For many years, anthropologists and evolutionary biologists have not been able to explain the ‘why’ of menopause. How could it be beneficial for women to no longer be able to have children when they still have decades left to live? Menopause is a…
The Sunday Family Dinner Is Nearly Obsolete, But it’s One That’s Worth Bringing Back
Food just seems to taste better when eaten in a social atmosphere of love and unity. Sometimes the term, ‘The good ol’ days’ holds true, and this is one of those times. There was a time when a Sunday without a family dinner wouldn’t feel like a Sunday at all. Families would only skip such…
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Last Week’s Workouts
Last week’s workouts saw my last LONG long run – 25 freakin’ miles. I can’t believe it’s taper time. I’m ready to get the race done. Training has been great but the long runs eat up too much weekend time. At this point, I’m not sure if I’ll be a 50k ‘one and done’ person. […]
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Weekend Reading, 9.15.19
I’ve been on an academic calendar for so long that September always feels like the start of a new year, whether it is or isn’t. I guess a traditional view of the seasons would be that spring is a time of rebirth, winter and fall a time of death, or endings, but I can’t help…
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These dads said they didn’t want a dog. Here’s how that worked out for them
Dads are such super-softies. They act like pets are a nuisance who’d only bother them with noise and poop, yet when one finds its way into the home, dads are usually the first to be smitten. I remember asking for a dog for my 11th birthday. My father had been strongly against it and said…
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Mum begs for birthday cards for son, 13, who told her ‘I’ve had enough of life’
The poor kid wishes a butterfly would come and take him away to a place of peace, where there is no more pain. 13-year-old Rhys has spent his entire life battling with Epidermolysis Bullosa, a rare, life-limiting, and extremely painful condition that causes the skin to blister, fuse, and sometimes fall off. Most people born…
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The Preventable Death of Alex Braes
Warning: the following true story may be upsetting to some. An eighteen-year-old boy has died after being neglected by health staff in the emergency ward of a hospital. His death was 100% avoidable. This failure is on the account of Australia’s regional hospital, where there are limited resources and overworked staff. The Australian Institute of…
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This Homeless Father of Five Can’t Find a Shelter Currently Taking Men with Children
Joseph Cantu is living through a parent’s nightmare. He’s homeless, abandoned by his spouse, and living out of a van with five kids. All he has is his faith and the hope his kids won’t remember this entire experience. Homeless with Five Children It all began with one stroke of bad luck after another. First…
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New Mom Takes Her Own Life: This is Her Friends Plea
Many women silently battle with postpartum depression, and this story should remind us that not every mother’s journey is joyful, happy and bright. Sometimes it gets dark, lonely, scary, miserable and uncertain. In Montgomery, Alabama, lived Allison and Julie – neighbours, and lifelong friends. Allison and Julie were both Army wives, and when Julie moved in…
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9 Candida Symptoms and 3 Steps to Treat Them
Do you ever experience any of these health issues? Exhaustion Cravings for sweets Bad breath White coating on tongue Brain fog Hormone imbalance Joint pain Loss of sex drive Chronic sinus and allergy issues Digestive problems (gas and bloating) Weak immune system UTI If so, these are just some of the signs that you may…
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Just One Day Before Baby Aiden Past from Microcephaly, Photographer Captures These Beautiful Moments
Photographer Jennifer Ryals received a phone call requesting a lifestyle newborn photoshoot for a 8-week-old baby who had just been released from the hospital. Ryals hesitated. “I don’t know where to start this honestly,” she said in an essay on Love What Matters. “I don’t photograph newborns. Not my thing.” However, she did love lifestyle…
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Oh-So-Simple Tomato Bread Soup
The first time I tried Marcella Hazan’s famous tomato sauce (using vegan butter), I had the same reaction that so many others have had: complete disbelief that anything so simple could taste so good. For those of you who haven’t tried “Marcella sauce,” as it’s sometimes affectionately called, it’s made with only four ingredients: tomatoes,…
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Confessions of a Runner
Runners are an odd group. We get up early. We run late at night. We enjoy sweating, eating and talking about topics that most non-runners don’t understand. I mean, we even have our own strange language. That’s pretty special. That being said, I have some things that I need to get off my chest. I […]
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Mom Shares Heartbreaking Photo of Daughter Comforting Her Younger Brother Battling Leukemia
