Turns out junk food hangovers are a real thing

August 24, 2016, 6:46 am

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You stayed in last night. You skipped the work drinks and just ordered in pizza instead. You were very well-behaved, didn’t do any shots, and didn’t end the night by throwing up on your shoes.

So why are you being punished with a pounding headache and intense nausea this morning? Why are you hungover when you haven’t had anything to drink?

It’s all down to the copious amounts of junk food you ate the evening before.

See, the food hangover is a real thing. Really. It’s not just something you made up the last time you felt rubbish.

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August 24, 2016, 7:04 am

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Megan Jayne Crabbe, 23, from Essex, is a recovered anorexic. Or, as she puts it, ‘a recovered self-loather’.

After years of battling the eating disorder, she set up her website bodyposipanda.com in an attempt to ‘shatter’ the ‘not good enough’ mentality she feels has been drummed into women about their bodies.

She regularly speaks out about the unattainable beauty standards women are expected to aspire to. And, through her Instagram page, where she has 273,000 followers, she tries to dispel the myths about those ‘perfect’ images you see in ads and, increasingly, on social media.

She’s particularly critical of photo-editing apps… Read the full story

People with learning disabilities have their greatest moments captured

August 24, 2016, 7:11 am

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There are around 1.5 million people in the UK with a learning disability and 700,000 with autism.

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Documentary photographer Polly Braden spent two years travelling across England to schools, homes and care centres for young people with learning disabilities documenting their lives from everyday interactions to their greatest moments and milestones.

Braden is all too happy to talk about her Great Interactions project:

‘These are stories about the barriers faced in life but they are also inspiring experiences and achievements, from finding employment… Read the full story

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August 24, 2016, 7:55 am

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Model, wellness writer, and activist Summer Rayne Oakes has a bit of an obsession with plants.

Actually, it’s more than that. She doesn’t just feel a deep satisfaction looking at pictures of other people’s cacti on Instagram, like the rest of us. She doesn’t treat herself to the occasional potted bush.

Summer Rayne Oakes loves plants so much, she currently has around 500 in her flat.

Yup. That’s a lot of watering.

‘I nearly doubled my plant collection in three years time,’ Summer told metro.co.uk.

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National Burger Day: How to make your own hamburger cupcakes

August 24, 2016, 8:42 am

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Happy National Burger Day! If you didn’t know, August 25 is National Burger Day, a day in which people celebrate all the joy burgers bring.

The best way to celebrate is probably, well, eating a burger.

But once you’ve done that, you’ll need dessert. And if you’re having a sweet treat post-burger, you might as well stick to the burger theme.

Enter the hamburger cupcake. It’s a cupcake. It looks like a burger. You can’t go wrong.

Here’s how to make your own, with a recipe from Renshaw Baking.

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27 things that seriously annoy anyone who works in a shop

August 24, 2016, 8:47 am

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Whether we are customer service veterans or we dipped our toes into the world of retail, a huge number of us know just how frustrating working in a shop can be.

It’s not JUST the customers either – the whole job can just be an infuriating ordeal. It’s not always bad – and often it can be fulfilling to put a full day of graft in serving the every bizarre need of the public – but here are 27 things that never fail to make retail workers see red.

1. The question ‘do you work here?’ making you wonder if people think your uniform looks… Read the full story

Bipolar disorder: Just because you’re ‘manic’ doesn’t mean you’re going off the rails

August 24, 2016, 8:52 am

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When I was first diagnosed with Bipolar disorder, I was confused as to what it meant. 

I knew the basics, as I’m sure most others do – it’s a mood disorder categorised by highs and lows. Mainly extreme highs and lows.

Everyone's loving this mum and daughter conversation about their cat's nightly routine

These highs or lows can last for months at a time and can go undetected.

Often, these highs are classed as ‘manic’ episodes. And this is what confused me most.

There have been many times where I have visited my psychiatrist and told him of my symptoms… Read the full story

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August 24, 2016, 9:32 am

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Kari is a woman who sometimes posts things on the internet. So of course, she puts up with a lot of sexist comments and general nonsense. As most women on the internet have to do. *Sigh*.

But her most recent interaction with a random guy on the internet was particularly ridiculous.

Kari was engaging in some casual political debate with a friend on Facebook. As you do.

Suddenly, a guy named Nick decided to chip in with his opinions. Not an opinion on politics, or a contribution to the debate, but his rating of how Kari presented her argument.

‘Your… Read the full story

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Photographer Osborne Macharia’s afrofuturism is taking Kenya viral

August 24, 2016, 10:16 am

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Osborne is a storyteller.

When self taught digital artist and photographer Osborne Macharia began taking photographs, he was so broke that he had only 15 pence to his name.

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Six years on and he is one of East Africa’s most-in-demand photographers landing jobs with some of the biggest advertisers in the world.

Osborne tells Metro.co.uk, ‘I get people saying how fresh, different, artistic and futuristic my work is both in Kenya and the world over.’

‘A number of people have termed my work as Afrofuturism… Read the full story

National burger day: The 7 best burgers in London

August 24, 2016, 11:00 pm

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It’s National Burger Day, which is almost meaningless to us, because almost every day is burger day for us. However, if there’s a burger party going on – we want in.

So, in no particular order, because you need to try all of these and they are all incredible in their own special ways, here are the 7 best burgers in London.

This is by no means an exhaustive list – we could go on. And on.

We haven’t even got into the fast-food choices, like Five Guys, which have their place.

