Satiating Diet that is better for Weight Loss than Keto

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September 13, 2021

If you’ve tried the keto diet, you’re familiar with how restrictive it can be it’s why, despite its weight loss benefits, keto can be hard to stick to.

Now, there’s a new diet trend, called the satiating diet, that’s touted to have similar benefits to keto, but without excluding entire food groups like carbs.

According to a report in Scientific American, the “satiating diet” has been shown to help people manage their weight and health, by using “healthy foods that are especially satiating; that is, foods that create feelings of fullness and satisfaction.” Sounds good, right?

The author of the report, Shirin Panahi, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher of physical education and kinesiology at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada, says that foods high in protein (like lean meat and fish) and high in fiber (like whole grains, fruits and vegetables), as well as healthy fats (like those found in avocados, for example), probiotic-rich dairy products, and capsaicin, the substance that makes peppers spicy (and is known to satisfy hunger) are

The whole idea of the satiating diet is that no food group is totally off-limits, but you should be focusing on foods that provide high-nutrient content while being super filling at the same time so you don’t feel deprived.

“What’s so special about these foods is that each of them possesses specific characteristics that benefit our health either by decreasing hunger, reducing body fat, lowering blood sugar, improving blood pressure or increasing metabolism,” Panahi says.

Eating this way all the time could be a simple way to maintain a healthy weight. According to a 2017 study in the British Journal of Nutrition in which participants followed either the satiating diet (eating 20 to 25 percent protein, 45-50 percent carbs and 30-35 percent fats) or a normal diet (eating 10 to 15 percent protein, 55-60 percent carbs and 30 percent fats), those on the satiating plan lost more weight and body fat, felt fuller and were better able to stick to the diet, which is really half the battle.

Of course, one successful study (which was also small, with only 69 male participants) doesn’t mean the satiating diet will work for everyone. But it sounds like a smart way to eat for overall health—whether you’re trying to lose weight or not.

Rocket To Blast Into Orbit With No Professional Astronauts On Board

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September 13, 2021

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For the first time in 60 years of human spaceflight, a rocket is poised to blast into orbit with no professional astronauts on board, only four tourists.

SpaceX’s first private flight will be led by a 38-year-old entrepreneur who’s bankrolling the entire trip. He’s taking two sweepstakes winners with him on the three-day, round-the-world trip, along with a health care worker who survived childhood cancer.

They’ll ride alone in a fully automated Dragon capsule, the same kind that SpaceX uses to send astronauts to and from the International Space Station for NASA. But the chartered flight won’t be going there.

Set to launch Wednesday night from Kennedy Space Center, the two men and two women will soar 100 miles (160 kilometers) higher than the space station, aiming for an altitude of 357 miles (575 kilometers), just above the current position of the Hubble Space Telescope.

By contrast, Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson and Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos briefly skimmed space during their short rides in July — Branson reached 53 miles (86 kilometers) while Bezos hit 66 miles up (106 kilometers).

As the private flight’s benefactor, Jared Isaacman, sees it: “This is the first step toward a world where everyday people can go and venture among the stars.”

Oldest US Veteran Of WWII Celebrates 112th Birthday

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September 13, 2021

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Oldest WWII Vet Birthday — FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2019 file photo, World War II veteran Lawrence Brooks holds a photo of him taken in 1943, as he celebrates his 110th birthday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Brooks celebrated his 112th birthday, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021 with a drive-by party at his New Orleans home hosted by the National War War II Museum. Drafted in 1940, Brooks was a private in the Army’s mostly Black 91st Engineer Battalion. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

A Louisiana man who is the oldest living World War II veteran in the United States has marked his 112th birthday.

Lawrence Brooks celebrated Sunday with a drive-by party at his New Orleans home hosted by the National World War II Museum, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported.

He also received greetings from Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, who tweeted, “Mr. Brooks, the entire state of Louisiana thanks you for your service and we all wish you a joyous birthday.”

The museum has previously hosted parties for Brooks, although the coronavirus pandemic has caused those events to shift to drive-by celebrations for the past two years.

This year’s festivities included a Jeep parade, a live performance from the museum vocal trio and entertainment from New Orleans musicians. The city also recognized Brooks’ birthday with an official proclamation.

