Here are this weekend's reading diversions for your personal enlightenment. Have a splendid weekend!
Leo Galland, M.D.: The Health Benefits of Tomatoes
Summer is the perfect time to enjoy the sweet and tangy flavor of tomatoes. Whether you buy them at the farmstand, the supermarket or grow your own, there are a few things you should know about tomatoes.
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50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do
Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one
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Deepak Chopra: Processed Sugar: How Bad Is It?
Processed foods are one of the things people are often told to cut back on when they're trying to follow a healthy diet. In recent years, one particular processed food ingredient, known as high-fructose corn syrup, has been singled out as a possible health risk. Some researchers have suggested that it might be linked to a rise in obesity rates and related health problems like diabetes. What exactly is high-fructose corn syrup? Is it really bad for you?
A Cure For Sunburn Pain Discovered?
It's quite an easy lesson to learn: Don't fall asleep at the beach -- especially without sunblock -- lest you suffer the consequences of severe pain, red skin, peeling and, of course, an increased risk of skin cancer.
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Leslie Davenport: Befriending Anger with Meditation and Guided Imagery
Anybody can become angry -- that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
--Aristotle
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(Caffeine-Free) Snacks To Fight Fatigue
Midday snacks should contain about 100 calories or 15 grams of carbohydrates. The natural sweetness in fruit takes longer to metabolize than the processed sugars you'll find in candy. And the protein in peanut butter provides a long-lasting form of energy.
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Using Cash Could Lead To Healthier Eating Habits: Study
Using debit and credit cards have become second nature to most people who don't want to run to the bank every time they're out of cash, but new research shows that cash could help your eating habits
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40 Extraordinary Things Happening Right Now
Right now is a phenomenon. Right now extraordinary things are happening.
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18 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was 18
This morning I was reading a book at my favorite beach-side coffee shop when an 18-year-old kid sat down next to me and said, “That’s a great read, ain’t it?” So we started chatting.
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Fontina Panzerotti recipe - Food - Canadian Living
Canadian Fontina is based on an Italian cheese with a long history. Its yellow-ivory body is soft but elastic with a nutty, sweet, faintly fruity flavour.
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