What it’s really like to work at the lingerie retailer
Victoria’s Secret has a glamorous air about it. You can faintly smell the iconic Bombshell fragrance as you walk past the store. The dimmed lighting with strategic spotlights casting down onto the mannequins that show off the newest arrivals gives the store a luxurious and sexy vibe. I mean, who wouldn’t want to work there?
As soon I was old enough to start working I imagined what a dream it must be to work at Victoria’s Secret. I wanted to feel like a personal shopper and help women feel beautiful and confident in their undergarments. When I was 19 years…
The 6 key components of writing a viral story
When I first began writing on Medium during the last week of August, I’d never expected that I would nearly double the income of my day job. At least, not nearly as quickly. And certainly not in my first month.
After setting up my account, signing up for the Medium Partner Program, choosing my topic preferences, and following a few people that I found inspiring, I navigated to my home page with wide eyes and scrolled through the creative and witty headlines. I began to read various stories about writing advice and tips. I came across many with headlines like…
The science behind the most popular fad diet of the decade
The human body is fueled by glucose, most of which we get from our diet. However, if glucose was the only thing we could survive on, we would pass out and die when blood glucose levels drop too low.
Enter ketogenesis (ketosis), the process where our livers break down fat into ketone bodies to be used in place of glucose. Ketones stand in for glucose when there is a shortage, like while you’re in a fasted state while you sleep. But, let’s talk about the role of ketones when you aren’t fasting…
The Ketogenic Diet
The Ketogenic diet or “keto diet” for short…
‘Tis the season for a healthy appetite
The seasons are shifting here in Okinawa, Japan and so are the fruits and vegetables readily available at the supermarkets and farmers’ markets.
An unfamiliar fruit or vegetable can be slightly off-putting. How do I cook this? Which part do I eat? How should I cut this open?
I teach English at a Japanese school and I always look forward to lunchtime because of my curiosity about Okinawan and Japanese cuisine. …
With a potential 20% margin of error, nutrition labels aren’t as reliable as we think
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that a nutrition facts label be present on all packaged foods and beverages. The nutrition facts label provides the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for the fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates, fiber, sugars, carbohydrates, and protein content in a particular food or beverage item. The RDA also provides the percentage of vitamin A, vitamin C, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, calcium, and iron.
The nutrition facts label is intended for you to make mindful and informed food choices. But what happens when that label isn’t accurate?
The FDA allows a 20% margin of error of information…
An unpopular opinion about tattoos
“You wouldn’t put a bumper sticker on a Ferrari.”
I’m sure we’ve all heard that phrase at one point or another. It’s probably the oldest saying in the book about the topic of tattoos.
Typically, a person that believes tattoos are trashy or a bad decision may make the argument: “you wouldn’t put a bumper sticker on a Ferrari”.
Don’t get me wrong if you have tattoos, I do not think you’ve ruined your body.
As a matter of fact, my husband has a fairly large tattoo on his ribcage. My brother-in-law has a few tattoos, one of which is…
The benefits of exercise go far beyond how much you can bench press
A recent study shows that 73% of people who set fitness goals as their New Year’s resolution give them up before meeting their goal. Nearly half of those who gave up before reaching their fitness resolution goal did so within six weeks or less.
Another study found that 43% of people expect to give up their goal after just one month.
Maybe the weight wasn’t coming off fast enough, or the washboard abs never appeared.
The benefits of living an active lifestyle and exercising regularly go far beyond how much you can bench press, or how much weight you’ve lost…
Does a high-intensity workout burn more fat than a low-intensity workout?
You see High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workouts described as being a “fat-burning” workout. But you also see running and weight lifting described as being “fat-burning” workouts. So which is it?
Does a high-intensity workout burn more fat than a low-intensity workout?
Sorry to break it to you, but it doesn’t really matter what type of workout you do to burn the fat on your body to lean out or lose weight. A high-intensity workout doesn’t necessarily do a better job at burning more fat than a low-intensity workout.
The green zone, orange zone, red zone, and fat-burning zone we’re all…
Did It Work? Here’s What Happened
Like many women, I jumped on the bandwagon for achieving long, luscious, flirty, and effortless lashes. I wanted to be able to wake up, quickly fill in my brows a little bit, and be ready to go for any casual day that I didn’t want to wear a full face of makeup. I no longer wanted to sit at my vanity combing layer after layer of mascara through my lashes. But not too many layers because I’d end up with clumpy lashes. …
It does more harm than good
Melatonin is not a sleep aid. It is not a supplement. It does not induce sleep. It is a hormone used to regulate your sleep/wake cycle. If you’re taking it every night or nearly every night, stop taking it. Just like most other hormones like testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone, it should not be available over the counter (OTC). But it is. So here we are.
When you hear the words “hormone replacement therapy”, you probably don’t think of melatonin. But just like testosterone and estrogen, regular supplementation of melatonin affects your body’s ability to produce it on its own.
“Melatonin…
Caitlin Otos
Bachelor of Science in Applied Nutrition. Lover of all things travel, food, health, and fitness related. Let’s build wellness rather than treating disease.
