Today is Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, that last hurrah before Ash Wednesday and the Catholic season of Lent begins.

View Photo Gallery: As many as 850,000 tourists descend on Rio de Janeiro for the five-day-long Carnival celebration.

Legions of Mardi Gras attendees in New Orleans are preparing to mark the day with revelry, beads and lots and lots of rich, fatty food. Meet Rex and the King of Zulu, the city’s 2012 Mardi Gras monarchs, at NOLA.com. In Brazil, where the festival of Carnival has kicked off in earnest, Rio de Janeiro’s elite samba schools paraded Sunday through the city’s newly renovated Sambadrome. Watch video at The Post.

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Arab Spring protests of the morning

— Yemen is finally voting to install a new president, but the election was marred by violence, including an attack by gunmen on polling stations. (Washington Post)

— Damascus has revolted, the latest city where protests have spread as violence continues to escalate in Syria. (Guardian live blog)

YouTube footage of the morning

— Bahraini police used giant water cannons and tear gas Monday on protesters marching after a funeral, the latest wave of violence in the tiny kingdom. (YouTube)

— A Syrian man with learning difficulties was purportedly encouraged by pro-Assad forces to beat a detainee, as shown in a new video online. (YouTube)

Culture clash of the morning

— Angry over the improper disposal of the Koran by foreign troops, thousands of Afghans protested Tuesday, with many trying to storm a U.S. base. The Koran was reportedly burned. (Washington Post)

— NATO has apologized, ordering a full investigation. (BBC)

Images of the morning

— “The Nine Eyes of Google Street View,” a photo project by artist Jon Rafman, has collected weird and beautiful images from around the world, captured by Google by accident. Don’t miss the image of a man crouching in the forest in a gas mask in Montezuma, Mexico. (The Guardian)

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Wade Lees says he didn’t know the supplement contained banned substances.
Source: Herald Sun

A VFL star is facing a two-year playing ban for purchasing performance-enhancing drugs he never even received.

Casey Scorpion Wade Lees bought a fat-burning product online from the US in 2010. It was intercepted by Australian Customs, which informed the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.

The product was found to contain an illegal substance, leaving Lees vulnerable to the drug code’s “attempted use of a prohibited substance violation”.

The standard punishment is a two-year ban from all competitive sport.

Three Australian athletes (cyclist Jules Amos, rugby’s Brendan Bunyan and motorist Hayden Stephenson) are now serving 24-month bans for attempted use.

Lees’ lawyer Paul Horvath said his client was co-operating with ASADA investigators and maintained he had not been found guilty.

“As far as he’s concerned he says: ‘Yes, I ordered a product from overseas believing it to be a fat-burning product,” Horvath told the Herald Sun.

“He had no idea there was any improper or illegal, in a sense of ASADA, constituents in the product. Wade believed he was purchasing a perfectly legitimate fat-burning supplement.”

The Herald Sun believes Lees spent about $180 on the product in an effort to reduce his skinfolds to compete with AFL midfielders playing in the VFL.

He was allowed to play last season and has made a submission to ASADA but his fate is likely to land in the hands of AFL Victoria.

VFL clubs have long bemoaned the lack of drug education to players, with many never being tested.

An AFL club confirmed its players are told to never buy products from overseas for fear of them being contaminated with illegal substances.

Lees finished last season in career-best form with the strong-bodied midfielder shutting down a number of stars.

He handed over his No.25 jumper to Brendan Fevola last year and the pair quickly became mates.

An AFL Victoria spokesman told the Herald Sun: “We are aware. An investigation is under way into prohibited substances. So in order to maintain the integrity of that process, we’re not in a position to offer further comment.”

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OSAKA, Japan — A team of researchers of Japan’s Kyoto University has found a protein that helps the body burn fat following an intake of fatty meals, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported Monday.

The researchers at the Kyoto University’s Institute of Chemical Research compared mice with protein called GPR120 with those that do not have the protein, and provided them with high-fat feeds, the report said.

They confirmed that the mice without the protein were heavier than those who had it by an average of 15 percent, and accumulated twice as much fat in their bodies, it said.

The Japanese scientists also analyzed the genetic sequence of about 20,000 people in Europe, including the French and the British, and found that people with mutant GPR120 genes were 1.6 times more likely to be obese.

Based on the result of the research, the Japanese scientists concluded the protein is capable of detecting fat, and also plays a role in prompting the body to burn the fat.

Professor Gozo Tsujimoto, head of the researcher team, was quoted by NHK as saying that the development of drugs that activate the protein will help prevent obesity.

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Aside from the fact that belly fat is just plain ugly, excess weight in the stomach region is also dangerous for your health. Belly fat, also called visceral fat, surrounds your internal organs and has been linked to several health problems, including cancer and heart disease. Visceral fat has also been associated with mood disorders such as depression. As we age, we’re bound to gain a little extra weight, but it’s good to prevent fat from piling up around your midsection. Follow these tips to minimize the accumulation of belly fat before it begins:

Load Up On Fiber. One of the keys to preventing the growth of belly fat is to make sure that 30-35 percent of your diet is from soluble fiber. One study found that the more soluble fiber people consume, the less belly fat they gained over time. Good sources of soluble fiber are beans, fruits, vegetables, eggs, and lean meats. For some unique options, try edamame and soy protein.

