Author: Emmanuel
The after-effects of a debacle that has seen taxpayers pay hundreds of millions for a pair of ferries at nearly four times the original budget, are continuing with the harbour that was too small to fit the ships set to be taken into public ownership.The affair has been one of Scotland’s biggest political scandals and ministers have confirmed that negotiations for the public purchase of Ardrossan harbour have been completed, as they attempt to mitigate its impact on the port. On Tuesday the Scottish government also revealed that it had thrown the shipyard at the centre of the problems -…
It’s hard to predict how the war will end – but those fighting know how they would like it to.
Israel has launched an invasion into Lebanon, while the US embassy in Riyadh was hit by a pair of drones overnight.
Iran says it will “set fire” to ships trying to sail through the world’s most vital oil transit point.
The US president laid out some of his objectives on Monday, but made no mention of what Iran’s future might look like after the war.
Security analyst Gordon Corera looks at what is likely to happen after much of Iran’s most senior leadership is killed.
For readers who wish to improve their gut microbiome to help negate the effects of unhealthy eating early in life on brain health, MNT spoke with Monique Richard, MS, RDN, LDN, a registered dietitian nutritionist and owner of Nutrition-In-Sight.Richard said that while she lets her clients and patients know that their diet early in life, including their mother and father’s diet preconception, and whether they were breastfed or formula fed, influences the gut, today’s choices still matter — it’s never too late to improve your internal ecosystem. “While early-life nutrition influences microbial colonization and neural development, the microbiome remains dynamic across…
The authors of this study explain that chronic high blood sugar can affect proper adaptation to aerobic exercise. People with high blood sugar may struggle to make improvements in peak oxygen consumption rate, which has to do with the highest level of oxygen the body can use in high-intensity exercise.Previous research from this group had shown that high blood sugar in mice “impairs aerobic adaptation.” They wanted to see if the ketogenic diet could help restore this in mice that underwent exercise training. The ketogenic diet involves consuming higher amounts of fat and lower amounts of carbohydrates. To test their…