Here are this week's reading diversions for your personal enlightenment. Have a splendid March Break weekend!
Lemon Benefits: 8 Ways 'Sour Power' Can Help Your Health
Lemon helps the liver to dump toxins by stimulating its natural enzymes. This promotes good health and helps keep the skin clear.
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13+ Things Your Cardiologist Won’t Tell You | Reader's Digest
Sleep apnea is a major cause of cardiac events such as heart attack, cardiac arrest, and stroke. If you suspect you have sleep apnea (snoring and feeling exhausted when you wake up are big clues), you should tell your doctor about it. If your spouse is always nagging you for snoring, that’s an important sign too.
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10 Bad Health Habits You Can Break | Reader's Digest
A steady diet of double cheeseburgers and fries washed down with an oversize soda often leads to a bigger waistline and other related health problems, like heart disease and diabetes.
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13+ Things a Fast Food Worker Won't Tell You | Reader's Digest
From the easiest way to get quicker service to how clean your food actually is, uncover the surprising secrets your favorite fast food restaurants don't want you to know.
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Curing Crohn's? Man says he found way to beat incurable disease | Fox News
Crohn’s can affect any part of the GI tract – from the anus to the mouth. Symptoms include, but are not limited to, rectal bleeding, persistent diarrhea, constipation, severe stomach cramps and fever
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Beer bellies in men linked to osteoporosis | Fox News
Osteoporosis causes bones to become weak and brittle — so any type of stress on the bone can cause a break, according to the Mayo Clinic. The disease tends to affect women more often than men, especially post-menopausal women because they no longer have the protection of estrogen.
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Stomach Ache? Here's what could be wrong | Fox News
We may not like to bring it up at cocktail parties (or especially over dinner), but let's be honest: One of our number-one health concerns has to do with going number-two.
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Sex After Kids: Are Kids Really A Bedroom Killer For Dads?
Using a more scientific and authoritative approach, the Kinsey Institute has a more detailed breakdown. Around half of married men between ages 25-49 say they have sex a few times per month to weekly. The numbers are similar for married women in the same age group. And for the record, that’s married, not partnered.
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Foods that Fight Inflammation and Foods that Cause It - Fresh Juice
While it's important to see a doctor or a health practitioner to help you determine and, if possible, treat the underlying cause of any chronic inflammation, the right food can also help.
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5 Surprising Ways to Boost Your Vitamin C - Fresh Juice
You may increase your vitamin C intake around cold and flu season, but it does more for your body than fight off sniffles. A new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore suggests that high doses of vitamin C may help lower blood pressure. It's also beneficial in helping to prevent macular degeneration, wrinkles and some cancers.
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Six Foods that Contain a Surprising Amount of Sugar - Fresh Juice
Sugar sure does taste good, but that's the only good thing about it. The sweetener has no nutritional value, a lot of calories and can, when consumed liberally, contribute to health problems such as heart disease, obesity and cavities. That's why the American Heart Association recommends that women have no more than six teaspoons of sugar per day, while the limit is nine teaspoons for men.
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5 Ways to Boost a Slow Metabolism - Fresh Juice
It is no secret that we are growing fatter as a nation in a fast and furious way. In fact, according to Statistics Canada, 59 percent of the Canadian adult population is overweight or obese. With excess weight being linked to a variety of diseases -- such as heart disease, cancer, depression, and stroke -- it's in the best interest of all Canadians to learn nutritional tricks to boost metabolism, take excess weight off and keep it off for good.
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13+ Things HR Won't Tell You | Reader's Digest
Whether you're searching for work, or already employed, discover what HR professionals secretly think about the hiring process, your résumé, and how to keep your job.
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