increased to its highest level since before the pandemic. secondly, the unemployment rat among african americans hit record low of 5% last month. that is a far cry from its height during the pandemic it was 16.8% the labor force participatio for black americans is highe than it is for whites. that is all solid news for the country, however it with a strong labor market come persistently higher wages. that s a good thing. it leads to more spending an that contributes to inflation. the federal reserve will likel remain on track to raise interest rates by anothe quarter of a percentage poin next month still ahead, tennessee has become the new front in th battle for american democracy. the expulsion of two black state lawmakers sets a alarming new standard for ho legislators act when confronte with political discourse nashville yesterday, cameras called out this. let s expel them. can you imagine? let s get rid of them entirely
calories. so it may not work in the way people think it works, it s intermittent fasting but it s also working to restrict the calories. there s a lot of research into this, some say yes, it works, some say it doesn t. a lot of research has been done in animals and short term. so is this sustainable over the long term. there are a couple different types you do the 16/8, daily you restrict from say 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and then you have the period you re not eating at all. so people do alternate days, and some do like a 5/2, eat five days and not two. there are some data that says it helps the cells regenerate, break down fat. so there may be something to it for sure. i just want people to know you do eat sometimes. mcdonald s when you do eat. i don t want people to be worried about you. doctor, thank you for sharing that with us. up next we have new cnn
impact on helping people lose weight. they also did find and we talked about the value of breakfast. you and i eat breakfast early. people who started early in the morning and wait from when they woke up and ate their last meal maybe four or five hours from the time they went to bed. those people tended to not fluctuate in weight as much. so don, are you going to change? no. never doubt science, right, or medicine. but i know it works for me. i know it has worked for a lot of people. it may not be maybe the intermittent fasting. it causes your stomach to shrink, you get used to not eating and in the time allotted for you to eat, i do 16/8. in the eight hours i find myself not being able to eat all the calories allotted. so therefore i lose weight. so i think it teaches you discipline and i do think it sort of helps in restricting
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have our own personal inflation rate. that depends on what we spent most of our income on. when you take into the details on this, as you said, the price of petrol, clothes, shoes, alcohol is not going up by as much. food inflation, a massive part of all of our incomes, our disposable income, what we spend on, food inflation went up again and is that a massive 16.8%, the highest since 1977. housing costs, restaurants, hotels, way above the headline rate. economists are expecting that inflation will come down this year. they are expecting it to have, which is what the government says it wants to happen as well. it is going to be a long battle. we are in a long battle to get inflation down and even if it does come down, stale way of the 2% target and for the average household, it is going to make things incredibly difficult. thank