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Stop Your Face From Itching and Aging!

Christopher Drummond Beauty goes “Beyond Mineral Makeup” by combining skin care with makeup artistry-

NEW YORK – Ever wonder why your skin is feeling itchy and irritated, even after you’ve made the switch to traditional mineral makeup?  While minerals are often

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Fabulously Healthy and Inexpensive Spring Cleaning Tips!

Food Safe Surface Cleaning

Clean your food prep area and tools with natural, food safe ARM & HAMMER® Baking Soda instead of harsh cleaners.  Sprinkle ARM & HAMMER® Baking Soda onto a clean damp sponge or cloth and wipe clean, rinse thoroughly, and then dry.  Great for counters, stainless steel sinks, cutting boards, microwaves, lunch boxes, wooden spoons, oven

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Live Healthier and Longer With Better Posture

May is National Correct Posture Month, so take a look at how hours of computer hunching, slouching while cell phone texting and video-game slumping is affecting your posture.  It's not just kids with backpacks or cane-carrying seniors---studies show poor posture is a major cause of back and neck pain for all ages, and over time often contributes to digestive and cardiopulmonary problems.  The good news: there are easy things people can do to strengthen posture.
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Super Smart Diva Tips To Lowering Your Utility Bill

Approximately 43% of a home's utility bill can be attributed to heating and cooling.  Unfortunately, a significant amount of the money spent on that typical bill goes out the window – literally – because of drafty doors and windows.  Replacing those doors and windows can be costly.  There is a new, affordable and easy-to-use product that will help consumers save on heating bills this season.

 

Made from the same foam used to insulate pipes in Northern Canada, the Twin Draft Guard keeps the internal climate from being affected by the outside elements allowing for more efficient temperature regulation.  This double-sided insulation device blocks

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Fabulous Summer Yoga

With summer quickly approaching, many are working overtime at the gym and at home as they prepare for bikinis, short shorts, and strapless dresses.  However, making time to incorporate exercise into an already hectic schedule is a huge deterrent for those who want to be fit but are short on time.

With this common issue in mind, certified yoga instructor and founder of Explore Vidya Yoga, Candace Morano recommends the top most effective yoga poses to get your body “summer ready!”

1. Downward Facing Dog Split

• How to “Strike the Pose”:

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How To Be A Chic And Green Driving Machine!

No matter what you drive, there are still ways to drive greener and save money! Woohoo! We love saving money!Supposing you can’t take advantage of the new government program, cash for clunkers and drive a more fuel efficient car, you can still go green with the one you have.

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Live Happier! Add the Power of Pause to Your Life

What do you say when people tell you they don’t have TIME to pause?

That’s a question many people ask me regardless of where they live or what they do for a living: How on earth can I pause when I don’t even have time to handle what’s already on my plate?

Or maybe you think to yourself as you run through your day, I’d like to stop the world and get off but that’s not going to happen today.

So what have I got for me in your Power of Pause® toolkit to help you be your best in the midst of a non-stop life? There are some simple practices to help you take back your TIME! Time wasted on arguments. On missed understandings. On belaboring issues and beating up on yourself in those “shoulda woulda coulda” moments.

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Top Ways To Combat Stress in 2010

MUSIC – According to Forbes , this was the #1 way Americans relieved stress in the tumultuous year of 2009. Numerous studies have demonstrated the role of music in relieving stress and it has been discovered that the rhythm or the beat of the music relieves stress. While listening to music, there is an increase in the depth of breathing, which provides more oxygen and therefore more energy to the body. There is also is secretion of serotonin in the brain which acts as a mood stabilizer. So break out your Ipod and make a 2010 playlist of your favorite soothing tunes for the New Year. 

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One Thing That Could Dramatically Improve Your Health!

Probiotics may well explain why some seemingly healthy children and adults succumb to fatal or near fatal flu or bacterial infections, while others do not. With infectious disease rates increasing around the world, ranging from tuberculosis to the H1N1 influenza, probiotics provide a reasonable explanation for why some people contract potentially fatal infections while others have mild or fewer infections of the same virus, with similar exposure.

 

In Probiotics - Protection Against Infection: Using Nature’s Tiny Warriors to Stem Infection and Fight Disease, author Casey Adams, Ph.D. lays out the evidence that shows that the balance between probiotics and pathogenic bacteria within the body determines the level of immunity against invading bacteria, fungi or viruses.

 

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