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amazing things you did in the 90s that no longer exist

It seems as though modern popular culture is more nostalgic than ever.

From constant reboots of TV shows, a fashion re-generation and even throwback-style music, it seems as though we’re living in the midst of 90s culture for the second time – just with mobiles and the internet.

Many aspects of the 90’s have come back into fashion recently, but there are a few things we enjoyed back then, that we weirdly long for even now.

But it is my genuine belief that the best of our human society reached its peak in the year 2000 – modern enough that we weren’t really missing out on too much when it came to technology (mobiles and the internet were in their infancy, but still readily available) but without the cynical climate of fear that seems to permeate in the modern world.

Here are amazing things that we could all do in the 90s that no longer exist:

Getting about ONE good play session out of a plastic rainbow Slinky before it got all tangled up:

We had to work so hard

Go on MSN messenger and chat with our friends

Coming in just before the turn of the century was MSN messenger. As soon as you got back from school, you’d sign in to see who was online, and in many cases, the last question you would get asked at the end of the school day would be: “Will you be on MSN tonight?”

It started off as just a way of making competition against the AOL messenger service, but when AOL went belly-up in the early 2000s, MSN became the firm-favourite messenger for an entire generation. It started off as a fairly simple format, but then it developed with nudges, winks, emoticons and all sorts of nonsense like that. After a while, you could even play bowling and tic tac toe against your friends.

After 15 years, the service was shut down, but by this point, everybody had already moved onto other platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp.

I spent so many hours with my finger on the ‘record’ button waiting for

a good song to come on the radio

Go to the shop and come out with a Push Pop

Who doesn’t remember these delights you used to get in after a hard day at school? I can always remember popping to the shop with my mum and pleading for her to buy me sweets…but in the end, my choice was always a Push Pop!

And of course, who can forget the slogans?! ‘Give life a push’, ‘Isn’t it time you pushed a Push Pop?’ and ‘don’t push ME, push a Push Pop!’. Classic stuff.

Go and switch on the dial up modem to connect to the internet

I’m telling you now, you kids don’t know you’re born these days! Instant Wi-Fi connection? Ha! I remember the days when your internet connection was basically powered by potatoes and coal. My generation can also still vividly remember the pain of not having an instant internet connection.

We are the very last generation who remember the internet being a new fad, and also the constraints of dial-up. Oh, and that horrible, ghostly noise it used to make, as though every time you were trying to check your e-mails, you got an emergency broadcast message to alert you that either zombies or nuclear war was coming.

I’ll remind you of a typical scenario we all had to deal with.

You tell your friends at the end of the school day – “I’ll speak to you on MSN later”, and when you get home, what do you find? Your mom on the phone for hours…and hours…and hours…and hours.

And hours.

…And hours.

Or god forbid if you were trying to organise a night out in the 90s or early 2000s, way back before group chats when you had to make about 50 different phone calls to each and every friend.

Okay, so these days the noise does bring back a sense of nostalgia, but maybe dial-up is where it belongs – in the past.

Get a pair of Adidas trackies from JJB Sports

JJB Sports was always the place to go if you wanted sports merch or equipment. Perhaps you wanted to buy shin pads for cricket, a pair of goggles or the Argentina football jersey? JJB Sports was the shop.

It was always really reasonably priced too, considering these days you have to pay upwards of a hundred quid for a football shirt. If you wanted a pair of Adidas trackies, you would go to JJB’s without a second thought.

Unfortunately, bankruptcy sealed the fate of the high-street chain store and it was bought out by Sports Direct in 2012.

This is what will happen to your body if you eat oats every morning

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What really happens to your body if you eat oats every morning

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Your body has fasted for eight hours straight and now needs replenishment for all the work it did overnight, repairing itself. At a time like this, you need a complete breakfast source to feed your cells.

One such source is oats. Eating oats every morning will help your body in the following five ways

You’ve probably heard over and over again that breakfast is the most essential and important meal of the day, and if there’s one thing that’s absolutely perfect for a healthy breakfast, it’s oats.

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Now, some might debate on the taste of oats and oatmeal, but you can always add some delicious fresh fruit, yogurt or nuts in the mix to give it a little bit of extra flavor. There’s just so much you can do with oats! In addition, oats are just very healthy as they’re rich in essential nutrients and fibers.

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In fact, if you start eating oats on a regular basis, you’ll notice definitely notice the improvements to your body. Let’s take a look at eight great examples of how oats have a positive effect on your health.

1) More antioxidants in your body

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If there’s one thing that oats are full of, it’s antioxidants. Antioxidants are essential for your body, and the fibery treat is especially rich in avenathramides – a fancy name for a type of antioxidants which have been proven to ease itching, inflammation and blood pressure. The antioxidants also lower your blood sugar level. Tip: combine with a vitamin C rich snack for increased effectiveness.

2) Lower cholesterol

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The beta-glucan fiber which is mainly found in oats plays a huge role in dealing with an excess of cholesterol. Oatmeal contains soluble fiber and linoleic acid, both of which are able to combat fatty remains in arteries.

