Experiencing muscle tightness and soreness at times is common. While some over-the-counter medications can help, many people are interested in using natural muscle relaxers instead. There are many possible causes of muscle tightness, pain, and reduced range of motion, including: exercise, especially unfamiliar exercise a backache pregnancy fibromyalgia symptoms People who wish to avoid synthetic…
Hi and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes, with recipe ideas for busy people like you. Can I also put in a plug for chicken soup made from scratch? (Don’t worry, this newsletter isn’t sponsored by Big Soup.) On Sunday, I used my electric pressure cooker to make spicy chicken stock, with this Bon Appétit recipe…
Scientists have developed a potential solution to the rising global antibiotic resistance crisis. It lies in rendering bacteria ineffective without killing them, which relieves the selective pressure that drives the growth of resistant strains. Scientists successfully treated an MRSA sepsis infection without using antibiotics. When a team at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine…
If you thought you were obsessed with shoes, you haven’t seen anything yet. This Fall, designers are pulling out all the stops—from Versace’s The Matrix-meets-‘90s supermodel platform boots to Gucci’s OTT sneakers that don’t belong anywhere near actual athletic pursuits. The options are endless! And with our guide to the season’s best you’ll know exactly…
The summer of 2014 did not begin happily for Whitney Morie, a kindergarten teacher and part-time receptionist in a hair salon. She had a broken heart that was lingering like a Colorado winter, and she was also beginning to fear she might never become a mother. “The only thing I’ve ever wanted was to have…
Name: Eva Tolkin Age: 30 Hometown: Toronto Now Lives: A one-bedroom garden apartment in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Claim to Fame: A former backup singer for Solange Knowles and Lykke Li, Ms. Tolkin is a nascent pop star and fashion plate who evokes early Madonna and the effervescent melodies of Robyn. Like those pop…
George Motz is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker, author and television host. For the past 12 years, Mr. Motz, who is sometimes referred to as “America’s hamburger expert,” has also been the director of the Food Film Festival, a four-day multisensory event during which participants eat the same food they’re watching on the big screen. This…
ROME — One unseasonably warm recent October morning, a steady stream of Roman high school students clad in the uniform of teenagers around the world — T-shirts over leggings or jeans — moseyed through the ground floor of the grand Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, the onetime monument to Mussolini’s dreams and now the Fendi headquarters.…
On a moody August morning in British Columbia, two humpback whales swam beside the floating Great Bear Lodge, exciting guests who watched them feeding and lunging out of the water for fish. Posted to Instagram, the video of the exuberant wildlife encounter went viral and the lodge’s following grew from 600 to nearly 50,000. Booking…
Q. I rarely take pharmaceutical medicines but when I must, I always seem to have side effects. Are some people just more sensitive to medicines in general? A. Yes. Some people are more sensitive to medications. In 1978, a pharmacologist who was part of a research team in London took a test dose of the…