Guide To Growing Your Own Asparagus: The Vegetable That Will Give You A Bountiful Harvest Every Year for Thirty Years

Pierre Van ZylHome + Garden, Make

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If you can patiently nurture your asparagus shoots for the first three years, you’d gain half a lifetime of assured harvests in the spring of every year. The tender asparagus shoots (spears) are the edible, refreshing part rich in natural health boosters and phytonutrients. The young stem shoots sprout when the soil warms up above…

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Sweating the small stuff

Pierre Van Zyl

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It’s been forever since I’ve posted so I figured I would dive back in!I’ve been noticing lately that I’m been getting myself extremely worked up over minor issues that ought to be minor annoyances.  I think it’s because my overall stress levels ha…

Sweating the small stuff

Pierre Van Zyl

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It’s been forever since I’ve posted so I figured I would dive back in!I’ve been noticing lately that I’m been getting myself extremely worked up over minor issues that ought to be minor annoyances.  I think it’s because my overall stress levels ha…

Last Week’s Workouts

AngelaFitness, mountain running, Running, strength training, Workouts

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Last week’s workouts were simple thanks to a mini taper for the Loon Mountain Race on Sunday.  In addition, full on summer running has graced us FINALLY!  It’s hot, it’s humid and no one better complain about it.  Lol.  The timing was perfect for the 4th of July and an extended holiday weekend. So I’ve […]

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Weekend Reading, 7.7.19

Pierre Van ZylNutrition and Wellness, weekend reading

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It’s interesting, what gets unearthed during stressful times. It was a long week, in spite of the July 4th holiday, thanks to my internship wrapping up and my mom’s knee replacement surgery. She’s doing really well, but these moments are fraught and trying for everyone. I haven’t exactly been a picture of equanimity or grace…

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Chili Roasted Cauliflower, Brown Rice & Kimchi Bowls

Pierre Van Zylbowls, brands, cauliflower, Gluten-free, Main Dishes, Quick & Easy, Recipes, rice, spicy, tofu, Tree Nut Free, Vegan

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When I was testing recipes for Power Plates, I feasted on bowls for weeks at a time. Bowls were one of the main recipe categories in the book, so for a while I ate them for lunch, dinner, and sometimes breakfast, too. I still make a lot of lunch bowls on the weekend, but since…

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Chili Roasted Cauliflower, Brown Rice & Kimchi Bowls

Pierre Van Zylbowls, brands, cauliflower, Gluten-free, Main Dishes, Quick & Easy, Recipes, rice, spicy, tofu, Tree Nut Free, Vegan

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When I was testing recipes for Power Plates, I feasted on bowls for weeks at a time. Bowls were one of the main recipe categories in the book, so for a while I ate them for lunch, dinner, and sometimes breakfast, too. I still make a lot of lunch bowls on the weekend, but since…

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Man Lost Over 450 Pounds Shares His Tips

Pierre Van ZylHeal, Health Awareness, Healthy Aging + General Wellness, Weight Loss

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“I didn’t think my weight was a problem.” At six feet tall, Carlos Orosco was used to being a ‘bigger person.’ When he moved out his parent’s home in his late 20s, he was free to choose any lifestyle he wanted. His weight starting increasing rapidly as he consumed food and alcohol to console himself…

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Survey Shows That Almost Half of Youngster Population Aren’t Using Deodorants

Pierre Van ZylLearn, News + Discoveries

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Most people who have an unpleasant body odor are completely oblivious to it. For this, you can thank olfactory adaptation. For example, this can mean you can either be unaware of the strength of the cologne you’re wearing or the natural odors your body is producing (that many around you may not be a fan…

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A Breakthrough in the Mystery of Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases

Pierre Van ZylHeal, Health Awareness, Healthy Aging + General Wellness, Learn, Opinion, Women’s Health

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Autoimmune diseases affect 23.5 million people in the United States. Shockingly, women make up 78% of that statistic [1]. A new theory suggests that the placenta may hold a key to this mystery. What is an Autoimmune Disease? An autoimmune disease is a condition when one’s immune system mistakes normal cells for foreign matter and…

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A Breakthrough in the Mystery of Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases

Pierre Van ZylHeal, Health Awareness, Healthy Aging + General Wellness, Learn, Opinion, Women’s Health

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Autoimmune diseases affect 23.5 million people in the United States. Shockingly, women make up 78% of that statistic [1]. A new theory suggests that the placenta may hold a key to this mystery. What is an Autoimmune Disease? An autoimmune disease is a condition when one’s immune system mistakes normal cells for foreign matter and…

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Summer Horrors: This Video of a Tarantula Leisurely Swimming across Water Will Definitely Give You the Chills

