When Howard Wolinsky was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, he expected to kiss bagels goodbye — too many carbs. But a personalized diet based on his own gut microbiome offered a pleasant surprise: “It turns out those little bugs in my guts seem to like bread, if it’s combined with fats and proteins,” he says.
Continue Reading...Kylie Jenner and Kris Jenner Are Totally Twinning in Matching First-Class Styles
Kylie Jenner is back. After experiencing a bit of a health scare last week, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star proved she’s feeling much better by posting a picture of herself on Instagram. The snapshot showed the makeup mogul traveling in a private jet with her mom Kris Jenner. The famous family members were
Continue Reading...Get Ready for Season 6 of Simplify
If September’s back-to-school mindset makes you crave ideas as fresh as your new stationery, then you’ll be glad to hear that Simplify, Blinkist’s hit podcast, will be back with season 6 on September 26. We’ve cooked up an incredible season full of guests and insights that will entertain and inform you, and maybe even change
Continue Reading...How To Start A Profitable Side Hustle (Without Giving Up Your Day Job)
So much advice about achieving your dreams seems to forget the notion of having to pay rent or bills or indeed, having any common sense. However, rustling up a side hustle is a great way to earn a little extra cash and make your dreams come true at the same time. If you’re tossing around
Continue Reading...FDA OKs New Pill for Type 2 Diabetes
A new pill to lower blood sugar for people with type 2 diabetes was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday. The drug, Rybelsus (semaglutide) is the first pill in a class of drugs called glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) approved for use in the United States. Before Rybelsus, the drug had to be
Continue Reading...Billions of ‘Microplastics’ in Each Plastic Teabag
A new study warns that even your soothing cup of tea might serve up some invisible health hazards. Some tea companies are replacing traditional paper teabags with plastic ones, but the new bags may be adding billions of tiny bits of plastic to your beverage, a team from Canada reports. “We show that steeping a
Continue Reading...Is There a Safer Way to Sterilize Medical Equipment?
In 2005, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considered banning ethylene oxide in new sterilizing facilities because of the cancer risk it posed to residents who lived around the plants. “We also considered prohibiting the use of ethylene oxide for new facilities, which would necessitate the use of an alternative sterilization process,” reads the proposed rule,
Continue Reading...A Drink a Day Might Be Good for Diabetics’ Health
Chinese researchers may deserve a toast for their new findings that suggest light to moderate drinking may be beneficial for people with type 2 diabetes. The review found that people who had a bit of alcohol daily had lower levels of a type of blood fat called triglycerides. But alcohol didn’t seem to lower blood
Continue Reading...Here’s how much your current iPhone is worth if you’re trading it in for an iPhone 11
Apple’s iPhone 11 models are official, which means we know exactly how much they’ll cost and when they’ll go on sale. The premium iPhone 11 versions, the Pro and Pro Max, are just as expensive as we thought they’d be, starting at $999 and $1,099, respectively. The regular iPhone 11, meanwhile, is cheaper than anticipated,
Continue Reading...5 Strategies to Help You Master the Week Ahead
Sometimes it feels like if you don’t get control of Monday, you lose the run of the week. So, that means there’s no time like the present to make sure you’re its master. Bestselling author Robert Greene just released a new book called The Laws of Human Nature which uses ancient wisdom and philosophy to
Continue Reading...Fact Behind the Fiction: The Book That Inspired George Orwell’s 1984
1984, the dystopian novel by George Orwell, gets namechecked a lot these days. Revelations of widespread surveillance and the proliferation of fake news summon parallels to the distorted truth and rewritten history of the novel’s warring police states. Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair, was an author, essayist, and critic best remembered for
Continue Reading...Why Speaking The Right Love Language Can Solve 90% Of Your Relationship Problems
You probably speak the same language as your romantic partner. But what if, despite that shared fluency, your entire relationship has been plagued by unwitting miscommunications? Of course, we’re not talking about a failure to communicate in spoken languages like Spanish or Japanese. We’re talking about more subtle languages – love languages. Take your relationship
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