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Barbecues and vacations followed by cooler temperatures and more time spent inside may have veered you off track from a healthy diet. But its not too late to get back to those healthy habits before the holiday season kicks in.

The changing seasons present a good opportunity to make changes to your eating habits. Rest assured, you can eat healthy while basking in the bliss of pumpkin-flavored delights and enjoying a couple slices of pie at Thanksgiving.

Weve partnered with Nature Made to bring you eight tips for sticking to a healthy diet as we move into colder weather.

Theres nothing like fresh, in-season veggies from your local farmers market. With cooler weather comes fresh leafy greens, like kale, Swiss chard, and spinach. Root vegetables, such as carrots, parsnips, and sweet potatoes, are also in season.

Pumpkin spice lattes and baked goods are delicious but often high in sugar, calories, and unhealthy fats. Substitute these pumpkin-flavored goodies for savory dishes made with pumpkin. For example, try making a pumpkin soup, pumpkin curry, or even a pumpkin quiche.

Pumpkin is full of fiber and beta carotene, which converts to vitamin A. This is an important vitamin for your eyes and skin.

Vitamin supplements, like vitamin D, may be beneficial for people who arent able to get enough sun in the fall and winter months.

If you dont think youre getting enough vitamin D from your diet or daily sunshine, talk to your doctor about taking a vitamin D supplement. Vitamin D supplements may also help support your immune system.* Nature Made D3 comes in gummies, soft gels, and chewable tablets.

The recommended dietary allowance for vitamin D is 15 micrograms (600 IU) for adults between the ages of 18 and 70, and 20 mcg (800 IU) for people older than 70 years of age.

As the temperature drops, theres nothing quite like a steamy bowl of soup loaded with vegetables.

Make a homemade soup filled with herbs, spices, and fermented veggies like kimchi to support digestion and keep you fuller for longer. Plus, itll make you feel warm and satisfied. Many soup recipes are low in calories and high in fiber.

Holiday season is often the time of cookies, pies, and cakes galore. But when it comes to Thanksgiving Day or a big family gathering, theres no need to deprive yourself of some dessert.

A slice of pie or cake, eaten without guilt or shame, can keep your spirits up. If you fear lack of self-control, consider setting a few ground rules. For example, allow yourself only two indulgent choices for the holiday meal. Maybe you have a piece of bread and a slice of pie, but you say no to the eggnog this time around.

A holiday party doesnt mean you need to bring a dessert loaded with sugary toppings.

Instead, share a healthy, delicious dish that you love making and eating. Your friends or colleagues will probably appreciate a break from the sugar overload.

Cooler weather may lead you to ditch your early morning run. Nows the time to set a new exercise goal, join a gym, start a yoga practice, or invest in home workout gear.

Even though youll be sweating less than you were in the summer months, staying hydrated is still important. Water is essential for your overall health, so dont forget to drink up.

As summer fades into fall and winter, synchronizing new habits with a seasonal transition can help you stick to a healthy diet.

With fall comes a plethora of fresh leafy greens and root vegetables, which are perfect for making healthy soups and veggie-based dishes.

Remember to continue exercising and stay hydrated. Even as daylight hours decrease, you can still create a routine that includes indoor exercise to keep you moving.

*This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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Dr. Ebony Butler hard at work as a licensed psychologist and food relationship strategist.

Medical experts, nutritionists, and others have joined in a chorus rallying against diet culture. Yet, the fixation on diet and body image remains as pervasive and toxic as ever now with social media adding fuel to the fire. Studies show that accessibility to cosmetic surgery and eating disorders have also aided in the troubling compulsion that America has with weight and the female body. Because the Black female body has been commodified and dehumanized throughout U.S. history, Black women are more venerable when internalizing negative and damaging messages about body image and diet culture.

According toDr. Ebony Butler, a licensed psychologist, and food relationship strategist diet culture is an ideal standard of beauty in America that associates beauty with thinness. Dr. Ebony added that diet culture is toxic because it perpetuates preferences of body composition that promotes the notion that happiness is connected with thinness, fitness, or the allusion thereof. Images of thinness are regularly seen on social media, film, television, and overall popular culture. But what happens when a woman does not naturally have a thin torso, rock hard abs, and toned legs?

The sobering reality is that only 5% of women naturally possess the body type that floods American media and is deemed ideal or what some might consider, #goals. Studies suggest that over 90% of women are unhappy with their bodies and diet to achieve their ideal body shape. Similar studies reveal that consuming large amounts of reality television significantly contributes to young girls becoming fixated on their outward appearance and women who consume increased amounts of media place greater emphasis on appearing sexy and physically attractive compared to women who do not.Cosmetic surgery has become a normalized and widely used option for women to achieve their ideal body so much so that many women undergo invasive cosmetic procedures such as liposuction, tummy tucks, and breast augmentation without having a thorough understanding of the possible complications that could arise.

