20 Things You Should Pack to Help Ensure You Stay Safe and Healthy on Campus – POPSUGAR
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20 Medicines and First-Aid Supplies to Pack For College
Packing for college can be an overwhelming process, and although you can purchase a majority of your dorm essentials during that first week, there are some items yes, including medicines and first-aid supplies that should be picked up and stowed away prior to drop-off day.
If your parent or guardian is anything like mine, they probably have several college packing lists going already. For me, first-aid supplies were never much of a priority. I was more concerned about my bedding and hanging twinkling lights than stocking up on Band-Aids or checking to see if the bottle of hydrogen peroxide had expired. But the first time I woke up with a hangover, I was grateful that my mom had made sure I packed ibuprofen. Likewise with the allergy pills she snuck into my first-aid kit, because she knew my sinuses would go crazy when the seasons changed. She may have been thousands of miles away, but she knew exactly what I needed.
Even though I definitely didn't need the five bags of cotton balls that were stashed in my luggage, I was prepared for any sickness or minor injury that came my way. Yes, picking out your dorm decor is fun and exciting, but preparing a first-aid kit is a crucial task you should check off your list before stepping on campus. Here's a comprehensive list of medicines and supplies to help get you started:
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The clothing visionary who refuses to buy fashion magazines – Sydney Morning Herald
Posted: August 14, 2020 at 11:56 pm
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Its a damp February afternoon in Tribeca. Arbiters of style from around the world are jostling for front-row seats at New York Fashion Week. But Carmen Busquets, arguably one of the greatest fashion visionaries of them all, is not among them. Instead, the Venezuelan entrepreneur is sharing her thoughts about the future of luxury from a sofa in her apartment a few streets away.
I used to go to a lot of shows, says the Net-a-Porter founding investor, tucking a Gucci-sneakered foot under a silk-trousered leg as she sips a Cuban coffee. But Im less and less interested in the kind of fashion where dictators say, Here you are, these are the real fashions, this is in and this is out.
She also refuses to buy fashion magazines, disliking their promotion of unhealthy ideas about physical perfection. In fact, she confesses: I dont think Im a true fashion person. Im more interested in the stories behind peoples lives.
You might not expect such admissions from someone who has made a fortune from fashions next big things. But many things about Busquets are unexpected. For those in the fashion world, her name is synonymous with luxury and profit; for those who know her, she embodies seemingly opposite priorities, such as sustainability and detachment from material possessions.
Her web of businesses has its main centres in London and New York; her main homes are in Verbier, Barcelona, Paris and Miami. (This is just a short-term let, she explains, gesturing at the curved glass walls of the Herzog & de Meuron-designed apartment she rents with her boyfriend, the television executive John Skipper; the same applies to their pied--terre in London.)
Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet (left) and Carmen Busquets.Credit:Courtesy of Carmen Busquets
Her public persona is that of a slightly ditzy fashionista; in fact, she has one of the sharpest brains in business. And while her partial deafness means that she has an idiosyncratic way of speaking all three of her languages (I speak Carmenese, she jokes), she is an inspiring communicator.
Most of her successes have been achieved behind the scenes. She started investing in internet companies in the 1990s, sold just before the tech bubble burst in 2000, and used the profits to double down on her main remaining investment, in Natalie Massenets Net-a-Porter. By the time it was sold to Richemont, in 2010, she had achieved a 1600 per cent return on her investment, and received another big payday in 2015 when it was merged with Yoox in a 1.45 billion ($2.66 billion) deal.
By then Busquets was well into her next wave of investments. CoutureLab, which sells luxury products made by artisans and craftspeople around the world, was launched in 2006 and evolved into an investment vehicle now subsumed into carmenbusquets.com for disruptive start-ups in fashion and luxury.
Since Net-a-Porter, she has invested more than 50 million in fashion-tech companies that include Farfetch, Moda Operandi, The Business of Fashion, PS Dept, Lyst, Figue and Flowerbx creating more than 10,000 jobs and a portfolio of non-traditional ventures whose trophy brands include Cult Beauty (curated beauty products) and Maison de Mode (luxury ethical fashion).
