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Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl head to Newark on Tuesday night to take on a Devils team that suddenly has one of the best goalies in the world. It’s the marquee game on an 11-game NHL slate, and with the NBA off for Election Day, it has the spotlight to itself. Fanatics Sportsbook is offering new users promo code FOXNEWS350 to bet $20 and get $350 in FanCash on Devils vs. Oilers.Hellebuyck vs. the best duo in hockey. Connor Hellebuyck has been as good as advertised in New Jersey, opening 2-0-0 with a 1.50 goals-against average and a .923 save percentage. He’s built his career on stealing games against elite offenses, and McDavid and Draisaitl are the toughest test he’ll get all month. If he holds them in check, the Devils are in great shape at home.Edmonton’s goaltending gap. Tristan Jarry gives the Oilers a 4-1-2 record and two shutouts, but his .901 save percentage is a red flag against a Devils team that can push the pace. Edmonton can survive a shaky night from its goalie when its stars are rolling. It’s much harder when the other team’s goalie is standing on his head.The special teams battle. McDavid and Draisaitl together on the top power play is the most dangerous unit in the league. New Jersey has to stay out of the box. If the Devils keep this game at five-on-five, they can lean on their structure and their goalie. If they hand Edmonton chances on the man advantage, the Oilers’ price at +135 starts to look like a bargain.The last time these teams met, New Jersey won 2-1 in January. The books have priced the under at -125 for a reason. Hellebuyck’s numbers so far point to a low-scoring night, and the Devils’ best path to winning is keeping the game tight and grinding out a one- or two-goal result. Even if Edmonton’s stars break through once or twice, it would take a goaltending collapse on both ends to get to seven goals. Bet $20 on the Under and collect $350 in FanCash once it’s graded, no matter how it lands.Oilers vs Devils OddsOdds are subject to changeElite goaltending against the most dangerous one-two punch in the sport, with the hockey world watching. New users can bet $20 on Devils vs. Oilers and get $350 in FanCash with Fanatics Sportsbook promo code FOXNEWS350.

With the NBA off for Election Day, hockey has Tuesday night to itself. Eleven NHL games are on the schedule, and the best of them puts Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl against Connor Hellebuyck in Newark. BetMGM is offering new users bonus code FOXNEWS to unlock up to $1,500 in First Bet Cover. If your first wager loses, BetMGM refunds your stake in bonus bets.The books have New Jersey as a home favorite, and the reason is in net. Hellebuyck is 2-0-0 with a 1.50 goals-against average and a .923 save percentage since joining the Devils. Edmonton’s Tristan Jarry has two shutouts and a 4-1-2 record, but his .901 save percentage leaves less room for error. New Jersey also won the last meeting 2-1 in January, and the under is priced at -125.That’s the case for the Devils. The case for Edmonton is simpler: no team in the league has two forwards like McDavid and Draisaitl. They run the top power play together, they can split up to stretch a defense across two lines, and they can turn a quiet game in a matter of shifts. Hellebuyck can steal games, but he hasn’t faced this kind of firepower yet in a Devils sweater.A protected first bet is the right tool for taking a plus-money underdog with this kind of upside. Bet $100 on Edmonton to win and you collect $235 if the Oilers get it done. If New Jersey holds on, BetMGM refunds your $100 in bonus bets. With the two best players on the ice wearing orange, getting them as an underdog is a number worth taking.Odds are subject to changeThe defending Stanley Cup champion Hurricanes visit Nashville at 8 p.m. ET, and Nikita Kucherov, last season’s Hart Trophy winner, leads Tampa Bay against Detroit at 7 p.m. ET.7:00 p.m. ET7:30 p.m. ET8:00 p.m. ET9:00 p.m. ETBack the Oilers, trust Hellebuyck or take your first bet anywhere on an 11-game slate. New users can unlock up to $1,500 in First Bet Cover on tonight’s NHL action with BetMGM bonus code FOXNEWS.

