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4 Ways to Start a Healthy Lifestyle in College

Kick-starting a healthy college lifestyle can seem like an uphill battle, especially when junk food is easily accessible. With a tight schedule and less time to spare, many students will opt for such food, unless they hire expert writers from the best writing essays service to have a proper meal.  The preparation of this kind of food helps to save time consumed when cooking a meal.

Because of such kind of lifestyle and poor food choices, most college students are obese. Research shows that 70% of students tend to gain weight during their undergraduate years, which might even rise to 78% during the four years of college.

Tips for Developing a Healthy Academic Lifestyle

To develop a healthier lifestyle while in college and succeed in your education, you must be ready to sacrifice some of the things you like doing. What are the tips to enable you to live a healthier lifestyle and succeed in your education? They include:

Start an Exercise Routine

Exercise can only be enjoyable if you have a goal and do workouts that you love. The mistake that most students make is to assume that what an expert recommends has to work. You can make that exercise your lifestyle. And what does that mean?

Not all exercises are equal, and you won’t enjoy them all. However, there are many great benefits to exercising. For instance, you can boost your brain activity. As such, you’ll end up managing your education in the right way possible.

When exercise becomes a lifestyle, you can incorporate it into your daily routine. There are various exercises like swimming, running, aerobics, running and weight lifting, among others. If you don’t have a specific workout in mind, you can experiment until you can settle on a few that you prefer. If you can indulge in one as a lifestyle, you will manage your education with ease.

With exams to think about and several assignments to complete every week, a student’s life may be stressful. To avoid such stress, you can engage in an activity that you love most. Earlier, we’ve seen that you can include exercise as part of your lifestyle. Engaging in exercise can reduce academic stress.

Establish Priorities

Most students without plans end up procrastinating a lot. As a result, they end up piling school assignments. If you don’t have a strategy for dealing with your schoolwork, you might fail. At times, students opt to buy essay papers from online sources as a refuge. If you have a lifestyle of not doing things on time, you might fail in your education. And how is that possible?

Carry Healthy Snacks

With a busy schedule, you are less likely to gauge when hunger pangs are ready to strike. Many students mainly focus on businesses and forget that their health is essential as well. If you are always busy with class, you might lack enough time for eating or resting. If this case becomes a lifestyle, you might affect your productivity and academic performance at large.

It helps a lot if anyone can secure some time for him/herself. Be quick to prepare a healthy meal every day. Remember, you can handle your education better if you are in good health. Besides, you can do online grocery shopping and buy only healthy snacks containing nuts, fruits, and vegetables, if you lack time to cook properly. For a protein-rich and convenient snack, you might consider Mahogany Smoked Meats, which can be a flavorful addition to your diet.

It helps a lot to avoid eating fats but consume more fruits and vegetables rich in fiber. According to the Harvard School of Public Health, when it comes to selecting protein, beans, nuts, poultry, and fish are the best choices. As for vegetables, always go for a wide variety of colors to ensure your body gets the required vitamins and minerals. Such vitamins allow the brain to develop accordingly. As such, you can manage your education with ease.

Carry a Bottle of Water to Class

Replace sugary fruit drinks, coffee, and soda with water. Drinking the recommended six to eight glasses of water per day keeps you hydrated. Ensure that you include this in your lifestyle. Some of the benefits of drinking water include:

  • Prevents constipation
  • Improves memory
  • Regulates body temperature

Along with a water bottle, carry meal replacement shakes in australia which will help you to give a kickstart to a healthy lifestyle in college. Consider shakes that satisfy dietary restrictions, like those that are gluten-free or vegan, and they should be chosen for their well-balanced contents. Shakes should be used in conjunction with good foods and frequent exercise to create a well-rounded approach to health while managing the rigors of Australian college life.

If your body is in a good state, nothing will prevent you from managing your school work and achieve success.

Point to Take Home: Develop a Personal Lifestyle Journal!

College life is likely to be stressful, especially during exams or when you have so much on your plate that you barely have time to engage in fun activities. Journaling allows you to express your feelings in paperwork. In the future, you can recall all that happened in your college life. Be quick to pick the right choice of a healthy lifestyle while in college.

How the Face Mask Took Over Fashion

Face masks have taken over every day fashion on the streets of some of the most cosmopolitan, global cities.

But it’s not only the consumer that has benefited from this monumental shift.  They’ve also revived parts of the fashion industry itself.

As the global economy dips into recession and we see mass unemployment spread throughout the world as borders snap shut to tourism, nobody is looking to spend on expensive high level fashion.

