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This Is Why You Should Never Give Your Baby Water

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Water isn’t always good for you.

If you have a baby or are expecting one, you’ve probably stumbled across something on the internet warning you that giving water to your baby could be fatal.

If you have a baby or are expecting one, you’ve probably stumbled across something on the internet warning you that giving water to your baby could be fatal.

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That’s a pretty alarming concept, so BuzzFeed spoke to registered dietitian Katie Zeratsky of the Mayo Clinic, who told us five things parents should know about water and their babies:

That’s a pretty alarming concept, so BuzzFeed spoke to registered dietitian Katie Zeratsky of the Mayo Clinic, who told us five things parents should know about water and their babies:

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"Babies under the age of 1 don’t need water," Zeratsky says. "They get all of their fluid needs through human milk or infant formula. Even on a hot day they can get all of their hydration needs through human milk or formula."

"We don’t want babies to fill up on water because it would make them miss out on key nutrients like protein, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, and fat intake. Human milk and formula are meant to be the mainstay of their nutritional intake because it is such an important time for a baby's growth. Babies are growing so rapidly that their energy needs compared to ours, pound for pound, are much higher."


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8 Ways To Challenge Your Anxious Thoughts And Actually Feel Better

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For when you’re 100% convinced all hope is lost forever.

If you're obsessing about worst-case scenarios and feeling convinced that all hope is lost, you might be doing some catastrophic thinking.

If you're obsessing about worst-case scenarios and feeling convinced that all hope is lost, you might be doing some catastrophic thinking.

Catastrophic thinking is ruminating on absolute worst-case scenarios that are not necessarily rational or likely to happen, like being convinced that flying across the country means certain death in a plane crash or that the pain in your side is definitely terminal cancer.

Of course your plane could crash and it could be terminal cancer. But you don’t know that now, and thinking and acting as if you do — “my life is over; after all I’m about to die!” — leads to more anxiety, panic, and sometimes total paralysis about what to do next, California-based clinical psychologist Ryan Howes, PhD, tells BuzzFeed Health.

Basically, you feel like shit's about go down — in your life or in the world — and it's so jarring that your usual coping mechanisms don't work, leaving you unable to process whatever happened or even think rationally about what to do next.

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The thing about catastrophic thinking is that you don't even know you're doing it.

The thing about catastrophic thinking is that you don't even know you're doing it.

And that’s because whatever you’re imagining feels totally real to you; you really do think and believe that these worst-case scenarios are imminent and inescapable. Whatever nightmarish hellscape you're conjuring up feels totally in sync with your reality.

“Catastrophic thinking flips a switch where there’s no silver lining,” says Andrea Bonior, PhD, author of Psychology: Essential Thinkers, Classic Theories, and How They Inform Your World. You feel such abject and endless despair that you lose hope of anything ever getting better. And what's worse, you feel like there's no point in taking action or taking care of yourself, which can land you in this self-fulfilling prophecy where your lack of action actually makes the situation — and your anxiety — worse.

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Fortunately, there are ways to break out of this doomsday thought pattern.

Fortunately, there are ways to break out of this doomsday thought pattern.

Reversing catastrophic thinking isn’t about telling yourself that nothing that bad could possibly happen, because of course the worst-case scenario could actually happen.

The goal is to intervene in your thinking so that this endless obsessing doesn't stop you from living your life — or actually make it worse. This mostly has to do with checking yourself and testing your reality. Here's how to do that:

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First, you have to learn to recognize when you're doing it.

First, you have to learn to recognize when you're doing it.

It's a little meta, but you basically have to think about your thoughts. Are your thoughts and feelings basically all about despair and hopelessness right now? Are you having lots of all-or-nothing thoughts (like: if x happens, my life will literally be over)? If you can't imagine a reality in which things are bad — or even really bad — but it's not the end of the world, that's a clue that you're thinking catastrophically.

Another way to check yourself is to observe the way you’ve been talking or posting on social media. “Talk is reflective of the way we think,” says Bonior. So be on the lookout for themes of helplessness in your speech, like “it’s all over,” “what’s the use,” “there’s no point," etc.

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We Want To See The Worst Facial Hair Ever

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Unlike the rest of the world, we want your soul patch, chinstrap, or cruststache.

Good facial hair is a thing of beauty....

Good facial hair is a thing of beauty....

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So we want you to send us your worst beard fails!

So we want you to send us your worst beard fails!

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Maybe you were trying to trim it up, but you accidentally cut a huge chunk out and had to settle for a 'stache.

Maybe you were trying to trim it up, but you accidentally cut a huge chunk out and had to settle for a 'stache.

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Wannabe Weatherman Arrested For Setting Fire For Facebook Likes

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A 21-year-old aspiring meteorologist reportedly admitted he had started a fire in order to get attention for his selfie videos.

