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Most fad diets don’t live up to the hype, let alone serious scientific scrutiny. But intermittent fasting seems to be an exception. These plans involve going without caloric foods or drinks for an extended period of time—anywhere from 16 hours to several days—and they have become increasingly popular. Research has also found them to be effective for weight loss. Doctors often advise people with Type 2 diabetes to lose weight, which can have beneficial effects on blood glucose and insulin sensitivity, as well as on the progression of the disease.

Tim Richards, CEO of international cinema chain Vue, will step down from his role as chair of the British Film Institute (BFI) in 2024, when his term will come to a close.

The unnamed character narrates her long and grueling tale of sexual abuse at the hands of the trusted people in her life. 'Be A Good Girl' opens with the actor painfully recounting her character's first abuse. "Come on, be a good girl! The first time I heard the phrase 'be a good girl', I was only seven," Damasus narrates in the touching piece. "My parents worked crazy hours so Aunty Rachael, my cousin would pick me up after school and I'd stay at her house.

There’s no question: Our legal system loves long prison sentences. From 2000 to 2019, the number of people serving sentences of 10 years or longer exploded from 587,000 to 773,000, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Those 773,000 people account for more than half of the U.S. prison population. Extreme sentences have become so commonplace in the U.S. that 10 years can seem like a relatively minor punishment, perhaps woefully inadequate for serious offenses.

Anything above 40 inches in men and 35 inches in women, is known as abdominal obesity. But say no more, here are five ways to get rid of that fat the Nigerian way. 1. Avoid sugar ADVERTISEMENT Say goodbye to all your sugar-sweetened drinks and foods. No more Coca-Cola, Pepsi, fruit juices and all the junks you eat in traffic and at home. When you eat a lot of refined sugar, the liver gets overloaded with fructose and is forced to turn it all into fat.

It’s been almost two decades since the last Matrix movie, but now moviegoers are getting prepared to plug back in and once more question the nature of their reality. The Matrix Resurrections, the fourth live-action movie in the landmark action series, hits theaters and HBO Max on Dec. 22 and is directed by Lana Wachowski, one half of the sibling filmmaking team (along with Lilly Wachowski) behind the first three movies.

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Rebecca Siegel / FlickrOnly eat mozzarella if it's fresh According to the U.S.D.A., Americans eat over 30 pounds of cheese a year. 11.5 pounds of that is mozzarella, which has beat out cheddar (9.6 pounds) for the second year in a row. The means mozzarella is the most popular form of cheese in the United States, which it shouldn’t be, because it’s terrible. Plain-old mozzarella comes in vaccuum-tight plastic bags stacked on grocery store shelves like white bricks, which the cheese pretty much is.