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Author: Chantel Brink

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3 min read Health

When it comes to raising daughters, Bruce Willis has a sixth sense. After his eldest daughter, Rumer Willis, gave birth to a baby girl of her own, Louetta Isley Thomas Willis, the new grandfather and the now-13-month-old quickly formed an unbreakable bond. “Lou is just starting to walk a little bit and she was walking...

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A 29-year-old woman in the Netherlands has died after being granted the right to seek euthanasia. Zoraya ter Beek, who had just turned 29, applied for assisted dying several years ago due to chronic depression, anxiety, trauma, and an unspecified personality disorder. She passed away on May 22 at 1:25pm local time, as confirmed by...

4 min read Health

How many times have you heard that “sitting is the new smoking?” From chronic back pain to increased mortality risk, everyone knows sitting all day isn’t good for your health. But, still, all kinds of jobs require people to sit for prolonged periods of time. Whether it’s good for your health or not, you still...

4 min read Food and Drink

In 2013, following the birth of her first child, Nissa Graun weighed 245 pounds. Despite being a lifelong yo-yo dieter, losing the same 20-40 pounds since the age of 12, she faced the daunting challenge of needing to lose over 100 pounds this time. Was that sort of weight loss possible? Health Wake-Up Call Experiencing...

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Let’s be completely honest. Nobody really likes spiders. Even if they are completely harmless little things, nobody really wants spiders hanging around inside their house. 9 Natural Ways To Keep Spiders Out Of Your Home So, how do you repel them naturally without hurting them, and without exposing your family to any potentially harmful chemicals?...

3 min read Uncategorized

According to the Official International Women’s Day website, March 8th “is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.” If you drove past the McDonald’s in Lynwood, CA, in 2018, you might have thought you were getting punked....

5 min read Health

In the quiet moments in their deathbed, before the final curtain falls, when the shadow of mortality looms large, human beings often embark on a profound journey of introspection. It is a time when the cacophony of everyday life fades into the background, and the whispers of existential ponderings grow louder. In these moments, people...

8 min read News

Italian illustrator Marco Melgrati is currently living in Mexico City where he creates strikingly poignant art that urges us to question modern society while reflecting on our collective past. Throughout his career, Melgrati has done editorial work for international newspapers and magazines. However, his creativity has reached the online masses and resulted in quite the...

4 min read News

The passage from life to death is a profound transition, marked by the gradual cessation of bodily functions and senses. As science illuminates this enigmatic journey, we unravel the sequence in which our senses bid farewell—offering insight into the intricacies of the human experience. James Hallenbeck, an esteemed expert in palliative care at Stanford University,...

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Family is not blood. Family is love. When sweet little Princeton was born to a drug-addicted mother, he was premature and weighed no more than a pound. He was suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) and was in agonizing pain.  36-year-old Keia Jones-Baldwin is a therapist and photographer based in North Carolina with her husband,...