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Low Calorie Thanksgiving Cocktails

Maria Loreto
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Low Calorie Thanksgiving Cocktails

There are few things more caloric than cocktails. The more delicious and fruity the drink is, the more sugar it has and the worse it is for your weight. These sugary drinks give terrible hangovers and are also super easy to drink, making you get drunk much faster than with other types of (boring) alcohol.

The Fresh Toast – With the Thanksgiving meal, here are low calorie Thanksgiving cocktails to give your waist line a break and your mouth a treat

Luckily, the world is obsessed with being fit and healthy right now, which means that talented bartenders from all over the world are coming up with delicious drinks that are low on calories, and that you can consume without feeling guilty afterwards. These drinks use liquors such as Vermouth and Lillet which have lower calories than other options and that won’t sneak up on you and leave you vomiting in the corner of the bar. The following drinks have manageable levels of alcohol, low calories, and are super delicious, check them out:

Aperol Spritz

Related: Why You Should Consider Adding Golden Milk To Your Diet

This recipe is from Aperol.com, claiming to be the original Italian recipe of the famous aperitif. With a fruity and aromatic flavor, this low strength cocktail is bound to become a favorite at work dinners and places where you want to look like a person who has their shit together.

Ingredients:

  • 3 Parts of Prosecco
  • 2 Parts of Aperol
  • 1 Splash of Soda

Prep:

Add ice into a glass and pour the Prosecco, the Aperol and the splash of Soda. Top the drink with a slice of orange that’ll bring out the fruitiness of the drink.

Bacio Di Rosa

 

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This recipe is from Popugar.com and it’s perfect for a hot and summery day or for a classy drink during the daytime.

Ingredients:

  • “>1 1/2 ounces Cocchi Americano Rosa
  • 1/2 ounce thyme-lemon syrupn>
  • >3 ounces soda water

Prep:

First, you have to make the thyme-lemon syrup by bringing three cups of water to a boil and adding the zest of 1 lemon. Add thyme and take the water off the heat, letting it rest for 10 minutes. Add 3 cups of sugar and stir.

After the cooking part is done, add the Cocchi Americano Ropan>sa and the thyme-lemon syrup onto a glass, then top with ice and soda. For garnishing, you can add a lemon peel.

Vodka Soda

 

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This cool and refreshing recipe is from Liquor.com, and it has a strong level of alcohol with very few calories, making it a great drink of choice.

Ingredients:

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  • -mce-style=”font-weight: 40pan>0;”>1 Squeeze of lemon
  • Soda to top >

Prep:

>In a tall glass, add the vodka, fill with ice and top with Soda. Add a squeeze of lemon and garnish with a lemon peel.

The Surprising Reason Many Teenagers Aren’t Smoking Marijuana

Amy Hansen
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The Surprising Reason Many Teenagers Aren’t Smoking Marijuana

It seems pot has fallen out of favor with teenagers. Why? Because they’re smoking less of everything, tobacco included.

That’s according to a new study that spent 25 years monitoring more than a million teens (1991 to 2016). Findings are somewhat of a paradox. Researchers discovered that while teens who consider marijuana safe are more likely to do the drug, they weren’t indulging.

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The reason is a fairly simple one. Teenagers today are less inclined to smoke cigarettes (or drink alcohol, for that matter), which is an indicator of whether or not they’re likely to pick up a joint. Not smoking cigarettes is conducive to not smoking cannabis. In fact, the number of teenagers interested in smoking and drinking is steadily declining. 

Richard Miech, a research professor at the University of Michigan who led the study, found that a decline in adolescent cigarette and alcohol use over the past decade has brought marijuana prevalence to “historic lows.” That reasoning seems to explain why the use of marijuana isn’t accelerating even though more teenagers consider it a harmless drug. 

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According to the study, “researchers posit that youth who do not use cigarettes or drink alcohol are less likely to experience associated processes that promote marijuana use, such as exposure to drug-using peer networks and the ‘priming’ of the brain’s reward system for substance use.”

Miech tells Medical Express:

I think a big message of this study is that policies and interventions that reduce teen smoking seem to have the added benefit of reducing teen marijuana use.

But again, teens who believe pot is harmless are still more likely to use it. And that number hasn’t changed much over the past decade; the percentage of high school seniors who’ve smoked marijuana continues to hover around 30-percent.

Dr. Nicholas Chadi, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital, tells Medical Express “Marijuana is harmful to the developing adolescent brain” and is more likely to become a gateway drug for teenagers who use it.