Over 40% of women in a recent study have either previously considered or were currently considering undergoing a surgical procedure to improve the appearance of their body. Granted, cosmetic surgery should be a viable option for well-informed adults who wish to make certain body modifications. That said, doctors caution that cosmetic surgery can be dangerous when it becomes habitual or used as a substitute for leading a healthy lifestyle. Like cosmetic surgery, dieting is also a slippery slope that can lead to a compulsive and unhealthy way of life. Dr. Ebony said, the goal is eating healthy, not dieting. Theres a difference. Its been reported that more than one-third of the people who admit to normal dieting, will transition into pathological dieting, and about a quarter of them will suffer from a partial or full-blown eating disorder.

There has been a common misconception that eating disorders and the devastating impact of diet culture only affect white women, which couldnt be further from the truth. You cant talk about diet culture without talking about Black people, Dr. Ebony said. Eating disorders are a significant issue for Black women. Studies show that recurrent binge eating is more common among Black women than white women and that Black girls are 50% more likely than white girls to engage in bulimic behavior.

Although anorexia is less common among Blacks than whites, Black Americans with anorexia typically develop the disorder at a younger age and struggle with the disorder for longer periods, which in part can be explained by food deserts in inner-city neighborhoods, lack of access to medical and mental health services in the Black community, and a lack of education about healthy eating habits. The prevalence of eating disorders among Black women is also broadly fueled by the impact of mainstream images of white beauty in America that often feature slimmer silhouettes than the curvier bodies of many Black women.

The commodification and dehumanization of the Black female body has been widely documented. Dating as far back as 1814 when Saartjie Sara Baartman, an African slave, was involuntarily put on display throughout Europe for patrons to pay admission to gawk at her curvy silhouette the Black female body has been objectified and looked at as a spectacle and a source of shame. But the degradation of the Black female body did not end with Baartman, whose remains were showcased in a Paris museum in up until 1974 over a century past her death. Many Black women continue to carry the intergenerational trauma of being viewed as abnormal and not good enough.

Diet culture overall, and everything that its associated with, is rooted in anti-Blackness. The Black body has been depicted in mainstream media as hypersexual, greedy, savage, insatiable, and undesirable, Dr. Ebony said.

Black women are typically depicted in media through three select lens: the jezebel trope in which Black women are objectified and depicted as hyper-sexual and overtly promiscuous compared to white women, themammy maternal stereotype, and the angry Black woman (the sapphire) trope; and according to Dr. Ebony, social media has added insult to injury by, uplifting and glorifying non-Black bodies. Interestingly, more recently there has been a slight shift in which some non-Black women are seeking cosmetic enhancements to make their lips appear fuller, their hips wider, and their glutes rounder physical attributes that many Black woman naturally possess but have been a source of shame and oppression. Yet, are accepted and in some cases viewed as desirable when seen on non-Black women. Black women in the same body are viewed as lewd and raunchy, Dr. Ebony explained. This constantly evolving matrix of expectations can lead Black women to, continuously chase the idea of beauty, while also never feeling good enough, Dr. Ebony shared.

Contrary to what some might think healthy bodies do not always have a flat stomach and cinched waistline. Dr. Ebony described a healthy body as one that is mobile, energetic, and functions in ways that promotes less illness. But a healthy mindset must accompany a healthy body and healthy body image.

Its important for Black women to be happy with who and where they are. Not the potential of their body fitting an ideal, but loving their body as it is now. This is key in possessing a healthy body image, Dr. Ebony explained. I dont think its about self-love. Its about acceptance. Without acceptance, you cannot love yourself.

For Black women who wish to lose weight or seek other changes in their body, Dr. Ebony suggested they eliminate deficit thinking. Stop thinking about what you need to take out of your diet and start considering healthy foods that you can begin to include. Overall, Dr. Ebony recommended a holistic approach to physical change that first begins with mental and emotional healing. For example, not only going by the number on the scale and to focus more on feeling healthy and creating positive messages around body image and food.

We as Black women have to understand our trauma and how this happened to us. Once we begin to process and address our trauma we can create space and welcome in grace and compassion. If we dont have grace and compassion we cant do the long-term work needed to have healthy bodies.

Processing body shame trauma can start by seeking the assistance of a mental health professional, researching the history of how Black women have been historically objectified, and being more conscious about the quality and quantity of media consumption. Dr. Ebony suggested for Black women to frequent social media platforms that make them feel positive about their natural bodies and not unworthy or ashamed.

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Former WWE wrestler Ryback has shown off his new shredded physique on social media, as he boasts about his new seven-week vegan diet.

For many gym goers, an almost religious diet of chicken and rice is synonymous with building and maintaining muscle.

