【推荐1】A study found overweight adults lost nearly 10 lb(10磅) in 12 weeks after drinking water half an hour before breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Researchers say it could provide a low-cost solution to Britain’s increasing obesity crisis.

They conducted an experiment and the obese adults experimented were given a weight management consultation. They were advised on changing their lifestyle and diet and how to improve their levels of physical activity. Half were asked to drink water before meals and half were just asked to imagine that they had a full stomach before eating. The first group lost 2 lb 14 oz more than the second group, on average. Sparkling water(苏打水), sodas and sweetened drinks were not allowed and participants drank plain tap water.

Helen Parretti, Doctor of the National Institute for Health Research at the University of Birmingham and lead author of the research, said, ＂The beauty of these findings is in the simplicity. Just drinking a pint (品脱) of water, three times a day, before your main meals may help reduce your weight.

＂When combined with brief instructions on how to increase your amount of physical activity and on a healthy diet, this seems to help people to achieve some extra weight loss at a healthy rate. It’s something that doesn’t take much work in our busy everyday lives.＂

Many weight-loss plans advise people to drink water, but no previous studies directly tested this.

Last night Tam Fry said, ＂There is a widely held view that simple tap water is plain boring and couldn’t possibly help you feel full — but it does.＂

Dr. Louis Levy, head of nutrition science at Public Health England, said, ＂Thirst can sometimes be mistaken for hunger. ＂He added. ＂While water does not cause you to lose weight, it does keep you hydrated (含水的) and might help you to eat less.＂

It is good to make mistakes, and here’s why.

    1    It’s always good to try new things because when you are trying new things you are growing. If you never try anything new, how can you improve, bow can you expand, and how can you innovate? The simple answer is “You can’t”.    2    With very few exceptions, everything you see in your physical world is the result of someone trying something new. Every single detail of every single thing is the result of someone trying something new. The chair you’re sitting on; the fabric on the chair; the pattern on the fabric on the chair; the dye in the pattern on the fabric on the chair are all the direct result of someone trying something new.

    3    Consider this: Edison failed l0 000 times before he perfected the light bulb. When asked how it felt to fail that many times, he remarked that he hadn’t failed to10,000 times, but rather had learned 10,000 things that didn’t work.

Finally, when you make a mistake you are that much closer to success. Why? Because when all is said and done, you will have tried some finite number of things before you succeed.    4    

    5    Quite the contrary, when you try something new you have to be willing to set some reasonable limits so that, in the event that it doesn’t work out the way you want it to, you will be in a position to try again.

There is an old axiom that goes, “if you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.” So go forth and make mistakes, and learn, and grow, and prosper.

【推荐2】A dog can keep us company. Sweetie is a big dog who spends every Friday of the month in the Children’s Area of our local library. Earlier today, I was so lucky to be nearby when she was partnering with a boy who was reading a mystery of Magic Tree House. Every time Sweetie listened to the boy reading the most challenging words, she would softly lick（舔）his hand which was holding the book. With his mom in the background, Sweetie and the young boy shared a l0-minute happy partnership, and he was rewarded by Sweetie’s great attention to his every word.

Next Sweetie had an appointment with the twins who took turns reading poetry. With each girl giggling over the funny words, Sweetie was also smiling with her tongue dropping a bit as they each read. After the 10-minute interaction was done, each girl gave Sweetie a gentle hug and were rewarded by Sweetie’s foreleg bow.

In speaking with Sweetie’s owner and transportation “captain”, I learned that Sweetie had been specially trained to work as a service dog. She has retired（退休）after a career of wonderful service, and now she is “in her sunset years” in her service at the library.

Sweetie has a special resting carpet behind the scenes in the Children’s Area, so that she can refresh herself with fresh water and some food when she is tired and hungry. This is Sweetie’s third summer that she has been the “regular” partner. On Fridays from 2 pm~4 pm, Sweetie is ready to listen and act as a devoted partner.

【推荐3】Brandon Olsen and Tylor Fritz of Hometown Sanitation(公共卫生) left gifts for three sisters who waved to them each Thursday after learning that one of them，3-­year­-old Rose，had been fighting cancer.

The men also gave their parents free garbage service for one year.

“When they did that，it was a few weeks before the diagnosis(诊断) when every day just felt so impossible，”said Rose’s mother，Angie Evenson，of Blue Earth，Minnesota.“Nothing in reality changes Rose’s diagnosis.But what they did makes us feel we are truly not alone in this fight.”

With binoculars(双筒望远镜) in hand，Rose and her two sisters，Grace,5 and Sophia,2 sat by the window and waved at their garbage men，Olsen and Fritz，as they drove by on their weekly route.

Olsen,29，and Fritz,24，told ABC News that the girls’ smiling faces are what they look forward to while working.They even left Halloween candy for the girls this year to show their appreciation.They hope that more and more people can understand and support their work.

But weeks later，Evenson wrote Olsen and Fritz a note explaining that little Rose wouldn’t be able to wave to them for a while since she’d be undergoing chemotherapy(化疗). Rose had been diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer in September.

“As a father of three，it changed my outlook on things，” Olsen said.“It opened my eyes...you don’t know what someone else is going through.”

Fritz said he cried when he read the note.“I got to the chemo part and there were tears running down my face，” he recalled.“I don’t have any children of my own，but I can imagine if someone very close to me is diagnosed as cancer，I’ll be heartbroken.”

“Rose is being treated at Sanford Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls，South Dakota.She will miss a few more Thursdays，when she can wave to her garbage men，but her chemo sessions will be switched to Mondays soon and she’ll be back by the window early next year.I have confidence in Rose’s recovery，” her mother said.