8 Delicious Breakfast Smoothies and a Pro-Tip for Making Them

It is actually very difficult to make a good smoothie. We've all tried it. You know, toss some strawberries and bananas into a blender. Add some milk or something. Blend it. Then be disappointed at how unsatisfying it is.

Which is why I POUNCE on every smoothie recipe I can find. Having no culinary bone in my body, I need other people to tell me what to put in my smoothies!

This Article from the great people of Buzz Feed is about to transform my freezer. Storing all of the ingredients in a zip lock baggie? GENIUS. Even better that they include 8 recipes to start you out!

GO GO GO

As an added bonus here is my very precise Jamba Juice's Mango-A-Go-Go recipe (because it's the only thing that matters at Jamba Juice) and it's a delicious snack:

For 1 serving

Like 5 pieces of frozen mango cubes
Like 5 pieces of frozen pineapple cubes
Like 5 pieces of ice
Fruit juice that has passion fruit juice in it
Optional: Protein Powder

Combine errything in a blender. Pour juice until it's like half an inch from the top of the frozen stuff. You'll know if you've used enough juice because if you haven't, the smoothie will just kind of sit in the blender even though it's running. (If this happens just add more juice). And there we have it. Mango-A-Go-Go for a fraction of the price!

This Everything Salad is...Everything!

Summer time and the eatin's easy!

The perfect salad for that phase of your life when you fancy yourself eating healthy/on a diet/improving your life choices. In theory you don't even need a dressing because the fruit take its place, but I'd still probably douse it in an olive oil balsamic mixture.

Recipe Here

Nerd Alert Protect Your Skin

Sunscreen: The bane of my existence. Not really...but imagine yourself laying face down in the sand on your extra long, super soft beach towel, waves drowning out all the noises, sun pleasantly warming you, on the verge of having the greatest beach nap ever when: "CAN YOU PUT THIS SUNSCREEN ON MY BACK?" or even worse when someone sprays their SPF 100 into the wind and the COLD sunscreen flyaways blow all over you. And this happens about every 20 minutes. FML.

However, protecting your skin is important.....so if you are the over-cautious sunscreen user I introduce to you:

A WRISTBAND THAT TELLS YOU EXACTLY WHEN YOUR SUNSCREEN WEARS OFF. No more reapplications every 20 minutes (hopefully).

How does it work?
Well you put on your sunscreen, then you put some of the same sunscreen on the bracelet. Then the bracelet changes colors as the sunscreen becomes less effective at blocking UV rays.

And is it reasonable?
At $4 for a 7 pack I hope everyone and their family buys some. And free shipping with Amazon Prime (which IF YOU ARE A STUDENT YOU GET AMAZON PRIME FOR A YEAR FOR FREE).

Mood ring of the 21st century.

Paging Dr. Web MD...oh wait...Nevermind

Interesting Tricks of the Body

that don't require Advil, Tylenol or Klonopin.

Experience supersonic hearing: If you're stuck chatting up a mumbler at a cocktail party, lean in with your right ear. It's better than your left at following the rapid rhythms of speech, according to researchers at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. If, on the other hand, you're trying to identify that song playing softly in the elevator, turn your left ear toward the sound. The left ear is better at picking up music tones.

Overcome your most primal urge: Need to pee? No bathroom nearby? Fantasize about Jessica Simpson. Thinking about sex preoccupies your brain, so you won't feel as much discomfort, says Larry Lipshultz, M.D., chief of male reproductive medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine. For best results, try Simpson's "These Boots Are Made for Walking" video.

Jessica Simpson may be fine for some....I'll stick to my favorite Team America player.

Clear your stuffed nose: Forget Sudafed. An easier, quicker, and cheaper way to relieve sinus pressure is by alternately thrusting your tongue against the roof of your mouth, then pressing between your eyebrows with one finger. This causes the vomer bone, which runs through the nasal passages to the mouth, to rock back and forth, says Lisa DeStefano, D.O., an assistant professor at the Michigan State University college of osteopathic medicine. The motion loosens congestion; after 20 seconds, you'll feel your sinuses start to drain.
(Side note: Golden Hot Pants hasn't tried this personally but I'm waiting for my next immune system breakdown to try it. Want to confirm if this really works).


Cure your toothache without opening your mouth: Just rub ice on the back of your hand, on the V-shaped webbed area between your thumb and index finger. A Canadian study found that this technique reduces toothache pain by as much as 50 percent compared with using no ice. The nerve pathways at the base of that V stimulate an area of the brain that blocks pain signals from the face and hands.
(Really want to test out this one too. Next time I have a tooth ache for sure!)

