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Alive Magazine
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It's as Easy as One, Two?Eight
The lesson of today is we can improve upon yesterday while getting ready for the days to come. The New Year is an excellent time to reflect and motivate ourselves to make small yet significant changes to our health.
We need to understand that squeezing fitness or exercise into our day need not be an arduous task. Here are a few simple steps that, when properly planned, can make a world of difference to our health, well-being, and overall outlook.
Stop Thinking and Start Doing
We think ourselves into oblivion and often fail to take the first step toward action.
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Go Green and Lean
Numerous studies have shown that a vegetarian diet can reduce the risk of many chronic health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, and colon cancer. Mounting evidence has found this healthy way of eating can also help us slim down.
Vegans and vegetarians consume diets that are higher in fibre and lower in calories, total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol compared to people eating a nonvegetarian diet-factors that reduce disease risk and help facilitate weight loss. In fact, a scientific review of 87 studies published in April 2006 in Nutrition Reviews concluded that a vegetarian diet is highly effective for weight loss, independent of exercise.
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Your New Beau-Tea Secret
Green tea is best known as a healthy drink, a wise alternative to coffee, and a superb choice for the daily dieter.
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The Perfect Cup
Now that coffee is officially on the antioxidant list, we may as well really up the ante and add another newcomer to the "health food" family-chocolate!
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Face Winter Head On
We do a lot of things to prepare for the winter months-install storm windows, mount the car's snow tires, dig out the snow shovel.
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Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic
by Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey, and Anne WordsworthNew Society Publishers, 2007, 317 pages, $27.95ISBN: 9780865715424
Friends who found me reading Cancer over the past week were all equally shocked and vocal: "Why are you reading such a depressing book?
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Organic Bounty
How can organic agriculture help feed the world's growing population? This highly debated question was discussed by 350 participants from 80 countries at a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) conference in Rome in May 2007.
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Great Garlic!
Many of us have a love-hate relationship with garlic. It is divine when a hint, un soupon d'ail, transforms a bland dish into a heavenly one, but many people are put off by garlic breath and some stomach troubles when consuming the large amounts needed to reap the bulbs benefits.
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Probiotic Power
You may have heard of probiotics, or good bacteria, but what you may not realize is just how good they are.
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