Daily Mail - 28.08.2019

Daily Mail, Wednesday, August 28, 2019 Page 21

Pop friction: A shaven-headed John Travolta offers the trophy to Taylor Swift impersonator Jade Jolie

Are you the one that I want? No,

Taylor’s over there, Mr Travolta!

TAYLOR Swift must be one of the most

famous faces on the planet right now. But

not, apparently, to John Travolta.

The Grease actor tried to hand a trophy

to the singer at the MTV Video Music

Awards – but picked a lookalike drag

queen instead.

In fairness to 65-year-old Travolta,

female impersonator Jade Jolie – real

name Josh Green – was dressed as the 29-

year-old Miss Swift, complete with blonde

hair and similar make-up, having just per-

formed on stage with her.

The drag queen looked stunned and then

grinned at the shaven-headed actor, going

to hug him as he realised his mistake.

Fortunately, the real Miss Swift soon

arrived to collect her award for best video

for her song You Need To Calm Down at the

ceremony in New Jersey on Monday.

Five years ago Travolta made another

presenting blunder, this time at the Oscars,

when he introduced Frozen star Idina

Latifah open the envelope to announce

the winner.

Miss Swift aimed a dig at President

Donald Trump as she accepted her award

for You Need To Calm Down, which criti-

cises homophobia and features cameos

from high-profile LGBT celebrities.

Other winners included rapper Cardi B,

who won best hip hop for her hit Money,

while best new artist, voted for by fans,

was 17-year-old Billie Eilish.

Artist of the year was Ariana Grande,

while the best group award went to South

Korean boyband sensations BTS.

Miley Cyrus took to the stage amid her

separation from actor husband Liam

Hemsworth to perform her single Slide

Away, which is reportedly about the split.

Daily Mail, Wednesday, August 28, 2019

By Alisha Rouse

Showbusiness Correspondent

Fasting every other

day ‘could help you

lose 7lb in a month’

lost around 14.5 per cent of their

body fat, saw their blood pressure

and ‘bad’ cholesterol drop, and

reduced their risk of a heart attack

or stroke over the next decade.

In blood tests they had lower

levels of an important hormone

and amino acid, which may help

them to live to an older age.

The findings follow growing evi-

dence that fasting every so often

could help people to live longer,

which has been seen to be the

case in rhesus monkeys and mice.

Study co-author Professor Tho-

mas Pieber said: ‘Why exactly cal-

orie restriction and fasting induce

so many beneficial effects is not

fully clear yet. The elegant thing

about strict alternate day fasting

is that it doesn’t require partici-

pants to count their meals and

calories – they just don’t eat any-

thing for one day.’

The study, published in the jour-

nal Cell Metabolism, recruited 60

people aged 35 to 65, putting half

on the fasting diet and letting the

rest eat as normal for a month.

Those on the diet fasted for 36

hours at a time, being banned

from eating all solid and liquid

foods, and drank only water, fla-

voured water, coffee, green tea or

unsweetened black tea. This was

followed by 12 hours of eating

what they liked, during which they

made up for only some of the calo-

ries they missed while fasting.

Researchers found the dieters

cut their calories by 37 per cent in

total, losing almost 7.7lb (3.5kg)

after four weeks. Their risk of car-

diovascular disease, such as a heart

attack or stroke, over the next dec-

ade was reduced compared to the

30 people eating normally.

The benefits were similar to

those seen in dieters who count

calories, but the researchers say

fasting is simpler, meaning people

are less likely to fall off the wagon.

Concerns have been reported

that fasting in such an extreme

way could cause health problems,

but those on the diet did not have

significantly lower bone density or

changes to their immune system.

Another 30 study participants

were already performing alternate

day fasting for six months, which

was reported to be safe.

However the study authors do

not recommend the diet for

everyone, with co-author Frank

Madeo stating: ‘We feel that it is a

good regime for some months for

obese people to cut weight, or it

might even be a useful clinical

intervention in diseases driven by

inflammation. However further

research is needed.’

Michelle McGuinness, a regis-

tered dietitian, said: ‘This kind of

diet would need to be carried out

with nutritional advice or support

to ensure people still achieved the

correct nutritional balance. There

are other ways to reduce calories

which are more sustainable, and

this was a relatively small study.’

IT is a drastic diet which removes the

need for ‘calorie counting’ by simply

banning all food every other day.

But ‘alternate day fasting’ could help

followers cut their calorie intake by more

than a third and lose more than half a stone

in a month, it is claimed.

Scientists studied what happens when some-

one alternates ‘fast days’, where food is banned,

with ‘feast days’ when they eat what they want.

The diet is based on our caveman past, when

we feasted after killing a large animal, but often

faced food shortages which left us hungry.

The researchers, led by the Medical University

of Graz in Austria, found 30 people on this diet

By Victoria Allen

Science Correspondent

The real thing:

Taylor Swift at

the awards

Menzel as ‘Adele Dazeem’. The actor even

jokingly referenced that moment during

the MTV awards, telling the audience he

was known to ‘mispronounce s*** and

**** it up’, letting his co-presenter Queen

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‘Aimed a dig at

President Trump’