Best of the week: Life & Style's top stories

In case you missed it, here are our top five stories featured in nzherald.co.nz's Life & Style section this week.

Beware the almond milk effect

Drinkers of the healthy alternative to cow's milk are likely to align themselves with hip, savvy, conscious consumers but the damage they are inadvertently causing the environment is staggering.

Almond milk has been on the rise since recent health scares put people off soy. Almonds are one of the best foods you can eat, though they only make up two per cent of the milk. The rest is made up of water and sugar.

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Steal her style: Khloe Kardashian

Khloé Kardashian has become a poster girl for a strong physique. Here she elongates her figure in an all-black ensemble accentuating her curves with a sleek bodysuit.

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Creepily real cat handbags

A Japanese woman has created a freakishly realistic line of cat handbags that are generating hype online.

Made by hand using plastic eyes, fake fur and spray-painted for an individual finish, the bags are selling for over $1,000.

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Transgender twin shares story

They were identical twin boys, Wyatt and Jonas Maines, adopted at birth in 1997 by middle-class, conservative parents.

Healthy and happy, they were physically indistinguishable from each other, but even as infants their personalities seemed to diverge. By the age of 2, when the boys were just learning to speak, Wyatt asked his mother, "When do I get to be a girl?" and "When will my penis fall off?"

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Homeless fed from cancelled wedding

After a-groom-to-be called off his wedding, the deserted bride's family decided to do something good with the huge amount of food that had already been ordered and paid for.

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- nzherald.co.nz