Pierre Van ZylLearn, News + Discoveries

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Rowing gently down the stream like he owns the whole darned place… This trending video of a giant hairy tarantula crawling across the water is certain to leave a lot of viewers hydrophobic. It’s not that most bodies of water aren’t usually crawling with aquatic insects, but there’s just something really sinister about this one,…

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Here’s Why Growing Up With Cousins Is So Awesome

Pierre Van ZylLearn, Personal Growth + Development

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Cousins are amazing people to have. They are the closest thing to siblings without actually being so and our relationship with them doesn’t end just because they or we move to another city.  Throughout our lives, our cousins play different special roles. From our toddler days to our declining years, we recognize our cousins —…

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Living drug has cancer ‘on the run’

Pierre Van ZylCancer, Heal, Learn

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The Hearty Soul has covered stories about Dr. Ronald Levy’s potential cure for cancer and whether MuTaTo is the cancer cure we’ve been longing for. Now, doctors at King’s College London are claiming that they may be able to help cure terminal blood can…

Drivers follow Google Maps Detour which Leads to an Empty Field

Pierre Van ZylLearn, News + Discoveries

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How much do you rely on technology? Would you be able to navigate around a traffic jam without a navigation app? Technology isn’t always reliable, this story reminds us, as nearly 100 people in Colorado followed a Google Maps route to detour around a collision on the Peña Boulevard, a road leading to Denver International…

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A Face of Endometriosis

Pierre Van ZylHeal, Health Awareness, Women’s Health

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There is a painful disease that takes place amongst many women. Endometriosis is a common and sometimes debilitating condition experienced by women of reproductive age, it is estimated to affect 10% of women.  This disease can cause chronic pelvic…

Olive Oil is found to Nourish the Brain and May Protect Against Alzheimer’s

Pierre Van ZylDigestion, Heal, Health Awareness, Healthy Aging + General Wellness, Learn, News + Discoveries

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As if we needed more reasons to follow a Mediterranean style diet, while many diet trends come and go, the Mediterranean diet is an original, and to this day is still praised and followed for its inclusion of plant-based foods, omega-fatty acids and filling fiber coming from legumes.  However it’s one specific ingredient that gets…

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Is There Arsenic in Your Bottled Water?

Pierre Van ZylHeal, Health Awareness, Healthy Aging + General Wellness

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Most people choose plastic water bottles out of convenience, instead of just bringing your own bottle with you. There are also many who believe that plastic water bottles are filled with healthier filtered water, which is cleaner and safer than tap water. However there are plenty of reasons why bottled water is not actually a…

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Xylitol: A Deadly Danger to Dogs

Pierre Van ZylPets, Relationship

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Kate Chacksfield was at a loss when her dog Ruby became rapidly sick in less than a week. She took Ruby to the vet, and wracked her brain to figure out the source of this sudden ailment, but came up with nothing. After Chacksfield paid almost $13,000 i…

Cannabis Oil Replaced 22 Pills For Little Boy With Seizures

Pierre Van ZylHeal, Health Awareness, Healthy Aging + General Wellness

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Jayden David was born perfectly healthy, and like many parents, anticipating health serious health issues, doesn’t always come to mind. This is why Jason, Jayden’s father, was shocked when his four-month began having seizures, sometimes multiple times per day, causing his son severe pain. Jason was determined to do everything he could to help his…

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John Lost 180 Pounds After Fearing a Heart Attack at 20 Years Old

Pierre Van Zyl

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When John saw photos of himself at 360 pounds, he realized how out of hand his weight had gotten.
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Getting Ready for My First Ultra

AngelaRunning, ultra marathon, ultra running, ultra training, Vermont 50

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I’ve said I wanted to run an ultra for quite some time now. I’m guessing that thought started swirling in my mind about 3 or 4 years ago. I was falling in love more with trail running. Road marathons were nice but I didn’t love it. More aptly, my body didn’t love it. I’ve had […]

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Tahini Mustard Sweet Potato, Lentil, and Arugula Salad

Pierre Van ZylDietary Preferences, Gluten-free, lunch, Recipes, salad, Salads, Sides, Soy-free, sweet potatoes, tahini, Tree Nut Free, Vegan

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Today’s salad is a great example of how recycling a recipe—keeping it intact, but with a few key tweaks—can pay off. It’s based off of my mustardy lentil sweet potato salad, which isn’t a green leafy salad so much as a spread of sorts, in the same way that chicken salad and egg salad are…

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Residency Roast

Pierre Van Zylbecoming a doctor, feeling grateful, Kicks, kids in residency

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Another academic year comes to a close this weekend. Tomorrow a fresh fleet of interns across the country will be starting their first days nervous and tremulous to be finally let loose on the wards. Although most of my classmates have walked out of the clinic for the last time, I and a number of my classmates have “mom time” to make up for maternity leave (which feels a little like a punishment for having a baby during residency, despite only taking a 5 week maternity leave….but I digress) so I’ll be around a few more weeks.

