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How to start swimming as an adult - and how to enjoy it.
Nicola Cavanis, burgers, horsepower and more.
How To Start Swimming As An Adult - And Actually Enjoy It.
Once seen as a mysterious cult of early risers with goggle marks and chlorine hair, swimmers now seem like secret superheroes with dolphin lungs and endless patience. Swimming turns out to be the ultimate workout — low-impact, high-reward, and oddly serene — like doing yoga while trying not to drown. Even if your only aquatic experience is avoiding the deep end at pool parties, a little guidance (and a lot of flailing) can get you gliding in no time.
Campbell’s Soup, A Detroit Bar, And A Dream: How The Bullshot Was Born.
Once upon a brunch, America fell head over heels for the Bloody Mary — but Detroit had beef with tradition. Enter the Bullshot: a boozy, beefy concoction born when a desperate Campbell’s PR guy and a clever steakhouse owner decided to turn sad cans of bouillon into liquid gold. Turns out, when life gives you lemons…and Worcestershire sauce…and beef broth…you make a cocktail.
Why Fasting Works.
Crash diets are basically bad relationships in food form—dramatic, exciting, and doomed to fail within five weeks. Instead of torturing yourself and everyone around you with miserable fads, the real key is simple: eat less, sometimes skip a meal, and embrace a little hunger without turning into a dinner-table buzzkill. Fasting, it turns out, might just be the low-drama, high-reward strategy your waistline’s been ghosted by for years.
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