher resistance to illness. And with competition continually increasing in every industry, companies are now rewarding employees and managers who miss less work and produce more.

A study by Jim McKenna, a British researcher, showed that after exercising participants returned to work more tolerant of themselves and more forgiving of their colleagues. The study concluded that “work performance was consistently higher, time management skills improved, as did mental sharpness.”

All it takes is investing 3—4 sessions a week, 30—45 minutes each, to experience these benefits. Combine strength training and cardiovascular (心血管的) exercise, along with sound nutrition to speed up your mental sharpness, enhance your productivity, improve your mood and better manage stress. As your fitness level increases, likely your position on the ladder of success will too!

【推荐1】You don’t need to be a whale expert to know that these large animals are most at home in the depths of the world’s many oceans. You may not be surprised then, that there were no survivors when 477 pilot whales were stuck on New Zealand’s remote Chatham Islands in October in 2022. It was one of the country’s largest mass stranding (搁浅) incidents.

Although in the past local authorities were able to quickly send teams to try and rescue the whales, that perfect result was impossible this time. According to the New Zealand whale protection non-profit organization “ Project Jonah“,there were many difficulties concerning any attempt at saving the whales. The remote Chatham Islands have a small population, meaning trained medical medics (医护人员) would be unable to get to the scene in time. In addition, there was a risk caused by predators(捕食者) attracted to the beach which endangered both rescue teams and any other surviving whales.

As a result, the whales that managed to survive for a while onshore had their dreams of returning to the ocean cut short. The decision was finally made to euthanize all of the remaining living whales on the beach. Otherwise, it could have taken weeks for them to die naturally. Though the medical medics did so to put them out of their suffering, Daren Grover, the general manager of “Project Jonah”, described the outcome as “heartbreaking”, according to the New York Post.

This incident took place less than a month after 230 whales were found stranded on the Austalian island of Tasmania. Fortunately, about 30 of those animals were then able to be saved in time by local authorities , according to NPR.

The cause of these mass stranding incidents is not obvious at the moment, although various theories have been raised. Daren Grover said that there may be an issue with the animals’ echolocation ability - the sense that allows them to find their way through the water.

If whales are found in shallow waters, rescuers often play back recordings of the animals’ own calls to pilot them to the sea. A small number of whales will also be moved to large facilities for recovery.

【推荐3】Have you ever lost something in a hard-to-reach space, like behind a sofa or under the bed? Wouldn’t it be nice to just squeeze (挤) in and out to get it? New robots will soon make this happen.

In a study, scientists from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Carnegie Mellon University in the US have invented small robots that can quickly change into liquid (液体) states. They melted (熔化) into liquid and managed to get out of a locked cage (笼子) during the tests, shocking the whole scientific community.

According to the website Mashable, the scientists got the idea from sea cucumbers (海参), which can change the softness of their bodies and easily enter any place .The robots in the study were made from a soft metal, which has a low melting point of only 30°C.The scientists firstly place the robot in a magnetic field (磁场). Thanks to the magnetic field, the robot can then be heated into a liquid form, allowing it to enter some hard-to-reach places. After that, by controlling the strength or direction of the magnetic field, the robot can be moved around in a controlled manner.

Hopefully, these liquid robots can be widely used in different fields and will not disappoint us. They can help take out a foreign object from a model human stomach. Scientists can use them to repair a TV set by squeezing them into hard-to-reach areas inside the TV set. To prevent humans from being harmed, these robots can perform dangerous tasks in hard-to-reach environments, such as cleaning in nuclear power plants (核能发电).

“What we’re showing are just ideas that need to be developed further,“ said Carmel Majidi of Carnegie Mellon University. “The goal of our future research is to put these liquid robots to use in real-life situations more quickly. We are very confident about achieving this goal.”