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Halloween is one of the most fun times of the year. The holiday can be filled with eating sweet treats, watching scary movies, decorating your house with fall colors or creepy statues, and of course, dressing up in costume. Whether you’re headed out to a party with your friends or simply staying home and passing out candy to excited kids […]
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Look Studio/Shutterstock By Amanda Lynne/Sept. 13, 2021 4:20 pm EDT Halloween comes just once a year, so if you’re going to dress in a costume, you should do it right. Whether you love the spooky element of the holiday, or just the fun idea of dressing up and pretending to be something or someone else for a day, your costume should […]
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Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock By Paige McBride/Sept. 9, 2021 10:54 am EDT The options are endless when it comes to dressing up for Halloween, but staying true to yourself is key. There’s no better way to do that than to look to your zodiac sign for a little guidance. Each sign has its own good and bad attributes, and Halloween costumes for Aquarius […]
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Because of the pandemic, the 2020 housing market progressed differently than many had predicted. Experts anticipated interest rates would remain low, thereby encouraging potential buyers to commit. However, the dire financial straights many families have found themselves in — along with stay-at-home orders and other COVID-related deterrents to traveling, touring homes, and relocating — have brought a significant decrease to home […]
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Happy National Handwriting Day, everyone! Or rather, unhappy and hotly controversial handwriting day? That would honestly be more accurate. Because, for one thing, isn’t teaching handwriting somewhat antiquated? It sure hasn’t been especially popular in recent years with its exclusion from Common Core in public schools, and with so many kids learning to “write” on iPads and tablets well before […]
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Thrift stores can be a bargain-hunter’s paradise, especially when budgets are tight. Where else can you stock up on furnishings, household goods, and clothing for just a tiny fraction of the original price? Not to mention, they make a great place to ditch last year’s fashion faux pas. As every smart thrift shopper knows, though, not everything that’s for sale is […]
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Using sex-specific scores on memory tests may change who gets diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) by 20 percent, with possibly more women and fewer men being diagnosed, according to a study published in the October 9, 2019, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Mild cognitive impairment, a precursor to dementia, is when […]
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Experts at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and 45 worldwide scientific and medical societies are pushing to change national guidelines that would allow more patients with the chronic diseases of obesity and diabetes to be eligible for bariatric surgery. Obesity affects almost 40 percent of the population—or about 93 million adults—in the United States, according to the Centers […]
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Celebrities are our benchmark of beauty and health. Their highly publicized lives are our daily source of a break from life, but their lifestyle puts a certain pressure on us normal folks as well. There are many celebrities who look way younger than their age and that is because of the religious health routines they have. Some of them are […]
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If you’re a parent, you’ve probably let your little one sleep in their car seat. It is easy and convenient, plus most of us don’t give it a second thought. I mean, your baby is strapped in and safe, right? Well, think again. According to a new study, babies should not stay asleep in their car seat when they’re not […]
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