Exercise. Many studies have found that moderate to high intensity exercise can help keep visceral fat from accumulating, which greatly reduces your risk of chronic diseases. One study out of Duke University found that increasing your time exercising, as well as ramping up the intensity of your exercise program, reduces belly fat significantly. Make sure your exercises are well balanced and include both strength training and cardio. It’s also a good idea to try to work your core muscles by doing crunches or sit-ups. The key is to get your heart rate up and make sure you sweat!

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You know that feeling you get when your boss has given you yet another task or responsibility? You may feel overwhelmed and then the work you’re already doing starts to suffer.

The same thing happens to your body.

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A message on a burning building in the center of Athens saying “Hungry? Eat your local Pasok politician” is seen during the demonstration against the new austerity measures in Syntagma Square on Feb. 12, 2012 in Athens, Greece. Greece’s creditors have demanded further austerity measures before approving a new bailout from the European Union.

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A message on a burning building in the center of Athens saying “Hungry? Eat your local Pasok politician” is seen during the demonstration against the new austerity measures in Syntagma Square on Feb. 12, 2012 in Athens, Greece. Greece’s creditors have demanded further austerity measures before approving a new bailout from the European Union.

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Maria Margaronis writes from The Nation’s London bureau.

When I was in Athens last week many people I talked to wondered aloud why there hadn’t yet been an uprising against the austerity measures that are devastating the country. There was anger everywhere, but sullen and suppressed. Maybe there’s still some fat left in the system, they said. Maybe they’ve just brainwashed us, put us all to sleep. I took a taxi one day when the subway wasn’t working because of a suicide; the driver opined that the deceased was clearly an idiot. “He should have killed himself in Parliament,” he scoffed, “and taken five or six of those idiots down with him.”

Well, now there has been an uprising of sorts, but it doesn’t feel any better. More — perhaps many more — than 100,000 people turned out on Sunday afternoon to protest the new austerity package being voted through parliament to secure a further 130 billion euro loan; the riot police used tear gas to clear them from Syntagma Square, out of sight of the TV cameras perched on the balconies of the grand hotels. In the side streets there were running battles between police and hooded protesters, tear gas and truncheons and boots against firebombs and Molotov cocktails and flying marble shards. Some forty-five buildings blazed, not only banks but some of the neoclassical beauties that have stood through fifty years of rampant development. Better buildings than people. Amazingly, no one died and only 100 (officially) were injured. But a weapons shop on Omonoia Square was broken into and looted. I passed it last week and wondered at the racks of guns and scimitars openly on display.

Following the Twitter feeds from Syntagma last night, I read that 20,000 people were singing all together and wished that I could be there, in spite of the flames and tear gas, to feel the lift of the crowd. But this morning I spoke to a friend in Athens who was out on the streets last night and reality returned. She told me she’d met many people she knew and all of them felt alone. “We don’t know what to believe in, what to think any more,” she said. “It’s as if the violence is meant to make us feel more defeated and more powerless, to warn us that we can’t even begin to lift our heads.”

Greece now feels like a labyrinth with all the exits blocked. The new austerity program, which includes a 22 percent cut to the minimum wage (32 percent for the young) and 150,000 public sector losses cuts by 2016, will further sink an already devastated economy. Unemployment is above 20 percent (near 50 percent for the young); manufacturing output fell by 11 percent in a month; tax revenues are down 18 percent since last year; 60,000 businesses have closed since the summer. If you ask people on the street if they would rather Greece went bankrupt than accept further “measures,” they point out that Greece is already bankrupt; that many public sector workers haven’t been paid in months; that hospitals have no bandages and schools are short of books; that the poor are being wrung dry to pay the banks. If the new loan comes through — and those who decide these things in Brussels and Berlin don’t seem at all sure that it will, even after last night’s vote — up to 70 percent of it will go to pay Greece’s creditors. More and more voices — from IMF officials to Italy’s Mario Monti to countless economists — are joining the chorus of those who admit that the program will not work. (For more, please see my piece on the Guardian‘s site today.) Meanwhile democracy is indefinitely suspended: though elections are now planned for April, all party leaders have to sign up in writing to the new loan agreement before anything changes hands.

For a long time I thought default would be a terrible mistake. I was irritated by glib comparisons with Argentina, which defaulted in a boom time with far greater resources, and where people still went hungry. I thought about the shelves of Athenian supermarkets, stacked with foreign products; about oil and energy and the run on the banks; about the violence that erupts when there isn’t enough to go round. But many companies are already refusing to export to Greece because they think they won’t get paid; the only country that will sell Greece oil on credit is Iran, which is shortly to face an embargo; and last night Athens went spectacularly up in flames.

