Health Insurance: A Brief Overview

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While many of us are fortunate enough to have a job that comes with benefits, including company-subsidized health insurance, there are many of us who work in non-traditional jobs, for small businesses, or who are self employed. For everyone, no matter the status of their employment, health insurance is a necessary expense.

There are many reasons to purchase health insurance: to off-set the cost of prescription pills, to pay for treatment Read the rest of this entry »

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Japan Goes Bananas For New Diet

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Japan Goes Bananas For New Diet

Where ever we live in the world you can’t help but notice how Japan and now perhaps China tend to be at the forefront when it comes to new trends especially technology ones.

But now something slightly different is emerging from Japan it seems there is a new diet craze that is sweeping the nation over there, which is based around bananas it isn’t sorely banana-based but more this is something that you Read the rest of this entry »

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Healthy Eating: Walk Off Your Food Cravings

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Healthy Eating: Walk Off Your Food Cravings

Sometimes I have the attention span of a gnat, it’s true. But, when it comes to food cravings, I can zero into my desire like a guided cruise missile.

Case in point, the other night I was sitting at home battling the urge to leave the cozy confines of my living room. It was like I wason a reconnaissance missionto get ice cream. Not just any ice cream, mind you, it had to be vanilla, and it had to bethat certain Read the rest of this entry »

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When Did Dieting Begin?

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When Did Dieting Begin?

We often think of diets as a very modern invention – gaining popularity in the 1980s and 1990s – but the idea of dieting has been around for a long time.The Word “Diet”

The word “diet” was used to mean “Prescribed course of food, restricted in kind or limited in quantity, esp. for medical or penal reasons; regimen” as early as the 14th century (according to the Oxford English Dictionary). From the quotations cited by the OED, Read the rest of this entry »

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