A hormonal imbalance can significantly impact mood, appetite, and overall health. Some factors, including aging, are beyond a person’s control. However, manageable elements such as stress and the diet can also influence hormone levels. The endocrine system circulates hormones, which perform various functions throughout the day. Even small changes in hormone levels can result in…
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I’ll be the first to admit that I love a good, old-fashioned planner. I need a place to write down all my to-do lists, organizing my life and my worries into neat little bullet points. I want a month overview where I can jot down upcoming events, getting excited for all the parties, birthdays, and…
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Trying Not to Love You So far away from each other. An ocean and 20 years between us. “I love you, but we need to end whatever this is,” she says. She may be right: We discuss the power imbalance of an older man and a younger woman, the age gap between her and my…
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Tinder and Bumble are desperate to convince you that you’re not desperate. Dating, they promise, is fun, so fun, that when one date ends badly, it’s a barely disguised blessing: You get to stay on the apps and keep on dating! Both companies are pushing this message with recent advertising efforts. Tinder has a new…
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Remera, the Kigali neighborhood housing a soccer stadium and bordering Kigali International Airport, used to be known for little more than flophouses and the city’s red light district. But Remera is coming into its own, with this once-rundown area in Rwanda’s capital now seeing an influx of bars, sustainable-minded bakeries and artist-led boutiques. Some of…
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Over and over again, in articles and conferences and interviews, authoritative industry members declare it with absolute certainty. It appears as gospel in outlets as varied as Fast Company and The Guardian. It played a prominent part in a feature-length documentary. What is it? The definitive, and damning, pronouncement that the fashion industry is the…
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For some, social media is a tool; for others, it’s a job; and for even more, it’s a door to a different world. But in “The American Meme,” the filmmaker Bert Marcus wants to frame it as a cracked mirror that reflects the worst in all of us. The film follows social media celebrities like…
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A few weeks ago, Jeremy Foster, a photographer, and Marikh Mathias, a model and former contestant on “The Bachelor,” were riding around Salt Lake City, looking for a place to do an Instagram photo shoot. The mountains were a 10-minute drive away, but it was raining that day. A coffee shop is a reliable backdrop,…
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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — On a nondescript block in this placid Long Island town sits a house that is perennially ready for Christmas. All year long, the couches, rugs, walls and even the upholstery on the dining-room chairs are a bright, festive shade of red. The pillows in the living room sport bears dressed in…
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Something seems to be going wrong at Bluebird London, the busily programmed 10,500-square-foot restaurant that the mall in the Time Warner Center imported from England in September. Maybe the people in charge have been taking management cues from Prime Minister Theresa May’s government, which has approached its Brexit plan like a class of first graders…
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