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Anything to lose weight if you're a Cosmo girl!

Cosmopolitan magazine is famous for the doozy diets it slips in between "5 Relaxing Sex Positions for People Who Have Anxiety About Sex" and "17 Face Sunscreens That Will Leave You With a Clearer Complexion." The magazine's U.S. edition got into hot water with some of its readers for promoting an April 10 article with a headline and tweet touting "How This Woman Lost 44 Pounds Without Any Exercise," in which it turned out that the woman featured actually had serious cancer surgery. (Cosmo quickly switched the title to the more anodyne "A Serious Health Scare Helped Me Love My Body More Than Ever."

But Cosmo's implication that getting cancer is a good way to get thinner was nothing compared to this article posted on Cosmo's U.K. website on April 10, 2013: Cosmo content editor Rosie Mullender's "Why Cosmo Loves the 'Cuban Diet."

The "Cuban Diet"what's that? Hold the cheese on that pork sandwich? No, not reallyhere goes:

Between 1990 and 1995, thanks to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuban people were forced to alter their entire lifestyles. They couldn't afford petrol, so the government provided them with bicycles. People started walking everywhere. Food was also in shorter supplythere were no supermarket aisles stuffed with junk food or wallets stuffed with money with which to buy it.

In short, Cubans could no longer afford to be fat. In that five-year period, they lost an average of around five kilos per person, which is over 11lbs. As a result of people getting slimmer, they also started living longer, with fewer Cubans dying of diabetes and heart disease.

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The government is keen for us all to follow the Cubans and tweak our lifestyles for the sake of our waistlines and health.

This made me curious to learn more about these lifestyle-tweaking Cubans dropping pounds astride their government provided-bicycles, so I found this article in the U.K. Independent dated July 1, 1994:

You won't see many cats prowling the twisting, unlit streets of old Havana these days. Strays or pets, most have fallen victim to a people living on the edge of starvation.

Under ever-tighter rationing since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the poorest of Cubans began devouring the cat population last year. Even the tiny allowance of meat in their ration books is rarely available after they queue for hours at state warehouses.

"Cats were among the first to go since they're said to taste okay. I had my three robbed from my house in January,' said Sylvia, a 32-year- old unmarried mother who lives in the Playa district and works as an administrator in a state hospital.

Sylvia and [her 4-year-old daughter] Hilda get one bread roll each per day. Milk or chicken are not available to adults. Hilda is allowed a litre of milk every two days and a quarter piece of chicken a month. (In fact, chicken has not appeared for more than two months).

They are allowed half a dozen eggs each a month. The only meat is part of a soya and mincemeat mixture but each is allowed only half a pound a month. Their other monthly rations are: rice - five pounds per person; black beans (a Cuban staple) - one pound per person; sugar - five pounds; salt - one ounce; rum - half a bottle.

Nor would it seem that the food situation for most Cubans has improved that much. This comes from the New York Times dated December 12, 2016:

Tourists are quite literally eating Cuba's lunch. Thanks in part to the United States embargo, but also to poor planning by the island's government, goods that Cubans have long relied on are going to well-heeled tourists and the hundreds of private restaurants that cater to them, leading to soaring prices and empty shelves.

Without supplies to match the increased appetite, some foods have become so expensive that even basic staples are becoming unaffordable for regular Cubans.

I'm now eagerly awaiting for the pages of Cosmo to feature the "Siege of Leningrad Diet," the "Bataan Death March Diet," and the "Kim Jong-un I'm Getting Fat So You Don't Have To" diet. I need to tweak my lifestyle myself.

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LIAM SMITH and Liam Williams will meet in a highly-anticipated rematch in September, according to promoter Frank Warren.

Liverpools Smith handed Williams his first professional loss earlier this month when the Welshman was pulled out by his trainer after sustaining a horrific cut.

