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Posted: July 7, 2017 at 4:42 pm
Donald Trump, the president of the United States, is not regarded as a man of great discipline. He has said, infamously, how he can't help but "just start kissing" beautiful women. He tweets early in the morning, seemingly impulsively, often directly in response to cable television and oftento the chagrin of his staff. The president also can't stop drinking Diet Coke, which he called "garbage" while firing off a series of tweets about the beverage in 2012. At the G20 summit on Thursday, a bottleof his favorite soda spotted tucked against the side of Trump's chair.
Trump is someone for whom physical appearance matters a great deal, so it would stand to reason that if Diet Coke is "garbage," hemight cease consuming it in order to avoid becoming overweight. The president can't seem to help himself, though, and it's possibly because he is dubious that soda is as bad for a person's health as experts say it is.Let's venture back to 2012, when Trump very publicly wrestled with the idea of how something labeled "diet" might not result in weight loss.
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On October 12, Trump made an observation:
Three days later, he asked a question based on this observation:
After a day's consideration, Trump seemed to have acknowledged that Diet Coke does not "work."
Based on his findings, Trump resolved to continue drinking diet soda.
Nearly a week later, the issue still weighed on Trump's mind. After six days of consideration, he was able to work out that Diet Coke not only doesn't help you lose weight, it encourages you to eat more.
I once again feel obligated to remind you that this man is now the president of the United States.
This concluded what is essentially Trump's version of the scientific method. There was an observation (look at that fat man with a Diet Coke in his hand), a question (maybe Diet Coke is what made that man fat?), research (looking at Twitter replies), a hypothesis (Diet Coke does't "work"), an experiment (continue to drink Diet Coke), an affirmation of the hypothesis (I have not lost weight after continuing to drink Diet Coke), a conclusion (Diet Coke actually makes you hungry!) and a report of his findings (tweets).
Executing this process also appears to representthe closest Trump has come to engaging with the idea of "science," which he has developed a reputation for shunning even on its most basic levels. In May. it was revealed that the president does not believe exercise is good for a person's health, and that humans are born with a finite amount of energy that working out only depletes. Considering this position, as well as his fast food-heavy diet, Trump's ability to come to the conclusion that soda is not healthy should be worthy of commendation.
If he wasn't the healthiest president to ever take office, Trump's persistence inguzzling the vile garbage soda might be cause for concern. But according to this man, Trump is the healthiest president ever, and if he's been drinking Diet Coke his whole life, why wouldn't he continue to let that sweet, sugar-brown liquid flow?So much does Trump love his Diet Coke that he even had a button installed in the Oval Office so he can have it delivered to him at a moment's notice.
In April, Slate compiled a few of the times thepresident's emergency Coke button has been mentioned in the press.
From Financial Times:
Sitting across from Donald Trump in the Oval Office, my eyes are drawn to a little red button on a box that sits on his desk. This isnt the nuclear button, is it? I joke, pointing. No, no, everyone thinks it is, Trump says on cue, before leaning over and pressing it to order some Cokes. Everyone does get a little nervous when I press that button.
From the Associated Press:
A man accustomed to wealth and its trappings, Trump has embraced life in the Executive Mansion, often regaling guests with trivia about the historic decor. With the push of a red button placed on the Resolute Desk that presidents have used for decades, a White House butler soon arrived with a Coke for the president.
From Reuters:
Trump, sipping a Coke delivered by an aide after the president ordered it by pressing a button on his desk, appeared to rebuff an overture from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, who told Reuters a direct phone call with Trump could take place again after their first conversation in early December angered Beijing.
Once more for good measure, I will remind you that this man is the president of the United States.
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Posted: July 7, 2017 at 4:42 pm
By Cara Rosenbloom By Cara Rosenbloom July 6
In the diet world, a new buzzword is emerging: lectins. Have you heard of lectins? Ten years ago, you probably hadnt heard of gluten, either. Going lectin-free is primed to become the next big thing in dieting, but this diet seems more fad than fact.
Lectins are a type of protein found in many foods including grains and beans. As isolated compounds, they have been researched for many years and can have positive and negative health effects. While some lectins are highly toxic, others are benign.
The problem is that online health gurus are painting all lectins with the same brush, and playing up the negative effects without the evidence to back it up. Saying all lectins are poison is akin to saying that you shouldnt eat button mushrooms because some foraged mushrooms are toxic. It makes no sense.
