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Choosing the right diet for you
It's easy to lose weight if you know how to do it. Diet and exercise, right? Exercise is easy to understand but how do you diet? What is the right diet for you?
There is Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, the Atkins diet, Volumetrics, and the list goes on and on.
With all of the options out there you almost need to go on a information diet in order to digest all of the plans and programs out there. But today on American Morning Keri Glassman helps us break it all down listing the best diets and which one is right for you.
Unnecessary heart implants?
(CNN) - More than 20 % of patients who received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator - a high-tech device that produces electrical impulses to regulate heartbeats and prevent life-threatening arrhythmias - in recent years were not good candidates to receive the device, a new study suggests.
Researchers at Duke University looked at more than 111,000 patients who received ICD implants between 2006 and 2009. More than 25,000 of those patients did not meet evidence-based criteria for receiving the device, according to the study.
The risk of dying in the hospital was significantly higher for patients who received the ICD but did not meet the criteria, and 1 out of 121 patients in this category experienced complications following the implant, the study found.
The study also states that as many as one out of five of these surgeries should have never happened. So why did they?
Today on American Morning, Dr. Robert Michler, director of the Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center in New York explains.
Dead bird mystery deepens
Coincidence or conspiracy? That's the question many of you are asking after another 500 birds were found dead yesterday just outside of Pointe Coupee Parish in Louisiana. This comes after over 5,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings had fallen from the sky only about 300 miles away in Beebe, Ark. It is a strange phenomenon but as the National Wildlife Federation’s Doug Inkley explains this morning on American Morning, it is not enough to be considered a conspiracy.
Two freshmen Reps. call for changing of D.C. culture
As John Boehner was being sworn in today as the new Speaker of the House for the 112th Congress the former speaker, Nancy Pelosi, was addressing a new drastic change of her own...changing her Twitter username:
"I'm now @NancyPelosi – 2 characters shorter than @SpeakerPelosi. RTers rejoice!"
-@NancyPelosi
A new Congress means the changing of the guard in Washington and new class of congressional freshmen on Capitol Hill. But what do the freshmen members want to see? What do they want change?
Today on American Morning, two new freshmen representatives, Rep. Karen Bass, D, Calif., and Rep. Paul Gosar, R, Ariz., tell AM's Kiran Chetry and Jim Acosta what they hope to accomplish in the 112th Congress and how they plan to turn their campaign rhetoric into action.
What to expect from the 112th Congress
Today marks the first day of the 112th Congress, and with it, a new Republican majority in the House of Representatives. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is promising that House Republicans will run "a cut-and-grow majority" in the upcoming year, planning to reduce the amount of federal spending while simultaneously growing the economy.
Number one on the House Republicans' agenda is a vote on repealing President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul. Some Republicans say they were elected to repeal the legislation. But a recent CNN/Opinion Research Poll finds that only 37 percent oppose the bill for being too liberal, and that any possible legislation passed would meet a veto from President Obama. Does that mean Republicans' efforts are a waste of time?
Kiki McLean, a Democratic strategist, and Ed Rollins, a Republican strategist, talk to American Morning about the Republican roadmap for healthcare repeal and the other upcoming legislative battles facing the new Congress.
Winning $355M lottery tickets sold in Idaho, Wash. state
(CNN)– Two tickets matched all six numbers in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing.
The owners of those tickets, purchased in Idaho and Washington, will split the estimated $355 million jackpot.
The winning numbers were 4, 8, 15, 25 and 47, with 42 being the Mega Ball number.
It also paid to be a fan of the TV show, "Lost." Four of the six numbers drawn in the Tuesday's Mega Millions lottery matched the numbers immortalized by the Lost character Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, who hit a $114 million jackpot off them – only to be haunted by the same numbers in later episodes.
If you played Hurley's numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42), you won $150, according to a payout table on the Mega Millions website, though the same table noted that fixed prizes such as the $150 one "may be paid on a pari-mutuel basis and (be) lower than" that amount.
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