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Does your diet need an oil change? – Starjournalnow

Posted: February 18, 2017 at 11:41 am

February 17, 2017

BY JACLYN BRICE Ministry Medical Group, Rhinelander

Current dietary guidelines recognize the health benefits of certain oils and call for a moderate intake of fat for most Americans.

If you are looking to lose or maintain weight, there is no denying that fats are higher in calories than proteins or carbohydrates. Thats one reason for moderation. As for cardiovascular health, the American Heart Association (AHA) makes the choice pretty simple, by stating Replacing bad fats (saturated and trans) with healthier fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated) is better for your heart.

Non-tropical vegetable oils are better than solid fats such as butter, shortening, lard and hard stick margarine, according to the AHA. The better-for-you oils listed in alphabetical order on its website are canola, corn, olive, peanut, safflower, soybean, sunflower and blends of any of these oils. Tropical oils such as palm and coconut have more saturated fat and, as a result, do not make the AHA list.

Saturated fat tends to increase total cholesterol and LDL, raising your risk of cardiovascular disease. It also increases the risk of type 2 diabetes. Trans fats, usually made from oils through a partial hydrogenation process, are considered hazardous to cardiovascular health.

Solid vs Liquid: Generally speaking, saturated fatsbutter, lard, shorteningare solid at room temperature. Most oils have at least some saturated fatty acids, and the majority of fatty acids in coconut, palm and palm kernel oil are saturated.

Polyunsaturated fats are always liquid, even if you put them in the refrigerator. Monounsaturated fats become cloudy when chilled.

Monounsaturated: Monounsaturated fats have been linked to lower total and LDL cholesterol and higher levels of HDL (the good cholesterol). Subjects whose diets included more than 12 percent monounsaturated fats had lower fat mass and lower blood pressure than those eating less than 12 percent of these fats, according to one study.

Oils that are high in monounsaturated fats include olive, peanut, avocado and canola. Extra virgin olive oil also contains antioxidants (polyphenols) that are associated with good heart health.

Canola oil is more neutral in flavor (a plus for some, a minus for others) and is often highly refined and has fewer antioxidants than olive oil. It does have a relatively long shelf life, however.

Oil that has gone rancid or oxidized has an unpleasant smell and taste and has been found to speed up the process of atherosclerosis. Keep oils in a cool, dark, dry place.

Both canola and peanut oil have high smoke points, the temperature at which oils tend to break down and lose nutrients. This makes them a good choice for cooking over high heat.

Polyunsaturated fats have also been found beneficial to cholesterol and heart health. Oils that are high in polyunsaturated fatty acids include cottonseed, soybean, corn, sunflower, safflower, walnut, grapeseed and flaxseed oil. They do not offer equal health benefits.

Two major types of polyunsaturated fatty acids are omega-3 and omega-6. Both are beneficial, but the American diet contains far more omega-6 fatty acids, primarily from packaged foods, refined plant oils, poultry and eggs.

A European study found a lower incidence of heart disease in countries that have diets high in omega-3 fatty acids and use oils with a high ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids.

Sunflower oil is almost entirely omega-6 fatty acids; grapeseed and corn oil also have a high percentage of omega-6 as opposed to omega-3s. Blended vegetable oils usually contain mostly soybean and corn oil, considered two of the least beneficial of oils.

Tropical Oils: The AHA essentially rules out tropical oils such as coconut, palm and palm kernel oils because they are high in saturated fatty acids.

Not everyone agrees. Studies have demonstrated that coconut oil raises total cholesterol but increases HDL even more. Whether or not this matters in terms of cardiovascular health has not yet been determined, but most doctors are reluctant to start recommending coconut oil.

As you make changes in your selection and use of oils, keep in mind that views are undergoing changes as new findings are made available.

One thing is clear: oils have an important place in a good diet. Your goal should be to find the best oils that meet your tastes and your health needs.

Jaclyn Brice is a certified health coach with Ministry Medical Group, part of Ascension.