Given the ferocity of the clash, which saw Smith come on strong in the later rounds after Williams had bossed the earlier sessions, and the controversial finish, both fighters and fans have called for a rematch, which looks set to go ahead.

Ive spoken to them, they both want it and were confident it will happen in September, Warren told Boxing News.

That gives them plenty of time to recover from the cuts and injuries from the first fight, they both need to be 100 per cent for a rematch.

There was drama before the first bell too when Smith failed to make weight a day before the clash. When he initially weighed in heavy, he was wrongfully told he only had one hour to shift almost two pounds. Deeming that insufficient time to safely lose the weight, Smith and his team felt he could not do it. However, per the WBO rules whose Interim world title was on the line fighters have two hours to lose any excess poundage before attempting to weigh in again. Smith was only informed of this when it was too late, and so he couldnt successfully weigh in again, thus meaning he could not win the WBO title.

Im hoping, at worst, the rematch is for an interim world title, Warren continued.

Firstly at the weigh-in Smith was meant to have two hours but was only told he had one and then there was the cut that stopped it, so well get it done again to see who the best man really is.

Had Smith made weight, he would now be in prime position to once again become world champion. Canelo Alvarez, who took the WBO world title from Smith last year, recently confirmed he would not be returning to 154lbs, meaning an Interim champion would likely have been elevated to full champion.

Besides Smith-Williams II, Warren also confirmed that British super-lightweight champion Tyrone Nurse will fight highly-touted mandatory challenger Jack Catterall later this year.

Catterall against Tyrone Nurse will also happen in the summer, so were making the fights the fans want to see, he said.

This past weekend, Tommy Langford was stopped by Avtandil Khurtsidze in Leicester in the main event of a Queensbury show broadcast on BT Sport and BoxNation. Going up against a Matchroom show in Liverpool on Sky Sports, Warren is very pleased with how things went.

Obviously Im disappointed with the Tommy Langford result but other than that it was an excellent show with good matches, he said.

I was extremely pleased with all the performances from our guys. I thought Lyon Woodstock was outstanding, I think hell be a big star. Anthony Yarde was punch perfect, he was calm, collected, hes got fast hands. Daniel Dubois did what he had to do, it was a decent opponent for him and he handled it well, he showed great hand speed.

I thought the [Darryll] Williams fight [against Jahmaine Smyle] was a great fight, a candidate for domestic fight of the year. I was pleased that in the ratings, BT beat Sky. As I said, with a level playing field itll be interesting, and thats without the tens of thousands of fans who tuned in on BoxNation as well.

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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a serious and growing problem. Previously linked with obesity, a new study also connects it to maternal obesity - meaning that what your mother ate during pregnancy may affect your future liver health.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is characterized by a buildup of fat within the cells of the liver. Although having fat in the liver is normal, if there is an excessive amount, it can lead to liver scarring and cirrhosis.

Cirrhosis describes a process during which liver cells are gradually replaced by scar tissue, hindering the liver's capacity to work effectively.

NAFLD is estimated to affect 20 to 30 percent of people in the Western world, and this level appears to be on the rise.

Individuals with type 2 diabetes and morbid obesity are among the worst affected; in these groups, the rates of NAFLD are 70 and 90 percent, respectively.

Although some of the risk factors are understood, it is not always clear why one person develops NAFLD while another, similar person, does not. Because of the rising prevalence of NAFLD, a great deal of research is currently under way that attempts to generate an understanding of the pathways behind the condition.

The latest research comes from a team headed up by Dr. Michael Thompson, Ph.D., a pediatric endocrinology fellow at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio. The results are presented today at the Experimental Biology 2017 meeting, held in Chicago, IL.

Using a mouse model, the research explores the effect, if any, of a maternal high-fat diet on the offspring's liver health.

Dr. Thompson explains the reasons for his decision to embark on the current project: "Complications of obesity are a significant cost burden for the medical system, especially given the prevalence of obesity. Understanding how maternal exposures impact obesity-related disease such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease will allow us to develop lower-cost preventative therapies to utilize up front rather than awaiting complications down the road."