3) A better, healthier skin

Did you know that oats are a perfect remedy for a number of skin conditions? For example, if you’re dealing with skin irritation or eczema, the vast amount of metals found in oats will be more than happy to help.

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Iron ensures a sufficient saturation of moisture in your skin, while zinc narrows down your pores, cleanses the skin and gets rid of harmful toxins.

Dealing with swelling or inflammation, or perhaps a small wound? Manganese will do just the trick. At last, magnesium improves blood circulation of the skin cells. You can find all of these in a day’s worth of oatmeal.

EverWing: Tips, Tricks, and Cheats Guide

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Tips, tricks, and cheats—if we’re talking about EverWing, then there’s a lot of these in the game.

Well, the focus here is on tips and tricks. Cheats, as you know, are very sparse in EverWing! But don’t worry, the tips and tricks listed here will enable you to breeze through the game just fine.

So if you’re ready to step up your gaming experience in EverWing, then this guide will help you to make it the best that it can be. Go enjoy playing EverWing and show the world that you’re no ordinary gamer!

Tips and Tricks

1. The Magnet Is Your Best Friend

The magnet that monsters drop is actually more important than you think. Among all the items and power-ups in EverWing, the magnet outshines them all. As for the reason? It’s because the magnet has the ability to pull all coins, gems, items, and power-ups towards the Guardian.

Instead of risking yourself trying to gather the loots, the magnet attracts them to you at the cost of no effort at all. Sure, it lasts only for a couple of seconds, but that’s enough time to amass some wealth and extra firepower. I suggest that you go quick for the magnet whenever you see it on the screen.

2. Always Rush for the Rush Flowers

If there’s one item that I could choose to take effect for the whole duration of the game, then it would be the Rush Flower. The power of the Rush Flower allows the Guardian in play to act in a crazy rush. For a few seconds, the Guardian is granted invincibility and can obliterate everything on its path. That’s how unstoppable the Rush Flower is!

Go crazy, annihilate all monsters, and plunder their loots—if you want to do all these, then be sure to always keep an eye out for the Rush Flowers!

3. Lily Will Make You Rich

Lily isn’t called the Guardian of Fortune for nothing! Whether you’re a beginner player or a seasoned gamer, Lily is your best money-making machine!

Lily has the power to double the coins and gems you collect in both the Normal Run Mode and the Quest Mode. When it comes to money, Lily is the best fairy! That is why, the most recommended strategy for anyone playing EverWing is to unlock Lily as soon as possible. She may be a bit pricey, but her skill more than makes up for it for the rest of the game.

4. Power-Up with the Speed Rush

Overlooked as a mere power-up, the Speed Rush is a more potent version of the Rush Flower. The difference is that instead of collecting it as an item drop, it’s a power-up that you can purchase at the beginning of a game in the Normal Run Mode for 250 trophies.

The power of the Speed Rush is special. It can give you the effect of the Rush Flower for the whole duration covering a few stages until your encounter with the Monster Queen. That means you’ll be crushing all enemies and collecting their loots with no effort and in no time at all until you reach the Monster Queen.

5. Remember that Sophia is the Questing Queen

No one ever uses Sophia in the Normal Run Mode and the Boss Raid Mode. As you know, Sophia is the Guardian of Adventure. She shines best not in the Normal Run Mode nor the Boss Raid Mode, but in the Quest Mode.

Many neglect sending guardians to quests. What many people don’t know is that questing is one of the most lucrative ways to gain experience and coins. And Sophia—being the Guardian of Adventure and all—is capable of cutting any quest duration by half. So, if you send her to a 24-Hour Quest, rest assured that she will be able to finish it in only 12 hours. That is why she is also called the “Questing Queen!”

6. Jewels Over Coins

It’s important to know that Jewels are always more valuable than Coins. A Coin only amounts to a single unit while a Gem amounts to several Coins. Here are the various Gems and their values:

Amethyst Gem – Equivalent to 10 Coins
Ruby Gem – Equivalent to 20 Coins
Diamond Gem – Equivalent to 40 Coins

So folks, whenever you see Gems and Coins flying all over the screen, it is wise to prioritize the Gems over the Coins. After all, no matter how many Coins scatter all over the screen, a single Gem will always be more valuable and less risky to fetch.

7. Don’t Forget To Evolve Your Dragons

Many people fail to remember that sidekick dragons can evolve. It’s true that no matter how much they evolve and get stronger, fairies will always outperform them. But then again, sidekick dragons are very useful with their abilities and have decent firepower. So, it’s always beneficial to evolve them for your own good.

8. Try your Hand at Zodiac Evolution

Sidekick dragons get stronger as you level them up and evolve them. But did you know that they can get even stronger if you evolve them the right way?

Introducing…the Zodiac Evolution! The Zodiac Evolution is a method of evolving dragons by means of matching them with their zodiac signs. If you evolve two tier 1 dragons of the same zodiac sign at level 10, they will get a +25% bonus attack damage on their tier 2 form. The same goes for two tier 2 dragons. If you evolve two tier 2 dragons of the same zodiac sign at level 20, they will get a +35% bonus attack damage on their tier 3 form.

