Healthy Eating Tips for You: A Weight Loss Plan Based on Nuts ...

Having a healthy lifestyle has become an issue of today, because of the fact that people eat a lot of fast food. This is not because they can?t cook for themselves, but the life they have makes many demands on them so time is something that is in short supply. The problems, the worries, the stress, the people in their lives, all of these things have an influence on the body. That?s one of the reasons why a person should take serious care of his body in order to keep it functioning properly.

The idea of having a healthy lifestyle and losing weight you have gained by eating fast foods can easily be combined with a great food plan based on nuts. It might seem a little bit confusing, but this technique has helped others with weight loss, and it can easily help you as well. How does it work?

First, you need to understand why nuts are important for your body and how you can easily improve the way you eat. Basically, nuts have a great deal of vitamin E, magnesium, protein and fiber. They?re also rich in antioxidant phytochemicals. But don?t get lost in the medical terms; try to understand that nuts have nutrition that you need and can easily get by eating just a few ounces of them on a day.

Another aspect is related to the idea of not changing your diet. The basic principle of the nut plan is simple: you keep your own way of eating, except that fast food should be reduced, and you eat several ounces of nuts on a weekly basis. You can add them to a meal, or you can eat them separately, but the idea here is to get their nutrition into your body.

A little piece of advice here is to pay attention to the amount of nuts that you eat. They are healthy and beneficial, but consumed in excess, they can cause some serious trouble. If you really want to lose weight in a natural way, don?t push the limit, just because you want to lose weight faster. Eating too many nuts can cause you to gain weight, just as fast food can.

Lastly, you can focus on having nuts in various ways. You can put them in a salad, you can use them to bake a pie, and you can easily serve them as snacks. You need to be as creative as you can be in order to incorporate them in your daily meals and receive the benefit of their nutrition.

To conclude, losing weight can easily be done with the right information. Some people have done it through hard work and training; others know what to eat and when to eat it. It?s not a golden rule, but the nut diet has proven to be effective in the past and it can be effective for you.

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Jack Cahn: Mayor Bloomberg Needs to Apologize to City Employees

This week, Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on New York City. Schools closed for an entire week -- unheard of in New York City history. The New York Stock Exchange closed for two consecutive days due to weather -- for the first time in over 100 years. The death toll as of November 1, 2012 was 44 lives, and many more injured. Millions of New Yorkers were without power for much of the week, with a video of the explosion of a power generator in lower Manhattan going viral within minutes. Between 80-100 homes were destroyed by the storm, with many more flooded for days. Meanwhile, the New York City subway system was paralyzed on Monday and Tuesday, and access remains limited at the time of this article's writing. Lower Manhattan (Zone A) after being evacuated Monday, continues to have no subway access. The Federal Government was closed on Monday and Tuesday. Amtrak too was closed and trains canceled. It was "a devastating storm, maybe the worst that we have ever experienced," said Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

On Monday, Bloomberg announced: "The storm is here and will be here ... well into tomorrow...Now you should concentrate on keeping yourselves and your family safe to the extent possible." The Office of Emergency Management urged: "Stay indoors, stay away from windows and avoid unnecessary travel, either on foot or by vehicle. If you must go out, make sure all windows are closed and locked and all water faucets are turned off."

Everyone was instructed to be safe and take necessary precautions -- except New York City employees. In an email sent by Chancellor Denis Walcott to administrative staff on Sunday, October 28, he wrote:

"In accordance with city policy, city government is open and all employees who work in central and field offices are expected to try to overcome transportation difficulties caused by the storm and report to work. This includes teachers assigned, Supervisors, Educational Administrators, managers and all other staff working in central and field offices."

This was a very casual email sent during a hectic period of time. It's so outrageous, that seeing it after the fact can't even come close to explaining the audacity and hypocrisy of Mayor Bloomberg and the senior staff of the Department of Education. Let me put it in perspective:

While millions of New Yorkers sat in dark apartments, some without water, heard a power plant exploding nearby, and watched fires destroy close to 100 homes, others were expected to leave their children and loved ones in order to go to work.

Were these first responders, fire fighters, or cops? No, they were members of the New York City's administrative staff (lawyers, social workers, clerical workers, and others).

How could they get to work?

Their options were quite simple. Ride a bike through a hurricane (yes, there were 75 mile-per-hour winds and pouring rain), walk to work (because three hours in the pouring rain is a safe bet), or hitchhike. Any idiot needed only to look out of his window to realize how ridiculous a task this was - not to mention how unsafe any of the available options were.

Just as Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Cuomo, and the Office of Emergency Management were advising people to stay off the streets, avoid transportation, and be cautious, they were sending their own employees to work. Talk about double standards.

What was the penalty for choosing to avoid putting oneself in harm's way by walking to work during a hurricane?

Employees were told that their absence would be counted as personal leave days. I read this as: "You'd better show up to work, and if you don't, we'll mark you absent." An entire city is shut down because of a storm that the Mayor himself describes as one of the worst in the city's history, and employees are penalized for not putting themselves in danger. This is an outrage.

