RELATED: If You Get This Package in the Mail, Don’t Open It, Experts Warn. A July survey from Vivint, a smart home security company, found that at least 29 percent of people in the U.S. reported that they’ve been the victim of package theft. On average, people have had about three packages stolen throughout their life, and that adds up. Since the pandemic began, the data shows that people have had an average of $74 worth of goods stolen....

Starting in 1950 and moving on until the year 2000, below you’ll find 51 of the biggest actors working today—one for each year. Were you a baby at the same time as Captain America or Luke Skywalker? Were you in the same graduating class as one of the James Bonds or as Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw? Did you go see Titanic while the same age as one of its leads?...

Custom retailer Rush Order Tees surveyed 1,092 Americans to learn more about how they plan on celebrating on October 31. In addition, the company analyzed search trends data via SEMRush to determine the most popular Halloween costumes in every state. Read on to discover what people will be wearing this Halloween in your state and around the country. RELATED: Don’t Buy These 2 Halloween Necessities at Walmart, Experts Warn. Costume: Power Rangers The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV show may have debuted in the early 1990s, but the costume remains a favorite nearly two decades later....

READ THIS NEXT: If You Notice This on Your Face, Get Checked for Cancer. The Mayo Clinic says skin cancer most often occurs on “the scalp, face, lips, ears, neck, chest, arms and hands, and on the legs in women.” But the site adds that “it can also form on areas that rarely see the light of day—your palms, beneath your fingernails or toenails, and your genital area.” The three main types of skin cancer are basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma, their experts explain....

READ THIS NEXT: The Zodiac Sign You Should Be Best Friends With Based on Compatibility. When it comes down to it, a “friendship is two-sided,” says Justin Larkin, a therapist with the Ohana Luxury Alcohol Rehab in Hawaii. This means you must exhibit some of the positive traits you look for when seeking out friends yourself. After all, if only one person in a friendship is working to bring forth the characteristics of a “good” friend, “then it’s not a true friendship,” according to Larkin....

Louisiana experienced its first COVID peak early in the pandemic, reporting 2,201 new cases on Apr. 4, according to data from The New York Times. In late July, the state peaked again and higher.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Barry Bloom, MD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, assessed the state’s second peak on an Aug. 25 media conference call about the pandemic that Best Life attended. According to Bloom, Louisiana’s cases dropped when they implemented social distancing back in the spring, but that the graph shot up again when leadership “got complacent and decided they could open up....

If you really want to wake up in the morning, forget the coffee, a cold shower is where it’s at. According to an oft-referenced study in the Journal of Applied Physiology, “immersion in cold water stimulates release of norepinephrine from the sympathetic nervous system.” Norepinephrine is a neurotransmitter that activates your brain, boosts energy, makes you more alert, and enhances focus. And if you’re looking for a jolt first thing, find out How You Can Have More Energy in the Morning....

Seagal’s behavior on SNL back in 1991 was bad enough to have him banned from ever being welcomed back again. The host wasn’t responsible for causing a ruckus, a fire, or a media storm—he was just extremely unfunny and inflexible. According to Looper, although Seagal did act like a bit of a diva during his week at SNL, that was apparently more forgivable than his failure of a performance on the show....

The muscles in your shoulders weaken. No matter how much you try to keep yourself from slouching at work, long hours spent sitting inevitably end up the same way—with your back bent forward and your shoulder blades slumped into a slouch that forces them to tip forward and curl inward. So, as you can imagine, this added strain on the shoulders can create quite a bit of pain, especially for those sitting day-in and day-out for months, years, or even decades....

Fricker has appeared in numerous projects since Home Alone 2 was released nearly three decades ago, but if you’re interested in what she’s up to now, the actor, who’s now 75, gave an interview on The Ray D’Arcy Show on Dec. 21, where she shared how she’ll be getting through the holidays alone, and revealed a little bit of what went on behind the scenes on Home Alone 2. Read on to see what Fricker has been up to and what she had to say in the interview....

