High-heat cooking harms health. Grilling, frying and broiling produce harmful compounds like AGEs and mutagens, linked to diabetes, cancer, and accelerated aging. Steaming, boiling, slow cooking, and sous-vide reduce AGE formation by up to 80%. Marinating meats in acidic solutions (e.g., citrus) also lowers risks. Bacon, deli meats, and ultra-processed snacks contain additives and undergo Read More…
Despite dealing with stigma and accusations related to witchcraft, Waweru pressed on, motivated by her conviction in the potential of snails as both a food source and pets. Photo credit: Kenya News Agency Wangui Waweru has struck gold with snails. After accidentally eating snail meat in 2017, her newfound fascination with the shelled creatures led Read More…
A 28-year-old mother named Ahmonique Miller reportedly died only a day after undergoing a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) surgery in Miami. On March 5, Miller travelled to Miami from Nevada with her sister who also got cosmetic work. According to reports, the surgical procedure went well, and the sisters were discharged to a recovery home Read More…
T. Willard Fair, the Urban League of Greater Miami’s president and CEO, has worked with the organization for more than 60 years. He had a prominent voice in the community, both experiencing and contributing to integration and other forms of progress within the city, and sharing his bold points of view with The Miami Times. Read More…
In what she dreamed to be a “love letter to Black women”, Krystal Hardy Allen personally planned and curated an unforgettable journey to Africa for her and six of her closest friends as a way to honor and spend time with them as Black women who have walked beside her through varying decades of her Read More…
Steve Gary Jones Jr. is a former African American employee from Maryland who worked for the CIA for more than a decade, but was allegedly fired over a rap song. Now, he is making waves with his explosive new tell-all memoir, Closed Letter: Racism in the CIA, which details his controversial firing from the Central Intelligence Read More…
Nicholas Wray and Brandi Revels were arrested in Memphis, Tennessee, after a repo man was run over while attempting to tow a car. The shocking incident, caught on video, led to charges of aggravated assault. According to TMZ, the altercation happened Wednesday when a repo worker tried to tow a red Ford Fusion. Wray, who was Read More…
Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and head of Tesla, is reportedly set to leave his role in the Trump administration after serving the maximum allowed time as a special government employee, according to NBC News. Musk’s 130-day term, which began on January 20, will come to an end in late May due to federal restrictions on Read More…
I’ve mentioned this multiple times over the past few weeks, but my entire life I’ve been a Windows user, and only recently did I make the jump to macOS as part of my Mac Mini review. And while I’ve absolutely loved the hardware Apple has created here, macOS still requires a big adjustment period, and Read More…
In 1971, then-president Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of dollars to gold, claiming the move was merely “temporary” in order to stop currency raiders from attacking the dollar. It was a lie, of course, and it was predicated on the fact that the United States government was printing far more currency than it had gold to Read More…
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