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Her recent emphasis has been on sustainability. Fashion is one of the worlds most profligate industries, generating more than 400 billion of wasted clothing each year. Busquets-backed ventures such as Armarium (online fashion rentals), Flont (jewellery rentals), Unmade (bespoke knitwear) and Villageluxe (peer-to-peer fashion sharing) suggest a way forward that is not predicated on further overproduction.
It sounds idealistic, but in 2018 it earned Busquets an award from the United Nations-linked Fashion 4 Development group for recalibrating the fashion industry to the benefit of people and planet. She has also proved herself, yet again, to be ahead of the commercial curve. Bain & Co forecasts that in five years rentals will account for 45 per cent of the luxury market.
Who is this woman, who senses so surely the pull of fashions big currents? Born in 1965, she grew up in Caracas, the eldest daughter of two political exiles. Her father, a metallurgist, fled Francos Spain after the civil war. Her mother, a social anthropologist, fled Cuba after Castros revolution. Both understood, and emphasised, the transience of material possessions. They knew you could lose everything.
Busquets father became one of Venezuelas leading industrialists; the family became wealthy. But their real interest was in values I think the first word I learnt was freedom and in spiritual matters. The couple were disciples of the mystic philosopher George Gurdjieff, and their children three girls and a boy learnt to meditate from an early age.
Carmen was a quiet, thoughtful child. When she was 12, she told her father, We need to talk, adult to adult and demanded that, to become my own self, she should be sent to boarding school. She was: first to a Sussex convent (Hogwarts without the magic), which soon expelled her, then to a school in Toronto, where she became a fitness fanatic and, for a while, struggled with anorexia. It took her 30 years to resolve the underlying body dysmorphic disorder.
I dont think Im a true fashion person. Im more interested in the stories behind peoples lives.
Despite this, she says, I was a happy teenager. But I didnt fit in. Much later, she learnt why. In addition to her partial deafness (spotted in her late teens after her younger sister was found to have the same problem), she suffered from severe dyslexia (diagnosed in her 40s, at the prompting of a friend with a dyslexic son). The combination hampered her interaction with the world around her. I just dont hear that much. I missed a lot of things.
She learnt to express herself through fashion and painting, and won a scholarship to study art at Parsons School of Design in New York, but instead, at her fathers insistence, went to the University of Miami, where she partied hard and studied marketing and advertising.
Then came the great trauma of her life, a tragedy she rarely discusses, but did mention in a blog interview in 2016; her brother died during a game of Russian roulette. She rushed back to Caracas, where the family tried to put back together its broken world. Busquets was shown the ropes of her fathers businesses, in a series of boring roles: in accounting, in a factory; and in the import-and-export department, where she learnt that import tariffs were about to be slashed. She persuaded her sceptical father to invest in an import venture of her own a boutique selling high-end fashion from Europe.
Her father was a tough investor: If he invested $10,000, hed refuse to invest more until hed got $20,000 back. But her boutique, Cabus, which opened in Caracas in 1990, thrived. The ambience echoed Chanels store in Paris; the clothes came from more than 50 designers.
The clientele quickly became international, and Busquets provided a service to match. She would visit shows in Europe and use DHL to send her customers sketches, Polaroids and detailed descriptions of garments she thought they would like. Thats why I knew Net-a-Porter would succeed. I had already been providing an analogue version of what Natalie wanted to do.
Her first forays into e-commerce, in the mid-90s, were linked to wellbeing. Both flopped. But Busquets never doubted the internets potential to make retail more intelligent. In Toronto she had devoured the visionary writings of Marshall McLuhan, prophet of the global village. When the worldwide web got going, she was ready.
My greatest privilege was that my parents empowered me with their values. They taught me not to get attached to things.
Venezuela, on the other hand, was in turmoil. Hugo Chvez, who had led a failed military coup in 1992, was elected president in 1998, then re-elected on a revolutionary platform in 2000. A plummeting currency threatened to make Cabus unviable, and when the press reported some anti-Chvez remarks that Busquets had made, her shop was attacked. The spray of bullets broke three windows. Thank god we were having lunch out the back.
