As I Tumbled Here

I lost my way. Hehehe ... perhaps I do not intend to find the way out.

[jackomnitrade-blog]

US Military Self-guided Bullet

The U.S. military had made great progress in developing a self-steering bullet. The .50-caliber bullets are fitted with optical sensors at the tip to follow moving targets. The bullet’s system is name EXACTO (Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance) and is developed by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The “smart bullets” passed their most successful round of live-fire tests to date, the CNN reported on 29 April 2015.

Videos supplied by DARPA show the bullets making sharp turns in mid-air as they pursue their targets. “This live-fire demonstration from a standard rifle showed that EXACTO is able to hit moving and evading targets with extreme accuracy at sniper ranges unachievable with traditional rounds. Fitting EXACTO’s guidance capabilities into a small .50-caliber size is a major breakthrough and opens the door to what could be possible in future guided projectiles across all calibers,” said Jerome Dunn, DARPA program manager. Exacto can help shooters compensate for high winds, give shooters greater range and accuracy makes American troops safer.

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There is no free lunch. Good things usually cut both ways. There is no doubt that the accuracy makes American troops safer but there will be no difference if the enemy had the same ammo. Good but dangerous products are like double edge swords. In due time psychopath killers will get hold of this bullets. With the 9/11 incident, I would not be exaggerating to put forth the idea of a coordinated attack. All Bin Laden’s successor or ISIS needs to do is to put a few guns on the key people and a nation would be in turmoil. Let’s say a gun is aimed at Barack Obama (president), Joe Biden (vice president) and Ashton Carter (defence secretary) at the same time. There is a price for everything and there will leakage somewhere. So, I won’t boast about this invention.

[savyseph-blog]

"With great power comes great responsibility", Ben Parker told Spiderman. In just one instance that Spiderman failed to act, the loss was his beloved uncle. Even now there would be spies after the blueprint of this weapon. Entrepreneurs and players in the military field will do their own research and development to produce this wonder bullet to make a buck. Now the President needs more bodyguards who are willing to take the bullet for him. I am not paranoid - 9/11 was real.

[amendasteels-blog]

Fate had a random way to steal money from your kitty. A car break-down that cost 20% of your disposable income or a roof leak of similar magnitude will put you on a tight budget for the month and corrode your savings. Bad luck or unexpected expenses is usually cited for failure to save. Sharing the blame would be the escalating cost of living. These common reasons the man on the streets frequently hears but backing them up with research will give it better weight.

Last year an average of $13,408 was set aside for college by parents but it was reduced to $10,040 this year. Savings for all purposes, including retirement and emergencies, also plunged to $98,867 from $115,604 last year. Sallie Mae, a corporation that offers financial products to help families save and plan for college, engaged market research company Ipsos to conduct a research to account for a 25% drop in saving for college.

Ipsos interviewed 1,988 parents of children under 18 for the survey between Jan. 14 and Jan. 28. “The biggest reason for the decrease in savings are the increase in the cost of living and having unexpected expenses come up,” said Michael Gross, head of the higher education practice at Ipsos. About half the parents are saving for college. For families with incomes between $35,000 and $100,000 the rate fell to 46 percent this year from 51 percent last year.

The outlook on investing in higher education for children is still good. 90% parents believe that college is an investment in their children’s future. 84% believe their children will earn more with higher education. 78% think that a college degree is more important now than in the past. General savings accounts remain as the most widely used vehicle to save for college funds. It was used by 48% of the savers. 23% used checking accounts and 27% used 529 plan.

The 529 plan is tax-advantaged instrument for saving for the future higher education expenses of a designated beneficiary. It was named after the act (Internal Revenue Code 26 U.S.C. § 529) that legislated it. The 539 plan is popular high-income savers. 49% used it. It only manage to draw 20% of middle-income and 17% low-income savers. 40% of those who do not save for higher education were unaware of the existence of 529 plans.

Parents who don’t save overestimate the amount of financial aid their children will receive. Scholarships and grants typically cover about one-third of the total average cost of college, according to a corollary Sallie Mae study. About two-thirds of those who don’t save believed their child would get scholarship help to cover college costs.

