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Obesity not just provides numerous conditions, but also spoils your beauty. Obese men and women have difficulty with daily work. Such men and women have plenty of laziness to get tired to do some work rapidly. Obese men and women have plenty of trouble in climbing stairs, flexing down and walking. However, obesity is paid down by regular rehearse of some yogasanas. Let us inform you of 3 such yogasanas which slim down fast

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We lead busy schedules and this time crunch automatically translates into meals on the go! With a fairly limited time window, we have bad eating habits and accompanied by an unhealthy obsession to the screens, we are all guilty of overlooking one important fact- are we actually being mindful of the food we eat and chewing it properly? If your answer to this question is a big no, you agree that you tend to gulp down food like a chore, there is something you should know. According to various studies, this unhealthy lifestyle habit is costing you a few extra inches on the waistline!Studies have established that there exists a connection between the food you eat, your eating speed, the way you eat and weight control. Speed eating, gorging, and binge eating were found to majorly contribute to unhealthy weight gain and shockingly, fast eaters are at a much higher risk of developing obesity and type-2 diabetes than those who didn't. Day 7: Replace your tea or coffee with green or jasmine teaHow should you eat your mealIf you thought only the diet hacks and foods were important, think again. Experts say weight watchers or not, one should ideally aim at chewing their food in a slow manner, i.e., chew it properly for a good 15-20 seconds before swallowing it. In fact, rather than fast eating, one should be thinking of practicing mindfulness, being aware of your eating habits in the daily regime. For the most benefits, each meal should take around a minimum of 20 minutes to finish and no less than that. If you do tend to eat faster, try and alternate the timings or create a space deficit with your courses.

Here's whyWhen you eat slowly, you are consciously trying to signal your brain that you are full without having to eat more than you actually should. Our appetite and calorie watch are ultimately controlled by our hormones, particularly, ghrelin, which actually curbs and controls our hunger. When you eat slow, the hormone alarms the brain that the intake has been curbed and ultimately, this can help in reducing your appetite. Plus, this eating hack can also make you feel satisfied. Following this mindful trick, you tend to decrease the quantity of food you can consume at a time.

Not just this, digestion, which is at the root cause of obesity and other related problems starts with the mouth. When you miss out on signs there, you risk ruining your health. Your health depends on how well and how efficiently your body is able to absorb the food you are taking in. Incomplete, or fast-paced chewing disrupts the natural digestion process, which in turn, disturbs the sync and flow of stomach acids, creates a bubble of sorts in the stomach and also leads to a host of other chronic problems like flatulence, bloating and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which can all result in unhealthy weight gain. In fact, fast eating can also manifest into a metabolic syndrome, which carries with it bad health problems like blood pressure, cholesterol, and uneven fat distribution, which are not good for weight loss.

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Intermittent fasting has shown success in helping people lose weight, but some people can find it difficult to eat normally most days and then severely restrict their food intake other days.

A new study published in the journal Cell Metabolism offers an alternative time-restricted eating.

Time-restricted eating allows you to eat the same every day, but you limit the time during which you can have food to a 10-hour window. So, if your first meal is at 8 a.m., your last calories for the day will need to be consumed by 6 p.m. For the next 14 hours, you fast.

The new study is small, following 19 people for three months. At the time of enrollment, all participants met three or more criteria for metabolic syndrome:

1. Waist circumference of 102 cm (men) or 88 cm (women).

2. Triglycerides of 150 mg/dL or higher (or on drug treatment for elevated triglycerides).

3. Reduced HDL-C below 40 mg/dL (men), 50 mg/dL (women) (or on drug treatment for reduced HDL-C).

4. Elevated blood pressure, systolic blood pressure of 130 or higher and/or diastolic blood pressure of 85 mmHg or higher (or treatment with an antihypertensive drug with a history of hypertension).

5. Elevated fasting glucose of 100 mg/dL or higher (or drug treatment of elevated blood glucose).

Participants logged the timing of their meals and their sleep in the myCircadianClock app. They were encouraged to stay hydrated during their fasting periods.

We didnt ask them to change what they eat, NPR reported Pam Taub as saying. Taub is a cardiologist at the University of California, San Diegos School of Medicine, and an author of the study. Nonetheless, study participants consumed nearly 9 percent fewer calories.

In addition to weight loss a 3 percent reduction in weight and 4 percent reduction in abdominal visceral fat Taub said study participants cholesterol levels and blood pressure improved.

We are surprised that this small change in eating time would give them such a huge benefit, Satchidananda Panda, a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and a co-author of the study, told NPR.

When you go into a fasting state, you start to deplete the glucose stores in your body and you start to use fat as your energy source, Taub said.

You can read the full study at https://bit.ly/2YEhHZW.

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If youve been trying to lose weight for a while now, you probably already know that intermittent fasting works. But (theres always a but, isnt there?) intermittent fasting alone will not help you get as far as youd like to go on your fitness journey.

To ensure great results (read: ripped results!) you need to start working out daily as well, like 22-year-old Delhi-based Harshit Tyagi did to lose 20 kgs and trim from 98 kgs to 78 kgs. He tells us, Ive been obese for most part of my life and therefore also lacked confidence. Id live in this constant fear that people around me will body shame me."

"What finally became the tipping point for me to whip myself in shape was the fact that a couple of years ago, I gathered the courage to approach my then crush to wish her a happy birthday and she walked past me like I didnt even exist. In that very moment I decided that the solution to this problem is in my hands and I need to do something about feeling invisible right now!" he says

"I was determined to not ever feel this way again, and commenced my weight loss journey by embarking on the below weight loss plan, he adds.

Much like every other teenager, I too didn't have much knowledge about nutrition and fitness and decided to enrol myself in a gym to shed some weight. I joined a gym close to my house and followed my gym trainer's advice to the T. During the initial few weeks, I focused all my efforts towards cardio.

And, shortly after noticed that most gym trainers recommend the same training regime to everyone be it a skinny person or someone who wants to lose fat! So, I tried to expand my knowledge in this domain and formed a training and diet regime for myself after experimenting with different diets and exercise regime.

I learnt two important things on this quest of information:

1. You have to be mindful of what you eat. I tried many different experiments with my diet such as eating no food items with processed sugar and drinking a litre of water as soon as I woke up. I also increased the amount of lean protein in my diet and started consuming more egg whites with green vegetables before I finally settled on an intermittent fasting pattern of eating, but more on that later.