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A Kentucky man was arrested for arson last week after admitting he started a fire to get more engagement on his Facebook videos.

Johnny Mullins was charged with second-degree arson for a blaze in Letcher County, Jenkins Police Chief James Stephens told the Associated Press.

Mullins posted news about the weather on his various Facebook pages for years, attempting to work on his reporting skills. He posted several videos in November showing him near a blaze in eastern Kentucky.

In one video, he talks quickly about "dangerous forest conditions," pointing out "trees that are actually on fire right now."

"We have a very dangerous forest fire going on. We are dealing with drought conditions," he continues. "We do have helicopters flying over right now though, taking care of this. They are dropping a lot of water over the region."

"Of course, I have been dumped with water," he says, with a laugh.

He later coughs on the video as he is getting low to show the smoke from the fire. "The smoke is just very bad," he says. "The whole area is completely up in smoke."

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"It's really too bad because he's not a bad kid — he's just misguided," Stephens told the AP about Mullins.

"He likes to do Facebook videos and have people follow him on his 'weather forecast,' so that's pretty much why he did what he did," the chief said. "He enjoyed the attention he got from the Facebook stuff."

"He didn't realize how much danger he was putting other people in," Stephens added.


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Can We Guess The First Letter Of Your Name And Your Zodiac Sign With These Music Questions?

Are You Cool Enough To Be One Of The Plastics From "Mean Girls"?

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The results may be mean!


15 Genius Ideas For People Who Are Obsessed With Cheeseburgers

People Are Losing It Over This Chinese Pheasant That Looks Just Like Donald Trump

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“I’m so worried that the other birds will beat him.”

The bird is a golden pheasant that belongs to the Hanzhou Safari Park in Zhejiang Province.

The bird is a golden pheasant that belongs to the Hanzhou Safari Park in Zhejiang Province.

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It was reportedly not much of an attraction until recent days, when tourists noticed that its "hairstyle" was similar to that of Trump.

It was reportedly not much of an attraction until recent days, when tourists noticed that its "hairstyle" was similar to that of Trump.

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People online absolutely loved the comparison.

People online absolutely loved the comparison.

"The president-elect of the United States was a pheasant from our country in a previous life."

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We Know Your Actual Job And Your Dream Job

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It’s never too late to go after your ~dreams~.

Eddie Redmayne Made A PSA To Stop People Making Fun Of Hufflepuffs

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HUFFLEPUFF PRIDE.

Eddie Redmayne is currently making magic as Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which as all good Potterheads will know is the first film to feature a Hufflepuff in a lead role.

Eddie Redmayne is currently making magic as Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which as all good Potterheads will know is the first film to feature a Hufflepuff in a lead role.

(Sorry, Cedric Diggory.)

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And now Eddie has teamed up with MTV (Muggle TV, probably) to make a public service announcement, rallying against the unfair treatment of Hufflepuffs everywhere.

And now Eddie has teamed up with MTV (Muggle TV, probably) to make a public service announcement, rallying against the unfair treatment of Hufflepuffs everywhere.

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All proud Hufflepuffs will understand the struggle of being told you're in the "boring" house.

All proud Hufflepuffs will understand the struggle of being told you're in the "boring" house.

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Things got emotional.

Things got emotional.

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22 Completely Terrifying And Horrifying Pictures Of Pit Bulls

We Taste Tested All The Butterbeers And They Were Magical

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Accio ALL the Butterbeers.

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Earlier this year, Universal Studios Hollywood opened the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, bringing J.K. Rowling's magic to Southern California!

Earlier this year, Universal Studios Hollywood opened the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, bringing J.K. Rowling's magic to Southern California!

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And while rides are nice and all, every true Potterhead knows the best part of the theme park is indulging in one of the THREE different types of Butterbeer options.

And while rides are nice and all, every true Potterhead knows the best part of the theme park is indulging in one of the THREE different types of Butterbeer options.

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This Guy Named Mike Pence Had The Perfect Response To Getting A Ton Of Hate Online

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This isn’t his fault.

This is Mike Pence, the Indiana governor and vice president-elect. He tweets under the handle @mike_pence.

This is Mike Pence, the Indiana governor and vice president-elect. He tweets under the handle @mike_pence.

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This is also Mike Pence, a different guy who says he is a "marathoner and grandpa." His handle is @mikepence.

This is also Mike Pence, a different guy who says he is a "marathoner and grandpa." His handle is @mikepence.

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The problem is, a lot of people are assuming @mikepence is the other Mike Pence. So normal guy Mike Pence has spent the last few months dealing with tweets like this.

