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6 Weird Diet Tricks That Actually Work

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Superdry battle descends into ‘dirty tricks’ row

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By Mark Kleinman, City editor Superdry, the troubled fashion retailer, has become embroiled in a "dirty tricks" row hours before investors decide whether to reinstate co-founder Julian Dunkerton to its board.Sky News has learnt that lawyers for Mr Dunkerton warned Superdry on Monday against making allegedly defamatory statements about him to the company's shareholders. Debevoise & Plimpton, the law firm, is understood to have issued the warning after Peter Bamford and Euan Sutherland, the retailer's chairman and chief executive, cited Mr Dunkerton's behaviour during his tenure in a last-ditch bid to persuade a shareholder to vote in the board's favour.Mr Dunkerton's lawyers are also said to have accused the Superdry directors of disclosing confidentia...

Protein tricks muscle into burning more energy during exercise, cold

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Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Researchers have figured out why people burn fat when they exercise or are cold: A small protein only found in muscles that heat up. Sarcolipin, the small peptide in muscles, boosts muscle energy expenditure and fat oxidization during exercise and cold exposure, according to researchers at the nonprofit Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in Orlando, Fla., who published their findings Tuesday in the journal Cell Report. Although skeletal muscle represents 40 percent to 50 percent of body mass, it consumes most of the glucose and fatty acids. "It has the ability to increase its energy expenditure 20- to 30-fold during intense exercise by stimulating insulin-independent glucose uptake and by switching to higher fatty acid uptake and oxidation," the authors w...