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North Wales Live
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- North Wales Live
Molly-Mae's 'eye catching' red carpet earrings are from affordable high-street brand
Molly-Mae Hague has made a name for herself as not only an influencer and former Love Islander but for being quite the style maven too. Alongside her own label, Maebe, the 26 year old certainly turned heads at the BAFTAs earlier this year, radiating elegance, timeless allure, and glamour - and fans were delighted to learn that the former Love Island star' s outfit featured a number of high-street jewellery items that are still up for grabs. Wearing a striking black blazer co-ord from Arakii, Molly-Mae complemented her look with a selection of standout silver ear-stacks and cuffs, including a piece from the well-loved high-street label Astrid and Miyu. After doing some digging, it looks like she donned the brand's 'beautiful' Cosmic Illusion Crystal Ear Cuff in Silver, which retails for £50. She was also spotted wearing what seems to be the brand's Essential Crystal Small Hoops in Silver, priced at £60. While Molly-Mae has kept relatively quiet about where her earrings are from, a close-up image shared by her hair stylist, Jack Luckhurst, reveals the exquisite stack. The dainty Cosmic Illusion Crystal Ear Cuff in Silver is made from rhodium-plated recycled sterling silver and comes in gold (although it's currently sold out), though Molly-Mae chose the silver option, reports OK!. This elegant cuff boasts a star-shaped adornment on the earlobe, paired with a pavé band that creates a dazzling shimmer effect. Shoppers who have snapped up this item have lauded its stylish design, with one customer saying: "Very chic ear cuff, love how it sits perfectly and buying a few more for my friends as cute little presents." Another satisfied buyer exclaimed: "I love this ear cuff, it's very comfy to wear, super sparkly and actually looks like a real piercing." Another user praised the accessory, commenting: "Perfect ear cuff, looks so pretty, quite flexible if you need to pinch it or open it slightly depending on ear shape." Echoing, a fourth added: " I love this ear cuff, it's very comfy to wear, super sparkly and actually looks like a real piercing!" For those who can't quite bring themselves to spend £50 on an ear cuff, Missoma's Lucy Williams Mini Orb Ear Cuff, which is decorated with small bobbles of gold to add texture, is available for £25, and Oliver Bonas offers the Donna Disco Faceted Silver Ear Cuff at a more wallet-friendly £22. With a 4.9 star rating, the earring has very little negative feedback - the only four star review on the website cited the customer preferring the gold iteration: "I do prefer the gold," although they added: "I love the ear cuffs and being able to have more ear jewels without the piercing." Molly-Mae seems to have combined the Cosmic Illusion Crystal Ear Cuff with what appears to be the brand's Essential Crystal Small Hoops in Silver, priced at £60. These hoops, made from Recycled Sterling Silver, are praised for having 'just the right amount of sparkle'. Their delicate nature doesn't detract from their striking pavé finish that certainly make a significant statement. A near-perfect 4.9-star rating reflects the quality and style, with the only negative comment stating: "These are fairly simple, not stand out quality - they are cute and a really nice size!" while another said they may not be worth the £60 price tag. Although for the most part, the feedback was glistening as one person remarked: "These are gorgeous earrings. So delicate and pretty they sparkle so bright. They are lightweight but still feel excellent quality." While 26 year old Molly-Mae sported them at the BAFTAs, they've been described as the ideal day-to-day hoop: "I wear these daily and they have a lovely sparkle yet work for an everyday pair of earrings," said one Astrid & Miyu fan.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Marijuana use dramatically increases risk of dying from heart attacks and stroke, large study finds
Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN's Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Using marijuana doubles the risk of dying from heart disease, according to a new analysis of pooled medical data involving 200 million people mostly between the ages of 19 and 59. 'What was particularly striking was that the concerned patients hospitalized for these disorders were young (and thus, not likely to have their clinical features due to tobacco smoking) and with no history of cardiovascular disorder or cardiovascular risk factors,' said senior author Émilie Jouanjus, an associate professor of pharmacology at the University of Toulouse, France, in an email. Compared to nonusers, those who used cannabis also had a 29% higher risk for heart attacks and a 20% higher risk for stroke, according to the study published Tuesday in the journal Heart. 