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Tips For A Healthy & Happy Thanksgiving
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For most people, Thanksgiving is a time of giving thanks, getting together with those you care about, celebrating, sharing, and eating lots of food. Enjoying a Thanksgiving meal can mean consuming foods and beverages that you do not normally eat, but can also be a time of overdoing it and spending the following week trying to make up for it with dieting and exercise. Following are some ideas on how... 11/14/2015 8:00:00 AM
Michelle Pellizzon
5 Ways to Bring Some Zen Into Your Desk and Your Work Life
by Michelle Pellizzon
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Illustration Credit: Karley Koenig, Thrive MarketStress is a natural part of most jobs—a little stress can motivate us to finish projects on time and come up with new ideas, but when the pressure becomes too great, it can take a serious toll on workers' health. Good news, though. You don't need to pop a Xanax to escape the anxiety from your job. The answer is far more simple—just get a little more... 11/14/2015 8:00:00 AM
HealthyVoyager
Green Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving is best known for the gargantuan feast, football and insane holiday shopping.The excess of food and consumerism can be overwhelming so this year, why not go green and even be a little creative with the holiday itself? Here's how!Buy local and organicShopping for food and or ingredients to make the big meal can be time consuming and costly. Do your best to make wise choices and choose locally... 11/9/2015 8:00:00 AM
Julie Callicutt
Preventing Cross-Contamination in Public and at Home
by Julie Callicutt
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Cross-contamination occurs when a non gluten free product or ingredient comes in contact with a gluten free product. Here are a few examples:Using a knife to spread gluten free butter on a piece of gluten bread.Touching the tip of a squeeze bottle onto a piece of gluten pastry.Using a knife to cut gluten bread then spreading gluten free ketchup with the same knife.How do you work in a kitchen that... 11/4/2015 10:00:00 PM
Jenn Ryan
What Exactly Is Wrong With Commercial Beef?
by Jenn Ryan
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Many of us are swayed by advertising. Commercials that show happy cows in a pasture, a package of beef that says “free-range” or “grass-fed”or “organically-raised”: it seems easy to make the right choices at the supermarket. We as consumers are convinced we know how to tell good food from bad food, best practices from worst practices, and healthy nutrition from the stuff that just mimics it. But is... 11/4/2015 10:00:00 PM
Fred Fletcher
How Well Are You Prepared for a Major Disaster?
by Fred Fletcher
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We have seen several significantly-damaging national disasters in the last 25 years—most recently, there were the downing of the twin towers in New York and the extensive devastation by Hurricane Katrina. Both of these catastrophes had major negative implications, not the least of which were the cost of repairs (when feasible), lost productivity, and the lost revenue from diminished tourism, cancelled... 11/3/2015 10:00:00 PM
Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
Six Ways Your Diet Can Influence Your Risk for Breast Cancer
by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
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Breast Cancer is the most common cancer for women, and it is a complex disease with many contributing factors. Even those with a genetic predisposition for cancer can reduce their risk of acquiring the disease, as well as other cancers, through the foods they choose to eat. This is an important point that is often lost in the conversation about cancer.Your dietary decisions – what you have for breakfast,... 11/2/2015 8:00:00 AM
JJ Virgin
7 Fat-Burning Hormones Crashed by Crappy Sleep
by JJ Virgin
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You're likely familiar with the consequences of a terrible night's sleep. You're cranky, feeling awful, and coasting on mammoth cups of coffee along with some high-sugar impact dessert masquerading as breakfast. "It's going to be one of those days," you reluctantly say late morning, assuaging your frustration with your coworker's homemade brownies.That miserable, out-of-whack feeling isn't just in... 10/31/2015 7:00:00 AM
Janet Miller
6 Ways to Balance Yin and Yang in Your Daily Life
by Janet Miller
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The Yin-Yang symbol is based on an ancient Chinese philosophy that is over 10,000 years old. It represents dual forces that are polar opposites, yet complementary to each other. The circular representation shows life, depicting the cyclical nature of energy. It moves fluidly from yin to yang and back to yin again, continuing over and over - never reaching stagnation, and never reaching its absolute.... 10/18/2015 7:00:00 AM
Fred Fletcher
85 Ways MSG Can Make You Sick
by Fred Fletcher
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Although neither government health agencies nor food manufacturers will tell you, monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a very unhealthy food additive. In spite of such, it is obsessively used in most processed, frozen and fast foods. In fact, you will be hard-pressed to not find it in most foods consumed by people both in developed and developing countries.Why Is MSG Used So Extensively?Simply put, MSG makes... 10/15/2015 9:00:00 PM
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