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Your body is built to stand. But that doesn’t mean working on your feet all day is easy or good for you. If you have a job that requires you to stand for long periods of time, it can be very hard on your back and legs, reports the Occupational Safety & Health Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor. Prolonged standing day in and day out could even lead to a serious injury. A 30-year-old woman, who works as a mail processing clerk at the U.S. Postal Service, filed for employee compensation in 2013 after developing a fractured left foot from standing on a cement floor during her shift. Her right foot also revealed in an X-ray to have a stress fracture at the base of the third metatarsal.

Modifying your workplace to make it safer for you—for example, the postal worker requested a rubber pad to stand on—can help mitigate pain and injuries. Also, it’s really important not to immediately take a seat—behind the wheel, at the dinner table and on the couch—when off the clock. To reconcile the difference between the two extremes (standing for hours, then sitting for hours), try to incorporate this short 15-minute workout from Pete Egoscue, Sonima.com’s alignment expert and author of multiple books including Pain Free. This routine will help you stretch and build strength so that you can stand up to the physical demands of the job and life.

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I have a great new recipe to share with you guys today – Thai Coconut Chicken Soup! It’s veggie-packed, quick and easy to make, and seriously delicious. I served it to a couple friends last week and they gave it thumbs up, too!

If you’re vegetarian or vegan, have no fear – you can easily modify this recipe! Just use firm cubed tofu instead of chicken, veggie instead of chicken broth, and nix the fish sauce (add an extra splash of soy sauce instead).

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A bumblebee gathers pollen from a cherry blossom in a garden outside Moscow.

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Here’s an exercise in deductive logic, with implications for our food supply.

Fact: Insects such as bees and butterflies are helpful, and sometimes essential, for producing much of our food, including a majority of our fruits, vegetables and nuts.

Fact: Many of these pollinators, especially wild ones such as bumblebees, are in trouble. In Europe, where the phenomenon has been studied most carefully, about a third of all bee and butterfly species are declining, and 9 percent are threatened with extinction.

The seemingly logical conclusion? Food production will decline along with the pollinators.

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As part of a wider effort to reduce waste and energy consumption, Hamburg, Germany, has become the world’s first city to ban the use of coffee pods in government-run buildings, offices and institutions like schools and universities.

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While a caffeinated workforce is generally a happy one, it may not be an efficient one — at least, not from a planetary point of view, according to the German city of Hamburg. As part of a wider effort to reduce waste and energy consumption, Hamburg has banned the use of coffee pods in government-run buildings, offices and institutions like schools and universities.

Love them or hate them, single-use coffee capsules are a quick way to brew a reasonable cup of coffee, and Germans use rough…

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When it seems like everyone is living a picture-perfect life, admitting you’re struggling feels like utter failure. But more people than you think—millions, in fact—are working through mental health problems, including depression and anxiety. Celebrities like Lena Dunham and the Duchess of Cambridge have spoken out about the need to end the stigma associated with mental illness, and the tide is changing.

The blogs and projects below are going one step further to bring the (hard-to-have) conversation to light. On them, you’ll find everything from candid personal stories to photos that prove you’re not alone in your issues and insecurities.

Please note: We know the number of topics that fall under the umbrella of mental health is massive; as such, this is not an exhaustive list of the only blogs worth following. If there are other voices you feel we should know about, please give us a shout on Twitter.

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1. What I Be Project

You won’t find your average long-form blog posts here—ju…

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Whether you love them boiled, fried, poached, over easy or scrambled, eggs are officially back the daily menu—though they never left for many of us—thanks to the new U.S. Dietary Guidelines released in January, which no longer include a cholesterol restriction on specific foods. Updated every five years, the new guidelines state the relationship between dietary cholesterol (found only in animal foods) and blood cholesterol levels is inconclusive, and more research is needed. The guidelines recommend to continue limiting dietary cholesterol with the exception of cholesterol from eggs and shellfish.