After much soul-searching, the family decided to leave. Busquets and her father sold their businesses. The family settled in Switzerland. Busquets has not seen her homeland since.
She believes that all these experiences contributed to her success. I was lucky that I had money to risk. But my greatest privilege was that my parents empowered me with their values. They taught me not to get attached to things, because sometimes you have to let go of your roots. And they taught me to value spiritual things.
She laughs often and infectiously; she is much more human in person than her perfect, designer-clad image. Yet beneath her frivolous manner you can sense the inner strength. In boardroom battles, she is fearless; equal parts angel and pit bull, in Massenets admiring words. She has turned her partial deafness into an asset, which sharpens her visual perceptions, distances her from conventional thinking and frees her to empathise with consumers. Sometimes, in a long meeting, I lose track and just disconnect. A lot of things come to me in those silences.
Most of her energy now goes into charitable work, notably with Bhutan for Life (the state-endorsed program that has made Bhutan a world leader in environmental conservation), Glasswing International (which works with vulnerable children in Latin America) and the Oslo Freedom Foundation, through which she has supported victims of repression in Venezuela. Shes also on the council of the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Busquets during a visit to a Bhutan nunnery in 2019. Most of her energy now goes into charitable work.Credit:Courtesy of Carmen Busquets
The work takes her to some exotic and sometimes dangerous places: Guatemala, Colombia, El Salvador. It reminds her, too, that as an unmarried woman without children (I never wanted the responsibility), she defies the conventions of many cultures, especially in Latin America.
Young girls say to me, Youre not married? Is that an option? Its amazing to be able to help children by empowering them to make a choice. In other respects, however, she finds being a philanthropist much like being an entrepreneur. I want to apply the same ideas. Think big, start small. Work closely with the people you invest in. Only fight battles I can win. Look for ways to empower people.
And the future of luxury? Her money is on further growth in the sharing economy, not just in fashion, but also in, for example, shared living spaces and luxury experiences. The growth will be driven by mindful consumers, whose choices at the luxury end of the market may inspire a wider trend for minimal waste fashion. Consumers can change the world, she says. You can already see it happening with beauty products, with what we eat. Consumers are dictating the way we do things, and big companies are changing.
Theres always a place for luxury, for beautiful things, she adds. But they dont have to own you. Theres a difference between luxury and the accumulation of luxury. Accumulation is like eating caviar every day: whats the point?
The sun is setting over the Hudson. Its rays stream through the floor-to-ceiling windows, lending a golden glow to Busquets pale hair. For much of her life she obsessed about her appearance, but the need to put herself out there in support of her campaigning forced her to confront her fear of having her imperfections exposed.
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I realised that, in todays world, anybody can take a picture of you: when youre not in a good place, when youre doing weird faces, when you look like theres no Botox in your face. You cant control your image.
Around the same time, she was diagnosed with coeliac disease, which disproved her belief that, through meticulous attention to diet and exercise, she could control her body. Then it dawned on her that her 30-year internal war with body dysmorphia was over. Anorexia is about control. You cant control the world, so you control your body. But we cant control anything. Its all an illusion.
Today she is at peace. She still loves to dress exquisitely. Otherwise, she puts her faith in her mothers top beauty tip: to love yourself. Her enthusiasm for her work does the rest. I love the feeling that Im empowering people to change their lives, she says, blue eyes shining. Every night I say to the universe: If you dont need me any more, take me in my sleep. If you need me, wake me up. If I wake up, its because today Im meant to do something.
Edited version of a story that first appeared in The Times, UK.
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Thai Joints rule in the Heights – San Diego Reader
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A family style spread picked up from Thai Joint
It sits within an inconspicuous stucco strip on Adams Avenue, smack in the middle of Normal Heights, with a generic sign bearing a generic name: Thai Joint. How many times have I driven past without stopping?
