I’ve been enjoying some really nice banana chocolate chip baked oats lately, but it’s a ton of effort. So I want to just put my regular rolled oats in a bowl (cereal style) with milk and maybe some fruit mixed in, but I haven’t seen that done before. Are raw oats safe?
I’m proud of myself for standing my ground lol, finally getting the hang of being a teacher now that my first year is almost over. But this situation was genuinely ridiculous. I teach English (as a foreign language, not located in the US) and my students have to take a unit test this week. I specifically set aside two days for it for each class. I announced the test two weeks ago, and reminded students every day that they had a test at the beginning of this week.
This might not be a surprise to the veteran teachers here, but I wasn’t expecting it. Half of my first period class had no idea that the test was today. They were totally shocked and convinced that it was set for the end of the week. They argued with me that I couldn’t possibly give them a test today because they didn’t study. And Wednesday is also impossible because then they only have two days to study. Friday at the earliest!
And one student has been absent for half of the unit (not sick, just absent) and obviously doesn’t know any of the content, and she argued extensively with me that I had to postpone the test for at least two weeks and reteach the whole unit. For her benefit, with the whole class sitting through it anyway. There’s not even enough time left in the school year for that. It’s such an out of pocket thing to demand but she didn’t see any problem with it?
In the end, they took that test today, but I don’t think they’ll finish by the end of Wednesday’s class because they wasted so much time. Then I have to see how I deal with that.
I’m so ready for summer to arrive, I don’t know where these students get these ideas from. The world doesn’t revolve around you!
I started getting periods at 11, now 22 (half my life oh my god), and I always had a very heavy flow (one memorable day, I bled through three pairs of pants just trying to get ready for school in the morning), on my heaviest days usually went through 7-8 night pads in a day. I had terrible pain, reliably vomiting on the first day of each period, couldn't move from the pain and missed school every period.
The second I turned 18 I started on birth control and it helped a lot. The pain is now manageable with ibuprofen, I can move and go to work on my period, but it's still miserable (on my period now, I can't walk more than 10 minutes without needing to sit). More notably, before, my period came on a more or less reliable 25-30 day cycle, but now with birth control I have my period on the placebo week (obviously) but also on the second week. So maybe the bleeding per period is less, but I'm having two periods a month now.
I have gone to multiple doctors, they keep increasing the birth control dose, but I have never had any tests done or anything because I was told that they were unnecessary. Is this really normal/something I have to live with until I finally stop having periods? I know periods are just part of life and totally normal but the thought of having to deal with this for a couple more decades feels like an absolute nightmare.
I just had an EEG after my GP sent me to neurology with suspicions of epilepsy. No one told me about the results now, obviously, I have to wait to follow up with the neurologist. The thing is, during the EEG I didn’t lose consciousness, which happened with my other events, so I’m worried that the test won’t show anything. Of course I would prefer to have nothing, but since I am having seizures, I’m desperate to know why so the doctors can treat me.
Is that a reasonable thing to worry about? Will they be able to see some results regardless?
Thank you!
I love spinach, but I just saw a video where someone said raw spinach is unhealthy because of the oxalate content and when I looked it up it seems to be true. I don’t know if I’m personally prone to kidney stones, but someone in my family had pancreatic stones and has diabetes now as a result of that so I want to be careful to avoid that happening to me and now I’m also worried about not being able to absorb nutrients because of it. Sadly I can’t stand cooked spinach so I have been eating lots of raw.
So I need advice, how can I substitute spinach? I was always raised on the assumption that fruits and vegetables are healthy but it seems to be a lot more complicated than that and I’m starting to feel like everything is unhealthy, so what can I have instead?
Thanks!
My latest blood test results show:
Cholesterol: 229 mg/dL
HDL: 67 mg/dL
LDL: 123 mg/dL
Triglycerides: 194 mg/dL
I'm 22 years old, and I thought I had a healthy diet. Only whole wheat bread, almost all of my fats come from EVOO, nuts, and avocados, I eat red meat maybe once a month, my diet is maybe 80% fruits and vegetables. Maybe I salt my food too much, but that's all. I'm worried about these numbers even though the doctor said it's not at a point where I need medication yet. How can I fix my diet/lifestyle to get my cholesterol back to a normal range?