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What you eat matters. Many foods and beverages cause plaque, which damages your teeth. Plaque is a sticky film full of bacteria that contributes to gum disease and causes tooth damage. After eating or drinking food, the sugars consumed cause the bacteria-filled plaque to release acids that attack your tooth enamel. As the acids break down your tooth enamel, cavities develop. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cavities are the most common, chronic disease faced by…

Tall beer bottles, Heartbreak Hotel, ducktail haircuts, spike heels, flat heels, hula hoops, and Mello-Rolls dominated the late 50s and early 60s. When I grew up you had to go to a candy store or drugstore to get ice cream in days gone by because home freezer storage was rare in those days. A Mello-Roll was a three-inch-long ice cream drum about one inch in diameter, wrapped in peel-away paper with a blue print on it that sometimes blotted onto the ice cream itself. The candy store operator…

Much of the population today is involved in some sort of social media platform; either Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, or YouTube. These sites can be beneficial and serve to be informative or provide entertainment, however nurses must be cautious to use any type of social media. Nurses should be aware of potential consequences of accidentally breaching patient’s privacy and confidentiality, or inappropriately engaging with patients online. These consequences vary in severity from termination to time…

“A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later, break your heart” (Palahniuk). For a story to be considered good, what criteria does one have to consider? Obviously, the story cannot bore the reader, but how does an author keep their audience interested? Three short stories are being compared based on various criteria, and while each story is ‘good’, one is clearly the best. A good story must not only get the reader’s attention with an effective hook, but the hook must also lead to high…

If someone were to walk up to you and ask you what the greatest food on Earth was-- what would you say? Chocolate? Yeah, me too. Now you’re probably thinking, “there is no way eating tons of chocolate can be good for you in any way,” but reading this paper may surprise you. Chocolate should be eaten more often because it is not only extremely delicious and rewarding, but it also has been proven to be good for your health. One of the main reasons chocolate should be eaten on a daily basis is…

meat and dairy can lead to a healthier lifestyle. People have more energy when consuming more fruits, vegetables, and plant based foods. However, it is important to remember that a vegan diet is only effective if it is carried out properly. Eating potato chips, oreos, and other types of junk food could be considered vegan, but it is not healthy. Consuming the proper nutrients in fruits, vegetables, proteins, and complex carbohydrates is required to have an effective vegan diet. The proper vegan…

Chapter Thirty-Two Slipping Through Glass I sat in my room on the floor, silent, still, straining to make out the sound of footsteps downstairs, while I waited for what seemed like forever. Finally, I saw an arm holding a stack of books, a leg, another arm, and Emma slipped all the way through the glass. “That was awesome,” she said, setting her books down on a table. “We made it back, and hey, look, your room is perfect, except for the pile of dirty clothes in the corner.” “Right, which is…

Nowadays, there are so many products and diets in the market which promise unachievable and unrealistic results all to scam desperate consumers. People have tried looking for the right products to help them achieve their ideal weight for many years all to no avail. It is quite disheartening to hear people’s testimonies about their struggles with their body weight for years only to give up and let go. However, sometimes it’s not the routine or diet that is the problem, but the unwillingness of an…

The first reason why palm oil production should stop is because of its harmful effects on the environment. The first of these environmental effects is deforestation or, in other words, forest loss. Deforestation the the act of removing trees, destroying forests and causing many violent acts in order to turn the wild life into another place. Between the years 2000 and 2012, Malaysia had the world’s highest forest loss rate only because they wanted palm oil as an ingredient in their products…

One Perception Check Later A light rain comes to a stop as I walk up the slick driveway of my friend Aaron’s house. I push on the white, waterlogged, wooden fence gate to the backyard and stand just thirty feet from the open garage door. The backyard consists of two halves: the concrete path with a hutch housing rabbits and a grass yard with a brown, stone fire pit. A constant air of music plays from the wind chimes that hang from a vine-covered terrace separating the two areas. We take the…