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Improve Your Diet
Eat Breakfast
It’s the most critical meal of the day and should additionally be the best. Start your day on a good note with eating a healthy and filling breakfast. It will give you ample energy boost for the rest of the day.
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Four things you shouldn’t do to a pimple

Pimples. They leave teens devastated, undoubtful their social life is by. And for many, they don’t stop when puberty does, continuing to plague men and women alike into their twenties, thirties, and beyond. You might be tempted to treat those pimples with a home remedy, but just the thought of y…

Don’t skimp on the sunscreen


It takes a dollop of sunscreen the length of your thumb to cover the skin on your face, neck, chest, and hands, say the editors of Glamour magazine (May 2008). What’s it take for whole-body coverage?
Two tablespoons. At the very least. That’s one ounce of lotion per application — and don’t f…

Eat chocolate, advance science

Wouldn’t it be grand whether you simply had to eat a chocolate bar every day? Not complying with your daily prescription would mean the study of heart disease would take a hit. society could get sick, for goodness sake. You wouldn’t want that on your conscience, would you?

Participants in Bri…

Breast-feeding may boost IQ

According to a recent study, babies who were breastfed exclusively for at least the first three months of life scored higher on IQ tests at age six than children who weren’t breastfed exclusively. preceding research has shown that breastfed babies had enhanced thinking, learning, and memory abilitie…

Artificial food coloring makes kids hyper

Artificial food coloring makes kids hyper, say British scientists who wish to ban six different colorings. The European Council doesn’t plan on issuing any such ban, however, despite the wishes of several almighty consumer and health groups.

Researchers have concluded after the study of 300 kids …

115-year-old women stays thin, doesn’t worry

Edna Parker of Shelbyville, Indiana will turn 115 tomorrow. That makes her not a centenarian, but a supercentenarian. It plus makes her worthy of study by scientists who want to solve the mystery of longevity.

Two years ago, researchers from the New England Centenarian Study at Boston University …

Wake up behind the wheel

Statistics say lack of sleep is one major cause of car accidents. Do heavy eyes ever plague you on the road? whether so, try these three remedies for staying awake and watchful.

Suck on a mint. Researchers report that the scents of peppermint and cinnamon boost altertness and cut down on fatigue…

Trash the water bottles — or don’t

I just washed and refilled my single-use water bottles. Put them in the fridge to chill. Will pull them out one by one as needed. Oops. Shouldn’t do that, says this instance magazine article.

Single-use water bottles — you know, the ones with names like Dasani or Aquafina — are made of polyethy…

Virtual exercise no replacement for actual exercise

I finally had a chance to use a Wii. After getting by some initial embarrassment, I had an terrible lot of fun! I tried the tennis game and, sadly decent, I’m as not good at virtual tennis as I am on an actual tennis court. While the Wii was certainly more active than playing any other video game sy…

Mosquitos bite!

I’m a magnet for mosquitos. They always find me, always bite me, always leave swollen mounds of skin that itch like crazy. I swear, my whole family can be gathered in the back yard on a beautiful evening — we’re having beautiful evenings here in Florida right now — and no one will even know the mo…

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