Born in Norwood, Louisiana, in 1909, Brooks has lived in New Orleans since 1929. Drafted in 1940, he was a private in the Army’s mostly Black 91st Engineer Battalion, a unit that was stationed in New Guinea and the Philippines and built infrastructure such as bridges, roads and airstrips.

Nigeria’s Ruling Party Fixes October 2 For State Congresses

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Angel Gimalo

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September 13, 2021

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has fixed Saturday, October 2 to conduct its state congresses across the country.

National Secretary of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Senator James Akpanudoedehe, announced this in a statement on Monday.

He added that the party’s leadership has scheduled Wednesday to commence the sale of forms for the exercise.

Nature World Conservation Congress Ends With Outline For Nature Conservation

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September 13, 2021

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The International Union for Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress closed Friday, September 10, 2021, in Marseille, France and online, setting the nature conservation agenda for the next decade and beyond.

The IUCN Congress urged governments to implement a nature-based recovery from the pandemic, investing at least 10% of global recovery funds in nature, and adopted a series of resolutions and commitments to urgently address the interlinked climate and biodiversity crises.

“The IUCN Congress acts as a unique, inclusive global environmental parliament, where governments, NGOs and Indigenous Peoples all have a voice. The decisions taken here in Marseille will drive action to tackle the biodiversity and climate crises in the crucial decade to come.

Collectively, IUCN’s Members are sending a powerful message to Glasgow and Kunming: the time for fundamental change is now,” said Dr Bruno Oberle, IUCN Director-General.

Resolutions democratically adopted by IUCN Members include a call to protect 80% of the Amazon by 2025, to halt deep-sea mining across the oceans, and for the global community to adopt an ambitious One Health approach.

The active participation of Indigenous Peoples’ Organisation Members in IUCN’s democratic process led to a focus on indigenous peoples’ rights and role in conservation in many resolutions.

In total, IUCN’s more than 1,500 Members adopted 148 resolutions and recommendations, 39 through a vote at the IUCN Congress in Marseille, and 109 through online voting prior to the event.

Among the decisions taken in Marseille was a resolution for IUCN to create a Climate Crisis Commission, to complement the Union’s existing six Commissions.

In the closing session of the IUCN Congress, the Union’s state, non-governmental and Indigenous Peoples’ organisation Members adopted the Marseille Manifesto, including the commitment to implement the first self-determined IUCN Global Indigenous Agenda.

Commitments announced by state and non-state actors at the IUCN Congress include:

France’s commitment to achieve 30% of protected areas nationally by 2022, and 5% of its Mediterranean maritime area under strong protection by 2027;

Over 30 subnational governments, cities, partner organisations and IUCN agreed to expand universal access to high-quality green spaces and to enhance urban biodiversity in 100 cities, representing around 100 million citizens by 2025, and assessing their impact according to the Urban Biodiversity Index;

Under the leadership of Western Indian Ocean states, IUCN and partners committed to support the Great Blue Wall Initiative, the first regionally connected network to develop a regenerative blue economy to the benefit of 70 million people, while conserving and restoring marine and coastal biodiversity

Members also approved a new programme for IUCN for the next four years and elected new IUCN leadership, including the Union’s new President, Razan Al Mubarak.

Anthony Joshua: ‘I Need To Fight Tyson Fury, We Need It For Boxing’

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Emenike Agu

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September 13, 2021

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Anthony Joshua says he “needs” to fight Tyson Fury before he retires, as he prepares for his latest title defence against Oleksandr Usyk.

The WBO, WBA (Super) and IBF champion takes on Usyk later this month at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and is hopeful he can fight Fury next.

“Do I need Tyson Fury on my record? I need it,”

“Fight good fighters and they bring out the best of you.”

Talks over an undisputed title fight collapsed during the summer, but Joshua says a showdown with Fury is hugely important to him.

“We need it for boxing,” he adds.

“Training camp is hard. To get better is very difficult in boxing. To fight Tyson Fury is a big challenge.

“I’m going to put that pressure on myself to actually get better. But it’s what we all need, I need it. Come on, let’s see how good I am.

“Let’s see how far I can take myself during this period. It’ll be a good challenge mentally. Not about him, but because I actually want to do well.