I had to be told its a sister restaurant to the University Heights Thai spot, Plumeria, and to Chi Extraordinary Kitchen, which is also on the stretch of Adams spanning the upper end of North Park (we might as well call it North Park Heights). Ive been fond of Plumerias vegetarian and vegan Thai Cuisine since it opened in 2012. And in the past five years, Ive also been wowed by Chi Extraordinarys focus on Thai seafood dishes. In other words, Thai Joint is worth stopping for.
A bland storefront and an almost forgettable name
Turns out, the original Thai Joint opened more than 15 years ago at a different Adams Avenue location. This ones only been open since 2018, but it doesnt seem like the residents of Normal Heights forgot the brand. Thai Joint has no patio or parking lot space to dress up as outdoor seating. Nevertheless, during the current pandemic closure, I continue to find a steady stream of customers picking up take-out.
Plastic sheeting covid fortifies the Thai Joint's ad hoc take out counter.
Theres a steady stream of delivery drivers representing pretty much every delivery app Thai Joint works with all of them. One of the drivers I meet while picking up an order shares how challenging it can be to lose weight while running deliveries. How hes on an intermittent fasting diet, which means he fasts during the day and only eats in the evening. He used to drive people around for Lyft, but switched to food during the pandemic. Now every time he picks up great smelling meals, it makes him hungry.
House made "e-sarn" Thai sausage
Thai Joint is one such challenging place, he says. When he clocks out, he occasionally returns as a customer. He vouches for the crispy tamarind wings ($).
I vouch for the house made E-sarn (a.k.a. Isan) style sausage. The ground pork sausage has a crispy skin, flavored with ginger, galangal, lemon grass, chilis, and herbs. You can spot the occasional grain of rice in there, responsible for a satisfying tang distinct from that of hot dogs. The $7 appetizer will appeal to sausage fans, and while you may find the same wings at Chi Extraordinary Kitchen, the sausage is exclusive to Thai Joint.
Coconut based red curry, with bell peppers, bamboo shoots, eggplant, and chicken.
Entrees represent the usual suspects of American Thai restaurants: coconut and lemongrass soups; curries of red, yellow and green; noodles and rice dishes featuring ginger, soy, and/or chili based sauces. To some extent these are all better than average, and cost $10 to $12 apiece, depending on your choice of protein, which at this location includes chicken and BBQ pork. Or, you can order a vegan version of just about any of them.
I dont know how the heights came to be blessed with such abundance, but its an easy area to pick up a great family-style feast. Just be warned, these Thai Joints revel is spice: anything higher than level 3 should truly burn.
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Covid 19 Impact on Durian Powder Market Research Region Wise Analysis of Top Players In Market By Its Types And Application | Thai Foods Product…
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COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Urban Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Thailand – Multi-sector Rapid Needs Assessment and Post-distribution Monitoring of…
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Introduction
The COVID-19 outbreak started in Thailand in midJanuary 2020. The pandemic has had a significant impact on all sectors of Thai society, including refugees and asylum-seekers. In the urban context, UNHCR has been working with a range of partners, including Asylum Access Thailand (AAT), the Catholic Office for Emergency Relief and Refugees (COERR), HOST international, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Tzu Chi Foundation and UNICEF to ensure that the protection needs of urban refugees and asylum-seekers are met and thereby support the Royal Thai Government (RTG) in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Having observed increased levels of vulnerability relating to restrictions on movement, loss of livelihood opportunities and access to healthcare, these organisations, led by UNHCR, carried out a multi-sectoral Rapid Needs Assessment (RNA) to strengthen understanding of the situation of this oftentimes hidden population. This focused on a range of areas, including: COVID-19 knowledge, experience, behaviour and norms, health, education, employment and access to basic necessities. The findings, outlined below, provide a stronger evidence base from which to design protection and programme interventions.
Since May 2016, UNHCR, through its implementing partner, COERR, has been using multi-purpose cashbased interventions (CBI) to provide protection,assistance and services to the most vulnerable refugees in the urban context. The number of urban refugees approaching UNHCR and COERR for financial support has more than doubled since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is anticipated that the financial needs of the urban refugee population will grow as the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt. To ensure that UNHCRs multipurpose CBI framework for urban refugees in Thailand is as effective as possible, a Post-distribution Monitoring (PDM) exercise was conducted simultaneously with the RNA. PDM is a mechanism to collect and understand refugees' feedback on the quality, sufficiency, utilization and effectiveness of the assistance - in this case cash assistance - provided to them by UNHCR. The findings of the PDM will support assessment of the impact of CBI for urban refugees affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the appropriateness of funding levels, distribution modalities and the use of cash to support refugees.