'This is one of the largest studies to date on the connection between marijuana and heart disease, and it raises serious questions about the assumption that cannabis imposes little cardiovascular risk,' said pediatrician Dr. Lynn Silver, a clinical professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at University of California, San Francisco. 'Getting this right is critically important because cardiovascular disease is the top cause of death both in the United States and globally,' said Silver, who is also senior adviser at the Public Health Institute, a nonprofit public health organization that analyzes marijuana policy and legalization. Silver is the coauthor of an editorial published with the paper that calls for change in how cannabis is viewed by health professionals, regulatory bodies and the public at large. 'Clinicians need to screen people for cannabis use and educate them about its harms, the same way we do for tobacco, because in some population groups it's being used more widely than tobacco,' she said. 'Our regulatory system, which has been almost entirely focused on creating legal infrastructure and licensing legal, for-profit (cannabis) businesses, needs to focus much more strongly on health warnings that educate people about the real risks.' The new systematic review and meta-analysis analyzed medical information from large, observational studies conducted in Australia, Egypt, Canada, France, Sweden and the US between 2016 and 2023. Those studies did not ask people how they used cannabis — such as via smoking, vaping, dabbing, edibles, tinctures or topicals. (Dabbing involves vaporizing concentrated cannabis and inhaling the vapor.) However, 'based on epidemiological data, it is likely that cannabis was smoked in the vast majority of cases,' Jouanjus said. Smoking tobacco is a well-known cause of heart disease — both the smoke and the chemicals in tobacco damage blood vessels and increase clotting, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Therefore, it is not surprising that smoking, vaping or dabbing cannabis could do the same, Silver said: 'Any of the many ways of inhaling cannabis are going to have risks to the user, and there's also secondhand smoke risks, which are similar to tobacco.' The notion that smoking cannabis is less harmful because it's 'natural' is just wrong, Dr. Beth Cohen, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, told CNN in a prior interview. 'When you burn something, whether it is tobacco or cannabis, it creates toxic compounds, carcinogens, and particulate matter that are harmful to health,' Cohen said in an email. However, edibles may also play a role in heart disease, according to a May 2025 study. People who consumed edibles laced with tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, showed signs of early cardiovascular disease similar to tobacco smokers. 'We found that vascular function was reduced by 42% in marijuana smokers and by 56% in THC-edible users compared to nonusers,' Dr. Leila Mohammadi, an assistant researcher in cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco, told CNN in a prior interview. None of the studies included in the new meta-analysis asked users about the potency of THC in the products they consume. Even if they had, that information would be quickly outdated, Silver said. 'The cannabis market is a moving target. It is getting more potent every day,' she said. 'What's being sold to people today in California is 5 to 10 times stronger than what it was in the 1970s. Concentrates can be 99% pure THC. Vapes are over 80% THC. 'A variety of chemically extracted cannabinoids can be almost pure THC, and all of these just have very different effects on people than smoking a joint in the 1970s.' Higher potency weed is contributing to a host of problems, including an increase in addiction — a July 2022 study found consuming high-potency weed was linked to a fourfold increased risk of dependence. In the United States, about 3 in 10 people who use marijuana have cannabis use disorder, the medical term for marijuana addiction, according to the CDC. 'We know that more potent cannabis makes people more likely to become addicted,' Silver said. 'We know that more potent cannabis makes people more likely to develop psychosis, seeing and hearing things that aren't there, or schizophrenia. Habitual users may also suffer from uncontrollable vomiting.' The rise in potency is one reason that the current study may not have captured the full extent of the risk of marijuana for heart disease, Jouanjus said: 'We are afraid that the association might be even stronger than that reported.' While science continues to study the risk, experts say it's time to think twice about the potential harms of cannabis use — especially if heart disease is a concern. 'If I was a 60-year-old person who had some heart disease risk, I would be very cautious about using cannabis,' Silver said. 'I've seen older people who are using cannabis for pain or for sleep, some of whom have significant cardiovascular risk, or who have had strokes or had heart attacks or had angina, and they have no awareness that this may be putting them at greater risk.'
