High blood pressure, on the other hand, occurs when blood moves through the arteries with an abnormally strong force, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Your blood pressure is determined by the amount of blood your heart pumps and how resistant your arteries are to the blood flow, the Mayo Clinic […]
Mask up, for the good of your country. As one of his first acts as president, Joe Biden is mandating Americans to wear masks while on federal property as part of an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. Biden’s action is more symbolic than it is prescriptive: While he has the ability to enforce that masks be worn […]
Back in June of last year, former President Trump set the U.S. on a course to leave the World Health Organization (WHO) in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. But under the direction of newly sworn-in President Joe Biden, the country will immediately reengage with the international health organization. “Today, President-elect Biden will take action […]
More people are doing Veganuary in 2021 than ever before, and while veganism is an ethical stance, many may have been influenced by the promise of following a healthier diet for the first 30 days of the year. Except, of course, going vegan doesn’t automatically result in a healthier diet – in fact, done poorly […]
Christmas Day 2016. I have recovered from the liver transplant in May that I needed to stop my primary sclerosing cholangitis, a degenerative liver disease that, without a transplant, can cause cirrhosis and eventually death. Now I face repeated hospitalizations because of my other health problem, ulcerative colitis, a bowel disease, since September of that […]
Working out while wearing a mask is never exactly comfortable, especially if your face covering isn’t super breathable. It’s annoying to wear layers of fabric on your face as you sweat and pant, even more so if you wear glasses or are noticing eruptions of maskne from all the wet-cloth-to-skin contact. And yet, if you […]
I have my Chanel Rouge Allure Laque Swatches Part 2 up today with lip swatches of Shades 67 Steady through 78 Tenacious. For quick reference I have all of the shades arm swatched in my first Chanel Rouge Allure Laque Review + Swatches post from a couple weeks ago along with the lighter neutrals on […]
Nestlé is issuing a massive Hot Pockets recall on 762,615 pounds of pepperoni-flavored product that could be contaminated with pieces of glass and hard plastic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced on January 15. There have now been four different consumer complaints from people who found “extraneous material” in […]