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Whether they’re eaten raw or cooked, vegetables are some of the healthiest foods around, but a new study shows that raw vegetable consumption actually helps increase life expectancy. Surprisingly, cooked vegetables don’t have the same results. The study focused on cardiovascular disease, and it tracked older participants for more than a decade. It found that those who consumed raw vegetables regularly were less likely to have cardiovascular disease, and also less likely to die from it. Cooked vegetables are still helpful in preventing some ailments, such as high blood pressure, but in the case of CVD, raw reigned supreme. Read...

Cole Sigmon, the wastewater treatment manager for the City of Boulder's Water Resource Recovery Facility, stands near an aeration pond at the plant. Frani Halperin/H2O Media, Ltd. BOULDER, Colo.— Flushing the toilet. It’s something we all do several times a day. We take showers, wash our hands, do the dishes and clean the laundry. We probably don’t think much about where the water and the stuff in it goes after we’re done. It’s out of sight and out of mind.But not to Dr. Sherri Cook, who teaches environmental engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Thinking about what goes down...

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Whether you need more storage in your bathroom or want to add more decor to this space, adding floating shelves in bathrooms is a great way to do both. There are so many ways to decorate floating shelves, along with a few things you want to remember not to do. Bathrooms tend to be the rooms that need the least amount of decoration, and a few key pieces make the biggest differences. The shelves also should be able to serve as useful storage with style, so think nice baskets and jars to display (or hide) your everyday items. If you...

Photo by Nelson Ndongala Did you all hear it’s supposed to hit 90 degrees this weekend? Better get those A/Cs in windows stat or else you’re staring down an extremely hot Saturday, even if you’re not planning to run in the Brooklyn Half. “Oh well, at least it’s almost beach season,” you may be thinking to yourself. Not so fast, friends, it looks like the main stretch of The Rockaways is going to be closed for the first half of the summer, which has me scrambling to figure out who I know with access to a pool within an hour...