The next four days are loaded. The NHL has an 11-game slate tonight, college basketball is in its first week, and the NBA heads into the second Friday of NBA Cup group play. FanDuel is giving new users $200 in bonus bets by betting $5 a day for four days, with no promo code required.The NBA takes Election Day off, so hockey owns Tuesday night. The best game on the board is Edmonton at New Jersey at 7:30 p.m. ET. Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl run into Connor Hellebuyck, who has been excellent since arriving in New Jersey at 2-0-0 with a 1.50 goals-against average and a .923 save percentage. Edmonton counters with Tristan Jarry, who has two shutouts but a .901 save percentage.That goaltending gap is why the Devils are favored at home. Edmonton at plus money, with the best one-two punch in hockey, is the kind of number that gets underdog bettors interested. The Devils won the last meeting 2-1, and the under is juiced at -125.Odds are subject to changeElsewhere, the defending Stanley Cup champion Hurricanes visit Nashville, and Nikita Kucherov’s Lightning host Detroit.College basketball tipped off Monday, and the first week is when the market knows the least. Rosters have been reshaped by the transfer portal, freshmen are playing their first real minutes, and lines are set more on projections than results. Your daily $5 bet doesn’t need to be on a marquee game. Some of the best value in November comes from teams the public hasn’t watched yet.The NBA is back Wednesday, and Friday brings the second night of NBA Cup group play. Every one of these games counts toward the regular-season standings and the race for a knockout spot:Philadelphia at Cleveland is the headliner, with LeBron James back in Cleveland for a reunion game in the toughest group in the East.Hockey tonight, college hoops all week and the NBA Cup on Friday. Bet $5 a day for four days with FanDuel and collect $200 in bonus bets.

Tuesday’s NHL schedule runs 11 games deep, with eight puck drops at 7:00 p.m. ET and a marquee matchup in Newark at 7:30. That’s a lot of players to choose from on the pick’em board. Betr is offering new users promo code FOXNEWS to get $200 in bonuses and four free picks for tonight’s slate.Four free picks, four places to start, one massive NHL slate. Connor McDavid points (higher): Edmonton visits New Jersey at 7:30 p.m. ET, and McDavid is still the most reliable point producer in hockey. Even when the Oilers have a quiet night, the offense usually runs through him. He’s the anchor for any NHL entry tonight.Connor Hellebuyck saves (higher): Hellebuyck has been excellent since arriving in New Jersey, going 2-0-0 with a 1.50 goals-against average and a .923 save percentage. Facing McDavid and Leon Draisaitl means facing a lot of rubber. If Edmonton controls play the way it usually does, Hellebuyck’s saves line is in play.Leon Draisaitl points (higher): The Devils will likely put their top shutdown pieces on McDavid’s line, which can leave Draisaitl with easier matchups. He also runs the top power play alongside McDavid. Pairing the two is a simple way to bet on Edmonton’s top end breaking through.Nikita Kucherov points (higher): Kucherov won his second Hart Trophy last season, and Tampa Bay hosts Detroit at 7 p.m. ET. Home games against a Red Wings team still building toward contention are exactly where Kucherov tends to pile up points.New Jersey is favored at home largely because of the matchup in net. Edmonton’s Tristan Jarry is 4-1-2 with two shutouts, but his .901 save percentage trails Hellebuyck by a wide margin. The Devils won the last meeting 2-1 in January, and the under is priced at -125, so the books see another low-scoring game coming.Odds are subject to changeThe defending Stanley Cup champion Hurricanes visit Nashville at 8 p.m. ET, and Anaheim at Vancouver closes the night at 9 p.m. ET.Eleven games and four free picks to spread across them. Sign up with Betr promo code FOXNEWS to get $200 in bonuses and four free picks for Tuesday’s NHL slate.

Tuesday is one of the busiest nights of the NHL week, with 11 games on the schedule and a 7:30 p.m. ET headliner in Newark. Edmonton visits New Jersey, and the spotlight falls squarely on Leon Draisaitl. Underdog is offering new users promo code FOXNEWS to play $10 and get $50 in bonus entries on any game tonight.This game comes down to the best offensive duo in hockey against one of the best goalies in the world. Hellebuyck has been excellent early in his Devils tenure, going 2-0-0 with a 1.50 goals-against average and a .923 save percentage. Edmonton counters with Tristan Jarry, who is 4-1-2 with two shutouts but just a .901 save percentage.That gap in net is why New Jersey is favored at home. It’s also why the Oilers are interesting at plus money. Edmonton doesn’t need many chances to score, and few teams can match the speed and skill McDavid and Draisaitl bring to the top of the lineup. The Devils won the last meeting 2-1 in January, and the total sits at 6.5 with the under juiced at -125, so the books expect another tight one.For pick’em, McDavid is the starting point. His point line is the safest way to get exposure to Edmonton’s offense, and even a quiet night for the Oilers usually runs through him. On the other side, Hellebuyck’s saves line is worth a look. If Edmonton controls the puck the way it usually does, he’ll be busy.Odds are subject to changeThe defending Stanley Cup champion Hurricanes visit Nashville at 8 p.m. ET, and Anaheim at Vancouver closes the night at 9 p.m. ET. Earlier, Nikita Kucherov and the Lightning host Detroit in one of eight games at 7 p.m. ET.7:00 p.m. ET7:30 p.m. ET8:00 p.m. ET9:00 p.m. ETIt’s a loaded NHL slate on Tuesday night. McDavid and Draisaitl against Hellebuyck, plus 10 more games around it. Play $10 on Devils-Oilers or any game tonight with Underdog promo code FOXNEWS and get $50 in bonus entries.

