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"Only eating breakfast and lunch may be more effective at managing type 2 diabetes than eating smaller, more regular meals, scientists say.
Researchers in Prague fed two groups of 27 people the same calorie diet spread over two or six meals a day.
They found volunteers who ate two meals a day lost more weight than those who ate six, and their blood sugar dropped.
Experts said the study supported "existing evidence" that fewer, larger meals were the way forward."
In January last year I wrote about Kevin Drum's article on the Mother Jones about the hypothesis that the fall in crime rates in America and in other Western countries has been caused by the stop of adding lead to gasoline.
I wrote then:
Bill Moyers discusses with Paul Krugman the book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.
Krugman: "[Piketty] is telling us that we are not just on the road to highly unequal society, but to a society of an oligarchy. A society of inherited wealth."
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"Lehman was a small institution compared to the Austrian, French, and German banks that have become highly exposed to Russia's financial system through the practice of using deposits from Russian companies and individuals to lend to Russian borrowers. Given this, a Russian asset freeze could be catastrophic for European - indeed, global - financial markets."
The above is an extract from Harold James' article.
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BlackLight Power is an American technology company based on its founder's, Dr. Randell L. Mills', hypothesis that a Hydrogen atom's electron can be pushed closer to its proton releasing large amounts of energy.
Hydrogen can be extracted from water, meaning that water would become a new, cheap, basic source of energy.
BlackLight Power has raised some $ 80 million of private funding for its development work.
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From TED. Sandra Aamodt uses her personal story to frame an important lesson about how our brains manage our bodies, as she explores the science behind why dieting not only doesn't work, but is likely to do more harm than good. She suggests ideas for how to live a less diet-obsessed life, intuitively.
From the BBC: Followers of France's political love story may have been intrigued by some expressions used in the media, writes Hugh Schofield. What, for example, to make of a presidential spokesman's statement that Valerie Trierweiler has succumbed to the blues?
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Olli Raade
Editor to Facts & Arts
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