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            Unbalanced and unhealthy eating can lead to chronic diseases.   Chronic diseases have become one of the major issues of modern age, not only in western countries but also in areas where rapid economic growth has increased global prosperity levels.   In order for medical systems to avoid shutting down or collapse under excessive costs, there are International and Public Organizations that strongly support health policies that have the purpose to help people shift towards wholesome and healthy diets.   These organizations also encourage the use of food-labels to aid consumers in making healthier food choices.               There was a brief questionnaire that was developed and shared on Facebook between January-March of 2016 to evaluate consumers’ knowledge and perception about food-labels.   Most of the participants were young adults with a higher education.   These adults said that they did their grocery shopping at least once a week and they read the food-labels qui
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2 LEDE's

LEDE 1           A food label is a panel of information found on a package of food, which contains a variety of information about the nutritional value of the food item.   There are many pieces of information, which are standard on most food labels such as serving size, number of calories, grams of fat, included nutrients, and a list of ingredients.   This information helps consumers who are trying to restrict their intake of sodium, sugar, fat, or other ingredients.   There are also individuals who are trying to get enough of healthy nutrients such as calcium or Vitamin C.   The label provides each item with its approximate percent daily value, which is generally based on a 2,000-calorie diet.             The primary role of food labels is to inform consumers of the food’s nutritional values and ingredients, its manufacturer, health claims and possible allergens or some other potentially threatening food information.   All of this data helps people decide whether they will e
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two other sources

Source 1: Part 1: Bibliographic Entry: Harmon, K. (2011, January 14). Does Calorie-Labeling at Restaurants Lead to Healthier Eating? Retrieved from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/calorie-labeling-menus/ Part 2: Summary This article contained many questions from the author that was answered by Eric Finkelstein who is an associate professor at Duke University’s Global Health Institute.   There was a study conducted at an Asian-style fast food restaurant.   The customers were asked if they would like to downsize their meal to cut calories but the only 1/3 of the consumers took the offer.   The rate did not improve when calorie counts were posted, which Brian Elbel reported at the American Public Health Association meeting in 2010.   This difference suggested that some customers were willing to change their lunch routine but calorie figures did not affect others to overcome the “visceral urges” when they stepped up to place their order. In January 2009 King
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Loneliness of the Interconnected

This excerpt was interesting.   I have never read about a cult before and the beliefs held by Dorothy Martin were strange.   The whole concept of cognitive dissonance is cool.   Cognitive dissonance is defined as a situation in which a person is forced to believe two mutually incompatible ideas at the same time.     A psychologist named Leon Festinger sought to understand what happens at the crisis moment, which is when an immovable object of a core belief comes into conflict with the irresistible force of an undeniable contrary fact.   This is the reason why he chose to study an apocalyptic cult.   Festinger’s theory was based upon the assumption that cognitive dissonance is very uncomfortable for humans.   When confronted with pain, humans attempt to resolve it with whatever mechanisms are at hand.   The implications of this issue can be shifted to today too because it happens in modern day as well and not just in 1955 when this case study happened. Today, humans seek shelt
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Inside the Macedonian Fake-News Complex

               This article was very interesting in the fact that a young man that goes by the name Boris made a good amount of money on posting information that isn’t even true on websites.   This is not morally right, but it made him some big bucks and caused him to drop out of school, which is a big decision.   There is one paragraph in the article that describes what Boris looks like and reveals more about him and you ask yourself, “So What?”                The answer to “So What?” is that Boris decided to start some websites of his own.   Boris figured out how to make money by posting big ads in his posts, so that one in five visitors to a page would end up clicking on an ad.   “His RPM- revenue per 1,000 impressions- hovered around $15, he says.   He fed the beast with diligence.”   You may not think that fifteen dollars is a lot but Boris worked hard to prepare posts for the following day and it ended up paying off for him because he was making decent enough money to buy
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iGod

               One way the author makes the article engaging is by including dialogue.   There was an interview that was conducted by an interviewer and Sergey Brin.   The interviewer asked, “Is your goal to have the entire word’s knowledge connected directly to our minds?”   Brin responded, “To get closer to that- as close as possible.”   Brin continues to talk about how he wants google to become an artificial intelligence.   Brin and Page both have the aspiration to use artificial intelligence to make us smarter.   The topic of artificial intelligence is engaging as it is but to go beyond that and have the goal to make the ultimate search engine is even more engaging.                The sources used throughout are also engaging.   The article starts out by stating that the founders of google sat down with Playboy and the magazine published the transcript.   The article goes on to explain how Brian also discussed Google’s progress toward the ultimate goal in an interview wi
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Star Eater

                    This article was extremely interesting.   I have always found space to be fascinating.   The author did a brilliant job at keeping the article interesting, fun, and engaging.   The author did this by using many numbers and comparisons that would help the reader understand better what he was trying to explain.   One example of this is when the author says, “ A sugar-cube-size fragment of a neutron star would weigh a billion tons on Earth; a neutron star’s gravitational pull is so severe that if you were to drop a marshmallow on it, the impact would generate as much energy as an atom bomb.”   The author in this example is trying to explain how severe a star’s gravitational pull is by using a marshmallow as an example, which is awesome.           The author uses Huxley’s three directions.   The first direction is moving toward the personal and inner experience.   The author does this by explaining what would happen to you if you were to cross the event hor
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