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Day in the Life (Almost 2.9 Years Old)

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Good morning! So, I missed our Day in the Life post for last month (oops, again), so I figured I would write next month’s post a little early with another mid-month post to make up for it. I also wanted to make sure that I got in this month’s post because it marks such a significant age for our little guy. Our sweet boy turns 2.9 years old next week, which, in the school/daycare world, is a big, important age because it means Qman is old enough for preschool ! (Where did my baby go!?) Just this week, his teachers let us know that he’ll start to transition to preschool, splitting time there and in his current toddler classroom. There are two other kids in his class, who are moving to preschool too, so, hopefully, having some buddies will help with the transition. Anyway, here’s a recap from a day in our life earlier this week! 4:01 AM : I wake up drenched in sweat (ugh, annoying), so I get out of bed and change my clothes. I climb back into bed. 4:21 AM : My mind is wandering to m

Bojangles’ Chicken ‘n Biscuits Whistleblower Sends Us Never Before Released Ingredients.

It’s absolutely appalling to me that we have been asking the restaurant chain Bojangles’ Famous Chicken ‘n Biscuits for their ingredients for over a year, and they refuse to provide any information to us. They have over 600 restaurants and no one … Continued The post Bojangles’ Chicken ‘n Biscuits Whistleblower Sends Us Never Before Released Ingredients. appeared first on Food Babe . from Food Babe http://ift.tt/2ldgMzb

How to Move through Life with an Edge

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Every former competitive athlete’s worst nightmare is that moment when you lose to a younger person doing the sport you love. When the cocoon of invincibility and superiority you’ve erected around yourself comes crashing down and a piece of your self-identity shatters. It can truly feel like the end. I know the feeling. Several years ago on a family ski trip, my son challenged me to a downhill snowboard race. We’d been doing these races—and I’d been winning them—ever since he was old enough to board. It was tradition that we race, and that I win. It’s just how it played out. This time was different. I was a newly minted member of the 6-decades club. He was a young man, fully grown, years of sports under his belt. He smoked me. It wasn’t even close. And suddenly I realized that despite being in the best shape of my life relative to my age, that upper limit was trending down. Luckily, the existential crisis was short-lived if it ever really happened. A few moments were all I needed t

Celiac Disease and Fecal Transplants: When Genes are not Destiny

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(So…you might have noticed that I mentioned fecal transplants in last weeks post…only to have nothing ABOUT fecal transplants in the material! Sorry about that brain-fade. Here is the scoop on more poop) After last weeks exploration of panda poo I really may be down to 6 listeners (or readers in this case) but if you are still with me you clearly have a strong constitution or a borderline unhealthy fascination with scat. No judgements on my part, just an observation. This week I want to look at an interesting condition (Celiac Disease) and consider it from the perspective of the Discordance Theory while also investigating it as an example of how tweaking our epigenetics (in this case gut microbiome) can potentially turn a disease process on or off. Celiac Disease is an autoimmune condition that has historically been linked to folks of Northern European ancestry, however recent research suggests just about any ethnic group http://ift.tt/2lpNGIe may be affected by the condition. The

What Can You Count On?

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You can count on me friends! And you can count on Counter the turtle, Mazen’s new toy that Grammie sent in the mail. He is currently really into numbers and he asks to do “math” at bedtime now, so I give him addition and subtraction challenges (under 10). This turtle counts in Spanish too, and when Mazen heard him say “cinco” he thought he was saying “tinkle” and laughed hysterically! What can you not count on? Your unlocked iPhone working on any cell phone carrier the way Apple says it will. Here’s a little PSA about some things you shouldn’t count on: I use the Apple iPhone Upgrade Program, which means I get my phone directly from Apple. Apple promises that you can use any carrier you like and you can “switch carriers at any time!” But then I switched from AT&T to Verizon and the new SIM card just wouldn’t give me any service on Verizon. After an entire day of troubleshooting at the Verizon store and with Apple support, the support team told me that my phone was, in fact,  n

Clean Eating Irish Soda Bread Recipe

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I swear by all that is holy in my life, this is THE best bread I’ve ever had. My mom recently went on a trip to Ireland. She has never really gone anywhere, so this was the trip of a lifetime for… Read more → from The Gracious Pantry http://ift.tt/2mJOqbW