Enter the humble face mask.

No longer just a niche item for polluted inner city living, face masks are one of the only things we can do as a society to prevent the spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic.  

But nobody said you couldn’t look good helping out your community, right?

COVID-19 is a virus and the only way an airborne virus can spread, is by passing respiratory droplets from person to person.  Yes, all it takes is simple quarantining, social distancing and face coverings to stop the coronavirus in its tracks.

When you think of face masks, no doubt your mind drifts to dull white, surgical masks that you see on doctors.  But with many governments imposing mask mandates on their citizens, brands have seized the opportunity to sell fashionable alternatives to the classic 

We’re not only talking about home made products from Etsy or niche brands like Hoorag, we’re talking about some major fashion juggernauts like Nike, Adidas, Uniqlo and Burberry.  Massive fashion brands taking the humble face mask designed to slow the spread of a deadly virus, and transforming it into a must have fashion item of the year.

Overnight trend changes in clothing fashion are certainly not a new phenomena, but there’s something about the way that face masks have gained prominence that feels different.

The final question that remains however, is whether fashionable masks are here to stay or nothing more than a passing fad.

When you look at other countries, can you really say that the coronavirus pandemic has made people happier to look out for the greater good?  Or has it just made them more selfish and protectionist than ever?

Well, when we look at the sheer refusal to protect the most vulnerable in society through simple social distancing and lockdown measures, it would certainly be easier to make an argument for the latter.

In saying that however, there are certainly signs from younger generations that they’ve become accepted purely as fashion items.  Something that will be important in cleaner, pandemic free cities once a vaccine is developed and things return to normal.

With multiple COVID-19 vaccines on the horizon, will the fashion pull of face masks remain after their functional day to day purpose has been served?  

It’s only a matter of time before we emerge from this global coronavirus pandemic and from there it’s going to be interesting to see how or even if, brands continue to market face masks.

As low cost, high margin products that are easy to make, it’s certainly in their best interest to find a way.

Bob Dylan Sells Entire Songwriting Catalog to Universal Music Publishing

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Bob Dylan has sold his entire songwriting catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group in a landmark deal of reportedly more than $300 million, according to the New York Times. Dylan’s catalog includes over 600 songs up through his latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways. UMPG reportedly negotiated the deal directly with Dylan, who previously had control over nearly all of his music publishing rights throughout his six-decade career.

“Brilliant and moving, inspiring and beautiful, insightful and provocative, his songs are timeless—whether they were written more than half a century ago or yesterday,” Lucian Grainge, Chairman CEO of Universal Music Group, said in a statement. “I have no doubt that decades, even centuries from now, the words and music of Bob Dylan will continue to be sung and played—and cherished—everywhere.”

UMPG’s CEO, Jody Gerson, added: “To represent the body of work of one of the greatest songwriters of all time — whose cultural importance can’t be overstated — is both a privilege and a responsibility.”

The acquisition includes all of Dylan’s original songs, as well as a few co-written with other songwriters, and one on which he’s not a writer – the Band’s 1968 hit ‘The Weight’, which Dylan owned the rights to but which was written by Robbie Robertson. It does not include any future songs Dylan may write.

This Week’s Best New Songs: U.S. Girls, shame, spill tab, and More

Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period begins on Monday and ends Sunday night) in this segment.

The best Christmas songs that came out this past week weren’t so kind to Santa: on ‘Santa Stay Home’, co-written with Rich Morel, U.S. Girls’ Meg Remy advises St. Nick to stay home to reduce his environmental footprint and slow down rampant consumerism, while 100 gecs dropped a ska-influenced, anti-Santa banger in the style of ‘stupid horse’. There’s plenty of non-holiday songs to highlight this week, too: Thom Yorke, Burial, and Four Tet teamed up for a special collaborative single, and both tracks on the physical-only release are equally entrancing; Zola Jesus offered a beautifully ethereal rendition of the Armenian folk song ‘Krunk’; shame knocked it out of the park with ‘Snow Days’, the latest single from the post-punk outfit’s upcoming album Drunk Tank Pink; ‘Let it Out’ is an abrasive (and surprisingly cathartic) banger off Rico Nasty’s debut album; Iggy Pop gave one of his most dynamic performances on the new French-language version of Elvis Costello’s ‘No Flag’; and finally, French-Korean, LA-based artist spill tab delivered a playfully sweet and catchy indie pop tune with her latest single ‘Name’.