Martha Holler, a Sallie Mae representative said the act of creating a plan for college savings seems to boost the odds of success. The 2015 Saving for College survey found families with a plan saved 46 percent more than families without a plan. Parents began to save when their oldest child was 6.5 years old. This the time where the initial expenses of infancy and the toddler years are over, Reuters reported on 29 April 2015.

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Like the Greeks, parents who skipped saving a few times are attributing it to Lady Luck. In no time Lady Luck will cause more turbulence. For a modern day analysis, saving will affect the economy because it is a component of Gross National Product. Reduce saving can hurt investment. Okay there is no need to go through elementary macroeconomics.

[savyseph-blog]

America's 9 best entry-level jobs

Job seekers need to be aware that there is always tradeoff between job security, career advancement or high pay in the job process. High paying jobs are usually at high risk for being automated or offers little growth potential over the next few years. According to a study from WalletHub, the top 9 entry-level jobs scores well in all the three categories mentioned. CBS News had compiled their findings on 28 April 2015 to guide college students and high school seniors to consider which field to major in.

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Job Starting Pay Median Pay Qualification Growth 9. Financial analyst $51,848 $76,950 bachelor's degree in business, finance or related - 8. Information security analyst $55,310 $86,170 - 37% 7. Web designer $53,041 $62,500 know programming and graphic design 20% 6. Software engineers $62,522 $90,374 bachelor's degree in computer science - 5. Environmental engineer $57,266 $86,340 bachelor's degree in environmental engineering or related 15% 4 Attorney $83,907 $133,470 law degree and pass a state's written bar exam 10% 3 Network Engineer $61,744 $91,982 degrees in computer science or related 12% 2. Web applications designer $54,586 $59,000 know developer languages such as PHP and HTML 12% 1. Training specialist $47,621 $55,930 college degree and strong communication skills 15%

The starting annual salary and the median pay for all workers in the field are based on the latest information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The salary for software engineers were based on information on the employment site Glassdoor.com. Figures for network engineer and web applications designer were derived from the employment site Payscale.com. The job growth rate is projected from 2012 to 2022 by the BLS. A growth of 10 percent or higher is deemed as normal. A growth rate of 15 percent and above is consider rapid growth.

The information security analyst had the greatest potential growth of 37 percent. Their job entails a simple maintenance routine but once the system gets hacked, they will have to work round the clock to restore the system, pronto. I believe being a hacker is the best qualification for this job but there is no such thing as a certified hacker at the present moment. This may be the reason WalletHub did not list down the qualification for this job. The reason growth is not projected for financial analyst is unclear.

Growth rate for software engineers were not projected as this profession is a bit unusual. While the jobs in this field are plentiful, careers in the field may be short-lived. According to Bloomberg News, most software developers have left the profession by the time they're 40. The industry tend to favor younger engineers because of the impression that they will be more up-to-date with the latest trends.

Although the training specialist had a low income, it top because of job openings and growth potential. About one-quarter of Web designers were self-employed in 2012 but it is forecasted that employment in this field will grow by 20 percent. I believe the forecaster is expecting these self-employed individuals would grow and had the need for expansion.

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Economic Crisis due to Childless Millennials

A rapidly aging society and a younger generation that’s not having kids is the recipe for an economic Armageddon, CBS News 28 April 2015. Japan faces this fate and their population is forecasted to decline by one-third through 2060. Childbirth trend among Millennials is raising questions on the possibility America heading the same direction. According to a report from the Urban Institute, birth rate among American women in their 20s fell 15 percent in 2012 from 2007. This marked an abrupt change from three decades of relatively stable birthrates. The birth rate of women in the 20s is 948 births per 1,000 women.

Nan Marie Astone, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and one of the paper’s authors, believes the recession prompted women in their 20s to opt against having children. The paper cited previous economic crises, such as the Depression in the 1930s, also coincided with low points for fertility in 20-somethings. The median age for a women’s first birth is now 26 years old, compared with 21.4 years old in 1970, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Would millennial women start families once they feel more stable economically, as previous generations have done after periods of financial insecurity?

[savyseph-blog]

Values have a part to play in our actions today. The previous generation believe in the family and even extended families especially for Italians. People today are like a little nucleus of their own. There was happily ever after of yesterday. Today is happily never after. Broken families and high divorce rate are a common thing.

