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Out with the Old, In with the New: Safe Ways to Donate Your Belongings to Reputable Charitable Organizations

Like many people, you probably feel more charitable around the holidays. In today’s economy however, that spirit of giving may not extend to your beleaguered bank account. There is another way to help others, and help yourself as well. And here’s the best news: it’s free, it’s easy and it’s convenient. Now is the best [...]

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Are You Ready to Permanently Break a Habit?

Psychologists say it takes 21 days to make or break a habit.  When you want to free yourself for a bad habit – whether it is to stop procrastinating, quit smoking or to eat more healthfully – you first need to understand what that bad habit is doing to your life.  Then it becomes a [...]

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5-Step Plan to Get That Healthy Holiday GLOW

This holiday season, you can look and feel your best with a few tweaks to your lifestyle and just a little bit of willpower.  It is all about keeping the body balanced, hydrated and properly rested.  With these five easy steps, you can maintain a healthy glow, manage your figure, and have more energy and joy. [...]

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Cooking with Heart: Healthy Cooking

Anti-inflammatory cooking is gaining popularity as a way to influence disease risk.  Inflammation is natural part of your body’s immune response.  In a healthy person, inflammation indicates that their body is targeting and fighting something that could potentially make them sick.  However, chronic low-level inflammation has been linked to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s [...]

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Tune Up Your Immune System in Time for Cold and Flu Season

We are constantly exposed to various “bugs”: bacteria, viruses, fungi and other invisible invaders.  They are in the food we eat and the air we breathe.  They’re on everything we touch and in everything we smell.  Despite this onslaught, many of use rerely catch a cold or get sick because of the strength of our [...]

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