If You Love Snacking On Baby Carrots You Should Stop Right Now. The Reason Is Nasty.
Baby carrots may be ultra convenient and fun to snack on, but they’re not exactly the healthiest option when it comes to getting the recommended daily serving of vegetables. The little sweet and innocent sounding carrots can be found just about everywhere these days, from grocery store produce sections to school lunch trays, yet prior to the late 1980’s they were completely unheard of. That’s because they had yet to be invented.
The story behind the ‘birth’ of baby carrots sheds a whole new light on the bright orange, peeled and ready to eat veggies. A farmer in California named Mike Yurosek was sick of throwing out all the ugly misshapen carrots he’d spent so much time and effort growing. Back then, and as they do now, grocery stores rejected any carrots that didn’t meet specific color, shape, and size standards because consumers only buy what they see as the ideal or perfect fruits and vegetables.
The accompanying video goes over this industry practice and how much waste it incurs, as well as the emerging drive to re-direct “ugly” food to those who need it most. Back to the story- rather than lose money and see his crops go to waste, Mr. Yurosek tried a new approach and he turned his ugly carrots into little baby ones by re-shaping and peeling them into uniform pieces. Stores loved them, consumers loved them, and the rest is history.
However, in those early days baby carrots were peeled and whittled down in much smaller batches which allowed for a lot more quality control and oversight. Today millions of pounds of rejected carrots are processed every week in an entirely automated process meant to be cost-effective and fast to keep them cheap as can be.
Carrots are fed into a machine, their protective skin is removed, then they are cut and re-shaped before being soaked in a chlorine bath. This final part is necessary because the baby cut pieces contain a lot of germs and bacteria on them after going through the machinery. Who wants to feed their children or ingest food that’s supposedly fresh, yet it has been chemically treated and bathed in chlorine? Not me!
Instead you can simply buy normal carrots rather than baby cut ones without having to sacrifice the flavor and crunch that makes carrots delicious in the first place. Regular carrots are often cheaper, they last longer and won’t turn white, and most importantly they don’t need to be treated with chlorine because they never get processed through a machine.
So the next time you’re are the supermarket pick up a bunch of regular carrots instead of the pre-packaged baby ones. It’s the safest, smartest, and healthiest choice you can make for both yourself and your family.
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She Places White Vinegar and Alcohol Inside Her Ear For 60 Seconds a Day. The Reason Is Brilliant!
No one wants either that clogged feeling of earwax nor the grossness of it being visible. It’s commonly thought of as dirt that needs to be removed, when in fact, earwax is actually produced by your body to protect the inner ear from things in the environment that can adversely affect it. In actuality earwax acts as a barrier from real dirt, bacteria, and other potential environmental intrusions.
Not only does earwax serve this health-maintaining function for the inner ear, but it normally gets rid of excess wax naturally. Despite this fact, many of us are bothered by that gooky feeling of excess wax, and go for the Q-tips to dig it out. In the video you are about to watch below, Dr.David Hill discusses earwax, and the best ways to clean it when it builds up and is bothersome.
He explains why using Q-tips is the very worst thing you can do when trying to clean your ears. As he discusses in greater detail, Q-tips push the earwax deeper into the canal and can cause some serious damage.
He makes some healthier suggestions for the safe cleaning of our ears, including a mixture of white vinegar and alcohol. For exact proportions and some other suggestions, follow his sensible and healthy suggestions, so that you don’t actually cause some serious damage to your inner ears.
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What Color is Your Aura?
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Your aura is the subtly pervasive atmosphere created by and emanating from your body which is visible to some by color. This field of luminous radiation has been associated with a variety of personality traits, depending on the colors of the layers. It can be read like a map of a person’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual states. This means that your aura is in constant flux, depending on your well being, and can be made up of several colors at once.
The existence of an electromagnetic energy field around every object in the world is a scientifically proven fact, but there is debate whether the cascading outlines can be seen by the human eye or not. Because devices that should be able to measure these alleged fields have recorded nothing, the claim to be able to see them is often considered paranormal. However, there is a rare form of photography, called Kirlian photography, which has been said to document the auras.
The colors around a person can extend out far, or only be very close to the body. The latter occurs when a person is guarding themselves from someone or something. When two people have been intimate with each other, their auras will be in contact with one another and share common colors.
These fields are best seen in full daylight and with relaxed eyes. When first attempting to visually perceive an aura, it is likely you will be able to see a field but no color. With more practice, the colors will begin to reveal themselves.
What color is your aura? let us know!
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Mom’s Friendless Kid Always Ate Lunch Alone. Then a Football Star Sat Down and Mom Breaks Down In Tears!
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Parenting is definitely the hardest job in the entire world. Not only are you on the clock 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, but you have to wear so many different hats. If they are sick, you have to be a nurse, if they are hungry you have to be a chef, if they need to go somewhere you have to be their limo driver.
On top of all of that, once they are school aged, the worry never ends. Will they get good grades? Will they make friends? Will they be bullied? All these questions and nothing is for certain and you only get to find out the answers once you are in the ‘parent trenches’ day in and day out.
Today’s story features a great mom named Leah Paske from Tallahassee who is raising a beautiful son named Bo who goes to Monfort Middle School. Bo is on the spectrum and is an autistic sixth grader who has a lot of trouble fitting in and dealing with stuff normal kids do everyday.
