Have You Ever Noticed THIS On The Bottom Of Your Water Bottle? THIS Is What It Means!
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When it comes to quenching thirst, nothing works better than plain old water. Most of us carry some with us and toss a bottle of water into our bags or car and at work and home we drink from water coolers all the time. All of these water containers, jugs, and bottles are not created equally and some are made from plastics that may be harmful to your health.
If you want what’s best for you and your family you need to know which kinds are the safest and healthiest. The best and clearest way to determine if the plastic bottle you’re about to buy or use is safe or not is to look for the number on the bottle.
All plastic bottles are labeled somewhere with a number between 1 and 7, usually it’s located on the bottom. The number is surrounded by three arrows and it’s there to indicate what type of plastic the bottle is made out of. It’s important to know these numbers because some are better than others.
In the accompanying Howcast video Allegra goes over which ones are safe versus the more toxic types. She has a great tip on how to remember and differentiate the good from the bad with the saying: “1-2-4-5 stay alive, 3-6-7 straight to heaven.” This generally means that plastic bottles and containers numbered 1, 2, 4, and 5 are better, safer, and less toxic than the ones labeled with a 3, 6, or 7.
The safest and all around best way to avoid any of the potential harmful effects caused by plastics is to not use any plastic in the first place. Instead, try to use ceramic or glass containers whenever possible, especially to hold or store food and beverage products in.
Of course, it’s very difficult to completely remove all types of plastics from your life when they’re so widely used in this day and age. When you do use plastics, make sure it’s the types labeled 1, 2, 4, or 5, as well as those that are labeled BPA free.
BPA is a dangerous synthetic compound that is highly carcinogenic and often used in many plastics. Because it’s so common lots of plastic water bottles and containers have BPA in them, so try to avoid those at all costs.
The next time you pick up a bottle of water or go to buy some at the store, make sure to check the number on it first. Please pass this information along so everyone knows to do the same. The more awareness we have, the better the choices we can make, and we can all stay as healthy as possible.
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The Month You Were Born Reveals Everything About You. Mine Is May And It Was On Point. Choose Yours.
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The month in which you were born can reveal a lot more than you think about who you are as a person both on the inside and on the outside. The personality descriptions that follow are for each month of the year. They detail how you often feel and act, as well as how others view you, and your effect on them. They’re drawn from astrology, which based the character traits upon how the stars were aligned in the month you were born. This has been described by many as eerily accurate and fitting, and I myself can agree with that since it described me perfectly. Read on to see if your birth month description matches you, have fun, and enjoy:
January- you are opinionated, headstrong, and driven. You are always observing the surrounding world and love learning new things, which you often pass on to others since you’re a natural teacher.
February- you are very creative, abstract, and intellectual. You can be temperamental and aggressive if you feel trapped, but if you feel free and comfortable you become charming, honest, and loyal.
March- you are quiet, introspective, and seek peaceful surroundings. You are courteous to everyone you meet yet you tend to hide your true feelings and personality from the world.
April- you are strong mentally and physically, and rush into things that you sometimes later regret. You crave attention and thrive when all eyes are on you, which may be why you’re also a thrill-seeker.
May- you are strong willed, beautifully physically and mentally, and sharp as a tack. You can be easily angered, but also easily consoled, and often have crazy dreams at night and for your future.
June- you are courteous, polite, and very sensitive. Oftentimes you are soft-spoken so people listen up when you speak, plus you are a visionary with lots of ideas and think far ahead.
July- you are witty, energetic, and a blast to hang out with. You always are up for whatever comes your way and people are drawn to you. However, you are easily hurt and take awhile to recover.
August- you are funny, brave, caring, and a natural leader. Your lovable personality and inspiring spirit can sometimes give way to angry outbursts and jealousy, but you bounce back quickly.
September- you are careful, organized, confident, calm, and a perfectionist. You can be critical of others which may alienate them because you expect a lot from people and are stubborn in your ways.
October- you are talkative, socially adept, and full of life and charm. You are independent and when you get hurt you recover quickly, perhaps it’s because you’re an optimist and have a positive outlook.
November- you are unique, brave, secretive, and sharp-minded. You rarely get angry and don’t want or need help from anyone else since you motivate yourself. You think that if there is a will, there is a way.
December- you are free spirited, prideful, loyal, and generous. You tend to be very active and like to be social and play games. You also are impatient, have a short temper, and hate restrictions.
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A Sheep and a Bunny Have an Epic Stare Down. The Results Quickly Escalate Into Something Crazy!
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You have probably heard of dogs herding sheep, but have you ever heard of bunnies herding sheep? Meet Champis the strangest and unique bunny possibly in the entire wold! This hilarious little rabbit has a rare talent for sheep herding. He takes his job seriously and does it everyday! I’m pretty sure Champis isn’t sure he’s a rabbit and he clearly doesn’t know how to bunny at all!