To redress this, Mayor Bloomberg must take three steps.

First, he ought to issue a formal apology to all City employees who were unnecessarily forced either go to work, or use their personal leave days, on Monday and Tuesday. Second, he ought to compensate those who did attend work by paying them for overtime. Finally, he should return the personal leave days to those who chose to stay at home.

Mayor Bloomberg has had a very tough week, and mistakes are a part of the process. The real test, however, is whether he can recognize his mistakes, take responsibility for them, and address them.

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Windows RT a space hog on tablets compared to iOS, Android

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Early adopters of?Microsoft's new Surface RT?devices are getting an unpleasant surprise on first boot: Only half of the advertised 32GB of storage space is actually available for them to use. There's a perfectly good explanation, but it's still a potential PR problem for the fledgling platform.

Microsoft is not hiding the information; far from it, there is an official FAQ that explains how much space you have on your Surface device and why so much of it is not available for music, movies, and so on. Regardless of Microsoft's candor, however, many customers will be disappointed. Here's how the storage breaks down on the 32GB version of both the Surface and the?iPad.

The solid-state disk inside a?Surface RT or iPad?has space for?32 gigabytes of data,?but due to the difference in the way computers calculate space (in multiples of 1,024)?versus how humans do (in multiples of 1,000), that 32 gigs translates to?about?29.5GB. (There's even a special name for these big gigs ? "gibibytes" ? though few people actually call?them that.)

Yes, it's confusing and a little frustrating, but at least it's the same across platforms. PCs, Macs, iPhones and Android devices all work in binary, so the drop from?32GB to 29.5GB?will be the same regardless of device.

The difference is what goes onto the disk after that. iOS and Android (with basic apps like mail, calendars, and so on)?both weigh in at less than two gigabytes, meaning that storage starting at 29.5GB still has around?27.5GB or so to fill up with apps and media.

Windows 8 RT and its built-in apps, on the other hand, tip the scales at a comparatively massive 8GB, more than?four times the size of iOS or Android. On top of that, 5GB is reserved by the system for recovery purposes ? backups of the system registry and the like.?The result is that, from the 32GB advertised on the box, just 16 actual gigabytes are ready to be used for your own purposes.

Microsoft will point out, rightly, that this is because Windows is a full-on PC operating system, not a mobile one. It's ready to have accessories plugged in, printers connected, desktop-class?software installed, and can do many other things that iOS and Android don't even attempt (though, as we said in our Surface RT?review, this complexity to be more confusing than?beneficial).

Furthermore, Surface devices have a built-in MicroSD card slot, meaning you can add up to 64GB of storage on your own, though it can be costly and SD storage is not nearly as fast as the onboard drive.

But considering that Windows RT is a somewhat limited version of the new OS and the Surface RT is intended to be a budget to?mid-range device, many of?Microsoft's customers may not be very happy with this trade-off.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC?News Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.

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Panasonic launches tweaked AG-AF105A MFT pro camcorder with 10-bit HD video

Panasonic has just launched the AG-AF105A pro camcorder, an updated version of the AG-AF105 model, and for lovers of fine color gamut, there's good news. You can now output 10-bit HD video through the live view SDI port to an external recorder, boosting the color range to a billion hues and 1024 shades of grey. That addresses one of the main gripes with the previous $6k, 8-bit camcorder: it had to live in a world of Red Scarlets and Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera MFTs, which already have deep color. The revised model also brings a new PS recording mode with 25Mbps data rate, full HD progressive modes (1080/60p, 1080/50p), higher fidelity 16 bit LPCM audio and enlarged focus assist. It'll hit shelves on November 15th in Japan (there's no mention of an international date yet) with pricing up to the dealer, so sharpen up those haggling skills if you want one.

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"Wreck-It Ralph" hammers box office, sails over "Flight"

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Wreck-It Ralph," Disney's animated film about a videogame character who destroys everything in his path, scored the highest-grossing opening weekend in Disney animation history with $49.1 million, as box office attendance picked up in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy.

The tally for "Wreck-It Ralph," which features the voices of John C. Reilly and Jane Lynch, hammered the Denzel Washington film "Flight," which generated ticket sales of $25 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday.

After a quiet box office last weekend with the U.S. East Coast preparing for superstorm Sandy, there was a jump in movie attendance this week in areas hit by the storm.

Dave Hollis, executive vice president of film distribution at Walt Disney Studios, told Reuters that movie attendance in affected areas was "very healthy," boosted by school closures on Friday, which saw a bounce in matinee showings.

"In a nice way, 'Wreck-It Ralph,' in areas affected by the storm, ended up actually becoming an opportunity to relieve yourself from the reality that might be going on around you, we saw the theater business around areas affected by the storm very healthy," Hollis said.

"The storm and its impact - I don't know if it was a function of cabin fever or just escaping by getting into a movie theater, but there was definitely a gravitating-towards-the- theater phenomenon."

Disney had developed "Wreck-It Ralph" for more than a decade and spent an estimated $165 million to produce the film, which featured cameo appearances by a Pac-Man ghost and Mentos candy.

