Picasso, Rembrandtmasterpieces damaged in Seattle art gallery fire: Over the weekend, Seattle’s Davidson Galleries caught fire, damaging several artworks by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Francisco Goya, and MC Escher, as well as other more contemporary artists, gallery manager Rebecca McDonald told CNN. The gallery has been taking inventory of the surviving artwork — a process which may take “weeks” — to assess the extent of the damage and the possibility of salvaging the art, although some pieces could be damaged beyond repair.

Firefighters believe that the fire was started by someone trying to warm themselves in the alley behind the gallery, which then unintentionally spread into the three-story building.

The gallery contained 16-18k pieces of art collected over the past 50 years. The oldest artwork in the collection was 534 years old, dating back to 1490, and the most recent piece was created just last week.

The damage: Experts estimate over USD 1 mn in damages, but McDonald suggests the situation could be less dire, although she refused to officially numerate the extent of the destruction until a full assessment is complete. The vast majority of the art displayed and stored at the gallery are salvageable, she says.

The reason for adult and children’s weight gain can be sitting in your lunchbox.Fruit juice — even if the label reads 100% fruit — seems to be impacting our scales and in the long-term deteriorating our family’s health, according to a study on pediatric juice consumption published in Jama Pediatrics.

Fruits are healthy when eaten whole — but fruit juices (in the servings we are having) result in a fruit “overdose.” Take this for measure: A cup of orange juice is equivalent to three oranges — which, for most of us, would not be the normal serving size of the fruit, CNN quotes an epidemiology and nutrition professor as saying. If we consumed the fruit as we had picked it off the tree, the fructose in the fruit would hit our bloodstream at a regular pace, rather than be flooded with it when we consume juice. Our bodies are clever machines, and will use our livers to clear our bloodstreams of sugar by turning them into round cells of fat and sending them to our love handles and donut-floats that have made our favorite clothes shrink.

“Whole fruits and vegetables come in packages of nutrients,” which gives us a chance to digest the fiber and other goodies that come with the fruits and vegetables. When consumed out of their natural state, it forces our body to “metabolize[s] it differently than it evolved to do so,” CNN quotes Tamara Hannon, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee on nutrition, as saying.

Rule of thumb: “Eat the rainbow,” rather than drink it: We should consume less than 8 ounces (236 ml) of juice a day — and not consider it an alternative to water. The WHO adds that juices, along with similar beverages, should not account for more than 10% of one’s total energy consumption. For toddlers between 1-3 years old, it should be less than 4 ounces/118 ml, and for 4-6-year-olds they should have less than 6 ounces/177 ml, according to US national nutritional guidelines.

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