When I was about 23 years old, I volunteered on a farm in Tasmania and helped to kill a chicken. We had to hold the live bird by the legs and swing it around madly til it got dizzy. (I did that part.) Then the farmer chopped its head off and later we de-feathered it. [...]
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Check this out; I got rid of my sugar cravings!! My life long, die-hard, uncontrollable sweet tooth is GONE! I have a monkey off my back. I was actually perusing the candy racks at the supermarket for a small chocolate treat to have on the drive home last week and I was astonished to realize [...]
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In September 2006, Hannafords grocery stores implemented an independent rating system of the nutritional content of the more than 27,000 food items on their shelves. I’m impressed. With confusing dietary advice flying around everywhere, it’s hard to know what to believe. I recently had a couple tell me that for years they thought that eating [...]
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Celiac Disease. Ever heard of it? It’s amazing how many people haven’t. It’s a genetically passed on disease that makes gluten indigestible to about one in 125 Americans. This is what’s even more amazing: Approximately one million Americans have the disease and don’t know they have it. The average age for diagnosis is 42 years [...]
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Are you about to lose it with winter? The snow is beautiful, of course, but for one out of every 10 of us, we’d trade an arm or leg for a ticket down to the tropics. For that 10%, the moodiness isn’t a temporary bane, it’s a seasonal chemical imbalance.
One study found that only 2% [...]
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