“Any time you get challenged in a direction that isn’t just forward or backward—like you get knocked off balance or pushed against something, or are just carrying something on one side—you have a better chance of successfully navigating that force if you have strong core stabilizing muscles,” Miklaus says.Are Russian twists bad for you?If performed…
While meal kits can make dinnertime easier, saving on trips to the grocery store and chopping ingredients, they still require time and effort. Enter frozen meal delivery, for when juggling work, childcare, and/or life in general puts too much on your plate, and makes even the most basic recipes seem too time consuming and insurmountable.…
The best rabbit vibrators frequently show up on sex toy bestseller lists today, but they first went mainstream when Charlotte on Sex and the City couldn’t get enough of hers in one memorable 1998 episode, staying in bed with her rabbit toy for days instead of going out with her friends. Granted, this plotline may…
The FDA has closed its investigation into a Salmonella Javiana outbreak linked to cut cantaloupe with the patient count standing at 65. The agency did not release any other information about the outbreak. In other outbreak news reported on Jan. 19, the Food and Drug Administration said it has initiated onsite inspection in relation to…
Two audits recently released by the European Commission’s health and safety agency have assessed the safety of milk and dairy products in Romania and Finland. Several problems were found. The first remote DG Sante audit, in December 2020 in Romania, found the official control system was comprehensive but there were some issues with lab testing…
During the past three months, from October to December 2021, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS) Smuggling Interdiction and Trade Compliance (SITC) program seized and destroyed more than 1,900 pounds of prohibited pork, poultry, and ruminant products from New York City-area retailers. APHIS reports these items were sourced from China, lacked required import…
A Canadian company, 1991166 Ontario Inc., is recalling Mahruse brand halva with black seeds because of possible Salmonella contamination. This recall was triggered by Canadian Food Inspection Agency test results. The recalled product has been sold in Ontario and may have been distributed in other provinces and territories. Recalled products: Brand Product Size UPC Codes…
A third death is being investigated in a hepatitis A outbreak traced to an Italian restaurant in West Norriton, PA. Montgomery County public health officials say they have already confirmed two deaths in the outbreak traced to Gino’s Restaurant and Pizzeria. They have confirmed 10 people as infected with the liver disease and another three…
– OPINION – North of Seattle In Snohomish County, WA, growth was enormous during the past three decades. Please don’t ask me to re-trace our steps, but back in the day, we’d travel the backroads of Snohomish County along the Pilchuck River and its tributaries to find someone selling fresh salmon out of a car…
Spanish officials have said steps taken in response to more than a dozen Salmonella infections were “sufficient and proportionate” to protect public health. Two outbreaks affected 14 people at two elderly care homes in Madrid late this past year and were linked to chicken burger meat. No information has been made public about the patients,…