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Truth, And The Tribulations Of Randomized Diet Trials – Huffington Post

Posted: February 18, 2017 at 11:41 am

The volume of bad answers, bad questions, noise and nonsense conspiring to hide the simple, fundamental truths about diet and health seems to swell daily.The task of generating a signal to be heard over this din grows more challenging in tandem.Among the cries populating the cacophony of misinformation is the contention that we know nothing not directly demonstrated in a randomized controlled trial.Much as I like RCTs, having run and published the results of dozens over my career, I consider this view misguided surrender to the tyranny of trial design.

Leaving aside the fact that some extremely impressive randomized controlled trials- with interventions spanning flexitarian diets, Mediterranean diets, and more - do, in fact, demonstrate the fundamental truths about diet and health, the simple fact is that we do not always need a definitive RCT to know what we know.

Suppose you wanted to know with something nearing certainty what specific dietary pattern was best for human health.How would you proceed?

Well, first, I think, you would need to define best in an operational (i.e., measurable) way.Does best mean lowers LDL in the short term, or does it mean raises HDL, or both?Does it mean it lowers inflammatory markers, or insulin, or blood glucose, or blood pressure?Does it mean it reduces body fat, or increases lean body mass?Does it mean all of these, or does it mean something else?Is the short term one month, or three, or a year?

I dont think any of these, or anything like them, really satisfies what we think we mean when we say best for health.I think the intended meaning of that is actually rather clear: the combination of longevity, and vitality.Years in life, and life in years, if you will.I think a diet is best for health and yes, I have wrestled with this very issue before- if it fuels a long, robust life free of preventable chronic diseases (e.g., heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, dementia, etc.) and obesity, and endows us with the energy both mental and physical- to do all we want and aspire to do.That, I think, is a robust definition of best for health.

We are obligated to wrestle comparably with the operational definition of a specific diet.Low fat, or low carb dont mean much.A low fat diet could be rich in beans and lentils, or made up exclusively of lollipops.A low carb diet could cut out refined starch and added sugar, or exclude all fruits and vegetables.Lets not belabor this, and simply concede that the relevant test to prove that one, specific dietary prescription (e.g., the Ornish diet, or the South Beach diet, or the DASH diet, etc.) is best is to establish optimized versions of the various contenders, from vegan to Paleo, and put them up against one another directly.

And now our tribulations begin.As we noted at the start, our outcome is the combination of longevity and vitality.To get at longevity, we need a very long trial; in fact, our trial needs to last a lifetime.So, just to get started, we are toying with the notion of a randomized trial running for 80-100 years.

Dietary influences begin in utero, so we should really randomize not our study subjects, but their mothers while pregnant with them.Dietary influences are salient during breast-feeding as well, and the composition of breast milk is influenced by maternal diet, so we need the mothers we enroll to agree not only to adhere to their assigned diet throughout pregnancy, but to breast feed exclusively until weaning, and adhere then as well.Only at weaning can our actual study subjects get in the game, adopting their assigned diet as babies.For our study to work, they too must adhere to the assigned diet, whatever it is, and in their case- for a lifetime.

Since we are randomizing participants, we may expect them to be alike, on average, in all ways other than their diet assignment- the very point of a randomized, controlled trial.Since we are comparing optimal versions of diets reasonably under consideration for best diet laurels, we may anticipate that our study participants are apt to be healthier, and longer-lived in general than the population at large, consuming the lamentable typical American diet.

Thats a problem too.If our entire study sample does well, it raises the bar to show that one of our diets is truly, meaningfully better than another.Consider, for instance, that those assigned to an optimal vegan, or an optimal Mediterranean diet, just to name two, have remarkably low rates of chronic disease- and we are trying to show a difference between them in the rates of chronic disease.The smaller the difference we are seeking, the larger the sample size we need to find it, and assign statistical significance to it (lets not belabor this point either; Ive written a textbook on the topic, so trust me- its true).That now means we need not only a RCT unprecedented in length, but unprecedented in size, too.We need to randomize tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of pregnant women to study the effects of competing diets on the vitality and longevity of their offspring- at a cost that is staggering to contemplate, and would certainly run into the billions of dollars.