2. I realised compound movements provide better results than isolated movements as they involve more muscle activity at the same time. Hence, I switched from exercises such as bicep curls, lat pull down to deadlift, lunges, squats and bench press. I also shifted my focus from movements that involve machines to exercise with regular dumbbells and barbells. This improves your balance and makes sure your weak side (my left side) is also pushed to its limits.

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These learnings led him to create the below weight loss exercise regime.

After trying out a lot of workout routines, I (finally) settled on this 4-day workout routine:

Day 1: Deadlift + Bench Press + Military Press

Day 2: Squat + Farmer walks + Lunges

Day 3: HIIT Training + Abs

Day 4: Clean and Jerk + Snatch + Power Clean

For exercises on Day 1,2 and 4, I do 3 sets in 12, 10, 8 reps with increasing load in every set. I try to keep my form correct and movement slow. This keeps muscles in tension for a longer period of time. On Day 3 I do HIIT training of 8 sets with 30 seconds exercise and 10 second rest.

30 seconds: Jump Rope

10 seconds: Rest

30 seconds: Push-ups

10 seconds: Rest

30 seconds: Jump Rope

10 seconds: Rest

30 Seconds: Jump Squats

10 seconds: Rest

30 seconds: Jump Rope

10 seconds: Rest

30 seconds: Push-ups

10 seconds: Rest

30 seconds: Jump Rope

10 seconds: Rest

30 Seconds: Jump Squats

There is no one-size-fits-all formula, but you can also try this workout and see if it fits you. This workout aims at strength and agility.

Now, lets come to how intermittent fasting changed my life, Among the diet experiments, intermittent fasting turned into a habit.

Intermittent Fasting (IF) is an eating pattern that cycles between periods of fasting and eating. It doesnt specify which foods you can or cannot eat. It only focuses on when you should eat them.

There are many IF plans and patterns that you can follow, but the most effective one, according to studies is the 16:8 IF diet. The 16:8 IF diet entails one to observe a 16-hour fasting period, followed by an 8-hour eating window.

You can commence a 16-hour fast at 10:00 pm in the night, after you eat your last meal of the day and go to sleepthats 7-8 hours gone right there. You can break the 16-hour fast at 2:00 pm with your lunch and eat small meals till 10:00 pmthis makes up the 8-hour eating window. Alternatively, you can also begin your fast at 8 pm and break it at 12 pm, the next day.

I observed the 16:8 diet split and ate in between 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

Meal 1 at 1:00 pm: 10 Almonds and a seasonal Fruit

Meal 2 at 2:00 pm: Dal and Sabzi with Roti

Meal 3 at 5:30 pm: Poha/Upma/Omelette/Milk with Oats

Meal 4 at 8:30 pm: Dal, Sabzi and Eggs

I do not measure the quantity of food. ie. at until I feel full. The key here is to repeat meals every day and stay consistent.

Its easy to lose the initial weight and feel good about it, but as you keep going you realise that you have to push even harder to achieve more results. Your body reaches a plateau state. When I felt I had achieved what I desired and was confident about my body image, I started looking at workouts as fun activities instead of challenges

I have resorted to jogging, skipping rope and HIIT workouts now as a medium to maintain my weight. I do not have a fixed schedule for the gym anymore but whenever I go to the gym I aim for heavy weight workouts.

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Try including compound exercises in your routine instead of isolated workouts. Make your own workouts and keep playing and experimenting with them. But on the same note, find a mentor/trainer who understands your end goals and doesnt suggest the same exercises to everyone.

Disclaimer: The diet and workout routines shared by the respondents may or may not be approved by diet and fitness experts. GQ India doesn't encourage or endorse the weight loss tips & tricks shared by the person in the article. Please consult an authorised medical professional before following any specific diet or workout routine mentioned above.

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Weight loss works differently for different people, quips 40-year-old Harish Ranganathan, who recently lost 16 kgs to ascertain that he continues living a healthy and fit life devoid of any obesity-related issues.

However, instead of blindly following a crash diet or even indulge in popular diet plans such as Keto, GM or any other weight loss, he made the below simple weight loss routine to trim from 84 kgs to 60 kgs.

I tried to keep things simple by making these changes in my diet and daily routine:

1. I cut down my daily carbohydrate intake significantly and also increased my protein consumption.

2. I began avoiding chocolates (easier said than done), fried food and sugary fruit juices.

3. I stuck to eating an early dinner (7:30 pm), and also increased my outdoor activity by running at least 3-4 times a week. On any given day, I'd run between 6-7 kms and then walk for about 2 kms.

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By making these changes and also completely eliminating desserts from my diet, I was able to bring my weight down by 4 kgs in 10 weeks. Post which, I started following the below diet plan and exercise regime to trim to 60 kgs.

I am a vegetarian, so I had to focus on getting my macronutrients from fruits, vegetables, paneer, nuts and wheat products while trying to lose weight. My main source of protein was yellow dal or paneer. This is what my weight loss diet plan comprised:

Early morning: A cup of strong coffee with milk and 4 walnuts

Mid-morning: 2 plain rotis with a vegetable curry, Paneer mostly

Lunch: 2 rotis, paneer/Kabuli chana + yellow dal or green moong dal

Snacks: Peanuts or 3 whole wheat biscuits and a cup of coffee

Dinner: Roti with a bowl of curd or yellow dal or paneer

QUICK READ: How to lose weight by calculating your macronutrients right

Apart from running, I also started working out 5 days/week and split my workout regime between Strength Training and Cardio.

Shoulder Press, Arnold Press, Rope Exercises and Medicine Ball workouts

Fast Running (~5 mins per kilometre) for 6-7 kms

Bench Press, Seated Machine Chest Press, Inclined Dumb bell Press, Inclined Cable Fly etc.,

Gentle Running (~6-6.5 mins per kilometre) for 7-8 kms. On holidays, Id try and cover 10 kms.

Squats, Dumbbell Squats, Lunges, Lunges with weight, Leg Extensions, Leg Backward Curl and Calf Raises

I try and maintain the above regimen of diet and workout. It is boring but it is measurable and sustainable. More importantly, it has actually worked for me.

