Fitting Into Your Wedding Dress - Wedding Tip |
| 7/31/2010 5:10:26 PM |
 Finding the perfect wedding dress is one thing — fitting into it is another!
On "The Early Show on Saturday Morning,"Frances Largeman-Roth, senior food and nutrition editor at Health magazine, shared some tips to help Bay Area brides look their best on the big day. Here is an excerpt interspersed with our comments and additions:
SIX MONTHS... Read More |
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Hypertension Helped by Cocoa |
| 7/31/2010 3:49:01 PM |
Cocoa for hypertension
Delectable news: Consumed daily for at least 2 weeks,cocoa (the darker the better) can reduce blood pressure among people with severe hypertension. Researchers say cocoa plant flavanols, called epicatechins, improve blood vessel function by helping artery walls relax. Most research shows the effects to be modest but still... Read More |
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Natural Supplements: Do They Really Reduce Cancer Risk or Heart Disease Risk |
| 6/26/2010 1:45:55 PM |
 Natural Supplements: Do They Really Reduce Cancer Risk or Heart Disease Risk? Absolutely! Click here to see just one example. Is it a guarantee? What is? When you buy insurance are you guaranteed to need it? Of course not. At least, you hope you don't need it. What is the difference - using a few supplements for insurance to have better health and buying home... Read More |
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Home on the range - free radicals and weight loss |
| 6/23/2010 11:04:10 AM |
Here's a good article on free radicals:
http://dark-chocolate-diet.com/chocolate-weight-loss/free-radicals-and-weight-loss/
It covers how free radicals and weight loss are connected. If you've had trouble keeping weight off or losing it in the first place, it may not be your fault. You probably didn't know the connection between the two. No wonder... Read More |
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Resveratrol Risk: Urgent Resveratrol Readers Must Read About the Risk |
| 5/26/2010 7:55:34 AM |
As with any supplement or prescription it is critical to know what the risk are. Furthermore, as with any supplement or prescription it is critical to know that not all brands are created equal. Recently there has been a mass of companies trying to reproduce the benefits that VIVIX, an ultra-pure resveratrol tonic that the Shaklee corporation has exclusive rights to.... Read More |
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Brain Protected By Cold Pressed Dark Chocolate |
| 5/5/2010 10:20:16 PM |
Dark Chocolate May Guard Against Brain Injury from Stroke Science Daily reported May 5, 2010 that Researchers at Johns Hopkins discovered a compound in dark chocolate may protect the brain after a stroke by increasing cellular signals already known to shield nerve cells from damage.
The study involved feeding mice epicatechins (a compound found... Read More |
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Is There Really Affordable Healthcare That We Don't Know About? |
| 4/28/2010 10:13:31 AM |
  
This is a piece of the healthcare debate the mainstream media has totally missed, but internet radio is buzzing this week and breaking this story.
This is just a taste, but on Wednesday April 28 one company is going to give new information about what the government is doing to purposely destroy private practice doctors.
This is the truth that Big Insurance companies and our... Read More |
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A List of Phobias that Are not Funny |
| 4/21/2010 8:26:54 AM |
I was doing some research on overcoming phobias and I came upon a list of phobias from A to Z...believe it or not. Some of them are strange to my mind, but very real to the people who suffer from them.
Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns
Vestiphobia -Fear of clothing
Ancraophobia - or Anemophobia Fear of wind.
Bibliophobia - Fear of books
Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness
Dendrophobia -... Read More |
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Chocolate and Weight Loss |
| 4/6/2010 11:04:13 AM |
 Good News! Research is showing that healthy dark chocolate is not only good for you but may help with food cravings.
Researchers found that after eating dark chocolate (as compared with milk chocolate) subjects ate 15% less of foods such as pizza. We've been saying for some time that you should try to eat the healthy dark chocolate several times a... Read More |
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Mineral Makeup: The New Age of Beauty Treatment is Mineral Makeup |
| 3/22/2010 6:13:32 PM |
 In recent years, mineral makeup has been part of the makeup revolution. Women love the benefits this natural makeup provides them.
