7 Simple Clean Eating Recipes for Busy Weeknights

Weight Loss - A Few Notes On The Calorie Balance Equation

So you're on a mission to lose body fat and have already downloaded an application to help you track your calorie intake and you also plan on using one of the hottest fitness trackers to monitor your calorie expenditure. You figure you're right on track to success. But are you?

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Drug Ads Are Even Sketchier Than You Think. Here’s Why

Turn on the TV at any point and you’ll be bombarded with pharmaceutical commercials. There’s the pill for acid reflux, the one for insomnia, the one for restless leg syndrome—the list is endless. It’s totally comforting to know there’s a tested solution for your particular medical condition. But as this exposé by The Huffington Post points out, studies have found more than half the claims made by drug ads are misleading and 10 percent are blatantly false.¹

The U.S. is one of only two countries (the other is New Zealand) that allows pharmaceutical companies to market their drugs on TV. Thankfully, the FDA is working to develop a better system. You can read more about that here.

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Works Cited

1. Content analysis of false and misleading claims in television advertising for prescription and nonprescription drugs. Faerber AE, Kreling DH. Journal of general internal medicine, 2014, Sep.;29(1):1525-1497.

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Do You Cry More Than the Average Person?

To quote the always-applicable lyrics of R.E.M., “Don’t let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries. Everybody hurrrrrrts sometimes.” OK, so everyone cries, but frequency can vary dramatically by age, culture, and sex. For example, the amount babies cry peaks at 6 weeks, drops off dramatically around age 2, and continues to decrease as they get older.

A comprehensive study that looked at emotional crying (the tear-jerking kind that happens when we're sad, in pain, or watching adorable videos of sloths) in adults across cultures found American women cry an average of 3.5 times per month, while men shed a tear an average of 1.9 times. Biologically speaking, we’re still not sure exactly why we weep, but it's totally normal to have a monthly cry (or three).

(h/t Science of Us)

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How To Achieve Beautiful Skin In 5 Minutes During The Morning?

Keeping your skin fresh and glowing early morning is a difficult task. Adopt this easy early morning skin care regime to achieve beautiful skin in 5 minutes.

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8 Steps To Healthy Living

Take these eight steps to heart and live longer, enjoy life more, and feel good in your body and mind all of the time. Have routine screening, watch your weight, be active, have a healthy diet, rid of stress in your life, guard your relationships, get plenty of sleep and rest, challenge your mind.

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This Breakup-Themed Coloring Book Will Help You Get Over Your Ex

Important Things To Consider When Choosing The Best Beauty Salon

Whatever salon or style you choose, help them do a great job for you and do not judge them unfairly. Be very clean about what you are looking for. If you can, bring pictures.

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What To Do When I Want To Lose Weight, But I Can't Get Motivated?

Focusing on the jump start you need to rev the engine is the best place to start. Dig down deep and think about in general what motivates you and your personality. Are you motivated by fun, emotional connections, checking off a list, or by imagining the end result?

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4 Tips When You Don't Have Time To Exercise, But Want To Lose Weight

Once you know the steps to take when you don't have time to exercise, but want to lose weight, you can move forward with action and succeed to achieve your goals. Did you know that eight percent of successful weight loss depends on eating habits?

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How To Experience Real Weight Loss With Real Results

Taking action is the best way to see results. Don't worry about the past. If the past is full of mistakes, just learn from them and then move on.

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How To Self Motivate To Lose Weight By Learning These 3 Tricks

Once you know your pitfalls, you can avoid them in the future. Now that you know what to avoid, don't look back again. Just look forward and take action each day. As you continue to take action each day, soon you will triumph and become victorious as achieve your goals.

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A Beginner Yoga Workout With Lunges and Twists

So you’ve mastered the sun salutation, and you’re ready for the next step. This 26-minute beginner yoga workout will get you there.

First, you’ll settle into your breath and body. Then yoga instructor Michael James Wong will guide you through a series of basic yoga poses. You’ll progress your practice by adding in high lunges, crescent lunges, and maybe even trying a twist. But don’t worry if you’re not quite ready for the new moves: Wong offers modifications, so you can ease into them.

Just grab a yoga mat to get started.

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The Evolution of Anxiety: Why We Worry and What to Do About It

Let's pretend for a moment that you are a giraffe.

