The 5min Blog

As a child of the 80’s, I grew up associating fitness with aerobic dance classes, a trend that much like the rest of that unfortunate decade was incredibly tacky. I was horrified by the hyper instructors who looked like they were on speed, the awful upbeat music, ugly bubble-gum colored outfits and most of all [...]

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When I hear the word blood, I automatically relate it to gore, and get different versions of its use: coming from red elevators and flooding an hotel hall, coming from the sink and flooding the bathroom, or produced, bottled and labeled as “Tru Blood” in order to keep vampires away from necks.  So when I [...]

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Coming from a high school where sexual education was banned, my only knowledge of sex was based on Cosmopolitan. The result of this bad education? 20% of my high school classmates got pregnant before they turned 19, and I remained ignorant, wondering if this whole progesterone/estrogen cycle wasn’t just another what-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg life issue.
Well, it seems [...]

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Way before my former yoga instructor came into my life, I thought that nobody was as beautiful as Miss Jan, my junior school teacher who was not only gorgeous , but also sweet and funny.
As kids, we were all obsessed with Miss Jan: if she still lived with her parents, if she had a boyfriend, [...]

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People say I’m big-boned. Well, actually, people call me fat, but my mother told me it’s the big bones thing, and I apparently have these huge bones in the stomach region. Kids can be cruel sometimes – I spent many days in my childhood running away from mocking voices, shoving down another Hershey bar through [...]

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If there’s one image that has always obsessed me, is the face of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. I was really sorry to miss the exhibition held in London, as I was trapped in one of the Channel Islands, but the success shows that I’m not the only one who was dying to see well preserved ancient [...]

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Doctor Mom has been a practicing physician for over thirty years and has raised two children. She has learned the people sometimes need both the knowledge of a doctor and the comfort of a mom.
With a encyclopedia of medical knowledge, and the bed-side manner of your very own mother, doctor mom has it [...]

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