However, Ryback has recently proven that this out-dated concept is no longer the way forward.

The retired wrestler has recently switched lanes from WWE to the world of fitness by launching his own business venture which provides premium supplements by the name of 'Feed Me More'.

In addition to this, much like many ex-professional athletes, he also had a podcast - obviously.

However, what makes The Big Man's fitness routine slightly unique is that both the supplements he provides and his personal diet are 100% vegan.

The former wrestler, who described himself as the "300-pound vegan", discusses how he made the transformation from an avid meat eater to a dedicated vegan.

"I already ate a lot of vegetables, my main thing was that I never really looked at how I could replace or cut down on animal protein," Ryback explained.

"All I had to do was switch out my meats, I was already halfway vegan without knowing it!"

He later added: "I said, 'you know what? I'm going to try this' and I look better and I'm stronger than I've been."

Ryback further supported that statement in his recent message to his Twitter followers, by saying:"Seven weeks vegan and my body weight is 292 lbs. I just keep seeing improvements and energy increasing even more," the former wrestler says whilst displaying his chistled abdominals.

Furthermore, this doesn't seem to be just a dietary phase for The Big Man, as Ryback has continuously preached veganism on his personal social media, and based on his current physique, the diet is clearly working for him.

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Weve partnered with Nature Made to bring you tips to stay healthy this winter.

A little knowledge goes a long way in helping to support your immune system when the weather sends everyone indoors, along with their sniffles and coughs.

Here are answers to some common questions about immunity.

Our immune system is our mode of defense against intruders from the outside world. The immune system is able to differentiate between the bodys own cells and foreign antigens. This includes viruses, bacteria, fungi, foreign tissue, and toxins.

White blood cells recognize antigens and try to eliminate them. As we interact with our environment, the immune system becomes better and better at recognizing these antigens and keeping us healthy.

The immune system has two parts:

A balanced diet in general is important for your immune system. A few specific foods can help ensure youre getting the right amount of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, proteins, and healthy fats to keep inflammation low and support your immune system.

This includes:

Certain foods may increase inflammation in your body.

Try to avoid the following foods, which can increase inflammation:

Its also a good idea to limit your alcohol consumption.

Certain supplements may help support your immune system.* However, as their name suggests, they should supplement not replace your healthy lifestyle.

Some people, particularly older adults, may be deficient in nutrients, such as vitamin C, vitamin D, and zinc, and may benefit from supplements.*

For instance, your body doesnt produce or store vitamin C, so if you dont get the recommended daily amount from your diet (75 milligrams for women and 90 milligrams for men, daily), you may want to take a supplement. However, its important to ask your doctor before taking any new supplements.

Nature Made vitamin C comes in gummies, soft gels, and time-release tablets.

Adults need roughly 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night. This varies from person to person. However, getting less than 7 hours of sleep per night on a regular basis may weaken your immune system.

Sleep deprivation keeps the immune system from building up protective, substances like antibodies and cytokines.

Yes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends getting the annual flu vaccine as a safe and effective way to prevent the flu for anyone 6 months of age or older. When you get vaccinated, your body produces antibodies against several strains of the influenza virus.

The flu vaccine needs to be updated every year to keep up with different strains of the flu virus. So, its important to get the new vaccine each year.

You should consider making the flu shot a priority if youre in any of the following categories:

In those with obesity, losing weight could make a big difference in the overall immune system.

Obesity has been linked to an impaired immune response. While the cause of this isnt fully understood, scientists do know that one characteristic of obesity is a state of chronic inflammation.

Lowering your overall calorie intake, getting some exercise, and increasing the amounts of fruits and vegetables in your diet are the first steps if you believe you need to lose weight. Talk to your doctor if youre unsure where to begin.

Yes, moderate exercise is an excellent way to support your immune system. Try to aim for 30 minutes per day for 5 days of the week, or 150 minutes per week total. Include a mix of cardio and strength training exercises.

Yes. Smoking can negatively impact your immune system.

Research also shows that smoking may upset the balance of your immune system so much that it can increase the risk of some immune and autoimmune disorders. An autoimmune disorder occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks your bodys healthy cells.

Reducing stress can make a big difference in your immune system functioning.

A few ways to reduce stress include:

Other things you can do to stay healthy:

There are many ways to keep your immune system healthy, including eating well, exercising, and getting enough sleep. But theres no quick fix.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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Fossil fuel burning accounts for the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions, and to the worlds credit, several countries are working to reduce their use and the heat-trapping emissions that ensue. The goal is to keep global temperatures under a 1.5-2C increase above preindustrial levels, the upper limits of the Paris Climate Agreement.

If we stopped burning all fossil fuels this minute, would that be enough to keep a lid on global warming?