Unstitch your side: If you're like most people, when you run, you exhale as your right foot hits the ground. This puts downward pressure on your liver (which lives on your right side), which then tugs at the diaphragm and creates a side stitch, according to The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Men. The fix: Exhale as your left foot strikes the ground. 

Thaw your brain: Too much Chipwich snowball or Cold Stone too fast will freeze the brains of lesser men. As for you, press your tongue flat against the roof of your mouth, covering as much as you can. "Since the nerves in the roof of your mouth get extremely cold, your body thinks your brain is freezing, too," says Abo. "In compensating, it overheats, causing an ice-cream headache." The more pressure you apply to the roof of your mouth, the faster your headache will subside.

Breathe underwater: If you're dying to retrieve that quarter from the bottom of the pool, take several short breaths first—essentially, hyperventilate. When you're underwater, it's not a lack of oxygen that makes you desperate for a breath; it's the buildup of carbon dioxide, which makes your blood acidic, which signals your brain that somethin' ain't right. "When you hyperventilate, the influx of oxygen lowers blood acidity," says Jonathan Armbruster, Ph.D., an associate professor of biology at Auburn University. "This tricks your brain into thinking it has more oxygen." It'll buy you up to 10 seconds.

Being able to hold your breath underwater is great for getting amazing underwater photographs.

More interesting body tricks here!

B. Scott's Top 5 Reasons Your Breath Smells Like Booty Lint

I first started watching B. Scott videos when he made a video about the Chris Brown/Ri Ri domestic disturbia. And this woMAN never fails to bring the LULZ. I absolutely adore him. FIERCE b**** MAKES ME SHAKE AND CRY.

Reason no. 1.....-DYING-

Baby are you ready to lick me sexy uh uh?

Tiny tim

Minnies is this Chicago restaurant serves only mini food. Their concept basically: portion control=healthy eating. Personally, I think it's kind of steep though. I mean, 3 mini sandwaches for $8.75?$?! I'd rather go Mickey D's get me a Big Mac combo for half the price. But.... it would be fun just eating tiny foods. You can mouse over each item on their online menu to preview it! They even serve mini beers and mini champagnessss. Ahh!! Soooooo cute!!

Beer is getting better and better every single day

Recently, Science magazine has run an article saying that beer is more hydrating than water. WOO HOO! Beer lovers rejoice!

Final Destination: REAL TIME

NGL, this movie has made me paranoid as WOW about life....getting on an airplane, driving onto the interstate. I'm scared that I'll have a premonition then decide against it and ultimately save myself from a gruesome death....only to die a few days later in some other gruesome way. It's always a thought in the back of my mind. WHAT IF I REALLY DID CHEAT DEATH, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?

Well a couple missed their flight on Air France Flight 447 when they were late to the airport. They caught a flight home the next day and got into a bad car accident back home a few days later where the woman was killed and the man is in serious condition.

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT, THAT IS SOME FREAKY FINAL DESTINATION STUFF RIGHT THERE. PARANOIA LEVEL ELEVATED. I might not be able to get on an airplane ever

VIA Time Online

Woman attempts to illustrate period pain to her boyfriend

My arteries are clogging just thinking about this.

Bacon chocolate cake. Salty, greasy, crispy plus sweet? I'm in. I should throw a party and we could all wash that cake down with some bacon vodka.

H1N1 influenza A

Someone just tweeted this on my facebook homepage and I thought it was clever!

"100 years ago they said the day we have a black president is the day pigs fly...well day 100 of having a black president and..SWINE FLU"

Apparently we're not supposed to call it swine flu anymore though.

CSwine Miami

GHP says: Speaking of SWINE FLU....everyone should play this game. It's the best thing when you're sitting around at work because you don't really have to pay attention to it. And I haven't beaten it yet!!!!

I'm peeing in my pants right na na na

Remember this little diddy?

WELL IT'S COME TO LIFFEEEE!!! YES, the first mac virus. Ugghh I thought that at least one thing in the computer world was going to safe from the vicious grips of viruses, but I GUESS NOT. The world is coming to an end! Viruses are taking over!!! Okay, so maybe I'm blowing this wayyy out of proportion and mayyybbbeee the article quoted a computer expert who made the following statement:

"It's a very low-level attack, some people won't even notice the effect of it."

