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5 Foods To Eat at Each Meal for Quicker Weight Loss
Anyone who’s trying to lose weight knows the journey can be filled with frustrating hurdles and unexpected curveballs. But once you have just the right healthy eating routine on deck, you’ll be able to speed up weight loss with each meal you consume. Melissa Mitri, MS, RD, nutrition writer and owner of Melissa Mitri Nutrition, shares with us five of the best foods to add to your regular meals that’ll get you so much closer to results. So get excited, and keep reading to learn more about these healthy weight-loss foods. And next up, don’t miss 5 Healthier Foods To Have in the Fridge for Quicker Weight Loss.
Cruciferous veggies
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If you want to lose weight, bring on the cruciferous veggies! Cauliflower, broccoli, leafy greens, and Brussels sprouts are low in the calorie and carb departments and full of satiating fiber, according to Mitri. These healthy veggies also help decrease inflammation. Mitri suggests adding them to fresh smoothies and omelets or savoring them as an easy-to-put-together side dish.
Avocados
This green fruit is absolutely bursting with fiber and healthy fats. They’re also linked to weight loss, Mitri says.
According to research, adding half of an avocado to your lunch can promote feelings of fullness for three to five hours after eating. Another study revealed that women who consumed an avocado every day experienced greater fat loss than those who didn’t eat avocados.
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Whole grains
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quinoa
“You don’t have to give up carbs when you’re trying to lose weight,” Mitri says. “Choosing whole-grain carbs with each meal like quinoa, whole-wheat pasta, and brown rice contain more fiber and nutrients to keep you satisfied.” Plus, incorporating grains like these into your meals can help nix any cravings for sugar and refined carbs.
Nuts and seeds
Seeds and nuts such as almonds, pistachios, walnuts, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, and chia seeds are a stellar addition to your weight loss program. According to Mitri, “They are a rich source of healthy anti-inflammatory fat, plant-based protein, and fiber to hold you over and help you more easily stick to your weight loss goals. Enjoy blended into smoothies, on top of yogurt, or a nutty trail mix as an afternoon pick-me-up.”
Fatty fish
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It’s time to add more fatty fish to your diet ASAP. Sardines, tuna, and salmon can aid in decreasing overall body fat. “[Fatty fish] is high in protein but relatively low in calories, and rich in heart-healthy fats. Studies have shown eating fatty fish may help support weight loss by regulating your appetite hormone levels. Enjoy low-mercury fish regularly like salmon, canned light tuna, sardines, and cod,” Mitri says.
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Kanye West enjoys meal with mystery woman amid media backlash
Kanye West seems to have a ball with a new mystery woman amid net worth declining, multiple lawsuits, and anti-Semitic backlash.
According to TMZ, the father-of-four was seen having a stimulating conversation with the unknown blonde woman inside the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills while enjoying meals together.
The report further adds the duo seemed comfortable with each other as they ate while talking. The 45-year-old has been frequently seen at the hotel, raising speculations that the rapper turned the hotel into his temporary home.
Meanwhile, the mystery blonde woman is still unidentified. However, the woman was spotted with the Donda hitmaker earlier this week when they went into the hotel.
The gossip outlet also pointed out the pair hadn’t been seen together earlier. Therefore, if their meetings blossomed into a relationship, then it is new.
Amid the seemingly new romance, West’s most recent partner Juliana Nalú broke up after his anti-Semitic tirades and praise for Hitler.
It is pertinent to mention that a new report claimed that Ye could stand to lose millions from the lawsuits via default judgments as he constantly ghosted former lawyers. While still did not hire new ones to represent him.
Rare Dinosaur Fossil Found With Perfectly Preserved Final Meal Inside : ScienceAlert
Around 120 million years ago, four-winged dinosaurs roughly the size of crows called Microraptors stalked the ancient woodlands of what is now China.
While researchers have studied several Microraptor specimens, there’s still a lot we don’t know about these feathered bird-like creatures – including what and how they ate.
Now an incredibly rare fossil has revealed the preserved final meal of one individual: and unexpectedly, it was a mammal.