Eleven NHL games are on the board Tuesday night, starting with a nine-game 7:00 p.m. ET window and running all the way to a late puck drop in Vancouver. Fanatics Sportsbook is offering new users promo code FOXNEWS350 to bet $20 and get $350 in FanCash on any game tonight.The Carolina Hurricanes raised their second Stanley Cup banner on opening night, and Tuesday they visit Nashville in the lone 8:00 p.m. ET game. Every team gets up for the defending champions, and the Predators get the Canes in their own building. Pyotr Kochetkov is slated to get the start between the pipes for the ‘Canes, and he is off to a record-setting pace. With Kochetkov in the crease, the Hurricanes have one ten straight as he has recorded a blistering 1.50 GAA to go along with two shutouts. Tampa Bay hosts Detroit at 7:00 p.m. ET with Nikita Kucherov, who won his second Hart Trophy last season, leading the way. He’s still one of the most productive players in the sport, and the Lightning at home are always a tough out. There have been rumblings that Kucherov may want out of Tampa, which would be massive news in the NHL world. Ironically, Detroit is one of the list of teams that have reportedly already inquired about the Hart Trophy winner. 7:00 p.m. ET7:30 p.m. ET8:00 p.m. ET9:00 p.m. ETWith the league moving to an 84-game schedule this season, there’s hockey almost every night, and Tuesday is one of the busiest of the week. New users can bet $20 on any NHL game tonight and get $350 in FanCash with Fanatics Sportsbook promo code FOXNEWS350.

