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中華男籃在2013亞籃賽打了五場好球，一個糟糕的第四節，輸給卡達，最關鍵也最重要的八強賽，命運安排的對手是中國大陸。老實說，大陸男籃就是中華隊的死穴，無解，也沒救。

我不是悲觀，更不是唱衰，我當然期待中華隊可以完成不可能任務，擊倒大陸男籃長城，衝進四強，讓大陸男籃掉到5-8排名賽，甚至還有更傳統的開玩笑說法，讓大陸男籃游泳回大陸謝罪。

大陸內線三支213公分中鋒，能攻又高既壯，技巧很全面的長人王治郅、易建聯、王哲林，兩名206公分又有運動力和對抗性的籃板手周鵬、李曉旭，兩名198-200公分射手王仕鵬、朱芳雨，這個陣式擺出來，中華隊大概就垮了八成。

是否有經驗，在減脂的過程中，肌肉組織也隨著減少了，是否可以同時減脂又保持肌肉呢？來自於Women’s Health & Fitness的文章"Lose fat and keep muscle“介紹到，如何在減脂的過程中，也能夠維持精瘦的肌肉，一塊來看一看囉。

在減脂的過程中，我們的目標是減掉「脂肪」，而不是「肌肉」，所以有一些營養及運動的觀念，讓你的身材能更為精實。

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當運動和飲食同時並行的時候，也不要忘了睡眠的重要性，睡覺也能瘦，那是當然的，但原因是甚麼呢？

降低食慾

睡眠中，瘦體素（leptin）分泌讓身體感覺到飽足感，如果睡眠不足的的話，瘦體素降低，而飢餓素（ghrelin）則提高了，增加了食慾，可能會爆食，最近研究顯示，睡眠不足的女性，比起睡眠充足的女性，每天會平均多攝取300大卡的熱量。

減少腹部脂肪

焦躁和壓力是造成腹部脂肪囤積的因素之一，睡眠充足可以穩定情緒，減少負面情緒。

抑制脂肪基因成長

研究顯示，睡眠超過7-9小時的女性比起睡眠不足7小時的體重較輕，睡眠不足的人也容易受肥胖基因影響，導致肥胖。

The perfect crime

Sometimes, marketing enables a pickpocket to steal a wallet--and be thanked for it.

Marketers are responsible for what we do, it's not an activity without effects.

Last year, just one of the big fast food companies made more than $1,300,000,000 in profit (billion with a 'b'). They've also paid their CEO nearly $200 million in salary in the last five years. Sometimes, a big profit is the sign that you're doing something right, creating real value for people able to pay. Sometimes, though, it means you're exploiting a weakness in the system.

The big food companies are brilliant, relentless, focused marketers. Marketing works. It gets people to take action, to change their minds, and most of all, to do more of what they might have had an inkling to do in the first place. Sometimes a lot more. When the ideas of marketing (and the products are part of the marketing, optimized for high consumption) are weaponized like this, they are extraordinarily effective at achieving their goals.

Perfection or exploration

In an organization built around perfection, you need to push people to say, "Bad news, I made a mistake." Only by surfacing mistakes can the organization stamp them out.

In an organization built around exploration, on the other hand, people need to say, "Good news, I made a mistake." Only by seeking things that don't work will the group end up exploring.

In both situations, people don't want to speak up, because we've been taught that mistakes should be hidden. In both situations, though, hiding them is the very worst option.

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中華男籃今天94：55，39分血洗香港，並不意外，確定提前晉亞籃賽八強。即使沒有戴維斯，中華隊也得輕鬆贏香港20分，這是雙方籃球實力差距。

從預賽三連勝，到12強賽首戰輕取香港，中華隊球運不錯，三分外線很瘋，沒有主要傷兵，也還沒有遇上真正棘手、解決不了的難題。

接下來12強賽中華隊要先打日本，再對卡達，這兩場球中華隊很有勝算，但都沒有必勝把握。中華好棒，但真正的挑戰來了。