This study has not been done.This study will not be done.Whatever you do, dont hold your breath waiting for it.

Lets contrast our ostensible need for this RCT to how we know what we know about putting out house fires.

First, there has never been, to the best of my knowledge, a RCT to show that water is a better choice than gasoline.Do you think we need such a trial, to establish the legitimacy of the basic theme (i.e., use water) of the right approach?Would you, and your home, be willing to participate in such a trial when you call 911- knowing you might randomly be assigned to the gasoline arm of the study?

I trust we agree that observation, experience, and sense serve to establish beyond the realm of reasonable (or, even, any) doubt that water is generally good for putting out house fires, and gasolinenot so much.

But what if, as with diet, we wanted to know the specific fire fighting approach that was best.Once again, we would need to define specific approach, which here might mean water at different temperatures, pH, hardness versus softness, and pressure.We might compare hoses of different calibers, and such.And we would need to define best, which here presumably means putting out fires the fastest, with the least damage to people and property.

Consider the size, cost, and inconvenience of a randomized trial to compare water at 40F versus 41F; or a slight difference in water mineral content.We would again expect variations on the sensible theme of fire fighting such as these to produce very tiny differences in outcomes, meaning we would need an enormous sample, a lot of time, and a lot of money to append this bit of specificity to the fundamentals we already knew.

My friends- and everybody else- diet is the same.The want of a RCT addressing this kind of water versus that does not mire us in perpetual cluelessness about the basic approach to putting out fires.Sure, we could do RCTs to add to what we know- but the want of such studies does not expunge what we already know based on empirical evidence, long experience, observation, and sense.

If anything, the fundamentals of a health-promoting diet are better substantiated than those of fire fighting, since they are informed by long experience, the observation of large populations even of entire regions, and even over generations as well as by a massive aggregation of research, ranging from mechanistic study in test tubes to RCTs enrolling people.We are the furthest thing from clueless about the basic care and feeding of Homo sapiens.Here, too, RCTs can append to what we know- but they are by no means the sole basis for it.

I dont know, frankly, whether an optimal vegan diet, or an optimal Mediterranean diet, or an optimal Asian diet, or even an optimal Paleo diet is the best for human health.I do know, because we all know, that a diet comprised principally of minimally processed vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, lentils and pulses, nuts, seeds, with plain water preferentially for thirst is the best theme for human and planetary health alike, and runs commonly through all the legitimate, specific contestants- just as water is the best theme when aiming a fire hose.

To conclude otherwise is to misconstrue the utility of randomized trials, succumb to their tyranny, and lose our way in a bog of tribulations.To conclude otherwise is to fiddle around while the house of public health burns down to the ground.

Senior Medical Advisor, Verywell.com

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‘I Tried Going Vegan For A WeekHere’s What Happened’ – Women’s Health

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This Is Us’ Chrissy Metz Talks Real-Life Weight Loss Journey and Her New Boyfriend – E! Online

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This Is Us starChrissy Metz, who battled body image problems for years, says it was "convenient" to book a role for acharacter who ismade to lose weight.

OnThis Is Us, Metz's character, Kate nixes the idea ofelective gastric bypass surgery and opts to join aweight loss camp instead. The actress had said last fallthat when she got the part, she was told her character slims down. In January, she denied rumors she had gotten gastric bypass surgery.

"I think it's a coincidence that I bookedwell, maybe not a coincidencethat I booked a role that's so similar to who I am and when that was obviously posed to me as, maybe this character's going to be on a weight loss journey, I was like, 'Oh! That's convenient. Okay! I could do that too,'" Metz, 36, said onThe Wendy Williams Show Friday.

"But I'm also at the place where I accept myself for who I am so I now can get to the place I want to be," she added.

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Metz said she was a lot like Kate when she was younger, before she was secure with who she is and"really knew that our bodies don't define usthey just happen to be our vessels."