[xingcaitang-blog]

'Jigsaw puzzle' dinosaur Chilesaurus boasted weird mix of traits

Scientists have discovered remnants of a strange dinosaur with an unusual combination of traits in southern Chile. It was named Chilesaurus diegosuarezi to honor the country where it was unearthed and the 7-year-old who spotted the first fossils. “The skeletal anatomy of Chilesaurus gathers characteristics of different dinosaur groups, like a floor is composed of mosaics of different shapes and colors. No other dinosaurs exhibit such a combination or mixture of features,” said paleontologist Fernando Novas of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires. The modern-day version of such misfit is the platypus, an egg-laying, duck-billed mammal from Australia, Reuters reported on 27 April 2015.

Chilesaurus it is a member of the same dinosaur group as Tyrannosaurus rex. Its skull and neck resembled those of primitive long-necked dinosaurs, and its vertebrae those of primitive meat-eating theropods which are the largest land meat-eaters in Earth’s history. Strangely enough Chilesaurus ate only plants, given a beak and leaf-shaped teeth and two blunt fingers on each hand. It is a two-legged created with a bird-like pelvis. Unlike the three-toed feet of most theropods, Chilesaurus had a wide feet with four toes. Four nearly complete skeletons were found to ascertain these typical misfit traits. It was relatively small, reaching up to 10.5 feet (3.2 meters) long, although most specimens found were more the size of a turkey. It lived in a region crisscrossed by rivers approximately 145 million years ago.

University of Birmingham paleontologist Martín Ezcurra said, “The most interesting (aspect) about Chilesaurus is the story that it tells about how evolution works, ‘Convergent evolution’ is a process in which two unrelated species or groups acquire similar characteristics from living in similar environments or having a similar behavior,” He used the example of having the wings of a bat and a bird. For 'mosaic convergent evolution,’ it involves different parts of the body resembling those of other unrelated species.

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The more fossil we unearth, the harder it would be for experts to explain evolution. Very soon the theory of evolution will just fall apart.

[savyseph-blog]

My Casino Gambling Tip is now a mobile friendly website. My next task would be to get XingCai Gambling Tales to be mobile friendly too. I had outlined the step involved to get it mobile friendly in my previous blog and will use the same procedure. The wave of mobile suffers had got Google to cater to them or lose page ranking. This would be a concern for webmasters until they fix the problem.

While Google had written to webmasters with some links to make a mobile friendly website, they provided no link to test the mobile-friendliness of the site. Using W3C tidy up could provide some additional help on the meta tags. After much surfing, I found certification from Google themselves. Visit this link and type in your website’s URL.

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Striptease had become popular at funerals in some rural areas in China. Troupes hired to play dirges suddenly changed their tune and began to peel off their clothes. This a relatively new phenomenon. A strong attendance for funeral reflects the honor of the deceased. Some people would be willing to pay troupes to play folk music and perform racy acts to get the crowd. “They want to have as many people as possible attend the funeral. In this way, they feel they fulfill their obligation of fidelity to their elders,” said Zhang Chengdong, vice-president of the Jiangsu Festivals and Events Association.

Chinese officials are launching a campaign to crack down on striptease and other lewd shows that have become popular at funerals in some rural areas, the Ministry of Culture said Thursday. “Illegal performances such as strip dances have been occurring in rural areas from time to time that have disrupted the cultural market and created a negative influence on the social environment,” the ministry said in a statement posted on its website. The ministry cited two cases in which the shows’ organizers have been penalized, the China Daily reported on 24 April 2015.

Traditional opera were once popular at funerals. Six performers with Red Rose Troupe, an art group from Handan, Hebei province, participated in a performance at the funeral of an elder in Handan’s Cheng'an County on Feb 15. The performance was characterized by elegies with traditional music and traditional dance. The performers ended the show by stripping of their clothes. Li, the troupe manager, was given 15 days in detention and a fine of 70,000 yuan ($11,000) by the police and county cultural authorities. In the other case, three performers delivered what was said to be an obscene act at a funeral in Zhangtang village of Suqian, Jiangsu province, on Feb 27. Photos indicated that children in attendance at shows featuring scantily clad women.

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I commend the troupe’s performance spirit to go on with the show in spite of having children in the audience. It is bad taste on the part of the deceased family to stage such an event. Even if the event is held at wee hours, minors will be present to pay last respect to the departed.