The report provides an overview of findings from the RNA and PDM exercise and proposes a series of recommendations to strengthen efforts by UNHCR, other UN agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the RTG to better support refugees and asylum-seekers during this unprecedented and particularly challenging time.
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Gojek refocuses its regional ambitions in Vietnam is Thailand next? – Tech Wire Asia
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Gojek is rebranding its Vietnam operations as it renews its SEA expansion. Source: Shutterstock
Last week, Indonesian unicorn Gojekfinally announced that its official Gojek mobile app is now accessible in Vietnam.
The announcement was expected, coming on the heels of Vietnamese affiliate GoViets recently revealed plans to merge its app and branding with its parent firm. The unification of services and brand identity resolves a period of upheaval at GoViet, which burst unto Vietnams ride-hailing scene in 2018 with plenty of promise.
GoViet was originally envisioned as a local, autonomous Vietnamese partner for Gojek, offering ride-hailing and logistics services at the outset, with food delivery and digital payments being added later on. The launch of GoViet two years ago complete with its own standalone branding and management team was the start of Gojeks ambitious, US$500 million international expansion plans, with Thailand set to be the second standalone market.
Gojek co-founder and CEO Nadiem MakarimtoldChannel NewsAsiaat the time that the firm would put a lot of trust in the autonomy of the local teams and have them make autonomous and critical strategic decisions about where to go.
Even then, some analysts expressed reservations over this autonomous partnership model for entering new territories, worrying that a lack of a cohesive regional strategy might see the Gojek brand itself become damaged or diluted.
GoViet, at the time, was one of a score of ride-hailing operators entering a competitive space that had just been vacated by Uber, and where regional heavyweight Grab was by the far the dominant operator with a 73% market share, in the fourth-largest ride-hailing market in Southeast Asia according to a report by Google, Singaporean state-owned holding company Temasek, and US management consultancy Bain.
After 2 years in the driving seat, GoViet is giving way to parent entity Gojek in Vietnam. Source: AFP
Despite scoring 100 million rides on its ride-hailing service in just over a year of operation (a 400% growth from its launch kickoff), GoViet failed to break Grabs dominance in Vietnam and subsequently went through two experienced CEOs last year as it attempted to achieve its expansion mission directives of maintaining growth, retaining riders, and satisfying customers enough to pry market share away from Grab.
Gojek, the most valuable startup from Indonesia, finally succumbed to absorbing its first autonomous unit and is replacing GoViets offerings with its on-demand, all-in-one app platform that has become synonymous with digital services in its native Indonesia. The Gojek app will provide customers in Vietnam with access to its GoBike motorbike ride-hailing service, GoSend logistics service, and GoFood food delivery options for the time being.
Thanks to GoViets two-year imprint in the Vietnamese scene, the Gojek app will come with out-of-the-box access to over 150,000 riders and at least 80,000 food merchants in the cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, ready to serve local clientele.
Joe Devanesan | 9 June, 2020
At the announcement, it was also revealed that the Gojek app will be made available in Thailand over the coming weeks. Like GoViet in Vietnam, Gojeks initial entry into the Thai market was as the standalone GET app, with its own founding team and supplying motorcycle-taxi and food delivery services in urban parts of Thailand.
After two years of operations, the service is ready to be rebranded as the Gojek app, as Indonesias most valuable startup readies to bring its super app offering iterative additions to new markets. Like Chinas WeChat app to which it is often compared, in Indonesia Gojek is a one-stop mobile platform offering in excess of 20 services (and counting), linking up over 170 million users, 500,000 merchant partners offering myriad products and services, plus over two million driver-partners providing rides and deliveries across its diverse ecosystem.
