February 2012
January 2012
“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.”
—Reinhold Niebuhr (via zhuwenyi)
The overlooked benefits of grapeseed oil!
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!
Emotional Baggage Check →
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With this site you can:
- Unload Emotional Baggage: Take a minute to unload whatever’s been bringing you down. Big or small, doesn’t matter. Sometimes it just helps to get it out there and know someone heard it.
- Help Remove Someone Else’s Emotional Baggage: Take a minute to read about someone else’s issues. Then choose a song to help get them through the pain. We’ll send it along to them.
It’s pretty cool!
“The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.”
—Richard Bach (via kari-shma)
One week to a new closet! →
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Some good tips for a organized, new closet :)
Good news, everyone! →
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Thanks to the hard work of the FBI, big scary threat to national security Megaupload has been taken down, and we can all rest easier tonight!
In other news, I still can’t get married, global warming is slowly starting to spiral out of control, the US continues its indiscriminate slaughters veiled behind the guise of ‘spreading democracy’ or whatever it is they’re saying these days, the reproductive rights of people with uteri are still under attack, aaaaand our economy is still tanked.
But the important thing is that people can’t download episodes of trashy animes and poorly-written sitcoms anymore. Truly, the priorities in this country are outstanding and worthy of admiration.
“Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.”
—(via double-mint)
I'm writing this because I want to remember it.
That this weekend, for the past 2 days, we have spent time together sitting on the bed watching tv, and talking. Talking about everything. And even after being together for four years, I’m still learning so much about you. And I feel like I can finally share more of me with you. It’s been hard for me, I know I keep myself closed off, but I feel like we are still getting closer, if thats even possible.
I just want to write this because I want to remember that I have never felt this way about anyone. And I want to remember this moment. In this moment, I am content with everything in its place - even if my life is all over the place, and time is passing by as decisions are not being made about it, I am so content with all of it. With us.
