Look out Lunchables, Publix is getting into the kids meal business. The Tampa Tribune reports that with school set to start in a couple months, the Southeast’s leading grocery chain is planning to roll out a series of its own pre-packaged kids meals, but deli-made and designed to tuck neatly into kid’s lunchboxes. The move […]
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We’re hooked on fish tacos — and it’s about time. Only now is mass culture gobbling up fish tacos at a rate that is making them one of the restaurant industry’s top trends. Taco Bell, the Mexican fast food stalwart for decades, recently announced it will offer them in stores nationwide next year. But it
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The concept behind Seniors Helping Seniors is quite simple. The seniors that receive help are also benefiting from the companionship they receive from someone near their own age. The seniors that offer their help are not only assisting someone in need but giving support to a senior that needs a little friendship from someone that
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Someone must’ve really liked Marilyn Monroe — either that or chest X-ray — because they’ve shelled out $45,000 for it, reports Neatorama. A 1954 x-ray of the stunning starlet’s chest sold at auction in Las Vegas on Sunday for a sizable $45,000. This was well above the estimated $800 to $1,200 it was expected to
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Discovery News: Dentists could soon hang up their drills. A new peptide, embedded in a soft gel or a thin, flexible film and placed next to a cavity, encourages cells inside teeth to regenerate in about a month, according to a new study in the journal ACS Nano. This technology is the first of its
According to The Morning Sentinel, it’s easy to learn, fun, and extremely popular, say those who play pickleball. Say what? Yes, pickleball. You might call it a cross between badminton, pingpong and tennis. It’s played with a net, paddles and a ball with holes in it, similar to a Wiffle ball. The game, while developed
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According to The New York Times, Super Sized Cycles, manufactures and adapts bicycles for overweight riders who are too big for conventional bikes. The five-year-old business, which is based in Vermont, had sales last year of $104,000. The challenge Joan Denizot, the founder, has been agonizing over whether to manufacture bicycles in the United States
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The folks over at Home Owners Insurance have put together an interesting infographic about caffeine. Photo by Home Owners Insurance.
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We know that quitting smoking is tough. Even tougher: quitting for good. Readers Digest reports a new vaccine holds promise for the 90 percent of quitters who relapse. After six monthly injections, users of NicVax build up antibodies to nicotine, just as they would to a disease. If you smoke when you’re on it, your
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Readers Digest reports that blasting through a decaying tooth to reach a cavity can involve “drilling out healthy parts of a tooth to get to a small area of infection,” says Wayne Flavin, director of scientific affairs for DMG America, a dental-materials company. Enter Icon, the company’s new treatment for early cavities, which works by
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