Recycled Motor Oil Goes Mainstream
Greening your driving habit no longer means ditching your gas-powered car for a hybrid or electric model. On Monday, Valvoline announced the introduction of a new brand of motor oil made from 50 percent recycled oil that’s been passed through a clay filter and “re-refined.” While Valvoline’s new oil, called NextGen, isn’t the first recycled motor oil on the market, it’s the first brand that’s being distributed nationally to auto retailers (another brand, Safety Kleen EcoPower, has been around for a few years and is made from 100-percent recycled oil).
According to Valvoline’s vice president, Thom Smith, oil itself isn’t damaged by traveling hundreds or thousands of miles in a car. It’s contaminants, like dirt, and broken-down additives that make it unusable.
You Can’t Gain Muscle and Lose Fat at the Same Time
Can Bodybuilders Build Muscle and Lose Fat at the Same Time?
Build muscle then lose fat?
There are the hard-gainers, the obese slackers, the off-season bodybuilders, the weekend warriors, the overweight housewives, and a million other kinds of aspiring athletes. Everyone has a goal. Some goals are simply to lose weight, while others are mainly to build muscle, but for most people fat loss goes along with muscle gain for a variety of reasons everything from general health, building a beach body, sports performance, competition prep, and even to combat aging.
The most popular fitness newbie belief is that you can gain muscle and lose fat at the same time.
BPA exposure makes male mice less masculine, attractive
The definition of masculine and the factors females use to choose a mate are much more complex in men than in mice.
In a new study, male deer mice whose mothers were fed BPA while pregnant had more difficulty navigating a maze and displayed less interest in exploring than unexposed males — a sign of “demasculinization,” researchers say, since navigational skill and a propensity for exploration are considered classic male traits in this particular species of mice. (In the wild, these traits help young male mice find potential mates.)
What’s more, this reduction in masculinity appears to make BPA-exposed mice less attractive to those potential mates.
Ice Cream and the Importance of a Healthy Diet
Just about everyone knows that eating a healthy diet is extremely important. It helps us stay fit. It helps our bodies run efficiently. It even helps us live longer. We can never be reminded too many times to eat healthy. You cant out exercise a bad diet, is a popular saying in the weight loss industry.
After all, aren’t we always making up excuses to eat the wrong foods? I know I’m guilty. I love ice cream. So I’m always on the lookout for scientific evidence about the health benefits of ice cream. If the ice c
Solinsky’s Neck on the Line
Chris Solinsky Will Always Put His Neck on the Line
The first American to break 27:00 for 10,000 meters also became a regular sub-13:00 competitor in the 5000 in 2010. Now at the 
loftiest of track racing levels, he understands it’s not going to turn out great every time but it’s worth sticking your neck on the line. Solinsky asserts “my whole philosophy is that I’m going to keep myself near the front for as long as possible and give myself a chance to win. If it’s not my day, it’s not my day. His philoso