Cravings happen to all of us. I don’t understand people who say they don’t crave a sweet treat every now and again – WHO EVEN ARE YOU?! A little sweet treat here and there makes food a joyful experience, to be savoured and shared with friends, or enjoyed solo with a healthy hot chocolate for…
Beyoncé Cut Out Carbs, Sugar, Dairy, Meat, Fish, and Alcohol from Her Pre-Coachella Diet
Okay. It’s not my fault I can’t wrap my mind around Beyoncé’s mind-blowing exclusions in her pre-Coachella diet. In her recently released Netflix documentary titled Homecoming: A film by Beyoncé, the 37-year-old global icon said she’d pushed herself to extreme limits to pull off an electrifying performance [1]. It’s been a hectic Coachella season for…
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The Working 92 Year Old Star Who Won’t Quit Her Lifestyle
When 92-year-old June Brown was asked to give up drinking booze and smoking cigarettes, she had one thing to say – the key to a long life is doing simply, “what you damn well please.”[1] She plays Albert Square favorite Dot Banning on the soap opera, Eastenders. One of the things that she claims keep…
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Flex Your Brain A Bit With This Challenging Riddle: “What Has An Eye But Cannot See?”
Think. You know this. It might be tricky, but give it your best shot before scrolling down further. Riddles can be timeless, ageless, and even helpful for our noggins. No matter how young or old you are, riddles give your brain a workout and help lift your mood. Here a few benefits of having fun…
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Meal Prep Friendly Tofu Tahini Lunch Salad
My current GI rotation features fast days and a fully packed schedule. It’s not uncommon for my preceptor and I to have new patients on the hour, every hour, for the entirety of our work day. Lunches usually get eaten quickly, often in the spare minutes between appointments. Lunch breaks have seldom been leisurely this…
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Stonyfield #PlayFree Initiative
This is a sponsored post on behalf of Stonyfield. All thoughts and opinions, as always, are my own. On any given weekend, you will find us at a ball field. Spring baseball and soccer season is in full swing. And if one of the kids isn’t playing a sport, you can find us playing, hanging […]
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Jeanine Donofrio’s Baked Red Lentil Falafel
I’ve always espoused an “everyday” approach to cooking. I’m a home cook, not a chef, and I doubt I could pull off gourmet cuisine if I wanted to. Even when I eat out, I gravitate toward food that’s simple and filling; fancy (and fussy) preparations are never for me. This isn’t to say that I…
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Podcast 177 | Disagreements
By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Joshua & Ryan talk about disagreements, arguments, and conflict with educator and podcaster T.K. Coleman, and they answer the following questions…
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A Mother’s Warning to Families Living with Anaphylactic Allergies
A mother of four daughters expresses her word of caution. Families living with anaphylactic allergies should never get ‘too comfortable’, even if you’ve been managing well for several years. Monique’s youngest daughter, Denise (age 11) suffered from a severe milk allergy. Monique has always been consistent and diligent when it came to vetting every label…
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A Simple Stretch of her Neck Left this 23-Year Old Partially Paralyzed
We’ve all heard that cracking and popping our joints can lead to arthritis and other joint problems. The sound associated with this cracking and popping is also likely to irritate others around you. However, while we often hear the dangers of cracking your joints, several studies have concluded that this isn’t linked to arthritis. While…
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Last Week’s Workouts
Seven weeks to Mount Washington Road Race meant last week’s workouts started heating up. Thanks to my new coach, this training cycle is all about time rather than distance or pace. It’s kind of a nice change but I’m not going to lie – I still look at distance. If I’m close to hitting 5 […]
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Weekend Reading, 4.21.19
I met on Thursday with a local therapist who specializes in eating disorder treatment. She has a number of vegan patients and wanted to chat with me about some of the nutritional and cultural considerations; I was eager to hear her perspective on treatment as a whole. It was a good conversation, rich and interesting….
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Spring Minimizing
By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Spring sprung a month ago, yet most of us are still procrastinating with the clutter that has mounted since last summer…
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Saturday AM coffee
The golden weekend begins
I wake up at 7:30 before my alarm. Approx 10 seconds of quiet uninterrupted bliss ensues when I realize I’m the only one awake. I can’t wait to make Saturday morning coffee. Then Dog demands to go outside.
While dog is outside, I read the last few page stories of the mystery I’ve been working on. Toddler fusses. I think “only ten pages to go” and Toddler falls miraculously back asleep and I finish my book.
Toddler fusses again. No coffee yet. Upstairs I find Toddler covered in poo including pieces in hair and hands. Apparently letting him eat that much pizza last night was a mistake. Toddler is protesting in the tub but much much cleaner 5 minutes later. I peek out in the hall for backup, turns out Husband heard the commotion and closed the bedroom door for a little longer sleep in. Hmph.
