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For the second time in a week, the U.S. Air Force test launched another long-range ballistic missile on Wednesday morning, flying more than 4,000 miles from a base in California before splashing down in the Pacific near the Marshall Islands.

The launch came just days after North Korea attempted a missile test of its own -- but failed -- with tensions high in the region.
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The Minuteman III missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California by a team in Montana shortly after 3 a.m. ET, the Air Force said in a statement. Officials said the launch was planned years in advance and was not related to North Korea's new threats.

"The tests are scheduled 3-5 years in advance, and it can take up to a year to plan and prepare for each launch," Linda Frost, a U.S. Air Force spokesperson, told Fox News. "...GT 222, held this morning, had already been scheduled. The command typically schedules four launches a year."

A launch that occurred last week was actually one that had been delayed from November due to brush fires in California.

The Air Force keeps 400 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles on alert around the clock in underground silos across three bases in Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming.

U.S. Air Force long-range B-52 and B-2 bombers are capable of carrying nuclear missiles, and the Navy's fleet of ballistic missile submarines are each able to carry 24 nuke-tipped ballistic missiles with multiple reentry warheads apiece.

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For the second time in a week, the U.S. Air Force test launched another long-range ballistic missile on Wednesday morning, flying more than 4,000 miles from a base in California before splashing down in the Pacific near the Marshall Islands.

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girl scalped on a carnival ride

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Cashier was unfazed when a Jimmy Johns was robbed

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A Kansas City Jimmy John's cashier seemed unfazed after a man pointed a gun to his head during a robbery caught on video.

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12-year-old Elizabeth Gilreath is speaking out nearly one year after she was scalped on a carnival ride in Omaha, Nebraska. WOWT has more.

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couple camping in California receives chilling death threat.

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A tranquil setting to unwind along the water.

A local couple thought they had found just what they were looking for in Colfax, but soon after they unpacked here on Easter weekend, their storybook stay at the Bear River Campground felt more like the storyline in a horror film.

"My boyfriend described being pulled aside by the older guy," the female victim said.

They say a group of male campers with a rusted truck, BB guns and a chainsaw complimented their music and even invited them over for beer. But later said it was their territory and threatened if they didn't leave by sun up they'd raid their tent and rape the woman.

"Ended it by making sure my boyfriend knew they planned on raping me in the morning," she said.

The woman only agreed to speak with FOX40 over the phone because she's terrified they will find her. In part, because she wrote a very detailed letter about the encounter that she posted to Facebook, Yelp and in the restrooms at the campground. She also got Placer County and its sheriff's office involved.

"As a husband and father, you read something like that, and it's the stuff nightmares are made of, so we take it very seriously," said Andy Fisher, Placer County Parks administrator.

Fisher said they've never received a complaint quite this aggressive before at Bear River.

"Two summers in a row we've been chased out of here," camper John Jewell said.

Jewell wasn't surprised by the woman's story when he was tagged in it on Facebook.

"First summer we were chased out of here by a group who was crazy," Jewell said.

He said he is surprised that the accused campers have not been caught since he sees rangers patrol the area frequently.

"With this new reservation system, we'll be talking with our board," Fisher said.

Fisher said Placer County is already trying to update its parks reservation system so that visitors have to register their information online -- leaving a record of who comes in and who comes out.
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A woman in Arizona said she made a stunning discovery inside a new purse she bought at a Walmart: A note apparently written by a desperate prisoner in China. Laura Wallace found the message, written in Chinese, tucked inside the zipper compartment of the purse she purchased at a Sierra Vista Walmart

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A woman in Arizona said she made a stunning discovery inside a new purse she bought at a Walmart: A note apparently written by a desperate prisoner in China.

Laura Wallace found the message, written in Chinese, tucked inside the zipper compartment of the purse she purchased at a Sierra Vista Walmart, KVOA reported.
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Wallace had a Chinese-speaking person translate the note to English. The letter read:

"Inmates in the Yingshan Prison in Guangxi, China are working 14 hours daily with no break/rest at noon, continue working overtime until 12 midnight, and whoever doesn't finish his work will be beaten. Their meals are without oil and salt. Every month, the boss pays the inmate 2000 yuan, any additional dishes will be finished by the police. If the inmates are sick and need medicine, the cost will be deducted from the salary. Prison in China is unlike prison in America, horse cow goat pig dog (literally, means inhumane treatment)."