You live on the grasslands of the African savannah. You have a neck that is 7 feet long (2.1 meters). Every now and then, you spot a group of humans driving around on a safari taking pictures of you.

But it's not just your neck and their cameras that separate you from the humans. Perhaps the biggest difference between you and your giraffe friends and the humans taking your picture is that nearly every decision you make provides an immediate benefit to your life.

• When you are hungry, you walk over and munch on a tree.
• When a storm rolls across the plains, you take shelter under the brush.
• When you spot a lion stalking you and your friends, you run away.

On any given day, most of your choices as a giraffe—like what to eat or where to sleep or when to avoid a predator—make an immediate impact on your life. You live in what researchers call an "immediate-return environment," because your actions deliver immediate benefits. Your life is strongly oriented toward the present moment.

The Delayed-Return Environment
Now, let's flip the script and pretend you are one of the humans vacationing on safari. Unlike the giraffe, humans live in what researchers call a "delayed-return environment."

Most of the choices you make today will not benefit you immediately. If you do a good job at work today, you'll get a paycheck in a few weeks. If you save money now, you'll have enough for retirement later. Many aspects of modern society are designed to delay rewards until some point in the future.

This is true of our problems as well. While a giraffe is worried about immediate problems, like avoiding lions and seeking shelter from a storm, many of the problems humans worry about are problems of the future.

For example, while bouncing around the savannah in your Jeep, you might think, "This safari has been a lot of fun. It would be cool to work as a park ranger and see giraffes every day. Speaking of work, is it time for a career change? Am I really doing the work I was meant to do? Should I change jobs?"

Unfortunately, living in a delayed-return environment tends to lead to chronic stress and anxiety for humans. Why? Because your brain wasn't designed to solve the problems of a delayed-return environment.

The Evolution of the Human Brain
The human brain developed into its current form while humans still lived in an immediate-return environment.

The earliest remains of modern humans—known as Homo sapiens—are approximately 200,000 years old. These were the first humans to have a brain relatively similar to yours. In particular, the neocortex—the newest part of the brain and the part responsible for higher functions like language—was roughly the same size 200,000 years ago as it is today.

The mismatch between our old brain and our new environment has a significant impact on the amount of chronic stress and anxiety we experience today.

Compared to the age of the brain, modern society is incredibly new. It is only recently—during the last 500 years or so—that our society has shifted to a predominantly delayed-return environment. The pace of change has increased exponentially compared to prehistoric times. In the last 100 years, we have seen the rise of the car, the airplane, the television, the personal computer, the Internet, and Beyoncé. Nearly everything that makes up your daily life has been created in a very small window of time.

A lot can happen in 100 years. From the perspective of evolution, however, 100 years is nothing. The modern human brain spent hundreds of thousands of years evolving for one type of environment (immediate returns) and in the blink of an eye the entire environment changed (delayed returns). Your brain was designed to value immediate returns.

The Evolution of Anxiety
The mismatch between our old brain and our new environment has a significant impact on the amount of chronic stress and anxiety we experience today.

Thousands of years ago, when humans lived in an immediate-return environment, stress and anxiety were useful emotions because they helped us take action in the face of immediate problems.

For example:

• A lion appears across the plain > you feel stressed > you run away > your stress is relieved.
• A storm rumbles in the distance > you worry about finding shelter > you find shelter > your anxiety is relieved.
• You haven't drank any water today > you feel stressed and dehydrated > you find water > your stress is relieved.

This is how your brain evolved to use worry, anxiety, and stress. Anxiety was an emotion that helped protect humans in an immediate-return environment. It was built for solving short-term, acute problems. There was no such thing as chronic stress, because there aren't really chronic problems in an immediate-return environment.

Wild animals rarely experience chronic stress. As Duke University professor Mark Leary put it: "A deer may be startled by a loud noise and take off through the forest, but as soon as the threat is gone, the deer immediately calms down and starts grazing. And it doesn't appear to be tied in knots the way that many people are." When you live in an immediate-return environment, you only have to worry about acute stressors. Once the threat is gone, the anxiety subsides.

Today we face different problems. Will I have enough money to pay the bills next month? Will I get the promotion at work or remain stuck in my current job? Will I repair my broken relationship? Problems in a delayed-return environment can rarely be solved right now in the present moment.