Conclusion: Perceived risk of marijuana remains tightly associated with use, and adolescent marijuana prevalence today would be at or near record highs if cigarette use had not declined since 2005,

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Gossip: Kelly Clarkson Thought She Was Asexual; Kevin Spacey In Hiding

Naughty Gossip
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Gossip: Kelly Clarkson Thought She Was Asexual; Kevin Spacey In Hiding

Five years and two kids later and they’re still going strong.

During a private show for SiriusXM listeners at the Highline Ballroom in New York City Friday, the 35-year-old Grammy winner revealed to the crowd that Blackstock was the first man that gave her that feeling inside.

“This isn’t a downer to anybody I dated before him, but I’m just going to be real: I never felt like, honesty, sexually attracted to anybody before him,” Clarkson confessed. “And I’m not downing my exes. You know, everybody’s different. But there was something about him.”

“I honestly thought I was asexual — I’d never been turned on like that in my whole life,” she said. “I was like, ‘Oh that’s that feeling… okay! That’s what they were talking about in Waiting to Exhale.’ I just got it. I just didn’t have a clue.”

She first saw him 2006 when he was married and felt a spark but didn’t talk to him until 2012
“Literally, I’m not joking, he walked past us at that time [in 2006] And he walked by, I was like, ready to take it all off. I just felt something.”

“We didn’t really know each other; I had just met him that one time,” Clarkson recalled. “Just from that one time, even six years later, I had never really dated anyone. I honest to God thought, ‘Is this what it’s like to be asexual?’ I was just not attracted to people.”

“We didn’t even know each other, but he had walked past me once and there was a moment in my crazy head,” she said. “He thought I hated him, too. When I finally confessed that, ‘I really dig you,’ He was so shocked because he thought I hated him. I hadn’t let on that I liked him. Inside I was like, ‘Ask me out!’ but outside I was like, ‘I love being single and coming home every night alone. It’s awesome.’

“It’s a hard thing to find that feeling,’ she said. “I always tell [Savannah, her 16 year-old stepdaughter], ‘Wait it out. Wait until you get those goosebumps.’ Because if it’s not, it’s not worth it.”

Kevin Spacey In Hiding

Kevin Spacey has gone silent on some of his closest friends following allegations of sexual misconduct, a source tells ET.

“He has not been communicating with people in his inner circle since,” our source says. “He’s been MIA, even from those closest to him. He realizes how terrible this is and he knows the chances of him getting good work in this town again are very slim.”

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Lyft Wants To Keep Coloradans From Driving While High

Terry Hacienda
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Lyft Wants To Keep Coloradans From Driving While High

The Colorado Department of Transportation is teaming up with rideshare service Lyft and a marijuana industry group to promote sober driving.

Starting this month, marijuana users in Colorado will be offered discounted Lyft rides as part of the 320 Movement’s initiative to plan for a ride before getting high. The Marijuana Industry Group (MIG) will partner with CDOT and Lyft.

Through April 2018, the 320 Movement is providing monthly discounted Lyft rides to marijuana users and will send users to 320movement.com to obtain the discounts and learn about the dangers of driving high.

According to the Colorado State Patrol, 17 percent DUI arrests in 2017 involved marijuana. In Colorado, a DUI can cost you more than $13,500, in addition to jail time.

“Despite the fact that marijuana impairs judgement, coordination, decision-making and reaction time, an alarming number of users – 55 percent – still believe that it is safe to drive under the influence of marijuana,” said Sam Cole, CDOT’s traffic safety communications manager. “We have partnered with Lyft and MIG in an effort to combat this belief while also providing marijuana users with a safe ride, so they don’t even have to consider driving high.”

CDOT and Lyft launched the 320 Movement in March 2017, a month before Denver’s Civic Center Park’s celebration of cannabis culture on April 20 to remind the tens of thousands of people expected to attend to plan for a safe ride first. The goal? To make 320 as well known as 420. The spring 320 Movement push included free and discounted Lyft rides throughout the month of April. In total, 3,800 Lyft discount codes were retrieved with nearly 1,200 being redeemed.