Two other people translated the note to make sure the message was accurate, Wallace added.
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"I'm very sure that that's exactly what the note says," she told KVOA.

Wallace said she wanted to share the note to bring awareness to the situation.

"I don't want this to be an attack on any store," Wallace said. "That's not the answer. This is happening at all kinds of places and people just probably don't know."

Walmart issued a statement to KVOA on the incident. "We can't comment specifically on this note, because we have no way to verify the origin of the letter, but one of our requirements for the suppliers who supply products for sale at Walmart is all work should be voluntary as indicated in our Standards for Suppliers."

Similar notes reportedly have turned up in items sold at stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and K-Mart in the past.

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A woman in Arizona said she made a stunning discovery inside a new purse she bought at a Walmart: A note apparently written by a desperate prisoner in China. Laura Wallace found the message, written in Chinese, tucked inside the zipper compartment of the purse she purchased at a Sierra Vista Walmart, KVOA reported.

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President Donald  Trump said in an interview Monday that he “absolutely” would meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un under the right circumstances. “If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it,” Donald Trump told Bloomberg News, adding: “If it’s under the, again, under the right circumstances. But I would do that.”

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With the first 100 days in the rearview mirror, President Trump is entering the next phase of his administration vowing to confront the crisis with North Korea - saying in an interview that "we have to be prepared for the worst," as Congress moves on a separate front to apply new sanctions.

Trump told The Washington Examiner that he sees Kim Jong Un as "very threatening."

"We have to be prepared to do what we have to do. We cannot allow this to go on," Trump said.

In a separate interview, Trump declined to rule out military action. And his National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told "Fox News Sunday" that it's "important for all of us to confront this regime."

The Trump administration, Congress and the international community continue to consider multiple options, however, for cooling the tensions with North Korea, not the least of which is Trump's bid to court China to exert pressure on Pyongyang.
MILITARY OPTION ON TABLE WITH N. KOREA?
The North Korea situation stands as perhaps Trump's most pressing international concern, even as he looks to notch legislative achievements in Washington on health care and tax reform - two goals that eluded him during his first 100 days.

On Capitol Hill, the House plans to debate and vote on a new North Korea sanctions bill Monday night. The new push would target its shipping industry and those who employ North Korean slave labor abroad.

With international support, the Trump administration said last week it wants to exert a "burst" of economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea that yields results within months to push the communist government to change course from developing nuclear weapons.

Susan Thornton, the acting top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, said there's debate about whether Pyongyang is willing to give up its weapons programs. She said the U.S. wants "to test that hypothesis to the maximum extent we can" for a peaceful resolution.

But signaling that military action remains possible, Thornton told an event hosted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies - the Washington think tank has advocated tougher U.S. policies on Iran and North Korea - that the administration treats North Korea as its primary security challenge and is serious that "all options are on the table."

"We are not seeking regime change and our preference is to resolve this problem peacefully," Thornton said, "but we are not leaving anything off the table."

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took a similar stand in the Fox News interview Thursday, saying: "We do not seek regime change in North Korea. ... What we are seeking is the same thing China has said they seek - a full denuclearization of the Korean peninsula."

In a separate interview with National Public Radio, Tillerson said the U.S. remains open to holding direct negotiations with North Korea. Multi-nation negotiations with North Korea on its nuclear program stalled in 2008. The Obama administration attempted to resurrect them in 2012, but a deal to provide food aid in exchange for a nuclear freeze soon collapsed.

As Trump tries to settle the North Korea situation, he continues to work to enact his domestic policy agenda - with a lengthy to-do list remaining.

Most immediately, a senior White House official told Fox News they could see a vote on a new ObamaCare replacement plan on Wednesday, claiming it's down to a handful of votes.

Capitol Hill sources did not rule out Wednesday, but suggested Thursday is more likely provided they can corral the votes.

"As long as things stay where they are with the vote count," one source said.

