Aarthi Toniappa

Readers Digest
By: Aarthi Toniappa

Table of Contents
Table of
Contents…………………………………………………………………………………………1
100 Word Story
#1………………………………………………………………………………………………2
100 Word Story
#2……………………………………………………………………………………………3
Word
Power…………………………………………………………………………………………4
Health and
Medical………………………………………………………………………………..................... 5
Work
Cited……………………………………………………………………………………………6
Interview………………………………………………………………………………………7
Who
Knew……………………………………………………………………………………………8
Work
Cited……………………………………………………………………………………………9
Quotes……………………………………………………………………………………………10
Riddles…………………………………………………………………………………………11
Movie
Review…………………………………………………………………………………………12
Recipe…………………………………………………………………………………………….13
AD……………………………………………………………………………………………14

100 Word Story #1
Snowy
He looked up at me with his face covered in frosting, then
licked his lips. Everyone laughed, and I felt a warm feeling in
my stomach. That’s when I knew I would never love someone
else the way I love him. I wanted to run over, and hug him, but
there were too many people. I always smile when I see him. His
warmth makes me feel safe. I love when he jumps in my bed
Saturday mornings. He always wants to play, but we always
sleep in. He is my everything. He is my baby. He is my dog.

100 Word Story #2
Daniel
“Is there anything else you’d like?” Daniel asked with a
straight face. I looked at Madison, then rolled to the side
laughing. He tried to ignore my laugh attack, but caved and
asked Lauren if I was ok. “She’s fine” Lauren said trying to keep
her tone even. He nodded trying to keep his straight face. “I
like your sunglasses.” I said between laughs as he walked away.
My friends stared at me before bursting into giggles.
“Why did he randomly put on sunglasses?” Eileen asked
laughing.
“Why did they have Dora on the side?” I said wiping my
tears.

Word Power
Deleterious
harmful
Demagogue
rabble-rousing leader
Fortuitous
Lucky
Frugal
Thrifty
Hackneyed
overused, cliched
Haughty
arrogant, condescending
Hedonist
pleasure seeker
Opulent
wealthy
Rancorous
hateful
Surreptitious
secret, stealthy
Asylum
sanctuary
Benevolent
friendly, helpful
Camaraderie
trust among friends
Censure
to criticize harshly
Demagogue
rabble-rousing leader

Health and Medical
Breast Cancer in Men
Just because men don’t have breasts, it doesn’t mean they don’t have
breast tissue. Most men don’t consider the possibility of breast cancer,
but around two-thousand men are diagnosed with it per year. Since
breast cancer is one hundred times more likely in women, twothousand
is considerably small. However, it’s still cancer and should be
taken seriously. If you identify as male and see or feel a (usually)
painless lump, skin dimpling, puckering, or nipple retraction you
should see a doctor right away. It’s normally just gynecomastia, which
is common in men, but it may be breast cancer. That may be
embarrassing to men, causing them to avoid seeing the doctor. But if
they catch it early they’ll have a ninety to hundred percent chance of
being a cancer survivor. In men, breast cancer can spread to their
lymph nodes, under arms, or around their collar bone. When first
diagnosed you should ask your doctor about how you can prepare for
different treatments and what the recovery time is, so you can be
prepared. Survival rate for men with breast cancer is quite high if
caught early. However if caught when already at stage 4 the survival
rate is only twenty percent. Treatment includes surgery and a variation
of therapy. Some examples are, radiation therapy, chemotherapy,
hormone therapy, targeted therapy, and bone-directed therapy. It’s
common for there to be pain after these treatments, but pain
medications help. It’s important to let your doctor know about your
pain after surgery or therapy, because it’s critical in making sure your
pain goes away.

Works Cited
"Surgery for Breast Cancer in Men." American Cancer Society. American Cancer Society, 26 Jan. 2016.
Web. 27 Apr. 2017.

Interview
Points to ponder
“Tinker bell was always there for Peter. And Peter? He chose Wendy.” Sydney
Kauphusman
“Are things falling apart? Or into place?” Ganga Toniappa
“If we’re all perfect, is anyone really perfect?” Becca Toben
“Is it better to wonder or regret.” Victor Devera
“Would the Prince still want Cinderella if she showed up in the dress she made,
before her stepsisters and fairy godmother?” Caroline Clarke
“If a giraffe drank coffee would it be cold by the time it reached its throat?” Rachel
Fain
“Onion Rings are vegetable donuts.” Drew Pennington
“A birth certificate is a baby recite.” Taryn Peterson
“At one point in their life everyone has had or will have diarrhea.” Keaton Lewis
“They say roses are red and violets are blue, but violent means purple.” Liza
Koshy
“Is it still illegal to park next to a fire hydrant, even if your car is on fire?”
Madison West
“If a bunch of cats jump on top of each other, is it still called a dog pile?” Eli
Raiford
“If a baby's leg pops out at 11:59PM but his head doesn't come out until 12:01,
which day was he born on? “Andrew Fleckier
“Why is vanilla ice cream white when vanilla extract is brown? “Alex Taylor
“Do Siamese twins pay for one ticket or two tickets when they go to movies and
concerts?” Stella Prophater