Unifying our apps and brands across Southeast Asia is by far the biggest project weve undertaken at Gojek, involving a huge on the ground effort as well as a technically challenging overhaul of our platforms, said Gojek co-founder Andre Soelistyo in his LinkedIn post commemorating the Vietnam launch.
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Joe's interest in tech began when, as a child, he first saw footage of the Apollo space missions. He still holds out hope to either see the first man on Mars, or Jetsons-style flying cars in his lifetime.
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5 whole-grain foods you must include in your diet to stay healthy, lose weight – Times Now
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5 whole-grain foods you must include in your diet to stay healthy, lose weight | Photo Credit: iStock Images
New Delhi: New Delhi: Anyone who undertook their fitness journey may have already brushed up the basics by now, and must know how important it is to eat right in order to lose weight and be healthy. Contrary to popular belief that exercise helps a person lose weight, anyone who has experienced it first hand can vouch for the fact that eating healthily is key to getting in shape and staying healthy.
One of the most popular foods that are talked about when a conversation about fitness or eating healthy happens are whole-grain foods. We often hear/read people, medical professionals, and health blogs talk about the importance of whole-grain foods in our diet.
Whole grains, as the name suggests, contain all parts of the grain the bran, endosperm, and the germ. Whole grains are very healthy, as they not only contain several nutrients, they are also rich in fibre, minerals, protein, and plant compounds.
Apart from helping in weight loss and reducing the risk of obesity, whole grains can help keep your heart healthy, reduce risk of stroke, lower risk of and help in diabetes management, reduce inflammation, and may also help keep chronic diseases such as cancer at bay.
While there are a variety of whole grains that you can choose from, some of the most popular, widely consumed, and beneficial ones are listed below.
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Disclaimer: Tips and suggestions mentioned in the article are for general information purpose only and should not be construed as professional medical advice. Always consult your doctor or a dietician before starting any fitness programme or making any changes to your diet.
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Adele weight loss: Singers royal-approved intense pilates workout that helped lose 7st – Express
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Someone Like You singer Adele was well known for her signature look when she first shot to fame with her incredible voice, thanks to her voluminous hair and sixties-style eyeliner flicks. But the star has made headlines with her appearance in recent months for a very different reason. Adele showed off her seven stone weight loss on Instagram with a birthday snap - and fans dubbed her unrecognisable as they praised her new look.
The dramatic change has wowed the singers fans, after she posted the photo in May following a break from social media.
Adele had last shared a photo at Christmas in 2019, looking notably slimmer - but five months later she revealed the results of her weight loss journey in a little black dress.
The star reportedly used the Sirtfood Diet to help shed the pounds, a diet which focuses on sirtfoods which help to activate the so-called skinny gene.
The specific list of foods contains sirtuins, a group of proteins which have been shown to regulate metabolism.
However, the diet, which was created by two celebrity nutritionists in the UK, also involves a lot of calorie restriction as part of a rapid weight loss plan over the course of three weeks.
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But while Adeles successful weight loss has largely been put down to diet, it seems the star has also been getting fitter as part of her new health kick.
Its been revealed that she regularly goes to pilates classes - and shes not the only famous face to enjoy it.
The LA-based star has reportedly been attending her local class with Meghan Markle, who also loves the calming exercise.
The pair live just around the corner from each other now that Meghan and Prince Harry have set up home in their exclusive Beverly Hills neighborhood.
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A source close to the two famous friends said: "Meghan and Adele have been having Pilates lessons. They are loving it.
"The instructor has also been giving lessons to Harry. It's a great stress-buster," they told the Mirror.
Pilates is a low-impact exercise which helps to build strength and flexibility, and is particularly good for recovering after injury.
Though similar to yoga, it tends to be at a slightly faster pace and has fewer spiritual connotations.
However, its thought to be a very specific type of pilates that the celebrity friends do in order to stay toned.
Adele is said to be a fan of reformer pilates, just like the Duchess of Sussex.
The Hello singer apparently began the classes with The X Factor judge Ayda Field, who is married to Take That star Robbie Williams.