According to UC Santa Barbara ecology professor David Tilman, petroleum energy sources are only part of the picture. In a paper published in the journal Science, Tilman and colleagues predict that even in the absence of fossil fuels, cumulative greenhouse gas emissions could still cause global temperatures to exceed climate change targets in just a few decades.

Global food demand and the greenhouse gases associated with it are on a trajectory to push the world past the one-and-a-half degree goal, and make it hard to stay under the two degree limit, said Tilman, who holds a dual appointment at UCSBs Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and at the University of Minnesota.

The worlds growing population, as well as its diet, are driving food production practices that generate and release massive and increasing amounts of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. According to the paper, left unchecked, agricultural emissions alone could exceed the 1.5C limit by about 2050.

These findings are especially concerning given that we havent stopped using fossil fuels, Tilman said. And with a 1C average increase in global temperature since 1880, weve got only a slim margin before global warming results in widespread sea level rise, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss and other effects that will change life as we know it.

All it would take for us to exceed the two-degree warming limit is for food emissions to remain on their path and one additional year of current fossil fuel emissions, Tilman said. And I guarantee you, were not going to stop fossil fuel emissions in a year.

Reducing the emissions from food production, will likely be essential to keeping the planet livable in its current state, according to the scientists.

Its well known that agriculture releases about 30% of all greenhouse gases, Tilman said. Major sources include deforestation and land clearing, fertilizer overuse and gassy livestock, all of which are increasing as the global population increases.

In high-yield countries such as the U.S., which have the benefit of large scale modern agriculture, intensive animal farming and heavy-handed fertilizer use are major contributors of greenhouse gases.

Meanwhile, in low-yield countries such as those in sub-Saharan Africa, population growth and increasing affluence are driving demand for more food, and toward more urban diets that arericher in meat and meat products, Tilman explained.

Their demand for food is going up, but the farmers dont have the resources to have high yields, so they just clear more and more land, he said.

And yet, it isnt as though we can just stop producing food, which is perhaps the main reason why agricultural emissions have received less attention than fossil fuels as a target for reduction, according to the researchers.

You cant look at agriculture as if we can somehow get rid of it, said Tilman, whose research focuses on the environmental impacts of agriculture, as well as the links between diet, environment and health. We need it; its essential for society.

But, according to the papers authors, global warming does not have to be an unavoidable impact of feeding the the world.

Through early and widespread adoption of several feasible food system strategies, it is possible to limit emissions from agriculture in a way that keeps us from exceeding the 2C limit by the end of the century while feeding a growing population.

The most effective, according to the paper, is a switch toward more plant-rich diets, which arent just healthier overall, but also reduce the demand for beef and other ruminant meats. That, in turn, reduces the pressure to clear for grazing land or produce the grains and grasses (more farming, more fertilizer) required to feed them.

Were not saying these diets have to be vegetarian or vegan, Tilman said.

Widespread reduction of red meat consumption to once a week and having protein come from other sources such as chicken or fish, while increasing fruits and vegetables, in conjunction with decreasing fossil fuel use, could help keep the planet livably cool in the long run.

Many countries have high yields because from 1960 until now they have been using more and more fertilizer, he said. But recent research has shown that almost all of these countries are actually using much more than they need to attain the yield they have.

A drop of roughly 30% in fertilizer use would not only save the farmer money for the same yield, it prevents the release of nitrous oxide that occurs when excess fertilizer goes unused.

About 40% of all future climate warming from agriculture may come from nitrous oxide from fertilizer, Tilman added. So adding the right amount of fertilizer has a large benefit for climate change and would save farmers money.

Other strategies the researchers explored included adjusting global per capita calorie consumption to healthy levels; improving yields to help meet demand where it may reduce the pressure to clear more land; and reducing food waste by half.

The nice thing is that we can do each of these things sort of halfway and still solve the problem, Tilman said. The sooner we employ these strategies, the closer we can get to keeping the Earth cool and avoiding the wholesale changes we would have to adopt if we wait too much longer, he added.

Im optimistic, he said. We have a viable path for achieving global environmental sustainability and better lives for all of us.

Research in this paper was conducted also by Michael A. Clark (lead author) and John Lynch at University of Oxford; Nina G.G. Domingo, Kimberly Colgan, Sumil Thakrar and Jason D. Hill at University of Minnesota; and Ins L. Azevedo at Stanford University