"Forget all the fancy diet programs. Losing weight works on Calorific Deficiency. You eat lesser than what you can burn, and you will lose weight. But this is also not a simple equation of starving and losing weight. Aerobic exercises such as running help burning calories well into the day even if youve finished running early in the morning. Similarly, lifting weights also continues the metabolism process well beyond 4-6 hours of the activity and helps continue the process of burning calories. Therefore, you need to eat and cannot starve yourself in order to lose weight but choosing the right foods, in limited proportions can help you lose weight."

"Also remember that weight loss takes time. There is no crash course or magic pill to lose 15 kgs in 2 weeks. If any, it would be fake or at best, unsustainable beyond 3 months."

Disclaimer: The diet and workout routines shared by the respondents may or may not be approved by diet and fitness experts. GQ India doesn't encourage or endorse the weight loss tips & tricks shared by the person in the article. Please consult an authorised medical professional before following any specific diet or workout routine mentioned above.

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According to scientists, Brits consume, on average, 6,000 calories on Christmas Day alone.

So, in an experiment published last year in the British Medical Journal, U.K. researchers explored whether providing people with the amount of exercise required to burn off the calories in, say, a single piece of mincemeat pie (21 minutes of running) or one small Christmas pudding (a staggering 110-minute run) would help prevent weight gain over the holidays.

In fact, they found participants in the brief intervention group exposed to this new kind of food labelling ended the holidays weighing 0.5 kg less, on average, than a comparison group.

Now, in a new review and analysis that pooled data from 14 randomized controlled trials, some of the same collaborators are reporting that when labeling known as PACE physical activity calorie equivalent is displayed on menu items, people consume, on average, 65 fewer calories per meal compared with other types of labeling, or no labeling.

It may not sound like much. However, the average person eats three meals a day, plus two snacks five separate eating occasions where PACE might nudge people to reduce their total calorie intake by 200 to 250 calories a day, said Amanda Daley, of the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University.

In the U.K., the guidance is that if you want to lose weight then you should look for a deficit of 500 calories per day, so already you could see how PACE could cut into that 500 calories, she said.

The Royal Society for Public Health in the U.K. is already calling for PACE labeling on the front of food packaging.

But not everyone is so enthralled. Some worry it could lead to an exercise/eating disorder nightmare. We know that many people with eating disorders struggle with excessive exercising, so being told exactly how much exercise it would take to burn off particular foods risks exacerbating their symptoms, Tom Quinn, of the eating disorders charity Beat, told the BBC.

Quite honestly, we have as a society, over quite a long time really, only focused on exercise as a means to manage weight or burn calories when it is poor at both, said obesity specialist Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa.

One advantage around PACE is that it tells people what it takes to burn that muffin or that Frappuccino

Freedhoffs issue with the idea of putting exercise calorie counts on food packaging is that it would reinforce those messages, as well as the notion that exercise earns people the right to eat crappy foods. (In a related tweet, he also worried it could reinforce weight bias by suggesting people struggling with obesity are lazy gluttons.)

The idea that some magical set of instructions will lead everybody to make healthier choices is, well, magical thinking, he said, when the wider problem is the constant provision of junk food at every turn.

And if you discourage the consumption of junk food and simultaneously discourage people from exercising, I dont think thats a public health win, Freedhoff said.

Daley, however, argues that traditional nutritional labeling is difficult for the public to grasp and doesnt provide any context or meaning. Many people dont understand the meanings of calories or grams of fat in terms of energy balance, she and her coauthors wrote, and studies show the public consistently underestimates the number of calories in food. Just putting numbers on a packet really has no relevance, Daley said.

One advantage around PACE is that it tells people what it takes to burn that muffin or that Frappuccino, she said. It could help people decide whether the calories are worth it.

Some festive examples include: one thick slice of roast turkey (roughly 100 calories) would require 16 minutes of walking, three large roast potatoes (161 calories) 27 minutes of walking and one small Christmas pudding (1,280 calories) 110 minutes of running.

According to the formula, 100 calories is about 10 minutes of running and 20 minutes of walking for an 80kg man (the average weight for a man).

Daley said there is no evidence to date that physical activity campaigns lead to unhealthy or disordered eating. Obesity is related to cancer deaths, cardiovascular deaths and stroke, among other killers. Were interested in trying to save lives from those diseases, she said.

Ultimately the researchers would like PACE to be seen on labels in supermarkets, on packages, and particularly on menus in restaurants and fast food outlets. All those types of places where we eat high-calorie foods would be a really good place to start.

There are some caveats: Most of the studies Daley and colleagues analyzed were small, and based on lab settings or hypothetical meal selection scenarios, not real life ones.

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As they prepared for last years holiday rush, managers at Amazon unveiled a plan to make the companys sprawling delivery network the safest in the world.

Amazon, which ships millions of packages a day to homes and businesses across the US, had seen a string of fatal crashes involving vans making those deliveries over the previous few years. Improving safety, the plan said, was Amazons Greatest Opportunity.

A key part of the proposal was a five-day course that would put new drivers through on-road assessments overseen by an outside organization with four decades of experience in driver training.

But the defensive-driving course didnt materialize.

Amid the rush of what would become Amazons busiest holiday season ever, the class was vetoed. With more than a billion packages shipping in a span of six weeks, the company needed to put drivers to work almost as soon as they were hired, internal documents show.

We chose to not have onroad practical training because it was a bottleneck that would keep new drivers off the road, noted a memo written by a senior manager in the logistics division just after the peak season wrapped up.

Improving safety, the plan said, was Amazons Greatest Opportunity.

In just a few years, Amazon has built a delivery system that has disrupted a decades-old business dominated by FedEx and United Parcel Service. But in its relentless drive to get bigger while keeping costs low, Amazons logistics operation has repeatedly emphasized speed and cost over safety, a new investigation by ProPublica and BuzzFeed News has found.

Time after time, internal documents and interviews with company insiders show, Amazon officials have ignored or overlooked signs that the company was overloading its fast-growing delivery network while eschewing the expansive sort of training and oversight provided by a legacy carrier like UPS.

One such incident hit particularly close to home. Just as the company began to build its delivery network six years ago, a delivery van carrying Amazon packages struck a cyclist in a San Francisco suburb. The cyclist was Joy Covey, Amazons first chief financial officer. She was killed, leaving behind a young son.

