Hurry, no rush

Serving a meal along with the check or tab is a pretty brilliant move for a diner-style restaurant. Those types of places tend to get pretty busy, and I’d imagine that the service staff would want to move patrons as quickly as possible. The problem is that they don’t want to pressure or offend diners, either. So what does a server do? He or she hands you your meal along with the check and says, “No rush, of course. Take your time. The check is here whenever you’re ready.”

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Vitamin Doh

I’ve been reading a lot about vitamin D recently, and it seems the information out there points to one thing: the vitamin that our bodies naturally produce under sun exposure is a cure-all. Like green tea, it’s supposed to help prevent cancer, make you healthier and happier and it just might fight off death, too.

While most vitamin D studies are observational, there is one thing that it certainly does for our bodies–it helps the absorption of calcium for bone health and density. Whether you get vitamin D from foods like fish or fortified milk, or from unprotected exposure to the sun, it will give your bones what they need to stay healthy. Continue reading