Once the data had been analyzed, they found that exposure to a high-fat diet during development produced changes in the liver that persisted through to adulthood. These changes remained even if the offspring were fed a low-fat diet after birth.

If this effect is confirmed in humans, it would mean that someone of a healthy weight could still be at risk for NAFLD if their mother had been obese during pregnancy.

When the team looked further into the data, they found that levels of bile acid and the genes involved in its regulation were altered in the offspring of obese mothers. This suggests that the offspring might have cholestasis, a condition in which the normal flow of bile is interrupted.

"If human offspring from obese mothers have a similar risk for developing fibrosis as we see in mice, we may be able to predict who is going to develop more serious disease.

Knowing who is most at risk for more serious disease will guide us on which patients should be treated more aggressively. Furthermore, understanding the biological mechanisms involved in this increased risk could lead to preventative therapies."

Dr. Michael Thompson

The results will need to be confirmed, but they open the door to a raft of new questions. Thompson and his team are now planning research to further investigate the risk of disease progression. Using the same mouse model, they are also designing studies that will examine preventative therapies able to be administered during pregnancy or shortly after birth.

Due to the rising rates of NAFLD, research in this vein is likely to continue at breakneck pace. Preventing or slowing this condition could have huge health benefits for the population at large.

Learn how eating meat may increase the risk of developing NAFLD.

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You may have come across some pretty alarming takes on diet soda going into this past weekend. "Daily dose of diet soda tied to triple risk of deadly stroke," blared Fox News . Outlets like the Washington Post and CNN repeated the assertion that drinking artificially sweetened beverages may increase the risk that your brain just maybe headed for a blood clot or serious mental deterioration because you like to drink Diet Coke. Don't believe the hype; the situation probably isn't nearly as dire as that.

Some of the reports about this "deadly diet soda" study have been more nuanced than others. But there's a common theme among a lot of themthey don't outline some of its most crucial and relevant caveats until way past the headline. And if they did, the titles would be pretty boring. Like, "Study determines minor observational link (but no direct cause-and-effect) between certain people who drink artificial sugar beverages, but it has a small sample size that doesn't include minorities or account for a whole bunch of other critical factors."

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That's not exactly as sexy as claiming that a Diet Coke a day will bring Alzheimer's in its wake, or triple the chances of a stroke. But science, fortunately (or unfortunately if you're trying to grab clicks at the expense of good information), isn't meant to be sexy. It's meant to test hypotheses and express facts. And when the results of scientific experiments are presented without context, they lead to misleading, panicky headlines like the ones that dominated the Internet on Friday.

Physician Aaron Carroll, who writes for one of the most clear-eyed, if wonky, health care websites out therethe Incidental Economist and has a delightfully no-BS, data-driven column on the New York Times' Upshot site, highlights several reasons why you should take this new sugar study with a grain of salt.

Did the participants differ by race or ethnicity? I have no idea. I do know, however, that the authors write about the absence of ethnic minorities, which limits the generalizability of our findings to populations of non-European decent. Was that in the coverage you read?

Did they differ by socioeconomic status? No idea. Did they abuse drugs? Work or retire? Live alone or with someone? Have a family history of disease? No idea.

Did they acknowledge that different artificial sweeteners are different molecules with likely different effects or implications? No.

Were there multiple comparisons, meaning some results might be due to chance? Yep. Did they rely on self-report, which might mean recall bias comes into play? Yep.

Was this an observational study? Of course.

Was all of that in the coverage you read?

Carroll's explanation is a lot more in-depth than that, digging into nerdy-but-important factors like the actual models the study's authors used, the limitations they openly admitted to, and information we simply don't know about their analysis.

