Anne Mans

Do you and your family still do game night? My husband, son and I do game night quite often. We make a little snack platter, and we play anything from Ludo and Uno to the Landlords game. What now? Monopoly!! Did you know that when Monopoly first came to be, it wasn’t called monopoly? I quite like the original name - The Landlords Game. So, Elizabeth Magie invented the game […]

I love intermittent fasting. A friend and I do it together, so we support each other every week, and we love it, we really do. Personally, I can feel the difference in my energy levels, so yes, for me, I think it’s working. It’s a good thing. So, imagine my surprise and curiosity when I came across a new study that apparently found it to be really bad for your […]

You know the saying "Too much of a good thing, turns into a bad thing"? Well, that surprisingly also goes for drinking water. Experts say our obsession with carrying reusable water bottles wherever we go (I'm guilty) might be causing us to drink more water than our bodies actually need. How much do we need then? Haven’t we always been taught it’s no less than 2 liters per day? Apparently, […]

Mushrooms! I love mushrooms. Mushroom soup, mushroom in salads, mushroom sauce, on the braai, in pasta, you name it! But we might have a new reason to absolutely love mushrooms. In Cleveland, mushrooms are being used to clean up rubble. Now remember in most places in the US, they build houses out of wood, not bricks. The city of Cleveland has for a while been faced with an epidemic of […]