The film was produced by the same team behind Disney's animated film "Tangled," which earned the previous highest opening weekend gross with $48.8 million in 2010. "Wreck-It Ralph" was forecast to generate sales in the mid-$40 million range, according to Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box office division of Hollywood.com.

New release "Flight," in which Washington stars as an airline captain who saves his plane from crashing but is accused of drinking before the flight, beat industry analysts' $13 million forecast. The film, produced by Viacom's Paramount Pictures unit, was made on a $31 million budget.

STORM BOOST

Unlike "Wreck-It Ralph," "Flight" did not experience the same benefit from school closures in parts of the East Coast, according to Don Harris, president of distribution at Paramount Pictures.

"The Disney movie would benefit from school being out in a large number of big urban and suburban eastern markets, they were always going to have a very good opening, I think they got a little help on Friday," Harris told Reuters.

He also said that the target adult audience for "Flight" would have probably been occupied with Tuesday's presidential election and being "more active in helping people in their neighborhood" in the aftermath of Sandy, and not necessarily attending theaters this weekend.

"We did about what we expected to do but we certainly didn't get a bump. I don't think it hurt us very much either," Harris said.

Critically acclaimed Iran hostage thriller "Argo," last week's box office leader, came in third this weekend after generating $10.2 million in sales.

Directed by and starring Ben Affleck, "Argo," produced by Warner Bros. and GK Films for $44 million, is based on the true story of a mission to rescue U.S. government employees held hostage in Iran in 1979. It has totaled $75.9 million in three weeks at movie theaters and earned Oscar buzz after stellar reviews from critics.

New release "The Man With The Iron Fists" was unable to beat "Argo's" momentum this weekend and came in fourth with ticket sales of $8.2 million.

Starring Russell Crowe and hip hop artist RZA, the film, produced on a budget of $15 million, follows a blacksmith in 19th-century China trying to defend his village from warriors and assassins searching for gold.

In fifth place, "Taken 2," an action-thriller starring Liam Neeson as a former spy who is kidnapped in Istanbul, earned $6 million this weekend. It has generated a total of $125.7 million at the U.S. and Canadian box office since its release last month.

Overseas, the new James Bond film, "Skyfall," enjoyed a stellar second weekend, earning $156 million in ticket sales at the international box office. The film will be released in North American theaters on November 9.

Walt Disney Co released "Wreck-It Ralph." "Flight" was distributed by Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc. Warner Bros., a division of Time Warner Inc, distributed "Argo." Universal Studios released "Man with the Iron Fists." "Taken 2" was released by 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp.

(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy and Ronald Grover; Editing by Eric Beech)

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Fall back: The science of daylight saving time

If colorful leaves and the occasional snowstorm weren't a sign that summer has slipped away, daylight saving time officially ends this Sunday.

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At 2:00 a.m. that day, the clocks will "fall back" an hour, meaning brighter mornings but darker evenings for most Americans. (Hawaii and Arizona don't participate in this annual ritual.)

Daylight saving time was first suggested by Ben Franklin, who seemed to mean it as a joke. He wrote in 1784 that Parisians' night-owl ways could perhaps be cured by forcing them to live by the sun's light. (Franklin suggested that cannons at sunrise might do the trick.)

But no one put daylight saving into place until World War I, when Germany instituted the biannual time change to save fuel for the war effort. Britain soon did the same. In 1918, when the United States joined the war, daylight saving time soon followed. After the war ended, however, Congress got rid of the time change. Farmers hated it, because they had to do their jobs by the sun no matter the time on the clock. When Woodrow Wilson tried to defend daylight saving time, Congress actually went over his head, overriding his veto of their repeal.

Getting everyone on the same page
So how is it that we're dutifully turning our clocks forward and back these days? World War II. Again, American officials instituted daylight saving time to save energy for the war. But post-World War II, the United States was less rural than post-World War I. This time around, people supported keeping daylight savings so they could enjoy the summer sun after working hours.

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For a few years, the country fell into chaos. Some towns kept daylight savings, while others ditched it. According to David Prerau, author of " Seize the Daylight : The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time" (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005), One 35-mile (56-kilometer) bus ride from Moundsville, W.Va., to Steubenville, Ohio, took riders through no less than seven different time changes.

So in 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, stipulating that while states were not required to implement daylight saving time, they had to chose ? no more patchwork time zones. The federal government also took on the responsibility of choosing the "spring forward" and "fall back" days for changing clocks.

Today's daylight savings
At first, daylight saving took up much less of the year than it does today. But Congress expanded the length of the daylight saving period in the 1970s and 1980s, and finally lengthened it all the way from March to November in 2007.

Daylight saving time has its advantages, such as more post-work daylight in the summer. But the switch can be tough on the body clock. The hour shift can interfere with sleep, especially for night owls, according to a 2007 study in the journal BMC Biology. A 2008 study published in the journal BMC Physiology suggest that people who like to burn the midnight oil have the most trouble shifting forward in the spring, while early risers struggle to "fall back" in autumn.

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