How To Make Your Own Veggie Ground Meat
This faux “ground meat” recipe is a tasty alternative to store-bought processed soy-based “ground beef.” Both cauliflower and mushrooms absorb flavors and provide a meat-like texture, perfect for your favorite recipes. Why not just use store bought? More and more people are adopting a vegetarian or vegan diet because of health, the environment or ethics. While the processed-food industry is quick...
Allowing Research Animals To Become Pets
These days, Democratic and Republican politicians don’t agree on much, but in Illinois, a member of each party is sponsoring legislation that would help save laboratory cats and dogs. The bill would require taxpayer-supported research facilities using dogs and cats to work with rehoming organizations rather than euthanizing the animals after the studies were completed. Laboratory personnel would identify...
6 Things That Are Ruining Today’s Kids
A fundamental goal of good parents is wanting to ensure their children have the best quality of life possible. However, are today’s children better or worse off than kids of previous generations? A new poll published by the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital has found that most people surveyed believe that children are experiencing a worse quality of...
MIT Students Design A Plantable Pencil
We only have one planet, and we know we need to take good care of it. One way to do this is to keep landfill waste down as much as possible. Every little bit helps. When one thinks of landfill waste, pencil stubs may not immediately come to mind. However, if you think about the amount of students using pencils...
18 Strange And Ancient Medical Practices That Will Make You Gasp
Our ancestors relied on herbs, essential oils and other natural ways to stay well. On the flip side, their world included medical practices far more harmful than healing. These practices probably originated the phrase, “The cure is worse than the disease.” Teeth cutting Young children still “cut their teeth,” but that’s not a literal practice. It once was, though — doctors...
4 Karmic Effects Of Spontaneous Decisions
My phone literally blew up with texts from a bunch of my friends. They all said the same thing: “Did you hear O.A.R. is playing at Sunfest? We’re going, right?” I have often mentioned my healthy obsession with the gifted roots/rock/reggae band from Rockville, MD. I’ll save the “9 Reasons Why I Love O.A.R.” for a later post, but let...
What Is Your Favorite Workout Song?
You wake up, filled with the overwhelming desire to sleep in just a few minutes longer and skip your workout for the day. The sheets are warm, the morning sun is filtering through half-open blinds, creating a drowsy atmosphere that doesn’t exactly promote exercise. So what’s the secret to awakening that motivation to shake off your lazy attitude and get...
5 Ways To Know Your Kids Are Ready For A Dog
While your kids may convince you they are ready for a dog, as a parent it’s important to remember that you will always have primary responsibility as the canine caregiver, and it may be a 15-year commitment. Your kids can help, and take on more chores as they get older, but it is not realistic to assume children in...
Pensions At Risk: Is Your Retirement In The Crosshairs?
If you are one of the many truckers in the United States, your pension could soon be at risk. The U.S. Treasury Department is expected to decide by May 7 whether to approve benefit reductions for the trucking industry, which is one of the nation’s largest pension funds with more than 400,000 members. Thanks to legislation approved in 2014 by...
Study Says: Loneliness May Increase Heart Attack And Stroke Risk
Many people naturally seek out alone time once in a while, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. In fact, periods of solitude can be very healthy. We all need to clear our minds and spend some quality time with ourselves sometimes. However, loneliness and chronic social isolation are a different story. People are social creatures, and as such, we...
