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  • Depending on family history, eating a lot of small hard foods like peanuts and sunflower seeds may put you at risk for diverticulitis.

    You have small pockets of tissue in your large intestine that can allow small, undigested pieces of food to get stuck. If it hangs out there too long, it may harbor bacteria that will grow and then you end up with acute lower abdominal pain that could turn into a life-threatening problem akin to apendicitis.








  • I’m originally from the Midwest and was living in Virginia when it snowed about a foot overnight. Looked like nothing to me, but I didn’t realize the infrastructure back home was much more capable of handling snow.

    Plows and salt trucks were out any time it snowed and the streets would always be cleared by the morning. The only time we ever canceled school was for very cold temps (-20 F or so) and for heavy snow that outpaced the snow plows.

    The foot of snow in Virginia caused the entire area shut down because they couldn’t handle it as well.