Toddler is dried out of bath. I sit him downstairs with yogurt and all is forgiven instantly. He smears his yogurt-covered hands through his recently bathed hair as I rinse the poo off of sheets, his pajamas, my pajamas and throw in the wash. Coffeemaker is finally started. I sit down with my own yogurt, which Toddler immediately realizes is different from his own and demands some. We share a little more yogurt.
Toddler gets spot cleaned, and I finally pour my cup of coffee.
It’s a beautiful day. Toddler loves being outside. Dog, coats, boots are collected and I spill a little of my precious “mom juice” on the floor. (“Mom juice” is my explanation to Toddler for coffee, wine, diet Mountain Dew, etc.). Clean floor. I go out thinking I might sit outside a sip some coffee, watch the commotion and listen to the radio. Coffee is a little colder but still tolerable. Spill some coffee on my old white worn fleece
I drag my chair to the sunny corner of the backyard, before realizing I have nowhere to put my coffee down. Coffee sits on little mud pile.Toddler decides he wants to rock with me on the chair, then by himself. The ball is thrown to dog. Sip. Throw. Sip. Throw. Toddler gets stuck in his plastic car. Extract Toddler. Sip. Run around yard with Toddler and Dog. Sip slightly warm coffee.
Sneak inside to top off cup with warm coffee and grab Kleenex for Toddler.
Back inside. Laundry gets done, clothes are packed and bathroom gets cleaned. Toddler finds the Swiffer cloths very interesting.. Now off to our parents for a weekend away.
I think I need another cup of coffee.
I can’t wait until I start my attending primary care clinic job this fall (yay!) and this becomes more of a typical than atypical Saturday (minus the poo).
Kicks
Botched Microblading Procedure Leaves Woman with Four Eyebrows
Long gone are the days of over-tweezing, waxing, and threading. It’s the late 2010’s, baby, and having your eyebrows on fleek means keeping them full and well-shaped. While many women opt to color in their brows with eyebrow pencils on a daily basis, microblading is also a popular choice. But as one Kansas City woman…
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Canadian Family Drives Home from Florida with Dead Body to Avoid US Health Care Costs, Report Says
The fear of a steep healthcare bill led to a Canadian family from Quebec attempting to cross the US-Canadian border with the lifeless body of their 87-year-old relative, Fernand Drapeau. On March 31st at 2:30 pm, border officials inspected the car of a Quebecois man in his 60’s, who was accompanied by his elderly parents…
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Autism Severity may be Reduced by 47% with Radical Fecal Transplant Therapy
The human microbiome is made up of genetic material consisting of various microbes, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi. The amalgamation of these has greater complexity than the human genome itself. As we discover more about how our internal microbial environment (our microbiome) is involved in our health, we see that by supporting or modulating…
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Why You Should Take Part in a Plastic-Free Period
We hear a lot about the dangers of single-use plastics, from straws to plastic bottles and coffee cups; the list goes on. But menstrual products are adding to the plastic epidemic, and they may be made worse by incorrect disposal. Did you know that menstrual product, such as conventional tampons and pads contribute to the…
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7-Eleven Owner Helps Shoplifting Teen
Your cortisol spikes. Hands clam up. You’re unsure whether to reach for a phone or a weapon. It’s normal to freeze or panic in stressful moments such as a robbery. But when Jitendra “Jay” Singh — a 7-Eleven owner in Toledo, Ohio — noticed a teen stealing items from his store, the confrontation went nothing…
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GetCollagen.co.za 2019 Easter Special
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How to Be the Best Race Spectator
How’s your running inspiration right now? Mine is through the roof after watching the Boston Marathon coverage on TV and tracking friends on Monday. It’s crazy the wide range of weather that rolled through – thunder/lightening and torrential rain, then sun, warmth and humidity followed up with more heavy rain. For a lot of my […]
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Male-Only Draft “Unconstitutional”: Federal Court Paves Way for Women’s Draft
If the president of the United States declares a national emergency tomorrow and gives the word to the Selective Service System (SSS), almost every young man between the age of 18 and 25 could be drafted into the army for service. It wouldn’t matter if they’re a recent immigrant or American citizen. It wouldn’t matter…
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Indigenous Canadians in Water Crisis as Nestlé Drains a Million Gallons a Day From Their Land
It’s 2019, and if you don’t already know that the bottled water industry is one of the worst contributors to plastic pollution, where have you been? Single-use plastic bottles are meant to be recycled but often end up as microplastics in our oceans (and eventually our foods!). Reusing plastic water bottles can also be a health danger-…
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