“At first, I couldn’t believe it,” says vertebrate paleontologist Hans Larsson from McGill University in Canada, who found the fossil while looking through samples at museum collections in China.
“There was a tiny rodent-like mammal foot about a centimeter long perfectly preserved inside a Microraptor skeleton.”
“These finds are the only solid evidence we have about the food consumption of these long extinct animals – and they are exceptionally rare,” Larsson adds.
The first Microraptor fossil was found in Liaoning, China, in 2000. There are three known species, which lived in the early Cretacious period, and the fossil in question belongs to Microraptor zhaoianus.
The Microraptors were among some of the first dinosaurs that were found with fully feathered wings on both its arms and legs – and alongside the famous feathered dinosaur Archaeopteryx, have reinforced theories that propose modern birds are closely related to categories of dinosaur.
While some studies have shown that Microraptors would have been capable of powered flight, it’s generally thought that they mostly used their wings to glide.
Up until now, the small dinosaurs had only been confirmed to eat birds, fish, and lizards, and they were thought to be arboreal hunters that glided down from the trees to capture prey.
The latest discovery expands on that idea, suggesting they were more likely to be opportunistic eaters that both scavenged and preyed upon a variety of vertebrates.
“We already know of Microraptor specimens preserved with parts of fish, a bird, and a lizard in their bellies. This new find adds a small mammal to their diet, suggesting these dinosaurs were opportunistic and not picky eaters,” says Larsson.
That’s a big deal, because although generalist carnivores are common and important stabilizers in today’s ecosystems – think of foxes and crows – this could very well be the first evidence of a generalist carnivores in a dinosaur ecosystem, Larsson and his team write.
It’s incredibly rare to find dinosaur fossils that preserve their last meal inside their stomach, they add. Out of all the carnivorous dinosaur fossils that have been found, we only know of 20 that contain their last meals.
The latest discovery takes that number to 21.
Understanding more about their diets isn’t just fascinating for those of us trying to imagine how the world looked 120 million years ago, it also provides important clues for the researchers working hard to understand exactly how dinosaurs left the land for the sky, and evolved into the true birds we see today.
“Knowing that Microraptor was a generalist carnivore puts a new perspective on how ancient ecosystems may have worked and a possible insight into the success of these small, feathered dinosaurs,” says Larsson.
The research has been published in The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
120 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Fossil Hid a Surprising Meal in Its Stomach
The surprising lunch of a cat-size dinosaur has been discovered in a 120 million-year-old Microraptor fossil. Though the fossil was first described in 2000, it hid an intriguing and historic secret: A re-analysis of the fossil found the foot bones of a mammal within the raptor’s rib cage — the first evidence of a dino dining on a mammal.
The find, described in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on Tuesday, builds on the previous research of the Microraptor zhaoianus fossil, discovered in the Jiufotang Formation in western China. That fossil is missing the middle portion of its body, but the rib cage is visible and, within, the bones of a tiny right foot, less than half an inch in size, were perfectly preserved.
Microraptors were three-toed, carnivorous dinosaurs that occupied the trees of ancient Earth and are among the smallest dinosaurs discovered. Fossils of different microraptor species show evidence of long feathers on each limb, which may have used for gliding.
As you might expect, being eaten doesn’t typically result in very well-preserved fossil remains. All that biting and chewing, plus digestion, typically leaves few traces of a meal. However, scientists have a fairly good idea of the microraptor diet thanks to fossils with undigested remains in the stomach.
A bird, a fish and a squamate — the class of animals containing lizards and snakes — have all been previously found, but the new find helps paint a more complete picture of what was going down the gullet during a prehistoric degustation.
“It’s so rare to find examples of food inside dinosaurs so every example is really important as it gives direct evidence of what they were eating,” said David Hone, a paleontologist at Queen Mary University of London and first author on the new study.
While scientists can tell a foot ended up in the microraptor’s stomach, they’re not sure which species it belonged to. The slender digits are similar to tiny, extinct, possum-like mammals known as Sinodelphys or the more mouse-like Eomaia. However, the digits aren’t quite long enough to be either of these species.