I still think default would be terrible. But the only alternative path on offer is also terrible; and default still waits at the end.

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Diet Doc HCG Diet Weight Loss revised their original, modern-day HCG diet which is doctor-supervised to one that utilizes a ketogenic diet. Many people have heard the term ketosis, and ketogenic diets have been around for some time. However the full potential of using ketosis for weight loss has taken a leap forwards with a modernized version of the hCG diet for weight loss. A state of ketosis when combined with prescription hCG allows for stable weight loss where the body actually starts using excess body fat as a source of fuel during the duration of the weight loss program.

To summarize, ketosis is a metabolic state where fat is used as a source of fuel instead of sugar. Most people live their whole lives functioning primarily in sugar metabolism, where their metabolic state is held primarily in glycolysis. When in this state, excess sugar and fat is quickly stored in the fat tissue and insulin levels can progressively rise (which eventually leads to insulin sensitivity, obesity and type II diabetes). Human metabolism has arguably only been exposed to grain based carbohydrates for several thousand years, which isn’t enough time for most peoples metabolism to adapt. It’s not surprising then that as carbohydrate levels have increased and fat levels decreased over the last several decades that metabolic “syndromes” like obesity and type II diabetes have increased exponentially.

When in a state of ketosis and sugar/carbohydrates are restricted, fat is no longer stored as readily into fat tissue but is instead broken down by the liver into a ketone. Ketones then take the place of glucose in almost all tissues in the body. When in ketosis, certain tissues still need a small amount of glucose and that requirement is around 100g per day. The body is able to produce this required sugar through the conversion of protein to sugar through a process called gluconeogenesis.

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Researchers in the group led by Willy Krek, Professor of Cell Biology at ETH Zurich, have bad news and good news for obese people. The scientists showed that a molecule, Hif1, is active in the white cells of the abdominal fat in mice. It ensures that the fat does not melt away even when the diet is changed. High concentrations of this signalling molecule are also present in massively overweight people.

The good news: the process is reversible. When the researchers switched off the relevant molecule in mice, the suppressed metabolic route started working normally again, the mice burnt fatty acids and the fat deposits melted away.

Hif1 helps when there is too little oxygen

Hif1 is always present when tissue becomes greatly enlarged very quickly and enters an oxygen-depleted state as a result. That is equally true for cancerous tissue and for abdominal fat. Hif1 is a signalling pathway that is conserved in evolutionary development and is present in all vertebrate animals and in all cell types.

Hif1 reprograms cellular metabolism: the cells reduce the oxygen-consuming generation of energy via their power stations, the mitochondria. Under the effect of Hif1 they obtain the energy to live through what is known as glycolysis, which operates even without oxygen. Willi Krek says: “The Hif1 signalling pathway helps cells deal with oxygen starvation.” However, Hif1 also promotes the formation of new blood vessels that grow into new tissue to supply it with oxygen.

High concentration of Hif1 in white fat

The ETH Zurich researchers first observed the connection between Hif1 and abdominal fat based on a mouse model. The animals were exclusively fed a fat-rich diet and gained weight quickly. Ultimately the scientists found high concentrations of Hif1 in the adipose tissue of these mice. This indicates that the fatty abdomen of the mice has poor blood circulation and the white fat cells are suffering from oxygen deficiency.

However, the researchers were able to observe that Hif1 has a significant influence on the enlargement of fatty tissue when they switched off the molecule. As a result the fatty tissue in these mice stopped enlarging any further even when they continued to be fed a fat-rich diet. Their weight remained stable. These animals even lost weight when they were fed a normal diet. Krek sums it up: “From this we concluded that fat is burnt when Hif1 is absent. Even fat that had formed around the mouse hearts disappeared without being deposited in other organs.”

Fat burning suppressed

Finally the researchers also discovered the mechanism by which Hif1 prevents the combustion of fat. Hif1 reduces the production of an enzyme called Sirt2, which itself in turn regulates genes that play a central role in the burning of fat. So when Hif1 is switched off in the mice, the Sirt2 enzyme becomes highly active and boosts the burning of fat.

The ETH Zurich researchers also discovered this in tissue samples from obese and lean people. They found Hif1 in high concentrations and the enzyme Sirt2 in low concentrations in the fatty tissue of overweight people. On the other hand only traces of Hif1 were present in people of normal weight.

Possible therapy recognized

Possible treatments for obese people can also be inferred from the new findings. Because Hif1 does not switch the enzyme off completely, the burning of fat in overweight people could be stimulated by chemically activating Sirt2. This could cause fat to be broken down without blocking Hif1. The researchers plan further experiments on mice to clarify what effect activating Sirt2 has on the animals’ bodies. Developing a corresponding treatment for overweight people will therefore probably take some time.

More information: Krishnan J et al.: Dietary obesity-associated Hif1α activation on adipocytes restricts fatty acid oxidation and energy expenditure via suppression of the Sirt2-NAD+ system. Genes and Development 26. Online Publication 1st February 2012. DOI:10.1101/gad.180406.111

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