The surveyors asked people in 17 places around the world, “Why do you think you’re gaining weight?” Their sample sizes varied between 505 and 2,251 in each market. Read on to discover if you align with the majority of people about the most common cause of weight gain right now. Cited as main reason for weight gain: 7 percent Cited as main reason for weight gain: 9 percent Cited as main reason for weight gain: 11 percentae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Cited as main reason for weight gain: 35 percent RELATED: 13 Surprising Things That May Be Causing You to Gain Weight, Doctors Say....

1 Prince William Needs to Make the Welsh Happy In an exclusive subscriber story for the Telegraph, Camilla Tominey writes that Prince William and Princess Kate need to satisfy the needs of the people of Wales, their namesake. In fact, the couple visited Wales this week. 2 He Isn’t Trying to Win Them Over Overnight Royal sources revealed to the Telegraph on Tuesday that Prince William and Princess Kate are focusing on “gaining the trust and respect of the Welsh people over time” instead of hoping for an instant embrace....

Quite simply, if your mask has pleats, the article says, the folded side should always be facing down. This is true for three reasons.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb First, your mask may have a bendable metal rod on one side, and by facing the pleats down, you’ll orient this rod so that it sits on top of your nose. This allows you to contour the top of the mask to better fit your face, keeping particles and droplets out....

RELATED: See Randall Cunningham’s Daughter Vashti, Who’s Headed to the Olympics. After her victory in the 100-meter race at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon, on June 19, Richardson tested positive for marijuana use, which nullifies her first-place win. In a statement, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said, “Richardson’s competitive results obtained on June 19, 2021, including her Olympic qualifying results at the Team Trials, have been disqualified, and she forfeits any medals, points, and prizes....

RELATED: A.J. From The Sopranos Quit & Has a Totally Different Job Now. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Kieran explained that he and his six siblings started acting in productions around New York City when they were kids. A stage manager neighbor got them into it when he heard a production needed children. “He was like, ‘Well, I know these people. They have six or seven of them and I think the father was an actor....

While the family rallied to pay tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh, including Harry, not everyone was ready to welcome him back into the fold. At the time of Philip’s funeral in April—less than two months after the Oprah Winfrey interview where many of Harry and Meghan’s allegations came to light—Princess Anne, Prince Edward, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, were reportedly cold to Harry, and insiders told Best Life they were not willing to forgive him....

READ THIS NEXT: The No. 1 Way to Woo Every Zodiac Sign, According to Astrologers. This empathetic and emotionally intelligent sign loves like no other. “The way their heart goes to you is palpable,” says celebrity psychic and astrologer Inbaal Honigman. “A love like Pisces love is one of a kind, and that butterflies feeling comes because you know nobody will ever love like this again,” she explains. Your romance with a Pisces will be unique, intense, and driven by sharing your deepest secrets....

READ THIS NEXT: The Holiday That Brings Out Your Best, Based on Your Zodiac Sign. As the perfectionists of the zodiac, Virgos find Christmas time extra anxiety-producing with so much to do and so many people to impress. According to Frances Yahia, PhD, an archetypal astrologer and spiritual counselor, this sign will “re-wrap everything under the tree until it looks perfect, will criticize how you open the gifts, and then will save all of the bows for next year....

After weeks of leveling out between 70,000 and 75,000 cases, the national daily COVID infection average jumped back above 82,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University analyzed by CNBC. The sudden spike represents an 11 percent increase overall from last week. In a Nov. 15 interview hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center, chief White House COVID adviser Anthony Fauci, MD, acknowledged that the steady decline experienced since the worst of the Delta surge tapered off near the end of the summer had stalled....

Superfans of any extended franchise tend to be vocal about inconsistencies, implausibilities, and changes to the object of their fandom, and they tend to be super-vocal about any perceived dips in quality. But more than two thousand Redditors agreed that Star Wars fans tend to take this a bit too far. “I like Star Wars. The movies, the shows, the games. But the community ruins it,” said @absoluteunit94. “They complain and bitch about every single thing there is....

