Many people believe that the white gunk on cooked salmon is fat. However, it's actually a soluble protein called albumin that is also in egg whites. Having too much of it on your salmon could mean that it's overcooked. You can easily minimize it by soaking your fish in a brine solution for 10 minutes prior to cooking.
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WWE Hall-of-Famer Diamond Dallas Page began to defy the odds before he ever stepped into a wrestling ring. He began what would be become a storied career at the unlikely age of 35, and he didn't become a fan-favorite until the age of 40. DDP, as he was known to his fans, evolved into one of the most popular superstars in the history of both the WCW and WWE promotions.
After suffering a back injury in the late 1990's, Page said doctors told him his career was over. Page wouldn't have it. He discovered the healing power of yoga, which got him back into fighting shape and extended his career far longer that anyone would have imagined.
After retiring as a full-time WWE performer, Page created DDP Yoga, a fitness brand based in just outside downtown Atlanta. The brand's marketing materials state that "it ain't your mama's yoga." DDP Yoga blends yoga techniques with a cardio workout meant to increase heart rate. Page calls it "cardi-yoga."
The company initially focused on DVDs, selling more than 300,000 units. Now, DDP Yoga is focused on the digital space. It has an app that offers workouts, nutritional plans, and motivational material.
The company uses social media as its primary marketing tool. The company's Facebook account has over 193,000 followers, and DDP Yoga's Twitter account as more than 210,000, along with 441,000 following Page's personal account.
We dropped by the DDP Yoga Performance Center near Atlanta to talk to Page about his journey, and to get a one-on-one yoga lesson with the man himself.
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In 2016, Texas became the 45th state to allow the open carry of handguns. But many gun-toting women prefer to keep their weapons concealed for reasons including safety and comfort.
More than 268,000 women hold active handgun licenses in the Lone Star State, up 35% from 2014. Their rising numbers have led to a booming shadow industry: firearm accessories, including bra holsters, concealment leggings, and leopard print gun holders for cars.
In an effort to document women's roles in modern gun culture, photographer Shelley Calton took portraits of her Texas friends for her book, "Concealed, She's Got a Gun." She kindly shared a few photos with us.
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When it comes to your daily hygiene routine — from your flossing habits to your nightly shower — you might think you've got everything down pat.
But we're here to shake things up.
Heeding advice from medical associations and professionals, we compiled the optimal ways to keep yourself clean, healthy — and looking sharp.
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The short answer? Nobody needs to wash their hair everyday. Beyond that, it depends on your skin type: if you have normal or dry skin, once or twice a week should do the trick.
The American Dental Association recommends you brush twice a day for two minutes, although they don’t specify what time of day the brushing should happen. So long as you do a good brushing before bed, you should be set. While you sleep, your mouth salivates less, which can lead to cavities.
The ideal time is right before you go to sleep. That way, if you’re using an antiperspirant, it has time to close your armpit’s sweat ducts before they have a chance to get sweating in the morning. Most last at least 24 hours, so no worries about not making it to the end of the workday.
Upstairs at the New York Stock Exchange, above the hustle and bustle of the famous trading floor, sits a restaurant called 1792.
To be granted permission to dine at 1792, you must be an employee of the NYSE, an invited client, or part of a listed company. 1792 is an ode to the exchange's history, decorated with a miniature grand piano and a large mural depicting the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement, which created the NYSE.
Originally, the only restaurant inside the exchange was The Luncheon Club, which opened in 1904 and closed in 2006.
Wall Streeters mourned the loss of The Luncheon Club. The late Peter Dully of Bear Stearns told The New York Times it was "the grandest of places for people in business."
The newer 1792 restaurant — which opened in a different bar space soon after The Luncheon Club closed — has framed menus that date back to 1943, showing that an appetizer like split pea soup was just 25 cents at the time.
The menu's most expensive item was the $1.25 lobster salad.
Because of its exclusive status, the restaurant's current menu is not available online. A representative from the New York Stock Exchange told Business Insider that popular dishes include an apple chicken salad, a shrimp dish, and a ribeye steak sandwich from the lunch menu.
For breakfast, which is served between 7:30 and 9:30 a.m., big hits include the avocado toast with poached eggs and the pancakes with berries.
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Have you ever taken a selfie, looked at it afterward, and thought, That's not even what I look like!