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What the online rhetoric doesnt mention is that North Americans actually dont ingest a lot of lectins, so the problems they cite linking lectins to obesity, irritable bowel syndrome and inflammation may be way overblown. Before you fall for any pseudo-advice, here are the facts.
Lectins 101
Theres more than one type of lectin, and different ones can do different things. Scientists are still trying to map out all of the lectins and what they are capable of. And unlike handy lists of how much iron or vitamin C is found in certain foods, there arent easy-to-access lists of the amount of lectins in food, and what each one does.
Without getting too technical, lectins help cells stick together. Research shows that lectins may have some benefits they are antimicrobial, help the immune system and have anti-cancer potential. But the same stickiness also makes them act as anti-nutrients, which hinder the bodys absorption of certain vitamins. High intake of lectins may damage the lining of the intestine, which lets proteins cross into the bloodstream undigested. This could cause an allergic reaction or increase risk of developing autoimmune diseases.
Its critical to note that the majority of lectin studies have been done with isolated lectins, not actual foods, and have been conducted in test tubes or in animals, not in people. So how can these online health gurus conclusively link lectin-containing foods to certain health issues when clinical trials in humans have not even been conducted yet?
Many rely on what we know for sure: Some lectins are toxic. But no one eats those ! For example, lectins in raw or undercooked kidney beans can cause symptoms that mimic food poisoning, such as vomiting and diarrhea. But that doesnt mean no one should eat any beans it just means we cant eat raw kidney beans.
Cook your beans
Have you ever crunched into a raw kidney bean? I didnt think so. Hard as rocks, all beans and lentils would be inedible in their raw form. Boiling beans for 30 minutes eradicates most, if not all, of the lectins. Note that soaking beans overnight does not remove enough lectin, and dont rely on slow cookers when cooking beans from scratch the machine doesnt get hot enough to destroy lectins. Prepared properly, beans have low lectin levels and are safe to eat.
Grains can also be boiled to reduce lectin content. Think about quinoa, rice and barley boiled first, then eaten, right? Fermenting and sprouting foods can also help reduce lectin content. Friendly bacteria in the fermentation process digests the anti-nutrients, and can reduce lectins by up to 95 percent.
Its a fad
Articles that promote the lectin-free diet cite it as a miraculous cure-all for arthritis, multiple sclerosis and even cancer. Thats the first sign its a fad overblown promises of astonishing health benefits before any clinical proof exists.
The next sign of a fad is a long list of foods to eliminate. Whats not allowed on the lectin-free diet? Whole grains, beans, peas, lentils, nuts, seeds, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, dairy, eggs and fruit theyre all out. Thats pretty much my entire grocery list. Obviously this diet is not sustainable, and it unnecessarily cuts out a wide range of nutritious ingredients.
Its also a likely fad when everyone regardless of age, health status or medical needs is advised to follow the same diet. How can one diet work for everyone? Finally, its a fad when scare tactics persuade you to spend money on supplements. Of course, anti-lectin advocates sell expensive pills (just $79.95 a month) that claim to neutralize or reduce the negative effect of lectins.
If you have digestive issues and are particularity sensitive to beans or grains, avoid them. But please, dont suddenly eliminate all lectin-containing foods from your diet because an online article told you that they are bad for you. The amount of lectins found in the normal food supply is too low to be a real health concern.
Registered dietitian Cara Rosenbloom is president of Words to Eat By, a nutrition communications company specializing in writing, nutrition education and recipe development. She is the co-author of Nourish: Whole Food Recipes Featuring Seeds, Nuts and Beans.
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Posted: July 7, 2017 at 4:42 pm
Scientists in the U.S. have identified a molecular pathway that appears to play a key role in the link between a high-fat diet (HFD) and the development of colorectal cancer. The research, led by the Cleveland Clinics Sheerlarani Karunanithi, and Matthew Kalady, suggests that it may one day be possible to develop drugs that reduce tumor growth associated with obesity and a diet that is high in fat.
Their research is published today, in Stem Cell Reports, in a paper titled, RBP4-STRA6 Pathway Drives Cancer Stem Cell Maintenance and MediatesHigh-Fat Diet-Induced Colon Carcinogenesis.
The Cleveland Clinic teams review of published research indicated that high expression levels of two vitamin A signalling proteinsserum retinol binding protein (RPB4), stimulated by retinoic acid 6 (STRA6)in colorectal cancer tumors is associated with poor prognosis, increased tumor metastasis and recurrence, and resistance to cancer therapy. The RBP4-STRA6 pathway triggers the JAK2-STAT3 signaling cascade.
