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Diet Tips
• Toss your diet books, just eat lots of multicolored foods that were recently alive, like vegetables and fruits. • Never crash diet. Research shows it can make you depressed. Nourishing your body also nourishes your mind. • Remember that every meal is not your last. There will be another turkey dinner, another plate of spaghetti, another brownie. If you keep in mind that this is not your last chance to eat a food you love, it will be easier for you to put down your fork when you’ve had enough.
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Best Suggestion From Sex Health Experts
Don’t self-diagnose. If you have symptoms, check with a doctor, not the Internet.
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Ways To Keep Your Mouth Healthy
• If you don’t floss, at least use an electric toothbrush to get into crannies and fight gum disease. • Rinse your mouth out after drinking a soda. Doing so will help wash its enamel-eroding acids off your teeth.
Health Treat for Your Feet
Go ahead, buy new shoes. Wear platforms so you get the height of a stiletto without the arch-busting 45-degree angle that puts so much pressure on the balls of your feet. And the wider heels provide much better support and stability than regular pumps.
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Heart Health Tips
• Eat less salt. You may be a healthy young thing now, but half of women over 45 have high blood pressure, and a lot of that is due to sodium. • Every night before going to sleep, lie on your back and hang your head and shoulders off the bed for up to two minutes. This opens up your chest, increasing blood supply to your lungs and heart, and can help prevent bad posture from hours of hunching over a desk at work.
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Ways To Slash Your Cancer Risk
• Know your family history of cancer. If parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts or uncles were diagnosed before 50, you may be at an especially high risk. • Aim for enough vitamin D a day. Vitamin D is not only important for bones, but may also help prevent cancer and heart disease.
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| September 2012