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Lettuce face it, salads are really just an excuse to eat dressing. Am I right?

With all of the lettuce contamination outbreaks in the past 10 years and heck just the past 6 months with two romaine outbreaks, (let’s not forget the spinach one a few years ago too!) I’m literally scared for myself and everyone to eat this stuff raw. Doesn’t a cooked lettuce salad sound delish? 

Washing lettuce won’t kill e.coli and salmonella. It has to be cooked. Like to 140-160 degrees. And who doesn’t love a cooked lettuce salad? Mmmm! No.

Since it sounds like we have a better chance at not eating raw contaminated other vegetables like the other vegetables we put on top of the lettuce (carrots, cukes, etc) maybe just exclude the lettuce? But then it feels like something is missing...

So, try my new obsession...

I mention the Calm app in my last post "New eye glasses, pillow, and mattress" which is part of my "Why the headaches?" series.

I heard about the Calm app and installed it from the iOS store on my iPhone. I just did the trial for a month or so before purchasing a 1 years subscription. The free trial came with only 4 "sleep stories". What is a sleep story? Think of it like a mommy reading her toddler a bedtime story. Only, I was the toddler, and the mommy was some stranger reading me a story to help me fall asleep. Sleep is so important, so I knew I needed a non-medicine way to help me fall asleep.

This is part 2 to my "Why the headaches?" post here. After getting a new office chair, which was life-changing by the way, I also started wearing glasses at my computer for work, bought a new pillow, and a new bed mattress.

After I figured out the whole pillow thing and was sitting in my new throne at my desk, I was still getting headaches. This time for a different reason. I was stumped. After having many conversations with friends and family, my own sister told me 

she began to wear glasses while working at her computer. The weird thing was that she had Lasik only a year before, so I was surprised that she needed computer glasses. I actually own glasses that were...

Sleep is important. Like, really, really important. Sleep is a major part of living a healthy lifestyle. So when I wasn't sleeping well, I felt it, bad. Lately, I have been suffering from aches and pains. I am only 35, so I felt like this was way too soon to feel this way. It all started the last week in September 2017. The headaches started. I usually only have heads leading up to "that time of the month" and a couple of days during that time, so that "time" was nearly over and these headaches were uncharacteristic. What was wrong with me?