The stars trained with pilates teacher Camila Goodis at the couples swanky LA home.
The all-over body workout uses a machine which adds resistance to the usual pilates movements - making it far more intense.
Meghan Markle has previously revealed she is a fan of the Megaformer, which is an even more advanced reformer pilates machine.
The Megaformer was designed by trainer and CEO of Lagree Fitness, Sebastien Legree, and aims to add cardio to the resistance exercise for a low intensity workout that really makes you sweat.
Meghan has commented before that the class is hands down the best thing you could do for your body, saying that youll notice a difference after just two classes.
As well as pilates, Adele has been working with a personal trainer to get fit - but he said its not just about weight loss for the star.
Pete Geracimo took to Instagram to talk about his work with the singer.
"When Adele and I started our journey together, it was never about getting super skinny, he said.
"It was about getting her healthy. Especially post pregnancy and post surgery.
He noted that they were getting her ready for a gruelling tour schedule after her album 25 was released.
"She embraced better eating habits and committed to her fitness and 'is sweating'! I could not be prouder or happier for her!
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How to lower your blood sugar quickly and what to do if it’s an emergency – Insider – INSIDER
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If you have diabetes, your body isn't able to regulate blood sugar properly, either because the pancreas doesn't produce insulin (type 1 diabetes) or the body has become resistant to it (type 2 diabetes).
As a result, people with diabetes have to carefully manage their blood sugar levels through diet, exercise, and medications to make sure it stays in a healthy range.
But sometimes, blood sugar can become too high. In many of these cases, people with diabetes will be able to quickly lower blood sugar on their own, by taking more insulin. However, other times, they may need to visit the ER for immediate medical attention.
Here's how to tell if your blood sugar is too high and what you'll need to do in order to lower it quickly.
People with diabetes are considered to have high blood sugar, or hyperglycemia, if blood glucose levels are higher than:
While there are other conditions that can cause hyperglycemia, it is most commonly linked to both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. That's why it is important for people with diabetes to check their blood sugar using blood glucose meters with the goal of keeping levels from getting too low or too high.
In addition, there are other signs and symptoms of high blood sugar you might notice.
The most common symptoms of hyperglycemia are:
"If someone has hyperglycemia, it would mean they would be very thirsty, tired, they might be urinating more frequently and basically not feeling well," says Sam Zager, M.D. a family medicine physician in Maine.
Hyperglycemia is not automatically an emergent situation. Anyone with diabetes knows high blood sugar readings will happen, and it's okay, as long as it doesn't last too long or get too high.
If it does occur, here are a few ways to quickly lower blood sugar on your own:
Insulin can be used to treat acute cases of high blood sugar for people with diabetes.
People with type 1 diabetes (who always use insulin) and some people with type 2 diabetes (who sometimes use insulin) can give themselves an extra dose of insulin to quickly lower their blood sugar to safer levels. How much to take depends on the situation and what your doctor recommends.
When you have high blood sugar, you may experience frequent urination as your body tries to get rid of the extra glucose. Losing this fluid can cause dehydration and make hyperglycemia symptoms even worse.
It's important to drink water when you have hyperglycemia in order to stay hydrated and help your body regulate and lower blood sugar. But drinking lots of water won't necessarily lower blood sugar on its own. For more information, read about how much water you're supposed to drink a day.
Exercise isn't always the safest or most effective way to quickly lower blood sugar. It is important to note that exercise only works if there is insulin present, whether naturally or through injection, so that glucose can get into the cells to be metabolized.
If there is no insulin, your body will start burning fat for energy, and this could lead to a dangerous condition called diabetic ketoacidosis. People with type 1 diabetes should not exercise if they have hyperglycemia.
However, exercise can lower blood sugar for most people with diabetes it just shouldn't be used in emergency situations. In a 2013 study in the journal Diabetes Care, more than 5,000 people with diabetes recorded their blood glucose levels before and after exercising for as little as 10 minutes. Overall, more than 75% of people saw their level decrease an average of about 17%.
Overall, Zager says that exercise is important for managing diabetes, but warns that it isn't a great short-term fix. For more information on how to control blood sugars in the long-term, learn about the 6 best ways to lower blood sugar naturally.
