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What To Do If You Find Yourself Choking—and No One’s Around

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Every time you eat, you are gambling on your ability to eat food and survive. Honestly, we all may be taking this responsibility a little too lightly. The National Safety Council reports that choking is the fourth leading cause of accidental injury deaths in the U.S., and accidental injury deaths are the third leading cause of deaths overall. We can put a man on the moon, but we can't be trusted to chew slowly enough to not die.

With Fava Beans and Chianti: What Would Humans Taste Like?

First, the disclaimers: We would never suggest trying it, would never condone eating it, and even thinking about the prospect of either gives us the creeps. But as omnivores—and the prefix omni- means "everything"—the morbidly curious among us wonder: What do humans taste like? Are we dark meat or are we light meat? Are we closer to pork or beef? Do we taste like chicken? (No, we don't want to taste us, we just want science to answer the question.)

Spend A Day Making Beauty Treatments You Can Actually Eat

Food and beauty have a long history together. A symbiotic relationship that goes moisturized hand-in-moisturized hand together. What we put inside our bodies have often found a place on the outside of our bodies. Go into any Ulta or Sephora and you will see the beauty products boasting its use of food: moisturizers made from avocado, seaweed toners, and coffee-infused eye serums.

Why Our Workplace Lunches Got So Sad, And How To Fix Them

Every day you come into work, boot up your computer, take a sip of coffee, and watch the emails tumble into your inbox as your eyes glaze over and you start thinking about what's for lunch. Lunch is the Jan Brady of our daily meals and we treat it as such; sometimes we look forward to spending time with it, and other times we forget about it completely.

6 Of The Best Super Bowl Food And Drink Ads Of All Time

Super Bowl commercials are almost (though not quite) as innovative as the Puppy Bowl, and they're in an advertising league all of their own. At parties, you'll always hear, "Oh, I just come for the food and watch for the ads." That's me you're hearing. I'm the one saying it while stuffing another jalapeño popper in my mouth with one hand and grabbing a handful of chips with the other.