The researchers engineered STRA6- or RBP4-knockdown cancer cells to demonstrate that the RBP4-STRA6 pathway is important for promoting cancer cell proliferation and survival and for maintaining the expression of core stem cell transcription factors. They also found that the RBP4-STRA6 pathway plays a key role in maintaining colon cancer stem cells (CSCs), both in cell lines and in patient-derived xenografts.
The teams previous work had shown that knocking down STRA6 in a xenograft cancer model decreased tumor growth. In a new round of studies, they injected RBP4-knockdown cancer cells into experimental mice, and found that RBP4 deficiency resulted in the development of fewer tumors, and slower tumor growth and progression.
With evidence building for the role of RBPA4-STRA6 pathway in colorectal cancer development and progression, the team turned to look at diet-related cancer. A prior study had already suggested that HFDinduced obesity leads to increased intestinal stem cells and may impact colorectal cancer risk. This finding, combined with independent research establishing a role for the RBPA4-STRA6 pathway in diet-induced metabolic syndrome, prompted the Cleveland Clinic team to look at the relationship between HFD, cancer development, and the RBPA4-STRA6 pathway.
They injected either STRA6-deficient colorectal cancer cells or unmodified cancer cells into obesity-resistant mice fed either a normal diet or an HFD. HFD mice injected with unmodified cancer cells exhibited significantly increased tumor growth compared with mice fed a normal diet. In contrast, there was no relative increase in tumor growth among HFD animals receiving the STRA6-deficient tumor cells.
Our data clearly indicate that RBP4-STRA6 pathway is necessary for the optimal expression of stem cell markers such as NANOG, SOX2, and LGR5, and thereby for maintaining the colon CSC pool, the authors conclude in their published paper. "We have known the influence of diet on colorectal cancer, commented Matthew Kalady, M.D., colorectal surgeon, and co-director of the Cleveland Clinic Comprehensive Colorectal Cancer Program. However, these new findings are the first to show the connection between high-fat intake and colon cancer via a specific molecular pathway. We can now build upon this knowledge to develop new treatments aimed at blocking this pathway and reducing the negative impact of a high-fat diet on colon cancer risk."
The interesting finding here is that the high fat diet-induced effects appear to also involve the stem cell program, which is interesting for tumor growth and has implications on therapies, as tumor stem cells are also therapeutically resistant, the authors told GEN. In terms of treatments, what we might envision is targeting a new component of the signaling axis we identified to reduce cancer growth. The pathways we have identified are known to control many aspects of cell behavior, but the input to these signaling programs is new and may represent a possible target. In terms of next steps, one would be to see whether this can be applied to other obesity-driven tumors. Can lessons from colon cancer be leveraged to other tumor types? We also are interested in inhibiting this new signaling axis as well as trying to understand more about this signaling program, as we may be able to identify signaling nodes that can be efficiently targeted.
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Posted: July 7, 2017 at 4:42 pm
Crohns disease is a constant source of misery for sufferers. This chronic condition, which triggers inflammation in the digestive tract, is commonly found in the small intestine and the symptoms can include persistent diarrhea, stomach cramps, joint pain, weight loss, and anemia. A new study suggests there may be a way to alter your diet to tame this difficult-to-treat disease.
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One common cause of the condition, which affects as many as 780,000 Americans according to the Crohns and Colitis Foundation, is an overactive immune system that perceives harmless gut bacteria as foreign invaders and responds by producing inflammation. Standard treatments include anti-inflammatories and immune suppressors. However, the new study out of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (CWRU-M) suggests that a diet rich in healthy fats and oils such as coconut oil or cocoa butter may lead to specific changes in gut bacteria that could fight harmful inflammation.
Although the research was conducted on mice with a Crohns-like disease, the results are the first to show how high-fat diets can alter gut bacteria to combat inflammation, according to lead author Alexander Rodriguez-Palacios, DVM, DVSc, PhD and Assistant Professor of Medicine at CWRU-M at the annual Digestive Disease Week Conference in Chicago, Illinois. In the study, the mice who were fed even low concentrations of coconut oil or cocoa butter were found to have up to 30 percent fewer types of gut bacteria and less severe intestinal inflammation and less than those fed a typical diet.
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These findings suggest that there may be a beneficial Crohns disease diet that involves ingesting good fats in normal amounts. Patients can substitute these good fats for other sources in their diets, Dr. Rodriguez-Palacios notes. The results could also help doctors to identify bacteria that should be used in probiotic supplements aimed at treating patients suffering from all inflammatory bowel syndromes.