But for all the heartbreak among her former colleagues, the fatal crash did not alter the course the company was charting on delivery. Indeed, the system Amazon was creating would come to rely on low-cost contractors like the one involved in the crash that killed Covey.

In a statement, Amazon rejected the notion that it had put speed ahead of safety, calling the new investigation another attempt by ProPublica and BuzzFeed to push a preconceived narrative that is simply untrue. Nothing is more important to us than safety.

Amazon said that in the US, it provided more than 1 million hours of safety training last year to its employees and its delivery contractors, though it did not say how many people in its vast workforce which numbers well in excess of 250,000 employees in the US alone received training. Amazon also said that last year it implemented safety improvement projects totaling $55 million, which would represent about one-fifth of 1% of the $27.7 billion the company spent on shipping last year.

Amazon would not say how many people had been killed this year or in past years in crashes involving its network of delivery drivers. Internal company documents show that Amazon routinely tracks crashes and has developed a corporate protocol for responding to fatalities.

The company, citing a federal safety rate that is not specific to deliveries or even commercial driving, says that its rate of fatal crashes this year is better than the most recent federal rate. But that rate which divides the total number of miles driven in the US by the number of fatal crashes encompasses virtually all American vehicles, from a sedan owned by a family to an 18-wheeler owned by a Fortune 500 company.

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Unfortunately, Amazons statement said, statistically at this scale, traffic incidents have occurred and will occur again, but these are exceptions, and we will not be satisfied until we achieve zero incidents across our delivery operations.

To trace the history of how Amazon built its delivery network, ProPublica and BuzzFeed News interviewed current and former Amazon employees, delivery drivers, and contractors, many of whom requested anonymity because they feared that speaking about Amazon could harm their careers.

Those interviews, as well as internal documents, reveal how executives at a company that prides itself on starting every meeting with a safety tip repeatedly quashed or delayed safety initiatives out of concern that they could jeopardize its mission of satisfying customers with ever-faster delivery.

Investigations by ProPublica and BuzzFeed News this year revealed that drivers delivering Amazon packages had been involved in more than 60 crashes that led to serious injuries, including 10 deaths. Since then, the news organizations have learned of three more deaths.

Amazon, which keeps a tight grip on how drivers working for contractors do their jobs, has told courts around the country it was not responsible when delivery vans crashed or workers were exploited. It is a position that is facing more legal and legislative challenges, as some states seek to force tech companies such as Uber to take more financial responsibility for the contract workers who underlie their businesses.

In the early days of Amazons expansion into logistics, executives wrestled over what price to put on safety. One shot down anothers plan to boost safety by giving drivers longer rest breaks and capping the number of packages per route. Those measures would have cost 4 cents per package.

I heard a scream, immediately followed by a crash, the vans driver later testified.

Several years later, an audit team found that some delivery contractors were exploiting drivers or failing to carry enough insurance. Amazon chose to lay off the head of the audit team, according to people familiar with the matter.

Last year, as the number of packages soared, one manager simply dialed up the speed on the conveyor belts in a delivery station, injuring workers and prompting an internal investigation, documents show. To get the ever-increasing volume of packages to customers, Amazon rushed new drivers through the hiring process, adding one who had night blindness and another who acknowledged medicinal use of marijuana, company documents and interviews show.

This year, Amazon has even more riding on the logistics empire it has built, according to company documents. For the first time, the company anticipates delivering more than half of its holiday season shipments hundreds of millions of packages using its own network of independent contractors and employee drivers.

Inside Amazon, some employees have worried that the company loads up drivers with too many packages and expects them to complete deliveries at an inhuman pace.

The means to the end is something they dont care about, said a former Amazon manager who quit in frustration in 2017. If we are forcing these drivers to go like bats out of hell to get this stuff all over town, thats OK, because we are making it great for our customers. The human cost of this is too much.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sits on a stack of warehouse shipping cartons in September 2000.

In Amazons earliest days, its founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, dropped packages full of customers book orders at the post office himself. As the company got bigger, it began relying on UPS and FedEx as well as the US Postal Service.

All of it was in service of Bezoss core idea that delighting customers should always be the priority.

I tell everybody at Amazon.com to wake up every morning absolutely terrified, drenching in sweat, but that they should be afraid of something very precise. They should be afraid of customers not of competitors, Bezos said in an April 1999 interview with Charlie Rose. And the reason is that its the customers we have a relationship with. Our customers are loyal to us right up until the second that somebody else offers them a better service.

This ethos continues to power Amazons disruptive culture. The moment the company stopped embracing speed, action, and risk-taking, Bezos argued, was the day it was headed for the corporate boneyard. To avoid extinction, Amazonians needed to work every moment like it was Day 1. Thats the name he gave to one of the office towers that make up the companys headquarters in Seattle.

Bezos had long entertained proposals from managers calling for Amazon to exert more control over the last mile, the final leg of delivery between the warehouse and a customers doorstep. In the 2000s, Amazon, dissatisfied with the inflexibility of UPS and FedEx, for whom Amazon was just one of a long line of customers, started experimenting with using small and regional carriers to deliver packages.

After a 2010 snowstorm in the UK disrupted the Royal Mail and led to the late arrival of many holiday deliveries, executives within Amazon realized that their dependence on major carriers there and in the US could trigger the kind of extinction event that Bezos warned about. They needed to build a delivery network they could control.

Amazon didnt want to simply copy FedEx and UPS. It wanted to be faster, cheaper, and, someday, bigger, and it saw technology as its competitive advantage. In early 2013, the head of the transportation group was a longtime Amazonian named Girish Lakshman. His team, responsible for creating delivery routes globally, was under pressure. Because Amazon was building its delivery network from scratch, it had little data about how to plan the most efficient routes. In early experiments, some drivers were overwhelmed by the sheer number of packages, while others had too little work, according to people in the group.

Around June 2013, Lakshman proposed in a white paper that drivers be paid on a per-package basis and that the number of packages per route be capped to ensure that drivers had adequate breaks and enough time to deal with weather or unexpected traffic delays, according to people familiar with the matter. He estimated these measures would cost an additional 4 cents per package.

To get the proposal through, Lakshman needed buy-in from his new boss, Dave Clark, who had just been elevated to become Amazons new logistics and operations chief after fine-tuning the companys warehouses.

