bitchville:

Iconic Torsos by http://designomatt.com/

Artist Matthew Gallagher proves that we only need to see a part of our favourite characters to instantly identify them. From Captain America’s ripped leather torso to Spiderman’s mesh suit, the unmistakable details of these costumes bring to mind a powerful and iconic image.

I don’t know if I’ve posted about this before, but since the summer, I have switched over to cooking everything with grapeseed oil. I started out with olive oil a year ago, and I really couldn’t stand the taste. At first I thought it was because of the brand I bought, but I tried a whole spectrum of them, and I still could not stand the taste, yet I wanted all the health benefits!

Around the same time, my dad had just bought some grapeseed oil because it was on sale, so I decided to look into the real details not mentioned on the label. Turns out that grapeseed oil are olive oil are virtually identical in nutrition. Grapeseed oil even has more vitamin E and it is normally cheaper than olive oil. And most importantly to me, grapeseed oil has a neutral taste (meaning no taste at all pretty much).

It has also been found in a study done in 1993 that grapeseed oil also increases your HDL (the “good cholesterol”) levels and reduced LDL (the “bad cholesterol” that contributes to atherosclerosis, which is plaque build up in the arteries). Grapeseed oil also inhibits adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 triglyceride storage in them, meaning that it inhibits the generation of adipocytes (which are essentially the “fat cells”) and the storage of fat (stored in the body as triglycerides) in them. 

There is so much hype about olive oil, and don’t get me wrong, it is healthy for you, I agree, but other healthy oils are also overlooked! So if had the same problem as me, and just use olive oil for its health benefits, but you don’t like the taste, I urge you to go and get a bottle of grapeseed oil to try it out!

healthylivingforyou:

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Spinach salad with cheese, shredded chicken, eggs, cashews, topped with homemade lemon oil dressing (Taken with instagram)

Cheesy, but it’s little cute things like this that make me smile.

musingsinfemininity:

droolz. too good!

madewell:

The cure to grey winter days? A cheery peek into spring, of course. (There’s so much to look forward to, we can hardly stand it.)

See the entire Madewell spring lookbook over at madewell.com.

prettybalanced:

Red Quinoa, Kale, Garlic, Yellow Tomatoes and Poached Egg