This Baby Was Photographed With The 1,616 IVF Needles It Took To Conceive Her

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Wearing a rainbow swaddle, the 2-week-old is encircled with hundreds of syringes showing her parents' IVF struggles.

The heart around her is made of the blood-thinner needles her mom used twice a day. The next ring shows the many IVF injections that her mom took.

After four years of trying, seven attempts, three miscarriages and 1,616 injections, the O'Neills say they are overjoyed to welcome their daughter to their family. London O'Neill was born on August 3.

The photo of London was only meant to be something personal for Patricia and Kimberly O'Neill, a reminder of their fertility journey. After almost 55,000 shares on Facebook, the photo has become a symbol of hope for others struggling with infertility.

"I hope that there's a couple out there that's going through what we are that can see that there's hope at the end of the tunnel," Patricia O'Neill told CNN. "There's a light and you just have to get there."

They fell in love and wanted to grow their family

Patricia and Kimberly met almost six years ago while both were working at a daycare. They fell in love and knew they wanted to have a baby together.

After a year into their relationship, they started trying to conceive in February 2014. Patricia, now 30, said she didn't want to narrow her window of having a child. During their fertility journey, they married in January 2017.

Patricia, who has a 7-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, always wanted to have a biological child. Kimberly has a 14-year-son of her own from another relationship. They decided Patricia would carry the child.

"We just thought it would only take going into a fertility clinic and nine months later, we'd have a baby," Patricia said. "It just didn't happen like that for us."

The Sun City, Arizona, couple saw a fertility doctor and tried two rounds of intrauterine insemination, neither of which resulted in an embryo. Next they tried two egg retrievals and began the IVF journey with a new doctor. The second attempt gave them five embryos.

The hope of finally having five chances to have a baby dwindled with each implantation. The couple lost baby one at six weeks. They lost baby two at eight weeks.

Something was wrong and Patricia's doctor decided to do some genetic testing. She learned she had a blood-clotting condition called Factor V Leiden.

It's a mutation of a clotting factor in the blood, and it increases a person's chance of developing "abnormal blood clots," according to the Mayo Clinic. Women with this mutation have a higher risk of developing blood clots during pregnancy.

Knowing what was wrong, they tried the third embryo and it didn't take, Patricia said. After a month they tried the fourth embryo and were successful.

"We were excited. We went in to eight weeks in and we knew it was a boy," Patricia said. "We saw the heart beat and then we went at 11 weeks and the heartbeat had stopped."

Patricia said she was at her breaking point after losing their son.

"I was done and I couldn't do it anymore. But my wife and I, we started this journey together, and we decided we would always be together in the hard decisions and she wasn't done," she said.

They finally figured out what was wrong

Patricia (left) and Kimberly O'Neill with baby London on August 10.

The O'Neills couldn't bear the thought of discarding, donating or not using their last embryo. They found a new doctor, this time one who specialized in Patricia's clotting mutation.

Vegans Live A Lot Longer Than Meat Eaters

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I’ve taken a look at the health benefits of veganism, including the research which found people following this diet are more likely to live longer than those who eat meat and dairy.

The vegan diet steers clear of meat, seafood and dairy – as well foods produced using animals, such as honey, some wine, beer and cider, filtered using animal products.

The study, published in the JAMA Internal Medicine Journal was carried out by scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

The scientists found every three per cent increase in calories from plant protein, was found to reduce risk of death by 10 per cent and the figure rises to 12 per cent for risk of dying from heart disease.

By increasing the share of animal protein in a person’s diet by 10 per cent, it led to a two per cent higher risk of death from all causes – increasing to an eight per cent higher chance of dying from heart disease.

Haleh Moravej, a senior lecturer in Nutritional Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University, told :

Research suggests vegan diets usually contain more dietary fibre but have less cholesterol and saturated fat.

This reduces the risk of many modern chronic diseases such as heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, however, without informed food choices or supplementation, deficiencies may be an issue.

Health experts suggest informed and well-planned vegan diets are suitable for all individuals at all stages of life.

Diet is just one element of a complicated lifestyle puzzle so to live longer, one has to look at other indicators but a healthy, plant based, balanced, varied, nourishing and sustainable diet, could improve the quality of life.

We don’t have enough data to say exactly how a vegetarian diet influences long-term health. It’s difficult to tease out the influence of vegetarianism from other practices vegetarians are more likely to follow, such as not smoking, not drinking excessively and getting adequate exercise.

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Tim Shieff, a professional British free-runner, who was the last man standing in the first series of Ninja Warrior UK and a finalist in the second series, has been a vegan since 2012.

He’s an advocate for the vegan diet, proving you don’t need to eat animal products to be in good shape or for fitness levels.

There are also a number of vegan public figures and celebrities including grime artist JME, actors Liam Hemsworth, Jared Leto and Joaquin Phoenix, to name a few.

You can watch Tim speaking about veganism on the below podcast: