What are Some Painless Ways I Can Save More Money?

By: John, source: http://financialelite.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-are-some-painless-ways-i-can-save.html       People usually have no problem spending money, but saving money is a whole different story. It's kind of like when you want to lose weight, but just like there are ways to cut back on calories, there are a few things you can do to make saving money relatively painless.Whenever you get a raise, deposit the extra money you make...

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What Should I Do If I Lose My Job?2

By: John, source: http://financialelite.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-should-i-do-if-i-lose-my-job.html                        Is there a chance I can still get laid off this year? There is a chance you can get laid off any year, but you still have a chance you'll get laid off this year especially. With July's unemployment at a high of 9.4% and the economists...

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A Brief History

by Lindsay, source : http://healthystride.blogspot.com/2010/04/brief-history.html                    I weighed in at 289 6 months after giving birth to my 3rd baby in 2005. It all started with my fear of getting diabetes. I was 21 years old and unhealthy and totally unfit. I embarked on my weigh loss journey, with a family challenge of the biggest looser. Before at 289 ...

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An Anniversary Present(ation)

By , source : http://266-twosixtysix.blogspot.com/2010/08/anniversary-presentation.html FOOD & BEVERAGES: - 15 glasses of water - 1 banana - 1 cup blackberries - 1 wrap on a soft tortilla shell with 2 scrambled eggs, deli ham, grated cheese, and mushrooms - 1 glass of a strawberry breakfast drink - 1 glass mango juice - 2 fruit creme cookies - 1 mixed berry whole grain cereal bar - 3/4 cup bacon - 1 homemade...

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Walking Clubs for Fitness Motivation

By Isadora, source : http://weight-loss-story.blogspot.com/2006/09/walking-clubs-for-fitness-motivation.html                  I know a woman, a friend of a friend, who has a gorgeous figure. She's slim and has a very healthy glow about her. She's no young pup in her twenties. She was born the same year as me. And...

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Backsliding

By DietDiva, Source http://dare2diet.blogspot.com/2007/07/backsliding.html This week has been very rough. I've been so sick that I haven't been able to track my points, and when I can't plan, I don't do well. And then it's like a slippery slope. I do bad, think negatively, then mentally give up on the week. I didn't go to my meeting today because I'm in too much pain. When I stepped on the scale myself this morning I had gained 4 pounds from last week. Today,...

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Mushrooms have Amazing Healing Benefits

By Isadora, source : http://weight-loss-story.blogspot.com/2007/02/mushrooms-have-amazing-healing.html                                    Mushrooms are often overlooked in today's daily diet but they are loaded with nutrition and amazing health benefits. One of the most nutritious mushrooms...

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What is the Healthiest Vegetable?

By Isadora, source : http://weight-loss-story.blogspot.com/2006/04/what-is-healthiest-vegetable.html The healthiest prize for all vegetables goes to swiss chard. Chard is the 'king' of all vegetables. It is also widely available, cheap and very easy to cook. One cup of cooked chard is only 35 calories. But the wealth of nutrition you can get from this one cup is quite incredible. Vitamin A Typically we think of carrots when we think of foods high in Vitamin A....

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Two Weigh-In's After Two Tough Weeks

By DietDiva, source : http://dare2diet.blogspot.com/2007/06/two-weigh-ins-after-two-tough-weeks.html Life has been so hectic that it's been hard to keep up with blogging. So I'm playing catch-up and posting two weigh-ins in one post. Okay, last week's weigh-in, which came after vacationing and me "blowing it" most of the weekend: 159.2 pounds, down 1.6 pounds for the week, for a total LOSS of 11.6 pounds overall!!!!...

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Weight Loss Surgery is Scary

By Isadora, source : http://weight-loss-story.blogspot.com/2007/01/weight-loss-surgery-is-scary.htmlThere's a young woman who went ahead with a gastric bypass operation seven weeks ago. She is also one of the best writers I've encountered anywhere online. She has been blogging about her weight loss struggles for over two years. She made the decision to go ahead with weight loss surgery after much thought. And before she went through with it she had horrible second...

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Good Health Simplified

by Toni Brayer, MD source : http://healthwise-everythinghealth.blogspot.com/2010/11/good-health-simplified.html               You can't do anything about your genes but here is the formula for good health...simplified: 0           Cigarettes 5           Servings Fruits and Vegetables a Day 10        ...

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Health Care is Not Recession Proof

Source : http://healthwise-everythinghealth.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html I've heard people say that health care is recession proof.  Even when the economy is suffering, people still get sick and need service.  The current recession is entering the 3rd year and it has finally caught up to the health industry.  The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that there were 16 mass hospital layoffs in October, up from 10 in September.  Mass layoffs involve 50 or more employees...

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Top 10 Articles Read by Doctors

Source : http://healthwise-everythinghealth.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-articles-read-by-doctors.html Now that the end of the decade is near, we are hearing and reading about "the top this and that" from music to fashion to political downfalls.  Medscape has their own top 10 articles that were read by physicians on their site.  I find it interesting to see what my colleagues plug in to when they are not seeing patients.  The only surprise to me was the Brain Tumor "risk" because I...

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Answer to the Medical Challenge

Source: http://healthwise-everythinghealth.blogspot.com/2011/01/answer-to-medical-challenge.htmlI apologize to anxious readers for the tardy answer.  The answer to the "tender ear lesion" is #4 Candida. Congrats to the brilliant diagnosticians who got it.  This was very hard because the ear is not a common site for a yeast infection and only 7% of the doctors taking the quiz online got it right.  The most common answer from physicians was squamous...

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Fraud Behind Vaccine Autism Scare

By Toni Brayer, MD Source :  http://healthwise-everythinghealth.blogspot.com/2011/01/fraud-behind-vaccine-autism-scare.html Most parents and all Pediatricians are aware of the 1998 study published in The Lancet by Dr. Andrew Wakefield that mentioned a causal link between Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) vaccine and the increased incidence of childhood Autism.  It shook the medical community and created an international movement of parents questioning...

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Eating Big Calories at Breakfast Can Make You Fat

Source : http://healthwise-everythinghealth.blogspot.com/2011/01/eating-big-calories-at-breakfast-can.html Haven't we all learned that breakfast should be our biggest meal?  "Start the day off with "fuel" and you can burn it off as the day goes on." "Eat a big breakfast and you will eat fewer calories all day long".  This advice is probably not true, and in fact a new study published in Nutrition Journal shows that people ate the same at lunch and dinner, regardless of what they had at...

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NEW VITAMIN D TEST

source : http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-vitamin-d-test.html  New test may help detect vitamin D deficiency earlierBy Nathan Gray, 27-Jan-2011A new diagnostic vitamin D assay to be released in Europe may help to detect early deficiency, and could help to provide more accurate data for dieticians and researchers.Developed by the diagnostic lab technology company Abbott to detect the amount of 25-hydroxy vitamin D, the ARCHITECT 25-OH Vitamin...

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What is Cellulite?

Source : http://wellness-fitness-health.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-is-cellulite.html There are several people, especially women, who get embarrassed due to the effects of cellulite on their body. With the number of treatments out there promising effective results against cellulites, many people wonder what are those treatments that actually work. Some might say that cellulite creams are effective. However, these creams only hide the effects of cellulite for a short...

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