House Republicans were unable advance an initial version of their health care bill in March, forced to pull it from the floor in the face of resistance from conservatives and Democrats alike. Amid the push to pass a revised package, Republican and Democratic lawmakers claim to have reached agreement on a separate must-pass spending package ahead of a Friday deadline.

The $1 trillion-plus measure does not include some of Trump's cornerstone promises including funding for a border wall or funding cuts to sanctuary cities, but could help clear the docket so Congress can concentrate on health care.
Fox News' John Roberts and Chad Pergram and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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With the first 100 days in the rearview mirror, President Trump is entering the next phase of his administration vowing to confront the crisis with North Korea - saying in an interview that "we have to be prepared for the worst," as Congress moves on a separate front to apply new sanctions.

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A Kansas City Jimmy John's cashier seemed unfazed after a man pointed a gun to his head during a robbery caught on video.

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President Trump said that Andrew Jackson would've stopped the civil war.

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Sorry, Mr. Jackson, he is for real.

Taking a stab at revisionist history, President Trump said in an interview Monday that he thinks former President Andrew Jackson would have been able to prevent the Civil War.

"Had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later, you wouldn't have had the Civil War," Trump told SiriusXMPolitics about the seventh President, who left office 24 years before, and died 16 years before, the onset of the American Civil War.

"He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart, and he was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War," Trump said.

"He said, there's no reason for this. People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, you think about it, why? People don't ask that question," Trump continued. "But why was there the Civil War. Why would that one not have been worked out?"

Jackson was in office from 1829 to 1837 and died in 1845. The Civil War broke out 16 years after Jackson's death, on April 12, 1861, when Fort Sumter, in South Carolina, was attacked.

While divisions among pro- and anti-slavery elements in the young union were certainly already prevalent during the Jackson administration, there is zero evidence that Jackson had absolutely anything to do with the catastrophic U.S. conflict that would break out a full 24 years after he left office.

In addition, Jackson, a native of the Carolinas who began his political career in Tennessee, was a southerner at heart who owned slaves.

He was most well-known for forcing Native Americans from their homes in what became known as the Trail of Tears and for being a decorated veteran who served in the War of 1812.

Trump has been frequently compared to the former President, due to their shared their reputations as outsiders wanting to defy the political establishment, their populist styles, their reliance on advice from non-governmental officials (Jackson had a slate of advisers called the "Kitchen Cabinet") and their shared confrontational relationship with the media.

But despite a raft of unfavorable information about Jackson and his role in American history, Trump has nevertheless welcomed the comparison. He has hung a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office and last month paid homage to Jackson by marking the seventh President's 250th birthday with a visit to his Tennessee home and final resting place.

Trump continued to embrace that comparison during his interview with SiriusXMPolitics.

"They said my campaign is most like ... like Andrew Jackson with his campaign," he told the satellite radio station, before launching into a story about the occasion when he learned of Jackson's political career.

"And I said, 'when was Andrew Jackson?' It was 1828. That's a long time ago," Trump said.

"That's Andrew Jackson. And he had a very, very mean and nasty campaign ... Because they said this was the meanest and the nastiest. And unfortunately it continues," Trump said.

"His wife died," Trump added, referring to the 1828 death of Rachel Jackson, whose demise historians have, in fact, credited in part to the stress of the election.

"They destroyed his wife and she died," he said.

"And you know, he was a swashbuckler," Trump continued. "But when your wife died, you know, he visited her grave every day."

Trump's eye-popping history gaffe, however, is far from his first.

In February, during a White House listening session with African-American leaders in honor of Black History Month, he appeared to not understand that Frederick Douglass, the famous slave-turned-abolitionist, had died long ago.

"Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice," he said.

Weeks later, at a GOP fundraiser, he appeared to suggest that he hadn't known, until recently, that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.

"Great President. Most people don't even know he was a Republican, right? Does anyone know?" he said.

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Sorry, Mr. Jackson, he is for real. Taking a stab at revisionist history, President Trump said in an interview Monday that he thinks former President Andrew Jackson would have been able to prevent the Civil War.