The problem was likely wide-angle distortion, the property of smartphone lenses (and other superwide cameras) that renders their subjects a bit odd-looking and cartoonish.
Fortunately, there's a simple way around the problem if you understand a bit about the optics of these devices.
Here's what you need to know:
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Foot Locker has signaled what could be the end of the white sneaker trend.
The sports retailer told analysts in an earnings call that the trend which has buoyed Adidas' growth in the US may have peaked.
"I think it’s the cycle slowing down. Superstars and Stan Smiths have been around a long time and they have waves that they come through," CEO Dick Johnson said in an earnings call on Friday.
Johnson said the sneakers are still selling, just not as quickly as it once did like last year, when "every teenage female, potentially in the world, needed to have a pair," according to Johnson. The Superstar was also the best-selling sneaker overall according to industry analysts NPD Group, the first time the brand had a shoe in the top spot in a year.
It's no surprise that the shoes have hit their peak, as any fashion trend ebbs and flows and the two Adidas models have been popular for a few years now.
Adidas, which has made a conscious effort to reorient their business to respond more efficiently to its customers' changing preferences and buying trends especially in the US, is likely ready for the change in trends.
Adidas US exec Mark King told Business Insider in May after the company posted staggering 36% growth in the US that, while the retro Originals line was still the hottest seller, other lifestyle running shoe models like UltraBoost are gaining.
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It's no secret that consumers, especially younger ones, are more likely to spend money on experiences than clothing these days.
So what's a startup selling high-end sportswear to do? Follow the money.
Equinox, a luxury gym brand with a high monthly price tag to match, has begun entering into partnerships with startups to sell products in their fitness clubs, right near the front.
Men's underwear startup Mack Weldon and luxury sportswear seller Rhone Apparel have both entered into agreements with Equinox to sell apparel at the gym's boutiques.
The Rhone partnership involved 11 pop-up shops in Equinox gyms across the country, while the Mack Weldon deal is more permanent in nature.
Think of the Equinox boutique as a sort of gift shop. After paying $235 (the price to belong to a single Equinox club in New York City) for the experiences that affords, patrons can explore a little boutique set near the entrance. Equinox already sold branded merchandise, but the partnerships (and a "coming soon" banner on its online store) signal there may be bigger plans in store.
SoulCycle, another popular boutique fitness studio that offers classes instead of a full gym experience, has already taken advantage of the craze it created. SoulCycle aims to offer a lifestyle instead of just an hour-long class, and consumers can further buy into the culture with branded clothing that proves they're part of the "tribe." It's become a meaningful part of the brand's bottom line, according to Racked.
It makes sense for gyms and studios to cash in on the athleisure trend, as it's currently one of the only bright spots in retail. Casual sportswear pulls in $44 billion a year, according to NPD Group, while many traditional retailers are struggling.
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While at a food market called Dinerama in London's Shoreditch district, Chris Stang pulled out his phone, like so many of us would do, to snap a photo of the burger he was about to eat.
A snarky Londoner next to him glanced over and said, "What, do you have a food Instagram or something?"
Stang's reply: "Actually, yeah."
But Stang's page isn't just any little account: It's The Infatuation, a multi-city bar and restaurant review website that has a legion of diehard fans.
Stang, cofounder and CEO of The Infatuation, told Business Insider that when he explained to the stranger judging him for his food photo what his Instagram account was called, her immediate response was, "Oh my God, I follow that!" and pulled out her phone to show him the various Infatuation accounts (and there are many) that she followed on Instagram.
That conversation, Stang says, happened three months before The Infatuation even launched in London.
The Infatuation officially went live in London in April, but it had been gathering a following there for a while, as evidenced by Stang's run-in with a fan. The @infatuation_london Instgram account has 56,488 followers at last check.
A quick scroll through the page — and the company's other accounts, like @infatuation_nyc and @infatuation_sf— will show you mouth-watering photos of barbecue, pasta, and decadent desserts.
But what actually is The Infatuation?
"We’re your friend,"Andrew Steinthal, cofounder and head of partnerships, told Business Insider. "That’s always what we set out to be originally. We want to be that friend that you trust to get information, mainly about restaurants and where to drink."
The Infatuation began in April 2009 as a solution to stuffy restaurant reviews of old. Stang and Steinthal were friends and music industry executives, and the site began as a side project with the plan to turn it into a full-time gig. That happened in April 2014, when both founders quit their jobs to work on The Infatuation full-time.
