Cardboard Recycling Facts

Similar to the other types of recycling, cardboard recycling is also beneficial in many ways. Let us take a look at the various aspects of recycling cardboard.

Cardboard is one of the commonly found items in every household, as it is widely used for packing materials ranging from food items to electronic goods. So, along with plastic, clothes and used electronic goods, cardboard too is collected for recycling. Apart from reducing the amount of trash on the earth, this process of cardboard recycling has various other benefits too. Let us know about the cardboard recycling facts in brief.

What is Cardboard Recycling

Are New Year's Resolutions Helpful?

I interviewed a random population of women and men of various ages and found that most survey participants were not making any resolutions this year. Here were some of the reasons: “I never keep them,” “Why procrastinate until New Year? If it’s important, I do it today,” “I don’t need the stress of something new on my to-do list.” “They’re born out of a weakness; it’s like I jumpstart my weakness.”

Perhaps, it’s time to stop setting goals that interfere with self-acceptance or in other words, make you feel like you don’t measure up and never will. Sometimes it is better to supercharge what is healthy than heal what is sick. One of those interviewed explained, “I notice that very few people make kindness or service to others a resolution. It’s mostly about the self. As a hair stylist, I try to give a free hair cut every week to someone who can’t afford it.”

Natalism, Alcoholism, & Public Health

Many tittering newscasters reported on a recent Russian initiative to shore up a declining population by encouraging workers to take a day off to "make babies:"

Today has been declared the Day of Conception in Ulyanovsk, Lenin's birthplace, when couples are told go to home and multiply. If they succeed they could win a car, cash or a fridge. Under the city council's "Give Birth to a Patriot" scheme, those who give birth on June 12, Lenin's birthday, will get a prize.

I guess the Putin Youth needs new members. The story reminded me of Vichy France's natalist policy, as related in Paul V. Dutton's book on the US and French health care systems. Apparently the political class there was deeply upset by "decadent" urban regions' failure to keep up with the birth rate in rural areas.

Stair Lift

Choosing a Stair Lift for your home or business

Being bound to a wheelchair or suffering mobility problems can significantly reduce where a person can go, even in his or her own home. Installing a wheelchair lift can help people in wheelchairs or those who use walking canes or medical walkers access other areas of their homes.

Handicap stair lifts can be beneficial for the following reasons:

They reduce the risk of trips, slips and falls.

They help alleviate ankle stress, leg pain and exhaustion from walking up and down stairs.

They allow for more freedom in the home.

Stair lifts can be adapted to fit your home. Stair chair lifts can take you up the stairs and around the bend to the very top of a curved staircase. And straight stair lifts will do the trick on straight stairs, no matter how long or how steep.

Breakfast at Your Desk: I'm Loving This Low-Fat Banana Bread

You guys probably saw the piece in Glamour this month about just how horribly over-the-top banana bread can get (hello, 480 calories and 19 grams fat! Crazy!). Make this more sensible--yet still tasty--banana loaf at home, and bring it with you to the office. Better for your hips and your wallet!

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One of my favorite recipes for banana bread calls for buttermilk as an oil substitute (you hardly know the oil isn't there!). Here are the details:

Ingredients:

(Makes 1 loaf)

2 large eggs

3/4 cup sugar

1 cup smashed ripe bananas (about 3 medium)

1/3 cup buttermilk

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Can This Bracelet Make You Slim?

You've heard of skinny jeans for motivation, but what about skinny bracelets? The Wrist-A-Track claims to put healthy eating in your own hands, er, wrists...

Here's how it works: Each set of 30 bracelets cost $20 and comes with a 23-page booklet. The bracelets are color coded, and the idea is to wear the multicolored bracelets on one hand, eat a certain food group and move that bracelet to the other wrist.

I stumbled upon these bracelets while perusing Diet Blog and my first thought was, Really? Is it that hard to keep count of how many veggies you eat?

Would you buy these bracelets to lose weight? How do you keep track of how many fruits and veggies you eat per day?

Heart Attack Warning Signs - Arm Pain

This article dwells on heart attack warning signs - arm pain. We all know that arm pain can be caused by injury, trauma, etc. however, do we know arm pain is also an indicator of heart attack? Read more to find out...

Heart attack is a grave condition befalling people, in which the ever-beating heart receives less oxygenated blood from the lungs. In medical terms, this condition is referred to as 'myocardial infarction' and the reason behind this inadequate supply of oxygenated blood can be blocked or clogged coronary arteries (blood vessels supplying blood furnished with oxygen and nutrients to the heart).