Although Clark was open to ideas for improving safety, he questioned whether the 4-cent-per-package safety measures would actually make deliveries safer, according to two people familiar with the debate. He argued Amazon could find better ways to incentivize safe behavior, these people say, and preferred paying for delivery on a per-route basis and not locking the company into a structure that could prove expensive as Amazon scaled up from delivering millions of packages to billions, these people say.

Clark, now a senior vice president and among Amazons highest-ranking employees, called Lakshmans proposal garbage before rejecting it, according to the people familiar with the proposal.

Last week, Lakshman forwarded a reporters questions about the 4-cent safety proposal to Clark. An Amazon spokesperson, Rena Lunak, said any characterization suggesting contention between the two men over the white paper was simply not true. Lunak said hundreds of white papers like the one prepared by Lakshman are reviewed every day at Amazon. She defended Clark as a leader with backbone and added that being direct and clear as a leader through these types of white paper reviews is a benefit, not a defect.

Clark, in a separate statement, said the company has learned a lot in the years since we started delivering packages and well continue to learn more ... Weve always had a focus on safety and continuous improvement and that wont change.

It was a few months after that debate that the life of the companys first chief financial officer, Joy Covey, came to an end in the collision on a hill in San Franciscos South Bay suburbs.

Covey, 50, had gone out for an afternoon bike ride. As she zipped down a forested stretch of Skyline Boulevard on Sept. 18, 2013, a delivery van turned left directly into her path.

I heard a scream, immediately followed by a crash, the vans driver later testified. Covey was killed.

The white Mazda had been sent out by OnTrac, one of the regional carriers Amazon had been using to gain a measure of shipping independence. The driver, a subcontractor, later testified that the vast majority of his deliveries were for Amazon, but he was not using Amazons routing technology or directions. OnTrac did not respond to written questions seeking comment. Insurers for the company, its contractor, and the driver eventually paid $6.25 million to settle the case filed by the guardian of Coveys son.

Coveys death made the risks of last-mile delivery more obvious and more personal. In Amazons early days, it was Covey who had persuaded Wall Street to buy into Bezoss long-term vision when the company was losing money. After leading Amazon through its initial public offering, Covey left in 2000 to become an investor and philanthropist.

When Bezos spoke at her November 2013 memorial service, he choked up, the author Brad Stone wrote in his book The Everything Store.

Joy and I talked often about a day in the future when we would sit down together with our grandkids and tell the Amazon story, Bezos said.

The crash could have caused Amazon to rethink the way it handled safety issues but it didnt. Senior managers in the logistics division at the time regarded the death as just another traffic accident, according to three people familiar with their conversations.

Just weeks after Coveys memorial service, Amazon faced another holiday delivery debacle this time in the US.

In the third week of December, a million people signed up for Amazon Prime memberships, and orders surged to record levels. UPS was swamped, and customers were left on Christmas Eve without presents they were expecting for the next morning. Amazon, devoted to delighting customers, had instead incensed them.

In the aftermath, Amazon doubled down on a delivery strategy intended to give it more control over deliveries and ensure that such a fiasco was never repeated. Within weeks, Amazons newly formed logistics division circulated a planning document that called for the rapid expansion of the companys last-mile delivery operations, expanding to 10 new metro areas, including New York, Washington, and Philadelphia. Given that the company was behind in all regions, the memo asked, how could the delivery network launch faster?

The confidential directive details Amazons plans to use disruptive technology to onboard and monitor delivery contractors. The goal, it says, was supporting rapid expansion never blocking it. In its 20 pages, it mentions reducing costs nine times; it mentions safety just once.

Vans line up to depart after loading at the South San Francisco Amazon facility.

In June 2015, Agnes Acerra was crossing a street in Hoboken, New Jersey, when a white Ford van filled with Amazon packages turned left and ran over her. The 89-year-old, who had formerly worked as a sales clerk at Macys flagship store in Manhattan, suffered a broken pelvis, a concussion, and a broken leg. She died soon after from internal hemorrhaging.

The driver was ticketed for failing to yield, and after an ambulance carried Acerra away, he finished his delivery route. The company that employed the driver, SDS Global Logistics, was one of the small independent firms that Amazon had chosen to deliver packages to customers.

As part of the sprint to build out its network, Amazon had initially considered operating its own fleet of UPS-sized trucks. But in an experiment in San Francisco, the trucks had difficulty navigating the citys narrow, hilly streets, former Amazon managers recalled. Independent third-party contractors with their own fleets of cargo vans proved a cheaper, more nimble option.

Unlike OnTrac or UPS, these contractors operated out of Amazons own delivery stations; they carried only Amazon packages; and they followed the instructions of Amazon routing software, which dictated the number of packages loaded onto their vans and the order of the stops on their routes. They were held to extremely high performance standards, including a requirement that 999 out of 1,000 packages be delivered on time.

The costs of acquiring and maintaining the vans would fall to the contractors, not Amazon, and unlike the trucks used by UPS, they fell under the weight threshold for regulation by the federal Department of Transportation. That meant they didnt have to adhere to safety mandates such as vehicle inspections by federal regulators or limits on the number of consecutive hours drivers could spend behind the wheel.

The arrangement gave Amazon considerable power over its contractors. With most or all of their business tied up with Amazon, the contractors had little leverage with which to negotiate on price. Amazon set prices on its own terms, sometimes paying one company significantly less than another for the same route in the same market, a review of contracts shows.

The contracts drafted by Amazon's lawyers for the delivery companies also shielded the e-commerce giant from just about every imaginable liability. The delivery companies were on the hook for anything that went wrong, from workers complaining they were mistreated or underpaid to pedestrians and drivers hurt in crashes. And when Amazon was sued in such cases, the delivery companies were even responsible for paying all of Amazon's legal bills.

There was a maniacal focus on increasing shipments per route.

The same month Acerra died, an Amazon employee in the Seattle headquarters named Will Gordon began building a team that worked to improve route planning and maximize the efficiency of deliveries.

There was a maniacal focus on increasing shipments per route, recalled Gordon, who left Amazon in 2016 and is now the founder of a Seattle startup called Latchel, which coordinates rental-property maintenance. Everything was about getting more shipments per truck. It was the one metric that drove the organization.

