Not So Fast: Healthy Fast-Food Choices

Not So Fast: Healthy Fast-Food Choices

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

The drive thru doesn’t always have to derail your diet. It is possible to stick to your weight-loss program while still hitting your favorite fast-food joints. The secret is to maintain the plan by making smart choices. Before you order a burger, fries and soda, explore the healthier options available….

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Married Couples: No More K-I-S-S-I-N-G?

Married Couples: No More K-I-S-S-I-N-G?

Love / Love Tips

A disappointing new report out of the UK reveals that married people seem to lose interest in puckering up. Married couples tend to get a bad rap after they walk down the aisle – that’s when all that hot sex they had pre-wedding dries up, according to the stereotype. But…

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Summer Salads

Summer Salads

Food & Recipes / Healthy Bytes

Green vegetables are the food most missing in modern diets. Nutritionally, greens are very high in calcium (120 -190 mg per cup!) They’re also high in magnesium, iron, potassium, phosphorous, zinc, and they are a power house for Vitamin A, C, E and K. Believe it or not, they are…

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The Long and Short on Kids’ Height

The Long and Short on Kids’ Height

Moms / Mom Tips

Tall, short or in between – parents can worry excessively about how their child is growing, and it starts during those first newborn checkups. Pediatricians will expect babies to grow consistently according to the height and weight chart, checking to be sure the two are roughly in the same percentile….

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Is Fasting Beneficial?

Is Fasting Beneficial?

Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating

by Amy Daughdrill Fasting has been instituted by people of nearly all faiths as a religious practice since before recorded history. By definition, it is the act of abstaining from food, drink or both for a period of time. As a spiritual practice, it is believed to be an act…

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Wishbone Salad Spritzers

Wishbone Salad Spritzers

Food & Recipes / Food Product Reviews

by Jimmy Nightingale In these days of watching what you eat, the humble salad is chock full of natural goodness, laden with vitamins and minerals. It is the traditional healthy choice and one of the few foods that you should be able to eat to your heart’s content. Right? Wrong….

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Depression in Relationships

Depression in Relationships

Love / Love Tips

Those who get married traditionally take the vow to care for one another “in sickness and health.” It’s difficult enough to do that when your partner battles physical illness, but mental illness is a whole ‘nother story. For those whose relationships are affected by clinical depression, it can be a…

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Eating for Life

Eating for Life

Diet Reviews / Low Calorie

This nutritionally-sound eating plan is the anti-diet, allowing you to eat the foods you like — and plenty of them – while still losing weight. Phillips knows the challenges of trying to stick to a diet that makes you feel deprived and hungry all the time. In fact, for many…

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