The size of your pretzel not only impacts how quickly you eat it, but how many salty treats you end up eating, according to Penn State researchers. With almost a quarter of daily calories in the United States coming from snack foods, these findings may help deepen the understanding of how eating patterns affect calorie and sodium intake.

A team of food scientists explored how the size of pretzels affects overall intake, eating rate, bite size, and how much time you spend snacking. The study revealed that people eat larger pretzels quicker and with larger bites. The opposite was true for smaller pretzels. However, despite eating less and taking smaller bites, these tiny pretzel eaters still consumed more salt. There were 75 adults who participated in the study who ate three different times. The oversized snack was nearly 2.5 servings and came in one of three sizes of pretzel: small, medium, or large. The researchers video-recorded each snacking session to calculate the rate and bite size and measured how much each participant ate in terms of both weight and calories.

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The size of your pretzel not only impacts how quickly you eat it, but how many salty treats you end up eating, according to Penn State researchers.

Illegal immigrants hailing from India are pouring across the U.S.’ northern border at a rapidly increasing rate as 2024’s high-stakes presidential election approaches.

The U.S.-Canada border has become a popular crossing point for illegal migrants due to the vast number of easy entry points and a lack of physical barriers, which are more common at the southern border. The percentage of Indian migrants crossing the northern border has skyrocketed; there were 1,872 Border Patrol apprehensions in fiscal year 2023, compared to just 42 in fiscal year 2021, representing a 4357% increase, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.

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Illegal immigrants hailing from India are pouring across the U.S.’ northern border at a rapidly increasing rate as 2024’s high-stakes presidential election approaches.

A current Boeing employee warned Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley that the company’s planes have increased risk factors due to poor company safety standards at a hearing on Wednesday of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. “Are the planes safe?” Hawley asked Salehpour. “It’s like an earthquake,” Salehpour responded. “The big earthquake is coming, and when that hits the building — let’s say, if we are talking about a building — it has to be prepared to accommodate that type of shakeup. It has to be built properly. Right now, from what I’ve seen, these airplanes are not being built per respect and per requirement.”

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'It's like an earthquake': Josh Hawley asks Boeing engineer point blank if planes are safe

A current Boeing employee warned Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley that the company’s planes have increased risk factors due to poor company safety standards at a hearing on Wednesday of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. “Are the planes safe?” Hawley asked Salehpour. “It’s like an earthquake,” Salehpour responded. “The big earthquake is coming, and when that hits the building — let’s say, if we are talking about a building — it has to be prepared to accommodate that type of shakeup. It has to be built properly. Right now, from what I’ve seen, these airplanes are not being built per respect and per requirement.”

Another special cosmic event is to occur this year, and it could be a "once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunity," according to NASA.

It’s a nova explosion located in a star system 3,000 light years away from Earth and astronomers predict it will be visible to the "unaided eye" sometime in 2024. "Unfortunately, we don't know the timing of this as well as we know the eclipse," Bill Cooke, lead for NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, told Fox News Digital.

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'Once-in-a-lifetime' nova explosion will be visible to the naked eye this year | WND | by Around the Web

Another special cosmic event is to occur this year, and it could be a "once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunity," according to NASA.

It’s a nova explosion located in a star system 3,000 light years away from Earth and astronomers predict it will be visible to the "unaided eye" sometime in 2024. "Unfortunately, we don't know the timing of this as well as we know the eclipse," Bill Cooke, lead for NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, told Fox News Digital.

But now there's a new headwind: A call for him to be "compelled to resign" if, in fact, a report that he knew in advance of Iran's plans to launch a war against Israel, and did nothing, is correct. He reported, "An anonymous Turkish diplomat told Reuters this week that Turkey played the role of a back channel intermediary between the United States and Iran in the run-up to the Iranian missile strike in Israel. According to the source, Tehran informed Turkey of its plans for the strike in advance in an effort to limit the potential for further escalation. In response, the U.S. allegedly conveyed to Tehran through Ankara that any action would have to be 'within certain limits.' The White House has denied the claim." But, he said, "If the report is accurate, and, in particular, if... Biden greenlit a strike against a key American ally, he must be compelled to resign the presidency immediately.

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'Stunning betrayal': Biden must resign if he greenlit Iran's strike on Israel

But now there's a new headwind: A call for him to be "compelled to resign" if, in fact, a report that he knew in advance of Iran's plans to launch a war against Israel, and did nothing, is correct. He reported, "An anonymous Turkish diplomat told Reuters this week that Turkey played the role of a back channel intermediary between the United States and Iran in the run-up to the Iranian missile strike in Israel. According to the source, Tehran informed Turkey of its plans for the strike in advance in an effort to limit the potential for further escalation. In response, the U.S. allegedly conveyed to Tehran through Ankara that any action would have to be 'within certain limits.' The White House has denied the claim." But, he said, "If the report is accurate, and, in particular, if... Biden greenlit a strike against a key American ally, he must be compelled to resign the presidency immediately.