[savyseph-blog]

New Zealand PM John Key Sorry for Ponytail-pulling

New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key apologized to a waitress at his local cafe for repeatedly tugging on her ponytail. The waitress named Rosie complained about his behavior in a blog post. It took place during last year's election season and carried on for a number of months and on several occasions. Eventually the cafe's manager made it clear to Key that his actions were unwelcome, the CNN reported on 22 April 2015.

Key, told reporters that his behavior was in the context of "a bit of banter," but said that he had apologized when it was clear she had taken offense. "But if you look at it now, no. When I realized she took offense by that I just sort of immediately went back, gave her some wine, apologized and said I was terribly sorry," the leader added. Rosie’s blog wrote that she didn't directly make her objections clear verbally, her body language "screamed 'I don't like that.'" The blog also stated that the prime minister offered two bottles of his own JK 2012 Pinot Noir wine by way of apology.

Sue McCabe, chief executive of the National Council of Women of New Zealand, accepted that Key was joking and did not mean to offend, but criticized the premier in an open letter of the organization. "The fact that our Prime Minister has joined the list of people outed for sexism highlights how much sexism is a part of our culture. And it starts at the top. Up and down this country, day after day, people are touched without giving their consent. At one end of the scale, it is an unwelcome pull on a ponytail. At the other end, it's our shocking levels of violence against women."

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FBI Ruse violated Paul Phua's Rights

“Law enforcement can’t break something in your house and pose as repair people to get inside,” David Chesnoff, defence attorney for Paul Phua Wei-seng’s, said. Paul Phua was charged with illegally taking bets on the World Cup Soccer. US District Judge Andrew Gordon said in a bluntly worded decision that “the government violated the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights” against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Gordon called the evidence collected last July from Paul Phua’s high-security luxury villa at Caesars Palace “fruits of an unconstitutional search”, and said it cannot be used if the government pressed forward with charges that Phua operated an illegal gambling business and transmitted wagering information. Chesnoff hailed the decision as a victory for freedom. The two charges each carry a penalty of up to seven years in prison.

Prosecutors said some US$13 million in bets had been wagered before the FBI, working with Nevada gambling regulators, raided three Caesars Palace villas where Phua, his son and several other people were staying. Agents seized computers, cellphones and cash. Phua, 50, was the last remaining defendant among eight people arrested in the case, including his son Darren Wai Kit Phua, 23. Darren Phua was the last of six defendants to plead guilty to lesser charges, forfeit large amounts of money and return to Asia under plea deals the Las Veags Sun reported on 17 April 2015.

[savyseph-blog]

Judge Andrew Gordon must be pissed at wasted time and resources when he said "fruits of an unconstitutional search"

[sophialogica-blog]

Naked Wedding Celebrations

The South China Morning Post’s article dated 24 March 2015 refers to the event as “naked wedding celebrations” but it is actually a protest. Ten couples, some married for many years, participated in the event. Couples were covered in body paint and dressed in underwear for the event at Hangzhou Paradise amusement park in Zhejiang province. They are rejecting modern Chinese value that placed greater value on materialism as opposed to love.

Materialism makes me think of Karl Marx. Operating under a demand driven economy, China like to think of themselves as a communist state. The term has no place for economic class struggle but after decades of opening to this system, people in China would aspire to own a house or a car before they get married. A naked wedding involves a couple marrying without possessing a house or car.

[savyseph-blog]

Given the current economic climate, getting a house and a car is not an easy task. This is a way to preserve the marriage institution.

[suedaji]

Employers Ask Illegal Questions

One-third of those surveyed didn’t know the following questions are illegal to ask in a job interview:

What is your political affiliation?

What is your race, color or ethnicity?

How old are you?

Are you disabled?

Are you married?

Do you have children or plan to?

Are you in debt?

Do you social drink or smoke?

The finding was based on a nationwide survey of more than 2,100 hiring and human resource managers released Thursday by CareerBuilder, which commissioned Harris Poll, the CBS News reported 10 April 2015.

Discrimination of some form can be seen in the question asked. Not included in the list is location. It is okay to ask if applicants are willing to relocate but not where the applicant live. This can be construed as a prejudice towards a certain residential address. Inquiring about long-term plans is acceptable but asking when interviewees plan to retire can be deems as biases to age.

