Maria’s son, Victor, and mother, Anna, on a cross-country trail. Photograph: Maria Westerståhl
Celeb Halloween Costumes: What Olivia Munn, Josh Lucas and More Will Wear for the Scary Holiday [ Adv3nturTrav3l ]
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| Übersetzt von Nicole Adlman
25. Oktober 2013 – 16:01
Halloween is just around the corner and some of our favorite celebs are already looking to what they might wear for the fright night festivities!
We caught up with Josh Lucas, Karlie Kloss, Olivia Munn and Anthony Mackie at the Montblanc Madison Avenue boutique opening in New York City to get the scoop on their costume plans.
Josh Lucas reminisced on one of his best costumes in years’ past: “Years ago I won best costume as Matthew McConaughey. And the reason why is because I literally had a toothbrush and a pair of shorts on and multiple people got in arguments with me for not recognizing him because they thought I was him. I literally painted a six-pack of abs on and I won best costume.”
This Halloween, Lucas’ costume will be family-oriented (he welcomed son Noah with wife Jessica Ciencin Henriquez in 2012).
“Well, this year, my little one-year-old wants to go as a lion,” he said. “So I think like a lion, sort of like the Lion King family or something would be great.”
Some celebs are repeat costume offenders: actor Anthony Mackie spilled that he would be the Tin Man this year, as he has been for many Halloweens.
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Supermodel Karlie Kloss—who attended the event in a black top and printed skirt combo shared her Halloween-away-from-home plans with us: “I’ll be in Brazil over Halloween,” Kloss said. “It’s summer down there and I don’t know how festive they get, so I’ll have to pack a Halloween costume in my suitcase.”
The model already has an idea of what get-up could be suitcase friendly.
“Well, an easy one is [to] just be a football player. Put on a big jersey, put on some big pads, sort of do some black marks,” she said. “I always throw something together at the last minute.”
Meanwhile, Olivia Munn—wearing a white Viktor & Rolf frock with strappy Armani heels—might be going in Julie Andrews garb this year.
“I actually just talked to my best guy friend the other day and I said that if one year we get our schedules together we should go as Dick Van Dyke from Mary Poppins and then I’d be Mary Poppins, because I love that movie,” Munn said.
—Reporting by Jennifer Cooper
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‘Charmed’ Netflix Success Prompts CBS Reboot [ Adv3nturTrav3l ]
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Witch drama finds new life after fans binge-watch online
Netflix has proven powerful once more: its second-most-binged show, Charmed, has been given a second life on a new network.
The witch drama originally ran on the WB from 1998-2006 but it will fly over to CBS for a brand-new reboot, Vulture reports. The first run starred Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs and Rose McGowan (who replaced Doherty in Season Four) and was produced by Aaron Spelling of Beverly Hills, 90210 fame.
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CBS is currently in the early stages of returning the show to the air, reports Vulture. Party of Five creator Chris Keyser and partner Sydney Sidner will deliver a pilot script that will potentially set the new season. Charmed continues to have an avid fanbase from which they can mine ideas; the franchise has spawned a mobile video game and graphic novels.
Netflix famously revived Arrested Development to the delight of its cult fanbase; it seems the Charmed devotees have made their presence felt just as strongly on the streaming site, which boasts over 40 million subscribers worldwide. The company has a goldmine of data regarding which programs people are watching and what will make for a success. This reboot also follows a current upswing in reworked shows; NBC recently announced that they are planning a reboot of Murder She Wrote.
Nordic drama: downhill and cross-country skiing [ Adv3nturTrav3l ]
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‘It’s really all about speed, isn’t it?” My husband has come to a breathless stop beside me, at the bottom of the red Slalombacken slope in the resort of Ramundberget, close to the Norwegian border in western Sweden.
“I was on rails!” He beams, face flushed with adrenaline and wind-chill. It dawns on me that the moment has arrived. After a good decade of capable but stiffly cautious downhill skiing, my gracefully maturing life partner has unlocked the elusive secret of “the flow” – the exhilarating harmony of movement, gravity and control that we are on the slopes to pursue.
But the irony of the timing of my husband’s eureka moment is quite enjoyable in itself. This trip was conceived as an escape from the trappings and expense of downhill skiing. Ostensibly, we had had enough of the risks and thrills of the slope, and had come to the Funäsfjällen ski area to explore the vast and varied network of Nordic ski trails for which it is famous.
What you expect from Nordic, or cross-country, skiing is hours of hypnotic gliding through the stark, silent beauty of forest and fell, bathed in slanted light and interrupted only by the left-right swishy rhythm of effort and the occasional nod to a lone fellow enthusiast. This is the sport in its original form, pure and virtuous.
“Let’s do Slalombacken again,” shouts my husband over the din of the T-bar lift as it drags us towards the summit.
The truth is that we love both meditation and adrenaline, and that Funäsfjällen is the perfect place to have it all. Its five small downhill resorts are both exciting and manageable, and linked by 300km of beautifully prepared trails that comprise the Nordic Ski Centre – and a further 450km of marked touring trails.