Today, the site traffics in reviews and guides of local bars and restaurants in cities ranging from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. Not only does the tone and language set it apart from other food-focused sites, but so does the specificity of the guides, like "Where To Have A Last-Minute Group Dinner" and "The Kind-Of-Healthy Brunch Guide." The site will expand to cover Seattle in June, and will add Paris as its next international city this summer.
But where its power really comes from is Instagram. The Infatuation runs 22 separate accounts — one for each of its active cities, a main account, plus accounts like @pizza, @avocadotoast, and @burger. The company also has its own branded hashtag, #eeeeeats, that has been used millions of times on Instagram — 7,060,885 posts have that hashtag at last count. Its main account, @infatuation, has more than 704,000 followers, while its city-specific accounts have anywhere between 11,000 and 171,000 followers.
"The beginning of Instagram was just a great way for us to connect with the audience — a two-way conversation to get people interested in our brand," Steinthal said. "We built and built and built on Instagram, and then...we went and grabbed as many of those food accounts as we could just to give us more real estate on a platform we were really committed too. Instagram for us has been massive, both for the community development and growth overall, our business."
As Instagram rolls out new tools and features, both Stang and Steinthal say they're excited about how they use them to continue growing the business.
"The biggest thing for us lately that’s been new is that Instagram Stories are just so powerful," Stang said. "One of our biggest things with Instagram is that we just want people to know that we do things with a certain purpose and we’re committed to people knowing that we don’t take free meals. When you see something that we posted, it’s something that we actually ate and we actually went there."
The Infatuation has also started doing what they call "restaurant review ride-alongs"on Instagram Stories so they can let their audience in on the dining experience.
Both Stang and Steinthal admit that while all the Instagram love is great to see, someone using the hashtag "#eeeeeats," for instance, may not necessarily know what The Infatuation is, be a frequent reader of the site, or buy tickets to Infatuation events (which is how the company makes most of its money). The founders don't see it as a bad thing, though.
"They’re in our world and they may not even realize it yet," Steinthal said. "So we just need to do the job of reeling them in."
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The legal marijuana industry brought in upwards of $4 billion in sales in 2016, according to a new report from the Marijuana Business Daily. And small-town America is riding the high.
In the eight US states where recreational marijuana is legal, the marijuana "green rush" has breathed new life into the rural communities that welcome it. Cultivation facilities, dispensaries, and infused products companies create jobs and tax revenue for the cities and states, which then supports public infrastructure and community efforts.
Here are five towns that came back from the brink thanks to legal weed.
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Population: 150
A small town on the Colorado prairie saw its economy tumble in the early 2000s. The buildings were in disrepair. As one resident, a town clerk, put it, "It was turning into a ghost town."
Local officials began having serious discussions about unincorporating Sedgwick when the town passed an ordinance to allow a medical marijuana dispensary to open in 2012. People traveled from across the state and from nearby Nevada, where marijuana had yet to be legalized, to buy their bud in Sedwick. The lone dispensary expanded into recreational sales.
Dilapidated buildings began renovations. A "4-20 friendly" bed and breakfast took the place of a former bank. The tax revenue generated from medical and recreational marijuana sales allowed the town to build a maintenance fund that pays for new street signs and equipment.
Population: 33,000
A sleepy city located in San Bernardino County, Adelanto is what's called "a drive-through town." Few outsiders stay long. About 40% of the population lives below the poverty line.
In 2014, Adelanto was in debt for $2.4 million. A year later, the first industrial-scale marijuana cultivation site sprung up. That defecit is now half a million dollars, and the mayor tells LA Weekly he expects pot taxes to inject millions into the city coffers. The cost of land has also risen.
More commercial grow facilities have opened, giving blue-collar workers without college degrees the opportunity to make liveable wages. The tax revenue generated by marijuana cultivators is expected to pay for new housing, shops, and a concrete plant later in 2017.
Population: 161,000
Pueblo County, once an economic center of the state's plains, has been struggling to recover from a collapsed steel industry. Its unemployment rate, at 7.2%, ranks among the highest in Colorado. But newcomers have migrated there in recent years, hoping to find work in weed.