“Marijuana Industry Group is proud to continue this important partnership with CDOT and Lyft and to help extend the 320 Movement rideshare program, the first of its kind,” said Kristi Kelly, executive director of MIG. “Our ask is simple: If you choose to legally consume cannabis, plan ahead and don’t get behind the wheel. The 320 Movement is important, because we are offering an easy alternative to driving, and discounted rides make it even easier. The reduction of impaired driving is a shared priority, and state government and Colorado’s cannabis industry are united in their ongoing commitment to raising awareness of, and reducing the incidence of, any impairment while driving.”

As part of the 320 Movement continuation campaign, CDOT will deliver toolkits to 125 Colorado dispensaries to encourage them to promote marijuana safety information and the discounted Lyft ride codes to their customers. The toolkits include window clings and postcards for dispensaries to display and distribute, as well as social media assets and suggested captions and hashtags for Facebook and Instagram. Catchy messaging, such as “Puff, puff, pass the driving to Lyft” and “If you load it, CDOT will help you Lyft it,” aims to resonate with marijuana users and raise awareness of the alternatives to driving high.

CDOT’s partnership with Lyft and MIG is part of their Drive High, Get a DUI campaign, which aims to educate drivers about the dangers of driving under the influence of marijuana with the goal of reducing the number of drug-related DUIs, traffic crashes and fatalities. For more information on marijuana impaired driving, visit the CDOT website.

Phil Murphy Elected NJ Governor, Cannabis Advocates Rejoice

Mary Schumacher
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Phil Murphy Elected NJ Governor, Cannabis Advocates Rejoice

Last night, as the election results started coming in, New Jerseyites weren’t exactly on the edges of their seats – Phil Murphy was the projected winner before the polls even closed – but when he did win, this reporter let out a yelp, for it was an enormous win for the Garden State, which yes, is set to become a lot more green.

During his primary, marijuana was one of Murphy’s main talking points and he promised to sign in legalization for New Jersey within his first 100 days in office. In fact, he said he’d sign a legalization bill the second it hit his desk.

Experts are saying this win means it’s “full steam ahead” for cannabis legalization and cultivation in Jersey. Stephen Sweeney (D), State Senate President, who is in control of the bills the 40 person Senate votes on, stated that it is his goal to get the legislation passed within Murphy’s first 100 days.

Senator Nicholas Scutari had said previously that “it would be a waste” to have another hearing on the subject while Chris Christie was in office. Christie has been known to akin pot to opioids, thinks they exacerbate opiate use and called legalizing pot, “beyond stupidity.”

Chris Christie will exit his office on January 16 the least popular governor in U.S. history. Now he can sun himself all he wants and if there is a traffic jam, he won’t have had his sticky fingers in it.

But back on the bright side, Scutari also said, “The election of Phil Murphy gets us a giant step closer. Without him, I don’t know where we would be. He has a 100 percent commitment to [legalization].”

And that’s just what New Jersey needs. Murphy looks at the big picture of an estimated $300 million dollars in tax revenues and sees school funding and public workers’ pensions, not reefer madness or drug war tales.

The original cannabis bill that was to roll out has been cryptically changed to make “improvements,” said Scutari. One known change is that home cultivation will not be allowed. Instead, they hope to build a robust economy via commerce and economic opportunities.

Scutari continued that he hopes to implement factors into the bill that assure minority communities that have been disproportionately affected via arrests, incarceration and harassment have a fair share of the profits to come.

“I’m still trying to figure out how to deal with it. After tonight, I will,” he said, having had the satisfaction of watching his candidate win in a landslide.

This Marijuana Inhaler Can Help Your Worst Insomnia

Terry Hacienda
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This Marijuana Inhaler Can Help Your Worst Insomnia

If you are among the 40 million of Americans suffering from some sort of sleep disorder, help may be on the way in the form of a marijuana inhaler. Much like an inhaler used for sufferers of asthma and other pulmonary ailments, a squirt of cannabis may all you need to combat insomnia.

According to UK newspaper the Daily Mail,  the device allows the patient to nod off within 1o minutes after inhalation and wake up refreshed without negative side effects. The report says the device will be available in Israel and California by 2018.

The product comes from iCAN, an Israeli company that hopes to get governmental approval in more states. “As an insomniac myself, I am proud to be involved in bringing a next generation cannabis product to the market. Doseable, repeatable cannabis is a reality,”  said Saul Kaye, a co-founder of iCAN.

According to a sleep psychologist Deirdre Conroy:

Over the past decade, research has focused more on the use of cannabis for medical purposes. Individuals with insomnia tend to use medical cannabis for sleep at a high rate. Up to 65 percent of former cannabis users identified poor sleep as a reason for relapsing. Use for sleep is particularly common in individuals with PTSD and pain.

