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Metro
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Jessie J reveals hidden pain after biopsy procedure following cancer diagnosis
Jessie J has given an update to fans after revealing she was diagnosed with 'early breast cancer' a few months ago. The 37-year-old singer is best known for hits including Price Tag, Domino and Bang Bang, as well as appearing on The Voice UK, The Voice Australia and The Voice Kids UK. However, Jessie – real name Jessica Ellen Cornish – has given an update after being diagnosed with cancer. She shared a video on her page of herself performing at the London jazz club Ronnie Scott's. The caption revealed that she was struggling not to overshare while performing and had just undergone five surgeries. 'I had 5 breast biopsies the night before this show, I was in some discomfort but so hyped to do it and I didn't want to cancel. The more I watch this show back I can see my brain working in complete over drive trying not to blurt it all out = 😂🧟♀️🥴 'Laughing and making jokes in hard times 🤝🏻 me She then joked about her comments in the video and added: 'And I am in-fact under your bed.' In the video, the star was her usual upbeat self, despite what was going on in her private life. She joked that she was uncomfortable because she drank a Joe and the Juice. 'Anyone here from Joe & The Juice?' she asked. 'On my first album, Who You Are, I know a lot of people called it Who Are You, which completely changed the meaning. Who are you? Where have you been? Pet peeve – people asking me, 'Where have you been?' Where the f**k have you been?' She later said: 'Being truthful in who you are – not your mates or your family or everyone else, but like what you love and who you are. What makes you special. That's all I wanna focus on.' She then referenced her boobs as she said: 'And my huge, perfect t**s. You know what I mean?' Announcing the news of her diagnosis on Instagram, Jessie explained she received the health news just before the release of her song No Secrets in April. 'Before No Secrets came out, I was diagnosed with early breast cancer,' she explained. 'I'm highlighting the word early. Cancer sucks in any form but I'm holding on to the word early.' More Trending She added that she had been 'in and out of tests' and dispute debating whether to tell people about her diagnosis, she decided to be open. 'I just wanted to be open and share it because selfishly, I do not talk about it enough,' she went on. 'I'm not processing it because I'm working so hard. I also know how much sharing in the past has helped me with other people giving me their love and support, and also their own stories. 'I'm an open book. It breaks my heart that so many people are going through so much. Similar and worse.' She then turned to humour as she said: 'I'm getting to keep my nipples … that's good. It's a very dramatic way to get a boob job!' Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: TV presenter, 74, shocked as he's diagnosed with skin cancer live on-air MORE: Like Jessie J, I was told I had early breast cancer MORE: Jessie J 'going to disappear for a bit' after being diagnosed with breast cancer
Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jessie J experienced 'discomfort' during concert after undergoing 'five breast biopsies'
Jessie J pushed through with a gig in April despite experiencing "discomfort" after undergoing "five breast biopsies". The Price Tag singer, who announced her breast cancer diagnosis earlier this week, shared a clip from her performance at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London in April and revealed that her set took place the day after she had undergone several biopsies. "I had 5 breast biopsies the night before this show," the 37-year-old captioned the Instagram post. "I was in some discomfort but so hyped to do it and I didn't want to cancel." In the video, Jessie chats with the audience and makes a series of jokes, including one about her "huge perfect t*ts". She admitted in the caption that she was struggling to keep her health news to herself during those exchanges. "The more I watch this show back I can see my brain working in complete overdrive trying not to blurt it all out," she continued. "Laughing and making jokes in hard times (handshake emoji) me." The Domino hitmaker announced on Wednesday that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and would undergo surgery after her performance at the Capital FM Summertime Ball on Sunday 15 June. "I was diagnosed with early breast cancer," she told her followers. "Cancer sucks in any form, but I'm holding on to the word 'early'. I have been in and out of tests throughout this whole period." She then made a light-hearted joke, quipping, "It's a very dramatic way to get a boob job... I will come back with massive t*ts and more music." Jessie clarified in the caption, "Also not getting massive t*ts. Or am I? No no... I must stop joking."