"Kate was me probably about nine years ago, when I first moved to L.A. and so of course I have similarities," she said. "But there are a lot of differences as well."

On This Is Us, Kate'sfiancsupports her through her personal struggle.

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During her interview, Metz talked about her real-life boyfriendJosh Stancil, who works as cameraman on the NBC show.The two have been dating for five months and made their public debut at a pre-2017 SAG Awards party in January.

"I kind of made the [first] move," the actress told Williams. "He was eating [with the crew]I talk to everyone, 'cause I love people, like I don't care what you do, we're all the same, we just have different jobsso I was like,' Oh my God, he's really cute,' so I said, 'Slow down, you're gonna choke on your food!' and he starts cracking up and I was like, 'Why did I just say that? Why did I just say that?"

"So we just started chatting and it was like instant," she said.

Meanwhile, some awkwardness was expected on the set of This Is Us, as Metz's boyfriend was stillworking behind the camera as she filmed her scenes, including intimate scenes with her onscreen fianc, played byChris Sullivan.

"Initially, I was like, 'This is gonna be weird,' and then he was fine with it and then there was a really big kissing scene Chris and I did," Metz said. "And he was like, 'I didn't like that.' He's like, 'Truth be told...that wasn't my favorite thing' and I'm like, 'Well...' and he was like, 'And why did she have you kiss him 12 times?' And I was like, 'We just had to get the right shot.' So it's not his favorite thing."

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Research shows balancing hormones can aid weight loss – WLS-TV

Posted: February 18, 2017 at 11:41 am

The CDC says about 38 percent of American adults are considered clinically obese and 71 percent are overweight. Research shows that hormone imbalance can have a huge impact on this back-and-forth weight gain. Wellness experts are seeing how balancing the hormones can help with weight loss.

In her hormone therapy clinic, Terri DeNeui says the benefits of hormone replacement therapy go beyond increased energy levels, mood and libido.

That's what happened to Brandy Prince, a nurse practitioner, who had no energy, and a pattern of losing and gaining weight over and over.

"I was obese at 208 pounds and I felt terrible, I felt terrible about myself, I got out of bed every morning and everything just hurt," she said.

Using pellets that are inserted under the skin, Brandy got testosterone, which helped her build muscle and her thyroid levels were increased. She slept better and she lost weight, eventually more than 50 pounds.

"So the weight loss was not something that I expected or anticipated, but it was definitely a wonderful benefit," she said.

"It's not just my physical size, but my entire confidence, and my self-esteem has changed. I'm not the same person," Brandy said.

Doctors say this type of hormone therapy has minimal risk factors and few side effects, although patients with a history of breast or prostate cancer may need further evaluation and doctors may consider alternate options for those patients.

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Christy Carlson Romano Gets Real About Postpartum Weight Loss … – E! Online

Posted: February 18, 2017 at 11:41 am

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Christy Carlson Romano wants mothers everywhere to feel good about themselves and their bodies, no matter how long it takes to "bounce back."

The former Disney star shared a photo on Instagram of her belly two months after giving birth to her baby girl, Isabella.

"This is me 2 months postpartum. No fancy outfits or filters," she wrote. "It's so important for people to see motherhood for the beauty of what it really is. It's a massive undertaking to carry a human inside you! It's not that easy to 'bounce back' right away and it shouldn't be expected."

Thus, she says, "My body will be where I want it to be on my timeline and in the meantime I'll be soaking up these precious moments with my daughter."

In fact, E! News chatted with the new mama more in-depth about why she's not focusing so much on losing weight.

"I'm not doing anything to lose my baby weight except breastfeeding," she dished. "It's super important to keep eating healthy to keep breast milk supply up, so I am still honoring my cravings and taking prenatal [vitamins]."

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She continued, "Eventually, I would like to find a workout that is fun! Before I gave birth, I would do H2Yoga (water yoga) and may go back to that class before hitting any intense workouts."