READ THIS NEXT: If You Notice a Blister Here, Get a Blood Test, Experts Say. The virus that causes monkeypox was first discovered in 1958 when an outbreak occurred within a colony of research monkeys, giving it its name, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As a close relative to the now eradicated smallpox virus, it’s believed that widespread vaccination helped curb human cases for decades, according to an article written by researchers in 2005....

A May study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 46 percent of transplant patients who got two doses of either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine didn’t produce any COVID-19 antibodies, the key indicator of whether or not the vaccine was effective. The good news is that another 40 percent of the 658 transplant patients studied had no antibodies after their first vaccination but did develop antibodies after their second shot....

To be fair, at least two states have responded to recent spikes and are taking measures to mitigate the virus’ spread. In Utah, where September was the state’s worst month since the pandemic began, Gov. Gary Herbert rolled back reopenings in Provo and Orem on Sept. 22, as state health officials issued a public health order implementing a new mask mandate. And Wisconsin, facing one of the worst outbreaks in the country, extended its face mask mandate into November....

READ THIS NEXT: These Beloved Stores Are Closing After Over 70 Years in Business. Nationwide retailers are closing stores left and right, including Walgreens and Bed Bath & Beyond, which confirmed that 150 “lower-producing” stores are on the chopping block. In a more extreme case, Olympia Sports announced it was going out of business and closing all of its stores before the end of the year. But smaller chains face hardships too, impacting their localized customer base....

READ THIS NEXT: Having This Blood Type Makes You 82 Percent More Likely to Suffer Memory Loss, Experts Say. Dementia can manifest in a range of different ways that affect one’s ability to think, remember, and reason. According to the National Institute on Aging (NIA), dementia symptoms commonly include memory loss, poor judgment, confusion, problems with communication, disorientation in familiar places, and difficulty completing everyday tasks such as paying bills or running errands....

RELATED: If You Bought Any of These Breads, Don’t Eat Them, Makers Say. On July 18, Pure Éire Dairy and Creamery of Othello, Washington announced that it would be shutting down its business for good.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb “As you are probably aware, our family has decided to move on to a new ’era’ and have closed our dairy. We feel so fortunate to have gotten to live our little dream and run a successful business based on our personal beliefs,” the company’s owners said in a statement posted to the company’s Facebook page....

RELATED: Dr. Fauci Says You Need a Booster ASAP If You Got This Vaccine.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb On Oct. 21, Pfizer and BioTech released new results from their Phase 3 controlled trial, which evaluated the efficacy and safety of a 30-microgram booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine in more than 10,000 individuals 16 years and older. According to the trial, the Pfizer booster increased relative vaccine efficacy to 95.6 percent when compared to those who did not receive a booster during a period in which Delta was the dominant strain in the U....

According to recent data from the Minnesota Department of Health, among approximately 40 percent of the coronavirus tests given to protestors in the area who demonstrated during the week ending June 10, just 1.4 percent were positive for COVID-19. The remainder of the protestors’ test results have not yet been released. Surprisingly, the rates of coronavirus among people who’d participated in protests was approximately half that of the general population, which had a 3....

The IRS announced on April 1 that they had started processing a third batch of stimulus payments, with some additional money available for those who have already received their third stimulus checks. According to the announcement, this batch included the “first of ongoing supplemental payments for people who earlier in March received payments based on their 2019 tax returns but are eligible for a new or larger payment based on their recently processed 2020 tax returns....

F. Perry Wilson, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, wrote an article for Vox documenting the various concerns he and his colleagues have about the vaccine rollout. The one issue that Wilson designated as “almost certain” to occur was the misrepresentation and exaggeration of the vaccine’s side effects—and that’s because it’s already started. “This is already happening. The real worry is how much it will affect the broad-scale vaccination effort,” Wilson writes....