The problem is, a lot of people are assuming @mikepence is the other Mike Pence. So normal guy Mike Pence has spent the last few months dealing with tweets like this.

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He gets called a moron, and other things.

He gets called a moron, and other things.

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This Throwback Clip Of The Spice Girls Slamming Sexist Men Is Iconic

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Girl Power at its finest.

We're all aware that the Spice Girls led the way when it came to Girl Power.

We're all aware that the Spice Girls led the way when it came to Girl Power.

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Mel B was first up and demanded to know 1) who had been rude enough to say it and b) why.

Mel B was first up and demanded to know 1) who had been rude enough to say it and b) why.

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How Harry Potter And Walt Disney Hold Up Against Trump Anxiety

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Moana and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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When Moana was being developed a few years ago, Disney was probably thinking about bringing more welcome diversity into its signature Walt Disney Animation Studios line and the possible introduction of a new Disney Princess. What the company couldn’t have expected was that its newest animated musical would arrive in theaters directly in the wake of a traumatic presidential election that has left huge swaths of the country frightened about their futures. Same goes for Warner Bros., which announced Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them back in less tumultuous 2013. It was supposed to be the start of a planned five-film return to J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world and not a cinematic security blanket under which people would want to huddle.

But here we are, crouched in the shadow of President-elect Donald Trump, and this is how the latest efforts from two of the largest purveyors of pop-cultural comfort fare against the oppressive weight of so much real-world distress.

Moana

Moana

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Moana is 2016's second Disney animated feature, and it’s considerably more traditional in comparison to Zootopia, the talking-animal-buddy-cop-racial-allegory it follows. Its title character is a South Pacific Islander chieftain’s daughter, voiced by 15-year-old Native Hawaiian newcomer Auli'i Cravalho. She has an animal sidekick (an idiotic rooster named Heihei), a parent who doesn’t understand (her father, Chief Tui, voiced by Temuera Morrison), and a longing to go beyond her prescribed role in the community in which she was born. Her story is inspired by folklore — Polynesian myths, including that of the demi-god Maui (Dwayne Johnson), a trickster Moana is tasked with recruiting on a quest to return a mystical stone and restore balance to the area.

In other words, Moana represents an easeful return to a particular formula central to Disney’s brand, and the familiarity of the rhythms of her story might prove a solace. But it’s disappointing that the things that are most compelling about her are the selective ways in which she diverges from type. She doesn’t, for instance, have a love interest — the movie instead opts for a bickering, reluctant mentor–mentee relationship between her and Maui, who teaches her how to sail and navigate by the stars. She isn’t white, and neither are the other characters or the majority of the voice cast, which is heavy on actors of Pacific Islander descent like Nicole Scherzinger, Rachel House, and Jemaine Clement. And the proportions of her body aren’t as impossible as Aladdin’s Jasmine, or The Little Mermaid’s Ariel, or Frozen’s Elsa — girl’s got some solid, strong-looking legs. She looks like she could learn to travel the ocean, solo. Which she does.

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She also learns to believe in herself and her own specialness in a way that might have more impact and feel less rote if she weren’t already being trusted to lead as the future chief and if the anthropomorphised ocean hadn’t designated her as its chosen one when she was a toddler — a scene that is, to be clear, enchanting as all hell. As is, you start to wonder how much additional assurance one magically blessed royal needs. Moana is so carefully nice that it creates the feeling of being swaddled in bubble wrap, its writers (who at one point included New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi, though it’s Jared Bush who has the listed credit) so careful with regard to Doing Things Right that they don’t do a lot to actually develop their main character or give her difficult choices. The finale even conveniently allows her to pursue her dreams of exploring the ocean without stepping away from her duties to her people.

Maybe a little bubble wrap sounds good right about now — or maybe it sounds smothering. But Moana’s indisputable saving grace is how good it looks — really, better than any other Disney movie to date, overflowing with lush, brazen beauty, from the verdant island on which Moana grows up to the vision she has of her voyaging ancestors gliding by on spectral canoes across a nighttime ocean. It’s through its visuals that Moana achieves moments of the sublime, though the Lin-Manuel Miranda songs aren’t bad either. The big ballad, “How Far I’ll Go,” may not be a carpool circuit banger on the level of “Let It Go,” but it’s a mighty earworm nonetheless, one that seems ready for at least a few months of omnipresence, an “I Want” song turned radio-ready empowerment anthem. Moana may be so calculated in terms of Doing Things Right that it only occasionally sparks to life as art, but there’s something admirable in how hard it tries — in terms of representation, in terms of not defining its lead by the men in her life, and in terms of incorporating Pacific Islander talent. It’s an effort toward inclusion that isn’t perfect, but as a gesture, it still means a lot. Comfort level: Middling

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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Familiarity may be a mixed blessing in Moana, but it’s the main draw of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a film promising a new story in an old universe, taking place across the Atlantic decades before the Harry Potter series. America in the 1920s has its own flavor — nonmagical types are called “No-Majs” instead of Muggles, mingling with them or letting them in on the fact that magic exists is forbidden, and everything is overseen by the Magical Congress of the United States of America, or MACUSA. But there are still wands and wizards and wonders, among them a suitcase containing a menagerie of magical creatures smuggled into the country from England by Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne).

