by Helen Lamanna, AdvisorAnalyst.com
Here are this week's reading diversions for your personal enlightenment. Have an excellent weekend!
Fatty Liver Disease: 10 Common Symptoms | ActiveBeat
A fatty liver isn’t damaging to the body on its own accord. However, accumulation of excessive fatty tissue can lead to severe liver damage—including inflammation and scarring.
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You Probably Don't Have Bipolar Disorder (Or One Of These 7 Other Conditions)
Severe depression, extreme irritability, over-exuberance: possible symptoms of bipolar disorder. Dying your hair and then missing the old color? Not bipolar disorder.
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Food Trends 2014: Cauliflower Is The New Kale
TORONTO - Cauliflower is the new kale, salt is the new pepper and doughnuts and burgers are going gangbusters.
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How 'toxic' is sugar? - Health - CBC News
Research suggests links to deadly diseases but some doctors and food industry representative are skeptical
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Dr Mike Hart: 10 Ways to Keep Testosterone Levels High
BPA may be the biggest culprit to the declining levels of testosterone. BPA is Bisphenol-A, a synthetic chemical often found in various plastic containers that leaches out as it is heated. When workers were exposed to BPA, it resulted in lower levels of testosterone and androstendione, a precursor to both testosterone and estrogen.
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Nutella Latte taps into people’s obsession with popular spread | Toronto Star
When you order a Nutella Latte at Café Con Leche Espresso Bar in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood, co-owner Carlos Flores will hand you the spoon he uses to stir in the legendary chocolate-hazelnut spread.
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How to keep your sex life active as you age | Toronto Star
We just had our 25th anniversary, and I hate to think that my husband and I will end up, after years of happiness, with no sex life. People say it’s inevitable, but can’t older people have a good sex life?
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Hangovers Hit Harder As We Age | Psychology Today
The effects of alcohol amplify as we age. Hangovers worsen, research tells us.
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30 Things To Start Doing For Yourself
Our previous article, 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself, was well received by most of our readers, but several of you suggested that we follow it up with a list of things to start doing. In one reader’s words, “I would love to see you revisit each of these 30 principles, but instead of presenting us with a ‘to-don’t’ list, present us with a ‘to-do’ list that we all can start working on today, together.” Some folks, such as readers Danny Head and Satori Agape, actually took it one step further and emailed us their own revised ‘to-do’ versions of the list.
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12 Rules for Being Beautifully Human
Be present, let go of the past, don’t beat yourself up over what you did yesterday, and don’t try to be perfect. Just be a beautiful example of being human…
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5 Foods That Help You Sleep | Caring.com
Should you let yourself have that midnight snack if you're having trouble sleeping and you think hunger might be part of the problem? Here are five foods that can actually help you drift off:
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10 Foods to Avoid with Overactive Bladder (OAB) | Caring.com
It's not necessarily how much you drink and eat, but what.
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Dr. Oz's 13 Natural Immunity Boosters | The Dr. Oz Show
You don’t need to travel far to boost your immunity. You can find some items in your local store (or even in your kitchen!) to help bolster your defenses. Here, Dr. Oz shows you how to avoid getting sick with some natural immunity boosters.
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Vitamin B12: The Most Important Nutrient You Aren’t Thinking About | The Dr. Oz Show
Vitamin B12 is essential for the manufacture of red blood cells; a deficiency leads to a characteristic kind of anemia
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Medications That May Cause Weight Gain | The Dr. Oz Show
Some medications are known to cause weight gain. See if your medications made the list.
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