Month: May 2021

Two years ago, I lost more than 120 pounds in about a year by following the keto diet and going to the gym five to six days a week.  With the ketogenic diet , I cut carbohydrates dramatically and relied on higher-fat options to feel satiated. Paired with my intense cardio workouts, keto helped me lose weight fast. But my attitude toward the diet has changed, and I won't be following it again as I try to shed pounds after gaining nearly half of the weight I lost back in the past ye...

Real Water sold in jugs. The lead water technician for Real Water—a Las Vegas-based company that produces “alkalized” bottled water now linked to liver failure cases—testified that he had no relevant experience to be a water technician when he was promoted to the position last August. Real Water’s lead technician, Casey Aiken, 40, is a former vacuum and timeshare salesman who began working for Real Water last June after losing his job as a strip club promoter. According to a taped deposition from late March that was obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Aiken was promoted from his job of loading bottled water onto shipping pallets to the company’s lead technician after “a couple hours” of training. In late November, just a few months after A...

The United States is unlikely to reach herd immunity as more contagious COVID-19 variants spread and many Americans remain reluctant to get vaccinated, experts now believe. Instead, the virus — which has killed more than 577,000 nationwide — will only become more manageable, scientists said. “The virus is unlikely to go away,” Rustom Antia, an evolutionary biologist at Emory University in Atlanta, told the New York Times. “But we want to do all we can to check that it’s likely to become a mild infection.” Currently, just under half of Americans have received one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and about a third are fully vaccinated, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Eradication is, I think, impossible...

Public health experts and scientists say they do not believe herd immunity is attainable for the near future due to dropping COVID-19 vaccination rates, The New York Times reports. According to the experts who spoke with the Times, the coronavirus will more likely become a constant but manageable threat in the U.S. for several more years. New COVID-19 strains are also reportedly developing too quickly for herd immunity to be reasonably expected. “The virus is unlikely to go away,” Emory University evolutionary biologist Rustom Antia told the newspaper. “But we want to do all we can to check that it’s likely to become a mild infection.” Anthony FauciAnthony FauciExperts say that herd immunity is unlikely soon, if ever The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Emergent BioSolution...

The word often carried a modifier, like so: increased risk, residual risk, low risk, potential risk, minimal risk, higher risk. The CDC did not define “low,” “minimal” or “higher,” instead using broad brushstrokes to paint a picture of post-vaccination life.