There's more to salad than a few limp lettuce leaves - and the infographics below will

show you how to make the tastiest salads possible. Summer, in particular, is a wonderful

time to prepare some fresh and crisp salad, because of the luscious produce available

during this season. But, with so much availability, what ingredients make for the most mouthwatering salad? The produce guides and infographics below will help you whip up

a great deal of refreshing, colorful and nutritious salads this summer.

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1. Are your vegetables ripe?

A salad is only tasty when the vegetables or fruit we use is ripe. The chart below serves

as a fantastic guide in determining whether your ingredients are edible to eat. Take

a look:

If your knees are giving you problems when getting out of bed, you are not alone. Statistics show that nearly 50 million Americans feel the same way. In fact, knees are the most commonly injured joints in the body - which shouldn't come as much of a surprise, considering their everyday use, causing wear and tear. Simply walking up the stairs, for example, puts pressure on the knee joints equating to four times your body weight. But, it's never too late to alleviate knee pain. Just as a rusty door hinge can revert to its original glory with care and maintenance, your knees can be trouble free too.

The key lies in exercising muscles surrounding the knee joints - the quadriceps (front thigh muscle), the hamstrings (back thigh muscles), the abductors (outside thigh muscles) and the adductor (inside thigh muscles). Exercising the muscles around your knee will keep them strong and less susceptible to injury. Exercising often, will also help keep your joints from stiffening, providing you with needed support, making movement easier and therefore reducing pain.

The following, simple exercises will both help you stretch and strengthen the knee area.

This may come as a surprise, but your home is also a private pharmacy, with many kinds of medicines hiding on your kitchen shelves, all you need to do is find them. These 15 excellent tips will teach you how to make the most out of your kitchen when you’re feeling sick. Don’t forget to save this page, and share it with friends. 

1. Horseradish

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To ease stiff muscles, make a paste from a cup of oil and a tablespoon of horseradish, then massage it into the sore spot.

2. Vinegar

Bruises can be faded quickly by soaking a piece of cotton wool in vinegar and applying it to the bruised area for about an hour.

Rainbows, most would agree, are one of the most beautiful gifts found in nature. They are colorful, magical, and impossible to catch. They remind us of old stories between Gods and men, of magical creatures and natural wonder. The double rainbow is even more magical, and almost all cultures give positive meaning to seeing a double rainbow. 

Although rainbows can technically be found in a bottle of water or in a puddle, it is the double rainbows that fill the sky that take our breath away, and make people from all cultures, genders and creeds stop and take in the beauty.

Where would most of us be without our cars? They have taken us on so many journeys, and provided us with a great deal of comfort and ease in getting around. While we may be grateful for our trusty cars, there are some smart hacks that we can use to make our experience in them all the better.

1. Use toothpaste to shine your headlights

Toothpaste has many nifty uses, and one such use lies in its effectiveness in shining headlights. All you need to do is buff the headlight with toothpaste by smearing some on a soft cloth. This fantastic trick only takes a couple of minutes, and will leave your headlights sparkling like they were new.

Cumin (also known as jeera) is a delicious spice that is used to flavor a variety of dishes

across a range of cultures. You may not even realize how often you eat it, but it's present in a lot of Mexican food, where it is used to help flavor tacos and fajitas, and numerous curries

and other fragrant dishes from Asia and beyond. 

Aside from being delicious, this versatile herb also comes back with numerous health

benefits that make it an absolute must for your herb rack at home. This article will

introduce you to plenty of good reasons to add a dash of cumin to your regular cooking

plan, and give you some ideas about how you can do so!

What is cumin?
Cumin is actually a flowering plant that can grow up to around a foot (0.30 meters) tall. It's native to a number of countries across several continents, including India, Mexico, China and the Mediterranean countries of Europe. White or pink flowers blossom on the plant during hot summers, but it's the yellow-brown colored seeds that are harvested for their edible qualities.

The small, flat seeds are either ground down into powder or used whole in Mexican dishes to provide a fragrant, earthy flavor, or in combination with other spices such as turmeric in Indian curries, Middle Eastern food and some Chinese cuisine. Eastern cultures in particular have long recognized that the seeds are not only a delicious spice with various culinary uses, they also bring a number of medicinal qualities to those who eat them regularly - and other cultures are now starting to wake up to the health benefits of cumin too.

