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		<title>Healthy Living is Easy if You Know The Way</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your lifestyle does affect your health. It’s time to begin to look toward doing something about it. The choices you make now and in the future will determine how well you will stand up to the perils of life as you approach your senior years. By taking the time to learn these tips, you can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your lifestyle does affect your health. It’s time to begin to look toward doing something about it. The choices you make now and in the future will determine how well you will stand up to the perils of life as you approach your senior years. By taking the time to learn these tips, you can live longer and healthier.<br />
• Eat a Healthier Diet<br />
Most of us develop poor eating habits at an early age, and we tend to put off making changes that will improve our well being. We must begin early in life to develop healthy eating habits, and we must continue those habits through out our lives.<br />
• Develop an Exercise Routine<br />
Exercise is an important part of remaining healthy. If you don’t have an exercise routine already, you should develop one based on your own abilities.<br />
• Maintain a Proper Weight<br />
In order to stay healthy, you need to keep your weight within normal range. Excess weight puts a strain on your heart and makes you more likely to have a heart attack. You can use body fat monitors and blood pressure monitors to observe your own condition.<br />
• Reduce Stress<br />
Stress can cause the immune system to break down, and when that happens, it is ripe for many different conditions and illnesses. It’s important to learn to reduce stress levels before they cause severe health problems. Even every day conditions such as asthma can be caused by stress. In case of asthma attack, you can use nebulisers which are more efficient than inhalers.<br />
There is no substitute for healthy living. By making those important changes can you expect to live a longer, healthier life into your senior years.</p>
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		<title>Grown Up Tub Toys</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On a dark night, the erotic combination of the hot Jacuzzi and the cold swimming pool can be incredible &#8211; imagine how delicious it would be to add a waterproof vibrator to the scenario! Or how about such daily routine: you&#8217;ve just gotten home from work, you&#8217;re tired, stressed, and want to relax and blow off steam. The perfect place for you to go is your bathtub, which you fill with warm water softened by or bath salts, scented candles burning on the edge of the tub, a good CD on the stereo and, of course, accompanied by your collection of waterproof vibrators.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll love waterproof adult sex toys! They&#8217;re potent, portable and extremely versatile: while they&#8217;re great for solo use, they can also be used for some of the most arousing partner play ever. They can relax or arouse you, stimulate, titillate or sedate you after a long, hard day. And best of all, they clean up easily. If you haven&#8217;t ever tried a waterproof toy, you definitely won&#8217;t have any problems in finding the perfect waterproof sex toy for you!</p>
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		<title>Are you living lean or dying fat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Done correctly, cardio exercise can be an extremely effective tool to living life lean. But that certainly doesn&#8217;t mean you have to engage in hours upon hours of mindless and unproductive sessions like so many people do&#8230; But check this out: I recently read one of the most inspiring books I have ever read. And [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Done correctly, cardio exercise can be an extremely effective tool to living life lean. But that certainly doesn&#8217;t mean you have to engage in hours upon hours of mindless and unproductive sessions like so many people do&#8230; But check this out: I recently read one of the most inspiring books I have ever read. And trust me that says a lot, because I&#8217;ve read LOTS of books! It&#8217;s called &#8220;Ultra-Marathon Man&#8221; by Dean Karnazes. Now as I said, you don&#8217;t need to do hours and hours of cardio to live life lean, yet this book tells an incredible story about what LIVING life is all about&#8230; See, at 30 years old Dean Karnazes hadn&#8217;t run in over 15 years. He had an all around successful life living in beautiful SanFrancisco: happy marriage, two children, nice home, great career, financially successful, luxury car&#8230;etc, etc<span class="fullpost"><br />