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SPRINGFIELD FARM IN NORTHERN BALTIMORE COUNTY SAY THOSE THANKSGIVING TURKEYS ARE GOING TO BE SMALLER THIS YEAR. [TURKEYS GOBBLING] IN OCTOBER, JUST BEFORE THE TURKEYS ARE PROCESSED, MANY OF THEM GROW TO BE A NICE SIZE. WHEN THE PANDEMIC BEGAN, FEW OF US KNEW THAT FAMILY GATHERINGS WOULD BE SMALLER, MEANING A SMALLER CROWD -- AND NOW, A SMALLER TURKEY. >> THIS YEAR HAS BEEN A CHALLENGE MORE FROM THE , STANDPOINT OF HOW MANY DO WE PRODUCE, HOW LARGE DO WE LET THEM GET, WHICH IS ANOTHER CHALLENGE FOR US, AND IN A LOT OF CASES, OUR PEOPLE EVEN GOING TO DO THANKSGIVING? PHIL: AT DAVID SMITHS FAMILY FARM IN SPARKS, EACH YEAR TH RAISE HUNDREDS OF TURKEYS, SOME QUITE LARGE. BUT THIS YEAR IT IS DIFFERENT. SMALLER GATHERINGS MEAN A SMALLER MEAL. >> ONE GENTLEMAN TYPICALLY TAKES TWO FORTY POUNDERS. WE USUALLY DONT GROW THEM TO THAT POINT, BUT WE DO HAVE A FEW THAT GROW THAT BIG. HES NOT TAKING THEM THIS YEAR. PHIL: SMITH SAYS YOU CANT JUST GROW TURKEYS SMALLER. AND THATS BEEN A CHALLENGE. >> THEY COME IN AND YOU CANT JUST SAY OK GUYS WERE GOING TO PUT YOU ON A DIET. THAT JUST DOESNT WORK. THEY ARE GOING TO GROW AT THE SOTHEY ARE GOING TO GROW AT THE PACE THEY ARE GOING TO GROW AT. PHIL: ANOTHER ISSUE BECAUSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS -- THEY ARE SELLING FEWER BIRDS TO PLACES LIKE RESTAURANTS AND OTHER LARGE RETAILERS, SINCE DEMAND IS DOWN. HE SAYS, IF YOU STILL WANT A TURKEY AND NOT A TURKEY BREAST THERES A WAY YOU CAN STILL PUT , A BIRD ON THE TABLE AND ENJOY THANKSGIVING. >> HOW ABOUT A HALF TURKEY? ITLL COOK FASTER. YOULL GET A LOT MORE MEAT. LETS SAY A HALF TURKEY IS 15 POUNDS. YOULL GET 50% MORE MEAT THAN WHOLE BIRD. WITH A 15-PO

Coronavirus pandemic affects size of Thanksgiving turkeys

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With coronavirus cases rising, what your Thanksgiving dinner table will look like is still in question. WBAL-TV 11 News spoke with one farmer who says the main course will likely be a different size.|| Coronavirus updates | Maryland's latest numbers | Where to get tested ||The people at Springfield Farm in northern Baltimore County say those Thanksgiving turkeys are going to be smaller this year.In October, just before the turkeys are processed, many of them grow to be a nice size. When the pandemic began, few of us knew that family gatherings would be smaller, meaning a smaller crowd and now a smaller turkey."This year has been a challenge more from the standpoint of how many do we produce, how large do we let them get, which is another challenge for us, and in some cases, are people even going to do Thanksgiving? said David Smith, of Springfield Farm.Smith's family farm in Sparks raise hundreds of turkeys each year -- some quite large, but this year it's different. Smaller gatherings mean a smaller meal."One gentleman typically takes two 40 pounders. We usually don't grow them to that point, but we do have a few that grow that big. He's not taking them this year, Smith said.Smith says you can't just grow turkeys smaller and that's been a challenge."They come in and you can't just say, OK guys, we're going to put you on a diet.' That just doesn't work. They are going to grow at the pace they are going to grow at, he said.Another issue because of the coronavirus is they are selling fewer birds to places like restaurants and other large retailers since demand is down. Smith said if you still want a turkey and not a turkey breast, there's a way you can still put a bird on the table and enjoy Thanksgiving. When asked about half turkey, Smith said, "It'll cook faster. You'll get a lot more meat. Let's say a half turkey is 15 pounds. You'll get 50% more meat than with a 15-pound whole bird."Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the price of turkey really hasn't changed much since 2019.

With coronavirus cases rising, what your Thanksgiving dinner table will look like is still in question. WBAL-TV 11 News spoke with one farmer who says the main course will likely be a different size.

|| Coronavirus updates | Maryland's latest numbers | Where to get tested ||

The people at Springfield Farm in northern Baltimore County say those Thanksgiving turkeys are going to be smaller this year.

In October, just before the turkeys are processed, many of them grow to be a nice size. When the pandemic began, few of us knew that family gatherings would be smaller, meaning a smaller crowd and now a smaller turkey.

"This year has been a challenge more from the standpoint of how many do we produce, how large do we let them get, which is another challenge for us, and in some cases, are people even going to do Thanksgiving? said David Smith, of Springfield Farm.

Smith's family farm in Sparks raise hundreds of turkeys each year -- some quite large, but this year it's different. Smaller gatherings mean a smaller meal.

