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Eating fructose appears to alter cells in the digestive tract in a way that enables it to take in more nutrients. These changes could help to explain the well-known link between rising fructose consumption around the world and increased rates of obesity and certain cancers. The research focused on the effect of a high-fructose diet on villi, the thin, hairlike structures that line the inside of the small intestine. Villi expand the surface area of the gut and help the body to absorb nutrients, including dietary fats, from food as it passes through the digestive tract. The study found that...

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Even if you don't go to Facebook, this video is shockingly important!! Maybe it's just a joke about nothing, but I don't think so. I think our "government" is ready to starve a lot of people to keep its power. Am I over-reacting? What do you all think? If you think this is real, please spread the word in every way possible.

Current and former political, military and intelligence officials are trying to pin responsibility for the catastrophe in Afghanistan on everyone but themselves. Some say what happened was inevitable. One retired senior military commander said we should have built the Afghan security forces to look more like the Taliban. President Biden blamed the Afghans as well as his predecessor. Such statements are infuriating.snip The fall of Afghanistan is, more than anything else, the result of U.S. political-military arrogance and incompetence at the senior levels over the past 20 years. Blaming the Afghans and claiming that only a political solution could bring...

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California's third most populous city has renamed a section of a prominent street "Barack Obama Boulevard." The boulevard through downtown San Jose is the first street in the Bay Area to be named for the nation's first Black president after four years of planning, FOX 2 of the Bay Area reported. "We always felt like it was going to happen because there was bipartisan support," Alex Shoor, who proposed the idea in 2017, told The Mercury News. "San Jose is a progressive, open-minded city. Most of us want to grow up in a country where any one of our children...

On Sunday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) sent a letter to Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Dr. Janet Woodcock, Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the FDA’s decision not to hold a formal advisory committee meeting to discuss Pfizer’s application for full approval of its Covid-19 vaccine. “I see no need to rush the FDA approval process for any of the three Covid-19 vaccines,” the senator wrote. “Expediting the process appears to only serve the political...

18 stories... Here is one: Man says his brother, a conservative talk radio host who died of COVID, wishes he got vaccine The brother of Nashville radio personality Phil Valentine shared with WWTN-FM on July 23 that his anti-vaccine brother was on supplemental oxygen and urged people to get the shot. “First of all, he's regretful that he wasn't a more vocal advocate of the vaccination,” Mark Valentine said of his brother, according to the Associated Press. “For those listening, I know if he were able to tell you this, he would tell you, ‘Go get vaccinated. Quit worrying about...

Police on Sunday arrested a man accused of attacking another man with a hammer in a Manhattan subway station, causing the victim to fall onto the tracks, according to the NYPD. Cops arrested Jamar Newton, 41, around 8:45 p.m. on charges including assault, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon, police said. Authorities said the Brooklyn man engaged in a verbal dispute with a 44-year-old man at the Union Square station along the N and R lines, just after 9 p.m. Saturday. WATCH (warning: graphic video) Video below: Twitter Link** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and...

CBS News just proved how far down the whirlpool of nonsense it’s willing to go. The outlet actually blamed climate change for Afghanistan’s terrorism outbreak following President Joe Biden’s massive foreign policy failure. CBS News climate and energy reporter Cara Korte wrote an absurd story headlined: “How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban.” She decried that “Rural Afghanistan has been rocked by climate change,” before making the wild connection that “the Taliban — likely without knowing climate change was the cause — has taken advantage of that pain.” But CBS News was singing a different tune 6 years ago when...

People with mentally stimulating jobs have a lower risk of dementia in old age than those with non-stimulating jobs, finds a study published by The BMJ today. One possible explanation is that mental stimulation is linked to lower levels of certain proteins that may prevent brain cells forming new connections (processes called axonogenesis and synaptogenesis). Cognitive stimulation is assumed to prevent or postpone the onset of dementia. But trial results have varied and most recent long term studies have suggested that leisure time cognitive activity does not reduce risk of dementia. Exposure to cognitive stimulation at work typically lasts considerably...

3.5 trillion price tag of a party-line spending plan Democrats are assembling to secure much of President Joe Biden's economic agenda. It may compel Democrats to dramatically scale back their ambitions in order to get her support. House Democrats over the party-line budget plan. Those Democrats are threatening to withhold support from the budget blueprint unless a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that recently passed the Senate reaches Biden's desk first. Sinema had previously indicated she would not back a $3.5 trillion plan, which could pave the way for Medicare's expansion, initiatives to combat the climate crisis, set up affordable childcare...

Kyrsten Sinema still opposes her party's plans for a $3.5 trillion, party-line spending bill. And she’s not up for a negotiation about it. Note: Sinema is one of my Senators and might be one of the few true Blue Dog senators left in America. Manchin is possibly another. If more dem senators were like Sinema we would not have 90% of the problems we have in America today. JMHO.

Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby says the US military will now require all service members to be vaccinated against Covid-19 following the FDA approval of the Pfizer vaccine

A new monoclonal antibody treatment has been found to protect chronically ill adults from developing COVID-19. The Phase 3 trial results suggest the novel antibody cocktail, delivered by intramuscular injection, could offer up to 12 months protection.

President Tsai Ing-wen got vaccinated with Taiwan’s first domestically developed Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, giving her personal stamp of approval as the island begins rolling out the shot whose approval critics say has been rushed. The health ministry last month approved the emergency use of Taiwan's Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp’s Covid-19 vaccine, part of a broader plan for inoculation self-sufficiency as delays in vaccine deliveries from global drug companies have affected Taiwan and many other countries. Tsai, who had held off using vaccines from Moderna or AstraZeneca, the current mainstay of Taiwan’s vaccination program, received her Medigen shot at a...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland plans to build a fence along its border with Belarus and deploy more soldiers there to stop migrants seeking to enter the European Union nation. The government on Monday also offered to send humanitarian aid to a group stuck at the border for more than two weeks. Poland and the three Baltic states — Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — accuse Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of sending migrants — most apparently from Afghanistan and Iraq — across their borders, which are also the EU’s external border, in what they call a “hybrid war.” All four EU...

Passive exposure was broken down into three categories, including maternal smoking during pregnancy, parental smoking during childhood, and years lived with smokers since age 18. Even with personal smoking accounted for, passive exposure to parental smoking during childhood was found to increase risk of incident seropositive RA by 75-percent. "There has been intense interest in mucosal lung inflammation from personal smoking as a site of RA pathogenesis," said senior author Jeffrey A. Sparks, MD. "But the majority of RA patients aren't smokers, so we wanted to look at another inhalant that might precede RA." RA is an inflammatory disease characterized...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo left behind his dog at the Executive Mansion when he moved out last week, the Albany Times Union reported. The New York Democrat announced Aug. 10 he was resigning from office in the wake of accusations that he sexually harassed several former and current female staff members. The governor, whose resignation takes effect Tuesday, has been staying with one of his sisters in Westchester County. The Times Union, citing two New York State Police sources, reported that Cuomo recently asked staff members if anyone wanted to keep his dog, Captain, a high-strung mix of shepherd, Siberian, and...

As Oscar Wilde tells us, “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.” This is especially true of bureaucracies on college campuses. Once their seeds are planted, their growth often continues without check. Administrative offices have been growing on college campuses since the 1980s, undoubtedly contributing to the increasing cost of a degree. Besides being expensive, administrative growth shifts resources away from education towards administrative programming. This threatens to undermine higher education’s central mission of teaching and research. There has been particularly rapid growth over the past two decades in the area focused on the promotion of diversity, equity,...