Miami Herald
2 days ago
- Business
- Miami Herald
Adam Silver: NBA ‘should be exploring' expansion
Commissioner Adam Silver offered hope to cities looking to land an NBA franchise, saying Thursday that the league "should be exploring" expansion. Silver addressed the media in his annual state-of-the-league talk ahead of Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Indiana Pacers and the host Oklahoma City Thunder. Regarding the addition of teams, Silver said, "I don't think it's automatic, because it depends on your perspective on the future of the league. As I've said before, expansion in a way is selling equity in the league. If you believe in the league, you don't necessarily want to add partners. "On the other hand, we recognize there are underserved markets in the United States and elsewhere -- I think markets that deserve to have NBA teams. Probably even if we were to expand, more than we can serve." In terms of potential expansion locations, Silver said, "There's been no lack of interest. I essentially have said to people from several different cities, 'We're just not engaging in that process right now.' "I want to be fair to everyone. So I don't want to have meetings with some and not others. So if we were to say yes, we're now going to move into a more formal exploratory phase. We would take those meetings, and in addition likely we would engage with outside advisers who would look at markets, look at economic opportunities and media opportunities, etc." The NBA hasn't expanded since the then-Charlotte Bobcats joined ahead of the 2004-05 season. Las Vegas and Seattle are widely viewed as the top targets for future teams, with Mexico City potentially in the mix, too. Silver addressed several other topics: --While a spate of regular-season injuries prompted speculation about the NBA cutting down the 82-game regular season, Silver dismissed the notion of a lighter schedule. "Money's part of it, there's no question about it," Silver said. "We're a business. Having said that, I don't really see the benefit to reducing the number of games. People used to say you should reduce the number of games because it will lead to a reduction in a number of injuries. We have absolutely no data to suggest that. ... "Injuries are considered down this playoffs from what has been historically our second-lowest in 10 years. So we have pretty healthy teams coming into the Finals now." --After the success of the NHL's 4 Nations Face-Off, the NBA is likely to switch to nationality-based format for the 2026 All-Star Game in Inglewood, Calif. "I don't think a straight-up USA versus World makes sense," Silver said. "That's not what they did in the NHL, either. There probably will be some different teams we form." Noting that the 2026 game will be played amid the Winter Olympics in Italy, Silver said, "I think we can play off that nationalism. ... I think there's a real opportunity to create enhanced interest and enhanced competition from the players." --Silver lauded the fact that the NBA is about to crown its seventh different champion in seven years. "We set out to create a system that allowed for more competition around the league, the goal being to have 30 teams all in a position, if well-managed, to be competing for championships," he said. "And that's what we're seeing here. ... "The goal isn't necessarily to have a different champion every year. It's to have, as we said before, parity of opportunity." --Field Level Media Field Level Media 2023 - All Rights Reserved
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Marijuana use dramatically increases risk of dying from heart attacks and stroke, large study finds
Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN's Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Using marijuana doubles the risk of dying from heart disease, according to a new analysis of pooled medical data involving 200 million people mostly between the ages of 19 and 59. 'What was particularly striking was that the concerned patients hospitalized for these disorders were young (and thus, not likely to have their clinical features due to tobacco smoking) and with no history of cardiovascular disorder or cardiovascular risk factors,' said senior author Émilie Jouanjus, an associate professor of pharmacology at the University of Toulouse, France, in an email. Compared to nonusers, those who used cannabis also had a 29% higher risk for heart attacks and a 20% higher risk for stroke, according to the study published Tuesday in the journal Heart. 'This is one of the largest studies to date on the connection between marijuana and heart disease, and it raises serious questions about the assumption that cannabis imposes little cardiovascular risk,' said pediatrician Dr. Lynn Silver, a clinical professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at University of California, San Francisco. 'Getting this right is critically important because cardiovascular disease is the top cause of death both in the United States and globally,' said Silver, who is also senior adviser at the Public Health Institute, a nonprofit public health organization that analyzes marijuana policy and legalization. Silver is the coauthor of an editorial published with the paper that calls for change in how cannabis is viewed by health professionals, regulatory bodies and the public at large. 'Clinicians need to screen people for cannabis use and educate them about its harms, the same way we do for tobacco, because in some population groups it's being used more widely than tobacco,' she said. 'Our regulatory system, which has been almost entirely focused on creating legal infrastructure and licensing legal, for-profit (cannabis) businesses, needs to focus much more strongly on health warnings that educate people about the real risks.' The new systematic review and meta-analysis analyzed medical information from large, observational studies conducted in Australia, Egypt, Canada, France, Sweden and the US between 2016 and 2023. Those studies did not ask people how they used cannabis — such as via smoking, vaping, dabbing, edibles, tinctures or topicals. (Dabbing involves vaporizing concentrated cannabis and inhaling the vapor.) However, 'based on epidemiological data, it is likely that cannabis was smoked in the vast majority of cases,' Jouanjus said. Smoking tobacco is a well-known cause of heart disease — both the smoke and the chemicals in tobacco damage blood vessels and increase clotting, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Therefore, it is not surprising that smoking, vaping or dabbing cannabis could do the same, Silver said: 'Any of the many ways of inhaling cannabis are going to have risks to the user, and there's also secondhand smoke risks, which are similar to tobacco.' The notion that smoking cannabis is less harmful because it's 'natural' is just wrong, Dr. Beth Cohen, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, told CNN in a prior interview. 