"One gentleman typically takes two 40 pounders. We usually don't grow them to that point, but we do have a few that grow that big. He's not taking them this year, Smith said.

Smith says you can't just grow turkeys smaller and that's been a challenge.

"They come in and you can't just say, OK guys, we're going to put you on a diet.' That just doesn't work. They are going to grow at the pace they are going to grow at, he said.

Another issue because of the coronavirus is they are selling fewer birds to places like restaurants and other large retailers since demand is down. Smith said if you still want a turkey and not a turkey breast, there's a way you can still put a bird on the table and enjoy Thanksgiving.

When asked about half turkey, Smith said, "It'll cook faster. You'll get a lot more meat. Let's say a half turkey is 15 pounds. You'll get 50% more meat than with a 15-pound whole bird."

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the price of turkey really hasn't changed much since 2019.

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The work of a British family doctor demonstrates that stopping eating carbohydrates helps with blood pressure, diabetes and weight loss - helping save lives during Covid-19. But the medical industry doesnt want you to know this.

If you want to avoid dying of Covid-19, one of the most important things you can do, if you are overweight, is to shed the pounds

A recent study by an international team of researchers using data from 399,000 patients found that people with obesity who contracted coronavirus were 113 percent more likely than people of healthy weight to end up in hospital, 74 percent more likely to be admitted to intensive care, and 48 percent more likely to die.

Why? Well, the why centres around the damaging effect of raised blood glucose on endothelial cells and it gets complicated.

The most important thing is not to understand the complex metabolic and physiological pathways involved, but simply to help people to lose weight, and this is where Dr. David Unwin comes in.

For years, this family doctor from Southport, in northwest England, has believed, as I do, that the main driver of weight gain, eventually leading on to type 2 diabetes, is a high-carbohydrate diet. That means consuming too much pasta, potatoes, rice, bread, processed sugar, and so on, and not enough red meat, olive oil, butter, eggs, and the like.

This, of course, is exactly the opposite of what we have been told for decades by the experts who demonise fat and promote carbohydrates. We have the eat-well plate, and the food pyramid, and hundreds of thousands of dieticians around the world, all promoting carbohydrates as the healthy option.

Dutifully following this advice, the entire population of the Western world has become fatter, and fatter and fatter. And more and more unhealthy. By the way, this is not a coincidence; it is cause and effect.

But getting back to Dr. Unwin years ago, he despaired of ever getting any of his patients to lose weight. It was so disheartening, he furtively studied his pension plan and dreamed of retirement. Then, one day, a patient came in to his surgery who had lost a lot of weight and kept it off.

At first, this woman was reluctant to say how she had done it, as she feared the inevitable criticism. In the end, however, she confessed to Dr. Unwin that she had achieved it by eating a low-carbohydrate diet. In Dr. Unwins own words:

I was interested to find out how the patient had improved her diabetic control. She confessed she had ignored my advice and learnt a much better way to look after herself from the internet. I suppressed my wounded pride and looked at the low-carb forum on diabetes.co.uk. There were thousands of type 2 diabetics on there ignoring their doctors and getting great results ([but] now that is just not allowed).

The GP did not criticise his patient; instead, he was intrigued. Could this possibly be true? It went against everything he had been told about healthy eating, weight loss, and type 2 diabetes fat has twice the calories per gram as carbohydrates and suchlike. Eating fat, hed been programmed to believe, makes you fat, and then you develop diabetes and heart disease.

Dr. Unwin did more research, then made the decision to work with his patients, mainly those with diabetes, to see if a low-carbohydrate diet could be beneficial. Lo and behold, it was very beneficial. In fact, it was like a miracle cure.

In 2014, he published a paper on his results on a small number of patients. It stated:

It was observed that a low-carbohydrate diet achieved substantial weight loss in all patients and brought about normalisation of blood glucose control in 16 out of 18 patients. At the same time, plasma lipid profiles improved, and BP [blood pressure] fell, allowing discontinuation of antihypertensive therapy in some individuals

Conclusions: Based on our work so far, we can understand the reasons for the internet enthusiasm for a low-carbohydrate diet: the majority of patients lose weight rapidly and fairly easily [and,] predictably, the HbA1c levels are not far behind. Cholesterol levels, liver enzymes, and BP levels all improved. This approach is simple to implement and much appreciated by people with diabetes.

Now, he has published results of a much larger study, of nearly 200 patients over a six-year period, which has just been published in the British Medical Journals Nutrition, Prevention & Health.

Its main findings make an impressive case for the low-carb diet and how it can lead to people being much healthier and getting off lifelong medication:

46 percent drug-free Type 2 diabetes remission.

Significant improvements in weight, blood pressure, and lipid profiles.

93 percent remission of prediabetes.

Four individuals came off insulin altogether.

