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This article focused on a study that measured how many calories people burned when doing intensive exercise, such as bicycling, running, or playing a fast-paced game of basketball. Researchers discovered that high-intensity exercise burned extra calories in addition to the calories burned during exercise, and that this extra burn was not present in exercise that was low intensity, such as walking. The article did a good job of explaining the results and the conditions under which the study was performed. Many news articles give the results but don’t talk about how the results were figured out, but that information is important for people who want to know more about how a study or some research was conducted. The study acknowledged that only men were participants in the study, which could raise some issues of balance, but the researchers felt confident the results would be true for women as well. This article is interesting to me because I am interested in understanding how my exercise regiment affects my overall health and calorie burning. I like lower intensity workouts, but I never quite believed it when I heard people say you could get the same benefit from walking as from running, and it would seem that in fact running is significantly more effective at burning calories by also getting the body to heat up and work hard even after the person has stopped exercising. This article explained the benefits of chocolate milk for athletes and people engaging in high-intensity workkouts. Researchers compared performances of athletes who drank sports drinks against those who drank chocolate milk in order to find out how effective chocolate milk is as a workout drink. The researchers for this study found that chocolate milk contains pr... ...tific content to understand the main ideas of the piece, but the reporter did mention some things about antibodies and how the drug was used that was not as fully explained as they could have been. With the statistic being something like 1 in 6 people will develop cancer at some point in their lifetime, this news story is relevant to everyone and is good news that science and medicine are becoming ever more effective at treating cancer in a way that is successful and yet is not devastating to someone’s quality of life. However, this new treatment still relies on conventional medicine, namely specific poison for cancer cells, and it will only treat the disease after it has manifest. Hopefully scientists are working on ways for more effective pre-screening, and I do wish more people would advocate lifestyle choices that prevent cancer from forming in the first place.