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Small, Cheap Steps to Weight Loss

Posted August 28, 2008 - 14:41 by Andrea Dickson

Food and Drink, Health and Beauty

Shedding pounds with minimal effort.

Eliminating calories from your diet doesn't have to involve drastic cuts or detailed meal planning. You don't need a gym membership to get exercise. If you prefer baby steps to great strides, try these tips and tricks for cutting calories from your diet and burning off some extra pounds. The results may take longer than what you would see with a crash diet or personal trainer, but because these changes are more incremental, you might find them easier to stick with.

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8 Cheap Ways to Lower Your Blood Sugar

Posted May 2, 2007 - 11:53 by Andrea Dickson

Life Hacks, Health and Beauty

Keeping blood sugars in check can be tricky - there's an endless cycle of highs and lows that can be hard to navigate. Sometimes, sugars get high and we should take more meds to counteract them. Sometimes, though, if sugars are elevated but not dangerously so, we can use these cheap methods to get our glucose back to normal - without popping another pill.

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Is Green Tea All It's Cracked Up to Be? It's close.

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Food and Drink, Health and Beauty

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I've been enjoying the snarky articles at Slate.com recently focusing on the commoditization of Eastern traditions, such as yoga. As someone who purchases but never uses yoga clothing, mats, and accessories, I can truly appreciate the hypocrisy in the American tendency to turn something that is supposed to be purifying and healthy into something that is really a money-making scheme.

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