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Rice with Veggies
Adding some high-fiber vegetables like broccoli, carrots, and kale to your rice will obviously help lower the calorie count. But not only that. Adding veggies to rice at lunchtime appears to slow stomach emptying, according to research. The end result? You feel full longer. In fact, people in a study ate much less at dinner when they added veggies to their rice at lunch.

Red Pepper
Add some heat to your meals and you'll boost not only the taste but also the effectiveness of your weight loss diet. A dash of cayenne pepper or some diced jalapeno or red peppers will do the trick. They all contain capsaicin the heat-inducing compound in red peppers that, according to research, tamps down appetite and curbs food intake later in the day.

Fava Beans
Creamy and hearty, fava beans are a lean protein source bursting with flavonoids. And in a 14-year study, these special antioxidants were shown to help hinder the accumulation of extra belly fat.

Whole Grains
Ready to trade your belly bulge for a flat tummy? Then toss your refined grains into the garbage, and eat more whole grains instead. Research shows this one move can help whittle your middle. We're talking brown rice, quinoa, steel-cut oats, whole-grain cereal, and 100% whole-wheat bread and pasta.

Olive Oil
This rich-tasting oil found in salad dressings and marinades contains a hunger-busting monounsaturated fat called oleic acid -- which triggers a complicated process in the gut that ultimately tells your brain you're full and makes you want to stop eating.

Mushrooms
If you want to try an easy and tasty calorie-cutting trick, then replace the meat in your favorite recipes with mushrooms. You'll automatically cut about 420 calories out of a meal, partly because you'll skip all the belly-padding saturated fat contained in meat.

Avocado
This green goddess of heavenly, creamy taste can help you whittle your waist. It's true! Researchers suspect that the unsaturated fat in avocados may ratchet up body levels of the hunger-halting hormone called leptin a hormone that lets your brain know that you're full, so you stop eating.

Grapefruit
Of all the foods rumored to boost weight loss, grapefruit is likely the most famous. And research confirms that this fruit's get-slim celebrity status is for real. One study in particular revealed that eating half a grapefruit before each meal helped dieters shed more pounds than people who skipped the tart appetizer.

Yogurt
This creamy, tangy snack is loaded with calcium and studies show that calcium may curtail weight gain by hindering the absorption of fat in the small intestine.

Pistachios
Nuts may be high in fat, but it's the healthful unsaturated kind of fat found in pistachios. And like all nuts, pistachios offer lots of hunger-curbing protein and fiber. All of these qualities together explain why adding pistachios to the diet helped dieters in a study curb their appetites and lose more weight.

“Basketball Wives” star, Evelyn Lozada, is currently engaged to Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco. However, the woman, who is of Puerto Rican ancestry, is faced with a very intriguing issue, her seemingly unfitted presence on the VH1 reality television series. The said series is supposed to be following the lives of a group of woman who have all been somehow romantically linked to professional basketball players. Season three of the hit show Basketball Wives is slated to kick-off Monday night and one of it's stars really doesn't fit the title anymore.

Evelyn Lozada was originally on the show because she was the ex-wife of former Boston Celtics star Antonie Walker. He went bankrupt, and now she decided to switch sports. Evelyn has been dating Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocino for almost a year and now they are engaged.

Using Sadieville as a case study, we recognize that disinvestment in these small towns is a serious problem," Kennedy said. "For example, when a historic school closes in small-town Kentucky that makes it more difficult to attract new residents and their investment in the town. It also makes it difficult to retain middle-class families and residents. The town treasury suffers these effects through a declining tax base and a lack of community spirit. Without positive change, a town like Sadieville could fade away.

Basketball Wives With Jim Tressel's sudden resignation from Ohio State, the list of potential coaching candidates in the rumor mill is certain to be swirling feverishly. There have already been some indications that Urban Meyer will attempt to be coaxed out of retirement and back into the game of football, which makes some sense considering that it's been repeatedly reported that the Ohio State head coaching position is his dream job.

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VH1 viewers connected strongly with these three new series this year, and we're so happy that we can continue to share these real-life stories from the worlds of music and celebrity," said VH1 Executive Vice President, Original Programming & Production, Jeff Olde. Basketball Wives

One phone book, a newspaper, 20 shopping bags, 15 paper grocery bags and three thrift-store dresses brought UCF student Erin Gordon to the attention of NBC. Gordon, having graduated only weeks ago with a degree in photography, never imagined a class assignment would end up in the NBC window display at the famous Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Gordon explains that she made and photographed dresses for an assignment on being socially conscious for her Image, Culture and Society class. Her goal was to make something people would actually want to wear, yet be entirely "green" in the process.

Time for more early holiday offerings with the annual lighting of the Rockefeller Center tree and the 2010 debuts of 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' and 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas.' And for all of you Scrooges out there, CBS offers up its yearly running of the 'Victoria Secret Fashion Show.'

The rain held off Sunday to give Danica Patrick a second chance, and James Jakes waved off his qualifying attempt, giving Marco Andretti one more shot to make the Indianapolis 500. Patrick and Marco Andretti took advantage of the good fortune and qualified for the centennial anniversary race at the Brickyard. Patrick posted a four-lap average of 224.861 mph after it looked like she might not even get to qualify on Bump Day. Andretti delivered an even more clutch performance in the final run of the day, going 224.628 to bump his way back onto the 33-car grid.

Marco Andretti's grandfather, Mario, won the 1969 Indy 500 but never reached Victory Lane again. Michael, led more laps at Indy than any other non-winner, and Marco wound up as the 500 runner-up when Sam Hornish Jr. passed him in the closing yards of the 2006 race. But as much consternation as the Andrettis have endured at this 2.5-mile oval, this might have been their worst month ever at Indy. Andretti Autosport's five-car stable struggled to reach the top of the speed charts all week, then wound up in deep trouble Saturday. It took 10 qualifying attempts to get a single car, John Andretti's No. 43, into the May 29 race.

Iceland closed its main international airport and canceled all domestic flights Sunday as a powerful volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam high into the sky. Iceland's most active volcano once again erupted on Saturday, closing the international airport that was closed for days last year upon the last eruption. The eruption sent ash 12 miles into the air, closing the Keflavik airport at 4:30am on Yesterday.

Ed Hindson, president of the World Prophetic Ministry, a distinguished professor of religion at Liberty University and host of “The King is Coming” on Trinity Network, says so flat out.
Hindson says Harold Camping “doesn’t have the right date.” And it’s not the first time. Camping earlier predicted Rapture for September 1994 and has a backup date of Oct 21 in case he is wrong this time.

Hindson is quite confident that the world will go on past Saturday. In fact, he is giving a speech to 10,000 people in California on Sunday, the day after Camping’s doomsday. Presumably those who are planning to come also do not believe that Saturday will be their last day on Earth.
How does Hindson know for sure? “There’s no solid biblical basis” he says. “God doesn’t give us a specific date. Jesus said, nobody knows the day and the hour. The Bible also tells you not to set the date for the second coming.”

Another Situation: Mose Macdonald works the impound yard of Stealth Recovery and Towing in Eugene, Ore. on May 19, under the shadow of a billboard proclaiming this Saturday as 'The Judgement Day.' An organization run by a California minister has purchased billboards all over the country proclaiming May 21st will mark the end of the world.