Popularity of 12-Week Weight Reduction and Muscle Building Programs
Today, people are conscious of their health especially due to the rise in lifestyle diseases. There are so many illnesses associated with body fat. People now want experts to help them transform their bodies from fat to well-groomed bodies, which have good shapes, no fat and one has muscles. Not everyone who claims to be a health expert in body transformation is good at it. Failing to use the exercises properly may not give the required results. The twelve week program is marketed by many as the best in helping people gain muscles and lose fat, but this is primarily an advertisement gimmick. This essay offers a report to show how hard it is for someone to lose weight and gain muscles at the same time, and hence prove that a 12 week program for a client does not attain the goals required.

Why It Is Hard To Lose Fat and Build Muscle Simultaneously
To lose weight, one needs to eat less, healthy, and workout while to build muscles, one need to eat more, healthy and workout. This is one of the reasons why it is hard to lose weight and gain weight at the same time (Fife, 2005). The body could attain both if it was possible for the body to use the excess energy required to build protein muscles from the stored fat. In this way, fat would be converted to the required energy. Unfortunately, the body at this catabolic state does not take muscle building as a priority, and hence it reduces the rate of muscle building. The two processes have opposed demands on the body. It is essential to note that metabolism, which is a process by which food taken is converted into energy for use by the body in various processes, regulates body processes. This means that even muscle construction and loss of weight (burning fats) depends on metabolism. Continue reading →

Globular Clusters
Introduction
Globular clusters draw the attention of many scientists worldwide because they can contribute consistently to the research of space and better understanding of the formation, development and evolution of stars and galaxies at large. In fact, the question of formation and evolution of galaxies and universe is one of the major challenges of modern astronomy and many specialists (Baumgardt, 2003) believe that globular clusters can help find possible answers to the question concerning the origin and development of the universe. At the same time, globular clusters also represent a subject of a profound interest of scientists because of their uniqueness. It should be pointed out that they are quite different from other star formations and, what is probably even more important, is the fact that they are much older than galactic or open clusters. In this respect, it should be said that the age of globular clusters makes their research also very important because, being older than some other star formations, globular clusters can naturally provide scientists with larger information about the process of formation development of stars, galaxies and the universe at large. In such a way, the research of globular clusters may be considered very perspective, taking into consideration their actual and potential significance for the further researches of space.

The basic properties of globular clusters Continue reading →

Introduction
“Freedom and Death” is a novel based on the 1889 rebellion of the Christian Greeks of the island of Crete, against the rule of the Muslim Turks. The novel aims to humanize the events of the uprising and make it relatable to the readers, by detailing the amplification of humans’ struggle with love, friendship and freedom in the time of war. Its main characters are Captain Michalis and Nuri Bei. Michalis represents the Greek side of the conflict and Nuri Bei, a political ruler and Michalis’ blood brother, represents the Turks, helping the reader understand both perspectives of the predicament.

Both characters suffer a tragic fate in the story, as victims of war, but they die in different ways. While both die because of war, Michalis is killed directly by the sword while Nuri Bei suffers lasting psychological damage that changes his life completely, leaving it unbearable. Other important characters include Manoussakas, the victim of Nuri’s revenge for his father’s death, Emine, Nuri’s wife until his suicide, and Kosmas, nephew of Captain Michalis. The storyline of the novel interweaves these characters in order to understand the and effects that the Cretan revolt had on each individual and how each individual can be interpreted as a representative of their people.

Summary
One of the most important events that lead to the climax of this novel is the death of Nuri Bei. After Nuri Bei commits suicide, the problematic environment of Megalokastoro becomes even more chaotic and ready for revolt. The central conflicts of this novel are ideological, internal as well as sexual. Michales and Emine are caught in two love triangles with two other central figures in the novel, Nuri Bei and Captain Polyxingis. The protagonist is seen struggling with this situation, reclassifying it as one of his fights with his inner demons. As emotions flare and soldiers from both sides wage war against eachothr, the central conflict develops. The ongoing theme is the conflicting ideology associated with old values of ancient Greece, represented by Michales and the contradicting informed resolutions represented by Kosmas. The novel climaxes when the Monastery is taken over by the Turks due to Michales’ inner conflict regarding his responsibility and destiny. His decision to kill the temptress Emine is parallel with his decision to overcome his conflict and materialistic desires for the greater good. The last scenes of Freedom and Death present the protagonist in his final fight. The falling action of this novel makes Michales’ into a tragic hero who is willing to sacrifice his life for a cause in which he believes. In this event, the Turks kill Kosmas and Michales, nephew and uncle, in the rugged mountains of Crete. Continue reading →