Humans and mice share many common genetic features, and by examining the physiology, anatomy and metabolism of a mouse, scientists can gain a valuable insight into how humans function. Nevertheless, humans may respond to dietary changes differentlyand in their own individual ways. For example, not all so-called good fats will be work for all patients, Dr. Rodriguez-Palacios points out. That said, he is hopeful that the diet could be beneficial to at least some patients, and it wouldnt have the side effects and risks that come with medical treatments. The trick now, he says, will be to really discover what makes a fat good or bad' for Crohns patients.
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Coffee lovers rejoice because a new book claims your daily cup of coffee can have serious benefits for your health and assist in reducing your waistline.
In The Coffee Lovers Diet, journalist and health expert Bob Arnot explores how a cup of coffee can help with weight loss by increasing metabolism, alleviate the effects of fatty foods and even cause a consumer to burn more calories than someone who abstains.
First, theres an increase in metabolic effect, Arnot told People.
Youre going to burn 100 more calories a day by drinking coffee than if you havent.
Second, if you have coffee before your workout, youre burning many more free fatty acids.
The premise of the diet claims that coffee burns fat, suppresses the appetite and speeds up metabolism.
Combined with a sensible eating plan, the diet says that consumers should drink hot, black coffee right after each meal, before bathing and just before exercising.
Nutritionist Kristen Beck told News.com.au that while coffee can boost metabolism, the effects are usually short lived.
Caffeine can boost athletic performance, both in terms of measurable exercise outcomes such as speed, power and endurance, as well as psychological benefits in terms of making exercise seem more achievable, Beck explained.
Coffee can suppress appetite simply by providing a boost of energy, but relying on coffee as a source of energy is that it is only short term.
Alex Hodge, a gastroenterologist and liver disease specialist at Monash Health, the largest public health service in Melbourne, Australia told the Herald Sun that coffee, overall, is good for you as it has been associated with a string of health benefits.
Drinking coffee has also been associated with fewer incidents of neurodegenerative conditions like Parkinsons disease and Alzheimers disease, with a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, he said.
Theres limited but emerging evidence that coffee is associated with lowering the risk of several cancers including colorectal, liver, ovarian, pancreatic, esophageal and endometrial. It has all those beneficial associations.
Arnot explained that the consumption of coffee had a positive impact on how the body broke down fat.
Coffee at the end of a big fatty meal decreases the amount of fat thats absorbed and decreases the amount of sugar thats absorbed, says Arnot.
If you give somebody a high-fat meal, their vascular function deteriorates, which over time can be a great risk. With a very high-phenol coffee, we blunted that response and actually improved vascular function.
Beck, who admits to drinking three cups a day, said people need to be aware that the use of coffee is like the spark plug in a car you still need the gas to keep you going.
She said that while coffee does have proven health benefits, people shouldnt take that to mean that they can have unlimited lattes.
If you dont already drink coffee, I would not encourage you to start in pursuit of weight loss, she said.
The thing to bear in mind here is that this diet is not just about drinking coffee, it also has an accompanying healthy eating regimen that, no doubt, is responsible for the vast majority of any weight loss achieved.
You need to think about how you drink your coffee. A latte with sugar is almost a small meal in itself, though not a healthy one.
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Posted: July 6, 2017 at 9:44 am
The two women spearheading an alternative plan for Washington Street met with Watertown city leaders Wednesday to present their research and pitch their ideas.
"In lieu of a traffic diet as a quick fix, we would like to preserve the four lanes that we have," said Jeri Gosier, a Case Middle School teacher.
Gosier and Alison Spooner, a librarian at the school, say there's a better way to make crossing the road safer for students.
The city has been looking for ways to improve traffic safety since a young student was hit by a car back in March.
The city's initial plan would shrink the number of lanes on Washington Street from 4 down to 2, with a center turning lane.
But Gosier and Spooner say, instead of reducing the number of lanes, the city should reduce the number of crosswalks. There are 4 crosswalks in front of the schools, they say, make that one crosswalk, and add a crossing guard or police officer.
The plan also calls for better signs on the road and better safety education for students.
Gosier says better crossing and better education is especially important when students are crossing the street after school to go to the businesses across the road.
"The hardest part right now is we don't have good crossing, so that if they're going to be going there, they can at least do it safely, because they go in mass, they dart from one side to the other to catch up with their friends and that's their goal, not crossing safely," said Gosier.
