Aging
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Is Your Scale Lying to You?
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Ever step on the scale and have a hard time believing its accuracy? Now, I’m not talking about delusion or denial…but more about the fact that you honestly can’t pinpoint why the scale is reading a three pound increase in your weight. It happens…it happens to all of us, and it can be very confusing, […]
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Are you ‘Old’?
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The other day I was chatting with a friend about a colleague and when I mentioned that the person was 50, she said, “Oh, they are old.” I nearly fell out of my chair. OLD? How is 50 OLD? I did a quick calculation of how far away I was from 50 and then turned […]
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Does Botox give you freedom of expression?
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One of my biggest pet peeves within the advertising and marketing arena is false advertising…or for that matter, misleading the consumer. It happens all of the time and most of the time, I can let it go. That said, I’ve been fighting the urge to write about this specific topic for some time, but it […]
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How Healthy are your Nuts?
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by Brett Blumenthal
I couldn’t help it, the title was just too tempting. But seriously, nuts are a real power food and provide you with a lot of great benefits, including fiber and healthy fats, not to mention essential vitamins and minerals. That said, some nuts rate better than others. All in all, they are healthy, but if […]
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Why Losing Weight is so Hard and Gaining Weight is so Easy
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You just went away for the weekend and you came back to find that you gained 5 pounds over the course of 3 days. In your disbelief, you quickly curse the Weight Gods for being so cruel. Sound familiar? This was me last weekend. A little jaunt to Montreal, eating at decadent cafes, packed it […]
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The Power of your Smile
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Unfortunately, there may be times that smiling can be difficult - when it might not be easy and might feel virtually impossible. Sometimes we get so caught up in the bad things that we forget that smiling is actuallly an option. Maybe your boss inappropriately yelled at you…maybe you had a fight with a loved one…maybe […]
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Safe Skin Care Products: Aren’t you worth it?
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I was raised to think that paying high prices for luxury items and luxury brand names were a waste of money. Although we lived very comfortably, my parents raised me to have a great work ethic, to value the dollar and to understand that money doesn’t grow on trees. As a kid, you didn’t need Jordache jeans to […]
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Precious Sleep
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Have you ever missed a good night sleep and then the next night stayed up late to watch your favorite rerun of Friends, Frasier or Scrubs…because even though you had seen it five times, you just couldn’t get enough? And then the night after, you went out with friends for drinks and dinner, and it went later than […]