Our residency celebrates the end of each year with a large banquet to celebrate the new arrivals and to honor the graduating residents with awards, nice words, and roasts. The outgoing residents get roasted by the program director first, followed by another roast by the incoming chief residents. The outgoing chiefs roast the faculty, and everyone has a good laugh along with some good food and drinks.
As a graduate, I was able to bring a whole table full of family to the banquet this year. During cocktail hour I was able to show off Toddler as we mingled with my friends and coworkers and faculty and guests. I was honored to be able to receive an award as well as present a teaching award and was glad those close to me were able to make it. 
I awaited the roasts with some trepidation. I felt I had a lot of potential – I’m a messy eater, a loud talker, a clumsy walker. My PD went first. When it was my turn, he poked fun at my small town (as he is originally from a neighboring small town to my own), my instant apologies whenever something even mildly inappropriate escaped my filter, and my overall “church lady” nature (I used to play church piano and work at a Catholic hospital so it was fitting). He did mention how pragmatic I was, to the point I would send my child away when I was on weeks of night float to my small town (my mom and sister cheered at this point seeing as that was who Toddler spent the most time with on those nights). 
I instantly had a bit of a flashback and felt a familiar feeling in the pit of my stomach. I hated those weeks so much. I remember the first week of night float I had as a parent. I stressed Husband out so much trying to get us to cross paths for those 15 minutes before he had to leave for work and I was coming home and vice versa and losing sleep trying to spend minutes with my Baby. It was awful. It was nerve wracking and left me in tears. The next week I sent Baby to my parents. It was such a good logical solution. My Baby would get to spend time with his grandparents who lived out of town, and they coordinated things so my in-laws could see Baby too. My husband was less stressed trying to hurry home as fast as possible to I could see Baby for five minutes before heading to work. And I got to sleep. It worked so well we did it for pretty much every week I had of night float. 
Logic didn’t stop the deep pit I would feel in my stomach as I handed off Baby each of those weeks. It felt like an essential part of me was getting ripped from my gut every time. I would do those hand offs and head off to the hospital to spend overnights alone isolated in my call room or being crushed by the pager. It was absolutely awful. 
And even in the banquet hall, surrounded by those I love most and my co residents and members of my residency who I will miss dearly, surrounded by all the warm fuzzies from sharing memories and laughter together, I felt a remnant of that aching pain in the pit of my stomach. As I looked around the room and thought about all that I would miss about my program, I knew what I would be the happiest to leave behind.
I snuck into Toddler’s room that night when he was fast asleep. I watched him sleep with his face shoved against his crib mattress and his diapered butt up in the air. I thought about how grateful I am for my upcoming attending  job – outpatient with low volume OB call – and thought about all the weekends and nights we would be able to spend together from here on out. I am so happy for the bonds he has formed with his grandparents and extended families from those weeks away, but am even happier that those weeks have finally come to an end.
With love,
Kicks 

Residency Roast

Pierre Van Zylbecoming a doctor, feeling grateful, Kicks, kids in residency

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Another academic year comes to a close this weekend. Tomorrow a fresh fleet of interns across the country will be starting their first days nervous and tremulous to be finally let loose on the wards. Although most of my classmates have walked out of th…

Residency Roast

Pierre Van Zylbecoming a doctor, feeling grateful, Kicks, kids in residency

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Another academic year comes to a close this weekend. Tomorrow a fresh fleet of interns across the country will be starting their first days nervous and tremulous to be finally let loose on the wards. Although most of my classmates have walked out of th…

Last Week’s Workouts

AngelaRunning

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Last week’s workouts were full of my favorites – friends, road, dirt, mountains, vert and dogs. It was the last big week of workouts before a short taper for Loon Mountain this week. I’m ready to see the Boss! Monday 30 min Stepmill Intervals 10 min Arc Trainer Strength Intervals Strength Training – Bullet Proof […]

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One Dragonfly Can Eat 100’s of Mosquitoes Per Day: Keep These Plants in Your Yard to Attract Dragonflies!

Pierre Van Zyl

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Dreading the mosquito bites this summer? You’re not alone. Accidentally attracting mosquitoes is more than just a deciding factor for whether or not to invest in a backyard pond. These days, mosquito bites, regardless of where you are in the world, can be a danger to your health. Illnesses Transmitted through Mosquito Bites Zika virus:…

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Kratom Linked to Nearly 100 Deaths

Pierre Van ZylHeal, Health Awareness, Learn, News + Discoveries

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A herbal supplement is thought to have contributed the deaths of almost 100 people after accidental overdoses. The supplement in question is known as kratom (mitragyna speciosa), a plant is known for its psychoactive properties. It is believed to have therapeutic benefits, but from July 2016 to December 2017, according to the Centers for Disease…

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