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You wash it, brush it, blow-dry it, straighten it, curl it, and/or put all kinds of products in it. There’s no question your hair goes through the ringer on any given day. Before you know it, your tresses can show signs of damage, from split ends to uncontrollable frizz—and the older we get, the more it naturally thins out and looks dull or damaged, even without over-processing, says Elisa Hills, co-founder of the hair care line BLNDN.

The good news is you can reverse the damage. Your game plan: Stop committing these common mistakes, and follow the fixes recommended by top stylists to bring your hair back to life.

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1. You Wash Your Hair Every Day

As a general rule, hair should be washed as often as needed, says Amy Abramite, creative director and stylist at Maxine Salon in Chicago. For most stylists we talked to, that’s every two to three days. Any more, and you risk stripping your hair of its natural, protective oils that keep it shiny and healthy, Hills says. This is especially true for people who color their hair, as over-washing can dull the vibrancy of their color, …

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Ads for junk food significantly increased food consumption in children, but not adults, researchers found in an analysis published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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Why is it that we haven’t seen ads for cigarettes on television since the Nixon administration?

Because public health officials said the ads caused people to smoke more and raised their risk of getting cancer. And because Nixon stood up to the tobacco industry to sign legislation banning the ads to protect people from that temptation.

By that same logic, public health advocates argue, food ads should also be tightly regulated: Food companies use them to entreat us to indulge in their products. And we have an obesity epidemic linked to those unhealthy foods we see on TV.

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Source: http://www.sonima.com/meditation/scott-hagan-barn-artist/

Winter across the vast expanse of the plains states is bare; it is not bleak. There’s too much necessary rejuvenation occurring in those fallow fields of snow and corn-stalk stubble to call it bleak, but it is spare and severe. It was against that backdrop that ten years ago, while driving across Ohio, I saw something wonderful and astonishing: barn art. I saw it on I-71 north of Columbus, Ohio, and then again on I-70 east of Dayton. It was Ohio-centric art in celebration of its bicentennial in 2003, and it was amazing.

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The role of art in our society and its impact on us both individually and collectively has long been deliberated. Auden famously said that “Art accomplishes nothing,” while, at the other extreme, Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, allegedly said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” Of course, Uncle Tom’s Cabin did not make the Civil War: one half of our country allowing one race of people to own another race, and Lincoln’s refusal to let that continue, is what made that war. But it is fair to wonder and speculate on art’s effect in our world. My Dante professor in graduate school once told us of some famous London conductor who, during the German blitz of…

Source: http://www.sonima.com/videos/stop-wasting-food/

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Food waste in America is staggeringly high with almost 40 percent of our food getting tossed in the trash, reports Jill Isenbarger, the executive director of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, a nonprofit farm and education center based in upstate New York. That’s equivalent to putting $165 billion through the shredder, according to data published in a 2012 issue of Food Policy.

“If we diverted just 15 percent of this food waste, we could solve half of the hunger [problem in this country],” she tells Sonima’s founder, Sonia Jones, in this video interview. Watch to learn more about how Stone Barns and other advocates of changing our food system are working to eliminate food waste, support composting, and rethink how we use “unwanted” food parts, like fish heads and goat meat.

Related: 5 Ways to Stop Wasting So Much Food

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There are plenty of reasons that your body needs easy workouts and recovery days. But sometimes you just want to work hard, push yourself, and sweat—a lot.

For those days, there are workouts like this one. In this 45-minute upper-body plan, you’ll complete four AMRAP ( as many rounds as possible) circuits. In other words, you’ll complete 10 reps each of three different exercises consecutively, and then repeat that trio as many times as possible in 10 sweaty minutes. Try not to rest between moves, and rest as little as possible at the end of each three-move circuit.

You’ll need a resistance band and set of dumbbells. The warm-up and cool-down are both included, so simply press play below when you’re ready to rock!

To review, here’s a breakdown of the full workout:

Warm-Up

Circuit 1: Perform 10 reps of each move below in order, with little or no rest between moves. Repeat the circuit as many times as is safely possible in 10 minutes.

Push-Up Bent-Over Dumbbell Row Band Floss

Circuit 2: Perform 10 reps of each move below in order, with little or no rest between moves. Repeat the circuit as many times as is safely possible in 10 minutes.

Dumbbell Renegade Row Band Curl-to-Overhead Press Band Reverse Fly

Circuit 3: Perform 10 reps of each move below in order, with little or no rest between moves. Repeat the circuit as many times as is safely possible in 10 minutes.