“When I wake up in the morning early and I’m tired, my body’s battered, I still go out and do what I do. It’s great rewards and only someone like Fury can give that to me.”

Fury fights Deontay Wilder in their trilogy clash next month and both heavyweights will need to win their respective bouts for the undisputed bout to go ahead next year.

Usyk, 34, was an undisputed champion at cruiserweight and has two wins at heavyweight, including a points victory over veteran Derek Chisora.

“The pressure’s back on,” Joshua said of their forthcoming meeting.

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will host boxing’s first major stadium fight in the UK since the Covid-19 pandemic began.

With over 60,000 fans expected, Joshua revealed he had just one regret in his boxing career.

“When I watch my first fight against Emanuele Leo, I was so bad,” he said.

“I wish I started earlier – I’d be much better. If I had started in 2000 then by 2010, I would have been a lot better. And when I started my pro journey, in three years I would have been the man I am today.

“I would have been more experienced, more seasoned.”

US Open 2021: Tearful Novak Djokovic Thanks New York Crowd For Ovation

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September 13, 2021

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A tearful Novak Djokovic lost the US Open final and the chance for a calendar sweep of the majors but said the love he felt from the crowd meant “as much as winning 21 Grand Slams”.

Djokovic, bidding to become the first man in more than 50 years to win all four tennis majors in the same year, losy 6-4, 6-4, 5–4 to Danil Medvedev in Sunday’s final.

The world number one, who has never garnered the same support from the stands as his big rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, was brought to tears by the Arthur Ashe Stadium’s raucous reaction towards the end of the third set.

Having broken Medvedev’s serve and then holding for 5-4, there was a huge roar at the changeover as the Serb regained a glimmer of hope after being 5-2 down.

And while Djokovic failed to surpass the Grand Slam title tallies of Federer and Nadal – the trio remaining locked on 20 majors each – he said the warmth he felt made him as happy as if he had.

“Even though I have not won the match, my heart is filled with joy and I am the happiest man alive because you guys made me feel very special on the court,” he said in an emotional on-court interview.

“You guys touched my soul.”

Novak Djokovic — Djokovic was visibly emotional during a change of ends in the third set after receiving a loud ovation from the New York crowd

The New York support has not been the kindest to three-time champion Djokovic in the past, particularly when he has faced Federer, like for instance in the 2015 final won by the Serb.

That has been the case at other major venues, where he has not enjoyed the adoration heaped, for example, on Federer at Wimbledon or Nadal at Roland Garros, often cast as villain rather than hero.

However, the majority of the 23,000 fans inside the Arthur Ashe Stadium were behind him from the first shot in his ultimately unsuccessful bid to make history against Russia’s Medvedev.

Djokovic added: “Of course, part of me is very sad. It’s a tough one to swallow, this loss, I mean, considering everything that was on the line.

“But on the other hand I felt something I never felt in my life here in New York. The amount of support and energy and love I got from the crowd was something I’ll remember forever.

“The emotion, the energy was so strong. I mean, it’s as strong as winning 21 Grand Slams. That’s how I felt, honestly. I felt very, very special. These are the kind of moments that you cherish.”

Not since Rod Laver won all four Grand Slams in 1969 has a male player achieved the feat and Djokovic, now 34, may consider this was his best, and perhaps last, chance to match the Australian.

Afterwards, Djokovic admitted to feeling “relief” that his quest for the calendar Slam, a target that gathered more and more steam as the year progressed, was over.

“The build-up for this tournament, everything mentally, emotionally I had to deal with throughout the tournament in the last couple of weeks was just a lot,” he said.

“It was a lot to handle. I was just glad that finally the run is over. At the same time I felt sadness, disappointment, and also gratitude for the crowd and for that special moment they created.”

Former British number one Laura Robson, commentating on the final as a pundit for BBC Radio 5 Live, felt Djokovic paid the price for the exertions of a long year in which he also reached the semi-finals at the Olympics.

“We are so used to him winning these Grand Slam finals over and over again but he just had nothing left in the tank, nothing left to give,” Robson said.

“There was that lovely moment towards the end when the crowd supported him like that and gave him all the credit that he’s been asking for.