As for the city's plan to reduce the number of lanes, Gosier says that may not actually increase safety, and she worries it may lead more drivers to take Sherman Street as a shortcut.
"That's a residential space, it needs to stay as low traffic as possible," she said.
Gosier let city council members know about her plan Monday night. They all agreed they were open to discussing the plan at the next council meeting on July 17.
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Having an exceptionally keen sense of smell would seem to be an unmitigated blessing: It can provide early warning of dangers, detect the presence of an attractive mate, and enhance the gustatory delight of a delicious meal.
But when youre a mouse (or, perhaps, a human) and fattening food is all around, a new study finds that those with little or no ability to detect odors may have a key advantage. While mice with an intact sense of smell grow obese on a steady diet of high-fat chow, their littermates who have had their sense of smell expunged can eat the same food yet remain trim.
If youre thinking this is a cautionary tale about the effect of enhancing gustatory delight on portion control, youre on the wrong track.
In fact, the mice with an impaired sense of smell did not eat less of the high-fat chow than did their peers with normal olfaction. Nor did they move around more in their cages, or expel more of their food before extracting its nutrients.
Instead, a report published Wednesday in the journal Cell Metabolism underscores that our sense of smell is lashed together with a broad range of seemingly unrelated basic functions, including metabolism and stress response.
Mice stripped of their sense of smell burn fat differently more intensively than do mice whose olfaction is normal, the new study found. They typically have higher levels of adrenaline the go signal in the bodys fight-or-flight system than do mice with an intact sense of smell. And even when all they eat is high-fat chow, they dont appear as likely as capable smellers to develop such afflictions as fatty liver or the kind of dangerous fat deposits that settle around the midsection.
In one of three experiments reported in the paper, researchers disabled the specialized olfactory brain cells of mice who were made fat on a diet of high-fat chow. The effect was rapid and robust: Those mice lost roughly a third of their body weight. And the weight they lost was virtually all from fat.
I was shocked the effect was so robust, said UC Berkeley stem cell biologist and geneticist Andrew Dillin, the studys senior author. I was convinced they were just eating less. When it became clear they werent, I thought, Wow, this is incredibly interesting.
In another experiment, researchers created super-smellers mice with an exceptionally acute sense of smell by disabling a specialized receptor in the brains olfactory system. Even when the smells the mice were tested on were social, such as the scent of an unknown member of the opposite sex, the champion smellers were at greater risk for weight gain and impaired metabolism than were mice with normal or low olfactory acuity.
Indeed, all kinds of hormonal signals, including many that play a role in appetite and fat storage, get dialed differently in mice with an impaired sense of smell, the researchers found.
Adrenaline, for instance, plays a role in an animals response not only to threats but to stresses such as cold. In mice with low-functioning olfactory neurons, higher adrenaline levels appeared to activate special stores of energy-intensive brown fat to burn white fat as fuel, and to convert some white fat stores to brown fat.
The collective effect of those differing signals was consistently to protect the smell-impaired mouse from the unhealthy effects of overconsumption, the researchers discovered.
The new study is a far cry from establishing that all the same dynamics are at play in humans. But while mice probably rely on their sense of smell more than humans, they can tell us a lot about human obesity, Dillin said. And these findings do suggest an intriguing way to help those with obesity lose some weight and improve their metabolic function without having to change what, or how much, they eat, he added.
Researchers know that when people lose their sense of smell an effect seen in certain strokes, brain injuries and neurodegenerative diseases their appetites wane, they eat less, and (no surprise) they lose weight. Its also well known that the acuity of our sense of smell rises and falls depending on circumstance: Its at its zenith when we havent eaten in several hours, and plummets just after weve had a meal.
The first observation suggests that smell piques or sustains interest in eating directly. The second suggests that smell may set off a host of signals about the bodys energy needs that work indirectly to affect metabolic function. That side of the equation is a lot less obvious, and has been studied far less.
The new research suggests that reducing olfactory cues might do more than help overweight people shed pounds. It may also right some of the metabolic and hormonal signals that get pushed out of whack as a person accumulates too much fat.
The potential of modulating olfactory signals in the context of the metabolic syndrome or diabetes is attractive, write the authors of the new study. Even relatively short-term loss of smell improves metabolic health and weight loss, despite the negative consequences of being on a high-fat diet.
Dillin said there are a number of directions in which this research could be taken next. Researchers could look at broad populations of people, testing the acuity of their olfactory sense and, over time, measuring how that tracks with their propensity toward weight gain or metabolic abnormality.
