Visceral

I first met Shane MacGowan, whose funeral is today , in the late 1990s, way after the glory days with The Pogues. I’d see him around town at various functions and gigs, always with his partner, Victoria Mary Clarke, always sat on their own, no one bothering with them. Although emanating a dark charisma, he looked tired and sad to me. There appeared to be a cloud of depression and lonesomeness above him, even when surrounded by well-wishers and hangers-on.So one night I went up and introduced myself, and we just got on. It…

In Elsewhere’s first story, a young fiction writer named Pigeon falls in with a band of drunken poets after a disastrous earthquake. She tells them that she finds poetry difficult to understand. But it’s not about understanding, they tell her. Fiction, they say, is like describing a delicious meal without being able to eat it. But poetry? “We eat up the food and shit it out later,” one poet says. “And the shit is poetry.”Yan Ge’s English debut is preoccupied with language, its failures, and its relationship to human…

Visceral fat, often referred to as ‘hidden’ fat, is stored deep within the belly, wrapping around vital organs. Despite only constituting about a tenth of the body’s total fat on average, it’s significantly more hazardous than subcutaneous fat due to its toxic hormone production.Visceral body fat, frequently referred to as the ‘hidden’ fat, is a type of fat that accumulates deep within the belly and encases our vital organs such as the liver and intestines. On average, it constitutes about a tenth of all the fat stored…

Horror had an undisputed stranglehold over the 1980s, with a perfect mix of cinematic and straight-to-video releases decorating the decade. With this era also came the proliferation of ultraviolence which characters in A Clockwork Orange would possibly deem to be too much to endure. The Austrian flick Angst has not been a film often spoken of outside of incredibly niche circles, with it obscured by a ban from circulation across Europe. It took until 2012, 39 years after its original release in 1983, to see the real…

History has shown that to become the number one most-watched movie on Netflix, you generally need to be either an action-packed epic, a frothy comedy, a festive frolic, or a star-powered blockbuster. Turning convention on its head, documentary The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari has ascended to the summit of the platform’s charts. As per FlixPatrol, the in-depth examination of the 2019 eruption on the titular island has erupted out of nowhere to reach the pinnacle of the viewership rankings. Not only has it roared into…

Cultured differentiated adipocytes: lipids are stained red; the protein ACE-2, which serves as the receptor for SARS-CoV-2, is green; cell nuclei are blue. Credit: Amanda Passos & Flávio Protasio VerasTwo types of adipocytes (fat cells) were infected in the laboratory: one obtained from human stem cells isolated from subcutaneous tissue and the other differentiated from stem cells taken from visceral fatty tissue.Experiments show that visceral fat – fat around the liver, intestines, and other organs, considered a risk…

According to a study in the peer-reviewed medical journal BMC Medicine, the green Mediterranean diet significantly reduces visceral fat. In fact, it reduced visceral fat by twice as much as the regular Mediterranean diet.The Green Mediterranean diet reduces twice as much visceral fat as the Mediterranean diet.Reducing visceral fat is the true goal of weight loss.The green Mediterranean diet (MED) significantly reduces visceral adipose tissue, a type of fat around internal organs that is much more dangerous than the extra…

via Netflix Whisper it, but Netflix’s foreign-language original movies might be more consistent in terms of quality than the myriad of star-studded Hollywood productions that arrive at regular intervals, even if it’s the big names and explosive action scenes that tend to draw in more subscribers. Once again putting that theory to the test, France’s Athena has scored vastly superior reviews to the J.J. Abrams-produced Lou, but it hasn’t quite hit the same heights on the viewership rankings. Not that the…

via Transmission Films There’s no way of guessing which films are poised to explode on streaming, but even if there was some kind of method to the madness, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone that would have pegged 2014’s New Zealand-set historical action thriller The Dead Lands as a prime candidate. And yet, that’s exactly what’s happened after the widely-acclaimed tale of bloody revenge bludgeoned its enemies on the way to securing a spot on the Prime Video global most-watched charts, as per FlixPatrol. The…

There’s an epidemic in Western countries, and one few people are aware of. It’s an epidemic of visceral fat, a deep kind of fat that packs around vital organs, like the liver, and is linked with health problems like diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure.You might assume that only people who are overweight or obese have too much visceral fat, but that’s not the case. Thin people, particularly inactive ones and older individuals, can have enough visceral fat to increase their risk of chronic health problems. They…