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August 24, 2016, 11:35 pm

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Happy National Burger Day! 

Now for the important bit… if you were a burger, what kind of burger would you be? Yep, it’s a serious question.

Would you be a burger filled with oozing cheesy goodness with a juicy burger, slice of tomato and a gherkin? Perhaps you like a smattering of avocado inside your bun? Or maybe you are full fried chicken.

There is only one way to find out. Take our burger quiz.

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Walkers is opening a ‘speakeasy style’ crisp sandwich cafe hidden inside a newsagents

August 25, 2016, 12:20 am

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Important news: Walkers and Heinz have finally made it official and brought together our two favourite things – sandwiches and crisps.

Walkers has just released six limited edition sandwich flavoured crisps and they’re all winners (well, except the salad cream one – we’re simply not convinced by salad cream flavoured crisps).

The new flavours, created with a little help from Heinz, are:

• Cheese Toastie & Worcester Sauce
• Sausage & Brown Sauce
• Bacon & Tomato Ketchup
• Ham & Mustard
• Roast Chicken & Mayonnaise
• Cheese, Cucumber & Salad Cream

Yes, you can now get cheese toastie and worcester sauce flavoured crisps. They may just have knocked prawn cocktail off our top spot.

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It’s National Burger Day so here’s some tasty vegan burger recipes

August 25, 2016, 1:00 am

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Today (Thursday, August 25) is National Burger Day.

And if you’re vegan you can join in the fun by trying one of these mouth-watering vegan burger recipes.

Things have moved on a lot from the soggy vegetable patties of my childhood.

If you don’t believe me read on.

Here are 15 amazing vegan burger recipes:

1. Bloody Mary Burgers

By The First Mess

2. Marmite Chilli Quarter Pounder

By The Veg Space

3. Aloo Chaat Masala Burger

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August 25, 2016, 1:07 am

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Bake Off finally returned to our screens with a bang last night, weighing into the age-old Jaffa Cake debate – are they cakes or biscuits?

Given that it was cake week, it was a strong first week statement from GBBO, with Mary, Paul and co. putting their combined weight behind #TeamCake.

Obviously, it provoked A LOT of discussion on Twitter (and don’t even get us started on Paul dunking his in a cup of tea, eliciting a hard stare and stern rebuke from Bezza – ‘we don’t do that in the South you know’).

Anyway, quite a few people were just relieved to finally… Read the full story

Thor the Bengal cat is your new favourite Instagram star

August 25, 2016, 1:30 am

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Meet Thor. No, not the Chris Hemsworth one. The cat.

Thor is a Bengal cat that’s racked up more than 29,000 followers on Instagram in under year. And just like all those other super famous Instagram stars, it’s all because he’s naturally stunning. Life is unfair.

As a Bengal, Thor has markings that make him look like a little tiger or leopard, with stripes on his back and spots on his tummy. He also has green eyes that stare into your soul.

Apparently Thor can be a little demanding.

 

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Mum asks people to send son with autism birthday cards after she found him making his own

August 25, 2016, 2:15 am

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A mum from Exmouth has made an appeal for people to send birthday cards to her son, who has autism, after she found him writing out his own.

Karen Jones, 49, posted a message on the Exmouth Community Facebook page earlier this month, explaining that her son Ollie was about to turn 15 (this Saturday, August 27) and had recently told her he loves opening cards – to the extent that she had found him making a couple for himself.

‘We are small family and he has no friends so gets very few [cards]…. if you have an… Read the full story

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August 25, 2016, 2:27 am

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If you have a family cat, you’ll probably relate to this.

For the last year or so, Jenny Katz’s mum, Debbie, has been feeding the family cat, Coco, French vanilla ice cream each night.

It’s Coco’s nightly routine. It’s very important.

‘My mum will lay down and watch the news and Coco immediately knows it’s time,’ Jenny told metro.co.uk. ‘She sits right next to my mum and paws at the bowl when she wants more, it’s so cute.’

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August 25, 2016, 2:38 am

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GCSE results day is one of the biggest days in the life of a teenager – and it’s no small thing for the teachers that have been preparing them for it either. Like students, teachers will have sleepless nights, growing anxiety and the day will become a complete blur. 

But it’s part of the job and despite their worries for how the students they care for will cope on a day of such pressure, educators hold it together and aim to be the pillars of strength for excited, stressed and unsure students looking to the future.

And these are just 13 things most teachers… Read the full story

Cancel all fancy dinner plans: Soon all our oysters could be poisonous

August 25, 2016, 3:16 am

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Put down your morning glass of champagne. Halt conversations about your monthly trip to the south of France. We have some truly awful news.

The oysters you know, love, and enjoy at every celebratory meal, could soon be inedible.

We don’t just mean disgusting, or of a slightly lower quality than usual. We literally won;t be able to eat them.

Because soon, all our oysters may end up becoming poisonous – and it’s all thanks to global warming.

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences notes that rising sea temperatures will make our oceans a better environment for… Read the full story

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August 25, 2016, 3:29 am

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It would have been a bit of a bummer if she’d said no.

If you’re not a fan of over the top proposals, look away now. Because, as Josh himself admits, he’s prone to over the top gestures.

Josh Schmitz and Danielle Roesch from Chicago started dating in October 2014. By August the following year, Josh had decided he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.

But, he wasn’t just going to go down on one knee like any old schmuck. He wanted to make his proposal really special. So, he stretched it out over 365 days.

‘I had been thinking about what I could… Read the full story