Every delivery company wants to maximize the number of packages drivers deliver, but Gordon said Amazon took things to an extreme. He said the company would have been better off focusing on large packages, which cost more to send through other carriers. Instead, in its race to boost the shipments-per-route metric which he said was far and away the companys top priority Amazon stuffed vans with small-sized packages, parcels that could have been more economically delivered by the US Postal Service.

In some metro areas such as Los Angeles, Gordon said, Amazon underestimated the time it took to complete routes by failing to factor in rush hour traffic. This led harried drivers who felt pressured to race to complete their routes.

Amazon collected an enormous quantity of data about its shipping operation, analyzing practically every possible input on each shipment. Yet one element of delivery was routinely overlooked in the US, Gordon said: safety.

It should have come up more often, Gordon said.

A parked shipping container sits outside Amazon's Richmond facility this month.

By late 2016, Amazon had launched delivery stations in most major metro areas, and it was hurrying to expand to smaller cities in order to keep up with demand. As the critical peak season approached, the pace was straining many contractors.

That fall, Amazon invited representatives from more than a dozen contractors to a New Jersey conference room overlooking Manhattan for the companys first delivery summit. The meeting was supposed to be a forum for constructive feedback about the program. Instead, attendees recalled, it dragged on for hours as contractors barraged Amazon managers with complaints about nearly every aspect of the system they had created.

Contractors protested that Amazon forced drivers to wait for hours, then overloaded them with boxes and expected them to complete deliveries in an unrealistic time frame. Drivers quit constantly because the job, which often required them to deliver as many as 300 packages a day, was so demanding. Amazons unreliable routing and navigation software only made matters worse, according to two people who attended.

Amazon required delivery contractors to use an app called Rabbit, which not only scanned packages but also told drivers which packages to deliver in which order and provided turn-by-turn directions. But the company began using the in-house app before it was ready, former Amazon employees say. Trip ODell, one of the architects of Rabbit, called it an MVP software jargon for a minimally viable product.

ODell recruited an idealistic band of designers to Amazon with the pitch that they were going to make life on the road better for drivers. But Paula Wood, a member of this group, quickly became disillusioned with the technology and Amazons commitment to drivers. It was ludicrous to expect drivers to be able to deliver in the tiny slices of time, Wood said. They put humans into a machine-oriented system.

Wood said that on many routes, drivers didnt have enough time to go to the bathroom or eat, so they skipped meals and breaks and urinated in bottles. Navigation directions were terrible, she said. Drivers were, for example, directed to curbs that were no-stopping zones during rush hour. The Rabbit sent drivers on dangerous paths, back and forth across busy roads, she said, full of repeated U-turns and left turns, like the ones that killed Covey and Acerra.

Research shows left turns can be risky because they require the driver to cross oncoming traffic, and the pillar between the windshield and the door can make it harder to see pedestrians in crosswalks. The algorithm that powers the turn-by-turn directions UPS uses, by contrast, programs out most left turns.

One former Amazon manager recalled watching a driver on a ride-along pounding furiously on the phone while shouting: I hate this Rabbit! I hate this Rabbit!

The company said there are hundreds of technologists at Amazon who are focused on continuously improving the functionality of the Rabbit app and, based on feedback from drivers and contractors, it has made more than 500 changes this year alone. Amazon added that it has included functionality to avoid left and U-turns, even if that means a route takes longer and that drivers have always been able to stop at any time to take a bathroom break.

Penny Register-Shaw, a former FedEx lawyer, was hired by Amazon in September 2016 to whip the delivery contractor program into shape, according to four people familiar with the program at the time. One of her first orders of business was to attend the New Jersey summit, where at least one contractor said he felt like at last someone was listening and would present the plight of drivers to Amazon management.

But Register-Shaw had trouble persuading her bosses. She spoke gently and slowly, the cadence of her voice reflecting her Tennessee upbringing, and was interrupted so frequently by her new Amazon colleagues that she rarely finished a sentence, according to several people who worked with her.

Register-Shaw and her team proposed changes to make deliveries safer for both drivers and the public, according to interviews with people familiar with the group. They recommended a drug-testing regimen for contractor drivers who were already on the road. The plan called for random tests so drivers would not know when they were coming, said a person familiar with the white paper proposing the tests. But the idea was nixed by higher-ups, according to people familiar with the matter.

Asked about this account, Lunak, the Amazon spokesperson, initially said it was false. But when asked additional questions about the companys drug-testing practices, she explained that Amazon required comprehensive preemployment drug screening and said that drivers are subject to additional screening if there is reasonable cause or if there is an accident.

At some delivery stations, drivers had to retrieve their vans from distant lots before picking up their packages, and that often put them behind schedule before they even began their routes, according to two people on Register-Shaws team. They said her group pushed for closer parking and when that did not happen, the group recommended that drivers travel time be taken into account when planning shifts. That idea did not move forward either.

Members of Register-Shaws team were mortified by reports of drivers urinating in bottles rather than taking bathroom breaks, and even defecating outside of customers homes. Humans dont do that unless theyre under tremendous pressure, a former member of the team said.

In early 2018, an audit team that Register-Shaw had assigned to evaluate the growing pool of delivery contractors working for Amazon reported that it had discovered dozens of the companies were out of compliance.

Some contractors didnt have the amount of insurance Amazon required, and others werent paying for legally mandated overtime and rest breaks, according to several people familiar with the audit.

The findings posed a problem for Udit Madan, the executive Amazon had just put in charge of its last-mile program, according to people familiar with the audit teams work. Putting as many drivers on the road as possible every day was a priority for Amazon. In one delivery station, the package count nearly doubled overnight, according to a manager who worked there; the e-commerce giant could ill afford to lose established delivery partners to carry those shipments to the customer.

You felt the pressure, said a person close to the audit team. If you take 200 vans off the street, that would have an impact on the customer promise of two-day delivery.

Register-Shaw eventually took the fall, resigning rather than firing members of the audit team, according to a person familiar with the matter. The head of the audit team was forced out soon after, and the team was dispersed. When asked to comment about the details in this report, Register-Shaw, who now works for Amazons largest retail competitor, Walmart, answered, I wish I could have done more.

Amazon disputed aspects of this account, saying that its monitoring of delivery contractors has improved since the leadership reshuffle. Due to issues with the auditing program at the time, the team was moved to a centralized compliance organization, Amazon said in a statement. That move and new leadership, created immediate results, including increasing the scope and rate of the audits.