Kids can be cruel and bullying is an ongoing epidemic. Because of his autism, Bo wasn’t invited to most of the kids birthday parties and he always ate lunch alone at a table by himself. His mom was pretty concerned about her precious son, but he tried to reassure him eventually everything would be okay. He would just have to work a little harder than everyone else but things would eventually workout and his life would be just as good as all the other kids.
One afternoon, a surprise visitor came to Bo’s middle school. He is a bit of a local celebrity in Florida, he is none other than Travis Rudolph Florida State Football Superstar. Travis was with a few of the other players on the team and they were just meeting the kids and faculty and have a great old time.
That’s when Travis walked into the cafeteria and spotted a boy eating alone at a table secluded from the rest of students. Travis immediately could tell this boy needed a friend and a little company while he at lunch. Being the stand-up guy that he is, he immediately walked over to young Bo sat down, pulled out his own lunch and the two ate together.
Bo was super excited as they ate their lunch and had a chat about life, school and football. Before the lunch ended one of the faculty snapped a pic of this beautiful heartwarming moment. The teacher who took the photo sent it to his mother Leah. When Leah first got the photo it touched her so deeply that she broke down in happy tears.
Leah decided to upload the photo on social media and it immediately went viral. Neither Travis nor Bo expected this little lunch moment to touch so many people hearts as it did. The photo was viewed by millions of people and picked up by publishers and bloggers from all around the world.
This story is a good reminder that one small kind gesture and paying it forward can end up changing someones life for the better!
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Kitty Kept Stealing The Neighbors Tiny Pups. But They Soon Realize The Unthinkable Reason Why!
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The ongoing battle between cats and dogs have been going on since the time humans began to domesticate animals. Dogs are known as man’s best friend, while cats are known as…. let’s just say Man’s best acquaintance. Dogs pretty much show unconditional love to their humans and family. Cats pretty much do whatever the heck they want to do, whenever they want to do it!
Which brings us to today’s amazing story which takes place in Maysville, South Carolina, featuring both canines and a feline. One morning a lady looked out and saw a cat carrying a small animal by the scruff its neck. The first thing that came to her mind was, wow that kitty just caught a nice breakfast and she felt a little bad for the small creature. She kept her on the cat as it traveled with the small animal in it’s mouth and to her surprise, the cat didn’t seem like it was about to eat a snack, it seemed more motherly and gentle. She was intrigued, got a little closer and realized this was no squirrel or chipmunk it was a puppy!
Missy Grant a resident of Maysville, South Carolina had a female dog that had just given birth to a litter of puppies. Missy arrived back at her place one evening, and she quickly realized 5 of the tiny puppies had vanished into thin air! They were too young to run away she thought. Could a hawk or eagle have snatched them up? Maybe it was a neighbor who saw the puppies and decided to steal them and make a quick buck by selling them? Could they just be hiding somewhere right in front of her eyes? She didn’t know but she immediately started a search party.
She began asking neighbors if they saw her heard anything because the puppies had magically disappeared. When she got to the woman’s house who initially saw the cat carrying the small mammal by the scruff; the woman quickly realized that the cat she saw was stealing Missy’s puppies! She told Missy how she watched the cat gently pick up each puppy one by one and bring them to a random shed or trailer where she could do whatever she wanted with the puppies out of view of any spectators.
Then as they began piecing all the missing parts together, they found the cat’s owner Ryan Grant who informed Missy that their cat was recently pregnant, gave birth to kittens but tragically none of them survived. They told Missy that cat had been pretty depressed and acting strange since she lost all her babies.
The mother of the puppies, Smoochie, had simultaneously just given birth to her litter at the same time, Miss Kitty lost her babies. For some strange reason Smoochie, had no interest in her puppies and her motherly instincts just weren’t there. This does happen, although not very often, dogs and cats both sometimes have a litter and basically just have no interest in raising them or just abandon them.
So, when Miss Kitty saw that Smoochie wasn’t nurturing and taking care of her puppies, the feline’s motherly instincts which were already surfaced, had kicked into full gear. Miss Kitty would travel over to Smoochie’s property and just pick the puppies up and take them to a safe shed. Smoochie would watch and just let it happen because she had no interest and being a mom. Miss Kitty had been pregnant just a short time before the puppies were born, so she had milk to spare.
When they went to the shed where Miss Kitty was bringing the tiny canines, they saw that she had remarkably been nursing them, just as if they were her kitten! The dog Smoochie was totally fine with Miss Kitty becoming their adopted mom and basically handed over all responsibility to the motherly feline.
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Can You Pass The Creative Test?
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Remember the days when you would play pretend for hours on end. It was so easy and natural to play house with your friends and build forts which seemed like castles in your minds. When friends chased you around it was like you were running for your life and if you got caught you would be trapped forever on the dark side, which was in the shade under the tree at recess. At least that was how you imagined your game of chase to be, and it was some of the best times ever.
When we are young it’s easy to be creative and to dream up fanciful worlds filled with dramatic adventure and thoughtful touches. As the years add up, we become less and less inclined to so easily and effortlessly imagine things. Instead, we start day dreaming and fantasizing about what could be or should be. Our imaginations turn towards things that we desire, and are much more calculated and precise than those of our childhood past.
How imaginative are you at this point in your life? Take the test to find out and see whether or not you can pass it! Good luck, have fun, and enjoy!
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