Here are this weekend's reading diversions for your personal enlightenment. Have a great weekend!
12 Tips to Avoiding Winter Weight Gain
Did you know that, on average, 30 percent of people don't exercise at all during the winter months and gain on average 10 or more pounds?! While it's tempting to hibernate and turn into a couch potato during the cold, winter months, this won't help you stay in shape, maintain or reach your goal weight. Here are a few tips to keep your mind and body motivated to keep moving and eating healthfully when, baby, it's cold outside!
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Ed and Deb Shapiro: Six Ways to Keep Your Cool When You've Been Burned
Have you ever felt angry and didn't want to speak to someone ever again for hurting your feelings? It's a common scenario: someone says something that's rude, wrongly accuses us of doing something wrong, or in some other way makes us get reactive or defensive
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Susan Stiffelman: Tiger Mother? How About the Battle Hymn of the Human Mother?
Kids need to experience frustration and disappointment as they grow up, and they need strong, caring parents who can handle their upset without either caving in or morphing into tiger mothers and fathers who rule with an iron hand.
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One of the most delicious and most fattening fruits, mango is truly called the 'King of Fruits'. A tropical fruit, it comes in as many as 1000 different varieties, each of them totally delectable. Though native to Southern and Southeast Asia, the fruit is now also grown in Central and South America, Africa and the Arabian Peninsula also. Apart from being high in calories, mangoes are also rich in a large number of nutrients and hold great nutritional value. Infact, they have been known to have positive effects in case of a number of ailments. In the following lines, we have listed numerous health and nutrition benefits of eating mangoes.
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About Natural Sore Throat Remedies
Sore throats are the most common reason that patients visit their doctor. The tonsils and throat are very open to infection due to the contaminated air that flows through the area.
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Ten Things You Should Eliminate From Your Diet
Everyone's body works differently. Some people may struggle with weight gain while others are gluten-intolerant. If you want to eat healthier, eliminate processed foods and add more fresh food to your daily diet.
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Headache Causes: 11 Things To Consider
Could it be something you ate? Not enough sleep? Want to know what could be causing your headache? Our comprehensive list just might help you out.
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Diana Mercer: 10 Best Ways to Screw Up Your Divorce
Before I became a mediator, I was a divorce litigation attorney for 12 years. My nickname was "Jaws." Litigation was fun--for me, the lawyer--but probably not so much for the clients who were paying a king's ransom for a lot of stuff they insisted that needed to be done which I knew was counter-productive. If I said that at the outset of the case, I'd be accused of being on the other spouse's side, yet after I followed the client's instructions of "damn the torpedos " after the fact I'd be accused of churning the case to jack up the bill. So 22 years later, I'm a full time mediator and as a result have the freedom to tell you how divorce litigation clients screw themselves and waste their money. Think I'm kidding? I was once fired by a client because I handed her husband a Kleenex after I made him cry at a deposition. Seriously.
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Teens' Narcissistic Behavior Explained by Brain Activity
So he failed to hold the door for you — he's a teen, what do you expect? Scientists and the average adult have known young adolescents to be selfish. With brain-scanning technology, researchers are now figuring out how most of these "delinquents" transform into respectable adults.
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Alex Pattakos: Modern Storytelling and the Search for Meaning
It seems like just yesterday I was listening to my parents lament the changes that were happening in society. "What's the world coming to?" were words that stuck in my mind as I was growing up. At the time, especially during my teenage years, I didn't really understand or appreciate their concern. My parents were just old-fashioned and, to me, didn't get it. Well the times have changed and I guess I'm now old-fashioned too because I keep asking myself, "What's the world coming to?"
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