[savyseph-blog]

Hiring an employee is the biggest pain.

[xingcaitang-blog]

Asian Beer Market

A bill had been proposed to ban the sale of alcohol in Indonesia. The two Islamic parties behind the bill cite “the protection of the children of the nation” as the reason. Endowed with the world’s largest Muslim population, the parties recommended draconian jail sentences for offenders. Tourism officials are concerned about the economic effects of extending an alcohol ban to tourist spots like Bali.

A recent Nielsen survey found that just 2.2 percent of Indonesians over 20 had consumed alcohol in the past 12 months. Beer sales have increased by more than 50 percent over the past decade. The overall consumption is considered small for a population of over 250 million. Breweries giants Diageo, Carlsberg and Heineken are bracing for the worst in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country. On the brighter side, the beer market for China is growing fast and expected to overtake the United States by 2017 the Reuters reported on 14 April 2015.

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Humans are not the most logical creature because wrecking their brain seems to be a popular form of recreation. Heck, I do it too.

[savyseph-blog]

In contrast animals don't wreck their brains for fun. If you start pouring beer to your pet's water container, your pet will keep a distance from it the moment the come to sniffing range. Religion was invented to guide us to behave with animal instincts.

[amendasteels-blog]

Alaska Airlines Flight 448 from Seattle turned back after screaming heard in cargo hold

The pilot of Alaska Airline flight 448 declared an emergency for priority landing when heard screaming and banging from the cargo hold. The flight departed Seattle at 3:15 p.m. Pacific Time. After 14 minutes in flight the aircraft had to turn back and land in Seattle-Tacoma International.

After the plane landed a ramp agent, an employee of Menzies Aviation, was found inside the front cargo hold. According to Alaska Airlines the cargo hold is pressurized and temperature-controlled. The employee told authorities he had fallen asleep. The worker appeared OK but was taken to a hospital as a precaution the CBC News reported 13 April 2015.

This is going to cost the Airline dearly and it would certainly be investigated. It is hard to imagine that one can fall asleep without fellow workers realizing it. Did the employee actually sneaked into the cargo hold intentionally? Once he realized the compartment was pressurized and temperature-controlled he panicked and start banging away. Upon being rescued, he conveniently use sleeping-on-the-job as an excuse.

[savyseph-blog]

They should have more safety procedure to enter and exit pressurized and temperature-controlled cargo hold in future.

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3-Year-Old Shoots, Kills Baby Brother

A one-year-old boy was shot dead by his three-year-old brother on 12 April 2015. Chief Calvin Williams said, “It’s a sad day for Cleveland. This fascination that we have with handguns, not just in this city but in this country, has to stop. This is a senseless loss of life.” Investigation had not determined where the shooting came from and how it was left within reach of a child. Braylon Robinson was taken to a nearby hospital and later pronounced dead, the CBS News reported.

[savyseph-blog]

There are many unreported negligence of this nature. The question is when majority opinion will do something about it.

[savyseph-blog]

Picture size is my next task in getting my website to be mobile friendly. In my previous blog on this subject, I figured that reducing the size of navigation menu is a good starting point to design a website to fit mobile device. I used single word for title and double word for subtitle. This seems to work out some of the problem. I figure the next step would be to have a universal width for all pictures. Ideally the picture could be stretch or shrunk to fit across the platform without losing too much picture quality.

Given the size of webpages, stretching and shrinking a picture is not the real problem. Pictures who are magnify twice or reduce by half are never too shabby when it comes to quality. This should be enough do the trick to fit an image into a website. The bigger concern is manipulated images sometimes take a longer time to load. The 4G phones are great for speed but as the best for the current technology they are a minority user. Most people would have the lower 3G speed on their phones. The loyalist to old phone will still surf with 2G and there are still a number of these mobile surfers out there. These people will favor sites who were sufficiently fast for their devices.

