Makeup artist and Youtube sensation Mel Thompson passed away on 26th September. The husband of the 35-year old broke the heartbreaking news on the internet. The following message was written on Mel Thompson's Instagram.
"Mel sadly passed away yesterday, it's really hard to just choose 10 photos. We lost a beautiful person. Had to answer so many texts of people just checking in on her without even knowing of her passing," writing, "It's great to see how loved she was. And she loved all you right back. I'll continue to love her and miss her forever. She was such a pillar for our family."
Mel had over 170,000 Youtube subscribers and 55,0000 Instagram followers. Her last video update was on 24th September. The cause of death is not yet revealed, however, the makeup world will continue to miss her and remember her for her amazing artistry.
BTS has obtained permission to perform live in Los Angeles. The band announced their upcoming plans today. The offline concert "BTS PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE" will include four live shows starting from 27th November, 28th November, 1st December, and 2nd December at the Sofi stadium, Los Angeles.
Prior to performing lice, the online version of "BTS PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE" will kick off on 24th October. The Big Hit Music said despite the difficulties of holding an offline concert with the current situation, they have taken national and regional health regulations and circumstances highly into consideration.
The group also regretted not performing live often and promised to do in the near future, entertaining not only the Korean fans but the fans from around the world.
In a recent interview withthe times, Jake Gyllenhaal talked about how the rumors of him not bathing first spread. It all started when he said toVanity fair, “More and more I find bathing to be less necessary, at times. I do believe ... that good manners and bad breath get you nowhere. So I do that. But I do also think that there’s a whole world of not bathing that is also really helpful for skin maintenance, and we naturally clean ourselves.”
However, the star joked that he doesn't mind the rumors as so far he hasn't received any complaints of being stinky.
Photo credit: Rocco Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images
Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti... Whatever you may call it, still seems to lurk around in the dense forests around the world. Many report unimaginable encounters every day! Does it really exist? Maybe a prehistoric species with an expanded life span?
For those who don't know what Bigfoot is, it is a huge ape-like mythical creature. For decades, Bigfoot is believed to have been terrorizing the visitors of dense woods in many parts of the world. According to the victims, its height is over 8 to 10 feet and certainly scary. Creatures with similar features have been spotted in other parts of the world too, giving them various names. Some call it Sasquatch while the Himalayans call it Yeti.
The name Bigfoot was given decades ago after its gigantic footprints started to show up. Being more than twice the size of a human footprint, curiosity took over. People wanted to know more about this creature and its purpose. Later many elements such as hair, skulls, and bones were discovered which are believed to be Bigfoot's.
According to Penn Live over 1300 sightings of Bigfoot have been reported in Pennsylvania. Bigfoot crossing signs can be spotted where most of the cases have been reported.
Many of the sightings and encounters don't seem to provide strong evidence. But there are creepy videos that are evidence enough for us to wonder, is it real? So, let's have a look at some.
The footage that made Bigfoot iconic
In 1967 a camera eye caught footage of the Bigfoot that can be considered the most valid piece of evidence. Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin went into the woods with a 16mm camera and came across the creature. Bigfoot was walking, swinging its arms and it even looks at the camera.
There was a lot of conspiracy back then as the first Planet of the Apes movie was released at the same time. So, people claimed this is a man in an ape suit. But Professor of Anatomy Jeffery Meldrum, confirms this is Bigfoot according to the muscularity visible in the footage. More than the footage it's the evidence that it left behind.
At the edge of a frozen lake, three little friends find footprints that seem bizarre. With the intention of having fun, they decide to follow them. All the fun and games end with terror! A tall dark hairy figure staring at them through the woods! Freaked out, the kids run back to their homes. The footage was handed over to the National Geographic channel for further inspections.
The Sasquatch Genome Project
This group of Bigfoot enthusiasts have gathered evidence over the years and confirms Bigfoot's existance. They have footage that gives a closer look at its face. Taking it to ABC News, they even confirmed DNA proof of the creature. However, this footage is considered the only piece of evidence with such a closer look at the creature.
Thousands of Bigfoot images are uploaded every day. But many make it even harder for us to believe as there are many hoaxes. There have been instances that the towns made up stories about Bigfoot to draw visitors.
However, until now, all the strong evidence has been denied by the government bodies. Denial doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, but who and what do we believe? I'll let you decide!
Has the new norm changed your lifestyle already? Stuck with
a computer at home all day video conferencing with a bunch of colleagues?
Worrying about your gains and missing the gym life you just started? I know, this is pretty much
the same for most of us these days.
So let's look at how you can be in great shape spending just half an hour, three days a week!
