Over the years, nutritionists have been suggesting several methods for people to lose weight effectively. But as we know, it depends on various factors including genetics, our physical and physiological composition, and different bodily responses.

Recently, researchers say that there are certain foods that prove to be effective in helping us lose weight or burn fat. But, one caveat to this is that simply eating these types of food won't be the only thing you need to do to get a slimmer figure. In any case, these foods can help induce weight loss.

The answer, it turns out, may be a diet constructed from healthy foods that are especially satiating; that is, foods that create feelings of fullness and satisfaction. Nutrition researchers have discovered many such foods, which improve appetite control and decrease food intake, conditions necessary for sustained weight loss.

A satiating diet includes foods that are high in protein (such as fish),; high in fiber (whole grains, for example) and high in fruits and vegetables. It contains healthy fats, such as the polyunsaturated fats found in avocados, and includes dairy products such as yogurt. Perhaps surprisingly, it might also include capsaicin, the substance that makes jalapenos and other peppers so hot.

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Antibiotics have saved thousands of lives ever since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. However, due to human negligence and big pharmaceutical companies' mismanagement of their resources and waste, these drugs that save lives are coming back to bite us.

In an ironic twist, because of wastes leaking out from drug manufacturers among other things, the world's rivers are being contaminated with antibiotic waste, at alarming levels.

A new study, presented on May 27 at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry conference in Finland, revealed that hundreds of other rivers are also contaminated with antibiotics, often at unsafe levels.

In total, researchers found antibiotics at more than 450 testing sites across 72 countries—65% of the 711 sites tested. Some 111 of the sites with antibiotics had unsafe levels, and the most concerning locations were in Asia and Africa.

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Logan of Cedartown, Georgia has hypotonia, a muscular disorder. It's very difficult for him to walk. His family's medical insurance doesn't cover a walker, so they decided to build one of their own. They went to their local Home Depot hardware store for the necessary components. When the employees there heard what the family was trying to do, they leaped into action. 5 News reports:

“My store manager heard about this and we went over to them looked at their plans and said we got this so we started putting it together told the family to go and enjoy ice cream and come back in a hour,” Jeffrey Anderson said. “Other associates started jumping in and when the family came back it was done.”

In no time, the boy was wheeling around the store with a huge smile on his face.

“Everyone was crying to see Logan walk around with the biggest smile on his face and when the family tried to pay us we said, ‘No way this one is on us,'” Anderson said.

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Artist Ben Fearnley understands.

Not every emergency requires a fire extinguisher, a first aid kit, or a fire axe. But that doesn't make your problem anything less than an emergency. So he designed safety equipment that people need to cope with the challenges of daily life, including donuts, pizza, and wine. You can see more photos at Behance.

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Redditor F_o_i_e_B_u_m_p has found a great use for all those old cathode ray tube TV sets that take up so much room. He gets them from a recycling center and adds action figures to recreate scenes from movies! Above is his rendition of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

His future plans are to recreate scenes in television sets for Evil Dead, and possibly Poltergeist and The Ring, which might require some "thinking outside the box." -via reddit

Update: Forget all the above. The images were appropriated and misrepresented. The artist is actually Rickey Williams, who sells these pieces. Check out many more of his dioramas at Instagram. -Thanks, 10Questions!

This guy is epic lol pic.twitter.com/kMLZJes2tj

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This guy has some skills. Unfortunately, they are not the type of skills you could use to make a living. I came up with that line before I found out that indeed, he makes a living doing this sort of thing. This is Jiemba Sands, a member of the Sands Family Circus. He has been performing with his parents and siblings in Tasmania since he was three years old! See more of his stunts at Instagram and at YouTube. -via Nag on the Lake

Sophia, Blanche, Rose, and Dorothy thank you for being a friend and invite you to commiserate over a slice of cheesecake, which was the greatest character on The Golden Girls. Bookmansaz snapped these five cosplayers at Phoenix Fan Fusion.

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It's like the arcade game, only at a much larger size. Human players are strapped onto poles inside a 16 by 40 foot fenced-in field. Do your best to kick the soccer ball into the goal.

This setup is part of Velocity Karts, an entertainment facility in Christchurch, New Zealand. Owner Ian Brown got the idea last year when the suggestion popped into his Facebook feed. He suggests it as a team building exercise for employers.

I claim Miss Cellania as my team's goalie.