But this does reflect a common theme in mainstream media science reporting. The drive to report the most provocative (in many cases, concerning) headlines obscure the incremental, nuanced, and decidedly not -reductive nature of good science. If you were to rely on flashy media headlines alone, you might think that everything causes cancer or prevents it !

None of this is to say that sugar alternatives don't come with health risks; they very well might. But limited, observational studies about public health trends can only take you so far down the path to real knowledge. So don't feel pressured to freak out about that diet drink because the Internet told you to.

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Fish has long been Paul Greenbergs bread and butter. But last year, the fisherman, journalist, and author of Four Fish and American Catch took his relationship to seafood to a new level. While researching his next book, The Omega Principle, Greenberg spent a year eating fish multiple times a day, every day with the goal of raising his bodys level of omega-3 fatty acids. Meanwhile, he also traveled to Peru to visit the worlds largest wild fishery, to Norway to see the birthplace of modern aquaculture, and to Alaska, the last thriving wild salmon habitat in the world.

Greenbergs journey is also at the center of an episode of FRONTLINE called The Fish on My Plate, which airs Tuesday, April 25 on PBS. We talked to him about the film, his experimental diet, and the future of the fish on our plates.

You ate seafood every day for a year while filming this segment. Lets start with that. Why did you do it?

I have marginally high blood pressure, marginally bad cholesterol, and my triglycerides are on the high side, so I was hoping that those things would get addressed. Theres this thing that happens where you see around the corner of 45 and catch a glimpse of 50 in the middle distance and you just dont feel as sharp. And all the things that fish and omega-3s are supposed to do seem to relate to all the problems that you have when you realize that you truly are middle-aged. So, I was hoping to have a better, a less burdened, middle age than I might have had.

We wont spoil it for the audience, but it didnt quite work out how you planned. It has been six months since you stopped; what is your relationship to eating seafood now?

Well, Ive also been evaluating it for next my book and Ive come to the conclusion that a diet where pescatarianism is a large element is probably a good thing for the planet and a good thing for a persons health. That doesnt mean fish every day, but something more like the pescatarian Mediterraneanso it has all the qualities of the Mediterranean diet, but your primary protein more often than not would be fish.

But the other thing that you have to take into consideration is mercury and other pollutants. If you think about not wanting to push the gas pedal on mercury above a certain level, and attuned your fish consumption accordingly, you could strike that balance between pollutants and nutrition and probably get to a point where youd have a pretty healthy diet.

Id always been led to believe that if youre eating fish that is low on the food chain, and focusing on wild salmonwhich also eat relatively low on the food chainyoud avoid mercury. But it just turns out that there is trace mercury in almost every piece of seafood. As [the biologist] said in the film, its like death by a thousand cuts. And so you really do need to be conscious of it.

This filmand the forthcoming bookis much more health-focused than your other work. Do you want to talk about your decision to go that route?

My audience keeps expanding, which is great, but every time the audience expands I have to take a step back and find the right altitude at which to fly to explain these things. And you know to some degree the omega-3 in the film is the MacGuffin. Its important, but its also a way to talk about all these other things.

Omega-3 is also the Forrest Gump molecule. In the film, Forrest Gump shows up at these key moments throughout history and youre not quite sure what he does, but you know its important. And if you look at it from a health perspective, omega-3 exactly reflects our obsessions of the moment. In the 70s and 80s everyone was afraid of dropping dead of a heart attack, so Omega-3s were immediately plugged into cardiology.

They used to think it was connected with lowering cholesterol, but it seems like the evidence is it doesnt lower cholesterol. But that was our obsession and now that we have angioplasty and statins people arent as worried about heart attacks anymore. Now theyre worried about losing their minds and becoming demented. So, where has the Forrest Gump molecule wandered now? Its into the brain. So, thats the altitude that Ive chosen to take in my next book. And at the same time, it frees me up to talk about food systems which is to me the really important stuffmuch more important than my own heart and brain.

