With COVID-19, everything about life at home is magnified — your good eating habits and your crappy ones. You may see yourself using food as an escape, a reward, or a stress-relief tool. You may see patterns of emotional eating or restricting yourself. You may find yourself over-eating, under-eating, or just not knowing what to eat. Your relationship with food will often mirror your relationship to life. And let’s face it, life right now is strange and stressful. It’s natural, your eating will be too. Stop punishing yourself for what you ate or didn’t eat yesterday. Let go of the expectations you had about food pre-COVID-19. Your body knows that something is different now. Your nervous systems can feel the...
While there is debate as to when it should happen, the fact is businesses are reopening in places where the coronavirus pandemic shows signs of abating. Among the first wave of businesses to open their doors again: gyms. Men's Health did a deep dive into how everyone's experience at the gym is about to change post-COVID-19. Because like it or not, working out is about to be a very different experience for those who run fitness facilities and for their customers. Men's Health noted that a spokesperson for the U.S. Surgeon General said that gyms are allowed to open as long as "they adhere to strict physical distancing and sanitation protocols." To that end, gyms at all levels with different...
Amidst quarantine stay-at-home orders, many events have been postponed or canceled. Considering these circumstances, Mom could use a great Mother’s Day this year, but how do you celebrate it without the ability to leave the house? Luckily, you don’t need a fancy brunch or a luxurious trip to the spa to show your mom how much you care. With some creativity and preparation, you can give your mom a great day at home, and it just might be the most meaningful Mother’s Day she’s had yet. Keep reading for ways you can spoil your Mom at home this Mother’s Day. Breakfast in Bed – There’s nothing better than waking up to the smell of bacon. Start Mother’s Day off...
In addition to its fatal effects on human lives and livelihoods, the pandemic has instilled fear in people. This will create a grim future for the restaurants industry in a post COVID-19 era. The emphasis is on maintaining social distancing and hygiene, and restaurants may have to undergo restoration processes to ensure contactless dining to bring back diner confidence as they resume operations. Dining out and restaurant tech platform, Dineout launched a eWhitepaper’ that lists down restoration guidelines for the industry on staff management, staff health and safety, restaurant space sanitisation, food safety, social distancing, inventory management and measures for takeaway and delivery business models. It was released by the Additional Director General of the Ministry of Tourism, Rupinder Brar...
Photo credit: Michael Bilow RI Gov. Gina Raimondo allowed her stay-at-home executive order to expire March 8, the next day beginning “Phase 1” of at least three such phases, each expected to last at least two weeks. On April 27, she laid out six specific criteria that all had to be met before any of the phased reopening could start: Has the rate of spread continued to decrease? Do we have the capacity to quickly identify community spread on an ongoing basis before a major outbreak occurs? Do we have the necessary supports in place for vulnerable populations and for anyone in quarantine? Does our healthcare system have the capacity and the PPE to handle future surges? Do businesses, schools,...