Since the first dispensary opened in Pueblo County in 2014, cultivation facilities, infused products manufacturers, and over 100 retailers have created more than 1,300 jobs in the industry. In 2015, more than one-third of construction projects there were tied to marijuana.
The county's economic recovery is ongoing. But county officials say the industry generates almost $4 million in annual tax revenue, which funds 4H and Future Farmers of America efforts, medical marijuana research at Colorado State University Pueblo, and a first-of-its-kind scholarship program that will send graduating high school seniors to local universities this fall.
If you've been in the market for your dream home, you may have found that it's particularly difficult to find one right now.
Housing inventory has rached historic lows across the country, and competition is heating up.
According to an analysis conducted by real-estate site Zillow in April, there are 3% fewer homes on the market than there were a year ago. Homes are also spending less and less time on the market. Nationally, it takes an average of 103 days for a home to sell, compared to 144 days in 2010.
That number is now as low as 54 days in hot markets like Seattle, Denver, and Sacramento, where bidding wars have become common. Nationwide home values are up 7% over last year. Many homeowners are holding off on listing their homes for sale because they want to avoid entering a competitive buyer's market, further tightening inventory.
"In places where inventory is particularly tight, there's conflict between everybody," Skylar Olsen, Zillow's senior managing economist, told Business Insider.
One of the most significant changes that has happened in recent years is that millennials, the nation's largest living generation, are buying homes for the first time. Right now, the median age of a first-time homebuyer is 33. Millennials — defined by Zillow as being between the age of 18 and 34 — are 56% of America's first-time homebuyers (the largest age demographic).
Millennials also make up 42% of all homebuyers overall, first-time or not.
And while baby boomers make up a much smaller portion of homebuyers, the two generations may end up competing for the same type of home, despite being in completely different phases of their lives.
"The size that a millennial buys and the size that a boomer buys is not wildly different," Olsen said. "Millennials buy a 1,800-square-foot home on average, and a baby boomer buys a 1,950-square-foot home. The other generations are away from those."
Of course, there are many differences between a millennial buyer and a baby boomer buyer. Millennials' lives are changing rapidly, and they need their homes to match those changes, while baby boomers might be considering downsizing. According to Zillow's findings, baby boomers are much more likely to consider a wider range of homes, including manufactured housing and condos, than the average buyer.
Millennials, on the other hand, tend to overestimate what they can afford in terms of housing.
"They're usually looking for slightly different things, but where they end up, they follow each other pretty closely," Olsen said.
Many millennials are also skipping the traditional "starter home" altogether, in part because of how competitive the market is now.
"One of the things that we find is that millennials are looking for affordability, but because it's such an issue, and competition is so high, and so many of those low-end homes are renting rather than being available for sale, they tend to be skipping starter homes and looking for something larger," Olsen said. "It's so hard to buy a home that the idea of buying a home just to move five years later doesn't seem like a viable option."
The bulk of millennials are still very young and not making those big life decisions just yet, so we have yet to see how large of an effect this age group will have on the market. Still, it's safe to say that despite what many have believed to be true of millennials, those between the ages of 18 and 34 are indeed choosing to buy homes (and expensive avocado toast), and unless more inventory comes online, they may face the same problems.
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Dogs are always barking, which means dogs are always taking. Here's how to tell if there's a burglar outside, it's bathroom time, or if they're just playful.
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Oh, there's so many types of Barks!
There’s so many types of vocalization that dogs make and I think the first thing to realize is that they do usually all have a meaning.
So, a bark is not just a noisy sound. It is a noisy sound but it's usually a sound that's trying to do one of a couple of things.
Express distress, get your attention, tell us about somebody outside the door, some disruption or something surprising.
Look at the context in which the dog is using the vocalization and the context is going to tell you a lot about
what the sound means and incidentally, if you don't want your dog to bark as an attention-getter, to tell you that it's time to take them out, for instance, which is a really good attention-getter they might find then stop responding to that as an attention-getter.
See what earlier signs they might be giving you that they're ready to go out or take them out before they start giving you any signs that they're ready to go out so you can kind of preempt that behavior if you don't want to have it instead of trying to punish it.
Punishing communication never makes sense.
There is a play-pant that has been recorded by researchers. In play, they make a kind of huffing sound which is like a laugh. They don't do that as much, other times, they use their body to express their happiness and the smile that some dogs have is just a feature of their face.
