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Swiss friends vying for Olympic dream as Filipino curlers [Video]

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It’s unlikely enough that a Swiss entrepreneur could make a ton of money selling his online sex toy shop and decide his best weight-loss plan was to shoot for the Olympics in a sport, any sport. It’s downright incredible that Alan Frei could then manage to team up with three Swiss curlers — a banker, a bricklayer and an electrician — who, like him, all have Filipino mothers to make a serious run at this dream.

In a revival of the Olympics of the 1980s, à la Eddie the Eagle and the Jamaican bobsled team, the first Philippines men’s curling team has been successful enough to have a chance to qualify for the 2026 Olympics. And, succeed or fail, they’ve already sparked other Filipino curlers in Canada and the United States to follow in their footsteps.

Kerry Gillespie is a Toronto-based sports reporter for the Star. …

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What you should know about carbonated water and weight loss [Video]

The healthiest drink we can choose to consume is water and sure. Swapping high calorie drinks, your beloved soda or alcohol for water may in turn help you lose weight but does drinking lots of water actually help you cut down the calories. Lets myth bust. There are many internet claims that consuming water helps burn calories and reduce appetite. So there we have myth one. Does it help burn calories? Consuming *** certain amount of water can have temporary effects on caloric burn for really only about an hour. The site confirms. Although scientifically water has potential to burn calories, the actual net increase in calories burned is tiny. Myth two can consuming water with meals, reduce your appetite. *** number of studies support the idea that if your stomach is at least partly full of water, then there's less room for food. Although it could be down to mind over matter and therefore you eat less water as *** liquid alone is rapidly emptied from your stomach. So it technically doesn't fill us up, perhaps mixed with fiber soups or vegetable sauces. It certainly could. That's *** story for next week.