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President Trump gave a series of revealing interviews this weekend as he marked the 100th day of his presidency, making some notable comments about the Civil War and his nonexistent relationship with former President Obama.

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President Trump gave a series of revealing interviews this weekend as he marked the 100th day of his presidency, making some notable comments about the Civil War and his nonexistent relationship with former President Obama.

In the president's interview with CBS on Saturday, large portions of which were released this morning, Trump told "Face the Nation" anchor John Dickerson that he has "no relationship" with his predecessor, Obama.

"He was very nice to me, but after we've had some difficulties," Trump said. "It doesn't matter. Words are less important to me than deeds. You saw what happened with surveillance, and everybody saw what happened with surveillance... I think that was inappropriate."

The president had previously touted what he said was a "beautiful" letter that Obama left for him in the Oval Office, but said on CBS said that the relationship has soured since.

"Look, you can figure it out yourself. He was very nice to me with words, but -- and when I was with him -- but after that, there has been no relationship," Trump said.

Asked if he stands by his unsubstantiated claim that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower, the president said: "I don't stand by anything. I think you can take it any way you want. Our side has been proved very strongly, and everybody is talking about it. And frankly it should be discussed. I think that's a very big surveillance of our citizens. Think it's a very big topic and it should be number one and we should find out what the hell is going on."

Trump also gave an interview with reporter Salena Zito for her Sirius radio show, which is set to come out in full later today.

In a tweeted clip of the interview, Trump compares his successful election campaign to that of former President Andrew Jackson, an analogy he has made before. He goes on to suggest that Jackson, who was president from 1829 to 1837 and died in 1845, could have prevented the Civil War, which broke out in 1861. Trump also questions why the U.S. had a civil war.

"They said my campaign and is most like, my campaign and win, was most like Andrew Jackson with his campaign. And I said, 'When was Andrew Jackson?' It was 1828; that's a long time ago. That's Andrew Jackson, and he had a very, very mean and nasty campaign because they said this was the meanest and nastiest [campaign] since," Trump said to Zito, going on to call Jackson "a swashbuckler."

"I mean had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldn't have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War. He said, 'There's no reason for this.' People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, you think about it, why? People don't ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?"

There is still debate among some historians over the precise causes of the Civil War but the nonprofit Civil War Trust, dedicated to preserving Civil War battlegrounds, quotes the view that it started because of "uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states." The war began when seven southern slave states tried to secede from the United States.

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My kid is done with homework': Mom's email to daughter's school goes viral

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( WJW) -- One mom and blogger is throwing in the towel when it comes to her 10-year-old's heavy workload.

Bunmi Laditan actually sent an email to her daughter's school explaining that she would be lightening her workload.

Laditan told teachers she's allowing her daughter Maya to cut down, because she has been very stressed and is even starting to have physical symptoms like chest pain.

Laditan said children need down time just like adults need after work. And when you get home at 4:30 p.m., work on homework until 6:30 p.m. and then have dinner, that doesn't leave a lot of time, she said.

Laditan's Facebook post with a portion of the email has gotten over 61,000 reactions and 16,000 shares.

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katy perry is getting backlash for saying something about barack obama .. she said  Someone says, 'I miss your old black hair,'" said Perry, who recently dyed her tresses blonde. "Oh, really? Do you miss Barack Obama as well? Oh, OK. Times change. Bye! See you guys later."

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Orange is the new black is being hacked

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Netflix's investors apparently weren't too bothered by this weekend's "Orange Is the New Black" leak, and sent the company's stock up more than 3 percent Monday. The hackers behind the leak meanwhile threatened further action as well.

Netflix's stock broke new records Monday morning, shooting up as high as $157.38, and gaining more than 3 percent compared to Friday's closing price. That's despite the fact that a hacker or group of hackers going by the name of TheDarkOverlord leaked 10 episodes of the still-unreleased 5th season of "Orange Is the New Black" early Saturday morning following a security breach at a third-party vendor.

The show was apparently released after Netflix failed to respond to a blackmail attempt, with TheDarkOverlord demanding payments via the crypto-currency Bitcoin to not release the content. Investors may like the fact that Netflix apparently didn't give in to the hackers' ransom demands, and there may be a sense that the leak of these ten episodes won't materially impact the company.