But on his 30th birthday Dean felt an emptiness inside. He felt like something was missing in his life&#8230; He wasn&#8217;t TRULY satisfied with his life&#8230; So after he went out on his 30th birthday and had one too many drinks in downtown San Francisco, he came home just past midnight, and right before he went inside he decided he wanted to go on a run, even though he was slightly intoxicated! He went around back and grabbed a pair of beat up sneakers he used to work in the garden. And he didn&#8217;t want to disturb his wife, (who had gone home earlier that night) so instead of going inside to grab a pair of shorts, he just took off his pants and set off on his run in an undershirt and a loose fitting pair of boxers! Well, that night Dean ended up running all night long. In fact, he ended up running 30 miles! He had to call his wife the next morning to pick him up from a gas station. You can imagine her surprise when he told her he was 30 miles away! And you also can imagine the look on her face when she picked him up and saw what he was wearing! And there are some other funny details about this story that I won&#8217;t go into here&#8230; This guy is really something else. And don&#8217;t worry, I didn&#8217;t ruin the book for you. Not even close! That is actually just the beginning&#8230; The book is filled with interesting and inspiring stories that challenge anyone to really evaluate whether or not they are experiencing true growth in their life. My guess however, is that you&#8217;re not really interested in being an Ultra-Marathon Runner. In fact, you&#8217;re probably not even interested in being a marathon runner&#8230; But that isn&#8217;t the point. Actually, you don&#8217;t have to run a marathon to live life lean. Come to think of it&#8230; you don&#8217;t have to run at all! You may even have noticed there are plenty of people who routinely run marathons, but are still overweight! So this isn&#8217;t the point&#8230; But let me ask you, are making an effort to make PROGRESS each and every day? Are you experiencing consistent GROWTH? During your cardio sessions, are you improving your time by at least one second? Are you becoming physically stonger day by day? Do you even know? Yes, living life to the FULLEST means loving this very moment. It means being grateful for everything you have in your life, but it also means GROWTH. And when you stop growing, you start DYING. And in terms of health and fitness, growth and living life lean go hand and hand&#8230; You don&#8217;t need to go out and run thirty miles to experience exhilarating personal growth in your life. You just need to breakthrough YOUR comfort zone, and enjoy yourself in the process. THAT is what &#8220;personal victory&#8221; is all about my friend&#8230;</span></p>
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		<title>Making Sense of Your Body&#8217;s Signs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed things about your body that are annoying, weird, smelly, or downright embarrassing? If so, you&#8217;re not alone. We all experience the often unsightly and sometimes unseemly signs and signals our bodies send us about our state of health. Ugly growths may pop up on our eyelids, or skin tags under our [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever noticed things about your body that are annoying, weird, smelly, or downright embarrassing? If so, you&#8217;re not alone. We all experience the often unsightly and sometimes unseemly signs and signals our bodies send us about our state of health. Ugly growths may pop up on our eyelids, or skin tags under our breasts. Our nails may be yellow or our partners may complain that we smell like ammonia.<span class="fullpost"><br />
Fortunately, many of these &#8220;body signs&#8221; are harmless and can be ignored or treated cosmetically. But sometimes what may seem like a cosmetic concern is more than meets the eye. The ugly growths on your eyelids may be xantelasmas, tiny deposits of cholesterol forewarning you that you may have high cholesterol and be at risk for heart disease. Unsightly skin tags â€&#8221; a common sign of aging â€&#8221; may signal diabetes. Yellowed nails may be nicotine stains, but they can also be warning signs of a lung or liver disorder. And while the ammonia-like odor you give off may mean you should hire a cleaning service, it can also mean that you&#8217;re eating too much protein, or you have Helicobacter pyelori bacteria, the bug that causes stomach ulcers.</span></p>
<p>Body signs can be seen, heard, tasted, felt, or smelled by you or others. Before modern diagnostic techniques, doctors had to rely on what their own and their patient&#8217;s five senses revealed to them. They listened to patients&#8217; hearts, felt their pulses, looked at their tongues, eye-balled their eyes, inspected their hair, skin, and nails, smelled their smells, studied their stools, and sniffed or sometimes even tasted their urine. Doctors today, even though they may use sophisticated diagnostic equipment at their disposal, still apply these sensible techniques â^&#8217; with the possible exception of tasting urine.</p>
<p>You, too, can learn to use your senses to detect warning signs of serious conditions and get medical help before they become full-blown diseases. You can:</p>
<p>Look at your hair, eyes, tongue, skin and nails. Listen to your voice and stomach sounds Smell your body wastes Taste your mouth and saliva Touch your hair, skin, nails Going from head to toe, here are some warning signs you may detect using your five senses. And keep in mind that any change in any of your senses can itself be a warning sign that something is out of kilter.</p>