Lets talk about changing perceptions about fish farming. Do you find it ironic that while a small percentage of the population has questioned many of the methods behind aquaculture in the last decade, the actual numbers of pounds of farmed fish that were consuming has grown enormously?

Yes, its like [the moment in] Casablanca where Louie comes in and raids the casino and says, Im shocked, shocked to see gambling going on in this establishment! Then the croupier goes up to Louie and says, Your winnings, sir? and he says, Thank you very much. Thats kind of the way we feel about farmed fish.

But the fact is that fish farming is getting better. Theres one very basic metric that has really changed, and thats the amount of fish eaten by farmed fish. The fish-in-fish-out ratio has really come down. The possibilities of alternative feed really have risen. And I actually think in about five years things like algae and soldier flies will be a really major part of the aquaculture portfolio. And well start to see that argument [against farmed fish] getting dropped.

In 2007 and 2008, when I was doing the bulk of the research for Four Fish, the aquaculture industry was in a certain place. But it has changed. You had Ted Danson screaming at the top of his lungs and the celebrity on the Oceana board, saying, Nobody should be farmed fish. Now you have people like Leo DiCaprio who came out and strongly urge that everybody eat more farmed fish.

Any piece of seafoodbe it farmed or wildis going to have a smaller carbon footprint than any piece of land food meat, so its hard to argue against it in a much bigger sense.

A lot of folks are pointing to open-ocean or offshore aquaculture as a promising solution. What are your thoughts about that?

I certainly have thoughts about it; I dont know if Ive made a decision about it. On a basic level, putting aquaculture pens in the open ocean with more current and more water [for circulating the waste] certainly seems to make more sense. A few years ago I wrote an article for Conservation Magazine about open-ocean aquaculture and I kind of stressed a somewhat positive vision of it. I ran it by an ocean conservationist and he was just livid that I would even suggest this idea because he argued that if you had tons and tons of sea pens out there, youd essentially change the chemistry of the ocean and it could have large consequences. And I suppose thats true but its also a hypothesis.

If you could irrefutably prove that any addition of aquaculture will result in an offset of wild fish capture then aquaculture wins. But so far we havent been able to prove that. And I dont know that we ever will. So, that to me is the larger question. If we were to add a bunch of open-ocean pens and introduce these additional nitrates and so forth into the offshore environment but it meant taking away thousands of miles of long lines that [inadvertently] catch turtles and other aquatic life, maybe it would be okay to have a few ocean pens. But that hasnt happened yet.

Do you want to talk about the good actorslikeKvary Fiskeoppdrett,the fish farm you visited in the Arctic Circle?

As far as I could see, if youre going to do net pen aquaculture, that is about as good as it could get. For one thing, they have much lower stocking densities than the industrial guys further to the south [of Norway]. They were using lump suckers to eat the sea lice off of the salmon. They create this artificial kelp bed that the lump suckers cling to and the salmon swim in and they get kind of cleaned off like in a car wash. The feed they use has a low fish ratio and its all coming from waste from other fisheries.

So, you know, theyve pushed the model as far as it could go [sustainability-wise]. On the other hand, there are people who say theres a limit to how far that model can go. And thats what drove us to go see Bren Smithsmussel and oyster operation in Connecticut because that is truly different and truly less impactful than salmon farms. But do you want to eat mussels as often as you eat salmon?

Yeah, Ill be really curious to see if Bren can grow his operation in the current market.

Were flesh eaters. As Americans, weve really gotten used to wanting a big chunk of meat-like flesh on our plate and its going to be very hard to change that.

One of my favorite parts of the film was the scene in the fish market, where you talked about what you buy and why. Youre the person I think a lot of us should be going to the fish market with.

Thanks. Maybe Ill start a little side business after my next book is done.

Yeah, you could probably give thousand-dollar tours to women from the Upper East Side. Anything else you want to add about the film?

If folks want to learn more they should read my books, Four Fish and American Catch. Films take you places that you couldnt normally go and show you images that you wouldnt see, but to really ponder things, I still believe in the power of the written word.

