While the cause of browning can differ depending on the type and location of your plant, here are some general rules of (green)thumb to remember. Rebecca Bullene, the founder of Brooklyn-based plant shop Greenery Unlimited, says that this browning is a plant’s way of telling you it’s stressed. “Plants get stressed just like humans do—and like with humans, their stress is cumulative over time,” she explains. This means that the leaf browning you’re seeing may not even be an immediate reaction to your recent watering routine but instead speak to the tiny stressors your plant has been putting up with for a while....

We chatted with experts in both nutrition and fitness about exactly what you should eat after a workout to gain muscle, depending on the type of exercise. MPS promotes muscle growth by helping put your body in an anabolic state in which the rate of MPS exceeds the rate of muscle protein breakdown2. Exercise stimulates both the growth and breakdown of muscle tissue3. Eating after a workout helps fuel your body to build muscle (anabolism) while preventing muscle breakdown (catabolism)....

To get the most out of every dish, mbg spoke with food experts for insight on the best time to add different spices while cooking and why. In traditional Indian dishes, like curry or stews, she says adding whole spices into hot oil is the first step. Aromatic spices, such as garlic, ginger, and onion come next. Finally, sprinkle in dry, powdered spices at the end. This layering method ensures a rich, nuanced, and flavorful dish every time....

“When you have product, dirt, and oil building up around your follicle opening—which is where your hair grows out of—buildup around that starts to slowly suffocate your hair root, and it causes inflammation,” she says. “This inflammation will not only affect the quality of your hair growth, but it will physically hurt. So when you’re moving your hair around, it’s the inflammation that you are feeling.” And it’s becoming increasingly common for a few reasons, she says....

I totally get that. I was on oral contraceptives for 10 years and also used to feel like the Pill made my skin clearer and my breasts larger and that therefore, this made me “better-looking." Going off of birth control gave me the opportunity to listen to my body and observe symptoms like my acne in order to treat the root cause. This turned out to be compromised digestion and a diet that wasn’t ideal for my body....

People’s most common reasons for not kissing during their last sexual encounter: Interestingly and perhaps depressingly, people in monogamous relationships were less likely to kiss their partner during their last sexual encounter: Just 61% of coupled-up people said they kissed their partner the last time they had sex. Monogamous couples were also “substantially” less likely to cuddle (just 32% of people in relationships said they cuddled the last time they had sex)....

What the CDC (or any of the powers that be, for that matter) doesn’t address quite so clearly—much to many experts’ dismay—is the fact that nutrition is also a nonnegotiable in the fight against COVID-19. Of course, all that information is important and useful—as are the other COVID-19 guidelines the CDC has laid out. But, unfortunately, there’s not a single mention of nutrition as a preventive measure—it’s entirely left out of the conversation on their “Prevent Getting Sick2” section....