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Maybe you’ve stayed faithful to your trusty tampons or pads ever since Aunt Flow’s first visit. Still, it’d be hard not to notice the hype around reusable feminine hygiene products—menstrual cups, period underwear, reusable tampons—that’s all over the Internet (and even the subway).

But are they up to par with your tampon? Before you go with the flow for another month, get the facts on these other options.

1. Menstrual Cups

Though menstrual cups are quietly gaining popularity, they’re hardly a new idea. The first commercially viable cup was patented in 1937—but wasn’t an overnight hit.

“Because you have to be so ‘vagina-friendly’ and a little more bold to use it, I don’t think it’s really caught on,” says Sherry Ross, M.D., an OB/GYN at Providence Saint John’s Health Center. In other words, you have to be comfortable inserting your fingers into your vagina more so than you do with a tampon. (If you’re familiar with using a diaphragm for contraception, inserting a menstrual cup is very similar.)

Ross admits cups can be a little messier and more chall…

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For the last time, forget juice cleanses and detox diets. They’re fluffy nonsense words. While there’s probably nothing wrong with drinking your weight in liquid kale, it won’t flush out toxins any faster than if you were eating, you know, actual food.

The good news: There’s a little-known way your body does cleanse itself, and it’s a process that you can control.

All you need to do is practice a little self-cannibalism. What? Yes, you can actually train your body to eat itself—and believe it or not, you want it to.

It’s a natural process called autophagy (literally “self-eating”), and it’s the body’s system of cleaning house: Your cells create membranes that hunt out scraps of dead, diseased, or worn-out cells; gobble them up; strip ’em for parts; and use the resulting molecules for energy or to make new cell parts.

“Think of it as our body’s innate recycling program,” says Colin Champ, M.D., a board-certified radiation oncologist, assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and author of Misguided Medicine. “Autophagy makes us more efficient machines to get rid of faulty parts, stop cancerous growths, and stop metabolic dysfunction like obesity and diabetes.”

There’s also evidence that the process plays a hand in controlling inflammation and immunity. And when scientists engineer rats that are incapable of autophagy, they’re fatter, sleepier, and have higher cholesterol a…

Source: http://www.runningonrealfood.com/macro-friendly-foods-for-vegan-flexible-dieting/

Hey friends! So, after two weeks of having my nutrition 100% on point I am feeling so, so, so good. My weight hasn’t really changed and whatevs, I feel great, have been having awesome workouts and am looking leaner, so I’m super pumped! It makes it easy to stick to it when you can see and feel…

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“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” ~Nikos Kazantzakis

One minute I was a young warrior in a guild of travelers, the next, a middle-aged aristocrat in a strange Victorian world.

A pretty standard day. Oh, did I forget to mention where I was?

I was at a role-playing convention. That was over twenty years ago. Here’s how the fun worked.

Every three to four hours, I would play a different session. That means I would become a new character and go on new adventures in another world, with different people. It was a complete shift of personality and environment three times a day.

Only, the whole adventure would go on in my brain. It was all the fruit of the imagination of players around the table.

Since I was a child, I’ve always been a dreamer. Even today, I can spend hours lost in thoughts, in my mind.

I role-played for most of my younger years. From that period of my life, I’ve retained a fascination for the mind, imagination, and creativity.

The power of the brain as a simulator of fiction captivates me. After all, our perception of the world is the product of a simulation run inside our head by our brain.

Now, imagine you could get a role-playing convention experience in…

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“Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” ~Harvey Fienstein

Do you usually feel as if everything bad that can happen will happen, and it will happen to you?

You must be the unluckiest person on the face of the planet. Opportunities never work out. Doors that should open close in your face. Friends let you down. Bosses don’t see your value. There seems to be a universal conspiracy to keep you stuck right where you are now.

You feel like your life is always going to be like this.

You feel like a failure as a person.

You worry that you’re never going to be happy.

You stress that you have no control to change any of it.

And it’s all so unfair, right? Why does this bad stuff always happen to you? How come other people get all the breaks, and you never do?

If this sounds familiar, you’re probably still affected by past events that left you feeling helpless, scared, or inadequate—and you’re going to keep re-experiencing these feelings until you do something to change them.

My Experience with Self-Sabotage

Why do I get how this works? It’s no big mystery. I’ve been there myself. In fact, at one time, I was the queen of self-sabotage.

