Despite the nuts’ dietary praise, their apples (or pseudo fruits) remain mostly out of the spotlight. The cashew apple—or the plump part of the cashew fruit, connected to the cashew nut—looks like a mini, oval-shaped boxing glove. Botanically speaking, cashew apples are so-called accessory fruits because they grow after cashew seeds have fully developed. Thus, the actual drupe or peduncle is the kidney-shaped shell enclosing the edible cashew nut, which you’ll find at the end of the apple....

Is astral sex a real thing? It’s hard to say. But countless people claim to have experienced OBEs1, and many of them believe they were able to visit the astral plane, sometimes at will. The idea is that someone is able to intentionally “leave” their physical body, and if you believe in this core concept of out-of-body experiences, then astral sex is within the realm of reason. According to Graham Nicholls, an OBE researcher and author of Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience, one theory is that an OBE is “a construct or schema that is based upon sensory information not coming from the ordinary senses2 (extrasensory perception, if you will)....

The core of Ayurveda is focused on prevention. It’s based on the concept that general health and wellness rely on a delicate balance between mind, body, and spirit. If you’ve been searching for a holistic and balanced approach to your overall health, you’re in the right place. The Vedas detail extensive preventive care approaches as well as treatments, even highlighting surgical procedures like nose jobs, kidney stone removal, and stitches. The Vedas detail how to treat issues like dry skin, fever, diarrhea, tumors, seizures, heart disease, and beyond, using over 700 Ayurvedic herbs....

Most prominently, the term emotional labor is often used to describe the emotional demands of a relationship (such as being available for your friends to unload their problems on you) as well as the family management responsibilities women tend to be saddled with in heterosexual relationships (such as being the one who’s in charge of knowing what chores need to get done and assigning them to your partner). In general, emotional labor can be thought of as any tasks that take from a person’s emotional, mental, or energetic tank....

As people bring alt-milk into their homes, they’re also bringing questions. Specifically, what’s in it? Plant-based milks often have long lists of ingredients. Some, like water and almonds, are easily recognizable; others, like gellan gum…not so much. Gellan gum is a vegan thickening agent added to foods to create and maintain a desired consistency. “It’s found in nature, growing on water lilies,” explains Lauren McNeill, R.D., MPH. Food producers don’t go pond-hopping to find it, though....

Rape culture is a deeply ingrained societal issue that combines these obvious problems with more subtle ones, like how women are taught to prevent rape more than men are taught not to rape. Here, we again see rape being treated as something that’s normal and expected. Importantly, just because you’re not a rapist doesn’t mean you don’t contribute to rape culture. Sure, jokes are jokes. But when the butt of our jokes are victims of unspeakable trauma, we’re unnecessarily reopening people’s wounds—and subtly sending the message that what they experienced is not that big a deal....

Here’s everything you need to know about being pansexual, or “pan” for short. “As someone who identifies as pansexual, I define pansexuality as being attracted to people who are located anywhere along the spectrum of gender identity,” says psychologist Akilah Sigler, LMHC. This isn’t to say pansexual people are attracted to everyone, but gender just isn’t the defining factor in who they are and aren’t attracted to. Some pansexual people say that they’re attracted to people based on personality, with gender playing no role at all....