Total weight loss for the 199 participants was 1.6 metric ton.

50,885 annual savings in the practices diabetes-drug budget.

If every GP practice adopted the practice, the NHS could save c. 277 million (c.$350 million) a year

This paper will be attacked, of course, as there are massive financial interests involved here. The savings that the NHS could achieve would be dwarfed if the US, with its much higher drugs costs, adopted the policies: we could be looking at around $2 billion a year. Around the world, who knows, but it would be vast sums of money.

So, you can imagine the joy that this paper will be met with in pharmaceutical company boardrooms around the world. The words lead and balloon, spring to mind. Equally, the massive low-fat high-carb food manufacturers will be throwing their hands up in horror My bonus, my bonus! Nooooo! You can take all your low-carb yoghurts and

As for the rest of us, I can assure you that Dr. Unwin has only ever been interested in one thing: working out how to help people lose weight and control their diabetes. He has achieved this for his patients and is showing the rest of the world how to do the same.

Will his research now be taken up by the authorities around the world? Will we move away from promoting a high-carbohydrate diet? You have to be joking. There is far too much money to be lost by the companies who exert tight control over the world of medical research, and whose lobbyists swarm around politicians in rich countries.

Which is a damn shame, because more than ever in this endless Covid-19 pandemic, obesity represents a health crisis. This paper, and the tireless work by Dr Unwin, clearly tells us what we need to do now, urgently. If Boris Johnson is serious about his plan for the nation to get slimmer and fitter, he himself should go on a low-carb diet and extol its virtues.

Dr Unwins approach wont work instantly, and it wont work for everyone nothing ever does. However, it represents hope. It could save hundreds and thousands of lives. Perhaps more than any vaccine. His research should be shouted from the rooftops.

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Like many fitness types, I went into the first lockdown planning to carve myself into Max-Cady-in-prison shape, using all the time I saved on my commute to do shirtless dips on my newly acquired pull-up rig. It sort of worked, but honestly, it demands the kind of dedication you might not want to worry about, especially since one of the key benefits of exercise is its mood-boosting properties.

This time round, Ill be aiming to do a little bit of physical activity every day: keeping an array of short, doable-in-a-tiny-bit-of-floor-space workouts handy so that theres always an option available. One favourite from Lockdown 1 is the press-up-and-lunge ladder: do one press-up and then one lunge on each leg, then two of each, and so on up to 10 or 20.

In Lockdown 1, I ate like a hobbit, treating myself to everything from a quick jolt of toast between breakfast and elevenses to smashing a packet of custard creams in the afternoon and calling it self-care. It certainly cheered me up in the short term, but over the long term, endless sugar is only likely to give you peaks and troughs of energy, ruin your moodand contribute to health problems exacerbated by not moving around much.

In Lockdown 2, my key rule will be to avoid keeping the absolute worst stuff in the house no more panic-buying bakewell tarts as if theyre going to run out and having three deliberate meals a day, aiming for a bit of protein and fruit or veg in each. No, I will not be making sourdough again.

I never quite became part of the G&Ts-at-5pm crowd in Lockdown 1, but it did get a little bit too easy to see out every day with a cheeky bottle of whatever fancy IPA Id bought to support my local beleaguered microbrewery: a little nightcap at the end of every groundhog day of work, rest and toddler-wrangling.

The trouble is, drinking every day isnt great for health even if you somehow still limbo under the NHS-recommended 14 units a week, it doesnt give your liver much chance to regroup, and turns into a habit thats difficult to kick. Public Health England recommends having at least two consecutive alcohol-free days a week, so thats what Ill be doing while using some of the money I save to upgrade to a nicer bottle of whiskey.

In Lockdown 1, it was tempting to think that time spent on social media was productive and even healthy a source of social connection and possibly even life-saving information in a period when everyone was under-informed about transmission vectors and droplet patterns. The trouble is, it doesnt help: social media is designed to be addictive, and with the news so uniformly terrible, it never takes more than 10 minutes to find something that can ruin your whole day.

Cal Newport, author of Digital Minimalism, suggests taking a month-long break from social media to readdress your relationship with it when you come back. That feels like a bit much, but Ill be going offline for at least two days each week to keep my mental health.

One of the biggest revelations when the first Lockdown eased was just how much I like the occasional commute: a chunk of time on foot or public transport when I cant sit at a desk or do anything deliberately productive. With the regulations on outdoor exercise somewhat eased for the coming weeks, Ill be making sure I go for a long walk at least once a day long, slow, distance exercise is underrated for fat loss, but getting out in green spaces also has well-documented positive effects on mental health and even productivity.

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Do these folks ever sleep? Thats the question we all had as we tuned into network coverage of this Election Day Continued.

Many saw anchors such as NBCs Lester Holt and ABCs George Stephanopoulos when they shut off their TVs late Tuesday night and then saw them again when they turned on their TVs Wednesday morning.

