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Long gone are the days of settling for the one or two lone options in the freezer section when you need to pick up a box of veggie burgers. These days, the selection seems to be ever-growing — with patties for all sorts of preferences and eaters.
With that in mind, we held an official taste test to help you find the veggie burger that’s just right for you.
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Aiko Tokunaga is a mom of two living in Tokyo, Japan. She’s spent a lot of time living in the United States, both for school and after, but has only cooked for kids in Japan. Her experience involves something many of us don’t think about on a daily basis: food safety.
Since the 2011 earthquake in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, there have been concerns about radioactive contamination from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, so much of what Aiko does for her family involves finding great, safe foods.
We talked to Aiko about what her day-to-day life is like in Japan.
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I love inexpensive, simple DIY household cleaners with one giant caveat: They have to work. One of my very favorite homemade cleaners is Alvin Corn. I’ve mixed one up for every bathroom in the house and one for common areas. It’s the one cleaning solution I’ll never replace.
What the heck is Alvin Corn and what does it do? Keep reading to find out.
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Coffee pods have long been a boon to people who crave both caffeine and convenience. And Nespresso has been the high standard for single-serve coffee and espresso that feels both simple and luxurious. Of course, that high standard usually comes with a high price tag to match.
Today, however, you can get the Nespresso Vertou Coffee and Espresso Maker with a milk frother for 40 percent off on Amazon.
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I have multiple friends who swear that giving up dairy has given them more energy, helps regulate their digestion, and makes them feel leaner. Those all seem like great things to me, so I’ve tried it — I really have (most recently, for a whole week — read about it here).
While there are many instances where I find it easy enough to avoid or substitute out a dairy alternative, there’s one place I just can’t make the switch: I’m sorry, but I can’t get behind nut milk in my coffee.
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With the unofficial start of summer upon us, it’s time to think pink. Drinking rosé outside on a hot day is never going to get old (sorry, haters). And like any good trend in food and drink, rosé has come out of the bottle and is finding itself in new, interesting ways to consume. Once you’ve had enough glasses of the real thing (here are some recs, by the way), check out these four new ways to #RoseAllDay.
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My staff and I are quite close. Things stay busy these days, so there isn’t a lot of downtime, but I’ve worked with some of these folks for over a decade. We don’t discuss every grisly detail of our lives with each other. But we do share. We care about each other.
So when one of the Worker Bees mentioned he was having some potentially serious medical issues, I asked for details. Turns out he went to his doctor for a hard lump on his throat that was getting progressively bigger. Initial pokes and prods were inconclusive. An MRI led to a biopsy, which led to an email in the middle of the afternoon with the results and a hell of an opener: “This may be a cancer.” May helped. It wasn’t a sure thing yet.
For the next couple months, he continued getting tests to confirm one way or the other. A full body scan confirmed hypermetabolic activity in the lump, just like an active cancer would show. No other tissues showed up on the scan, meaning nothing had spread or originated elsewhere. No cancer confirmation, but his doctors were definitely leaning in that direction. He had meetings at the cancer center, filled out end-of-life directives, got a special parking pass. It was intense.
It wasn’t supposed to happen to a man like this. A wife, two kids, dogs, chickens, a new house, a job working in the health, fitness, and nutrition industry. Mid 30s. Fit, eats well, a strong foundation in Primal health principles. But happening it was.
Here’s what he said to me:
“Whatever happens, this has changed my perception of reality for the better (I think). I live in a different world now, rich with meaning and love and powerful emotions. It’s remarkable.”
Better?
Yep.
As he put it, when you think you’re dying, the nonsense you’ve been perpetuating falls away to reveal the essentials. It just happens on its own, and you get a glimpse of what really living entails.
Hugging your kids. Kissing your wife. A stroll after dinner to watch the sun dip below the horizon. A hawk soaring overhead. All things you’ve done and watched before, only now it’s different. Everything becomes imminent. Your concepts of the world and space-time condense. There’s less time now, but instead of getting frantic about it, you slow down and savor the moments. You’re present. Things that might have ruined your day or mood just roll off your back.
He saw it as a rare gift, and I have to agree. For all intents and purposes, he was dying (he wasn’t, but his nervous system didn’t know the difference). He got to make all the amends, undergo the self-realization, think about all the dreams and regrets he had accumulated or almost accumulated, and view things he took for granted in a new light. He got to prepare for death.
And then, he got good news. Exploratory surgery with an immediate biopsy right there in the operating room revealed that it wasn’t cancer. It was a cyst. They removed it. He went home, none the worse for wear.
The trickiest part of his whole experience has been figuring out how to keep it fresh in his heart and mind. How can he take what originated as a visceral response to the perceived threat of dying young and make it established policy? Turn it into wisdom that persists even when the threat has gone? The lump’s gone, and it never actually was a real threat. Will the insights remain?
That’s the eternal battle raging inside us, isn’t it?
We have these massive epiphanies triggered by events large and small. They change us, make us see the world from a different perspective. The prospect of random cancer helped the Worker Bee realize what he was taking for granted and glossing over. But when the direct effects of the trigger wane, we tend to let ourselves go. We get sloppy, complacent, and return to our previous incarnation.
Figuring this out seems like the key to happiness, success, meaning, world peace, and everything else we claim to hold dear. If we could get a handle on that slippery aspect of human psychology—the tendency to let learned wisdom flit away because the initial trigger resolves—there’d be no limit to what we could do as individuals and a species.
As we near the halfway mark of 2018, I want you all to ruminate on this matter.
Let me know what you think, what you’ve learned down below. We all have stories like this. Candid details welcome and encouraged.
Thanks for reading, everyone. Take care, be well, and next time you hug a loved one, feel that hug for the miracle it is.
Because it is.
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If there’s one thing Starbucks has in spades, it’s choices. Let’s see, do you want a caramel Frappuccino or a mocha Frappuccino? Whip or no whip? One pump or three? Oh, you just want black coffee? No problem. Want it brewed on a Clover or a siphon or maybe in a Chemex? And which café are you going to — the one on the northwest corner or the southeast corner? Or maybe the one up the street?
And that’s just the coffee shops. The company’s vast lineup of bottled and canned coffees is just as dizzying. Flavor options range from chocolate or honey to, yes, pumpkin spice. Some are spiked with energizing additives like guarana, or offer a wallop of protein. And even the plain, unsweetened versions come in two options: iced coffee and cold brew (and yes, there seems to be a difference).
With iced coffee season upon us, we decided it was high time to figure out which of these cool and caffeinated drinks are worth stocking up on. So we asked Starbucks to tell us which of their bottled and canned iced coffees were the fan favorites, then we gathered them all up for a taste test.
Here are our five top picks!
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Do you dream of being able to sit comfortably on the floor, with your legs long in front of you? Or maybe you have loftier goals, like being able to fold forward in a wide leg straddle with your chest approaching the floor, but no matter how hard you try or how long you stretch, nothing happens. You remain (mostly) vertical, your muscles rejecting the position you are trying to place them in by announcing their discomfort.
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I’m a sucker for time management systems. I’ve bullet journaled, read Getting Things Done, embraced everything from Trello to Omnifocus to elaborate webs of post-it notes. Without a ton of structure, my time gets slippery and hazy. Unless I focus, it seems to just disappear.
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