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Take Folic Acid Before Getting Pregnant

Folic Acid Before Getting Pregnant by: News Canada (NC)-Mississauga mother Susan Walsh gives a bottle of multivitamins containing folic acid to the bride-to-be at every wedding shower she attends. This is her way of ensuring that all women take ...

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Stretching 101

The two main purposes of stretching are prevention of injury caused by exercise or day-to-day activities and a faster rate of recovery from exercise. Stretching can also be used to improve posture and restore proper anatomical functionality.A regular...

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Craig Nabat President of Freedom Laser Therapy strives to change perceptions about smoking created by a public relation expert of the past.

Los Angeles, CA-April 12, 2005 Are smokers of today aware that during World War I cigarettes were considered tasteless and unmanly? Most men preferred cigars, pipes, and chewing tobacco. At the time cigarettes proved to be more convenient in the tre...

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Mindfulness and Pain Just Say Ouch

Mindfulness and Pain: Just Say Ouch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~What's the best way to handle pain? Just say ouch. That's a simplified description of the role of mindfulness in reducing the experience of pain. The secret isn&a...

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Sacred Oil of the Pacific Island Folk

Sacred Oil of the Pacific Island Folk by: Kaye Bewley SACRED OIL … Tahiti is home to a traditional ingredient that is just now working its way across the world. Since the early 1920s, Tamanu Oil has been studied in hospitals and by researcher...

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The Importance of Treadmill Mats

The Importance of Treadmill Mats by: Paul Johnson One important accessory that you will want to get with your new treadmill is a good treadmill mat. If you are not sure of what a treadmill mat is, then let's take a minute and examine this. ...

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The Need For Supplementation

When I began to study nutrition, I too believed that it was possible and even easy to get all the nutrition I needed from diet alone. What I discovered was shocking to me. Over the past 50 years the quality of nutrition, or the availability of nutrie...

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Beating the Freshman 15

Beating the Freshman 15 by: Paul Buckley It's a fairly accepted 'fact' among college age women that they will gain weight their first year away from home. It's so well accepted, in fact, that nearly anyone will know immediate...

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Do You Know The History Of Trampolines As Exercise Equipment ?

Do You Know The History Of Trampolines As Exercise Equipment ? by: Jeb Taylor The manufactured trampoline, as we know it today, was created by two men, George Nissen and Larry Griswold. Around 1935, Griswold, then the assistant gymnastics coach ...

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Are Drug Companies Destroying The U.S. Health Care System?

Are Drug Companies Destroying The U.S. Health Care System? by: Dr Randy Wysong The U.S. government's annual bill for healthcare spending – $3,925 per person – significantly exceeds that of all other nations. Despite this, our current he...

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