Is sugar addiction real? Yes. At Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory or Hansel and Gretel's cabin of imprisonment, all is edible, made of sugar and spice, and everything nice. The sugar-laced gastronomical landscape of today is akin to these fairytale-ish wonky worlds of prediabetes. Sweet in the beginning, sugar addiction is really bad news long term.

Are you happy, why not, and should you even be? It may seem natural to presume that the pursuit of happiness is something that has been at the center of what it means to be human. But, for most of human history, our species was just trying to survive. Food, shelter, safety, and reproduction heavily outweighed such a presumptuous notion as personal happiness. Being a happy person started climbing the list only after all the basic needs had been met.

You don't have forever to assert yourself and set boundaries around the life you'd like to live. Until you learn to say no, you will feel like an incomplete self, a semi-person, and an imposter in your skin who's finding it hard to truly, deeply respect yourself. Learning to respectfully say no will save your mental health and life, literally. The harder the lesson seems, the more you need it.

Women know. We’ve been doing the hormone tango, riding the dragon since forever. We understand how it feels to not know this person yelling at someone we love for a conclusion about them we’ve conveniently made around 3 AM, or crying in your pasta because the beginning of “Up” is the most devastating thing in animation history, worse than Mufasa’s death.

There is nothing, and we mean nothing in this whole wide world, that in madness and magnificence measures with a person freshly in love, living the honeymoon phase. But how long does the honeymoon phase last and what to do if the sex goes sour once it ends?