New York Post
15 hours ago
- Business
- New York Post
This Is the Future of AI — From the Heart of Brooklyn
It's NY Tech Week and we're in the heart of Brooklyn for an exclusive look inside The Refinery at Domino, where the future of AI is being built, tested, and launched. This high-energy demo event features some of New York's top AI startups showcasing real-world innovations—from 3D logo generation and deepfake detection to AI-driven security and no-code development tools.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
MAHA Has a Pizza Problem
Every Monday and Wednesday, students at Channelview High School, outside Houston, are treated to Domino's for lunch. Delivery drivers from a local branch of the fast-food chain arrive at the school with dozens of pizzas fresh out of the oven, served in Domino's-branded cardboard boxes. Children can be picky eaters, but few foods are more universally enticing than freshly cooked pizza—let alone from a restaurant students are almost certainly already familiar with. 'For kids to be able to see Oh, they're serving Domino's, I think it makes a huge difference,' Tanya Edwards, the district's director of nutrition, told me. The deliveries are part of Domino's 'Smart Slice' initiative, which sends pizzas to school districts around the country—often at little or no cost to students themselves. 'Smart Slice' is part of the national school-lunch program, so taxpayers foot a portion of the bill to guarantee that every kid has lunch to eat. Despite kids' enthusiasm, you can see the problem: Students munching on free fast food might seem to embody everything wrong with the American diet. If school cafeterias can be thought of as classrooms where kids learn about food, giving them Domino's would be akin to teaching driver's-ed students how to drive by letting them play Grand Theft Auto. The days of school Domino's—and school pizza in general—are numbered. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his supporters are on a mission to overhaul school lunch. Late last month, the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again Commission released a highly anticipated report on children's health that pointed to school meals as one venue where ultra-processed foods are offered to kids unabated, contributing to obesity and other kinds of chronic disease. Unless cafeteria workers make school pizza from scratch, nearly every kind contains industrial ingredients that qualify the meal as an ultra-processed food. In effect, ridding school lunch of ultra-processed foods means the end of pizza day as we know it. Many of the food reforms pushed by RFK Jr.'s movement are popular. Doing away with artificial food dyes, for example, is far more sensible than Kennedy's conspiracist views about vaccines. But in the case of banning most school pizza, RFK Jr. could be facing a tougher sell. MAHA's vision for food is about to run headfirst into a bunch of hungry kids in a school cafeteria. Even though Domino's school pizza is delivered by Domino's drivers carrying Domino's pizza boxes, the company's Smart Slice is different from what would arrive at your door should you order a pie for dinner tonight. Cafeteria pizza has to abide by nutrition standards for school meals that the Obama administration spearheaded in 2010. The overly cheesy rectangular pizza with a cracker-like crust that you might have eaten in school no longer cuts it. Consider Domino's Smart Slice pepperoni pizza: It's made with mostly whole-wheat flour, low-fat cheese, and pepperoni that has half as much sodium than typical Domino's pepperoni. It's not a green salad by any means, but school Domino's is far from the worst thing kids could eat. Other common cafeteria offerings—such as mini corndogs, mozzarella sticks, and chicken tenders—are also now more nutritious than in decades past. Those standards could still be improved (and we're still talking about corndogs, mozzarella sticks, and chicken tenders), but they have led companies to sell slightly healthier versions of their foods in schools. Research has shown that, on average, school meals are now the healthiest things kids eat in a day. In an email, HHS Press Secretary Vianca N. Rodriguez Feliciano said that 'while some of these products may technically meet outdated federal guidelines, they are still heavily engineered, nutritionally weak, and designed for corporate profit, not for the health of our kids.' Indeed, school lunch starts to look considerably less healthy if you account for the growing concern over ultra-processed foods. Many school lunches are made in factories with chemicals such as emulsifiers and flavor enhancers you wouldn't find in a home kitchen. Eating lots of ultra-processed foods is associated with a range of