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Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi walked out of the Assembly without delivering the customary address on the opening day of the first session of the year. This is the fourth consecutive year that Ravi has walked out during the opening ceremony.The governor alleged that the Assembly had disrespected the national anthem and that his mic had been switched off during the proceedings. He left the Assembly a few minutes after the state anthem, Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu, was played.In Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan edited the policy address delivered by Governor Rajendra Arlekar to the Assembly. After Arlekar left the Assembly, Vijayan told the House to say that the governor had made changes to three paragraphs in the speech.Among the changes, Arlekar sid that Kerala was facing financial stress arising from “curtailment of advances”. The speech approved by the Cabinet had attributed the stress to “a series of adverse Union government actions that undermine the constitutional principles of fiscal federalism”.The speaker said that the deletions and additions made by the governor would not go on record. Read on.Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nitin Nabin was elected as the party’s national president, succeeding Union minister JP Nadda. The 45-year-old politician is the youngest person ever to head the BJP.Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that Nabin will be...Read more

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of American women and men — and has been for over 100 years. In fact, cardiovascular diseases are the top cause of adult deaths everywhere, responsible for 1 in 3 deaths worldwide. Cardiologists say physical inactivity, smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes are all to blame — as is an unhealthy diet full of refined grains, added sugars and the artery-clogging saturated fats found in red and processed meats and full-fat dairy. The recently released 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans restrict refined grains, added sugars and ultraprocessed foods (known as UPFs) — a move applauded by medical organizations. However, the revised food pyramid — which flips prior pyramids on their heads — also puts red meat and other foods full of protein and saturated fat in a starring role in the top tier, alongside fresh vegetables and fruits known to protect health. Leading cardiologists tell CNN this is upside-down thinking. “Promoting saturated fat and increasing the amount of protein goes against all nutrition and cardiology science,” said Dr. Kim Williams, chair of the department of medicine at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. “We’ve been researching this for decades, and we definitively know saturated fat — such as butter fat, beef tallow, red and processed meat — are all closely associated with more deaths from cardiovascular disease,” said Williams, a past president of the American College of Cardiology. “This does not fall in line with President Trump’s executive order 14303, which mandates that all federal policies use the best scientific evidence available.” That executive order, signed by Trump on May 23, 2025, called for a return to “a gold standard for science” to ensure “that Federal decisions are informed by the most credible, reliable, and impartial scientific evidence available.” Yet it’s exactly the impartial, verified and credible science that the new guidelines ignore, according to cardiologists. In fact, randomized controlled clinical trials — the current gold standard of research — have found replacing saturated fats with vegetable and seed oils reduced cardiovascular disease by some 30%, similar to the benefits of statin medications. “There’s no question that when we remove saturated fat from the diet and add in polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats from fish, seed and plant sources, we save lives by improving cardiovascular health,” said Dr. Monica Aggarwal, an adjunct clinical associate professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville. “People are going to look at the new pyramid and think ‘Oh, I can eat as much steak as I like.’ Social media is already full of headlines like: ‘Beef is back on top,’ or ‘Butter is back,’ or ‘Beef tallow is the way to go,” Aggarwal said. “Yet there is no debate that the saturated fat in those foods is linked to heart disease.” Discarding decades of science In a January 8 press conference on the new guidelines, federal officials spoke of their disdain for past nutritional guidance. “For decades, we’ve been fed a corrupt food pyramid that has had a myopic focus on demonizing natural, healthy saturated fats, telling you not to eat eggs and steak and ignoring a giant blind spot — refined carbohydrates, added sugars and ultraprocessed food,” US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said at the briefing. The new dietary guidelines call for less than 10% of total daily calories to come from saturated fats, not terribly far from AHA recommendations to keep unhealthy fats to less than 6%. However, 10% or less is an impossible goal, experts say, if the major emphasis of the Make America Healthy Again movement is on eating more proteins with saturated fats. The Nutrition Source, an online resource from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, recently put the new dietary guidelines, which recommend three servings of dairy a day, to the…

La fin d'un regime se manifeste souvent par des palinodies mediocres destinées à sauver les places des moins courageux....

Ne pas oublier que les promesses des politicards n'engagent que les idiots qui les croient. Le cornu ne sautera pas il a ses potes socialos (comme tous depuis 1981). Il pourra dire "c'est pas moi c'est vos élus"....