I w…

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Dairy politics

This Melbourne newspaper has a front page story about Australia’s efforts to sell milk to China.

The government allowed a Chinese billionaire to buy the biggest dairy farm in Tasmania for a mere $280 million (an Australian dollar is worth 70 cents U.S.).  The buyer has promised to process the milk into cheese, butter, spreads, and milk powder for infant formula in local Fonterra facilities in order to maintain current prices.

The worry, according to Independent member of Parliament Andrew Wilkie:

The new owner could decide to process the milk elsewhere, or to have it processed at Fonterra but allocated to an overseas market.  There is now uncertainty of supply and price in the market, and understandable fear we’re going to see a repeat of the baby formula episode where so much is going overseas Australians simply can’t buy it here and if they can, it’s at an inflated price.

An editorial in the same issue says:

There is real concern that the new owner of the 17,800-hectare Van Duenen’s Land Company in Tasmania might prefer to supply the Chinese market.  A tin of baby formula sells in China for four times its price in Australia, where supermarket shelves have been stripped bare….Last year, another Chinese billionair…

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Girl Scout Cookie Unity Cheesecake: the mashup dessert you never knew you needed.

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With apologies to Andy Williams, now is the most wonderful time of the year … for it is Girl Scout cookie season.

But after plowing through several sleeves of Thin Mints, fatigue can set in. So we wondered, when you’re starting to feel sick of Girl Scout cookies, is there a way to rekindle the love?

We turned to Dan Pashman, host of The Sporkful podcast at WNYC studios, for advice. His book, Eat More Better, tackles this pressing public-interest matter. He suggests mixing it up — quite literally, by baking a cheesecake crafted from a mashup of cookies. His recipes for Girl Scout Unity Cheesecake and Peanut Butter Cookie Centaur ar…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

Congratulations to Fish Griwkowsky, a journalist from the Edmonton Journal, who took our Minimalism Game to the next level by documenting his month-long experience in this newspaper article, which includes an impressive (and funny) two-minute video.

Griwkowsky said the process of purging the excess was “cathartic, painful, and generally embarrassing.” And after the clutter was cleared, he had a revelation: “Getting rid of all this crap sure feels like a dream.”

A brand-new month is just around the corner. So grab a partner—friend, family member, co-worker, or archnemesis—and get ready to let go. New to the Minimalism Game? Here’s how it works. You can share your photos—and see others’ journeys—using the #MinsGame hashtag on social media.

Check out our documentary: Minimalism.

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I haven’t written much this past few weeks.

Work has been busy (but brilliant), the weekends hectic and the evenings I’d usually be writing have been replaced with boxing in preparation for my fight in a few weeks.

THREE BLOODY WEEKS TODAY, in fact. This time on March 19th I’ll have either already had my fight or be gearing up for it, with an army of friends cheering my corner.

I’ve got some of my favourite people coming to support me and they’ve assured me they’re not coming to see me lose, so even though I know it’s just banter, the pressure is on to win.

To be honest though, I’m just preparing myself mentally to actually get back in the ring and do my best, whatever that may be on the night.

It’s genuinely terrifying stuff, this boxing lark. You can be so confident and capable on the bags and pads but as soon as someone starts trying to punch you in the face it can all go to shit in the blink of a (hopefully not black) eye.

Training on the whole has been going really well….

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It’s easy for cabbage to get lost in the produce section when it has to compete with spotlight-grabbing superfoods like curly kale, vibrant beets, and pretty little cauliflower florets. That’s a shame, considering this cruciferous veggie is just as nutritious as its “sexier” counterparts: Just half a cup contains almost 50 percent of your daily dose of vitamin C, plus it’s brimming with cancer-fighting, cholesterol-lowering, ulcer-curing compounds. Best of all, it’s super versatile and can be anything from a pizza topping to a low-carb noodle substitute.

Need proof? These 24 recipes show there’s so much more to cabbage than coleslaw.

Appetizers and Sides

Photo: What Jew Wanna Eat

1. Red Cabbage Chips With Tomato Yogurt Dipping Sauce

Known for topping pita bread, za’atar (an aromatic Middle Eastern spice that contains plenty of cell-protecting antioxidants) is used here to coat red cabbag…