Madan did not respond to questions sent through an Amazon spokesperson. The company said it monitors its contractors compliance with the law and expects those who are not performing to correct their problems within 30 days or risk having their contract terminated.

Our transportation network is not about anyone working faster than is safe, Amazon said in a statement. Its about processes and our overall operations network coming together to be able to serve customers.

Vans line up to depart after loading at the South San Francisco Amazon facility.

In June 2018, Amazon invited the news media to Seattle for an event at a picturesque venue overlooking Elliott Bay. Instead of unveiling a new drone or other high-tech project, Dave Clark, standing in front of a van, announced that the company was rebooting its delivery network, shifting much of its package volume to smaller contractors.

The new firms would manage between 20 and 40 routes apiece, compared with hundreds run by the bigger contractors Amazon had previously signed up. Amazon would make it as easy as possible: It helped new delivery companies with legal paperwork, arranged for leases of new vans emblazoned with the company logo and even recommended preferred vendors to handle insurance and payroll. Would-be entrepreneurs some with no experience in logistics rushed to sign up for the program, which handed Amazon even more control over nearly every aspect of delivery while also increasing its financial leverage over the tiny firms.

At the same time the program was gearing up, at Amazon managers were putting the final touches on an ambitious road safety plan, the one that aspired to make the company the safest last mile carrier in the world.

The July 2018 document, titled "World Wide Amazon Logistics on Road Safety Plan," emphasized that achieving that goal would require a radical shift in the companys safety culture. Each delivery station, for example, would have a number of days safe sign on the wall, all vehicles would be professionally inspected every year for roadworthiness, prospective hires would face more vetting and Amazon would implement a zero-tolerance policy for serious safety violations.

It also detailed the plan in which instructors from the National Traffic Safety Institute would teach new drivers a defensive driving curriculum.

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By Saadia S Dhailey

Health experts list the pitfalls of diet plans like keto, veganism and intermittent fasting, and recommend alternatives

Many of us may never have been inside a dieticians offi ce, but surely everyone knows the names of at least half a dozen diets. Keto, intermittent fasting, Atkins, paleo, veganism, the nocarb diet...the list is endless. We even know which celebrity is on what diet and, thanks to technology, can even get meal plans for ourselves with the push of a few buttons. According to Indias Google search trends and health experts, the top three fad diets include the Keto diet, Intermittent Fasting, and the Vegan diet. But when your health is at stake, theres more to consider than whats on trend.

Keto conundrum

Loss of muscle mass, irritability and brain fog, sometimes leading to accidents, are frequently reported by those on this diet, adds nutritionist Niti Desai. As are headaches, constipation, and hair fall, she says.

The keto diet is also not advisable for patients on insulin medication or medication for hypoglycaemia. It cuts down your carbohydrate intake to 50 grams a day. This lowers blood sugar dramatically, making it unsuitable for Type 1 diabetes. The borderline diabetic, or type 2 moderate, may, however, benefit, she says.

Elevated lipid profile level is another problem. While non-vegetarians can have steak, ham and other meats, vegetarians dont have food sources that meet similar requirements, says Desai. Dal, a major protein source for vegetarians, is 65 per cent carbs. This means that vegetarians on the diet must consume more butter, ghee and avocado to compensate, she adds. Additionally, the diet means switching to rotis made of almond or flaxseed flour again, a lot of fat. While proponents of keto argue that all this is good fat, cholesterol is affected by the total amount of fat, says Desai. Given the cost of ingredients on average, one would spend some Rs 15,000 every two weeks its not financially sustainable either.

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According to gastroenterologist Dr Philip Abraham, who is with Hinduja Hospital, the regimen defies the bodys physiology. Wed never get hunger pangs on time if fasting was healthy for the body, he says.

Its the reason why many on this diet get acidity and heartburn. The stomach secretes juices that are absorbed to break food into components during digestion. When fasting, these juices collect in the stomach, leading to acid reflux and pain, says Dr Abraham.

Also, to manage the gaps, people tend to take multiple servings of coconut water, green tea and orange juice through the day. Intake of these fluids can sky-rocket potassium levels in the blood, as I saw in a case recently, adds Desai. Its worrisome because high potassium levels can lead to irregular heartbeat, and that has a high mortality rate.

Hairfall is another side effect. Thats because, with only two meals allowed, youre not snacking on fruits and nuts, and thus depriving yourself of important nutrients, Desai says.

Vegan wagon not for everyoneThe week since news about Virat Kohlis turn to veganism, vegan peaked on Google trends in India. Niti says, For a time, even tennis star Djokovic was said to be on it. People see these great-looking poster boys of veganism finding a new leanness and acing physical performances, and want to follow suit.

So, how does a diet sans meats, dairy products, even honey, help in weight loss? Often, the premise of a quick weight loss fix is eliminating an entire food group or more. With dairy and non-vegetarian foods off the menu, you are left with roti, subzi and dal. Your calorific intake naturally drops, making you lose weight, says Desai.

Dr Abraham adds that those taking to the diet need to understand that going vegan is more about a sentiment rather than physiology. Theres nothing to recommend that its healthier for the body.

Keto requires you to cut down on micro-nutrients like zinc and selenium and body-building protein, and it causes fluctuations in lipid profile

Deepshikha Agarwal, dietician

The diet needs expert micromanaging. Replacing the dairy with soy or almond milk doesnt make up for protein or calcium loss. So, appropriate quantities of nachni, sesame seeds, and pulses need to be included in the diet as per individual needs, says Desai.

Ultimately, crash diets may lead to quick weight loss, but its not without side-effects. On the other hand, a diet in tune with your food choices, is far more sustainable, she adds. The less drastic the change, the easier it is to stay the course for longer, eventually making it habit-forming, says Desai, recommending taking tea or coffee without sugar, and eating fruits and nuts daily.

Also, aim for not more than two kilos of weight loss per month, so that the body can adapt, adds Dr Abraham. A traditional Indian diet, which is low in fat, high on carbohydrates and a moderate amount of protein one gram per kilogram of our weight is the best way to stay healthy. Eat all fruits and vegetables, and avoid excess oil, salt and sugar, he says.

Finally, remember to start your day right, with a wholesome breakfast. Agarwal suggests you decide on a good carb-protein combination for breakfast and prepare it the night before. This will ensure you never miss it in the morning rush and set the pace for the day.