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The theorbo is a lute with a second, very long neck. The second set of strings permit it to play low notes. That requires a lot of space, thus making the instrument 6 feet long. Italian musicians built this extraordinary instrument in the 16th Century to accompany operas.

In this video, professional lutist Elizabeth Kenny teaches about the theorbo and performs a variety of Baroque pieces on it. She also describes the challenges of travel with it on the London Underground.

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#軽い気持ちで描いたら思った以上に反響があった絵
美味しそうな肉を描きたかったというただそれだけ。 pic.twitter.com/zF7oznKqm4

— 斉藤幸延@Yoshinobu Saito (@yonyon76) February 6, 2018

Looks delicious, right?

Unfortunately, that hot steaming steak isn't real. It's an ultra-realistic painting by Japanese artist Yoshinobu Saito.

There are thousands of paths famed for their natural and breathtaking views, but not many of these paths are unique. Walk through the most beautiful and unique paths from around the world.

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Those kids are having so much fun... you could be tempted to join them. Yeah, climb that ladder, crawl through the playhouse, plant your butt in that child swing. Maybe you'll fit, maybe not. Those apparatuses are designed for small children.  

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You might get lucky and meet some really nice firefighters, but also know that they will tell stories about you for years to come. See a ranked gallery of 30 people who got stuck using children's playground equipment at Bored Panda.

Scientists studying the ecology of the Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China found a curious shot when they checked a camera trap in April. It was a juvenile giant panda, estimated to be between a year and two years of age. But this panda had no black fur! Even its claws are white. More scrutiny revealed that the animal is an albino, and has the distinctive pinkish eyes that confirm the condition.

Because albinism is a hereditary condition—it comes from a recessive gene—there’s “a ‘whitening’ mutant gene in the giant panda population in Wolong,” as noted in the Sichuan press release. As the Wolong conservationists pointed out, should this panda grow to maturity and mate with another albino with the same mutated gene, it could result in yet another albino giant panda, or further propagation of the albino gene at the very least. The conservationists are planning to step up their monitoring of the area to learn more about this possibility, and to study other animals in the region.

Read more about the discovery at Gizmodo.

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The Siege of Ostend, Belgium, year 1601. After the bloody battle that happened, Dutch surgeons traversed the battlefield and came out of the place with “bags full of human fat.” It was presumed that they used it to treat the wounds of their own soldiers.

Let’s go back to 1543. Andreas Vesalius, a 16th century physician, ordered anatomists that boil skeletons to collect the layer of fat “for the benefit of the masses, who ascribe to it a considerable efficacy in obliterating scars and fostering the growth of nerves and tendons.”

Vesalius knew what he was talking about. At the time, human fat was widely considered—and not just by “the masses”—to be efficacious in healing wounds, and was typically harvested from the recently deceased.

The claim that human fat can heal wounds is not that far-fetched — it has some scientific basis, after all. The pre-modern people just did not see that scientific reason, and went for a superficial one.

What was it about human fat that made it so sought-after? And what was so special about the fat of slain criminals in particular? The practice no doubt echoes the Catholic cult of holy relics, whereby saints were considered to be fully present in their bodies after death, as well as in the objects they touched. Yet this mystical appreciation explains only so much, and most executed criminals were no saints. Rather, the use of fat for medical purposes was perceived as a natural practice rather than a magical one, and thus was based on assumptions about the physical properties of the substance itself. Despite the apparent obsolescence of many of these beliefs, the claim that fat could heal wounds was not entirely misguided. Physicians today know that adipose tissue is highly “angiogenic,” meaning that it promotes the growth of new blood vessels from preexisting ones.

The use of human fat would then be a common medical practice for quite some time, and there would also be a thriving trade for it.

More details about the history of this medicine at The Atlantic.

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Auralnauts gets into the act of re-editing the original Star Wars film to bring it more in line with what we now know about the story. They convince us step-by-step of the utter futility of such projects. The weirdness builds up to a ludicrously overlong light saber battle as the climax, and then feeds us a couple of perfect punch lines. Auralnauts says,

The fix everything ship has sailed. We're on it and there are no lifeboats. It's a one way trip and we have the power of hindsight and a better understanding of the material than the original creators. Featuring the incredible Jesse Gomez as Vader!

In addition to the surreal dialogue, you also have to admit that Jesse Gomez does a phenomenal James earl Jones impression. -via Digg