I went window shopping for mobile phones using google and decided that I have 3 categories to please. Based on their minimum screen width, I simply name them mini (80 pixels), midi (321 pixels) and maxi (481). After throwing some math around, I decided that all images on my website will be 240 pixels wide. Shrinking 240 to 80 (the lower end of the mini) is one-third reduction. This will likely cause some problem in loading speed. For the higher end of the mini (320 pixels), the image is stretch less than 50% which is acceptable. For the 481 pixels width, there is no stretching of image. The image with text displayed by the side will be at least half of the screen.

I now had all my pictures resize to 240 pixels width. Going through the pictures one by one had been a tedious exercise. Some of my image were name by their sizes. A cat image, for example, had been named cat330x250. The 330 represent the width and 250 is for the height. I still maintain the old name of the image. It would sound silly but once something is publish it is not advisable to make changes. Keeping the old name will ensure that people who link my pictures will not get a blank image. I actually have three manga pages outstanding. These three cartoons are at least 600 pixels wide. The task will be to break them down to smaller pictures who are 240 pixels wide. The main picture that will adopt the old name while new pictures will carry the old name with a sequential numbering suffix.

Going through image by image can also make you see things from a different angle. I redraw two images. I hope the people who had link the old pictures prefer the new pictures. I had also came up with 5 new pictures. These are for the pages which previously did not have a picture. The remaining task, unless new development crops up, I will drop the navigation menu for the mini users.

[savyseph-blog]

Paedophiles Lurks in Dark Net

Hardcore pedophiles evade detection by hiding their identity using dark net. It is accessible via a browser that masks users' identities by encryption. It has millions of users and thousands of websites. It operates on a network of more than 6,000 computer servers spread around the world that reroute signals to hide users' locations.

Dark net was originally developed by the U.S. military. To help dissidents in China, Russia and Iran evade censorship, it is still partly funded by the U.S. government but pedophiles had abused this facility. A recent British study found that 80 percent of traffic to sites located only on the dark net were related to child pornography.

Hans Guijt and his colleagues at Terre des Hommes Netherlands, a child protection organization, attempted to trap pedophiles. The created digital puppet called Sweetie that looks and sounds like a 10-year-old girl from the Philippines. "In the 10 weeks' time that we were active on the Internet we were hit by more than 20,000 people, 20,000 men mainly, who were trying to get in contact with us to engage us in sexual activities," Guijt told CBS News. He added that they can't be so easily caught because they're using the dark net the CBS News reported on 9 April 2015.

Greg Virgin, a former NSA employee turned cyber security consultant, who's now helping U.S. child protection groups is trouble by this awful realization. "We found one site where users openly advertised the ages of the children they were interested in," Virgin said. "The average youngest age they were seeking for girls was zero years old. And the average age for boys was one."

[suedaji]

Which Diet Plans Really Pay Off?

Which weight program works and which ones does not work? Researchers at Johns Hopkins had done the work for you and they published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on 6 April 2015. They reviewed clinical trials on the biggest players in the commercial weight-loss programs, including Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, and Nutrisystem, Medifast and OPTIFAST, the CBS News reported.

John Hopkins researchers studied 4,200 cases and found only a few dozen met the requirement of reliability. Diet plans that worked are those which were supported by data establishing that participants on average lost more weight after one year than people who were either dieting on their own were. Medical contributor Dr. Holly Phillips told “CBS This Morning” that she is always dumbfounded when asked which plans works. With this research she can now give a scientific answer.

This research will serve as a guideline to two-third of the American population who were are obese. Before forking out hundreds of dollars on packaged meals, nutrition shakes, or counseling sessions, they could consult this research which ones are most effective in the long run. American are expected to spend $2.5 billion on commercial diet plans and services in 2014. Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig were highlighted as those that were effective. Nutrisystem was good but lasted only 3 to 6 months. The “very-low calorie programs” namely; Health Management Resources (HMR), Medifast, and OPTIFAST showed the benefits diminished by the 6-month mark. Atkins helps but not as much as with some competing diet programs. The Ornish diet was excluded because it is primarily focused on heart health rather than weight loss.

Dr. Phillips said the most successful plans had in common: it incorporated social support and teamwork. “The only diets that work are those that you stick with, and if you have some companionship along the way, you’re more likely to do it,” she said. The Zone diet was not reviewed by the researchers because unlike other weight-loss plans in the study, Zone does not include any behavioral or social support.

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This research is going to get a lot of people going to Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig. It is a good time to buy Jenny Craig shares.