Follow this with meals at regular intervals, and end your day with a light dinner for an optimal metabolic rate. Overall, opt to grill and bake over frying. Dont fill your plate in heaps. Have fruits as a whole rather than in juice form, to gain maximum fibre. And most importantly, balance the input and the output, meaning eat and, exercise, says Dr Abraham.

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BREAKFAST: Two egg whites with two multigrain toasts/one chapatti; or one cup millet/oats upma with a cup of skimmed milk

MIDMORNING: Fruit LUNCH: Two multigrain chapattis with one cup of vegetable and one cup dal/curd

EVENING: Sprouts salad/tomato omelette/a handful of nuts

DINNER: A bowl of soup, one chapatti, one cup of vegetables and one cup of dal (or a serving of non-veg) and salad

Niti Desai, nutritionist

What worked for someTakeaways from members of the National Weight Control Registry, USA, whove lost an average of 30 kg and kept the weight off for five-and-a-half years:

78% eat breakfast daily

62% watch less than 10 hours of TV per week

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Confused with your sudden weight gain? Then cinnamon can help you with it as it is helpful for weight loss.

Nowadays, most people's prime concern is weight loss. They are ready to take up any challenge to lose their weight at any cost. But painful diet often results in weakness in our body, which can lead to serious health problems. So, regular workout with frequent light meals is a good way to lose weight and control it. We tend to do a lot of research on what to eat and whatnot for weight loss, which has made us quite a connoisseur of weight loss mantras. Now, add another thing to that list of mantras, which will help you to lose weight faster. All the health freaks out there! here is another beneficial ingredient for weight loss that you need to know now and that is Cinnamon. If you already knew it, then there is no harm to know more about it. And if you didn't know it, then it's better to read it now. Cinnamon has several beneficial factors, which have direct and indirect influences on weight loss process.

Why Cinnamon?

Cinnamon is really good for health, which comes with numerous medicinal properties as well. It is also antimicrobial and antiparasitic effects. Cinnamon has antioxidants, which can also heal wounds. Regular consumption of cinnamon lowers blood pressure and cholesterol, which are indirectly responsible for weight loss.

How it helps in losing weight?

It is important to keep in mind that cinnamon is not a remedy for long-term weight loss process. But it should be added to your diet plan. Cinnamon reduces the negative effects of high-fat foods on our body, which are the leading factors of weight gain. It also has its influences on blood glucose levels, metabolism, and insulin function that ultimately promote weight loss.

A healthy cinnamon recipe for weight loss

Cinnamon tea can be added to your diet chart as a remedy for weight loss. Boil a cinnamon stick in water and wait till the fragrance comes out. Squeeze a lemon in it with a tsp of honey and drink it. This healthy drink can also be complemented with ginger, pepper, mint and cardamom.

Some other ideas with cinnamon

Apart from the cinnamon tea, the spice can also be added to your meals in the following ways:

Cinnamon-roasted almonds

Cinnamon twists

Apple cinnamon streusel galette

Cinnamon rolls

Pork loin chops with cinnamon apples

Pork noodle soup with cinnamon and anise

Cinnamon raisin bread pudding

Caution

Cinnamon contains coumarin, which has dangerous side effects if consumed on a high dose. Especially, Cassia cinnamon has a higher range of coumarin than Ceylon cinnamon. So, consult your doctor before opting for it as a weight loss remedy.

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During the Washington Capitals west coast swing, Alex Ovechkin and John Carlson did an interview with Linda Cohn for a feature on ESPN+. During the interview, we learned that Ovechkin would instantly retire if he broke Wayne Gretkzys goal record. Yeah, right away. See ya! Ovechkin said as he saluted the camera.

ESPN recently made more of the ridiculous interview available on YouTube. There we learned of Alex Ovechkins frustration with diets.

During the 2018 postseason, Ovechkins legendary and borderline inspiring appetite was made public by Brooks Orpik in a Players Tribute article. Orpik explained that The Great 8 had chicken parm from Mamma Lucia before every game. Its the kind of thing you want to take a five-hour nap after eating, he said.

Ovechkin talked more about his eating habits with Cohn.

Cohn pointed out to Ovechkin that hes one of the top players in the NHL despite his age. She pointed out that Tom Brady of the NFL and LeBron James of the NBA changed certain things from either the way they played to the way they ate or trained to stay relevant.

Yeah, of course, Ive done last couple of years I change my training, Ovechkin said before adding, I dont change my diet. He laughed.

In September, Ovechkin revealed during an NHL Media Day interview that he did less weightlifting and more cardiovascular training, but created a stir when he said his weight remained the same: 260 pounds.

Cohn then asked Ovi Whats your favorite food?

Everything I can eat, Ovechkin said. You can ask John, I eat everything.

Carlson responded that Ovi loved Mamma Lucias chicken parm.

Chicken parm, yeah. I just eat it pregame. Pizza, he said. Im not a big fan of stay on diets. I try to diet once, didnt work well. I just didnt lose weight. I said you know what, forget about it. Im just going to do my thing.

Ovechkin also spoke about the Capitals Stanley Cup celebration in 2018.

I think we make one mistake out there, Ovechkin said. In Georgetown, we didnt bring any cameras. That was probably the highlight of our celebration I think. Everybody was together, fans, team, and we just have so much fun. It seems like basically you can do whatever you want and nobody would care. But I think yeah, I hope we gonna get not only one Cup but, hope so, get a couple Cups, but the celebration is gonna be much much bigger because we knew how to do it. Its gonna be planned right away.

He also had a cute exchange when John Carson revealed that Connor McDavid is the toughest player in the NHL to defend.

I think hes probably at the top of everyones list in terms of when we do our meetings no matter if youre a forward or a defenseman or goalie, you always need to be aware of where he is and hes a guy that can strike from anywhere and very fast.

Cohn added that over the years speed is now king with the MacKinnons and McDavids. She told Ovi youre not really a north-south guy.

I was like them. Not anymore, Ovechkin deadpanned.

Cohn asked when it went away.

Ovechkin turned to Carlson, Tell me.

Carlson began sheepishly laughing. I dont know. Youre still north-south. You can still fly.

I can still fly when its playoffs time, Ovechkin responded.

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