If you've been working out for a while you might already know what I'm talking about. If you are a total beginner this is just for you. First of all, let me cut the crap. I'm not gonna brag about the healthy meals or the amount of sleep you are gonna need.
This is totally about being in great shape with the available resources. To be clear on that, being in shape while doing what you do regularly. The only thing you gotta do is, dedicate just half an hour to your workouts. No, you do not need weights. Only some space to move about that's it! Remember, I'm giving you the shortcuts to get you up and running!
This is the best time to start working out
It may be frustrating to be indoors and not to have a way of hitting the gym. But think about it! You don't have half of the trouble you used to have. No social gathering, no coming home late after work, no visitors when you are just about to workout. Besides, we ought to maintain good health more than ever before.
Advantages of working out from home
I'm sure you would have had days you felt like driving to the gym is a pain. Or the days that weather prevented you from going to the gym. Or your training schedule got messed up cuz the gym was closed for holidays. Or you have only two sets of awesome gym gear that gives you the go but you forgot to wash them! Ooops!! The most common in my case.
Think about it! all you need is a little space, any day, any time of the day. No weather restrictions, no holidays, you don't need to buy those expensive gear. And no more constant pain in the a**es asking you to spot them while they bench press. Isn't that awesome? All you need is the willpower to give that half an hour to sweat like hell and pump some muscle.
Alright! let' look at the simple things that will take us there. What I'm basically gonna talk about is bodyweight exercises only. Have you ever wondered how some guys who work out in the park with no weights have shredded aesthetic bodies? Well... thank the lord for bodyweight exercises.
Let me be honest, my pure motive is to get you started right away. But we all know how important it is to warm up. It prepares your muscles for the tasks without making it a surprise. Unprepared muscles can lead to injuries. So, included jumping jacks to burn you down. Kidding! just make sure, MAKE SURE... you won't do for more than 3 minutes. Well.. then again, it depends on your energy level. If you think you can go on for more than 3 minutes, be my guest. But don't burn yourself down cuz you have more things to do.
From school cadet to military, push-ups have always been that one exercise determines one's strength. Simply because it is a compound workout. This means it works most of your upper body muscles like the Chest, triceps, shoulders, and core. Honestly, I'm not that person who warms up with jumping jacks or with any other exercises.
For me, stepping right into push-ups works just fine. This is also a great warm-up exercise. But it's up to you to decide. As I have no right to say you can jump right into your workout session without warming up.
When it comes to sets and reps I recommend you to go for not more than 3 to 4 sets. The reps can be the maximum amount you can do in each set. But remember! All 3 or 4 sets that you do must include the same reps. It can definitely increase over the sets but NOT decreased.
Don't worry too much about the reps. Even if you can do only two reps that is perfectly fine. Just keep doing and try to increase one rep whenever your body is ready. So, when you increase reps, start from the last set. For example, you did 2 reps in 3 sets, and on the 4th set, you try and do 3 reps.
The next time, try to implement the additional rep in the 3rd set. Days to come you will be able to complete 4 sets of 3 reps.
Dips is a fundamental exercise you must include in your schedule. This is also a compound movement that works your chest, triceps, and shoulders. And a little bit of your core as well. So, you saw "Dips" in the list and you went like, "Oh I can't do this I don't have the parallel bars". Nope. You are wrong! You don't need parallel bars particularly to do dips.
Do you have two chairs in your house? I'm sure you do. And if you don't I will give you an alternate solution for that as well. Just place the two chairs on either sides with shoulder-width apart. Now place your hands on them and dip your body until your elbows make a 90-degree angle.
You can lean a bit forward, raise your knees a little higher, to target more of your chest. Keeping your arms and body straight and lowering the body targets more of your triceps. However, both these variations still work your chest, triceps, and shoulders. See the below video by ScottHermanFitness to learn the differences.
Dips with one chair
Like I said before if you have only one chair at home it's still not an excuse! you can do dips with one chair as well. Even though this works mostly for your triceps, this is a great alternative for parallel bar dips. Especially if you are a beginner, and haven't done parallel bar dips before. This is a preparation exercise. See how it's done.
Let me give you advice, maybe this is more like a warning. NEVER take your legs for granted! This is a common mistake most fitness freaks do in their initial stage. Believe me, I have done it myself. It is common that most beginners consider only a great upper body at first. Simply because that's what they mostly see, guys with great chests and arms showing off. Sometimes these guys themselves have poor leg muscles. The very reason they only show off their upper bodies.
So, don't be that guy! let's talk about quad goals, You don't necessarily need a huge amount of muscles and toning in your legs. But, it is vital to maintain good body balance. Besides, just imagine what happens when you hit the beach with your swim trunk. Girls be like, wow, bigger arms, chest, but wait what?? what happened to those legs? Ooops! Think about it! I don't want you to be leg-shamed.
