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Glucosamine and what it is good for?

by Guest Post on January 9, 2012 · 0 comments

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This is a sponsored guest post. This post is in association with Holland and Barrett. Glucosamine is a great health supplement to invest in if you suffer from unhealthy connective tissue and cartilage. Glucosamine is in fact produced by the body naturally, but there are certain times in our lives when we are unable to [...]

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How much are you willing to pay for an effective weight loss program? Would you be willing to pay $25 to lose 1 pound? What about $100? People enrolled in a structured weight loss program such as Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig often end up losing more weight than people try to lose weight on [...]

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Cooking Mystery Books

by asithi on June 6, 2011 · 0 comments

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Sometimes when you are overexposed to TV commercials advertising food causes you to rummage through your refrigerator or pantry for something to eat. Apparently reading mystery books based on cooking causes me to develop the same habit. Lately I’ve been reading two mystery series where the main characters are cooks. So throughout the multiple books [...]

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Lunchtime is my favorite time of day. I usually head down to the break room with my lunch bag to catch up with some friends. I rarely ever eat in front of my computer. Even when I have no one to have lunch with, I still head down to the break room with my Kindle. [...]

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If you spend any time trying to lose weight, then you must have heard about the French diet and how French women are skinnier than your average American women. The French diet is higher in fat and encourages wine consumption, and yet French women are less obese than American women. The French diet consists of [...]

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Do you know that sumo wrestlers have a rigid training plan like most athletes? One of the training techniques for turning regular size boys into sumo wrestler is by not eating breakfast. Do you skip breakfast in the morning? Not eating breakfast = sumo size The sumo wrestler training plan consists of waking early, not [...]

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An article caught my eye as I flipped through the August issue of Money magazine entitled the “High Price of Healthy Living.”  It is an article with a few graphed statistics. I guess the headline worked because it slowed my flipping down to see exactly how having healthy eating habits and exercise can cost me [...]

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For the last week and a half I’ve been struggling with my coffee addiction.  This is not the first time I tried quitting, but I hope this will be my last time.  Each time I learn something new about my body’s reaction to caffeine and my self-discipline. This post is discussion on what I learned [...]

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Day 1 of No Coffee

by asithi on May 20, 2010 · 7 comments

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I feel miserable without my normal dose of caffeine.  Besides the painful headache and the head splitting yawn, I feel like there is something missing from my morning.  Sipping white tea from my sunny yellow coffee mug only reminds me of what I could have been sipping.  I have to be more cognizant of what [...]

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Whenever I want to drop a few vanity pounds, the first thing I do is look at what I am drinking.  I have a tendency to drink my calories.  I eat about the same volume of food every day, but it is always the caloric intake from drinks that cause me to gain weight.  My [...]

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