But, hey, this is just the beginning of the trojan terror! I don't know if you know or not but my biggest fear of all time: computer viruses. Oh you poor, poor mac owners. Welcome the pc world. Welcome to my world.

Placenta?

Available for purchase at CVS?
WTF IS THIS?!

TAKE THAT WATER

Caffeine May Offer Some Skin Cancer Protection

THURSDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Past studies have suggested that caffeine might offer some protection from skin cancer, and new research may explain why.

"We have found what we believe to be the mechanism by which caffeine is associated with decreased skin cancer," said lead researcher Dr. Paul Nghiem, an associate professor of dermatology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

For the study, Nghiem's team looked at caffeine's effect on human skin cells in a laboratory that had been exposed to ultraviolet radiation. They found that in cells damaged by UV rays, caffeine interrupted a protein called ATR-Chk1, causing the damaged cells to self-destruct.

"Caffeine has no effect on undamaged cells," Nghiem said.

ATR is essential to damaged cells that are growing rapidly, Nghiem said, and caffeine specifically targets damaged cells that can become cancerous. "Caffeine more than doubles the number of damaged cells that will die normally after a given dose of UV," he said.

"This is a biological mechanism that explains what we have been seeing for many years from the oral intake of caffeine," he added.

The findings were published online Feb. 26 in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

But, Nghiem added, people shouldn't increase the amount of coffee or tea they drink to prevent skin cancer. "You are talking a lot of cups for a lot of years for a relatively small effect," he said. "But if you like it, it's another reason to drink it."

Nghiem has also been experimenting with applying caffeine directly to the skin. "It suppresses skin cancer development by as much as 72 percent in mice, and human studies are moving ahead slowly," he said.

It's possible that topical caffeine preparations might one day be used to help prevent skin cancer, Nghiem said. "Caffeine is both a sunscreen and it deletes damaged cells," he said. "It may well make sense to put it into a sunscreen preparation."

Dr. Robin Ashinoff, a dermatologist and clinical associate professor of dermatology at New York University's Langone Medical Center, thinks these findings need to be verified before they can have any clinical application.

"This study tells me that caffeine may be a useful ingredient topically to remove ultraviolet-genetically damaged cells from reproducing," Ashinoff said. "This may help prevent the development of skin cancer."

"It is interesting that caffeine, which is thought to have a negative connotation, has already been shown to be associated with lower incidences of non-melanoma skin cancers in several epidemiological studies," she added.

Dr. Albert Lefkovits, a spokesman for the Skin Cancer Foundation and an associate clinical professor of dermatology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, doesn't think it's been proven that caffeine reduces the risk of skin cancer.

"While this is an interesting concept that has been explored before, it will take years of extensive testing to determine whether this will be a worthwhile prevention method," Lefkovits said.

"And, the study doesn't discuss how much caffeine would be needed for any real benefit," he said. "For instance, many people drink large amounts of caffeine on a daily basis and still get skin cancer. Protecting yourself from the sun is currently the only proven way to prevent skin cancer."

Diet coke, my relationship with you may yet continue!!!!!

Via THIS ARTICLE

Caf FIEND

In my senior year of high school I literally would have 3 cans of diet coke a day. Looking back, I probably should have died from caffeine overload. Luckily, with today's technology, we get nifty little things like this website which estimates how much of your choice caffeinated beverage you'd have to intake to D-I-E. I put in my info and it came up with this:

You could drink 206.27 cans of Diet Coke before croaking.

Looks like I was a lucky girl. 203.27 cans more and I would have been a gonner!

Love Safely

I'm having a fit over pictures I found of a...get this...Condom Fashion show! It was at the University of Oregon in 2008 in celebration of World AIDs Day. The world should

after all.

I'm loving it! I think I might have to organize something like this at my school...because I really want to make condom fashions. Dopeeee

Go here to see ALL of the photos. They are all so amazing!

I elect to be drug-free

I don't know who thinks of this stuff, but I'm seriously thinking of trying some. Most likely the crazy ping pong on your eyes and hallucinating while you listen to radio static one. I'm not sure that the staring at the sun, even with your eyes closed, is safe. Think I'll pass on that one.

Oldies but Goodies

This amazing blogger posted these scans of a book published in 1965 called The Recently Deflowered Girl. The author gives solutions to certain scenarios like "deflowered by a Chinese detective" and "deflowerment in a Morrocan palace". Either these were really popular ways to lose your virginity back in the day, or this lady was under some kinda crazy influence when she wrote the book. I mean, it was published in the 60s. So, I wouldn't doubt it.