I have mixed feelings about life. Sometimes I adore it, sometimes I feel angry at it, sometimes it drives me crazy, and other times, it breaks my heart. But despite all these feelings, I feel thankful for having it, especially when I realize that all the unpleasant struggles and lows are also part of this beautiful, breathtaking journey. Today, take a moment to reflect on all the things life is blessing you with - both the good and the bad, the big and the small - because they are all gifts worth appreciating.

How often do you overlook your ankles as part of your exercise regime? Strong, flexible ankles are an important foundation as they help prevent injury whether it is during exercise, or in an everyday routine, such as running to catch the bus. A few minutes of exercise each day can help keep any ankle discomfort and sprains at bay. So, give your ankle joints a little bit of attention by following these ankle-strengthening exercises each day of the week.

1. Calf Raises (Basic)

This exercise will help stabilize your ankle joints and help you strengthen your calves too. It also activates the muscles that support the ankle joint.

Here's How:

1. Keep your feet hip-width apart.

2. Slowly raise your heels until you are on your tiptoes, then slowly lower your feet back down to the ground. Take 3 slow counts, raising and lowering your heels. Do 20 repetitions.

The Philippines is a simply amazing country - with such beautiful mountains, hills, volcanoes, beaches, cities and lakes - that it's well worth a visit. Just look at its stunning landscapes and try to picture yourself enjoying this lush land of fantasy. So why not delight over these 15 superb photographs and learn a little bit about the turbulent but riveting history of the Philippines?

INTERACTIVE: click on the photographs to see them in their fully-enlarged glory.

1. The Chocolate Hills

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The Philippines is named after the king of Spain, Philip II (1556-1598), whose nation ruled the Asian archipelago as a colony for more than three centuries.

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At the time of the last ice age, the Philippines was joined to mainland Asia before being set adrift as it now is, becoming a confederation of 7,000 separate islands.

Off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada lies a horse lover's dream - an island that’s home to about 500 feral horses that run free of gates, fences and, for the most part, people.

Sable Island only ever has five permanent human residents, meaning that the horses outnumber them 100 to one. The horses are the descendants of horses that the British seized during the 18th-Century expulsion of the Acadian people (French colonists of the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island).

The horses on the crescent-shaped island, which lies some 190 miles (300 km) off the Canadian coast, live off freshwater ponds and marram (a type of grass). They are also known to dig into the island’s sand to get to the water beneath.

During the relatively short time since they were set free on Sable Island in the 1760s, they actually evolved and developed distinct genetic traits. Sadly, they nearly didn’t make it through to the present day, because the Canadian government proposed culling them in 1959, with the pretext of “saving” them from the island’s harsh and unforgiving environment.

The National Geographic has always been a showcase for the world's best photography. Each year it holds prestigious competitions, attracting the most talented photographers from around the world, and this year is no exception. The 2016 Travel Photographer of the Year has been named, and both the winner and runners-up have captured spectacular and memorable photos. The photos were selected from more than 10,000 entries. Check out their breathtaking photos below, along with the photographer's brief explanation on how the photo was take:

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1. Winter Horseman, Inner Mongolia

"The winter in Inner Mongolia is very unforgiving. At a freezing temperature of minus twenty and lower, with constant snowy winds from all directions, it was pretty hard to convince myself to get out of the car and take photos. When I saw Inner Mongolian horsemen showing off their skills and commanding the steed from a distance, I quickly grabbed my lens and captured a moment, when one of the horseman charged out from morning mist." Photographer: Anthony Lau, Grand Prize Winner

Optical illusions always seem to baffle me. Try as I might to figure them out, I am unable to. I always find myself in awe as to how they actually work - these three optical illusions in particular. Can you solve the mysteries that you're about to see? Watch the videos below:

1. The shape-shifting cylinders

Since it was first posted on the internet, this ambiguous cylinder illusion has had viewers baffled. Watch how these objects change when placed in front of a mirror. Can you figure it out?

