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How to Lose Weight While Watching TV

Work, school, family, social activities – sometimes it may feel as though your schedule may seem like the most hectic and stressful program on the planet. However, with all the priorities and demands on your time, you can always find a few minutes to catch up on the latest episode of Modern Family or It’s [...]

Making Cardio Fun

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Doesn’t it surprise you that kids exercise for fun without realizing it? They never stop running or jumping or swinging from the ceiling, and all their energy goes toward keeping their body healthy and strong whether they recognize its worth or not. Rather than telling them to settle down and read a book, join your [...]

Ways of Avoiding Stress during the Holidays

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“It’s the most wonderful time of the year” is a common phrase heard throughout the holiday season. Unfortunately, most people do not feel that way about the holidays. Instead of the holidays being a time of joy and merriment, they are instead a time of hair pulling, crying, and a lot of stress. And yet, [...]

Can Your Diet Affect Your Skin?

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When most people consider whether their diet is good for them, they tend to think how it will affect their waistline, rather than their T-zone. But the truth is, what you eat has just as large of an impact on the skin that covers your body as the fat stores that are underneath it. Here are some popular diets and how they affect the health of your skin:

Presidential Candidate Stalled By Preadolescent Girls?

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For a rough and tough presidential candidate like Rick Perry, you wouldn’t think something as small as tweenaged girls could drop his approval ratings. But nevertheless, Perry’s decision to vaccinate all preadolescent girls against the sexually transmitted virus HPV. This issue ballooned on Monday night when Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum fledged an all out [...]

Food Safety Too Expensive?

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Eating strawberries, papayas and sprouts should make us feel good and healthy. Instead, some people have faced sickness and even death from them. This summer an E. coli strain from strawberries sickened nine people and killed one in Oregon, whereas papayas and sprouts infected hundreds with salmonella in over five states. But why this surge [...]

An Exciting Day For HIV Prevention

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AIDS has been a medical enigma for decades now. Despite the billions of dollars, millions of victims, thousands of doctors, and a countless amount of hours spent researching this fatal human immunodeficiency virus, there have not been many developments made in the quest to eradicate this disease. However, all this has changed with the introduction [...]

New Cigarette Packages Going Graphic

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For years now, the health industry has been waging a war against big tobacco, using everything from television commercials, billboard campaigns, educational programs, but a huge battle has just been won in the quest for healthier American lungs. On Tuesday, Federal health officials released the final nine image-based warning labels to cover the top half [...]

Benefits of Medical Marijuana

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It’s every potheads dream come true, medical marijuana that is actually legal! Technically, there are states such as California, where you can legally carry up to 1oz of marijuana on your person, because officials believe that you could not possibly be selling it at that point in time. Despite the popular South Park episode, you [...]

Tips to Quit Smoking

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Tobacco cravings can be a killer when you are trying to quit smoking. It can be very overwhelming but remember that each time you resist, the stronger you are to resist the next time and quick smoking. Here are a few tip to resist the urge to smoke or use tobacco when that craving strikes, [...]

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