Newt isn’t Harry Potter. He’s not terribly comfortable with people — he’s shy and not into eye contact — but he’s knowledgable, caring, and great with animals. Or at least, he’s great in the way of a devoted pet owner who fondly watches someone getting chased by their growling dog while shouting about how “Fido is really friendly, promise.” Neither he, nor the other characters — among them former Auror Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) and hapless No-Maj Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler) — are as easily endearing as the boy wizard, but then they’ve already done their growing up. Their concerns, too, are all grown-up, involving illegal trafficking, or finding a way back to work after being disgraced, or getting a bank loan to start a business after spending years abroad during the First World War.

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Then there’s the crusading anti-wizard extremist group going around called the Second-Salemers, headed up Mary Lou Barebone (Samantha Morton) and her adopted son Credence (Ezra Miller). There’s concern among the maybe-too-set-in-their-ways MACUSA, led by President Seraphina Picquery (Carmen Ejogo), about keeping wizarding a secret. There’s a notorious Dark wizard, Gellert Grindelwald, who’s escaped from Europe and whose whereabouts are unknown. There is, frankly, way too much stuff going on for one movie, and much of it is grim or at least filled with foreboding. Like a lot of recent franchise installments, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them feels like it’s more concerned with setting up future business than it is with developing its own plot, doing a lot of setup that doesn’t yet pay off but that crowds into plot threads that do. Its final act includes some flubbed reveals and a set piece that should feel emotionally wrenching but that instead comes across as just hurried.

And yet…it feels great to revisit Rowling’s creation, even in spin-off form, and even when we’re reintroduced to it in an era that’s a lot less cozy than a magical British wizarding school. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a story about the retrieval of escaped magical creatures in New York that grows to include fears of discovery and persecution by the No-Majs, worry about wizardly retaliation and war, and the damage caused by repression of identity. These themes have pings of present-day resonance — in terms of extremism, of expressing sexuality, and of prejudice — without pushing too hard at the parallels, and they end up making the film more of a consolation rather than less. Which is something that Moana, in all of its sometimes numbing pleasantness, misses out on — it’s not a lack of pain that allows escapist entertainment to take you away from harsher realities for a second, it’s how that pain is handled. Comfort level: Surprisingly High

16 Reasons You Should Definitely Be Watching "Younger"

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It’s SO good.

First of all, it's a perfect fit for you grown-up "Lizzie McGuire" fans.

First of all, it's a perfect fit for you grown-up "Lizzie McGuire" fans.

Hilary Duff is SO GOOD in this show as Kelsey, the bright young editor working alongside Liza (Sutton Foster) at Empirical Publishing.

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The show's social media/pop culture references are SPOT-ON.

The show's social media/pop culture references are SPOT-ON.

The need to stay hip & relevant is one of the show's main themes, and they both do it and poke fun at it incredibly well.

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There's plenty of romance on the show, but the central relationship is the friendship between Liza and Kelsey.

There's plenty of romance on the show, but the central relationship is the friendship between Liza and Kelsey.

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Their friendship is supportive and fun, but also challenging.

Their friendship is supportive and fun, but also challenging.

(And Kelsey doesn't even know Liza's big secret yet.)

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Can You Pick The Million-Dollar Work Of Art?

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“Art is what you can get away with.” —Andy Warhol.

I Challenged Myself To Love My Cellulite, And It Was Absolutely Life-Changing

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You can’t spell “cellulite” without “u lit.”

If you have cellulite, you’re probably part of the 98% of women who have it, which means — congrats! — you're hella normal.

If you have cellulite, you’re probably part of the 98% of women who have it, which means — congrats! — you're hella normal.

I fixed the image, hehe.

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And when medical organizations like Mayo Clinic list cellulite as a "disease" and call it "embarrassing," that certainly doesn't help either.

And when medical organizations like Mayo Clinic list cellulite as a "disease" and call it "embarrassing," that certainly doesn't help either.

Yes, this is real. And no, it's not a disease.

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Because we've been programmed to think a certain type of body fat is bad, we live in a constant cycle of cellulite shaming that we do to each other and ourselves, and — as a person that has lived with it their entire adult life — I went on a mission to start loving my cellulite once and for goddamn all.

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