His Human Greta Vigren first realized Champis’ talent after the sheep were released after a long winter. She says, that he just started acting like a good old fashion sheepdog and had no prior training. He is strictly a sheep herding bunny because he tends to leave the hens alone and treats them in a much more gentle and nurturing way.
According to his human, this bunny is the king of the farm, his ego is completely out of control, and his reign is over the hens and the sheep!
Dan Westman, the man who shot the video and works with sheepdogs everyday exclaimed that very few dogs could do what this rabbit does. Champis was never taught this behavior and just started doing it on his own. Maybe he was a sheep dog in his past life?
Have you ever seen a sheep herding bunny?
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What This 17-Month-Old Toddler Screamed Out During His Adoption Hearing Left The Whole Court In Tears!
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Children who don’t have parents usually end up in the “system” where they are passed around from adoption agency to foster parents until one day hopefuly they get their forever home. Unfortunately, millions of children all around the world stay stuck in the “system” until they are adults and never get to truly experience childhood in a caring, loving and stable environment. Mentally this can take a great toll on these poor kids as they carry this pain with them into adulthood and sometimes even for their entire lives.
The sad fact of the matter is most of these parentless kids never ever find that loving caring home and are forced to live a life nobody would ever want. For some very lucky few, there are good parents out there looking to adopt and raise children in a happy and stable home.
Sometimes these parents already have children of their own, so these adopted kids also get to experience life with brothers and sisters which can really help them get the proper socialization they need to become self-sufficient functioning adults in society.
In today’s story we will feature the Palmer couple Mandy and Tyler who spent close to a year and half proving that they were worthy, loving and good enough parents to adopt a very special child. The husband Tyler was had enlisted in 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army. After basic training, Tyler was immediately shipped off to Afghanistan to serve his country.
Tyler finished up his first tour and came back home to reintegrate into society as a civilian. Although, physically he was okay, being at war messed his head up and he needed time to recover mentally and emotionally. As he struggled through PTSD and his traumas he met a beautiful woman named Mandy. The two immediately hit it off and they could just tell almost immediately that they were soulmates.
Just like Tyler, Mandy had also been struggling with her own health issues and was suffering from Chrohn’s Disease, so being together as a support system made things easier for both of them.
But just as quick as they hit it off, Tyler was shipped back off to do his second tour of duty for the Army for 9 months. They wrote each other letters, video chatted called each other during the full 9 months and 4 weeks after his second tour ended he got down on one knee and asked Mandy to marry him. She said yes and within a month they were a married couple!
After they got married Tyler decided it was time for him to retire from the army, begin a new life with his wife and start a beautiful family. For many years they tried to have a child, but Mandy’s health problems stood in the way and they were unable to conceive. They tried and tried but nothing seemed to work at all. The sad truth finally settled in that Mandy would never be able to get pregnant because of her Chron’s Disease so they would have to try a different path to begin their family.
The looked at fertility treatments, surrogacy and few other options but finally decided that adoption would be the best path for them to take. You would think because there are so many children in desperate need of adoption that it would be a pretty simple and straight forward process however, due to Tyler’s PTSD struggles and Mandy’s health issues getting the go-ahead and approval as worthy parents would take months and months.
First they would have to get licensed as foster parents, where they could be tested to see if they were even capable of caring for a child. After tons of paperwork, training and tests they were finally approved after close to a year.
After they received their license to become foster parents they got a call that a week old baby named Hunter needed a foster home and they immediately said yes to taking him and caring for the infant first as fast parents and if all went well they could become his permanent adopted parents.
After they agreed to take in baby Hunter, they ran to all the baby stores bought everything they needed for his nursery and to child-proof the house and make it the best possible environment a child could ever have.
They knew in the back of their minds that at this point they were just his foster parents and another couple could end up becoming his permanent adopted parents but they didn’t care, they were determined to give this infant the best life possible!
Then their worst fear happened, another couple was scheduled to be Hunter’s permanent adoptive parents and they were absolutely devastated! With that being said, the couple wasn’t going to give up and would fight for custody of baby Hunter as hard as they possibly could. For months the battle raged on through the courts and nobody truly knew what the final outcome would be.
After 17 months, Hunter had gone from a few day old infant to a happy little toddler who loved Tyler and Mandy so much. They were of course the only parents he ever had and knew. Over that 17 month period they had to go from court to court to fight to truly become his permanent legal guardians.
Finally, 17 months in they were about to go to their final court date where the judge would make his final ruling on the future of the boy. Their whole family and all their friends went to court with them that day. The judge finally made it official and read out his legal and official new name Hunter Palmer!
Before anybody could even react to the amazing news, Hunter would scream something to his dad that would leave the entire court in tears…
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They Adopted This Young Child No One Wanted. But 20 Years Later The Girl Looks Completely Different!
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Being a person on planet earth is a pretty tough job regardless of where you come from. The everyday struggles that everyone goes through can take a toll even on the strongest willed people. Even when you are lucky enough to be born into a good family, with a roof over your head and food on your table life will still throw you curveballs that you will never see coming until it’s too late. However, consider yourself lucky if you are born without a congenital deformity, learning disabilty or any other hurdle that makes living that much more difficult. For those who are born with heriditary diseases or congenital deformities an already hard life becomes that much more difficult.