Her outlook on workouts and losing weight has a lot to do with her overall shift in perspective.

"The most surprising thing about being a mom is how much your perspective shifts almost immediately," Christy told us. "It's like you become a new person! What I am finding most is how much you feel the need to embrace your new self without forgetting the old you, too."

She says she can see a lot of herself and her husband, Brendan Rooney, in their daughter, even at just a couple months old.

"Isabella is such a joy! She was the best Christmas present we have received," Christygushed. "She is only two months and already has quite a personality. We can see her making faces that look like both of us,which is really surreal."

Overall, Christy says she's just feeling very grateful for her hubby and her family as she takesin all that motherhood has to offer.

"I am so blessed to have a supportive husband and family," she told us."Having this experience is very humbling in that you learn how to ask for help. I have never had more respect for single moms. They should be given awards!"

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10 Best Carbs For Weight Loss, According to a Dietitian – POPSUGAR

Posted: February 18, 2017 at 11:41 am


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The Weekly Health Quiz: Weight Loss, Pain Relief and a Deadly Outbreak – New York Times

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The Weekly Health Quiz: Weight Loss, Pain Relief and a Deadly Outbreak. By TOBY BILANOW FEB. 17, 2017. Paul Rogers. 1 of 8. The most effective way to lose large amounts of weight, and keep if off, many experts say, is: A low-carbohydrate diet. A low ...

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Scientifically-designed fasting diet lowers risks for major diseases – Science Daily

Posted: February 18, 2017 at 11:41 am

What if you could lose weight and reduce your risk of life-threatening disease without any changes in what you eat -- other than a five-day special diet once every few months?

That's what happened for 71 adults who were placed on three cycles of a low-calorie, "fasting-mimicking" diet. The phase II trial, conducted by researchers at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, demonstrated a host of benefits from the regimen.

The diet reduced cardiovascular risk factors including blood pressure, signs of inflammation (measured by C-reactive protein levels), as well as fasting glucose and reduced levels of IGF-1, a hormone that affects metabolism. It also shrank waistlines and resulted in weight loss, both in total body fat and trunk fat, but not in muscle mass.

In effect, the diet reduced the study participants' risks for cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other age-related diseases, according to the findings published Feb. 15 in Science Translational Medicine.

"This study provides evidence that people can experience significant health benefits through a periodic, fasting-mimicking diet that is designed to act on the aging process," said Valter Longo, director of the USC Longevity Institute and a professor of biological sciences for USC Davis and Dornsife. "Prior studies have indicated a range of health benefits in mice, but this is the first randomized clinical trial with enough participants to demonstrate that the diet is feasible, effective and safe for humans.

"Larger FDA studies are necessary to confirm its effects on disease prevention and treatment," he added.

One hundred people participated in the trial from April 2013 to July 2015. The participants, ages 20 to 70 and all generally healthy, were divided into two groups for the randomized trial.

Participants in the first group, the control group, were asked to continue their normal eating habits for three months. People in the second group were placed on a three-month test of the fasting-mimicking diet.

Those on the special diet were required to eat food products supplied by the nutrition company L-Nutra during the fasting periods of five days each month. The diet, which was designed to mimic the results of a water-only fast, allowed for participants to consume between 750 and 1,100 calories per day. The meals for the fast-mimicking diet contained precise proportions of proteins, fats and carbohydrates.

After three months, participants in the control group were moved onto the special diet.

The researchers found that participants on the fasting-mimicking diet lost an average of about 6 pounds. Their waistlines shrank by 1 to 2 inches. Their systolic blood pressure, which was in the normal range when the study began, dropped by 4.5 mmHG, while their diastolic blood pressure dropped by 3.1 mmHg. Also, their levels of IGF-1 dropped to between 21.7 ng/mL and 46.2 ng/mL, reaching a range associated with lower cancer risk.

