Let’s consider the butterfly. One of the most taxing movements in sports, the butterfly requires greater energy than bicycling at 14 miles per hour, running a 10-minute mile, playing competitive basketball or carrying furniture upstairs. It burns more calories, demands larger doses of oxygen and elicits more fatigue than those other activities, meaning that over time it should increase a swimmer’s endurance and contribute to weight control.

Ask a dozen physiologists which exercise is best, and you’ll get a dozen wildly divergent replies. “Trying to choose” a single best exercise is “like trying to condense the entire field” of exercise science, said Martin Gibala, the chairman of the department of kinesiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Fat Thanks to Sunita K. for the tip!

What’s the Best Exercise? – NYTimes.com

A type of low-carb, high-fat diet that’s typically used to manage seizures for children with epilepsy could reverse kidney disease in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics, a new animal study suggests.

If successful in humans, the so-called ketogenic diet could have the potential to replace dialysis, which is a procedure that artificially filters blood in place of a damaged or failed kidney, said study researcher Charles Mobbs, professor of neuroscience and geriatrics and palliative care medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

Low-carb, high-fat diet could replace dialysis – msnbc.com

In an interview with ABCs Robin Roberts, the 18-year-old singer-actress said childhood bullying contributed to her eating disorder.

“I literally didnt know why they were being so mean to me,” she said of her childhood tormentors. “And when I would ask them why, they would just say, Well, youre fat. I was bullied because I was fat. And then a few months later I developed an eating disorder, and thats kind of what Ive been dealing with every since.”

Demi Lovato: “I Was Bullied Because I Was Fat” – Celebrity News – UsMagazine.com