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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    How to cool off with something better than ice cream

    The sugar and dairy of ice cream leaves you feeling lethargic, bloated, and probably not better much than before you indulged in all that creamy deliciousness. Instead, you could satisfy your summer sugar cravings with paletas, raspados and coconadas.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 25, 2017 • 1 min read

    The sugar and dairy of ice cream leaves you feeling lethargic, bloated, and probably not better much than before you indulged in all that creamy deliciousness. Instead, you could satisfy your summer sugar cravings with paletas, raspados and coconadas. These are Central American-style frozen fruit treats th at don’t involve any dairy, and LA has no shortage of places to find them.

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    New comic envisions California seceding from the U.S.
    1. 0:00Rep. Schiff on Kushner's testimony, and what's next for his investigation into Russian meddling
    2. 9:11Senate votes to proceed with debate on GOP health care bill
    3. 17:22Mental health community debates whether to discuss Trump's psychological health
    4. 28:32'Calexit' comic imagines dystopian future of an independent California
    5. 42:17How to cool off with something better than ice creamYou’re reading this
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