15 Food Hacks You Can't Believe You Didn't Know
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Food hacks have got to be the most fun and possibly the most useful form of life hacks making Internet rounds these days. Even when they don't work out quite as well as we'd hope, they're always fun to try. What makes food hacks really exciting…
5 Tips to Indulge in Fattening Food & Still Stay Slim
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Obesity is now considered a disease according to the AMA, and Americans, collectively, are now fatter than ever before. Obesity, which affects 78 million adults and 12 million children in the U.S., causes a host of other illnesses, including…
Ugh, Winter Poundage: Weight Loss Tips to Fix Things Fast
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Most of us have post-holiday/pre-spring weight loss goals. Perhaps the hardest thing about packing on the inevitable holiday pounds is the fact that mother nature is stacking the deck against us as we're trying to shed them. Cold weather and…
The Origin of Sushi: A Quick Culinary History
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Did you ever wonder about the origin of sushi? Just how it occurred to someone to arrange raw fish over a ball of rice and eat it? Legend has it that an elderly Japanese woman once hid her pots in a fish eagle nest, and some of the bird’s…
The Fertility Diet: What to Eat when You're Trying to Conceive
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Psst…we're going to let you all in on a little secret that your middle school Sex-Ed teacher never wanted you to know: for a lot of people, getting pregnant is actually really difficult—and a lot of it can be helped with the right fertility…
Bullet Proof Coffee: 6 Reasons Why People are Putting Butter in their Java
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Want to drink a special coffee that will make you sharper and thinner? Just add butter. Whaaat? You heard right. Devotees of the paleo movement–that high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet–are turning their morning java into a slow-burning,…
Eating for Two: The Sweet Spot Between Nutrition & Moderation on a Pregnancy Diet
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These days most moms-to-be know that a good pregnancy diet involves much more than just eating for two. In fact, a recent Penn State study found that women with the eating for two mentality are more likely to gain too much pregnancy weight.…
Paleo Power: Why People Love the Paleo Diet
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If you want to get healthy there are hundreds of diets to choose from. And these days we're willing to bet that you know someone who swears by the Paleo diet. So what is this diet that people also refer to as the caveman diet? Quite honestly,…
Yes You Can With the Dukan Diet – Why This Diet Seems to Work
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If you’re like most of us around here, you’ve been working hard for years in an attempt to lose the last ten (okay, thirty) pounds. Whether you’re carrying excess weight from pregnancy or stress eating matters not, what’s important…