As for human trials of impaired olfaction, Dillin said a clothes pin on the nose wont work: Our mouths also admit olfactory information. But some chemical agents, including one currently used as a pesticide, are known to knock out humans sense of smell temporarily. If such compounds could be used safely on humans, it might be possible to gauge how weight and metabolism are affected when olfaction is altered.
In the meantime, study first author Celine Riera, a post-doctoral fellow in Dillin's lab, plans to tease out the role that the brains hypothalamus a master regulator of everything from involuntary bodily functions to sleep and emotional response may play in translating smells into fat-burning commands.
Funding for the new research came from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Glenn Center for Research on Aging, and the American Diabetes Assn.
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This is one of two 7-week-old lynxes that were reported stolen from Animal Gardens petting zoo in Delavan on Monday night. The lynxes have a special diet and need to be fed every four to six hours, a spokeswoman said.
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Two 7-week-old lynxes were reported stolen from Animal Gardens petting zoo in Delavan on Monday night.
DELAVANThe two baby Siberian lynxes stolen Monday from a Delavan petting zoo were returned safely to the zoo Wednesday night, according to a Town of Delavan Police Department news release.
At about 7:15 p.m., police received a call that both missing lynxes had been returned to Animal Gardens, according to the release. The lynxes were hungry but mostly in good health.
Town of Delavan police are still investigating the incident, according to the release. They have suspects but could not provide more information Wednesday.
Animal Gardens was offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the return of two baby Siberian lynxes.
The 7-week-old exotic cats were born at Animal Gardens, owner Dana Montana said Wednesday. The lynxes' parents are still on the property.
At about 9 or 9:30 p.m. Monday, Montana said security camera footage showed a truck pulling up to the petting zoo area. The truck went to the baby barn, where Montana said the lynxes were housed in a nursery.
The baby lynxes were gone when someone arrived to feed them Tuesday morning, Montana said.
The lynxes can sell for about $4,000 each, she said. Those who own them are required to have various licenses from government agencies.
They're not something somebody could use as a domestic house cat, Montana said. They have the ability to get bigger later. And they're not cute when they get bigger. They're an exotic animal. So I would doubt very much someone stole them to keep them as a house pet.
We feel that somebody stole them to maybe try and sell them on the black market, she said.
Montana said Animal Gardens was trying to sell the lynxes, which is what it normally does. Lynxes are indigenous to Wisconsin.
The baby lynxes were fed every four to six hours. Caretakers at the petting zoo were bottle feeding them but slowly weaning them off bottles to accept small pieces of meat, Montana said.
If somebody took them and doesn't understand how to feed an exotic animal of this species, they won't last, Montana said. They definitely have to be cared for in a certain way.
For the first few months after birth, exotic cats are part of educational programming for schools and other groups, Montana said.
Animal Gardens is part of the venue that also houses the Dancing Horses Theater.
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Jackson, MS, July 04, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Coffee Diet has been circulating around as a way to get slim. The premise, caffeine burns fat, suppresses appetite and speeds up the metabolism if an individual drinks several cups each day. According to the diet, one needs to drink hot, black coffee right after each meal, before bathing and just before exercising. The diuretic effects of coffee are a plus for the its supporters since diuretics reduce water retention and bloat. Caffeine is in fact used in many diet aids and weight loss stimulants, but Diet Doc warns that too much coffee consumption can have negative impacts on the body as well.
Too much caffeine can impede the absorption of iron in the bloodstream. For women especially, this can make one susceptible to anemia. Furthermore, caffeine can elevate the heart rate and result in instances of jitteriness, shaking, nervousness and anxiety. Restlessness and trouble sleeping are also common symptoms of caffeine overload. Lack of quality sleep actually inhibits weight loss, producing the opposite effect. Caffeine addiction is also a cause for concern since it can become easy to rely on it for energy. If one plans to be on the diet temporarily, caffeine withdrawal can result in headaches, fatigue, low-energy, sleep disturbances and irritability.
Aside from a cup of coffee for a morning jolt, or perhaps a cup before exercising, most researchers advise no more that 3-4 cups per day. Since proponents of the diet recommend that it be used in conjunction with a healthy diet and exercise anyway, Diet Doc suggests that your weight loss plan should focus on a balanced diet, not any one food or drink. Diet Doc helps patients lose weight with customized diet planning and support, rather than going the one-size-fits-all route, like the coffee diet. Each person has their own weight loss needs, and only certified doctors and nutritionists can gather individual data and come up with fast weight loss solutions that work accordingly.
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