So let's have a look at how bodyweight squats are done. Stand up straight with your feet shoulder-width apart, and squat until your knees make a 90-degree angle. Not more or less. Squats is the most effective
workout to build and strengthen quads. And if you can be in the squatting position for 2 seconds before standing up again, that's the best burn!
Pull-ups are another one of the great compound workouts. It works almost all areas of your back and biceps. Not to mention a little bit of your shoulders as well. But I'm suggesting this as an optional workout. I know most of you might not have access to a pull-up bar. Also, pull-ups are a lot harder when comparing to push-ups.
Adding this to your first session can make you a great excuse to get out of the whole session. Being said that, if you do have access to at least a doorway pull-up bar go for it! you will feel awesome I guarantee you that. Just try to hit 3 sets of any reps you can. Check how it's done.
This has been and still is, a burning problem among young and old. "How do I get rid of my fat belly?" "I don't want a muscular body, just want to get rid of the beer belly", These are common things we hear especially at the beginning of every year. Well... of course, you can get rid of that fat belly but you gotta work for it! Also, a single exercise to make that fat you collected over years disappear? Not so logical right?
The simplest and the only advice I give to anyone who comes up with this question is, build your CHEST first! Then the belly will disappear. It will make you happy when you start seeing your chest before your belly. Besides this will give you the enthusiasm to continue working out.
So, for now, don't worry at all about your abs just concentrate on the above exercises. Do only this one exercise. "PLANK!" the mother of all the ab workouts I can say. It also works your core and makes most of the other exercises easier as well. For example, if your core shivers while doing push-ups, this is an awesome workout to fix it.
For now, don't worry about your meals at all. Just try to eat on time whatever you eat. Do not starve! Remember this is to get you on track. Once you start seeing your gains, which you definitely will, you can worry about the rest.
So, peeps the above is purely based on my personal experiences. And I'm now maintaining a good body that makes me happy to look through every mirror I pass by. :) Do these simple workouts 3 to 4 days a week. You can do them every other day. Allow a rest day in between. I guarantee you will start seeing gains within 4 weeks. If it doesn't, do drop a comment. We will work together to find out where you went wrong.
Cheers and all the very best. Don't forget to drop a comment with your progress!
The world can be full of surprises. All continents discovered all secrets of the earth have been revealed all mountains concurred. Well… if you think you have seen and heard them all, hold up! Here comes the internet with some crazy facts.
28 lesser-known facts. It’s never too late to learn!
1. Charles Darwin was the first person to fix wheels to his office chair in order to move around quickly.
2. The electricity you use to charge your smartphone is so little. The annual cost will not exceed more than 1 Dollar.
3. Most of the animals avoid power lines due to the ultraviolet rays they see. Only humans and apes cannot see these rays.
4. 21% of the population of China has the names Van, Lee & Zhang. These are the most popular names in the world.
5. The Ice cubes made with tap water are white in color whereas the ones made with boiled water are transparent.
6. American Pianist Earl Wild did the first concert to broadcast live in 1939. It was the same online live concert broadcast on the internet 58 years later.
7. You need to click a Mouse button 10 million times to burn one calorie.
8. Salvador Dali’s Mustache was the same as when he died when his body was exhumed in 2017.
9. North Korea has donated 500,000 dollars to Japan in 2011 when affected by an earthquake.
10. A hot water bath burns as many calories as a 30 minutes walk.
11. Queen Elizabeth II is related to Vlad Tepes, the famous prototype for Dracula.
12. A paper cut never bleeds. But, is more painful than a regular cut as the wound is open to the air which irritates it.
13. The last uttered words by Albert Einstein were in German. Unfortunately, the nurse did not speak the language and did not understand a word he said.
14. 99% of Microbes living in the human body are unknown.
15. Some traffic lights in Japan have a Blue light instead of a Green. Historically both colors have had the same name.
16. The fat cells in your body don’t disappear when you lose weight, they resize.
17. There are bees in Nepal as big as 1.1 inches. They produce special honey that can cause hallucinations if consumed.
18. “Esposas” in Spanish means both Handcuffs and Wife.
19. The Pokemon Characters Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan were named after Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
20. In Radio chats “Mayday” is the word used instead of “SOS”.
21. 70% of the Brazilian models are from Rio Grand State where only 5% of Brazil’s population lives.
22. Proprioception is the sense of knowing where your body parts are. This is a sense that the human body has besides the senses of smells and touches.
23. The Bombay Phenotype is a mixed-blood type caused by some missing elements in the blood. Only 0.0004% of people in the world have this type. There is special storage of this blood type for these people. The person who has this blood type can transfer blood to anyone with regular blood types.
