INTERESTING FACTS

DISCOVERY CHANNEL MAGAZINE JUNE/JULY 2010

1.       HIGH CLIMBER DIET

Secret to reduce the weight is by increasing altitude b’coz

      Increasing altitude will reduce appetite-increase level of leptin, hormone that reduces hunger

      increasing altitude will increase metabolic rate that will reduce the weight

     “I would recommend that obese people spend their holidays in the mountain”

 

2.       DENGUE FEVER

      No vaccine or effective treatment yet

   Modified strain males will be released to affect the female

      So, flightless female Aedes aegypti that spread the disease will be born

      Function likes insecticide

      Can be used to fight malaria too

3.       SOUND TOOTH

     Using teeth instead of ear to treat single-aided deafness

    Use bone conduction instead of air conduction

      Microphone in the ear will pick up the sound → send it wirelessly to the device attached to the teeth → 
translate sound into vibration → into inner ear through jawbone