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We are what we eat. The consumption of excess calories from high fat, highly processed, animal-based foods is creating a new “species” of sick, physically compromised, humans.

“British journalist and physician Michael Mosley has set himself an ambitious goal: to live longer, stay younger and lose weight, while making as few changes to his life as possible. Find out if the ancient idea of fasting holds the secret to a longer, healthier life.”

Here is a direct link to the video.

Watch Eat, Fast and Live Longer with Michael Mosley on PBS. See more from Michael Mosley.

Also see: The truth about exercise

Watch The Truth About Exercise with Michael Mosley on PBS. See more from Michael Mosley.

CEO pay was 354 times that of the average worker last year, according to the AFL-CIO’s new Executive PayWatch database. The labor group asserts that this is “by far the largest pay gap in the world.”

In 2012, the chief executives of some of the country’s largest companies earned an average of $12.3 million in compensation compared to the average worker who took home a salary of $34,645.

“American chief executives continued to do very well for themselves last year, while workers struggle to make ends meet,” said Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO. “We are calling out the hypocrisy of rich CEOs who have the gall to ask for corporate tax cuts to be paid for by squeezing the retirement security of working America. The American public deserves to know the truth about their self-serving agenda.”

Here is a direct link to the video report.

Good summary of selling forces at work today. Participants are seeing the downside of phantom liquidity courtesy of levered traders that have been toying with world markets over the past several months.

Insight on the day’s major selloff, with Ira Epstein, The Linn Group; Frank McGhee, Integrated Brokerage Services; Stephen Schork, The Schork Report and Komal Sri-Kumar, Sri-Kumar Global Strategies. Here is a direct link.