Then again, TheDarkOverlord doesn't seem to be done. "It's nearly time to play another round," it tweeted on Monday morning, suggesting that we may see additional leaks in the coming days.

The group told DataBreaches.net that it got its hands on 3 dozen additional movies and TV shows as part of the same hack, with titles including ABC's "The Catch," NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice," CBS' "NCIS Los Angeles," and Fox's "New Girl."

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Netflix Stock Up Despite 'Orange Is the New Black' Leak; Hackers Threaten Further Action

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Netflix's investors apparently weren't too bothered by this weekend's "Orange Is the New Black" leak, and sent the company's stock up more than 3 percent Monday. The hackers behind the leak meanwhile threatened further action as well. Netflix's stock broke new records Monday morning, shooting up as high as $157.38, and gaining more than 3 percent compared to Friday's closing price.

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During a speech at a TED Talks conference, Musk -- the Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO -- unveiled what he hopes to accomplish with his latest venture, The Boring Company.

A new video shows a computer-generated mockup of a sprawling network of underground tunnels that vehicles can access via elevators nested near roadsides.

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Elon Musk revealed Friday a first glimpse at the network of traffic-beating underground tunnels he hopes to create.

During a speech at a TED Talks conference, Musk -- the Tesla and SpaceX CEO -- unveiled what he hopes to accomplish with his latest venture, The Boring Company.

A new video shows a computer-generated mockup of a sprawling network of underground tunnels that vehicles can access via elevators nested near roadsides.

Once underground, the video shows futuristic silver platforms whisking the cars toward their destinations.

Related: See the view from SpaceX's historic mission

Musk first introduced the world to his tunnel idea in December, when he got caught in one of Los Angeles's notorious traffic jams. Frustrated, he sent out a tweet promising to buy a tunnel boring machine and "just start digging."

Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging...
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2016

It wasn't clear how serious he was. Then in January Musk raised eyebrows when he announced that he's already made exciting progress and he plans to start digging within a few months.

Now it looks like The Boring Company has its first piece of physical hardware. Musk tweeted out an image of a tunnel digging machine sporting The Boring Company logo on Friday.

Though a functioning web of underground highways is undoubtedly a distant dream, Musk is known for taking seemingly impossible ideas and turning them into reality.

With Tesla, Musk achieved something that many doubted was possible -- he built a successful car startup that could compete with Detroit manufacturers. In fact, Tesla recently became the most valuable car manufacturer in America.

Related: Elon Musk's new plan to save humanity from AI

Musk's company SpaceX also achieved a historic feat last month when it launched and landed a rocket from orbital space for a second time. Reusing rockets is a major step forward in making spaceflight more affordable, since they cost tens of millions of dollars and have traditionally been discarded after one launch.

Musk will need to pull off a similar cost-crunching endeavor to make his tunnel dream a reality. Tunneling, like space travel, is typically very expensive, costing hundreds of millions of dollars per mile.

--CNNMoney's Matt McFarland contributed to this report

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A new study, does fasting every other day work?

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Intermittent or alternate-day fasting requires routinely alternating between eating little or no food and then feasting in your daily diet. It has become a growing weight loss trend in the US, UK and other regions around the world.

The small study, which published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday, suggests there is no significant difference between fasting and the other popular weight loss strategy of simply restricting how many daily calories you consume.

"We basically showed that they both produce a clinically significant amount of weight loss," said Krista Varady, a professor of nutrition at the University of Illinois in Chicago and lead author of the study.

"Instead of being better than calorie restriction, it's the same," she said about alternate-day fasting. "So, it's kind of like an alternative to calorie restriction."

Fasting every other day v. counting calories

The study involved 100 obese adults in Chicago and was conducted between 2011 and 2015. The adults were randomly assigned into three different groups. For one year, each group had to adhere to either an alternate-day fasting diet, or a calorie restriction diet, or no diet.

For the alternate-day fasting diet group, participants could eat only about 25% of the calories that are recommended for a daily diet on fasting day, which was about 500 calories, and they fasted every other day. Fasting days alternated with feasting days, during which each participate could eat up to about 125% of the recommended calories.