<p>YOUR HAIR</p>
<p>When your hair feels more dry and brittle than usual, you may be over-processing it. Or, dry hair may signal an under-active thyroid or nutritional deficiency. If your hair looks like it&#8217;s thinning, and you&#8217;re a woman, you may have female-pattern baldness, which often runs in families. But it can also be a sign of an over-active thyroid or an early warning sign of diabetes. YOUR EARS</p>
<p>Hearing the sound of your heart beating inside your ears is actually normal, especially when lying down. But if you hear your heart beat or a throbbing sound in only one ear, it may be a warning sign of a heart murmur, high blood pressure, or other vascular disorders. When normal noises sound louder than usual, it may be a drug side effect or a sign that you&#8217;ve been drinking too many diet sodas that contain aspartame. Super sensitivity to sound may also be telling you that you have a magnesium deficiency, or an autoimmune or other serious disease. YOUR EYES</p>
<p>Seeing floaters, those spots or flecks that appear floating across your field of vision, is pretty common. But if you notice a sudden increase of floaters, you may have a retinal tear or even detachment (especially if you see flashing lights with the floaters), which requires immediate medical attention. Eyes that feel dry all the time, may be caused by low humidity, or be a drug side effect. Chronic dry eyes can also be a warning sign of some autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, hyperthyroidism, and lupus. YOUR NOSE</p>
<p>While a nose that frequently looks red can be a tell-tale sign of excessive drinking, it can also be a red flag for the skin condition, rosacea. Interestingly, alcohol can trigger or worsen this condition. If your sense of smell is not as keen as it used to be, it may be due to an injury to your nose, a normal sign of aging, or a sign of any number of disorders including zinc deficiency, nasal polyps, diabetes, hypothyroidism, and multiple sclerosis. It can also be very early warning sign of Parkinson&#8217;s or Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. YOUR MOUTH</p>
<p>A terrible taste in your mouth that won&#8217;t wash away with mouthwash can be a side effect of such medications as antibiotics, antidepressants, antihypertensives, as well as some vitamins supplements. It can also be a sign of gum disease, a viral infection, gastrointestinal disorder, Bell&#8217;s palsy, or burning mouth syndrome, a rare condition that primarily affects menopausal women. A healthy tongue is covered with tiny bumps called papillae. If you tongue looks or feels very smooth and glassy, it may be telling you that you&#8217;re deficient in certain nutrients such as folic acid, vitamin B12, or iron. A smooth, red tongue may signal pernicious anemia or malabsorption syndrome, a condition in which the body cannot adequately absorb nutrients. YOUR TORSO</p>
<p>Hearing your stomach rumbling a lot may merely be the result of excess gas from a high-fiber diet or a diet containing too many carbohydrates, carbonated drinks, or artificial sweeteners. But excess gas may also signal lactose intolerance, food or drug allergies, or any number of gastrointestinal disorders. If your arms or legs frequently feel numb and tingly, it may be the result of a pinched nerve, or an important warning sign of several serious conditions such as adrenal disorder, a circulatory problem (peripheral arterial disease), or a nerve disorder (peripheral neuropathy). YOUR BODY WASTES</p>
<p>Whatever you eat can affect the odor (and color) of your urine. But urine that often smells sweet can be an important warning sign of undiagnosed or uncontrolled diabetes. What you eat can also affect the color (and sometimes the odor) of your stools. If your stools look very pale, it may be from eating a lot of rice, potatoes, and other white-colored foods. Medicine containing calcium can also cause pale stools. But persistently pale stools can signal a blockage of the bile ducts, which can be caused by tumors or liver diseases including hepatitis, cirrhosis, or liver cancer. YOUR SKIN &amp; NAILS</p>
<p>If you feel a single, rough, or scaly patch of skin somewhere on your body â€&#8221;especially on your arm, leg, chest or other sun-exposed area â€&#8221; it may just be a scar. But you may have a pre-cancerous condition called solar (or actinic) keratosis. If you see dark horizontal streaks that look like (but aren&#8217;t) splinters under your finger or toenails, they may be splinter hemorrhages, a sign of trichinosis, a parasitic disease caused by eating undercooked pork or wild game. They can also be warning signs of psoriasis, peptic ulcers, kidney disease, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, blood-clotting diseases, and endocarditis, an infection of the heart. You can see that checking your body periodically from head to toe can sometimes uncover important and often-missed warning signs of serious diseases. Keeping track of your body signs can be an important preventive health measure. It will also help you to actively participate in your health care and the diagnostic process as a partner with your doctor. And don&#8217;t forget to check out those near and dear to you; you may be able to pick up things that they themselves are unaware of.</p>