Of the 40 million of Americans who have trouble sleeping, one fourth of them have a prescription for Ambien or some other pharmaceutical sleep medication and 4 percent of adults report that they have taken a sleeping pill or sedative in the previous month.

Some of the more common side effects for these pills include:

  • Daytime drowsiness, dizziness, weakness, feeling “drugged” or light-headed
  • Tired feeling, loss of coordination
  • Stuffy nose, dry mouth, nose or throat irritation
  • Nausea, constipation, diarrhea, upset stomach
  • Headache, muscle pain

Arizona State University sleep researcher Shawn Youngstedt is not an advocate for pharmaceuticals as a sleep aid. He told CNN:

“Sleeping pills are extremely hazardous. They are as bad as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Not to mention they cause infections, falling and dementia in the elderly, and they lose their effectiveness after a few weeks.”

Studies have shown that cannabis can improve the duration and quality of sleep. A 1973 study suggests that THC reduces the amount of time it takes those with insomnia to fall asleep. Another study found that those that regularly used THC fell asleep faster.

Can Medical Marijuana Help Me With My Nausea?

Richard Faulk
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Can Medical Marijuana Help Me With My Nausea?

In the sometimes hazy realm of medical marijuana research, the answer to “Can marijuana cure nausea?” is a rare, unambiguous “Yes.” But it’s a not quite a full-throated one.

For decades, anecdotal evidence of marijuana’s anti-nausea properties has been a major argument in the medical cannabis movement. In 1999, this position got a boost from the medical establishment, when the American Society of Clinical Oncology adopted guidelines for the use of antiemetics (medicines that keep you from barfing) that included a place for cannabis.

A new generation of antiemtics that target serotonin receptors and have been available for about twenty years take pride of place in the ASCO guidelines. However, for those patients who cannot tolerate these drugs or for whom they prove ineffective, there are a variety of “lower-therapeutic index” options. Among these options, the ASCO has ruled that cannabis is OK-ish. The guidelines cite evidence that cannabis is “significantly less” effective than metoclopramide, which is the best of the second-tier options. The preferred cannabinoid is synthetic THC, which is currently approved in the U.S. in two chemical forms, dronabinol and nabilone (which are marketed under the names Marinol and Cesamet, respectively).

<p< span=””>In 2015, the American Medical Association reexamined the antiemetic effect of marijuana as part of a comprehensive review> of the literature on medical cannabis. Its findings jibe with the ASCO’s earlier examination, but the AMA’s report is also clearer about the dearth of evidence on the topic. Only 28 studies were deemed robust enough for the AMA to consider, and of those 23 were at high risk of bias. The remaining 5 had an unclear risk of bias.

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Smoked marijuana is not endorsed by either the ASCO or the AMA, nor is it likely to be, because of dosage difficulty among other medical objections (such as the one about smoking not being good for you). Nevertheless, partisans of inhaled cannabis have some compelling counter arguments—perhaps the most compelling being “How can you be expected to swallow a pill and keep it down, when throwing things up is the condition you’re trying to treat?”

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5 Reasons Why Your Sex Drive Might Be Super Low

Maria Loreto
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5 Reasons Why Your Sex Drive Might Be Super Low

Sex causes a lot of stress. Whether you’re having too little of it or too much, if it’s too bad or not good enough, the list can be as complicated as you want it to be. There are a million questions you could have regarding your sex life, and that’s okay. It’s important to understand that libidos are complicated, but they’re mostly affected by your mindset and stress.

Whether your libido is acting up due to hormones or is fluctuating due to your personal and romantic life, here are 5 innocuous day to day activities that might be putting a strain on your sex drive:

No Exercise

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Working out is a pain sometimes, especially when you have a job and other stuff you’d rather do like watch TV and go out. Still, there’s no other way around it, sometimes you gotta do it. Many physicians and doctors stress over the importance of exercise when it comes to our sex drives, enhancing your serotonin and dopamine levels while also increasing the blood flow to your genital area.

Not Having Enough Sex

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Maybe the reason you’re not as interested in sex is because you haven’t done it in a while and haven’t thought about it. Not having sex makes you less interested in sex, but the opposite is also true. You can make yourself have sex, which at first may feel boring or not awesome, but later on it’ll feel great and like it was just what you needed.