This brings us to today’s story about a special girl named Hannah who was born with a rare congenital defect called primordial dwarfism. Primordial Dwarfism is so rare that currently there are only 100 people out of 7 billion who have this rare disease. These people have the odds stacked against them from the start, they grow much slower than people without the disease and their life expectency is cut short to a mere 30 years. When her biological mother was told by the doctors about her daughters condition, she knew she wouldn’t be able to take care of her so she made the difficult decision to put up poor baby Hannah for adoption. Because of her condition pretty much nobody wanted to adopt her, knowing that the responsibilty of caring for a child with special needs is about 10x harder than one without.
After months and months of no one adopting her, a couple named Jackie and Larry finally came along, who took one look at Hannah and knew she was the one who would be their daughter and become part of their family! Young Hannah now had a full blown family with 1 big sister named Kelly and 2 big brothers Matt and Mark. The family was absolutely amazing and treated Hannah with extra love, care and affection. Her siblings loved her as well and treated her no different than they treated eachother.
When Hannah got a bit older she became aware that she was different than other kids her age and her parents wanted to be completely honest with her while at the same time letting her know that her condition didn’t make her less of a person than anybody else. In fact, they told her she was 10 out seven billion with Primordial Dwarfism and this made her a miracle child. On top of growing much slower than other kids her age, she also had other health complications, such as heart problems, aneurysms, small teeth falling out and needing implants, scoliosis and worst of all polycystic kidney disease which inevitably could lead to her kidneys completely failing. However through all of this she persevered with grace and bravery.
After a few years, Hannah was school age and ready to begin her education at the same school her siblings went to. Even though she required special care due to her complex health issues, the whole family was determined to not make her feel like an outcast and give her a normal and ordinary childhood. However, school wasn’t easy for her because kids can just straight up be cruel. She was made of fun of, laughed at and mocked. But over the years, this only made her stronger and stronger as she overcame adversity after adversity. Also, her older siblings were very protective of their little sister and if they ever caught wind of bullies being mean to her, they defended her and always had her back no matter what!
With all of this going on, her adoptive mother needed a kidney transplant and somehow Hannah was a match to be a donor for her mom. Hannah decided that because her mom had pretty much saved her life she would do the same and give up one of her kidneys to save her mom’s life! Hannah is not only brave, beautiful and strong she is also a hero that we can all learn from!
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A Mother Gives THIS Homeless Guy an Extra Slice Of Her Pizza But When She Realizes Who He Is She’s Stunned!
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Homelessness is an epidemic across this country and the rest of the world. There are millions of people out there who don’t have a home to go back to, a roof over their heads, a warm plate of dinner or a nice cozy bed. They live in treacherous conditions in extreme cold and heat as they try to survive in anyway they can. A lot of times people fall into hard times by no fault of their own, things snowball out of control and before they know it they are out on the streets and homeless.
They go through the trash for food, beg people walking past them on the street for some spare change just so they can eat something before they fall asleep on the sidewalk. Many people in cities are so used to seeing homeless people, that they have almost become invisible.
Day after day people in the city walk past them and it has become such a common site that they are almost numb to it. They feel by not acknowledging their existence they won’t feel guilt about walking right passed them without a second thought. The whole situation is so heartbreaking and there really is no easy answer to solve this terrible epidemic..
In today’s story we feature a mother named Karine Gombeau from France who had been on a trip to New York City for a few weeks. Like many tourists who visit New York City she was just exploring the vast city taking in all the amazing sights of Manhattan. After a while she got hungry and stopped off at a great pizza place to get some of that world famous New York Pizza which is the best pizza in the world (according to many).
She got a small pizza pie and ate a few slices at the place. She got the rest of the pie boxed up to go, and headed back to her hotel. On the way back, she spotted a homeless man who was scouring through the garbage to fill his empty stomach with some kind of food. She immediately felt her heart drop and she felt the need to help him. The only problem was she had no spare change or money in her purse just a debit card..
That’s when she realized she had some leftover pizza and she knew she had to offer the poor homeless man some food. At first she felt kind of bad that it was all she had to give, but at least it was something and he wouldn’t have to go to bed hungry. She gave him the food and actually apologized to him for it being cold, but he was so happy he didn’t mind one bit. He thanked her and blessed her as she walked off back to her hotel.
She went to sleep that night and didn’t give too much thought to her encounter with the homeless man and the pizza. The next day she did some more tourist stuff and exploring and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. She headed back to hotel again and fell asleep after another long day of walking. The next morning she woke up to something she would never expect in her wildest dreams!
There was a headline on the front page of the paper with a picture of her giving that pizza to the homeless man on the street! She couldn’t believe it and she also couldn’t understand how giving a homeless man some pizza was newsworthy. That’s when she realized who the homeless man was…..
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