Friday, August 6, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Jamie Eason Pictures: Fitness Model on Top After Beating Cancer
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We've all had our ups and downs, but few have had such highs and lows at such a young age as 34-year-old fitness model Jamie Eason.
After a few entry-level office jobs following college, Eason went to work for her family's roofing company in Texas. But being chained to a desk was not for her, she realized.
While managing a crew of roofers, she tried out to become a cheerleader for the Houston Texans - and got the job. Life was going great.
Great, that is, until she found a suspicious lump in her breast.
It turned out to be cancer. She had a lumpectomy, and eventually all was well. Except that she had missed so many practices that she had to quit the cheer leading squad and had to take a job as a computer instructor.
Four years later, she realized that she was what she calls "skinny fat."
"I was soft and flabby," she tells CBS News. "I had cellulite. I drank Dr. Pepper and ate Goldfish and fast food almost every day."
It was her wake-up call. She hired a personal trainer and visited a nutritionist, and the new and improved Jamie Eason was born.
"Within a few disciplined months, my body began to transform," she says. "I felt physically fit and emotionally, I had a true sense of accomplishment and well-being."
She won the first fitness competition that she entered, and since then has graced the covers of countless magazines including Oxygen, Muscle & Development, and Fitness.
"I realized I had found a path for my life."
i-Doser: Digital Crack or Crock
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Like a scene out of a science fiction movie, kids claim they getting high on data and they are posting the strange results on YouTube.
The "drug" is called i-Doser and kids need nothing more than an mp3 player and a set of headphones to get "high." Its promoters promise a euphoria like ecstasy, marijuana or cocaine and some parents and law enforcement are growing concerned.
How does it work and is it dangerous?
Dr. Helane Wahbeh, an assistant professor at Oregon Health and Science University, explained to NPR that sounds called binaural beats are delivered in stereo headphones, which can create an otherworldly experience.
She described it this way: "Binaural beats happen when opposite ears receive two different sound waves. And normally, the difference in sound between each ear help people get directional information about the source of the sound. But when you listen to these sounds with stereo headphones, the listener senses the difference between the two frequencies as another beat that sounds like it's coming from the inside of the head."
Sounds interesting, but are the kids really getting high?
Negative, says Wahbeh.
"We did a small controlled study with four people, and we did not see any brain wave activity shifting to match the binaural beat that people were listening to," she told NPR.
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