While in recent years the body-positive movement has grown stronger, the truth still remains: It isn’t and never has been, easy being a bigger person. This includes physical, emotional, and general daily struggles that come not from the weight of your body, but that of people’s judgments. At restaurants, at the doctor’s office, online –...
Tommy Cimato is a seasoned flight attendant and he shares secrets from the behind-the-scenes of his job. For instance, in a viral video, he listed “five things you should NEVER do on an airplane” and some of them are shocking. Including his advice to never wear shorts on a plane. For many people, their flying...
When you come home, do you go and sit on your bed in the same clothes you were wearing all day? Perhaps you even lay under the covers in them. Well, you may want to stop doing that. According to experts, wearing your outside clothes on the bed invites all kinds of germs, bacteria, and...
It is no secret that people who are overweight are often judged, ridiculed, and bullied by society. On the internet, where people are “anonymous”, this has gotten even worse. This photographer, after being made fun of for some self-portraits that she took, decided to not just capture herself in the photos, but also the judgmental...
Even in this century, mother nature still finds new ways to surprise us, from curious bears to domesticated coyotes and more. A recent video reveals the extraordinary moment a woman happens upon what looks like a dead bumblebee burial held by ants. You can find ants everywhere, including every home, school, office, city, and country....
The Amish, a North-American religious society live a rural lifestyle where work is done manually with limited aid from modern technology. The Amish are industrious; you’ve probably heard of an Amish barn-raising before. Since a crane couldn’t come in to relocate someone’s barn, 250 men from the community came together to lift it themselves [1]....
Living off the grid was once considered a fringe movement reserved for solitarians and individuals preparing for the apocalypse, but it has begun receiving a lot more attention and interest from the general population over the last several years. As the cost of living continues to rise, political upheaval and social unrest become increasingly common,...
The sun gives life to plants and microorganisms, provides us with warmth and daylight, and is an endless source of renewable energy. By all accounts, solar energy should be our first choice for heating our water and homes and powering our cars, but there’s just one problem that has stumped the solar industry for quite...
Remember the 1994 film Forrest Gump and the iconic quote “My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get”? Well, if you bite into chocolate-covered cherries, you still don’t know what you got. Yes, you got the flavor “cherry cordial” but the middle isn’t simply a...
Heart disease is the first leading cause of death in the United States, and stroke is the fifth. Each year, over 877,000 people die from heart disease, stroke, or other cardiovascular diseases. Many programs focus on researching these conditions and finding ways to prevent them. The most well-known leading risk factors include high blood pressure,...
While potatoes tend to store well, they don’t last forever. In fact, sometimes they can last for one week to a few months. This depends on how they are stored. But you may have found potatoes with sprouts forming from “eyes”. They are not very appealing but are the potatoes still edible? Here are some...
Surgeries should be stress-free. Of course, the lead-up is often fraught with anxiety and hassle, but once you’re on the operating table, there’s nothing left to do but succumb to the anesthesia and wake up when it’s all over. Except in one or two of every 1,000 medical procedures, the patient wakes up in the...
