Textured buns: They’re easy, they’re (supposedly) effortless, they help secure long hair away from the face. You know what’s not easy or effortless? Detangling the strands after the fact. You know when you stash a pair of wired headphones into a bag, only to pull out a web of cords at the end of the…
Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency are rampant in this country. (In fact, almost half the population of the U.S. is insufficient and almost one-third are deficient.) We know this, we’ve talked about it plenty, and we’ve written about what you can do to tackle it. Suffice it to say, vitamin D is a big topic here at…
October 6, 2021 — 12:06 PM Love can inspire transcendence and a yearning to melt with your partner profoundly. However, that longing can quickly slip into overwhelming neediness if you begin to prioritize the relationship above all else. “Merging” in relationships generates physical and emotional closeness, but taken to its extreme, it can veer into…
October 6, 2021 — 7:00 AM As soon as seasonal allergies roll around, we all start searching for remedies—anything to stop the sniffles and itchy eyes. It doesn’t matter how healthy you are or how often you meditate, allergies test anyone’s patience… Our pups included! The difference is, our four-legged friends can’t tell us when…
How do you convince a teenager to kick their Instagram habit? You might point out that cutting back on social media may help them sleep. Or that what they post in private might become public later. But as a rule, teenagers don’t enjoy adults telling them what to do or think—so this approach can backfire. Here’s…
I don’t really have this. I do have about a million mistakes made, but almost all of those mistakes I probably needed to make myself in order to really learn how to avoid them in the future. Does that make sense? It has been estimated that each year, more than 100 billion pounds of food…
Global malnutrition is a deeply complex issue, and it will take continued creative thinking and powerful multi-sectoral partnership to make sustainable progress. Business, governments and civil society organizations can help address the issue of malnutrition by partnering to educate communities about malnutrition and expand access to screenings and nutrition intervention. In many parts of the…
Estimates suggest that at any one time, around 500,000 UK workers are suffering from a stress-related illness of some kind. From chronic tiredness to poor working conditions to general anxiety, there is a lot that can lead to illness at work. Even when a work-related illness is not formally diagnosed, working full-time can take a…
All work and no play make Jack a dumb boy! Employees are the biggest asset of any company. Thus, if they aren’t mentally at ease, they won’t perform well. Their creativity and productivity decline. Your employees spend most of their waking life working for you. The workload, same routine, traffic-filled commutes, maintaining work and family…
You can trust yourself. You’ll need peer input and you’ll need editors, and the instinct may be to defer to them or even please them. But ultimately the work is yours and its direction is yours. Sit with what people tell you and learn to sift through it to determine what is useful and what…