This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

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Cutting out certain amino acids the building blocks of proteins from the diet of mice slows tumour growth and prolongs survival, according to new research published in Nature.

Researchers at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute and the University of Glasgow found that removing two non-essential amino acids serine and glycine from the diet of mice slowed the development of lymphoma and intestinal cancer.

The researchers also found that the special diet made some cancer cells more susceptible to chemicals in cells called reactive oxygen species.

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy boost levels of these chemicals in the cells, so this research suggests a specially formulated diet could make conventional cancer treatments more effective.

The next stage would be to set up clinical trials with cancer patients to assess the feasibility and safety of such a treatment.

Dr Oliver Maddocks, a Cancer Research UK scientist at the University of Glasgow, said: Our findings suggest that restricting specific amino acids through a controlled diet plan could be an additional part of treatment for some cancer patients in future, helping to make other treatments more effective.

Professor Karen Vousden, Cancer Research UKs chief scientist and study co-author, said: This kind of restricted diet would be a short term measure and must be carefully controlled and monitored by doctors for safety. Our diet is complex and protein - the main source of all amino acids - is vital for our health and well-being. This means that patients cannot safely cut out these specific amino acids simply by following some form of home-made diet.

Amino acids are the building blocks that cells need to make proteins. While healthy cells are able to make sufficient serine and glycine, cancer cells are much more dependent on getting these vital amino acids from the diet.

However, the study also found that the diet was less effective in tumours with an activated Kras gene, such as most pancreatic cancer, because the faulty gene boosted the ability of the cancer cells to make their own serine and glycine. This could help to select which tumours could be best targeted by diet therapy.

Dr Emma Smith, science communication manager at Cancer Research UK, said: This is a really interesting look at how cutting off the supply of nutrients essential to cancer cell growth and division could help restrain tumours.

The next steps are clinical trials in people to see if giving a specialised diet that lacks these amino acids is safe and helps slow tumour growth as seen in mice. Wed also need to work out which patients are most likely to benefit, depending on the characteristics of their cancer.

Reference

Maddocks, O. D., Athineos, D., Cheung, E. C., Lee, P., Zhang, T., Niels J. F. Van Den Broek, . . . Vousden, K. H. (2017). Modulating the therapeutic response of tumours to dietary serine and glycine starvation. Nature, 544(7650), 372-376. doi:10.1038/nature22056

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Weve all heard of the notorious diet of billionaire investor Warren Buffett. If you havent, apparently Buffetts been a coke man and a burger man for nearly 50 years. Buffett explained, If I eat 2700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola. I drink at least five 12-ounce servings. I do it everyday.

Ill have one at breakfast, he explains, noting that he loves to drink Coke with potato sticks. What brand of potato sticks? I have a can right here, he says. U-T-Z Utz is a Hanover, Pennsylvania-based snack maker. Buffett says that hes talked to Utz management about potentially buying the company.

Investors in Berkshire Hathaway may feel relieved that the CEO isnt addicted to Utz Potato Stix at every breakfast. This morning, I had a bowl of chocolate chip ice cream, Buffett says. Asked to explain the high-sugar, high-salt diet that has somehow enabled him to remain seemingly healthy, Buffett replies: I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old. The octogenarian adds, Its the safest course I can take.

As crazy as Buffetts diet sounds, theres another familiar face who you might be surprised beats out Buffetts odd choices. That man is Alex Trebek: For several years, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebeks breakfast of champions consisted of a Snickers and a Diet Pepsi. After his nutritionist reprimanded his routine, he switched his meals accordingly; he replaced them with Milky Way bars and Diet Cokes.

So now you know that. Isnt that funny?

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Music-streaming company Spotify is looking to debut dedicated hardware, according to a job posting. The "Senior Product Manager" would work on a "category-defining product" akin to the Pebble Watch, Amazon Echo and Snap Spectacles, the posting reportedly reads.