Having to watch helplessly while your child suffer indescribable pain is something no parent should have to experience. Your inability to take their pain away, would make you feel as though you’d failed them, as though you let them down. To make matters, somehow, even worse, this child is no older than a toddler. 28-year-old…
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Meet the Frostbitten Cat That Has Become the First in the World to Receive Four Prosthetic Limbs
For most animals with permanent damage from frostbite, they usually spend the rest of their lives miserable and disabled. Sometimes, they are euthanized to save them from the pain, which is unfortunately a common occurrence. However, for this lucky ginger-face, it was not yet his time. Poor little Ryzhik (that’s Russian for Redhead or Ginger)…
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The Heartbreaking Moment a Dying Zoo Worker Received Final Kisses from Giraffes
For 25 years of his life, 54-year-old Mario Ejis worked at the Rotterdam’s Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo in the Netherlands as maintenance staff, caring for some of the most amazing creatures in confinement. Mario, who also suffers from a mental disability had battled terminal cancer and was unable to go to work for some time. In…
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Podcast 197 | Successful People
By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Joshua and Ryan discuss success, successful people, and how the world’s most successful people launched their careers with author Alex Banayan, and they answer the following questions…
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This Space Plane Has Been Orbiting Earth For Over 700 Days, and We Don’t Know Why
There’s some rather curious events taking place in earth’s orbit right now. Currently, an uncrewed solar-powered space plane has just broken a spaceflight-duration record, it has now been orbiting earth for more than 719 days. It’s known as the X-37B, it belongs to the US Air Force, and this is its fifth mission as an…
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Strong Moms Raise Strong Daughters
A bond between a mother and daughter is unlike anything else, and this relationship is an essential building block for a girl. Strong mothers raise strong daughters, and there’s a few things worth mentioning about a strong woman. Let a daughter of a strong mother tell you, a girl can flourish in her own, she…
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Soulful Simplicity
By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
We believe material clutter is often a physical manifestation of our internal lives. So if you want to deal with your internal clutter, you must first tackle the junk that’s all around you…
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Weekend Reading, 9.8.19
When you’re studying for a big test, which I am, you spend a lot of time thinking about focus. You have to: concentration and focus are huge parts of test preparation. No amount of study hours matter unless the quality of one’s attention and immersion is strong, a distinction that’s sometimes summed up as studying…
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Last Week’s Workouts
Last week’s workouts saw another cutback week in my long run mileage. It’s hard to believe that I’m 3 weeks away from VT50k. I’m enjoying the down mileage and prepping for next weekends last long(er) run – 24 miles!! Monday 6.7 mile run, 9:34 avg pace, 0 ft elev gain (Ha!) 30 minutes at-home strength […]
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Parental Burnout: Moms Need Equality In Raising Children, Self-Care, and Most Importantly, Massages.
Mommy burnout is real and over the years has finally received the attention it deserves from the scientific community. Burnout occurs when a person is in an extended state of emotional imbalance and the stress overwhelms the person’s abilities to cope. Life has its way of dropping all problems at once, from one child acting…
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How To Grow Your Own Garlic – It’s Easier than You Think!
Garlic is one of those spices that can bring an entire dish together. Roasted, toasted, sautéed, pureed, fried, baked… however you choose to incorporate garlic into a dish, the flavor is all yours to savor. Garlic is strongly aromatic, and it’s been recognized for ages for its culinary and medicinal uses. Growing garlic is one…
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1.1m Gallons per Day: Nestlé Plans to Pump Massive Amounts of Water Daily From the Ginnie Springs in Florida
“It’s impossible to withdraw millions of gallons of water and not have an impact. If you take any amount of water out of a glass you will always have less.” – Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, director of the not-for-profit Our Santa Fe River [1] Global food and beverage giant Nestlé is seeking a water-use permit from the…
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A natural alternative to Botox for your best skin ever? YES PLEASE.
A new treatment has been doing the round of the web, and I wanted to know more about it. Touted as ‘natural botox’, this treatment uses your own plasma to plump the skin. I chatted with Expert Skin Specialist Yvette Heyes (renowned founder of Pellis Medispa, Sydney) to give us the low-down. What is PRP?…