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OK we’re being a little dramatic, but this playful spot from Ryan Reynolds—we mean Deadpool—has a super important message. Testicular cancer is the most common cancer among men between ages 15 and 35—which just so happens to be the key demographic for this movie. The video is surprisingly informative, instructing men how to do a quick self-check once per month after a shower or bath. And it’s hilarious. How could it not be with the number of euphemisms for testicles Reynolds uses (happy sack, man berries, and smooth criminals, to name a few)? You can get more of the humor (and puns) when Deadpool hits theaters February 12.

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Source: http://www.fannetasticfood.com/2016/01/29/eats-exercise-2/

Hey friends – happy Friday, and thank you for your great comments over on my “Should Everyone Go Gluten Free?” blog post yesterday!

Did this week go by super quickly for anyone else? I can’t believe it’s Friday already! Matt and I were out and about a lot for dinner this week but last night stayed home and made a really simple but delicious meal – pan seared chicken with roasted veggies and leftover mashed potatoes.

For the veggies, we used my standard “dump all the veggies in a bag, then drizzle in olive oil, salt, pepper, and some spices” approach. We also cut the ends off the brussels sprouts, per my how to make brussels sprouts delicious post.

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PETA is making waves with a NSFW ad that claims vegans are better in bed (check it out below, but you’ve been warned!). The commercial is too raunchy to air during the Super Bowl, but that hasn’t stopped millions of people from watching the steamy sex scene on YouTube. The premise of the ad is pretty simple: In a side-by-side (or bed-to-bed) comparison, a vegan guy lasts longer (a LOT longer) than the meat-eating man. PETA’s accompanying press release ties a vegan diet to a reduced risk of high cholesterol, obesity, diabetes, prostate cancer, inflammation, and erectile dysfunction. But where’s the science?

It’s pretty clear at this point that diet, sleep, exercise, and stress management affect our energy levels, body image, and overall desire to get it on, says Kat Van Kirk, Ph.D., a sex and marriage therapist and Greatist expert. “Your sex life will be affected if you’re leading an unhealthy lifestyle,” she says.

People who are eating little to moderate amounts of red meat don’t seem to be having any issues.

“Healthy lifestyle” doesn’t necessarily mean vegan. Red meat consumption has been linked to increased inflammation in the body, which can impact your blood flow and sometimes affects men’s ability to maintain an erecti…

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Actress Sue Lyon eats a lollipop as Dolores “Lolita” Haze in a scene from Lolita, the 1962 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel. Nabokov made sumptuous use of food in his writing, and the acoustic affinity between Lolita and lollipops is no coincidence.

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As a master of the eccentric metaphor, the great Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov used food to fine effect in his writing.

There was, for instance, that one word he used to capture the texture, tinge and luster of his watery green eyes — “oysterous.” And that icky image in Lolita, of motel floors burnished with the “golden-brown glaze of fried-chicken bones,” that somehow made those shiny floors complicit in the squalor of pedophilia.

But when it came to eating, he really couldn’t be bothered.

Nabokov’s paradoxical relationship with food — his sumptuous use of it as a writer and his serene indifference to it as an eater — is vividly apparent in the recently published Letters to Véra, a collection of the missives he wrote to his beloved wife over 50-odd years. Almost every letter in this enchanting and mischievous collection is a passionate love letter addressed to his darling Moth…

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Most of us are privy to body shaming in some fashion—whether we’ve experienced it or witnessed it. Take it from female fitness professionals who are held at an even higher standard: One little “imperfection” in a picture can set fire to a slew of Internet hate.

When we stumbled across this article by Molly Galbraith, co-founder and owner of Girls Gone Strong , about her new Love Your Body Challenge, we had to share an excerpt. Galbraith has left her extreme figure competitor and powerlifting days behind her, and she’s now helping women look and feel their best while falling in love with their bodies.

Below, three female fitness professionals reveal how lighting and angles can make a major difference in photos, proving that even incredibly fit people can have cellulite, stretch marks, and loose skin.

1. Molly Galbraith

I have so many “perceived imperfections,” from my belly when I sit down, to my booty full of cellulite, to my stretch marks and loose skin, to my incredibly small eyes. After looking at them through the eyes of a stranger, I’ve decided that they actually aren’t that bad after all.

This is the difference between good lighting and a flattering angle (left) and bad lighting and a horrible angle (top right). Oh, and a…