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Product Reviews

This post is a review of my experience with ChaLean Extreme DVD. ChaLean Extreme is a 3 month program with a different rotation each month. The goal of the program is to lift heavy weights to reach fatigue within one set of each exercise.

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Oops!  I thought I already posted this.  Looks like I only saved it as a draft. The winner of this giveaway is jen b!  Check your email jen b.

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This post is a review of the Mio Motiva Petite heart rate monitor.

For the price and the features you get with the Mio Motiva Petite heart rate monitor, the Mio Motiva Petite is a good deal.

If you want instanteous heart rate readings on the watch, this is not the heart rate monitor for you.

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will-marry-for-food-sex-and-laundryWelcome to Small Steps to Health blog where we do not take orders from a cookie!

Normally I do not read relationship books. I have been “off the market” for the past 14 years. You must be wondering why I am doing a book review on a dating book if I have no expectation of entering the dating scene any time soon. I find the title of the book intriguing since I married for food, sex, and laundry (it is not just a male thing to want to find someone who is willing to cook and do your laundry).

This post is a book review of Will Marry for Food, Sex, and Laundry – How to Get Him and How to Keep Him by Simon Oaks. At the end of the review I will give some instructions on how you can win a copy of this book for the price of a comment. This book is a marriage manual that is not quite PC (politically correct) for our generation, but I find it highly amusing. A marriage manual is as antiquated as my love for Jane Austen books.

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Welcome to Small Steps to Health. The winners are for NURU giveaway are: Katherine – Nuruplanet Exercise Anywhere Enner – Nuruplanet Emergency First Aid Check your email and reply with your address. Until next time and thanks for stopping by Small Steps to Health.

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Nuru exercise anywhere cards This post is a review of the Nuruplanet Exercise Anywhere Cards. At the end of the post, you will find instructions on how to win a Nuruplanet Exercise Anywhere of your own from Small Steps to Health. Since I do not get that many commenting on my blog, your chances of winning is probably pretty high. :D

Targeted Audience

The exercise cards states that their targeted audience is anyone who wants to exercise without having to hit a local gym.

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brush-your-teeth1This post is a book review for Brush Your Teeth! and other Simple Ways to Stay Young and Healthy by Dr. David S. Ostreicher.

Focusing on the big picture items when it comes to our health, like eating organic or drinking pomegranate juice, gets headlines and attention. Sure these things help, but sometimes it is the smaller daily decisions that we do not think too much about that have the most impact on our health.

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American spends at least $600 billion a year on invasive cardiovascular care. For a country with only 5% of the world’s population, we sure seem to spend more money than anyone else on our heart. Money aside, the risk involve in bypass surgery, stent placements, and coronary artery angioplasties might not be as effective as the medical community lead us to believe.

In The Great American Heart Hoax, Dr. Michael Ozner dispel the myths of why heart surgeries such as bypass surgery, stent placements, and coronary artery angioplasties do not work and how diet, exercise, and medical therapy might achieve better results for a majority of patients with heart disease.

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After hearing my brother raved about Pom Wonderful over Christmas, I am excited that someone wants to send me case for review. However, after hearing about the expired batch that Every Gym””s Nightmare got, I approached the box with a little trepidation and a frantic need to check the expiration date before I rip open the drink. It is bowling night and I am always ravenousness when I get home from the league. And having a box of anything edible on my doorsteps is cause for a little victory dance.

The Taste

Unlike most juices that slide down like water, I feel like there is a depth to Pom Wonderful. Not heavy like V8, but definitely with a little more substance and a tang at the end. I can actually taste the hard part inside the fleshy juicy part of a pomegranate seed. I am not sure if I am describing this correctly, but if you ever eaten a pomegranate then you know that the center of the seed is a little harder than the fleshy part and has its own unique taste.

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Unless you are open to the possibility of spirits and energy healing, Walking Through Walls might be a little too bizarre for Main Street. Fortunately, my Chinese background (think Joy Luck Club) with its various ancestral spirits opens me to the possibility of phenomenon that science cannot explain.

My usually genre for reading material are personal finance, health/fitness, science fiction, and historical fiction. Rarely do I pick up a memoir, but I was intrigued with the idea of a psychic healer. Walking Through Walls is Philip Smith’s memoir on growing up with a father (Lews Smith) who was an all-knowing psychic healer.

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