One of the most amazing things about being alive is being in love. And while Valentine’s Day is the one day of the year that we get to openly celebrate our love with flowers, candy, hearts, and fancy dinners, it also a reminder that love changes as we age. What was important to a couple in their 30s is not what will be important to them in their 60s. As we get older, love becomes about different things and it’s important to celebrate that love, no matter what age we are. We’ve put together a guide on how you can make Valentine’s Day special at any age. 

In Your Teens

First loves are the best, aren’t they? Everything is so new and exciting. Those butterflies you feel as you pass each other in the hallway between classes is as real as it gets when you are in high school. So if you are celebrating Valentine’s Day with your high school sweetheart this year, try to do something other than the traditional teddy bear and chocolates. Take your sweetheart on a hike, go to a painting class, or watch terrible romantic comedies while eating homemade pizza. 

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Few issues get as heated as race and ethnicity. There always seem to be two sides, the oppressed and the oppressor. This thought often drives people to take an attack and defensive roles. If there is anything we have learned that far and should leave in 2018, are such stances don’t bring about a productive conversation. It fosters a “them” versus “us” and drives everyone into a survival mode that even meditation classes would have a harder time eliminating. 

If you are let to dip your toes into the conversation of race with those of a different race, there are suggestions you can follow. It is understandable why most people do not have this conversation with outsiders. The chances of offense and an ensuing fight appear almost inevitable. However, the purpose of having a conversation about race should not be to defend oneself. The goal is to bring understanding. Let us explore further.

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There is only one way to stay on track with your healthy diet and that is meal preparation. Meal prep makes it hard to slip off your healthy eating habits, as it prevents you from picking up just any food.

You can shop and cook for the week in one day, to avoid the hassle that comes with everyday preparation and cooking of different meals of the day. Likewise, you can order in healthy meals from any reputable meal prep and delivery service. If you are in Toronto, Canada, you can opt for Activeats food delivery service. It is one of the best and most reliable in the city.

Nonetheless, you still need to be well organized with your meal prep for healthy living. Here are seven great tips to help you out with meal prep.

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Pittsburgh has been climbing the lists of the country’s most livable cities, in fact, it ranked No. 2 on the Global Liveability Index report released in August 2018 based on categories of culture and environment, education and infrastructure, healthcare and stability. Whether you’re an attorney thinking about moving and opening up a practice specializing in personal injury in Pittsburgh or working in any other profession that’s in high-demand in the city, such as a software engineer or a nurse, there are few things you may want to know first.

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As it is, vaping is becoming a trend of topic all over the world especially now that it is beginning to find its way in the market and gaining popularity quite fast. Since the introduction of vaping, many people have turned to it, a huge number being those who have been using the traditional cigarettes before. 

This is mainly because it has been found that vaping has the ability to help an individual to quit smoking as it is being considered the best alternative to smoking. According to some studies and researches, vaping reduces the amount of toxins and other harmful chemicals that often gets into our bodies when we smoke the traditional cigarettes. 

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By Melisa Marzett

Celebrities’ Instagram accounts and other social networks profiles give an opportunity to look at their lives, to find out some latest news and some even follow their favorite celebrities in order to discover a secret of looking «perfect». Celebrities do not miss a chance to share «sceret» information, including their food ration — needless to say, that one can follow their advice far from always.  Here are the most popular Instagram diets and the reasons why they are harmful.

SlimBitchClub community appeared last year in March Russian TV personalities and friends have become its first members. They announced that came up with a useful menu together, dishes out of which are available in one of Moscow health and beauty center. The participants of the club share pieces of advice on how to lose weight and live a healthy lifestyle, which helps them and post on their Instagram profiles the recipes of  «useful» dishes, videos from training and beauty saloon advertising they visit personally.

The advice consists of mainly scaring effects of too many calories and overeating. There are lists of «acid» and «alcaline» products codenamed used by separation diet followers on the club Instagram. It is known that separation diet is a pseudo diet and the ideas behind it have nothing in common with biochemical processes in a body. No other posts published by the club`s participants have any scientific ground confirming their effectiveness and usefulness of these or those changes of a ration.  Instead, there are many myths such as the usefulness of goji berries, which the authors of Instagram explain as «super food», and suggest to consume dietary supplements instead of chemical «chemical vitamins». [Read more…]

Put Happiness First. The Pounds Will Start to Slide Off

By Nancy Bryan, Ph.D.

“I’m so unhappy because I can’t get thin.”

If you believe this, you’re setting yourself up for a tremendous amount of frustration and disappointment. That’s because it simply is not true that being thin will make you, or anybody, happy. From a neurological and biochemical perspective, it would be far more accurate to say “I’m not thin because I’m not happy.” 

Through years of research and personal experience, I have seen that lasting serenity and happiness will curb the desire to overeat, causing pounds to slide off on their own. The real challenge is not to get thin, but to achieve this calm-inducing state.

Doing this may sound daunting, but in fact it boils down to removing the two types of obstacles that stand in the way of achieving this highly desirable state of mind.

The first of these is personal: dissatisfaction is our human nature, courtesy of four million years of evolution.  As Patrick Manning explains in an essay in the little book The Way of Gratitude, “We human beings are hardwired to persistently seek the satisfaction of our needs.…we are strongly disposed to focus our attention on what we lack.”  [Read more…]

By Karen Barnett

Pediatric health care is a medical term used for the process of using medicines or any other medical treatments for curing infants from diseases, but the Pediatric Health Care Association (PHCA) deals not only with the health of infants but also with the health of young adults from 7-11 years and late adults of 11-19 years.

The material health care units not only deals with the physical health of a mother but also with social and mental health in order to work on all the aspects which are necessary for the health of an infants which further leads to health of an adult and then the health of the society which is of a great important.

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By Pamela D. Wilson, CSA, MS, BS/BA, CG

The heartbreak associated with losing a loved one to Alzheimer’s disease is indescribable. One day, an adult child holds the hand of a parent; the parent asks, “Do I know you?” and the child’s heart (no matter what age) breaks into thousands of tiny pieces never to be repaired.  A spouse experiencing the same response may feel the sting of rejection or the absence of appreciation after a lifelong marriage of commitment and caring for a husband or wife experiencing memory loss.

How are spouses, adult children, and other family members affected by Alzheimer’s disease when the individual with the diagnoses no longer recognizes his or her own family or believes a son or daughter to be the spouse? Does this lack of recognition seduce family members to hold on more tightly with the hope that one day a loved one may show a glimmer of recollection? Do family members feel disconnected and less committed to continue to visit a loved one who no longer remembers or feels connected to them?  Does this lack of recognition of marriage by a spouse with memory loss raise the option for the healthy spouse to pursue a companion or even another lifelong partner?

I am commonly asked by caregivers of persons with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease if their experiences are unusual. I respond that with a diagnosis of memory loss there is no usual, meaning that each journey is unlike another and that there is no crystal ball to predict the future. This uncertainly is the component that results in stress and anxiety for families because many feel they have no control over the situation and delay making a plan for care. [Read more…]