Tag: Lifestyle

How the Birth Control Pill Changes Who You Are

How we perceive the world, form memories, and experience satisfaction fundamentally define the way we live and who we are. Recent science and widespread firsthand accounts now show that hormonal contraception, including the birth control pill, profoundly affects these domains by altering the structure of the brain and our neurochemistry. Hormonal contraception (HC) has long…


Air Fryer Chicken Taquitos Are Perfectly Crispy

Taquitos remind me of a less-messy version of crispy tacos. Traditionally, you make them by rolling tortillas around a savory filling and then frying them until crispy and ready to be dunked in salsa, guacamole, or crema. To be honest, I held off on making them at home because I didn’t want to bother with…


Book Review: In ‘We Are the Prey’ the Breggins Offer a Cure for Our Collective COVID Woes

Psychiatrist Peter Breggin and his journalist wife Ginger Ross Breggin’s book “COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey,” outlines the underlying societal conditions which they believe allowed powerful opportunists to assume control during the pandemic. They also recommend methods for global citizens to gain back strength and hope. In this insightful study, the…


Pine Needles: Ancient Importance for Human Health

Humans have long held a fascination with pine trees and their roles in the natural world around us. They are mysterious, beautiful, and ancient trees that can live to be hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of years old. There are around 125 different pine species that have been identified—some among the longest-living trees and…


1 Food Can Help Obese People Avoid Diabetes and Heart Disease

If you’re obese, including almonds in your daily diet can help to prevent diabetes and heart disease. Almonds are popular and affordable. Aside from being delicious, they also contain antioxidants, promote skin health, lower cholesterol, and aid digestion. But for obese people, almonds have far more benefits and should be incorporated into their daily diet….


Banana Coffee Cake Is a Heavenly Breakfast Mashup

Over the years, we’ve published our fair share of both banana bread and coffee cake recipes for TheKitchn.com. There’s everything from classic banana bread and Nutella swirl banana bread, to carrot cake coffee cake and coffee cake in a mug. And one day it occurred to me—a mash-up between the two baked goods could quite possibly be a match made in…


Thousands of Australians Face Skyrocketing Costs as Labor Price Cut Force Lifesaving Drug From PBS

The federal government is under pressure from the Coalition after removing a key lifesaving drug from the pharmaceutical benefits scheme (PBS), sending its cost soaring for thousands of Australians. Fifteen thousand Australians, many whom are children, who rely on Novo Nordisk’s fast-acting insulin drug Fiasp to manage their Type 1 diabetes will now face skyrocketing…


Best Products of K-Beauty in 2021!! (ft. Peach & Lily)

What K-Beauty products are deserving of the “Best of 2021” title? Alicia Yoon from Peach & Lily returns to share with us all the juicy deets and the selection process for this year’s invest-worthy “Best of K-Beauty Awards”! Plus, she’ll be giving us an inside scoop on consumer trends that stood out the most, as…


Soda Bread, Simple and Quick

Irish soda bread is a quick bread, which means it doesn’t require any yeast or kneading to rise. Instead, it relies on baking soda and buttermilk, which interact for leavening. When the ingredients are combined, the leavening process starts immediately, so the dough should be mixed quickly—hence the moniker “quick bread.” It shouldn’t be overworked,…


Why I Still Send Picture Postcards—Traveling or Not

By George Hobica From Tribune News Service Trust me on this, traveler: Sending picture postcards to friends and family spreads joy back home and in the process reveals aspects of your destination you’d otherwise miss. I know this because I am an obsessive picture postcard sender, as you’ll see. You’ve already guessed, from your own…