24. The Mona Lisa’s portrait was in Napoleon Bonaparte’s bedroom for few years.
25. The top three most sold products in recent history are I Phones, Rubik Cubes, and Harry Potter books.
26. Galileo Galilei’s middle finger is kept in a museum of science in Florence.
27. A cockroach can live up to 7 days without its head. It only dies in hunger.
28. To recognize a real and fake diamond you need to breathe on it. The fake one will become foggy whereas the real one stays clear.
Are you one of those fitness freaks who constantly gulp protein shakes to keep it going?? Protein
powders may seem to make your life easier, but there are serious consequences. Well…
Quit the shortcuts! Get yourself used to wholesome meals and enjoy the long-term health
benefits.
Have a look at some of the things that these powders could do to your
body.
Protein powders are famous among fitness and many other sports enthusiasts. Simply because adding a scoop
of Protein powder seems the easiest way to boost some energy to pump some
muscles. But do you know the hidden dangers of these Protein powders?
Intaking the necessary ounces of
natural proteins has become a difficult task with our busy life schedules. As a
result, various brands and flavors of Protein powders have been introduced to
the market. Here are some of the hidden dangers and other
facts you should know.
Protein
Powders: Are they natural?
The simplest answer is no. The
Proteins that come in the form of powders may come from Soybeans, rice,
potatoes, eggs, or milk. But they also include artificial ingredients. Added
sugars, thickeners, artificial flavors, vitamins, and minerals can be harmful
to the human body up to a great extent.
The powders for muscle building contain
more protein whereas the powders for weight loss contain fewer proteins.
The latest risk revealed
The health officials recommend using
protein powders only in few instances and under supervision.
Research results on toxins in
Protein powders revealed 134 products of 130 types of toxins. Many Protein powders
contain heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, lead, and cadmium. Some even
contain materials used to make plastics 25 times beyond the recommended limit.
Other cancerous contaminants and pesticides too are added in significant
volumes.
So how is this possible? How does protein powder contain so many contaminants? The researchers have elaborated on
the toxins in soils. The toxins are absorbed by the plants used as ingredients
to make protein powders.
This does not mean all Protein powders are bad
for health and contaminated.
Numerous
other risks may come too,
Protein powders are dietary supplements. There
is no exact way we could be sure of the manufacturers' claim of what it contains.
There is very little data on possible side
effects. And no information on how much is too much.
Side effects when consumed in
high dosages
Constant
stomach pains, headaches, and fatigue can be caused by consuming high dosages.
Digestive distress. Using milk-based protein
powders can cause digestive problems for those who have dairy allergies.
Some Protein powders contain excessive sugar.
So, a scoop can make a glass of milk provide over 1200 calories. This can cause
unhealthy levels of blood sugar and weight gain. The American Heart Association's
recommendation for added sugar is 24 grams for women and 36 grams for men per
day.
Excessive dosages can lower blood pressure. This
can appear as good news for people with high blood pressure. However, there are
chances this can lower the blood pressure down to dangerous levels.
Too much protein can strain the Kidneys. Simply,
when too much protein is consumed, the production quantity of Urea also escalates. This may cause the Kidneys extra pressure.
A diet of only Protein with no carbs will lead
the body to have high blood acidity levels. This may affect liver functions. Additional
Protein intake without exercise can cause liver inflammation or liver
disorders.
Dehydration.
High dosages of Protein powder can make your body dehydrate.
How to go the natural way
According to the recommended
amount of proteins per day, you can follow the below simple diet,
An egg for breakfast. An egg provides 6 grams of
protein to start your day.
A Plain Yoghurt for lunch. About 6 ounces of
this will add 18 grams of Protein.
Nuts for the evening snack. Another 4 to 7grams
of Protein.
2 ounces of cooked chicken for dinner along with
a glass of milk. An easy 14 grams for your Protein intake.
When
to use Protein Powders
Under certain medical conditions,
you can look for the use of Chemical-free Protein powders. This too is
recommended to be taken under medical supervision.
An Impaired appetite or difficulty in eating due
to old age or as a result of cancer treatments.
A wound delaying healing. Your body needs
protein to repair the broken cells or build new ones.
A condition such as burns, that needs additional
Proteins and calory intake.
However, it is always good and safe to gain your
Protein share with whole foods. Low-fat dairy products, Cheese, yogurt, milk,
eggs, and meat are not hard to find. There are many other products you can turn
to in search of Proteins.
Besides, the Protein powders don’t come cheap. So, if
you can afford it you might as well think about putting some effort to prepare
some wholesome meals.