The idea of Spotify-dedicated hardware makes a lot of sense, for more reasons than you might think. In fact, Spotify's already been dipping its toes into wearable and fitness tech.

The Samsung Gear S3 has a Spotify app that streams music and was originally intended to store music locally for offline playback. An updated app for Google's Android Wear platform was also supposed to offer more independent music streaming and downloading options, but hasn't arrived yet. The Android Wear Spotify app is pretty basic, and just acts as a remote. But it shows Spotify has been exploring ideas already.

Pebble Core, the Spotify wearable Pebble never made.

Before Pebble was sold to Fitbit, the smartwatch company was also working on a standalone, GPS-enabled Android device called Pebble Core. Its big feature was supposed to be Spotify, streaming music and also playing back locally stored tracks for workouts. Pebble Core doesn't exist, but the basic idea still could be interesting.

Lifebeam Vi, AI-enabled fitness headphones that already have some Spotify integration.

The Lifebeam Vi, a pair of fitness heart-rate enabled headphones I've been wearing over the last week, connects with Spotify to sync playlists for quick playback during workouts. According to Lifebeam CEO Omri Yoffe, whom I spoke with a couple of weeks ago, the longer-term goal is for Spotify's tracks to match up with your running pace to match your workout's intensity. Spotify could be developing that type of idea -- music that matches your workout -- in a future fitness wearable. It would be a great idea and something that doesn't exist right now.

Consider Amazon Echo and Google Home. They're speakers with music-forward functions that make the most of voice commands.Why not a Spotify-type device, or maybe a pair of AirPod-like headphones that could call up playlists automatically? If Spotify's job listing is looking at voice services, an Echo-alike seems like an obvious direction. But maybe fitness headphones are a good fit, too, if Spotify's able to develop headphones that could locally store music for runs and use a voice interface to interact.

Spotify's job listing mentions Spectacles, but I sincerely hope that doesn't mean music glasses. Instead, it's likely that the idea of a dedicated wearable, tied into one app, is Spotify's hardware goal. Much like Spectacles are a perfect extension of Snap, a Spotify band could be a wearable remote for Spotify's music service. If someone can explain why something for music would be on my eyes, please do.

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Angie Ferguson, Special to The News-Press 9:03 a.m. ET April 24, 2017

Fitness trackers all come with goals that you can strive for on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis. Try setting your steps to 10,000 a day for good health.(Photo: julief514, Getty Images/iStockphoto)

With first quarter earnings behind us, it comes as no surprise that wearable technology continued to top the charts. It is estimated that 1 in 2 Americans has a fitness tracker now. To make sure youre reaping all the benefits and to ensure your tracker is paying the biggest dividends on your investment (time and energy), follow a few basic principles.

First, understand how your device works. Does your fitness tracker tell the time, test your heart rate and give you activity reminders? The first thing you need to know is what kind of accountability, or information you can expect from that little band around your wrist. Its certainly no replacement for a personal trainer but think of it as your fitness buddy that motivates you each time you glance at it. My No. 1 tip for users -READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. We all want to jump in and start playing with any new toy, but by reading the manual you wont miss out on any features.

Fitness: This is your brain on exercise

Next, have a working knowledge about heart rates or at least your own. If your tracker is really smart, it will calculate your heart rate (HR) for you. If not, you need to know how to calculate it yourself. Start by knowing your Maximum HR. This is the number you get when subtracting your age from 220. Next, calculate your training zones. For the best general results, you want to be exercising at 70 percentof your Max HR but not more than 90 percent Max HR. For example, a person who is 45 has a max HR of 175 beats per minute (220 45 = 175). Their ideal training zone is 123-158 beats per minute or Max HR x 70 percentand 90 percent(175 x 70 percent =123, 175 x 90 percent =158). This means our tracker needs to show 123 or higher to be working at an ideal intensity. If your HR reads lower than 122, its time to kick things into high gear!