The Second Meal Affect explained by GoldCare Health & Wellness
Most people think of meals as isolated events. You eat breakfast, your blood sugar rises and falls, and by lunchtime your body starts over.
But what if your breakfast is still influencing your blood sugar five hours later? Or what if tonight’s dinner affects how your body handles breakfast tomorrow morning?
This phenomenon is called the second-meal effect, and it reveals something important about metabolism: Your body remembers what you ate, even after the meal has been digested.
The question is how long that effect lasts, what causes it, and whether you can use it to improve your blood sugar control.
The evidence
In a 2006 study, ten healthy adults ate one of three different breakfasts. Five hours later, each ate the same lunch, containing 93 grams of carbohydrate. 
The researchers wanted to know whether the composition of breakfast would affect how the body handled an identical lunch several hours later. It did. Despite eating exactly the same lunch, participants had different blood glucose responses depending on what they had eaten for breakfast.
The phenomenon was first described about a century ago and was later investigated by David Jenkins, who developed the glycemic index, in the early 1980s.
Repeated spikes in blood sugar after meals are associated with increased cardiometabolic risk, meaning a greater likelihood of developing conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. If changing breakfast can improve the body’s response to lunch, it offers another way to manage blood sugar without necessarily changing lunch itself.
But why would a meal eaten five hours earlier still matter?
The mechanisms
Several biological mechanisms help explain the second-meal effect.
Free fatty acids. Between meals, adipose tissue (body fat) releases free fatty acids (FFAs) into the blood to fuel the body. Insulin suppresses that release after you eat. Elevated FFAs impair glucose uptake in skeletal muscle. A breakfast that keeps FFAs lower for several hours may therefore help your muscles process glucose more efficiently when lunch arrives.
Fermentable carbohydrates. In the 2006 study, one breakfast consisted of a rapidly digested, high-glycemic cake supplemented with lactulose, a fermentable carbohydrate. Lactulose works much like certain fermentable fibers found in beans, oats, onions, and bananas. Many of these fibers are also known as prebiotics because they feed beneficial gut bacteria.
Instead of being digested in the small intestine, lactulose travels to the colon, where gut bacteria break it down. This process, called fermentation, produces compounds that can help regulate blood sugar.
Despite the breakfast’s high glycemic index, participants had a better blood sugar response to lunch five hours later. Researchers linked this improvement to bacterial fermentation in the colon and lower levels of free fatty acids (FFAs) in the blood. High levels of FFAs can make it harder for the body’s cells to absorb glucose, so lowering them helps the body control blood sugar more effectively.
In other words, fermentable fibers eaten at breakfast may still be influencing how your body handles blood sugar hours later.
Hormonal priming. The first meal can also influence how the pancreas and digestive system respond to the next one. In adults with type 2 diabetes, breakfast appeared to prime the hormonal response to lunch: insulin and GIP, a gut hormone that helps stimulate insulin secretion, rose higher after lunch than after breakfast.
These mechanisms show why blood sugar regulation depends on more than just the content of your next meal. What you ate earlier can also influence the result.
Does protein have the same effect?
Protein is an important part of breakfast, but its benefits need to be distinguished from the second-meal effect.
When eaten with carbohydrates, protein can help moderate the glucose response to that meal, depending on the amount and composition of the food. But those benefits don’t necessarily carry over to the next meal.
In one trial of twelve adults with type 2 diabetes, a high-protein breakfast lowered post-breakfast glucose. It did not change lunchtime glucose compared with a high-carbohydrate breakfast. 
Protein still belongs at meals. It increases satiety, supports lean mass, and improves the immediate glucose response. But the evidence for a second-meal benefit is weaker than the evidence for certain fermentable fibers and slowly digested carbohydrates, like lentils, chickpeas, beans, barley, and steel-cut oats. 
Fat also affects how the body processes carbohydrates. It slows the rate at which food leaves the stomach, delaying carbohydrate absorption and often reducing the initial glucose spike. However, it can also prolong the glucose response, sometimes causing blood sugar to rise several hours later, particularly in people with diabetes.
Like protein, fat’s effects on the current meal don’t necessarily translate into better glucose control at the next one.
Can the effect last overnight?
Five hours is one thing. But can what you eat tonight influence your blood sugar tomorrow morning? Research suggests that it can.
Studies have found that certain low-glycemic evening meals, particularly those containing slowly digested or fermentable carbohydrates, can improve glucose tolerance at breakfast the following morning.
The mechanisms overlap with those seen during the day. Slowly digested carbohydrates and fermentation in the large intestine may influence free fatty acid levels and glucose metabolism long after dinner is over.
That suggests that the metabolic effects of a meal can persist for up to 16 hours, and sometimes longer, depending on the food and the interval between meals.
However, that does not mean every meal has a predictable 16-hour effect. The duration depends on the type of carbohydrate, the amount consumed, individual metabolism, and other factors.
The important takeaway is that your metabolism doesn’t necessarily reset when you go to sleep.
Should you skip breakfast?
The second-meal effect describes how one meal influences the body’s response to the next. It isn’t limited to breakfast and lunch. After all, it’s called the “second-meal effect,” not the “breakfast-lunch effect.”
The lesson isn’t that breakfast is mandatory; it’s that meals are metabolically linked. 
If you practice intermittent fasting, which is eating within a compressed timeframe such as 11 am-7 pm, these findings are completely consistent. What you eat at one meal influences your glucose response not just for that meal, but for the next meal. 
The bottom line
Most people already know the importance of limiting excess sugar, choosing carbohydrates carefully, and paying attention to blood glucose levels.
The second-meal effect adds another useful tool: understanding that what you eat at one meal can influence how your body processes the next.
Research has demonstrated this effect five hours after breakfast and even across an overnight fast. How much longer it can last, and under what conditions, is still being investigated.
Have a question for the GoldCare HealthDesk? Let us know here.

Richard Amerling, MD is Academic Director at GoldCare Health & Wellness. A longtime academic nephrologist at Beth Israel Medical Center and Associate Professor at Mount Sinai, he taught clinical skills at St. George’s University until 2021, when he was placed on leave for declining an experimental treatment. He then served as Associate Medical Director for America’s Frontline Doctors. He has written and lectured extensively against evidence-based medicine and rigid clinical guidelines, advocating independent clinical judgment.

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