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Is It Safe To Stay In Hotels During The Pandemic?

Nov 05, 2020 AP – In a recent travel update, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention makes it clear: Staying home is the best way to protect yourself against the coronavirus. If you do travel, the CDC says, sharing a rental home with people from your own household is safer than staying with friends or family who aren't from your household or staying at a hotel where you would encounter more people. The riskiest...

Famed Sex Educator Dies

Nov. 3, 2020 The New York Times – Betty Dodson, a feminist sexologist and evangelist of self-pleasure who taught generations of women how to masturbate in workshops, books, and videos, seeing the do-it-yourself climax as a liberating social force, died on Saturday at a nursing home in New York City. She was 91. The cause was cirrhosis of the liver, said Carlin Ross, her business partner. Ms. Dodson was a second-wave feminist making erotic art when she...

Cuomo Orders Mandatory Testing For Travelers

Oct 31, 2020 New York Daily News – Travelers arriving in New York from non-neighboring states will have to quarantine and undergo mandatory coronavirus testing as cases spike across the country, Gov. Cuomo announced Saturday. The governor said New York will require inbound travelers to show a negative COVID-19 test from three days or less before they arrive or be subject to a 14-day self quarantine. With a negative test, they would still be expected to quarantine...

8 Healthy Drinking Habits for Weight Loss

What you drink is just as important as when you drink. Oct 28, 2020 HealthLine – What you drink accounts for 18 percent of the total calories you end up consuming per day, according to the USDA. That means that if you aren't keeping track of what's in your cup, you could be tacking on an additional 483 calories to your daily diet without a second thought. To help you on your weight loss journey, read up on...

Over 80 Percent Of COVID-19 Patients Have This Vitamin Deficiency

Endocrine Society – According to a new study, over 80 percent of 200 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in Spain have vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D is a hormone the kidneys produce that controls blood calcium concentration and impacts the immune system. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to a variety of health concerns, although research is still underway into why the hormone impacts other systems of the body. Many studies point to the beneficial...

13 Women Removed From Flight, Strip Searched

"Thirteen Australian women were taken to an ambulance on the tarmac and told to remove their underwear before being examined." UPDATE: Qatar Airways Faces Protest Over Examination of Australian Women October 27, 2020 Bloomberg – Qatar Airways faces an effective grounding of its planes in Sydney as workers consider striking over the treatment earlier this month of some female Australian passengers in Doha. The union representing Sydney airport workers is considering refusing to service, clean or refuel Qatar Airways...

McDonald’s Patrons Turn Up Noses At Fake Meat

October 23, 2020 Where's the (fake) beef? CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS – The world's biggest burger chain risks losing customers as fake meat becomes more popular. McDonald's conducted a test in Canada of its P.L.T., or plant, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. As many fast-food restaurants cash in on surging demand for meat alternatives, McDonald's customers are still waiting for the world's biggest burger chain to put a plant-based patty on its menu. McDonald's launched a test run in Canada last...

Common Supermarket Item Kills Coronavirus On Contact

"Many mouthwashes and oral rinses were shown to inactivate the virus at a rate of 99% or more after only 30 seconds." Oct 21, 2020 The New York Post – An effective defense against the coronavirus may already be in your medicine cabinet. The latest research has revealed that many mouthwashes and oral rinses were shown to inactivate the virus at a rate of 99% or more after only 30 seconds of gargling, and up to 99.9%...

10 Groceries You Should Always Buy in Person

Oct 07, 2020 Readers Digest – Before March 2020, online shopping accounted for just 3 percent of all grocery sales, or about $1.2 billion. By June, that number shot up to $7.2 billion. Now, with social distancing mandates still in effect in many places, plenty of customers are going to be using virtual carts for a long time to come. “When COVID-19 hit, a lot of people who had never really thought about their grocery shopping...

“Settle All Marital Arguments In The Bedroom, Naked”

Ted Talk by Maureen McGrath, registered nurse, sex educator and author of “Sex & Health" | Maureen McGrath is host of the CKNW Sunday Night Sex Show, Vancouver's lively educational listener call-in radio show on 980 am Sundays at 8pm. A leading sexual health educator, advocate, and blogger, she is a well-recognized voice in health and sexuality. Maureen is a nursing expert witness in pediatrics and spinal cord injury and has acted for both the plaintiff and defense....

Americans Are Fed Up With Nasty Lettuce

“I can’t eat the lettuce, and that’s a problem, and I’ve told them. They’re just not listening.” – Subway franchisee on having to serve week-old lettuce (Business Insider, 12.22.17) No more wedge salad | America has lost its appetite for iceberg lettuce | Oct 13, 2020 Bloomberg – It is quite possible 2020 will be remembered as a turning point in American history, a moment after which the country became irretrievably different from what it had been before. Yes, that’s...

Army’s New Rule Forces Soldiers To Live Like This

Oct 14, 2020 Naz Beheshti, Contributor | Forbes – The U.S. Army has conducted a significant overhaul of its fitness training field manual. Behind this change is a new mindset: a redefinition of “soldier readiness” and what goes into peak performance. Business leaders can draw some valuable lessons from the new holistic approach. The embrace of naps draws the New York Times headline, but the new mindset is more far-reaching than that. Fundamentally, the revised manual is...

‘Americans, Stay Home’: Trudeau

Don't bet on the U.S.-Canadian border reopening anytime soon | Oct 15, 2020 USA TODAY – In an interview Wednesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country is committed to keeping the border closed until the United States gets control of COVID-19. "The U.S. is not in a place where we would feel comfortable reopening those borders," he told the hosts of "Smart Start," which airs on Canada's Global Television Network. “We will continue to make...

‘Bah, Humbug!’ Fauci Wants A Word About Your Thanksgiving Plans

CDC suggests your family have a "virtual dinner" this Thanksgiving | Fox News – Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that people will have to make “their individual choice” when it comes to how to go about celebrating Thanksgiving and seeing family. He told Yahoo News on Thursday during a live Q&A. “I think we need to realize things might be different this year, particularly if you want to have people who are going to be flying in...

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