“There was so much pressure on him – we think he’s superhuman and we expect him to make history time and time again but it just goes to show that it is so, so tough out there.

Scottish Leader Vows Cooperation To Clinch Independence Vote

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September 13, 2021

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Monday set out her plans for a new referendum on Scottish independence, arguing Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic had put Scotland on a different course from the rest of the United Kingdom.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) leader blasted UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for imposing his “Brexit obsession” on the UK during the coronavirus pandemic, which is leading to food and labour shortages.

And she said the economic hit on individuals and businesses from the UK’s departure from the European Union, which most Scots opposed, had been made worse by hardline immigration policies hitting the workforce.

But she told the SNP’s annual conference that Johnson and his Conservative government in London would “use all that damage that they have inflicted to argue for yet more control”, to argue against Scotland going its own way.

Instead, she said Scots faced a choice between “a Westminster Tory government rejected by the people of Scotland and taking us in the wrong direction” and having their own government in its own right.

Sturgeon has been calling for another referendum to be held by the end of 2023 when the coronavirus pandemic is over, but the move has to be sanctioned by the UK government.

So far, Johnson has refused to do so, arguing the last vote in 2014, which saw Scots back remaining part of the UK by 55 percent to 45 percent, was a once-in-a-generation event.

Sturgeon admitted her relations with Johnson were prickly but vowed to push her case for a legally binding referendum in a spirit of “cooperation not confrontation”.

Lebanese President Wants To Resume Bailout Talks With IMF

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Zoe Maven

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September 13, 2021

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Lebanon’s new government held its first meeting Monday with a call by the president to resume talks with the International Monetary Fund to help kick-start its recovery from one of the world’s worst economic crises in more than a century.

The 24-member Cabinet’s most pressing mission over the coming weeks will be to help improve conditions in the country of 6 million, including a million Syrian refugees.

More than half the population now lives in poverty amid extended power outages and severe shortages in fuel and medicine.

President Michel Aoun told ministers during the Cabinet meeting that their government policy statement should include the resumption of talks with the IMF, which were suspended last year.

He also called for a plan to fight corruption and move forward with the investigation into last year’s massive explosion at Beirut’s port that killed at least 214 people, wounded over 6,000 others and damaged parts of the capital.

The formation of a new government Friday came after a 13-month deadlock, one of Lebanon’s longest periods without a fully functioning government at a time when the country was sliding deeper into financial chaos and poverty.

Information Minister George Kordahi told reporters after the meeting that Prime Minister Najib Mikati plans to hold intense Cabinet meetings to work on improving matters that “have direct effects on citizens.”

The country’s economic crisis, unfolding since 2019, has been described by the World Bank as one of the worst the world has witnessed since the mid-1800s. It impoverished more than half the population within months and left the national currency in a freefall, driving inflation and unemployment to unprecedented levels.

Egypt Says Israeli Prime Minister To Visit, Hold Talks

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Zoe Maven

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September 13, 2021

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EGYPT SAYS ISRAELI — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a cabinet meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Jerusalem on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was ser to visit Egypt on Monday for talks with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt’s office of the presidency said.

There was no immediate confirmation of the meeting from the Israeli government.

It would be the first official visit by an Israeli premier since 2010, when then-President Hosni Mubarak hosted a summit with Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Less than a year later, Egypt was rocked by a popular uprising that toppled Mubarak.

Bennett and the Egyptian president are expected to discuss bilateral relations, efforts to revive the peace process as well as other regional and international developments, according to a statement issued by el-Sissi’s office.

Over nearly a decade, Israeli officials have held covert meetings with their Arab counterparts, some of which were only announced after the fact. Egypt in 1979 became the first Arab country to reach a peace agreement with Israel.

The meeting will be a boost for Bennett, Israel’s new prime minister who took office in June and is still trying to establish his foreign-policy credentials. His predecessor, Netanyahu, billed himself as a global statesman but never was able to hold a public meeting with the Egyptian president.

The tense situation in the Gaza Strip is likely to top the agenda of Monday’s meeting.

Israel, with Egypt’s help, has maintained a tight blockade over Gaza since the Palestinian militant group Hamas overran the territory in 2007 in an effort to prevent it from importing weapons.