"Folks, we read your requests for more of this post, and here it is! We know practical is popular, and we won’t leave you hanging. Look for more installments in the future. And we also heard the call for more seasonal options. We’re still tinkering with that one, but expect a spring menu soon. In [...]"

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"It’s a fascinating phenomenon if you stop and think about it. People are willing to damage their current and future financial situation in order to keep up with the Joneses. The usual antidote to this kind of behavior is pretty simple and easy - that is, on paper. It’s the usual same [...]"

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"If you’re trimming your waist by keeping an eye on the calories you eat, that’s a good step. But do you know how many calories you drink?"

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"Ideas are like fish.

If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.

Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.

I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything.

Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch.

-from Catching the Big Fish "
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"HealthDay - MONDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- Cutting kids' TV and computer time by half reduced the amount of food they ate and helped them lose weight, a new study found."

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"For speedier afternoon thinking, which snack should you choose -- a ripe banana or a chunk of cheddar cheese?"

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"Prompted by questions I received during a presentation I call "Memory Difficulties: Should I Be Worried?" I was encouraged to do a closer examination of the relationship between sleep and memory."

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"What's the ideal room temperature for working out? Do you burn more calories if you sweat more, and in sweat pants? Smart Fitness answers your workout queries."

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"Eating breakfast helps teenagers lose weight, a survey of eating habits in the United States has found."

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"A new generation of smart hearing aids could result from the discovery of a key trick that the brain uses to focus on a particular sound, reports Roger Highfield."

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"It is often said some people by nature have a sunny disposition. Now scientists could have discovered why."

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"Scientists have found an Antarctic fish that hibernates to conserve energy during the long southern winters."

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"Sometimes you’ll do anything to get out of a workout. In fact, you’d rather spend 30 minutes making up a really good excuse; time that, if you think about it, you could have totally spent (begrudgingly of course) on a quick and simple workout. So here at Mark’s Daily Apple we thought it was time to [...]"

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"Dr. Weil has raised dispensing health advice to an art form. Instead of making his audience feel inadequate or guilty about bad habits, he seems to subconsciously convince readers to do better merely by presenting health facts in a non-threatening way. Healthy Aging is his most scientifically technical book yet (you'll learn all about enzymes like telomerase and cell division and the chemistry behind phytonutrients like indole-3-carbinol, and the connection between cancer and other degenerative diseases like diabetes) yet by far his most fascinating."
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