Mineral makeup is gentler to the skin than traditional makeup. It does not contain irritants, so even women who have sensitive skin can wear it. Those who have avoided makeup in the past due to irritations look and feel great in mineral makeup.... Read More |
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Some great dark chocolate news from Dr. Al Sears |
| 3/8/2010 11:27:48 AM |
| Al Sears, MD
11903 Southern Blvd., Ste. 208
Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411 | | Dear Pam,
If you ate chocolate on Valentine’s Day, I have some news for you. You don’t have to feel guilty. In fact, I have evidence that you may have cut your risk from dying of a stroke nearly in half. Two studies give us... Read More |
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Chocolate and heart health |
| 3/1/2010 2:07:06 PM |
| Here's another article I found on dark chocolate and heart health. Seems like there is more news and studies and articles everyday about cardiovascular health and dark chocolate. I don't know about you, but if I was having heart problems, or knew someone who had any cardiovascular problems and I was concerned about them, I'd be checking it out. And... Read More |
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Urgent: Lead in Children's Vitamins & Women's Vitamins |
| 2/27/2010 10:06:21 PM |
 What is our country coming to. First, lead in our lipstick. Then lead in our toys. And now lead in our children's vitamins. How is a parent suppose to protect our children when companies don't check and double check their products. And of all contaminants - LEAD, we certainly know and have known that lead is terribly dangerous for all of us especially our precious... Read More |
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Chocolate, Cabernet and Cancer |
| 2/14/2010 12:15:24 PM |
Study says Cabernet and Chocolate can kill cancer.
Joining foods that are ingredients to starve cancer, by choking off the blood supply to tumors, are red wine and dark chocolate. The Angiogenesis Foundation from Massachusetts announced at the TED conference that they had been rating foods based on cancer fighting qualities and dark chocolate and... Read More |
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What does Alkalized and Cold Processed Dark Chocolate mean |
| 2/4/2010 4:52:02 PM |
 Dark chocolate is any chocolate that has a high percent of cocoa solids - it's different for every country for what is legally considered a high percent, but generally 70% or higher is considered dark chocolate.
One of the processes that takes away nutrients from the raw cocoa (or cacao) while it is being processed to make dark chocolate, is... Read More |
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Eat Dark Chocolate for Breakfast |
| 1/26/2010 4:13:23 PM |
 Chocolate has long been held to be a mood-lifter.
It boosts levels of serotonin, the brain’s antidepressant, as well as endorphins, the feel-good chemicals released after exercise. We also know it's a source of theobromine, a stimulant that has a lasting relaxing effect.
But now there’s evidence to suggest that dark chocolate is less fattening... Read More |
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Dark Chocolate and Fibromyalgia |
| 1/24/2010 2:00:19 PM |
 It's been said that 9 out of ten people like chocolate and half of those people crave chocolate and that a billion people ate chocolate yesterday and a billion people will eat chocolate today. It used to be that we were told that chocolate was bad for you and yet, now we are learning that there are many benefits to raw cacao which is used to make... Read More
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Dark Chocolate May Reduce Stress |
| 1/24/2010 1:02:36 AM |
 Dark chocolate reduces stress? Are we surprised?
It's why we reach for a chocolate, but now there's another study showing that about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate daily for two weeks reduces the stress hormones in the body. The chocolate tested is not available over the counter in the USA, but it's probable that any 70% dark chocolate cacao will... Read More |
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Cocoa Prices Up - Dark Chocolate Alert |
| 1/15/2010 1:33:22 PM |
Watch out for dark chocolate quality!
 Cocoa prices have almost doubled in the last two years and are at a 30 year high for cocoa futures (as of December 2009). Prices have risen as demand for dark chocolate has increased and tight inventory and low cocoa farm investments merged. Many chocolate companies are rethinking strategies for sale and... Read More |
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Awesome Calorie Game |
| 1/6/2010 9:12:22 AM |
 You have got to check this out. Studies show that 82% of people who were exposed to the food guide at the restaurant modified their food choices. No wonder. How could you really enjoy the cheesecake knowing that it is over 1/2 your calories for the entire day. I'm glad I make my own so I know how to control the calorie and fat content.
Check out this link. Calorie... Read More |
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