The 5min Blog

Last time I checked, when people talked about colors, it was related to fashion. Some years later, I see that color is used in therapies that are supposed to balance your energy, and even children are labeled with colors .
Indigo Children is a concept that was developed by Nancy Anne Tappe, and that states that [...]

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A lot has been said about the H1N1 Influenza, also known as “Swine Flu”. Initially, it was believed that it came from North American pigs. However, although it does contain flu viruses that come from pigs, it also has human and avian genes. So, what do we know about swine flu? Is it mild, or [...]

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We all know the sugar high and then sugar stress that comes with Halloween. Whether you’re the mother of an excitable child or just worried about your own sugar levels, Halloween can have you calorie counting like the best of us.

We all know what excess sugar and fats can do to us; our Halloween costumes [...]

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I have to shout this from the roof tops “I love Lola Berry”
why I don’t know! I am a fully cynical person who avoids all things cutesy, adorable and talkative (basically anything that reminds me of my girly self).  I really should find her annoying, but I don’t! She knows way too much cool stuff! [...]

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Unlike some people , my father is not a Doctor (He is a veterinarian actually,  but that’s beside the point).  However, I always dreamt to become a one, Gregory House style , the whole cane-chauvinism-misanthropy-pure coolness thingy  . Alas, life takes you to weird and magical places like law school instead, and my dream was [...]

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Annie Get Your Gun did not become a classic American musical just because of it’s catchy songs, prototypical love-hate romance or even the wicked Wild West costumes. No, it was the basic concept of being the best. Be the fastest, smartest, build the biggest yarn ball or smallest cell phone.

In this video from Everwell, Dr. [...]

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Ever encounter one of those medical questions you just never had the nerve to ask? If a decade ago, you had to utilize your periodic checkups at the doctor’s office to get all those questions out of your system, today, the web brings your doctor to you – or in this case, an entire team [...]

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Unlike mosquito bites (pesky and seasonal), bee stings (potentially life-threatening, possibly traumatic for anyone who remembers the movie My Girl) or snake bites (can you say uh-oh?!), spider bites – at least in my humble view – have enjoyed a rather exotic reputation since the morphing of Peter Parker from super-dork to superhero.
While mysteriously [...]

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“Your hands are your business card to the world.”
That was one of those mantra I repeatedly heard at a tender, young age, directed at almost every girl and woman within close proximity of my grandmother, who was the culprit behind these type of sayings. These priceless pearls of ladylike wisdom would ultimately stay stuck in [...]

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Like many children all over the world I remember falling in love with “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” which became one of my all time favorite books. Long before Tim Burton and Johnny Depp forced their Freudian theories down our throats I used to read it over and over again visualizing all of Roald Dahl’s [...]

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