Another outstanding question is whether Microraptor preyed on the mammal or if it merely scavenged the foot. That’s impossible to say with this fossil, but some scientists have suggested the microraptor’s feathered limbs may have allowed the species to glide from branches and to the ground to prey on land-dwelling species. The size of the mammal’s foot suggests the creature would have been in the size range expected for microraptor’s prey.
The astounding fossil builds on previous evidence these smaller three-toed dinosaurs would feast on whatever was around — it’s even possible they may have even eaten plants on occasion.
Keystone cleanup turns remote Kansas valley into a small town
WASHINGTON, Kan., Dec 18 (Reuters) – Farmer Bill Pannbacker got a call earlier this month from a representative from TC Energy Corp , telling him that its Keystone Pipeline, which runs through his farmland in rural Kansas, had suffered an oil leak.
But he was not prepared for what he saw on his land, which he owns with his wife, Chris. Oil had shot out of the pipeline and coated what he estimated was nearly an acre of pasture uphill of the pipe, which is set into a valley.
The grass was blackened with diluent bitumen, one of the thickest of crude oils, which was being transported from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
The rupture on Dec. 7 is the third in the last five years for the Keystone Pipeline, and the worst of the three – more than 14,000 barrels of crude has spilled and cleanup is expected to take weeks or months.
TC has not said when repairs could be completed and a 96-mile (155-km) segment of the pipeline will restart. Crews will remain busy on site through the holidays and completion of the cleanup depends on weather and other factors, the Canadian company said in a statement.
“We are committed to restoring the affected areas to their original condition or better.”
BEEHIVE OF WORKERS
Keystone’s two previous spills happened in unincorporated areas in North Dakota and South Dakota. And while the city of Washington, Kansas, is small with just over 1,000 residents, it is surrounded by farms where wheat, corn, soybeans are planted and cattle are raised. The spill in Washington County affected land owned by several people.
The once-quiet valley is currently a construction site buzzing with some 400 contractors, staff from pipeline operator TC Energy, and federal, state and local officials. They are working into the night, leaving a glow from the high-intensity lamps seen from miles away.
Cranes, storage containers, construction equipment and vehicles stretch for more than a half mile from the site of the rupture. The valley has become almost a small town, with several Quonset-style huts erected for workers.
Aerial photos showed a large, blackened swath of land that almost looks like an airborne object is throwing a shadow over the land. Pannbacker said that pasture was used for cattle grazing and calving, but with calving season over, there were no livestock there at the time.
The oil-blackened grass on the land, which is owned by Pannbacker and his sisters as part of a family trust, is now completely gone. It was scraped away and is now confined to a giant mound of dirt that is noticeably darker at the bottom. But oil droplets on plants further up the hill were still visible.
WIDER GROUP AFFECTED
Living in rural Kansas, the Pannbackers are used to preparing for harsh weather, but not an oil spill. Residents have been largely unconcerned despite the accident, even as the area will resemble a work site for the near-future.
“How many people have experienced an oil spill? Who knows what it’s like?” said Chris Pannbacker. “It’s not like a tornado or a natural disaster.”
Kansas State Representative Lisa Moser in a Facebook post said there are 14 landowners who are being compensated for either the spill or the use of their property during cleanup.
TC said it is discussing compensation with landowners but would keep details private. The company said it has stayed in regular contact with landowners. Pannbacker said TC has not yet discussed compensation with them yet.
Pannbacker says he does not expect the grass on the pastureland to return for at least two or three years; there is a well site on the pasture used for the cattle that they will not be using either.
Reporting by Erwin Seba in Washington, Kan.; additional reporting by Rod Nickel; writing by David Gaffen
Editing by Marguerita Choy
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‘World’s oldest meal’ discovered in ancient fossil
Scientists have discovered the last meal for ancient animal inhabitants of Earth, from more than 550 million years ago, in a fossil.
The researchers found phytosterol molecules, a type of fat found in plants, in the fossils uncovered during a dig in Russia in 2018.
Findings from the analysis of the slug-like organism called Kimberella and the Dickinsonia organisms were published in Current Biology Tuesday.