'When you burn something, whether it is tobacco or cannabis, it creates toxic compounds, carcinogens, and particulate matter that are harmful to health,' Cohen said in an email. However, edibles may also play a role in heart disease, according to a May 2025 study. People who consumed edibles laced with tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, showed signs of early cardiovascular disease similar to tobacco smokers. 'We found that vascular function was reduced by 42% in marijuana smokers and by 56% in THC-edible users compared to nonusers,' Dr. Leila Mohammadi, an assistant researcher in cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco, told CNN in a prior interview. None of the studies included in the new meta-analysis asked users about the potency of THC in the products they consume. Even if they had, that information would be quickly outdated, Silver said. 'The cannabis market is a moving target. It is getting more potent every day,' she said. 'What's being sold to people today in California is 5 to 10 times stronger than what it was in the 1970s. Concentrates can be 99% pure THC. Vapes are over 80% THC. 'A variety of chemically extracted cannabinoids can be almost pure THC, and all of these just have very different effects on people than smoking a joint in the 1970s.' Higher potency weed is contributing to a host of problems, including an increase in addiction — a July 2022 study found consuming high-potency weed was linked to a fourfold increased risk of dependence. In the United States, about 3 in 10 people who use marijuana have cannabis use disorder, the medical term for marijuana addiction, according to the CDC. 'We know that more potent cannabis makes people more likely to become addicted,' Silver said. 'We know that more potent cannabis makes people more likely to develop psychosis, seeing and hearing things that aren't there, or schizophrenia. Habitual users may also suffer from uncontrollable vomiting.' The rise in potency is one reason that the current study may not have captured the full extent of the risk of marijuana for heart disease, Jouanjus said: 'We are afraid that the association might be even stronger than that reported.' While science continues to study the risk, experts say it's time to think twice about the potential harms of cannabis use — especially if heart disease is a concern. 'If I was a 60-year-old person who had some heart disease risk, I would be very cautious about using cannabis,' Silver said. 'I've seen older people who are using cannabis for pain or for sleep, some of whom have significant cardiovascular risk, or who have had strokes or had heart attacks or had angina, and they have no awareness that this may be putting them at greater risk.'
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Investopedia's chief editor says stock market fears may be overdone: 'The smoke is a lot worse than the fire'
Listen and subscribe to Financial Freestyle on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Investors have been eyeing the stock market with an abundance of caution in the wake of the Trump administration's back-and-forth trade policies and the corresponding stock market volatility. "The past few months have put us on an emotional roller coaster, right?" Investopedia chief editor Caleb Silver said on Yahoo Finance's Financial Freestyle, referring to the volatility in early April resulting from Trump's initial "Liberation Day" tariff announcements. "We've gone from pretty optimistic with the stock market at all-time highs, not really understanding that the entire economy was going to be flipped on its head, to, 'Oh my gosh, the stock market's down 19%. Should I stay? Should I go?'" This embedded content is not available in your region. Investopedia regularly surveys its 1.5 million newsletter readers about their investing habits to get a feel for what moves are being made by investors of different demographics. Silver noted that younger generations are more ready to take risks and aren't as afraid of stock market volatility, but recent fluctuations have put some middle-aged and older investors on the defensive. Silver said that some investors' feelings might be getting the best of them and that the "smoke is a lot worse than the fire" when it comes to the economy. He maintained that giving in to fear and bailing out won't necessarily protect investors' money like they hope it will. Read more here: How to protect your money during economic turmoil, stock market volatility "We've also seen one of the fastest V-shaped recoveries in the stock market in history," Silver said. "They get faster and faster. These bear markets are very cute. They last like two, three weeks, and then they're gone. So in the time that you thought, 'Maybe I should do something,' the stock market probably already recovered." Investopedia's data from its survey and site traffic, combined with analytics from Vanda Research, showed that a lot of investors have also been trying to pick up shares as they're falling, buying some popular stocks at the dip even as they've been significantly hit. "If you look at what's happened over the past few weeks, turns out buying the dip was actually the right call this time around," Silver said. "We don't encourage it. We encourage dollar-cost averaging, buying stocks that you like no matter what the price, especially if they fall. But a lot of people got a little risky out there on the plank and may have had some good timing with some of these stocks for now." Silver reiterated that things are not as bad as they seem in the economy. Indeed, the latest survey of consumer sentiment from the University of Michigan showed a rebound in optimism for the first time this year after the index recorded one of its lowest readings on record. "Sometimes the fear and the anxiety and our animal spirits make us think things are a lot worse than they actually are," Silver said. Every Monday, Financial Freestyle host Ross Mac talks with key guests to discuss their wealth-building journeys and what it takes to build a lasting financial footprint. You can find more episodes on our video hub or watch on your preferred streaming service. Sign in to access your portfolio
