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What does meat connote to you? To many people in the West, they think of beef, pork, poultry, or seafood. To many people in Asia, Africa, and South/Central America, bugs are an extra source of animal-based food that is...

If you have set yourself a goal to lose weight, that's the first step. It is often one of the hardest things to admit to yourself that you fell off the wagon, or let yourself go, or were dealing with everything else in...

I am not vegan. I am not vegetarian. I have nothing against vegan or vegetarian foods. For most of my life, I have eaten a plant-majority diet, where meat or animal products are optional. Sometimes, I semi-consciously fix...

Although the rate of church attendance in America is certainly declining, especially among the millennials, the cause of the church attendance decline is actually not due to philosophical debates between atheism and...

Many people believe that choosing a healthy lifestyle is a personal, individual choice, and that, likewise, choosing an unhealthy lifestyle is a personal, individual choice. The problem with this belief is that it...

When I was younger, my father often called me fat. I don't know why he did it, to this day I've never asked him, because I was most assuredly not an overweight child. I suppose compared to my younger sister, who was...

Where we have grown up, who we spend our time with, and what we see in the media all affects how we perceive ourselves and others around us. One big social influence is on our body image and self-esteem. How many times...

The more you know about the world, life, and yourself, the less you have to fear. And the less you fear the less stressed, defensive, and unhappy you'll be. - MOI (ME) First of all, I want to shout out to my haters who...

Oh shit, it’s time to make everybody mad again. Like period rage, I’m back to address something that may or may not really upset a few people, but I feel like it needs to be said because I am sure I am not the only one...

The NutriSystem or Jenny Craig diet is designed to help customers lose weight. However, the shipped boxes from NutriSystem are extremely expensive by themselves ($9.82 a day for just the Basic Plan, more money for pricier...

Owning or not owning pets seems to be, oddly enough, a controversial topic. Some people believe that it's cruel to have pets, and others believe that you're heartless if you don't want any. I'm the type of person who...

Firstly, Websters Dictionary defines someone as fat if they have a lot of extra flesh on the body, have a lot of body fat, have a full rounded form, and/or are unusually wide or thick. I am sorry if that definition and...