Eggs have gotten a bum rap since the 1960s when they were thought to be linked to heart disease and stroke due to a high saturated fat and cholesterol content. A large egg contains 186 mg cholesterol, which means having two for breakfast would have put you over the U.S. Dietary Guidelines’ recommended daily cholesterol restriction of 300 mg—up until now. The research associating dietary cholesterol with heart disease has been labeled as hazy by members of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, who point out how dietary guidelines in Europe, Asia, and Canada don’t have a restriction on cholesterol intake.

“It is now evident that dietary cholesterol does not increase blood cholesterol as much, or if at all, as thought in the past,” says Tara Collingwood, R.D.N., a sports nutritionist in Orlando, Florida, official nutr…

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Your first day of school. Your first kiss. Your first day at work. Your first real investment—a home, a new car, launching a business. We’ve all had a lot of these life experiences. Did we feel ready? Probably not at the time. How did we become ready? We just did it. We showed up, fears and all. And most of the time, we probably kicked ass.

The secret no one ever tells you is that most people never feel ready for anything new. Each time we cross a new boundary, yet another awaits us. That is the beauty of life. There is always more to do. More growth to experience. More lessons to learn. More of your beautiful, unlimited potential to seize.

One of the greatest measures of our success in life is our ability to push through our fears. Jeff Goins, ths best-selling author of The Art of Work, says, “as you probably know by now, courage isn’t the absence of fear; it’s the willingness to face it in spite of how you feel.”

Here are my top three suggestions for taking action when you are next presented with a challenge.

1. Let your past fears inform your current fears.

Scared to speak up in …

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As any fan of So You Think You Can Dance will tell you, a choreographed routine can really bring on the feels. And boy oh boy does this one deliver. It follows a couple as one partner struggles with addiction. Since the story is communicated through dance, the specifics are up for interpretation, but the intense movements and emotions make this hypnotizing to watch, while sending an important message that addiction is a brutal, ongoing struggle.

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“Have the maturity to sometimes know that silence is more powerful than having the last word.” ~Thema Davis

It all started with the forks.

“You need to return my forks,” my roommate demanded one morning as I sat in the kitchen attempting to get some work done.

“I have already said that I don’t have them. We told you that the other roommate has been hiding them,” I replied.

She began raising her voice at me, “I can’t believe you would accuse her. You’re just a mean, nasty person!”

I slowly turned around and said calmly, “Today is my birthday, actually. So I don’t really want to have this conversation right now.”

She retorted, “I don’t care,” and then began to attack my character with a spiel of all the various other things I’ve ever done to upset her.

Perhaps she felt some kind of underlying hurt, but she did not express this to me. She was not telling me these problems so that we could work on them together to fix the hurt. Instead, she was insulting and attacking my very existence as a human so that I could feel hurt with her.

I could already foresee that nothing I could say was going to calm her down, so I chose to respond with silence. I suppose my silence pushed her over the edge, because she en…

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“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” ~Pema Chödrön

There is a person in my life who I love with all my heart, but in this relationship I struggle to keep a full cup myself. They are family, the situation is complicated and tender. But learning to have compassion for this other person begins with having compassion for myself.

A nasty divorce spanning most of my childhood set the stage for our current situation. My mother was deeply emotionally wounded by my father, and carried that pain into her parenting of my sister and me.

Contact with the ex (my dad) dropped to nil—maybe a week a year, far below what the court had decided.

Any efforts on our parts to connect with our absent parent, even recounting fond memories, were seen by our mother as attacks on her legitimacy and a discounting of her pain. And what emotional intimacy we shared was often exploited—it kept us locked into the family unit, not believing we could have our needs filled elsewhere, least of all with our absentee father.

A few short years prior, I felt part of a happy, perfect family. Suddenly one parent was effectively gone. My relationship with the other became a labyrinth of confusion—love down this path, hurt down the other, and at my young age I …