Who knew?
Heart Attacks on Mondays
A lot of people hate waking up Monday morning, just the thought of Monday can increase someone’s
risk of a heart attack. This is because of an "outpouring" of stress hormones, such as cortisol and
adrenaline. A study with 638 middle-aged men led researchers to conclude that Monday is literally
the most stressful day of the week. Even if you're not working or attending school the fact that your
body anticipates going to work on Monday triggers the identical biochemical stress hormones,
increasing the heart attack risk factors that lead to potentially lethal ventricular arrhythmias.
Saturdays and Sundays saw a 50 percent lower arrhythmia rate than did Mondays. Making them
literally two of the least stressful days.
Celery and calories.
When people go on diets, they’re always counting their calories. Can you imagine how happy they
were when it turned out that celery has a negative celery count! An experiment was done where a man
drank a celery smoothie of 53 calories and burned 112 by drinking it. Dr. Tom Barber, of Warwick, said:
‘If you liquidize that celery, that breaks down all that fiber and you release the nutrients which gives the
liver more work to do.
You would expect to lose weight.” So if you’re currently dieting, stalk up on celery.
Coke in coke
A can of coke and cocaine are two very different things. But once upon a time cocaine was one of the
ingredients for coca-cola. There was cocoa extract in their syrup. The exact amount is uncertain but it was
before cocaine was known to be additive or harmful. Once cocaine became thought of as addictive the
amount was reduced. The company wanted to it as an ingredient to consist with their brand name.
However, by 1902 there was only 1/400 of a grain of cocaine per ounce of syrup. Then by 1929 the
beverage was officially coke free.

Works Cited
Sinatra, Stephen. "Heart Attack Risk Factors Rise on Mondays | Dr. Sinatra." Heart Health Vitamins,
Supplements & Advice. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2017.
Tammy Hughes For The Daily Mail. "Eating Celery Really DOES Burn More Calories than It Contains ."
Daily Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 13 June 2016. Web. 28 Apr. 2017
"FACT CHECK: Cocaine in Coca-Cola?" Snopes.com. N.p., 08 Apr. 2017. Web. 08 May 2017.

Quotes
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you
did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou
“You can’t wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.”
-Navajo Proverb
“A laugh is a smile that bursts.”
-Mary H. Waldrip
“Yet the pain that I feel, try and tell me it’s not real.”
-The Corpse Bride (movie)
“Sometimes moms and dads fall out of love.”
-- James TW
“Sometime it’s better to be alone. Nobody can hurt you.”
Hercules (movie)
"You mean more to me than anything in this whole world."
Peter pan
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."
The Godfather: Part III, 1990

Riddles
Q: What has a foot but no legs?
A: A snail
Q: Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
A: Nothing
Q: What comes down but never goes up?
A: Rain
Q: How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?
A: It can have a hole in it.
Q: In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a
pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower–
everything was pink!
What color were the stairs?
A: There weren’t any stairs, it was a one story house!
Q: What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
A: Short
Q: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand
years?
A: The letter M
Q: What has 4 eyes but can’t see?
A: Mississippi
Q: What can you catch but not throw?
A: A cold.
Q: What is at the end of a rainbow?
A: The letter

The Parent Trap five stars
SPOILER
Parent Trap is about long lost twins meeting at camp and deciding to
change places, and get their divorced parents to fall in love again. And
just for fun, their quirky servants fall in love too. But of course there's
a wicked would-be stepmother lurking about. The movie came out in
1998 and is still widely known and watched frequently. Just because
Lindsay Lohan lost her charm, it doesn’t mean the movie has too. The
twins are played by the same actress, using trick photography. Hayley
Mills did it in 1961, and Lindsay Lohan does it this time, seamlessly.
The illusion is so real, some people still think Lindsay Lohan is two
people. In the movie one twin is American, one is British, but even their
accents and very different personalities don't help us tell them apart,
since half of the time they're pretending to be each other

Chicken Alfredo
Ingredients
• 1 pound fettuccini pasta
• 1 1/2 cups butter, divided
• 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves -
cut into cubes
• 2 (16 ounce) containers whole milk ricotta cheese
• Ideal when you're looking to make an extra-creamy lasagna, a
decadent cheesecake or cannoli’s.
• 1 pint heavy cream
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Directions
Prep 20 m
Cook 15 m
Ready in 35 m
1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add fettuccine
and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.
2. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium heat.
Sauté chicken until no longer pink and juices run clear.
3. In a large saucepan combine ricotta cheese, cream, salt,
Parmesan cheese and remaining butter. Cook over medium heat
until well combined, about 10 minutes. Stir in cooked fettuccini
and chicken; cook until heated through.
I really like chicken Alfredo. If you aren't a fan of pasta I would
not recommend it. Chicken Alfredo is one of my favorite pasta dishes,
and I love pasta! I really like how well the Alfredo sauce mixes with
the chicken and fettuccine. If my mom would let me I’d have it for
dinner everyday. It’s perfect for someone, like me, who loves chicken
and pasta. You should try making it, I promise you won’t regret your
choice.