Each resort offers enough for many days’ varied skiing, and a comprehensive lift pass gives access to the lot. A car-free week is possible, but it would involve some thought and planning as the ski-bus service between resorts is infrequent. For us, a group of six aged between two and 64, the week would have been a struggle without the 4×4 monster that brought us on the mountainous journey from Oslo. Either way, it’s sensible to choose a base to adventure from. We settled on Ramundberget, northernmost of the five, a low-key, friendly and well-established resort with offerings for all ages and inclinations.
Maria (left) and family take a hot chocolate break
The eponymous mountain rises like a whale out of a shallow forest sea, and though the slopes down its flanks are relatively short, so are the lift queues. Forest trails weave between ravines, black moguls and easy traverses. Toddlers learn the ropes on the gentle incline of LillRamis, while older children are well-looked-after in finely graded group lessons. Then families do lunchtime child swaps in the spacious warming hut, where packed lunches mingle with a basic hot food menu and toddlers jump on piles of jackets. (More refined options are available in the charming Fjällgården hotel, or in the striking circular Tusen – Thousand – restaurant near the summit.)
Cross-country novices can explore the gentle valley landscape before setting off on more adventurous highland trails. The summit waffle hut at Kariknallen is a good place to aim for, best reached via a ridgetop touring ski trail. For the faint of heart there is also a daily tow tractor.
For all the daytime options, there’s not much nightlife in Funäsfjällen, which is modelled on a well-established Swedish tradition of family skiing: self-catered chalets in quiet clusters among the trees. Revellers are better off a few hours north in Åre, Sweden’s most extensive and lively resort, where timber-slatted bars cater to a steady stream of urbanites.
More often than not, Swedish ski chalets are a bit anonymous and charmless, facilitators of a week’s inhabitation without excess or fuss. But PS Arkitektur, a small Stockholm-based architecture firm, is working to change that. We are luxuriating in a Fjällhuset (Fell House), one of a handful of types of simple, prefabricated barn-style chalet – with stylish wood and monochrome interiors – built here by the company.
The cool Fjällhuset interior
Deceptively simple in form, it is an understated declaration of love to the landscape that puts the extensive commercial competition to shame. And its location, a mere 20m from the nearest trail, is perfect – Fjällhuset will make you want to go cross-country skiing. As we watch dusk fall over the glowing mountains through the chalet’s picture window, we find the pull of a more subtle adventure gradually replacing the instant thrill of the slopes.
Our lift passes expired, we shove a grumbling toddler into a baby sleigh and get our anoraks on for a whole-family outing. The forecast is quite fierce, so we forgo the open fell and opt for a long loop around the forest’s edge in Ljusnedal, 20km to the south. The plan is to turn back early to prevent overexertion, but as the wind dissipates into an exquisite, sunny day, we are lulled into a hypnotic rhythm of movement. A singing eight-year-old leads our single file along the wavy edge of the high fell, and a gruelling final climb is rewarded by several thrilling miles of the gentle, wobbly descent so particular to Nordic skiing. In a race against the dark, we spend our last energies in a final sprint to the car.
It is impossible to know whether the first skis humans invented – they are thought to predate the wheel – instilled their users with the same collective unity of purpose and connection to the landscape: the notion of the sublime was more probably born of leisure than necessity. For their sake, though, I hope it did.
• Norwegian Airlines (norwegian.com) flies from Gatwick to Trondheim in Norway, about a three-hour drive from Funäsfjällen, from £57 return. A week at the Bruksvallarna 724 chalet, which sleeps seven, costs from £650. For bookings and information on ski passes, hire and lessons, call +46 684 15580 or visit funasfjallen.se/vinter/english
Herbal remedy can’t be recommended – STLtoday.com [ Adv3nturTrav3l ]
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Dear Dr. Roach • I am a woman who just turned 75, and I have a chronic dry cough. I visited my pulmonary doctor, and he diagnosed bronchiectasis. There is no cure, but there are herbal products, such as Creseton. They claim to have a 90 percent cure rate, which is better than no cure at all. Can you give me any suggestions or have you heard about the herbal products? — P.N.
Answer • Bronchiectasis is an uncommon lung condition in North America. It is a reaction to previous infection with a scarring process in the small airways. It is similar to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It’s more common in women and certain ethnic groups, or in conjunction with conditions like cystic fibrosis or alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. There is no way to reverse the scarring in the lungs once it occurs, but exacerbation of the disease can be both treated and sometimes prevented with antibiotics.
I looked up Creseton, and the company reported good results from its own, unpublished study. I can’t recommend the product on the basis of what the maker reported. I would like to believe it, but if something sounds too good to be true, it might be.
Dear Dr. Roach • I recently read that many doctors and nurses have low-frequency hearing loss, resulting in a falsely elevated blood pressure measurement compared with an automated blood pressure machine. Please comment. — P.I.
Answer • Accurately measuring blood pressure is very important, and there are several concerns. For the best accuracy, the blood pressure should be taken seated, with a manual mercury device using a properly sized cuff, three times, and the average recorded (as I learned years ago: thanks, Dr. William Elliott). Only very advanced automated models, costing up to thousands of dollars, can approach the accuracy of a trained clinician.