Consider this exchange on Fox News when Dana Perino asked Bill Hemmer if he got any sleep.

Hemmer said, Forty-five minutes. What about you?

Perino said, I doubled that. But I have to tell you, that hour-and-a-half sleep that I had was like nothing I think I dont think Ive ever experienced a deep sleep like that.

Hemmer said, Were running on fumes. The thing about our industry Dana, and you know it very well, when there is information, when there is data, when the story is changing, you can run on adrenaline for a long time. Its those periods where you hit the walls and nothing is new and you start to think Hmm, whats next? And thats when you feel it.

But all on-air personalities on all networks seemed to be going strong, even in the middle of the night, even after 16 or 17 hours of being on the air. Holt told me last week that he was bringing an extra suit, and by Wednesday morning, he had changed into that suit.

Steve Kornacki, MSNBCs map guy, had been up for more than 24 hours, according to The Washington Posts Jeremy Barr. Kornacki even posted a video on Twitter to thank everyone for their kind words. Barr also reported that CNNs map guru, John King, left the studio at 4 a.m. Wednesday morning, slept for about two hours and then was back on the air by 11 a.m. As I mentioned above, Hemmer slept for 45 minutes, as did NBCs Chuck Todd.

How do they do it? Sounds like lots of caffeine is involved. Kornacki told GQs Gabriella Paiella before the coverage that hes all about the Diet Cokes.

Way too many and too many to count, Kornacki told Paniella. On a normal day, Ill have a couple. But on election night, I just keep it nearby and Im just kind of regularly using it. These days (people) all tell you, Oh, do you know whats in that? And I say, Well, no I dont.

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Ryan Litwiller during his 100-mile run recently. Photo provided

DAVISON When Ryan Litwiller was diagnosed last year with Type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol, he knew he needed to make a change in his life.

Weighing almost 300 pounds, Litwiller began an ambitious weight loss program which incorporated running and exercise.

The result of his efforts was a weight loss now approaching 100 pounds, which has reversed the diabetes and has given the 38-year-old married father of two a new outlook on life.

I totally changed my diet and lifestyle, I didnt want to be on medication rest of life, said Litwiller. I got active in exercise and later in running. Im on a plant-based diet now and within just a few months I was able to reverse the diabetes and get off all the medication.

After 18 months of running, Litwiller said hes logged more than 4,000 miles. He enjoys running so much he took on a 100 km (63 miles) run last year and had begun training this year for a 100-mile run.

Ryan Litwiller, center, with his children Matthew,12, left, and Kaitlynne, 10, right. They ran a portion of the 100-mile race with their father. Photo provided

During his training, the annual run was cancelled due to COVID-19, but Litwiller was determined to run regardless of whether it was an official race or not.

My running buddies (at Complete Runner running store in Flint) knew about my journey and how hard I had trained, and they said if I still wanted to run 100 miles, theyd help me, said Litwiller. We just needed a course 50 miles out and back with stations every 10 milesfor hydration.

He said the course started in Rochester by the library at the Paint Creek Trail and it went on to connect to the Polly Ann Trail. From there he said he ran to Kings Mill and then turned around and made the journey back.

In all, the journey took a day, Litwiller completing the course in just under 24-hours, which was his goal, he said. The final time for Litwillers 100-mile run was 23 hours and 18 minutes, he said.

There were highs and lows, but I kept telling myself dont give pain a voice, the minute you give pain a voice it will take over, said Litwiller. If I say Im tired, I believe it, my mind takes over and makes me tired or hurt. So, when people would ask me how I felt (during the run) I would say I was excellent doing great. Maybe I wasnt fully, but I acted like I was.

Litwiller said the support from his friends, his running group (Complete Runner Ultra) and family was amazing. He said people he didnt know came out and ran portions of the course with him to show support and even his two children, ages 10 and 12, ran a couple of miles with him along the course.

If my original race wasnt cancelled, I wouldnt have experienced that great support, said Litwiller. It was soothing, these people running with me, pacing me and keeping me company.

The achievement of his 100-mile run aside, Litwiller, who works in marketing for Retro Foam of Michigan, said his overall transformation has led to massive changes in his body and he now has lots of energy.

Everything is better, everything is improved, and I feel better, he said. Not relying on medication is so huge. Its given me dreams to dream up crazy adventures like this, to really push myself to the limits and to see what those limits are.

Litwiller said hes thinking about his next challenge but hasnt narrowed down what he wants to try next. He said he doesnt know if it will be something involving more distance or more some more challenging.

I feel I have more in me, to do more crazier things, said Litwiller. I say just do it mindset is super important. You have to believe you can do it; it cant be a doctor saying do this. Other people may support you, but at the end of the day only you can make the change.

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