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In-Depth Product Review: Green Pan Hard Anodized Non-Stick Ceramic Covered Fry Pan (also known as Lima, Paris, Original Greenpan, Green+Life, and GreenLife)

GreenPan 30cm Thermolon Ceramic Hard Anodized Aluminum Frying Pan (Skillet)
GreenPan 30cm Thermolon Ceramic Hard Anodized Aluminum Frying Pan (Skillet)

THE COMPANY

As a brand, GreenPan started in 2007 and is part of “The Cookware Company,” a company that started in Hong Kong in 2005.1 Sister brands to GreenPan include Green Life, Vita Verde, GreenChef, Anotech Manufacturing, and Fiesta (no relation to Fiestaware). But GreenPan is by far the biggest brand in the USA.

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What’s the healthiest cooking oil?

Confused about which cooking oil is best to use? You’re not alone!

If you just want the short answer, scroll down.  Else keep reading.

Manufacturers will claim all sorts of things, but when you get right down to it, all cooking oils may be categorized as polyunsaturated (PUFA), monounsaturated (MUFA), and saturated fatty acids (SFA). You can think of a fatty acid as a snake:

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Blue Light Special: How to get more sleep in one easy step

Humans have adapted to Earth's 24-hour day/night cycle.
Humans have adapted to Earth’s 24-hour day/night cycle.

Everyone knows that sleep deprivation is costly. You can do worse on school or employment exams, gain weight, become more forgetful, become depressed, prematurely age your body, lose some of your sex drive, or even crash your car if you aren’t getting enough sleep, because drinking under sleep deprivation is like driving drunk.1 In fact, a recent Harvard Medical School study estimates that sleep deprivation costs the U.S. $63.2 billion per year.2

Some causes of sleep deprivation are hard to stop–if you’re an airline pilot that changes time zones a lot, that’s hard to fix, short of a career change. But one big cause of sleep deprivation is easy to stop: blue light.

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