"After the first group completed their three months on the fasting diet, we moved over participants in the control group to see if they also would experience similar results," Longo said. "We saw similar outcomes, which provides further evidence that a fasting-mimicking diet has effects on many metabolic and disease markers. Our mouse studies using a similar fasting-mimicking diet indicate that these beneficial effects are caused by multi-system regeneration and rejuvenation in the body at the cellular and organ levels.

"Our participants retained those effects, even when they returned to their normal daily eating habits," he added.

The researchers also noted that participants considered "at risk" because they had risk factors such as high IGF-1, cholesterol, blood pressure or blood sugar levels, made significant progress toward better health.

For example, baseline fasting glucose levels for participants with high blood sugar levels (putting them at risk for diabetes) dropped into the healthy range, below 99 mg/dl -- but these levels didn't drop among participants who already had healthy levels at the beginning of the study. Cholesterol was reduced by 20 mg/dl in those with high cholesterol levels, and by about 5 mg/dl in all participants.

"Fasting seems to be the most beneficial for patients who have the great risk factors for disease, such as those who have high blood pressure or pre-diabetes or who are obese," Longo said.

The researchers had invited participants in the study for one last set of tests three months later, at the end of the diet. The research team found that the beneficial effects -- from weight loss, smaller waistlines and lower glucose, blood pressure and IGF-1 levels -- were sustained.

The next step for researchers is a large, FDA phase III clinical trial to test the FMD on patients diagnosed with age-related diseases or at high risk for them. The researchers said further investigation will determine whether the benefits of the diet can continue for several months.

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The reason people exercise that has nothing to do with losing weight – MarketWatch

Posted: February 18, 2017 at 11:40 am

Leave weight loss to a proper diet people are mostly exercising because they want to avoid a host of illnesses.

More than half (64%) of people who exercise regularly said they do so to improve their overall health, and 45% said it was to prevent future health issues, according to an exercise trends survey by global research firm Mintel. Comparatively, 36% responded saying they exercised to lose weight. Good news, too countless studies, including one in medical peer-review journal BMC Public Health that says physical activity helps reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes, show youre more likely to improve your health than quickly drop some pounds.

There is not one pill that will do everything exercise does, said Don Hensrud, director of the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Program.

The list of illnesses a proper exercise regimen can prevent goes on and on, he said, including preventing diabetes, high blood pressure, cognitive impairments, cancers, fibromyalgia and even recovery from a broken hip caused by a fall or lack of balance. And, of course, it isnt just physical. People are starting to recognize those indirect benefits that are hard to capture on a FitBit FIT, -1.65% said Dana Macke, senior research analyst at Mintel including the mental and emotional ones.

Around 12-15 million people use wearable technology for health care - a market that includes Fitbit, Apple, Samsung and LG. MarketWatch spoke to Kate McCarthy, a health-care analyst that manages a rare disease using an Apple Watch and a service dog.

See: Heres everything people get wrong about exercise and eating

But not everyone finds the motivation to exercise, or they may even have expectations set too high. More than a third of Americans have already abandoned their workout New Years resolutions, even though they spend an average of $58 a month on gym memberships. Almost 80% of Mintel survey respondents said they had to exercise three times a week to see benefits, and a third said it isnt worthwhile to exercise for less than a half hour.

Regularly exercising can be as simple as doing healthier activities throughout the day, such as choosing stairs over the elevator or walking around the neighborhood, Hensrud said. For example, someone who wants to improve balance can practice standing on one leg and staying attentive to your posture; weight lifting will build a strong core and help with strength training. Even fidgeting can burn calories, a doctor said, after President Donald Trump told Dr. Oz hand gestures count as exercise.

See: 5 ways lifting weights helped me succeed at work

Three-quarters of adults consider themselves regular exercisers, according to Mintel, although a majority is not doing enough to get the health benefits, a 2014 government report found. Federal guidelines dictate 150 minutes of aerobic exercise a week is the minimum people should do. But anyone can get started, no matter how old they are, Hensrud said. People have different challenges, and we may have limitations or joint issues, he said, but theres always something most people can do even with those limitations. Its never too late to start.

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