<p>If you do notice a disturbing body sign on either you or your loved ones &#8221; no matter how trivial or embarrassing &#8221; mention it to a doctor. Discussing annoying, bizarre, or embarrassing signs with a doctor will make it much easier to get a quick, accurate diagnosis when something is wrong, enabling you to get prompt treatment. It can also help you rule out serious conditions when all is well. Indeed, many of the body signs that may concern you will turn out to be perfectly normal and benign, or of no particular consequences, thus saving you further medical expense, time, and anxiety. Author Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph.D., is a medical sociologist and award-winning medical writer. Her articles have appeared in American Health, Ms., Newsweek, Redbook, Self, and Vogue, and she has appeared on numerous television talk shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show. She has a daughter, Rebecca, a cat, Fazelnut, and lives with her husband, Richard &#8212; also a writer &#8212; in New York City.</p>
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		<title>Tips To Protect Your Health In Winter Weather</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protecting your health in the wintertime isn&#8217;t as hard as it sounds, here are some tips for preventing typical problems during the coldest time of the year. Immune System Prevention is really the key to not getting sick. Older folks, children and those with depressed immune systems may want to consider getting a flu shot, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Protecting your health in the wintertime isn&#8217;t as hard as it sounds, here are some tips for preventing typical problems during the coldest time of the year.</p>
<p>Immune System</p>
<p>Prevention is really the key to not getting sick. Older folks, children and those with depressed immune systems may want to consider getting a flu shot, which can protect you from getting the flu. You can also improve your immune system by eating right and taking the proper vitamins and minerals for your age and body type. Even a multivitamin is better than nothing, but consider supplementing with Vitamin C and Zinc, both proven to boost the immune system.<span class="fullpost"></span></p>
<p>Skin</p>
<p>Your skin can often take a beating during the winter months. Inside your home or workplace, you&#8217;ll be subjected to dry heat from electric, gas, oil or wood fire heating elements. Also, you may take longer and certainly hotter baths or showers. Outside your home you&#8217;ll be subjected to dry, windy, wet or cold weather. Moving inside and outside from dry heat to dry cold can wreak havoc on your skin, making it dry, itchy, red, flaky and irritated. The skin on your face is especially susceptible to this problem. Use moisturizers and moisturizing lotions daily to keep your skin healthy and hydrated. You can also use a humidifier to add some much needed moisture back to the air in your home or workplace. Don&#8217;t forget to protect your skin from the glare of the sun or ravages of the wind by covering up all parts of your body by wearing gloves, a scarf, ear muffs and a hat when you go out. Remember to cleanse your face everyday with a gentle soap and lukewarm water. You may also wish to add a bath oil product to your baths to moisturize the skin on your entire body. The skin on your hands will also be very susceptible to drying and irritation, remedy this by applying a hand cream after each time you wash your hands.</p>
<p>Lips</p>
<p>Your lips are one of the hardest hit areas of your body during cold weather, especially during very dry and cold weather. Your lips may be chapped, dry and peel much more easily. Keep a moisturizing, protecting lip balm with you and apply it daily or as needed to keep your lips moist and supple and to avoid painful cracking.</p>
<p>Eyes</p>
<p>While in some areas of the country, the sun may not shine nearly as much as during the rest of the year, it&#8217;s still important to take care of your eyes during cold weather. Use sunglasses when needed, as the sun during the wintertime can shine UV rays that are even stronger than during the summer. Also, use eye drops as needed to prevent and relieve dry eyes due to the dry heat that may be present indoors. When snow is on the ground and/or the sun is shining, this is the most important time to protect your eyes from the sun&#8217;s wintertime UV rays with a good pair of sunglasses or goggles.</p>
<p>Fitness</p>
<p>When exercising, shoveling snow or working outside in cold weather, take extra care to avoid overexertion. Overexertion during cold weather can put an extra strain on your heart. When you need to exercise, consider instead working out in your home or at a gym. It&#8217;s very important to keep up your fitness routine throughout the year, including winter.</p>
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