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NEWS NATIONAL POST, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2010 nationalpostcom NUTRITION Bacon and cheesecake can alter the brain in ways similar to heroin and cocaine, say scientists who argue that high-fat foods rewire the brain and drive the development of com- lower levels of the dopamine D2 receptor, associated with feelings of reward. The more junk food the High-fat foods rewire brain, drive compulsive eating, study suggests rats ate, the more they overloaded the brain's reward circuits until they essentially crashed. As the pleasure centres in the brain became less responsive, the rats turned into compulsive overeaters, according to the study published yesterday in an advance online edition of pulsive eating. When rats were suddenly given unrestricted access to a high-fat diet, they lost control over their eating. Within 40 days, their body weight had increased 25.

The obese rats showed Nature Neuroscience. Canwest News Service Daughters of business royalty, alleged cult leader at centre of lawsuit Manipulations of fortune 'fern, wm JOHN KENNEY CANWEST NEWS SERVICE FILES heirs to the Seagram fortune, have allegedly lost The tabloid New York Post reported on the case last week, calling Mr. Raniere a "shady svengali" and pegging the Bronfmans' losses at almost It also reported that the sisters' father, Edgar Bronfman called Mr. Raniere's organization, NXTVM, a "cult" and is "considering legal action" to restrict his daughters' access to the family fortune. The allegations are made in an affidavit by Barbara Bouchey, a financial manager who is reportedly a former NXIVM board member who dealt with the Bronfman investments, and also a former girlfriend of Mr.

Raniere. She calls him the "absolute leader of a cult called NXTVM," and says the Bronfman sisters are paying his legal bills. "The girls knew nothing about real estate and they knew nothing about investing," Ms. Bouchey states in the affidavit. That document is part of a lawsuit brought by NXTVM principals over a failed Los Angeles real estate project in which the Bronfman sisters invested The Albany Times Union quoted a Bronfman family lawyer as calling the accusations "salacious" and "malicious." The lawyer, Robert D.

Crockett, also said Ms. Bouchey refused to answer a question about whether she threatened to take her claims to the press unless she received a disputed payment National Post Sara and Clare Bronfman, The Bronfmans are Canadian business royalty, with a fortune built through their Seagram liquor empire. Now a philanthropist and former head of the World Jewish Congress, Mr. Bronfman Sr. was succeeded as president of Seagram by his son, Edgar who withdrew from the distillery business to pursue media and entertainment ventures.

The Bronfman sisters remain strong adherents of Mr. Raniere's philosophy, and both maintain personal websites that profess their devotion and respect for him, as a "mentor" and friend, their blogs say. Sara writes that she first met Mr. Raniere in 2002, at a seminar for his Foundation, which Sara described as "a non-profit organization promoting the evolution of humanity through ethics," and their blogs cite Mr. Raniere as "our mentor and conceptual founder." Its website describes him as "one of the world's top three problem solvers" with "an estimated problem-solving rarity of one in 425,000,000 with respect to the general population," and prominently features a quote by him: "Ethii ultimately, is the end of all confhr In a personal raphy that is largely about Mr.

Raniere's influence, Sara also refers in her blog to her father as her "master teacher in this life." Executive Success Programs. "Within two years, I became one of the company's top-ranked international trainers and was elected to serve as Director of Humanities, overseeing the company's humanitarian activities within its thirty-three-country network," her blog says. Her other 'lifelong heroes" include Sir Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama. Clare, a former equestrian show jumper, describes Mr. Raniere as giving her the "greatest gift one human can give to another the opportunity to see oneself and others as human." The sisters jointly founded a group called the Ethical Humanitarian If Ml illl If If" mmwic' By Joseph Brean In 2003, Forbes magazine ran a cover story on Keith Raniere, 49, "the world's strangest executive coach," a man who calls himself "Vanguard" and has shared his quasi-Scientological vision of self-improvement with prominent people, including a CEO of Enron and the daughter of the Mexican president.

The story described his approach to success as "apocalyptic" and intensely self-interested, and preached in a "bizarre world of messianic pretensions, idiosyncratic language and ritualistic practices." Mr. Raniere says that criticism was orchestrated and paid for by Canadian business icon Edgar Bronfman Sr. as part of his efforts to rescue his two daughters from Mr. Raniere's influence, efforts that also allegedly involved rigging a California real estate deal to fail, court records allege. Today, this family dispute has come into public view because of unproven claims made in a California lawsuit that Mr.

Raniere "exercised complete control" over Sara Bronfman, 33, and her sister, Clare, 30, and lost as much as of the family's fortune in investment schemes. A lawyer for the Bronfman family has denied the claims, and said the sisters are merely "enamoured with his ethical pursuits." 0k1RNH(mi if if uxrsii mainrrui mc rcifii ism i i I mi Wll re 1 V. l1- turn in i "i i "i ntm tw. 'Iff fi, ailftu tit yi'ift dli mum i mm i i tftnt i 'in The Hyundai nunei. login, ptoducl namei, future nimti, Imagn and ilogini ire trade mrki owned by Hyundii AutoCinade Corp.

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