The Explanation: Though they look like vertical cylinders, their sections appear to be different: in one view they appear to be rectangles, but in the other, they appear to be circles. So how is this optical illusion pulled off? The video below explains how it works:

1. Ginger and Honey: Treating Upset Stomach

• 1 cup of honey
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped ginger root
• A pinch of ground ginger (optional)

1. Pour 1 cup of honey into a saucepan and add 1 tablespoon of finely chopped ginger root. 

2. You can add a small pinch of ground ginger if you’d like as well, but it does have a strong flavor. 

3. On low heat let the mixture sit for 10 minutes. 

4. When it’s done let it infuse for 2 hours or up to 2 weeks in a glass jar with a tightly fitting lid.

5. Strain when it’s finished if you’d like.

6. Alternatively, you can also add chopped ginger root to herbal tea.

Grocery shopping can be a real chore, so it's nice to limit the amount of times you have to do it by buying as much produce in one go as possible. However, this means that the food you buy has to last longer, and some fresh products just aren't up to such a task! Luckily, these easy tips will help you store many common food items in a way that keeps them fresher for longer, saving you time and money! 

1. Always Separate Your Bananas and Wrap the Stems in Cling Film

Bananas are prone to going brown and soft annoyingly quickly, once you have them home. However, there is a simple way you can keep them fresh for longer! They may look good when you put them in your fruit bowl as a whole bunch, but you should separate each banana and then wrap the top of the individual stems in cling film. This slows the release of of ethylene gas, which is responsible for the enzymatic browning and ripening of a banana, and any fruit around it. Bananas can last for two weeks using this technique!

2. Store Your Green Leaves With Paper Towels

If you buy lettuce regularly, you will know it doesn't take long for leaves to wilt, slime over and eventually dry up. If you want to preserve their crispness, then simply line an airtight, plastic container with paper towels, and pop your lettuce leaves inside. Put another paper towel on top before you put the lid onto the container. The paper towel will absorb the excess moisture and preserve the greens inside. This technique is a much better option than the use of a plastic bag.

Psoriasis (pronounced suh-ry-uh-sus) is a chronic skin condition, that causes extremely dry, flaky and itchy skin. It results from the fomation of extra skin cells on top of the epidermis, causing the skin to become thick and almost scaly in nature. Unfortunately, it's regarded by conventional medicine as a lifelong condition, with no permanent cure available as of yet. For a deeper understanding on what psoriasis is,this guide will prove to be very helpful. Meanwhile, in this post we take a look at what home remedies and herbs you may use to alleviate the itchiness. 

Using Natural Remedies with Care 

To get the all the benefits from the following herbs, most will require that you use their essential oils (natural extracts from the core of the plant). These oils may be applied topically, however, as these natural remedies are very potent, they should be handled with care. With this in mind, essential oils should never be rubbed directly onto your skin unless they have been diluted with a carrier oil (such as a cold pressed - coconut oil, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, olive oil, grapeseed oil or sunflower oil). 

Take a bath: Add 6 to 10 drops of the oils in a bath, diluted in 1 tablespoon milk or honey, dispersed in water. Mix the water in the bath well before entering. 

Apply topically: Add 12 drops of the essential oil to 1 fl.oz (30ml) carrier oil, and massage directly into the skin.  

DISCLAIMER: While these natural remedies will help alleviate the symptoms of psoriasis, it is always important to consult with, and get a proper diagnosis from, a medical physician.  

Aloe Vera Gel 

Available in a gel form, aloe vera is a favorite home remedy for burns, sunburns and insect bites. It's also one of the gentlest ingredients you can use for psoriasis, keeping your dry skin moisturized. It's especially useful when stepping out in the sun, protecting your skin from UVB-damage, and may also be used in the form of a carrier oil (as a base gel), whereby you can add 12 drops of one of the below oils to 1 fl.oz (30ml) aloe vera gel.

A newly wed fisherman's wife sees her husband sleeping on the couch. Bored, she decides

to take the boat on a ride around the lake. She goes forward a bit, then drops the anchor

and reads a book in peace. A short while later, an officer of the coast guard appears and

stops besides her. 

"Good morning, ma'am, what are you doing?"

"I'm reading a book." Answered the surprised woman. Couldn't he see that, she thought.

"I'm afraid this is a no fishing area." The officer notified her.

"I'm sorry officer but I'm not fishing, I'm clearly reading."

"Yes but you can start at any second, you have all the right equipment. I'm going to have

to take you to the station and fill out a complaint."

"OK, but if you do that I will have to give my own complaint about you sexually assaulting

me!"

"But.." splattered the surprised office, "I never touched you!"

"Yes that's true," Replied the woman, "but you can start at any second, you have

 all the equipment...