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Incredible video from the original inside man Kraze from industrymuscle.com.

By: Maureen Morrison – Bowing to increasing pressure from groups fighting against childhood (and adult) obesity, McDonald’s today announced menu modifications meant to help the chain’s nutritional profile, especially for the Happy Meal.

The new Happy Meal, which McDonald’s will begin rolling out in September, will automatically include both produce (a quarter cup of apple slices) and a new smaller size french fries (1.1 ounces) along with the choice of a hamburger, cheeseburger or Chicken McNuggets, and choice of beverage, including fat-free chocolate milk and 1% low-fat milk. The chain aims to have the new Happy Meals available in all 14,000 U.S. restaurants during first quarter 2012.

In lieu of fries, customers can get two bags of apple slices. McDonald’s began offering apple slices, then known as Apple Dippers because of a caramel sauce that accompanied the fruit, but in the new version of the Happy Meal, the caramel sauce will not be offered.
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Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.

Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side effects or about their long term effects.

This drug doesn’t require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies.

Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone. It was tested on Rats inflicted with severe tumors; their cells shrank when they were fed with water supplemented with DCA. The drug is widely available and the technique is easy to use, why the major drug companies are not involved? Or the Media interested in this find?

In human bodies there is a natural cancer fighting human cell, the mitochondria, but they need to be triggered to be effective. Scientists used to think that these mitochondria cells were damaged and thus ineffective against cancer. So they used to focus on glycolysis, which is less effective in curing cancer and more wasteful. The drug manufacturers focused on this glycolysis method to fight cancer. This DCA on the other hand doesn’t rely on glycolysis instead on mitochondria; it triggers the mitochondria which in turn fights the cancer cells. (more…)

Via the NY Daily News – Fat Joe may need a new nickname after undergoing a serious slimdown in the last nine months.

The “Lean Back” rapper has sliced 88 pounds off his 6-foot-2, 350-pound frame – without popping a pill or jumping on a fad-diet bandwagon. He took his battling skills from the stage to the scale after he lost seven friends in their 30s to heart attacks last year. “What’s the difference between me and them? Health doesn’t discriminate just because I’m famous,” the plus-sized South Bronx native said yesterday.

He ditched half-chickens and pasta plates for six small daily meals of fruit, veggies, whole grains and lean meats. The pounds started to drop after he combined two-hour cardio and weight-lifting sweat sessions with a trainer. “I was always LL Cool J in a fat guy’s body,” cracked the “What’s Luv” rapper, who once topped the scales at 425 pounds but now hovers in the 265-pound range.

The first peek at his new physique came Tuesday when his new music video, “Drop a Body,” went live on Worldstarhiphop.com, stirring buzz in the blogosphere. If it weren’t for his notoriously powerful voice, the slimmed-down don would be virtually unrecognizable in the video.

“They’re all trying to alter my name, but I can’t see myself as anything else,” he said, referring to friends who started calling him “Skinny Joe” and “Joey Flaco” (Spanish for “thin”). “I think I gotta ask Diddy what my new name is.” Vanity didn’t factor into getting skinnier, he said, but his health and his 5-year-old daughter Azaryah did.

“I can’t leave my daughter behind,” he said. “I want to be here for her; I don’t want to die on her.” The hip-hop heavyweight lost significant pounds in years past, but it always piled back on because he “wasn’t focused.” “I’m addicted to food; I love food,” said Fat Joe, whose real name is Joe Cartagena. “It’s like a crack addict – he hits rock bottom and he says, ‘All right, forget it. I’m not going to get high anymore.’”

Dwight Howard does 500 push ups per day… So guys, you need to get it together, 500 push ups is not that much.

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A bite of dessert, come on Jillian. And they say Kevin Trudeau can’t talk about his books… He was right the whole time.