Here are this week's read­ing diver­sions for your per­sonal enlight­en­ment. Have an inspir­ing and rest­ful weekend!

30 Truths I’ve Learned In 30 Years
Since today is my 30th birth­day I thought it fit­ting to share 30 things I under­stand now that were com­plete mys­ter­ies to me just a few short years ago.  These are sim­ple lessons about life in gen­eral that I picked up while traveling

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10 Foods To Pre­vent Osteo­poro­sis
Although the dairy indus­try have done a great job in con­vinc­ing every­one that they need to con­sume dairy prod­ucts to avoid osteo­poro­sis, the ...

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10 Foods For Healthy, Glow­ing Skin
2 days ago ... Skin health is almost always approached from an outside-in per­spec­tive. With all the creams, mois­tur­iz­ers, sun­screens and cos­met­ics out there,

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6 Ways To Avoid Overeat­ing
Sep 18, 2011 ... By Tina Hau­per­tIn my book, "Car­rots 'N' Cake: Healthy Liv­ing One Car­rot and Cup­cake at a Time," I share my expe­ri­ences and advice on how ...

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Why You Yawn
A study found that yawn­ing may, at least to some extent, be linked to exte­rior tem­per­a­ture. The authors’ research indi­cates one func­tion of yawn­ing may be to cool the brain.

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Truly Mag­i­cal Mush­rooms
The hal­lu­cino­genic com­pound in ille­gal “magic” mush­rooms was shown to cause per­ma­nent per­son­al­ity changes among 51 par­tic­i­pants in a recent Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­sity study.

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Can­cer Truths and Myths
Peo­ple still don’t rec­og­nize the cancer-causing effects of an unhealthy diet or lack of exer­cise, and mis­tak­enly focus too much on pol­lu­tion or stress, a new study finds.

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China Launches Its First Space Sta­tion Mod­ule Into Orbit
At 9:16 p.m. local time–that was at 9:16 a.m. east­ern time here in the U.S.–China suc­cess­fully lofted its first inhab­it­able space sta­tion mod­ule into orbit on the back of a Long March 2F launch vehi­cle, mark­ing a mile­stone for both the People’s space pro­gram and for the Party’s geopolitical

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The Future of the Book
Writ­ers, artists, and pub­lic intel­lec­tu­als are near­ing some sort of precipice: Their audi­ences increas­ingly expect dig­i­tal con­tent to be free. Jaron Lanier has writ­ten and spo­ken about this issue with great sagacity.

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Saw Pal­metto No Bet­ter Than Placebo for Prostate Prob­lems
The mil­lions of middle-aged men who take saw-palmetto sup­ple­ments to cope with the symp­toms of an enlarged prostate might as well be pop­ping sugar pills.

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Helen Lamanna is Managing Director, and co-founder of AdvisorAnalyst.com. Read more from the author/contributor here.

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