Best New Songs: December 7th, 2020

U.S. Girls feat. Rich Morel, ‘Santa Stay Home’

100 gecs, ‘sympathy 4 the grinch’

Thom Yorke, Burial, and Four Tet, Her Revolution/ His Rope’

Zola Jesus, ‘Krunk’ (Cover)

Song of the Week: shame, ‘Snow Day’

Rico Nasty, ‘Let It Out’

spill tab, ‘Name’

Elvis Costello and Iggy Pop, ‘No Flag – en français’

Fontaines D.C. Cover ‘I’m A Man You Don’t Meet Every Day’

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Fontaines D.C. have shared a cover of the traditional song ‘I’m A Man You Don’t Meet Every Day’ for US radio station SiriusXM. The track was popularised by fellow Irish band The Pogues, who covered it on their 1985 album Rum Sodomy & The Lash. Check it out below.

Fontaines D.C. released their sophomore album, A Hero’s Death, back in July. They were recently nominated for their first-ever Grammy.

Watch Eminem Make a Cameo in SNL’s ‘Stan’ Parody

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Eminem made a cameo in Saturday Night Live‘s Christmas-themed ‘Stan’ parody, which starred Pete Davidson as a Santa-obsessed man named Stu. As announced, the episode was hosted by Jason Bateman, who played Santa, while Kate McKinnon played ‘Stan’‘s featured vocalist Dido, and Bowen Yang made an appearance as Elton John. Watch the sketch below.

Last night’s musical guest was country singer Morgan Wallen, who was originally supposed to appear on the show back in October but was was replaced by Jack White after footage surfaced of him appearing to party with no mask and kiss people in a crowd. SNL will air two more episodes before the end of the year: next week, Timothée Chalamet will present an episode that features Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, and on December 19, Dua Lipa will be the musical guest while former cast member Kristen Wiig is set to host.

Eminem surprise released his latest album Music to Be Murdered By in January.

Watch HAIM, Feist, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, and More Cover Cat Stevens in Virtual Concert

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HAIM, Feist, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Matt Sweeney, Sad13, and more performed in a livestream Cat Stevens tribute concert that took place yesterday (December 5). HAIM offered their take on ‘Hard Headed Woman’, from 1970’s Tea For The Tillerman, while Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Matt Sweeney covered ‘But I Might Die Tonight’, Sad13 did ‘Trouble’, and Dave Matthews covered ‘Father & Son’. Feist performed her rendition of ‘Trouble’, a track she also covered last month as part of Justin Vernon’s Eaux Claires festival. Check out the entire livestream below.

“It’s great to see and hear these covers of my songs given new life,” Yusuf / Cat Stevens wrote in a statement. “There’s no better honour for a songwriter than to have his songs performed by talented musicians with such love and sincerity. Thank you.”

Kaya Stewart Releases New EP ‘Miss Kaya’

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Just a few days ago, Kaya Stewart, a rising star in the world of Indie Pop music, revealed her latest six-track EP Miss Kaya. The EP features songs such as ‘California,’ ‘The Thought of You,’ ‘Paper,’ and ‘Why I Wake Up.’

Talking about the song ‘Why I Wake Up,’ Stewart said: ‘Why I Wake Up’ is about growing out of that high school life and bubble…I decided that I didn’t want to do what everyone around me was going to do with their lives. I wasn’t connected to that anymore. It all started to feel so mundane. I wanted to get out of that as soon as I realized that wasn’t what I wanted for my life.”

New Hair New Man by Mária Švarbová

Mária Švarbová, a well-received and notable photographer out of Bratislava, Slovakia, released her latest series named New Hair New Man. In her signature style, Švarbová delivers a striking, surreal-like photography series that utilises the subject, location and framing to their full potential.

Find more work by Maria Svarbova here.

Jeremih Released from Hospital, Recovering from COVID-19 at Home

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Jeremih has been released from the hospital after receiving treatment for a severe case of COVID-19, according to TMZ. As previously reported, the 33-year-old R&B singer had been placed in the ICU and put on a ventilator.

In a statement to ABC 7, Jeremih said: “First and foremost, I would like to thank God and the incredible team of doctors and nurses at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for saving my life. I will be forever grateful. I would also like to thank my family and friends for all their prayers and well wishes. I’m overwhelmed with gratitude. A special thanks to Chance The Rapper, 50 Cent and Diddy for their love and support. I would like to thank all my fans and people around the world who prayed for me. I’m getting stronger everyday, and look forward to spending time with my sons.”

Responding to the news on Twitter, Chance the Rapper wrote: “Thank you to the medical staff at northwestern and thank you to everyone who held him up in prayer even when it seemed so grim. We are a testimony.”