Equal...

While the “calories in versus calories out” model matters for weight loss, not all calories are created equal when it comes to your health.

That’s because different foods have different effects on various processes in your body, regardless of calorie contents.

 Glucose and fructose serve as a good example.

A diet too rich in added fructose is linked to insulin resistance, increased blood sugar levels, and higher triglyceride and LDL (bad) cholesterol levels than a diet providing the same number of calories from glucoseTrusted Sou.

Fruit, which contains natural fructose along with fiber and water, does not have the same negative effects.

Diets rich in polyunsaturated fats appear to boost fertility in healthy womenTrusted Sour.

Replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats in your diet may further lower your risk of heart disease.

Your nutrient intake impacts your hunger and feelings of fullness.

Eating a 100-calorie serving of beans will reduce your hunger much more effectively than eating a 100-calorie serving of candy.

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Dense...

The amount of nutrients a food contains per calorie can vary greatly.

Nutrient-dense foods provide higher amounts of vitamins, minerals, and beneficial compounds per gram compared with less nutrient-dense foods.

Nutrient-dense foods include fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, meat, fish, poultry, dairy products, and unsalted nuts and seeds.

Processed foods, including white pasta, soda, cookies, chips, ice cream, and alcohol are considered to have a low nutrient density.

Diets rich in nutrient-dense foods are consistently linked to a lower risk of chronic diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease, and may even help you live longer.

The “calories in versus calories out” model fails to take nutrient density into account, which is a good reason to doubt its relevance when it comes to your health

Doxxing...

A second aide to New Hampshire Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan is facing federal charges stemming from a scheme to publicly post the personal information of several Republican politicians amid the contentious confirmation hearings for now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

The aide, Samantha Deforest Davis, was a staff assistant in Hassan’s office from August 2017 until last December. She was fired after Capitol Police discovered her possible involvement in the so-called "doxing" effort.

Court documents accuse Davis of aiding 27-year-old Jackson A. Cosko, a former Hassan aide who has pleaded guilty to five federal offenses, including two counts of making public restricted personal information, and one count each of computer fraud, witness tampering and obstruction of justice.

Prosecutors alleged that Davis was persuaded by Cosko to "wipe down" Senate computers he had hacked. Davis now faces two misdemeanor charges: one federal count of aiding and abetting computer fraud and a District count of attempted evidence tampering, the Washington Post reported.

Rhetoric...

President Trump has privately pushed his representatives to walk back their tough talk on Iran and reiterate that the administration is not aiming to go to war with Tehran.

Two senior officials with direct knowledge of the administration’s strategy in the region tell The Daily Beast that the president has asked officials to tone down their heated rhetoric on Iran, despite the attacks on tanker ships in the Gulf of Oman that Washington has blamed on Tehran. The president has previously said he is less hawkish on Iran than some of his advisers and this week, in a Time magazine interview, said the attacks on the tankers were “very minor.”

Over the last several days in public testimony and in closed-door briefings, Trump administration officials have tried to calm lawmakers on Capitol Hill who are wary of the administration evading Congress to launch a military confrontation with Tehran.  

Blessed are the peacemakers.  Just a thought.

Systematic...

New York 1 became part of the news Wednesday as it has been named in an age and gender discrimination lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court.

The suit was brought by five anchorwomen who claim there was a systematic effort by managers to force them off the air in favor of younger, less experienced hosts.

The plaintiffs include Roma Torre, one of the channel's longest-serving anchors.

She tells the New York Times, "We feel we are being railroaded out of this place...while men age on TV with a sense of gravitas, and we as women have an expiration date...and we were told to stop complaining."

The other plaintiffs are Amanda Farinacci, Vivian Lee, Jeanine Ramirez and Kristen Shaughnessy.

A spokeswoman for Charter Communications says more than half of NY1's on-air talent are female and that more than half are over 40.

Order...

Climate change is real, but is not going to happen tomorrow. So let us not shut down the economy and run for the hills. We have so much time to adjust, invent, create and manage the change.

Nxivm...

Keith Raniere, a New York man accused of running a cult-like group in which women were kept on starvation diets, branded with his initials and ordered to have sex with him, was found guilty of all charges against him by a New York jury on Wednesday.

He is 58, was charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and possession of child pornography.   

Raniere is the founder of Nxivm, a purported self-improvement organization based in upstate New York. Prosecutors said that he created a secret sorority within Nxivm called DOS in which female "slaves" turned over compromising materials that were used to blackmail them. DOS was sold to recruits as an all-female organization, when in fact it was controlled by Raniere, according to former members who testified at the trial. 

DOS slaves were forced to hand over nude photos and embarrassing confessions and told that the material would be released if they disobeyed orders or tried to leave, according to a former member and other witnesses. 

Who are these people?   Just a thought.

Habit...

The sad reality of how the Media justify war, and create enemies in places all what the regular people wants is to live their lives in peace. Time to change the habit.

Do it...

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Reps. Elijah Cummings and Ro Khanna along with more than two dozen of their colleagues in the House and Senate introduced sweeping reforms that would dramatically reduce prescription drug prices.

The plan includes three bills:

• The Prescription Drug Price Relief Act, which would peg the price of prescription drugs in the United States to the median price in five major countries: Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan;

• The Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Act, which would direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs under Medicare Part D;

• The Affordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act, which would allow patients, pharmacists and wholesalers to import safe, affordable medicine from Canada and other major countries.

Meanwhile, in Canada and other major countries, the same medications, manufactured by the same companies, in the same factories are available for a fraction of the price compared to the United States. 

In 2017, Americans spent $1,208 per person on prescription drugs while Canadians spent $860 and people in the U.K. spent $476.

Corrupt...

US President Donald Trump on accused the New York Times of “a virtual act of treason” after it reported the US is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid.

Current and former government officials have described the classified deployment of American computer code inside Russia’s power grid and other targets, the newspaper reported.

The action is intended partly as a warning but also to leave the US poised to conduct cyber-strikes in the event of a major conflict between the US and Russia, the newspaper said.

Trump tweeted that the accusations were “not true”, calling the media “corrupt” and repeating accusations that journalists are “the enemy of the people”.

The Media is playing the game of create the conflict, go after it, and push officials to interact. 

If we do this to the Russians, what do you expect the Russians to do to us. With that cycle running full force, the Media just continue with their semi true stories.