maladies, including Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, though nutritionists are deeply divided on just how much we should be fretting over these industrial ingredients. To some degree, whether school pizza should be avoided because it's ultra-processed is besides the point. By allowing Domino's into school cafeterias, the government also is essentially giving the company carte blanche to advertise its pizza. Serving Smart Slice out of a typical Domino's box gives 'the false impression to children and parents that the less-healthy products served in their restaurants are healthy choices,' Jennifer Harris, a food-marketing expert, told me in an email. Kennedy has called for schools to serve 'real food, whole food, farm-fresh food,' instead of anything ultra-processed. It would, of course, be better for school cafeterias to swap out the pepperoni pizza with salad and chicken breast. But for many kids, school lunch subsidized by the government may be their only real meal of the day. At Channelview, where such a large portion of students are eligible for public assistance that everyone eats for free, simply getting food in kids' bellies is top of mind. 'I can make a fancy little sweet-potato black-bean bowl, but I don't think my kids are going to eat it,' Tanya Edwards said. 'Instead, they are going to go home hungry, and I don't really know what they have at home.' The concern isn't theoretical. Evidence shows that when school meals are too healthy, a sizable portion of kids simply get off the lunch line. In the early 2010s, when the Los Angeles Unified School District overhauled its lunch offerings—an effort that included removing pizza from the menu—schools reported that massive amounts of food were landing in the trash. (The district later brought back pizza, and pepperoni pizza is now the district's most popular item, a spokesperson said.) Food waste is a perennial issue in school meal programs. A Department of Agriculture study of more than 100 schools found that an average of 31 percent of the vegetables included on observed school lunch trays were wasted. Pizza, however, was among the least wasted food, along with breaded and fried chicken patties and nuggets. Even advocates for healthier school meals admit that there's a limit to how much students will tolerate healthier offerings. 'We definitely need to harness school food to educate kids about healthy eating, but I don't think that means no pizza,' Janet Poppendieck, a professor emerita at Hunter College who wrote a book on fixing school meals, told me. 'We need to include healthy versions of kids' favorite foods; otherwise, I don't think they'll eat.' In part to ensure that kids actually eat lunch, many school districts seem to have pizza day at least once a week. A spokesperson for Florida's Hillsborough County Public Schools, the seventh-largest district in the country, told me that its first, second, fifth, and seventh most popular entrees are all in the pizza family (No. 5 is mini calzones; No. 7 is pizza sticks). All told, the district has doled out nearly 3 million servings this school year. If it wanted to, the Trump administration could simply force kids to suck it up and literally eat their vegetables. Technically the responsibility of overseeing the school-meal program falls to the USDA—which isn't under Kennedy's purview—but Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has signaled that she is onboard with MAHA-ing school lunch. Still, any attempt to enact a ban would likely invite significant backlash. In 2023, when the federal government floated the idea of banning the sale of sugary chocolate milk in elementary and middle schools, many parents flooded the government with complaints. So did some students: Ben, a fourth grader who left only his first name, wrote in an official comment to the USDA that it should abandon the proposal 'because students are super MAD.' Members of Congress also put pressure on regulators to stop the reform. The USDA later abandoned the chocolate-milk ban. In 2011, after the Obama administration released its new guidelines for school lunch, Republicans in Congress tried to fight back against healthier pizza by classifying the dish as a vegetable. It's no wonder why MAHA has a problem with school pizza. Kennedy has pointed to corporate malfeasance as a leading source of America's diet problems. You don't have to be a fan of his to feel uneasy that Domino's, a fast-food company that sells philly-cheese-steak-loaded tater tots, is participating in a taxpayer-funded program meant to feed kids nutritious meals. But Kennedy's favored approach to food and, well, everything—big proposals and dramatic overhauls—isn't well suited to school meals. The health secretary might dream of kids eating from a salad bar stocked with seed-oil-free dressings five days a week, but ending school pizza day won't automatically make that happen. Telling kids what to eat is one thing; getting them to eat it is another. Article originally published at The Atlantic