Eating The Wrong Foods

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Snacks, salty, and heavy foods are not the best for making you feel attractive. They’ll make you feel bloated and gross, which can contribute heavily to your image and to a lower sex drive. Eating things that make you feel energized, light, and good about your body will help you engage more easily with sex.

Not Masturbating

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Masturbating allows you to stay in touch with your body and your desires. It’s also a nice reminder that yes, you can orgasm, so you can also have sex. Make it a part of your routine, like working out and eating healthy.

Drinking Too Much

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While it’s true that wine makes people a little horny, alcohol is also depressant, which means that after a few glasses you’ll start to feel tired and your testosterone will drop. If you want to have a drink before sex then stick to a glass or two, which won’t impair your libido.

Here’s Why Trying On Lipstick Samples Is A Bad Idea

Maria Loreto
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Here’s Why Trying On Lipstick Samples Is A Bad Idea

The best part about shopping for makeup is the fact that you can enter the store with a clean face and leave looking like a Kardashian. Taking advantage of quality makeup samples and of makeup experts who compliment your skin is 80 percent of the reasons why we even go to places like Sephora and NYX. If these perks didn’t exist, people would just shop online and save themselves the trip through a crowded store.

According to Jezebel, a woman from California is suing Sephora over emotional distress. She reports that one of the stores’ lipstick samples gave her herpes, and that no one from the store warned her that this was a possibility. Sadly, herpes is a very common infection that stays in your body for life. This virus is mostly transmitted from skin to skin contact, since it needs a host to survive.

Even though it’s rare, it is possible to contract the virus through a lipstick sample. The Huffington Post spoke with Dr. Janelleen Smith who claimed that, as a rule of thumb, you shouldn’t share lipstick, clothes or anything with someone you’re not already kissing.

Even though it’s hard to contract Herpes via lipstick 1 out of 6 americans have the virus in their bodies, no matter if they have cold sores or not. Statistically speaking, you probably already have herpes, or have kissed someone with herpes, or are best friends with someone with herpes and have borrowed some of their lipstick. So use those makeup samples away, you’re only delaying the inevitable.

Miss ‘Jersey Shore’? Now Introducing MTV’s New Show ‘Floribama Shore’

Brendan Bures
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Miss ‘Jersey Shore’? Now Introducing MTV’s New Show ‘Floribama Shore’

When it debuted back in 2009, Jersey Shore captured the attention of the country precisely because we’d never seen something so singularly trashy and deliciously unapologetic on television before. These were people you maybe came across at a bar, ordering double-digit shots and picking fights over nothing, and wondered what their daily existence might be like. Chose seven of those characters to live together in a house, their personalities casted to perfectly embroil, entice, and imbibe with one another, and construct scenarios with as much alcohol and drama legally possible.

Also there was a duck phone.

But now we have the internet. You can see 20-somethings make fools of themselves willingly on Instagram accounts like @5thyear and @drunkpeopledoingthings. Social media almost ruins the cultural functionality of something like Jersey Shore. But reality TV can provide something social media overwhelmingly fails at, which is constructing an engaging narrative.

Despite some try-hard pop stars asking to be excuse from this narrative, our brains won’t allow it. (That we attempt to refuse cultural narratives as they are and instead push ourselves to believe ones lacking in scope of facts and characters might explain why this country’s so dang ornery all the time, but…maybe this isn’t the right conversation to have in a MTV reality show article). We love narratives and stories more than anything; it’s how we make sense of the world and that Joan Didion jazz.

Which is why MTV and SallyAnn Salsano, executive producer and creator of Jersey Shore, wants to recreate the magic with their new show Floribama Shore. It features eight Southern kids in Panama City Beach—the filthy, debauchery-laden party town that served as inspiration for Spring Breakers—as they party and “put the real world on hold for just a little bit longer.”

Via Deadline:

According to the producers, each cast member “is armed with incredible life experiences and standing at a crossroads, whether it’s ending a relationship, tasting independence for the first time, or trying to escape the past. This coming of age story captures the very real thrill and angst of being young and trying to figure out the future with a group of people you’ll come to call family.”

Sound familiar? As they say, cabs are here—er, Ubers are here! With as many reboots and reimagining’s as the media/entertainment complex keeps churning out, you shouldn’t be surprised that Jersey Shore would eventually undergo that treatment. Why wouldn’t MTV want to recycle the biggest reality TV show of all time?

The company released a short teaser trailer to announce Floribama Shore. The duck phone has transformed into the gator phone. Really, what more do you need to know?

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