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Portfolio Diet: Food Plan And Heart Benefits

Portfolio Diet: Food Plan And Heart Benefits

Published by Sam Flores

In a recent video, surgeon, author, and medical myth debunker Dr Karan Rajan said that the portfolio diet could “reduce your [low-density lipoprotein] LDL cholesterol as much as a statin”. Statins are medications designed to lower a person’s LDL, or “bad”, cholesterol levels, thus reducing their risk of heart disease and stroke. A 2003 study found that the portfolio reduced LDL cholesterol by almost 29%. In other words, it seemed about as good as low-dose statins (those which reduce LDL cholesterol by 30% or less) at lowering “bad” cholesterol. The British Heart Foundation cautioned that statins may carry unique benefits and better-proven outcomes outside of just lowering LDL cholesterol. If you’ve been prescribed statins, keep taking them as long as your doctor advises. But if you’re trying to keep your LDL levels healthy in general, some research suggests the portfolio diet can reduce “bad” cholesterol by as much as 30%. What is the portfolio diet? The diet, which was invented in the early 2000s by Dr. David J.A. Jenkin, is designed to combine several LDL …

Trump’s Critical Minerals Pricing Plan Faces Skeptical G7, Divided Industry

Trump’s Critical Minerals Pricing Plan Faces Skeptical G7, Divided Industry

Published by Sam Flores

By Julia Payne and Ernest Scheyder ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, France, June 15 (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s push to boost critical minerals production by regulating prices is facing skeptical G7 allies and a divided mining industry, ⁠with negotiations ⁠for a Western trading bloc stumbling over concerns about the plan’s cost and governance, according to diplomatic sources ⁠and a Reuters analysis of corporate policy recommendations. First proposed by U.S. Vice President JD Vance in February, the trading bloc aims to help the West wean itself off China, which became the world’s largest minerals producer by operating at a ​loss and dampening prices for the building blocks of semiconductors, computer servers, military equipment and myriad other products. Artificially low prices for cobalt, lithium, nickel and other minerals have made it harder for Western mining rivals to compete, inhibiting new development and driving some companies out of business — a tactic Beijing has used repeatedly in other industries. The trade bloc, as envisioned, would explore price supports, market standards, ‌subsidies, or guaranteed purchases to encourage and financially underpin production across multiple countries. …

Go from walker to runner in just eight weeks with this plan from an expert trainer and running coach

Go from walker to runner in just eight weeks with this plan from an expert trainer and running coach

Published by Jenni Sidey

The urge to improve your health comes to us all at some point, and often that leads people to try running. The first time you set off, however, will probably be a shock to the system. Our bodies take time to adapt to new activities and going straight into non-stop running—even for a short period—puts the body under stress it just isn’t used to. As well as feeling awful, you may suffer an injury, or at the very least feel uncommonly sore the next day. Latest Videos From But there is a better way. When you start running for the first time, you should spend more time at a walking pace than running, says Marwa Ahmed, founder and CEO of The BodyMind Coach. You may like The NASM-certified personal trainer and running coach, with more than seven years of experience in turning walkers into runners, tells Fit&Well that while you may have your heart set on running a 5K tomorrow, your lower body just can’t make the jump that quickly. “When transitioning to running, the …

GOP has a new plan to kill off Medicare and Social Security

GOP has a new plan to kill off Medicare and Social Security

Published by Sam Flores

One of the least remarked-upon chapters in the Republicans’ ghastly Project 2025 document dealt with their plan to cut Social Security and Medicare, ostensibly to fix the impending trust fund shortfall and eliminate the national deficit all at once. The reason hardly anyone talked about it is that if there’s one thing we know about Republicans, from the so-called moderates to the most extreme MAGA true believers, it’s that they want to do away with those commie pinko programs once and for all. But there’s a problem: Nearly all Americans depend on those commie pinko programs to some extent, including many Republican voters. So the ideologues are always forced to couch their desire to slash federal spending to the bone in some version of “We have to kill the programs in order to save them.” Nobody buys it, and the world moves on. Indeed, in all three of his presidential campaigns Donald Trump ran on promises to protect those programs, and under his leadership, other Republicans have mostly kept their plans on the down low. Who can forget the moment in Joe Biden’s …

Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon

Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s internal announcement on Friday about a “large” companywide AI hackathon next month quickly sparked frustration and disbelief among employees. In internal messages seen by WIRED, some workers wrote that added responsibilities in the wake of recent mass layoffs at the tech giant had left them with little time to join such ancillary activities. Others said they felt discouraged from participating because of what they viewed as low morale and declining trust in management across the company. “I’m literally preoccupied with keeping the lights on for my team,” one employee wrote on Friday. “I have no incentive to participate, let alone have the time to do so.” In a post shared to Meta’s roughly 70,000 employees, Zuckerberg framed the hackathon as a way for staff to build camaraderie at a time of widespread internal unrest. Ime Archibong, a vice president of product management at Meta, later shared additional details about the event, which he said would take place from July 14 to July 16 and focus “exclusively on AI Innovation.” Archibong’s post …

One economist’s villainous plan to manage global poverty

One economist’s villainous plan to manage global poverty

Published by Sam Flores

Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand was often accused of inventing cartoonish villains. Rogues such as Ellsworth Toohey in “The Fountainhead” would scheme to seize the global economy’s commanding heights in pursuit of a distorted sense of justice. But the people who hold such ideas don’t just appear in cartoons or in Rand’s novels. Enter Thomas Piketty and company. In early June, Piketty’s large team joined the French economist — whose work on inequality has made him something of a rock star even while being serially challenged for methodological errors, data imputations and cherry-picked baselines — to unveil what can only be described as a villainous plan. It’s a comprehensive program for global managed decline dressed up in the language of climate justice and equality. The plan is far too ambitious for most nations to accept. But given Piketty and his circle of economists’ influence on U.S. wealth taxes and prominent global policy proposals, we should take its underlying ideas seriously. Piketty’s plan would cap GDP per capita in wealthy countries at roughly $69,000, far less …

I just saved 0 a year on my Google AI plan without losing my Drive storage – here’s how

I just saved $180 a year on my Google AI plan without losing my Drive storage – here’s how

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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Google AI Plus now includes 400GB of storage for $4.99 a month. Downgrading from AI Pro to AI Plus could save $180 a year. Google One plans can be changed from the web or mobile app. I don’t love paying for Google Drive. But after 14 years of using Docs, Sheets, Slides, Photos, and uploading random files, I now have about 340GB of digital junk sitting in Google storage. That’s far beyond the free 15GB given to every account. So, I need to shell out $20 a month for Google AI Pro, which gives me 5TB of storage and access to the Gemini 3 Pro model in the Gemini app. The issue? I want to whittle down my subscriptions, and I barely use Gemini enough to justify the AI part of the bill. I need storage. Also: I tried Google Drive’s new AI cleanup tool to fix 14 years of clutter So, when Google dropped its AI …

UK Government sets out £1.1bn AI Hardware Plan 

UK Government sets out £1.1bn AI Hardware Plan 

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The new AI Hardware Plan will support British companies developing chips and semiconductor technologies, with Silicon Valley backed funding. Announced by Technology Secretary Liz Kendall at London Tech Week, the AI Hardware Plan will help to boost Britain’s sovereign artificial intelligence capabilities through supporting domestic industries. According to the UK Government, the global AI chips market is expected to reach one trillion dollars in the early 2030s. If Britain could secure just 5% of this market, it would bring $50bn in revenue to the UK with tens of thousands of highly paid jobs in tech. The AI Hardware Plan includes: £750m for a national AI supercomputer A new national AI supercomputer will bring together current and next generation processors to run complex tasks more efficiently, in a heterogenous mixed-chip system. British-designed chips will be a crucial part of the system, which will join Isambard-AI and Zenith (alongside DAWN) as part of the UK’s AI Research Resource by 2030. Of the £750m, £400m will go towards equipping the UK’s AI supercomputer with next-generation chips. £150m of this will …