If you want to see change, you need to set goals. Theres no doubt that if you set a smart goal youll achieve the gains you want sooner than if you just wish it to happen. Fitness trackers all come with goals that you can strive for on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis. Try setting your steps to 10,000 a day for good health. This might mean taking the stairs, getting friendly with the water fountain or printer at your work or even saying yes to a lunchtime walk. Most trackers also track your workouts, active minutes of exercise, sleep, nutrition, weight and even water intake.

Finally, set your tracker to send you reminders. This goes back to our first point of knowing how your device works. Consistency is key, so set your tracker up to give you activity reminders to keep you moving throughout the day. All you need to do is choose how many hours of the day youd like to keep active, and then let your tracker do the rest. By getting regular reminders with motivation and encouragement from your tracker, youll be surprised how much more conscious and aware you become of hitting your goals!

-- Angie Ferguson is an exercise physiologist from Fort Myers. She is a USA Triathlon Advanced Level 2 coach, Ironman Certified coach, Slowtwitch Certified coach, USA Cycling coach and has a Specialty in Sports Nutrition certification. For more training tips, read her blog at http://www.triathlontrainingisfun.com or contact her at http://www.gearedup.biz."

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Jose Mourinho says he's more focused on winning the Europa League title than placing fourth in the Premier League. Jose Mourinho made wholesale changes from their Europa League win against Anderlecht and leave Burnley with a 2-0 victory. With Zlatan Ibrahimovic reportedly out until 2018, Craig Burley and Alejandro Moreno disagree on his future at Man United. Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho believes his team are in trouble with their piling injuries. Zlatan Ibrahimovic has single-handedly carried Man United in goal production, but who steps up in his absence?

Manchester United will monitor Ander Herrera's fitness ahead of the Manchester derby this week, sources have told ESPN FC.

Herrera played 90 minutes as United beat Burnley 2-0 at Turf Moor on Sunday, but he was left hobbling by the end of the game after taking a heavy knock on his ankle.

The midfielder is set to be assessed on Monday, although United are hopeful he will be able to shake off the problem in time to face Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on Thursday.

Manager Jose Mourinho is facing an injury crisis ahead of a game that could see United leapfrog Pep Guardiola's team in the race for a top-four finish.

He will be without Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Marcos Rojo, who both suffered knee ligament damage against Anderlecht last week.

Juan Mata is another long-term absentee with a groin problem, while Chris Smalling and Phil Jones are doubts after missing the last seven games with knee and toe problems, respectively.

However, Mourinho has encouraged the pair to play to ease the burden on Eric Bailly and Daley Blind, his only two fit senior centre-backs.

"If I was Smalling or Jones, I would play Thursday, with anything, I would," Mourinho said after the game. "I wouldn't accept one guy to play nine matches in a row because I am injured. I would do a last push.

"If they have a crazy mentality like I have, they would [play on Thursday]. If they are safe thinking and they are surrounded by people with the same mentality they have, it is more time, more cautious. If it was me, nobody would stop me to play."

United are also sweating on the fitness of Paul Pogba.

The midfielder was forced off in the final minute at Turf Moor and Mourinho said afterwards he is unsure whether the midfielder will be ready to face City.

"I don't know," he said. "Dead he is for sure. If he's injured or if it's just the super accumulation of fatigue in the muscles, I don't know.

"But as I was saying, if he cannot play Thursday he cannot play Thursday. We play another one and we don't cry, like we didn't today."

Victory for United at the Etihad Stadium would lift them two points above City with five games remaining.

A fourth Premier League win in a row would also see United join third-placed Liverpool on 66 points.

Jurgen Klopp's side, who lost to Crystal Palace at Anfield on Sunday, do not play again until Monday when they visit Watford.

Rob is ESPN FC's Manchester United correspondent. Follow him on Twitter @RobDawsonESPN.

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