Researchers found that the Kimberella and Dickinsonia organisms were one of the most advanced creatures of the Ediacara biota, which is what scientists called the oldest large organisms. The Dickinsonias ate food by absorbing it into their bodies because they didn’t have eyes, mouths, or guts, while the Kimberella ate food through a mouth and digested it with a gut.
“Our findings suggest that the animals of the Ediacara biota, which lived on Earth prior to the ‘Cambrian Explosion’ of modern animal life, were a mixed bag of outright weirdos, such as Dickinsonia, and more advanced animals like Kimberella that already had some physiological properties similar to humans and other present-day animals,” said Ilya Bobrovskiy, one of the lead authors of the research paper, in a press release.
The two organisms predate the Cambrian Explosion, when evolution of organisms rapidly changed, by nearly 20 million years.
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Cognitive Health May Benefit From Balanced Meal Timing
Summary: Breakfast may very well be the most important meal of the day, especially in terms of maintaining good cognitive health. Researchers found skipping breakfast increases the risk of cognitive decline in middle-to-old age, while maintaining a temporal distribution of energy intake during a day helps maintain cognitive health.
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Globally, there are approximately 55 million people who suffer from dementia, and the incidence of the disease has steadily increased. The number of the population is expected to triple by 2050, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Dementia affects not only the quality of life of individuals, but also adds significant economic burdens to families and society.
Epidemiological studies have shown a correlation between the temporal distribution of energy intake during a day (TPEI) and the risk of various chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. However, evidence regarding the relationship between TPEI and cognitive function at the population level is relatively lacking.
Previous studies in animal models have shown that the disruption in meal timing can cause alterations in clock rhythms in the hippocampus, thereby affecting cognitive function.
According to a short-term intervention trial of 96 young adults, dividing equal amounts of food into four meals between 9 am and 3 pm could improve cognitive function compared to eating twice between 9 am and 3 pm. However, long-term study is lacking about the TPEIs and cognitive function.
Recently, Drs Changzheng Yuan and Dongmei Yu at Zhejiang University published a paper in Life Metabolism entitled “Temporal patterns of energy intake and cognitive function and its decline: a community-based cohort study in China”.
Based on the China Nutrition Health Survery (CHNS) public database, a total of 3,342 participants were included in this study, who were middle-aged and older adults (mean age 62 years) from nine provinces in China with a baseline age ≥ 55 years.
The researchers used: 1) A data-driven k-means algorithm to identify six patterns of TPEIs, including “evenly-distributed” pattern, “breakfast-dominant” pattern, “lunch-dominant” pattern, “dinner-dominant” pattern, “snack-rich” pattern, and “breakfast-skipping” pattern;
2) Cognitive function was assessed using the modified Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS-m), comprising immediate and delayed word recalls (20 points), backward counting (2 points), and serial-7 subtraction test (5 points). The total global cognitive score ranged from 0 to 27, with a higher score representing a better cognitive function;
3) The correlation of TPEIs to cognitive function over 10 years was assessed using linear mixed models (LMMs), which was adjusted for age, gender, residence, total energy, physical activity, smoking status, alcohol consumption, household income, education level, and body mass index (BMI).
The result showed that, compared with those with “evenly-distributed” pattern, the long-term cognitive function scores were significantly lower in those who had unbalanced TPEIs, especially those with “breakfast-skipping” pattern.
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Thus, maintaining balanced TPEIs has potentially positive effects on cognitive health, whereas skipping breakfast may significantly increase the risk of cognitive decline in middle-aged and older adults. In conclusion, this study highlights the importance of optimal TPEIs in cognitive function.
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Author: Shuqin He
Source: Higher Education Press
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“Temporal patterns of energy intake and cognitive function and its decline: a community-based cohort study in China” by Changzheng Yuan et al. Life Metabolism
Abstract
Temporal patterns of energy intake and cognitive function and its decline: a community-based cohort study in China
Worldwide, around 55 million people had prevalent dementia in 2019, which is expected to triple by 2050, especially in low- and middle-income countries Lacking timely diagnosis and limited effective treatment for dementia make identifying risk factors crucial for its early prevention, among which dietary factors have received increasing attention.