The current US Dietary Guidelines estimates that various adult women need a range of 1,600 to 2,400 calories per day, depending on physical activity level. Estimates for adult men range from 2,000 to 3,000, depending on physical activity level.

For the calorie restriction diet group in the new study, participants simply restricted their daily calorie intake to about 75% of what's recommended.

Members in the fasting and calorie counting groups were provided meals for the first three months of the study and then were on their own for the last nine months, Varady said. Throughout the study, all participants were provided with counseling on portion sizes, how to monitor calories, and read food labels, she said.

By the end of the yearlong diet sessions, those in the alternate-day fasting group lost about 6% of their original body weight, whereas those in the calorie restriction group lost 5.3%, Varady said.

Even though both the alternate-day fasting and calorie restriction groups experienced similar weight loss amounts on average, the researchers found that a higher percentage of participants in the fasting group cheated on their diets, compared to the calorie restriction group.

The dropout rate in the alternate-day fasting group was 38%, versus 29% in the daily calorie restriction group, the researchers found.

'The dropout rate is kind of alarming'

"Even if the weight loss was a primary end point, I think that the question is really: What is the best strategy to get people to stick to a diet?" said Eric Ravussin, a professor at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center and a co-author of the new study.

"We know daily calorie restriction -- if you have to count your calories everyday and all that -- it's a tough one. I think that there's some hope that this alternate-day fast, or modified fast, would be a better or easier strategy, but ... the dropout rate is kind of alarming," Ravussin said.

Varady said that, before the study, she thought the alternate-day fasting would be an easier diet to adhere to because it allowed for a "break" from dieting everyday.

"We were a little bit shocked to see that it was actually the calorie restriction group that seemed like they could stick better to their daily calorie goals. Whereas the alternate-day fasting group, they were kind of wavering," said Varady, who authored a book about alternate-day fasting called "The Every-Other-Day Diet."

"Instead of eating the 500 calories on the fasting days they were eating a couple hundred calories more on those days," she said.

Varady is already hoping to conduct follow-up research to track the various diets over a longer period of time, she said.

In the future, she would like to explore whether allowing study subjects to voluntarily opt to join either a fasting or calorie restriction group might influence study results.

'Not one diet fits everyone'

All in all, the new study showed that alternate-day fasting may be difficult to follow, but can be effective in reducing obesity, said Valter Longo, a professor at the University of Southern California and director of the university's Longevity Institute. He was not involved in the study.

However, "because it requires a major effort every other day, it is unlikely to be applicable to the great majority of the obese population, particularly in the absence of the close monitoring carried out in the clinical study," Longo said.

For overweight or obese adults who might be interested in alternate-day fasting as a weight loss approach, Varady advised to take the time to really determine whether it is the best option.

"Alternate-day fasting doesn't seem to work very well in people who are frequent snackers. People who need to eat every two hours, they don't tend to fare well on this diet, whereas people that just naturally tend to go a long period of time without eating, like four to five hours ... those people actually tend to do much better," Varady said.

"I really think people just need to find what works for them," she said. "Not one diet fits everyone."

Additionally, fasting potentially could be harmful for people with certain health conditions, such as diabetes -- so consult your doctor before attempting any major changes in your daily diet, such as alternate-day fasting.

"I don't think there's anything magical to the diet at all," she said about alternate-day fasting. "I think it's just another way of tricking people into eating less food or helping people to kind of monitor how much food intake there is, or how much food they're taking in."

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A new study in weights, does fasting every other day work?

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Intermittent or alternate-day fasting requires routinely alternating between eating little or no food and then feasting in your daily diet. It has become a growing weight loss trend in the US, UK and other regions around the world.

The small study, which published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday, suggests there is no significant difference between fasting and the other popular weight loss strategy of simply restricting how many daily calories you consume.

"We basically showed that they both produce a clinically significant amount of weight loss," said Krista Varady, a professor of nutrition at the University of Illinois in Chicago and lead author of the study.

"Instead of being better than calorie restriction, it's the same," she said about alternate-day fasting. "So, it's kind of like an alternative to calorie restriction."

