If the food ingredients has more than 6 listed don't eat it --Michael Pollann, "Food Rules"

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Health & Fitness

Winter Best Beauty Buys

November 19, 2011 Health & Fitness

If you are planning on leaving the hearth this winter and stepping outside, you may be worrying about what the season can do to your looks. Our faces and hands, as the exposed parts of our bodies are likely to suffer from the cold weather. Lips in particular can become rapidly un-kissable during winter. Hair [...]

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Obtaining The Perfect Smile

November 9, 2011 Health & Fitness

We Brits have generally not had a very good reputation for having the perfect smile, but now thanks to the ease and popularity of teeth whitening that could be changing.
From as soon as those first little teeth start appearing at just a few months old it is important to take care of your teeth and [...]

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Big Wheels: Get Stronger Legs at any fitness level

July 24, 2010 Health & Fitness
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Your quadriceps or legs rarely move in isolation, a more functional approach, is to pick exercises that work the quads in conjunction with the hips, hamstrings and glutes.
For example, perform three sets of the following exercise for leaner-looking legs.
BEGINNER: LUNGE WITH DUMBBELLS
Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, holding a 5-pound dumbbell in each hand at [...]

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Rx Overtraining: Prescription for overtraining

July 23, 2010 Featured
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Up to 70 percent of runners sustain overuse injuries during any one-year period, according to a study from California State University. One runner who knows the signs is Suzy Favor Hamilton, a four-time Olympian and author of Fast Track: Training and Nutrition Secrets From America’s Top Female Runner (Rodale, 2004). “If you have any of [...]

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Self-Care: Giving to yourself; the value of self-care

December 8, 2009 Health & Fitness
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Self-care
Wellness/Self-care is a crucial part of maintaining wellness and good health and is an optimum quality of life both in the present and for the future. It may be helpful to think of self-care as a way of living that consistently incorporates behaviors to help you revitalize renewing your energy, motivation and personal growth.
Stumbling [...]

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8-minutes to better sleep with yoga

November 19, 2009 Health & Fitness
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Why yoga?
Yoga is aimed to unite the mind, the body, and the spirit. Yoga helps you become more aware of your body’s posture, alignment and patterns of movement. Yoga makes the body more flexible and helps you relax even in the midst of a stress stricken environment. Yoga helps you to feel fitter, be more [...]

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Prevent bone loss – Avoid soda or cola, drink green tea instead

October 26, 2009 Diet & Nutrition
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Avoid cola/soda! In one study, females who were frequent cola drinkers no matter what their age or how much milk they drank had lower bone density than non-cola drinkers. A good alternative: Green Tea as it high in antioxidants and promotes thermogenesis.
What’s thermogenesis?
Thermogenesis is the process by which the body generates heat, or energy, by [...]

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Life support: Getting the help you need to stay healthy

August 9, 2009 Featured
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You keep promising yourself that you will get healthy for good. But when you are on your own, you’re more likely to lose your energy, your motivation and your ability to remember why donuts and ice cream were so bad in the first place. If you need a way to keep yourself on track find [...]

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Stroke – the leading cause of disability in adults

August 8, 2009 Health & Fitness

Stroke is the leading cause of disability in adults and the third leading caouse of death for Americas today. When it comes to stroke, time lost is brain lost. Stroke afflicts someone in the US every 40-seconds which is why knowing the signs and risk level are so critical to [your] survival.
Stroke Warning Sings
Here are [...]

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