Monday August 25, 2014 – 12pm
Posted Aug 25, 2014 02:48:25 PM.
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12:00- Randall Craig, Social Media and Networking Expert and Author
The joke tanked on Twitter. Region of Waterloo Coun. Tom Galloway survived a Twitter mishap Friday after a joke about a police tank went wrong. Galloway, who posts a mix of serious and lighthearted tweets, posted a photo of an imposing armoured tank with the comment: “At Halifax RCMP HQ in Dartmouth. New WRPS carrier?? :D” It didn’t go well. Some users on the social media network took it as truth. “I thought I’d get cute with it, but it didn’t work,” Galloway said in an interview. A handful of local residents reacted strongly to the post, which Galloway took down promptly. A new Twitter user, he said he understands why some might get upset and will be more clear when he’s joking in the future. “The take-away is you can’t be subtle on Twitter,” Galloway said.
12:30- Leslie Beck, Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist
Skipping the first meal of the day has been linked to weight gain. But 2 recent studies are questioning that widely held belief after researchers found that changing breakfast habits may not necessarily affect your weight. Researchers from the University of Alabama looked at about 300 overweight and obese individuals and tracked weight change within 3 groups: a control group, a group told to eat breakfast, and a third group told to skip the first meal. Following the 16-week study, researchers found that weight loss was generally unaffected regardless of whether participants ate breakfast or not. In a separate, smaller study out of the University of Bath, researchers looked the effects of eating breakfast versus morning fasting. As part of the study, participants were separated into 2 groups. The “fasting group” didn’t consume calories until 12p and the “breakfast group” ate at least 700 calories by 11a, with at least the first half consumed within 2 hours of waking up. At the end of the 6-week study, the participants’ body weights, resting metabolic rates, cholesterol and most measures of blood sugar were about the same as they had been at the start, whether they ate breakfast or not.
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