Atlantic
a day ago
- Health
- Atlantic
RFK Jr. Is Coming for School Pizza
Every Monday and Wednesday, students at Channelview High School, outside Houston, are treated to Domino's for lunch. Delivery drivers from a local branch of the fast-food chain arrive at the school with dozens of pizzas fresh out of the oven, served in Domino's-branded cardboard boxes. Children can be picky eaters, but few foods are more universally enticing than freshly cooked pizza—let alone from a restaurant students are almost certainly already familiar with. 'For kids to be able to see Oh, they're serving Domino's, I think it makes a huge difference,' Tanya Edwards, the district's director of nutrition, told me. The deliveries are part of Domino's 'Smart Slice' initiative, which sends pizzas to school districts around the country—often at little or no cost to students themselves. 'Smart Slice' is part of the national school-lunch program, so taxpayers foot a portion of the bill to guarantee that every kid has lunch to eat. Despite kids' enthusiasm, you can see the problem: Students munching on free fast food might seem to embody everything wrong with the American diet. If school cafeterias can be thought of as classrooms where kids learn about food, giving them Domino's would be akin to teaching driver's-ed students how to drive by letting them play Grand Theft Auto. The days of school Domino's—and school pizza in general—are numbered. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his supporters are on a mission to overhaul school lunch. Late last month, the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again Commission released a highly anticipated report on children's health that pointed to school meals as one venue where ultra-processed foods are offered to kids unabated, contributing to obesity and other kinds of chronic disease. Unless cafeteria workers make school pizza from scratch, nearly every kind contains industrial ingredients that qualify the meal as an ultra-processed food. In effect, ridding school lunch of ultra-processed foods means the end of pizza day as we know it. Many of the food reforms pushed by RFK Jr.'s movement are popular. Doing away with artificial food dyes, for example, is far more sensible than Kennedy's conspiracist views about vaccines. But in the case of banning most school pizza, RFK Jr. could be facing a tougher sell. MAHA's vision for food is about to run headfirst into a bunch of hungry kids in a school cafeteria. Even though Domino's school pizza is delivered by Domino's drivers carrying Domino's pizza boxes, the company's Smart Slice is different from what would arrive at your door should you order a pie for dinner tonight. Cafeteria pizza has to abide by nutrition standards for school meals that the Obama administration spearheaded in 2010. The overly cheesy rectangular pizza with a cracker-like crust that you might have eaten in school no longer cuts it. Consider Domino's Smart Slice pepperoni pizza: It's made with mostly whole-wheat flour, low-fat cheese, and pepperoni that has half as much sodium than typical Domino's pepperoni. It's not a green salad by any means, but school Domino's is far from the worst thing kids could eat. Other common cafeteria offerings—such as mini corndogs, mozzarella sticks, and chicken tenders—are also now more nutritious than in decades past. Those standards could still be improved (and we're still talking about corndogs, mozzarella sticks, and chicken tenders), but they have led companies to sell slightly healthier versions of their foods in schools. Research h as shown that, on average, school meals are now the healthiest things kids eat in a day. In an email, HHS Press Secretary Vianca N. Rodriguez Feliciano said that 'while some of these products may technically meet outdated federal guidelines, they are still heavily engineered, nutritionally weak, and designed for corporate profit, not for the health of our kids.' Indeed, school lunch starts to look considerably less healthy if you account for the growing concern over ultra-processed foods. Many school lunches are made in factories with chemicals such as emulsifiers and flavor enhancers you wouldn't find in a home kitchen. Eating lots of ultra-processed foods is associated with a range of maladies, including Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, though nutritionists are deeply divided on just how much we should be fretting over these industrial ingredients. To some degree, whether school pizza