For people with type 1 diabetes, untreated high blood sugar can lead to a life-threatening condition called diabetic ketoacidosis, or DKA.
When there is no insulin and glucose can't get into cells, your body starts breaking down fat into a fuel called ketones. If ketones build up in your blood, it becomes dangerously acidic. DKA can cause very serious health complications such as fluid building up in the brain, kidney failure, and cardiac arrest.
If your blood sugar is above 240 mg/dL, you should check your urine for ketones, a sign you may be at risk for DKA. You can do this with an at home test, but you also should contact your doctor. If there are ketones in your urine, you should go to the emergency room. Other symptoms of DKA include:
In rare occasions, DKA can occur in people with type 2 diabetes, but the more common complication for people with type 2 is called hyperglycemic hyperosmolar state, or HHS. HHS occurs when blood glucose levels are high for an extended period of time. The extra sugar is passed into the urine, causing the person to urinate frequently and become severely dehydrated, just like with DKA.
For people with type 2 diabetes, blood sugar above 600 mg/dL indicates HHS. Other symptoms include:
These symptoms generally come on slowly, but you should contact your doctor immediately. In the ER, doctors will likely use insulin to lower your blood sugar, as well as give you fluid and electrolytes, to keep your heart, kidneys, muscles, and nerve cells functioning properly.
For people with diabetes, a single instance of high blood sugar is generally not an emergency, as long as it is addressed. Usually, taking an extra dose of insulin will quickly lower your blood sugar back to normal levels. However, if you are on insulin and run out, or have symptoms of DKA or HHS, you should get medical attention right away.
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Heres How A Skinny Rana Daggubati Transformed Himself Into The Baahubali Beast – MensXP.com
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Born on December 14, 1984, Ramanaidu "Rana" Daggubatiis known to be an actor who is also a producer, a television personality, a visual effects coordinator, and an entrepreneur.
Arguably, his most famous films to leave an impact on the Indian audience was the Baahubali seriesfor which he went through an incredible body transformation and heres how he did it.
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In multiple interviews, Rana has expressed his love for non-vegetarian cuisines and said that he loves to indulge in some spicy Chettinad chicken delicacies and constantly eats rice-based dishes such as idlis and dosas.
According to the actor, during his transformation for the project he did not make any massive changes in his diet and ate everything that he used to eat on any other day. He confessedthat he had to eat five-eight meals a day.
What he did mention specifically is that he doesnt have a sweet tooth and that he keeps himself away from anything sweet.
However, Ranas trainer Kunal Gir is a sucker for a well-balanced diet who leans towards a diet full of vegetables and milk proteins as mentioned in his interview with The Indian Express.
According to workoutinfoguru.comRanas diet therefore consists of a blend of all the important macro nutrients in nearly perfect proportions.
Breakfast: Bowl of oatmeal with nuts, five slices of brown bread, eight egg whites and vegetables. Fruits like watermelon or papaya are also included.
Snack 1: At 11 AM, Rana had one scoop of protein powder mixed in water with and some fresh fruits
Lunch: Fish/Chicken for protein along with greens.
Snack 2: Four slices of brown bread and four bananas before starting the evening weight training.
Dinner: Around 9 PM, Rana used to consume a high-protein dinner in order to repair the muscle tissues after punishing them with weight training overnight. He also adds a salad to this meal..
Overall, Rana is a very active person and likes to be on his feet rather than sitting in one spot for hours. According to GQ Indiahe starts his day with an hour of cardio every morning followed by two-hours in the gym, typically weight training in the evening after he's done shooting his films.
Since Rana was also a boxer during his high-school years, he likes to mix it up from time to time.
While preparing for the second movie of the Baahubali series, his trainer Kunal Gir worked on his physique while paying special focus to his chest and biceps. According to yet another GQ India interview, Kunal would divide Rana's weight training sessions into 9-10 sets for each muscle group, divided into three different exercises. The actor would exercise five days a week and gave his body a two-day rest before getting back to the hustle once again.
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