Thank you for posting these each week. They are often wonderful reads.
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Thank you and Iām happy to hear that they reach and sometimes touch others.
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Funny that you should mention that. Roy Wood, Jr. was on Fresh Air yesterday with Tanya Mosley, and she played an excerpt of bit of his stand-up routine about how grocery store clerks keep people anchored in difficult times.
(Starting about the 8-minute mark)
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One of my favorite TV chefs, Nathalie Dupree, has passed away at 85. I always enjoyed her low key style on her PBS show. I spent too many Saturdays watching her, Julia Child, Joan Nathan, Martin Yan, Ming Tsai, Jacques PĆ©pin and Lidia Bastianich and countless others.
May she rest in eternal peace.
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O tempora, o mores.
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Thanksā¦that was funny.
'āAt long last, the FDA is ending the regulatory paradox of Red 3 being illegal for use in lipstick, but perfectly legal to feed to children in the form of candy,ā said Dr. Peter Lurie, president of the CSPI. The agency banned the additive in cosmetics in 1990.
Food manufacturers will have until Jan. 15, 2027 to reformulate their products. Companies that make ingested drugs, such as dietary supplements, will get an additional year.
āThe FDA cannot authorize a food additive or color additive if it has been found to cause cancer in human or animals,ā Jim Jones, the FDAās deputy director for human foods, said in a statement. "Evidence shows cancer in laboratory male rats exposed to high levels of FD&C Red No. 3.ā
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"The agency first became aware that the additive was possibly carcinogenic following a study in the 1980s that found tumors in male rats who were exposed to it in high doses.
āIt removes an unnecessary hazard from the American food supply, and we welcome that action, even though it should have occurred more than three decades ago," Lurie said. "
The substance has been restricted in the European Union for decades.
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Just did a purge and threw out a Ring Pop and PEZ. Sigh.
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At least it wasnāt too much.
Man I forgot about ring pops - my nephews used to LOVE them!
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Wow! Very topical in my house. My daughters were just talking about this last week, how it had been banned for use in cosmetics already but was still OK (until just now) in use for foodstuffs.
Although (I admit I havenāt read the article, maybe this is mentioned), my daughters were of the opinion that most foods were already absent of this dye given they knew the FDA āHammer!ā was coming soon. Similar to how the brominated oil citrus homogenizer is already out of most orange drink products because FDA has been signaling for a long time itās going to get banned.
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I donāt meditate, but this breath workshop is magic. If you ever feel like you need to let go of all that ails you in life (if just for an hour), I cannot recommend it enough.
Healing magic.
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RIP David Lynch, and thanks for sharing your overall brilliance and craziness with us 
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I find it charming that a man who made films about the horror and decay lurking just beneath everyday life was unfailingly positive and, by all accounts, a genuinely kind and joyful person.
As he said, āKeep your eye on the donut, not the hole.ā
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That one looks like itās been eating cheese doodles and they spilled all over.
Good stuff, Natascha.
I have bad medical PTSD (amputated my own foot, 10 surgeries in 18 months, and weekly, every week, someone in a white coat for 90 weeks in a row caused me a lot of pain).
Iāve brought my blood pressure down from about 240/190 to regular (120/80) with ten minutes of breathing exercises. And the heart rate over 240 any time I deal with any medical office drops to my regular 68 with the breathing.
That shit works, bigtime.
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Itās absolutely mind-blowing what it can do. This particular technique is a form of hyperventilation, and what happens in your body is like nothing Iāve ever experienced before. Apparently, you can even change your body chemistry through some of these practices.
I donāt have the propulsion for idleness or traditional meditation (swimming laps comes closest bc all I think about is counting lanes 
), and I had no idea what to expect when I first joined my friend.
She also offers these sessions in person, but I prefer doing them online. Listening to 10+ other women hyperventilate around me doesnāt sound appealing to me at allā¦ but Iām not much of a yoga class person, either 
Iām so sorry to hear about your medical PTSD, but how awesome that you found relief 
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The Washington Post decided to change their mission statement from āDemocracy Dies In Darknessā to āRiveting Storytelling for All of America."
Iād say what I really think about that, but this entire post would probably be deleted.
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All I can say is 
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