should be avoided because it's ultra-processed is besides the point. By allowing Domino's into school cafeterias, the government also is essentially giving the company carte blanche to advertise its pizza. Serving Smart Slice out of a typical Domino's box gives 'the false impression to children and parents that the less-healthy products served in their restaurants are healthy choices,' Jennifer Harris, a food-marketing expert, told me in an email. Kennedy has called for schools to serve 'real food, whole food, farm-fresh food,' instead of anything ultra-processed. It would, of course, be better for school cafeterias to swap out the pepperoni pizza with salad and chicken breast. But for many kids, school lunch subsidized by the government may be their only real meal of the day. At Channelview, where such a large portion of students are eligible for public assistance that everyone eats for free, simply getting food in kids' bellies is top of mind. 'I can make a fancy little sweet-potato black-bean bowl, but I don't think my kids are going to eat it,' Tanya Edwards said. 'Instead, they are going to go home hungry, and I don't really know what they have at home.' The concern isn't theoretical. Evidence shows that when school meals are too healthy, a sizable portion of kids simply get off the lunch line. In the early 2010s, when the Los Angeles Unified School District overhauled its lunch offerings—an effort that included removing pizza from the menu—schools reported that massive amounts of food were landing in the trash. (The district later brought back pizza, and pepperoni pizza is now the district's most popular item, a spokesperson said.) Food waste is a perennial issue in school meal programs. A Department of Agriculture study of more than 100 schools found that an average of 31 percent of the vegetables included on observed school lunch trays were wasted. Pizza, however, was among the least wasted food, along with breaded and fried chicken patties and nuggets. Even advocates for healthier school meals admit that there's a limit to how much students will tolerate healthier offerings. 'We definitely need to harness school food to educate kids about healthy eating, but I don't think that means no pizza,' Janet Poppendieck, a professor emerita at Hunter College who wrote a book on fixing school meals, told me. 'We need to include healthy versions of kids' favorite foods; otherwise, I don't think they'll eat.' In part to ensure that kids actually eat lunch, many school districts seem to have pizza day at least once a week. A spokesperson for Florida's Hillsborough County Public Schools, the seventh-largest district in the country, told me that its first, second, fifth, and seventh most popular entrees are all in the pizza family (No. 5 is mini calzones; No. 7 is pizza sticks). All told, the district has doled out nearly 3 million servings this school year. If it wanted to, the Trump administration could simply force kids to suck it up and literally eat their vegetables. Technically the responsibility of overseeing the school-meal program falls to the USDA—which isn't under Kennedy's purview—but Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has signaled that she is onboard with MAHA-ing school lunch. Still, any attempt to enact a ban would likely invite significant backlash. In 2023, when the federal government floated the idea of banning the sale of sugary chocolate milk in elementary and middle schools, many parents flooded the government with complaints. So did some students: Ben, a fourth grader who left only his first name, wrote in an official comment to the USDA that it should abandon the proposal 'because students are super MAD.' Members of Congress also put pressure on regulators to stop the reform. The USDA later abandoned the chocolate-milk ban. In 2011, after the Obama administration released its new guidelines for school lunch, Republicans in Congress tried to fight back against healthier pizza by classifying the dish as a vegetable. It's no wonder why MAHA has a problem with school pizza. Kennedy has pointed to corporate malfeasance as a leading source of America's diet problems. You don't have to be a fan of his to feel uneasy that Domino's, a fast-food company that sells philly-cheese-steak-loaded tater tots, is participating in a taxpayer-funded program meant to feed kids nutritious meals. But Kennedy's favored approach to food and, well, everything—big proposals and dramatic overhauls—isn't well suited to school meals. The health secretary might dream of kids eating from a salad bar stocked with seed-oil-free dressings five days a week, but ending school pizza day won't automatically make that happen. Telling kids what to eat is one thing; getting them to eat it is another.