Fasting every other day v. counting calories

The study involved 100 obese adults in Chicago and was conducted between 2011 and 2015. The adults were randomly assigned into three different groups. For one year, each group had to adhere to either an alternate-day fasting diet, or a calorie restriction diet, or no diet.

For the alternate-day fasting diet group, participants could eat only about 25% of the calories that are recommended for a daily diet on fasting day, which was about 500 calories, and they fasted every other day. Fasting days alternated with feasting days, during which each participate could eat up to about 125% of the recommended calories.

The current US Dietary Guidelines estimates that various adult women need a range of 1,600 to 2,400 calories per day, depending on physical activity level. Estimates for adult men range from 2,000 to 3,000, depending on physical activity level.

For the calorie restriction diet group in the new study, participants simply restricted their daily calorie intake to about 75% of what's recommended.

Members in the fasting and calorie counting groups were provided meals for the first three months of the study and then were on their own for the last nine months, Varady said. Throughout the study, all participants were provided with counseling on portion sizes, how to monitor calories, and read food labels, she said.

By the end of the yearlong diet sessions, those in the alternate-day fasting group lost about 6% of their original body weight, whereas those in the calorie restriction group lost 5.3%, Varady said.

Even though both the alternate-day fasting and calorie restriction groups experienced similar weight loss amounts on average, the researchers found that a higher percentage of participants in the fasting group cheated on their diets, compared to the calorie restriction group.

The dropout rate in the alternate-day fasting group was 38%, versus 29% in the daily calorie restriction group, the researchers found.

'The dropout rate is kind of alarming'

"Even if the weight loss was a primary end point, I think that the question is really: What is the best strategy to get people to stick to a diet?" said Eric Ravussin, a professor at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center and a co-author of the new study.

"We know daily calorie restriction -- if you have to count your calories everyday and all that -- it's a tough one. I think that there's some hope that this alternate-day fast, or modified fast, would be a better or easier strategy, but ... the dropout rate is kind of alarming," Ravussin said.

Varady said that, before the study, she thought the alternate-day fasting would be an easier diet to adhere to because it allowed for a "break" from dieting everyday.

"We were a little bit shocked to see that it was actually the calorie restriction group that seemed like they could stick better to their daily calorie goals. Whereas the alternate-day fasting group, they were kind of wavering," said Varady, who authored a book about alternate-day fasting called "The Every-Other-Day Diet."

"Instead of eating the 500 calories on the fasting days they were eating a couple hundred calories more on those days," she said.

Varady is already hoping to conduct follow-up research to track the various diets over a longer period of time, she said.

In the future, she would like to explore whether allowing study subjects to voluntarily opt to join either a fasting or calorie restriction group might influence study results.

'Not one diet fits everyone'

All in all, the new study showed that alternate-day fasting may be difficult to follow, but can be effective in reducing obesity, said Valter Longo, a professor at the University of Southern California and director of the university's Longevity Institute. He was not involved in the study.

However, "because it requires a major effort every other day, it is unlikely to be applicable to the great majority of the obese population, particularly in the absence of the close monitoring carried out in the clinical study," Longo said.

For overweight or obese adults who might be interested in alternate-day fasting as a weight loss approach, Varady advised to take the time to really determine whether it is the best option.

"Alternate-day fasting doesn't seem to work very well in people who are frequent snackers. People who need to eat every two hours, they don't tend to fare well on this diet, whereas people that just naturally tend to go a long period of time without eating, like four to five hours ... those people actually tend to do much better," Varady said.

"I really think people just need to find what works for them," she said. "Not one diet fits everyone."

Additionally, fasting potentially could be harmful for people with certain health conditions, such as diabetes -- so consult your doctor before attempting any major changes in your daily diet, such as alternate-day fasting.

"I don't think there's anything magical to the diet at all," she said about alternate-day fasting. "I think it's just another way of tricking people into eating less food or helping people to kind of monitor how much food intake there is, or how much food they're taking in."

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Some viewed the joke as racially insensitive, especially coming from Perry, who in the past has aligned herself with the Black Lives Matter movement.

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