People with lactose intolerance are unable to process the sugar found in milk products due to a deficiency in lactase, an enzyme produced by your small intestine. The Mayo Clinic explains that symptoms typically show up within 30 minutes to two hours after eating a milk-based product, and can present as nearly identical to more standard indigestion: nausea, abdominal cramping or pain, bloating, and gas. And for more red flags your body may be raising, check out 13 Warning Signs Your Teeth Are Trying to Send You....

But in the end, the show’s producers chose Mike Richards—a little-known public figure in the game show world who also happens to be the executive producer of Jeopardy!—to host the show regularly. Former Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik was also chosen to host Jeopardy!‘s primetime specials and any spinoff series. But then, when a number of offensive and inappropriate comments Richards had made about women and Jewish, Asian, and Haitian people resurfaced from his former podcast The Randumb Show, he stepped down....

Read the original article on Best Life. The vaccine doesn’t immediately give you COVID immunity. According to the CDC, it “typically takes a few weeks for the body to build immunity after vaccination.” So, if you were exposed to the virus just before or just after receiving your vaccine, you could still get sick with COVID. “This is because the vaccine has not had enough time to provide protection,” the CDC explains....

The study, published on Aug. 13 in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, came from the Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China. The researchers observed 3,410 close contacts in Guangzhou, who were linked to 391 primary cases of the coronavirus. Of those 3,410 close contacts, 127 were infected with the virus and labeled secondary cases. To determine where these secondary cases contracted COVID, the researchers divided transmission sites into multiple categories, including household, public transportation, healthcare settings, and workplaces/entertainment venues....

Semaglutide was already approved as a treatment for controlling high blood sugar in those with type 2 diabetes, but for the purposes of the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers repurposed the drug as a long-term weight loss aid. Their findings were striking: three-fourths of the subjects who received a 2.4 mg dose of semaglutide over a 68-week period lost at least 10 percent of their body weight, and more than one-third lost at least 20 percent of their total weight....

A new study has found that certain vaccine side effects are more common in people who have already had COVID. The study, which was made available April 22 as a preprint on medRxiv, analyzed 947 people who were monitored after their vaccination for side effects—265 of whom had previously been infected with COVID. The researchers found that one unusual side effect—swollen lymph nodes or lymphadenopathy—was much more common in those who had previously had COVID....

The tweet claims that the film series is racist and culturally appropriates from indigenous people of North America. It also points to a 2010 quote from writer-director James Cameron about the Lakota people and how their experience inspired the Avatar screenplay. Read on to find out more. READ THIS NEXT: New Hit Netflix Movie Slammed as “Propaganda” by Outraged Viewers. It’s no secret that the Avatar movies are about colonization and that they pull from the European colonization of North American....

RELATED: Pfizer Only Works Against the Delta Variant If You Do This, New Study Says. A study published July 30 in Scientific Reports used mathematical models to predict the likelihood of the coronavirus further spreading and changing. The researchers found that although a fast rate of vaccination decreases the possibility of the virus changing and evolving, it may not be enough if other restrictions have been lifted. In fact, the researchers say increased vaccinations alongside lifted COVID precautions could actually result in more vaccine-resistant variants....

RELATED: If You Did This After Your First Shot, You’re at Risk for the Delta Variant. During a July 12 press briefing, World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said that “there are reports coming in that vaccinated populations have cases of infection, particularly with the Delta variant.” She then added that vaccinated individuals should not be overly worried, because the majority of breakthrough infections with the Delta variant have one thing in common: They are mild or asymptomatic....

READ THIS NEXT: Vaccinated People Are “Extraordinarily Vulnerable” to This, New Study Finds. While the Omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1 just became the dominant COVID variant in the U.S. a few weeks ago, two new versions of the virus are already posed to take over. According to U.S. News & World Report, Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are spreading across the country now at a rapid pace. At the beginning of May, the CDC’s data indicated that these two variants were responsible for just about 1 percent of infections....