I couldn’t find the news piece you read, but it makes some sense. Health-care providers aren’t immune to losing hearing as we get older, and hearing loss can lead to inaccuracy in blood pressure measurement. Hearing loss can mean an error of several points.
There is abundant evidence that in the vast majority of cases, home and inexpensive office machines are not as accurate as humans.
Dear Dr. Roach • There is much controversy circulating about the healthiest choices available today for butter and margarine spreads made with canola oil, coconut oil, flaxseed oil, grapeseed oil and olive oil.
There are so many choices that it is almost mind-boggling to the average consumer. I keep receiving emails from friends and relatives with articles that state margarine was developed to fatten up turkeys, and when that did not fly, it was marketed to people as a healthy substitute for butter. Yet, I read labels on products claiming much lower saturated fat than real butter contains.
Many articles forwarded to me have a product to sell, and so their claims are used push these products, whether valid or not. — M.P.
Answer • Today’s margarine is not the margarine of the 1950s. Margarines with plant sterols and stanols (sold as Benecol and Smart Balance) reduce LDL cholesterol, although it’s not clear whether they reduce the risk of heart disease. The main advice I give is to completely avoid trans-saturated fatty acids (on food labels as “trans fat”). Most food companies have received that message, and it’s easy to find high-quality margarine. The vast preponderance of the evidence is that margarines are healthier for you than butter.
That doesn’t mean you can’t have butter occasionally. We all make choices that affect our health. The harm you do from a little butter is small. Too much isn’t harmless, though.
Dr. Keith Roach is a physician at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital.Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, Fla. 32853-6475.
//Can Herbal Remedies Treat Back Pain? – American News Report [ Adv3nturTrav3l ]
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If your back is killing you but you’re afraid of surgery and worried about getting hooked on prescription painkillers, a Florida researcher says a topical herbal remedy may be a better alternative.
Capsaicin , the active compound in cayenne pepper, strikes the first blow in Hennekens’s double-fisted herbal remedy. Capsaicin acts as a powerful local stimulant that, with repeated applications to the skin, reduces the body’s sensitivity to pain.
Peppermint and wintergreen oils deliver the knockout blow to lower back pain. The essential oil from wintergreen leaves contains about 98% methyl salicylate, a compound similar to the pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory properties of aspirin. In addition, the combination of both oils may enhance the effects of each individually, enabling the use of lower doses that reduce the risk of side effects.
“If these alternative medications were equivalent or superior to the existing therapies, their lower risks may favor their more widespread use,” said Hennekens.
In the U.S., low back pain affects eight out of 10 people at some point during their lives. Treatment varies depending on the degree of the pain and includes ice packs, exercise, prescription drugs, injections, and in some cases, surgery. Hennekens says drugs such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors (COXIBS), offer only limited benefits for the treatment of low back pain and have both cardiovascular and gastrointestinal side effects.
Hennekens and his colleagues say healthcare providers should compare the benefits and risks of potentially promising and safer alternative treatments to conventional therapies.
“Dr. Hennekens and his colleagues are raising important issues about the efficacy and safety of different treatments for this common clinical problem,” said David J. Bjorkman, MD, a gastroenterologist and dean and executive director of medical affairs in FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine.
Tags: back pain, capsaicin, peppermint, wintergeeen
//Can Herbal Remedies Treat Back Pain? – American News Report [ Adv3nturTrav3l ]
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If your back is killing you but you’re afraid of surgery and worried about getting hooked on prescription painkillers, a Florida researcher says a topical herbal remedy may be a better alternative.
Capsaicin , the active compound in cayenne pepper, strikes the first blow in Hennekens’s double-fisted herbal remedy. Capsaicin acts as a powerful local stimulant that, with repeated applications to the skin, reduces the body’s sensitivity to pain.
Peppermint and wintergreen oils deliver the knockout blow to lower back pain. The essential oil from wintergreen leaves contains about 98% methyl salicylate, a compound similar to the pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory properties of aspirin. In addition, the combination of both oils may enhance the effects of each individually, enabling the use of lower doses that reduce the risk of side effects.
“If these alternative medications were equivalent or superior to the existing therapies, their lower risks may favor their more widespread use,” said Hennekens.
In the U.S., low back pain affects eight out of 10 people at some point during their lives. Treatment varies depending on the degree of the pain and includes ice packs, exercise, prescription drugs, injections, and in some cases, surgery. Hennekens says drugs such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors (COXIBS), offer only limited benefits for the treatment of low back pain and have both cardiovascular and gastrointestinal side effects.
Hennekens and his colleagues say healthcare providers should compare the benefits and risks of potentially promising and safer alternative treatments to conventional therapies.
“Dr. Hennekens and his colleagues are raising important issues about the efficacy and safety of different treatments for this common clinical problem,” said David J. Bjorkman, MD, a gastroenterologist and dean and executive director of medical affairs in FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine.
Tags: back pain, capsaicin, peppermint, wintergeeen
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