If it makes them look happier to you, great! But they don't have the types of musculature that we do to make a smile.
That doesn't mean they can’t feel happy or that doesn't look like a smile. I mean, their happiness is expressed through like a wildly wagging tail or the bodies sort of wiggling, and the ears back in excitement to see you for instance. That's pure joy, instead of just greeting us with a simple smile.
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Shake Shack will start serving breakfast at its original Madison Square Park location, Gothamist reports.
Starting May 22, the burger joint will serve its breakfast menu from 7:30-10:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, and from 8:30-10:30 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
According to Gothamist, in addition to its three egg sandwiches, Shake Shack's original burger stand will also serve coffee cake and apple turnovers, which we have yet to try.
We have, however, sampled the rest of Shake Shack's breakfast menu. Here's what it's like.
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On the back of virtually any bottle of supplements are two words that strike fear into the heart of Pieter Cohen.
The words are printed inside a small square on the back of the bottle beneath bold lettering which claims to list the supplement's ingredients: "Proprietary blend."
Under the protective umbrella of these two words, a supplement maker does not have to list all of the details of what's in its product, according to Cohen, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
This "allows companies to put in ingredients without telling us the amounts," says Cohen, who spoke on a recent panel put on by The Forum, an event series organized by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. "And those tend to be the higher-risk product."
The risks can be serious. Several supplements have been linked with an increase in certain cancers; others have been tied to an elevated risk of kidney stones. Although this research has been widely published, supplements continue to send roughly 20,000 people to the emergency room every year.
Cohen likes to compare the safety framework for supplements with that for food. "In food," says Cohen, "they have to meet what's known as the "generally recognized as safe," or GRAS, standard. That’s not the standard for ingredients introduced to supplements. The standard is not anywhere near that level of scrutiny."
There are some laws regulating dietary supplements, however. In 1994, Congress established the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) to address the labeling and safety of supplements, and several more recent regulations mandate that manufacturers observe what are known as "good manufacturing practices," or GMPs, including ingredient testing.
Under the DSHEA, ingredients listed under the "proprietary blend" category don't have to include information about individual amounts of ingredients in that category. Instead, they only have to list the total amount and list the ingredients within the "blend" in order by their weight.
This can be a huge problem when it comes to dosages, as certain amounts of the listed ingredients could have dangerous side effects or negative interactions with prescription drugs.
"From a regulatory perspective they’re all presumed to be safe but the reality is many people….are harmed by supplements," says Cohen.
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Business Insider recently published a roundup of the best relationship advice real people have ever heard.
We learned that love isn't enough for a solid relationship and that it's important to pick and choose your battles. Helpful stuff.
Then we started to wonder: What's the most obviously bad relationship advice out there? The advice that's either outdated or never made any sense in the first place?
So we turned to a series of experts — including a biological anthropologist and a marriage and family therapist — to find out.
Below, we've rounded up six pieces of advice that you've probably heard, but that you definitely shouldn't be taking to heart (pun intended).
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"It's not that you fight, but how you fight that determines the health and happiness of a relationship. If you never fight or disagree with your partner, one of you may be harboring resentments.
"And, while I'm talking about fighting ... the piece of advice that drives me crazy is, 'Never go to bed angry.' In fact, sometimes a good night's sleep is exactly what you need to think more clearly and fight right."
— Andrea Syrtash, relationship expert and author of "He's Just Not Your Type (And That's a Good Thing)"
"First off, if someone gives you this advice, take a look at the quality of that person’s relationship before you choose to follow in their footsteps.
"If you cannot trust your partner, then you've already chosen the wrong one. The bigger question is why you are attracted to a person whom you do not trust. Put simply, snooping destroys trust, which is the foundation of a healthy relationship."
— Emyli Lovz, dating coach
"Or really that it has to be anything. Often when people give advice, they're telling you what's true for them.
"And the lesson I learned interviewing hundreds of couples is that there's no one way that love unfolds — or is sustained.
"Some people fall in love at first sight. Others sit next to the same person at the office for years and feel nothing — until, one day, they do.
"The advice I'd give people is to really learn to listen to themselves. And if an answer isn't immediately apparent, check in with your body. I once heard a yoga instructor say that your head can lie to you, but your body never will. I've found that to invariably true and useful in all areas of life — especially relationships."
— Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post reporter and author of "The Real Thing"