What to Do About It
One of the greatest sources of anxiety in a delayed-return environment is the constant uncertainty. There is no guarantee that working hard in school will get you a job. There is no promise that investments will go up in the future. There is no assurance that going on a date will land you a soulmate. Living in a delayed-return environment means you are surrounded by uncertainty.

So what can you do? How can you thrive in a delayed-return environment that creates so much stress and anxiety?

The first thing you can do is measure something. You can't know for certain how much money you will have in retirement, but you can remove some uncertainty from the situation by measuring how much you save each month. You can't be sure that you'll get a job after graduation, but you can track how often you reach out to companies about internships. You can't predict when you find love, but you can pay attention to how many times you introduce yourself to someone new.

The act of measurement takes an unknown quantity and makes it known. When you measure something, you immediately become more certain about the situation. Measurement won't magically solve your problems, but it will clarify the situation, pull you out of the black box of worry and uncertainty, and help you get a grip on what is actually happening.

Furthermore, one of the most important distinctions between an immediate-return environment and a delayed-return environment is rapid feedback. Animals are constantly getting feedback about the things that cause them stress. As a result, they actually know whether or not they should feel stressed. Without measurement you have no feedback.

If you're looking for good measurement strategies, I suggest using something simple like The Paper Clip Strategy for tracking repetitive, daily actions and something like The Seinfeld Strategy for tracking long-term behaviors.

Shift Your Worry
The second thing you can do is "shift your worry" from the long-term problem to a daily routine that will solve that problem.

• Instead of worrying about living longer, worry about taking a walk each day.
• Instead of worrying about whether your child will get a college scholarship, worry about how much time they spend studying today.
• Instead of worrying about losing enough weight for the wedding, worry about cooking a healthy dinner tonight.

The key insight that makes this strategy work is making sure your daily routine both rewards you right away (immediate return) and resolves your future problems (delayed return).

Here are the three examples from my life:

• Writing. When I publish an article, the quality of my life is noticeably higher. Additionally, I know that if I write consistently, then my business will grow, I will publish books, and I will make enough money to sustain my life. By focusing my attention on writing each day, I increase my well-being (immediate return) while also working toward earning future income (delayed return).
• Lifting. I experienced a huge shift in well-being when I learned to fall in love with exercise. The act of going to the gym brings joy to my life (immediate return), and it also leads to better long-term health (delayed return).
• Reading. Last year, I posted my public reading list and began reading 20 pages per day. Now I get a sense of accomplishment whenever I do my daily reading (immediate return), and the practice helps me develop into an interesting person (delayed return).

Our brains didn't evolve in a delayed-return environment, but that's where we find ourselves today. My hope is that by measuring the things that are important to you and shifting your worry to daily practices that pay off in the long run, you can reduce some of the uncertainty and chronic stress that is inherent in modern society.

This article was originally published on JamesClear.com.

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3 Ways to Turn a Job You Hate Into a Job You Love

If you find yourself typing "I HATE MY JOB" into Gchats day after day, most experts would say you should look for a new gig. But finding a new job can be tough, and finding one that's fun and pays the bills can be even tougher. Thankfully, psychologists have studied a concept called job crafting, which essentially means turning the job you have into the job you love by reframing the way you think.

Sound confusing? Start with these three tips:

1. Rethink the things you do: If your day-to-day tasks are soul crushing and mundane, see if you can take on new responsibilities that get you excited about work. We know, who wants to add more to their plate? But hear us out: Your new task could be a creative project or something extracurricular, like teaching a yoga class once per week.
2. Rethink the people you work with: Focusing on deeper relationships with your coworkers or getting to know people outside your department can make work a lot more fun. No set happy hour? Organize one!
3. Rethink the way you think about your work: It sounds difficult, but changing how you think and talk about your job can make a world of difference. Rather than making blanket statements about hating work, get more specific: "I really don't like all the politics in the office, but the people in my department are pretty cool." A positive attitude goes a long way.

(h/t Hidden Brain)

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The Easiest, Cheapest Way to Prevent Blisters

Damn, blisters. When one pops up, consider the rest of your day (or week) derailed. Tons of products and home treatments claim to reduce the friction that causes the sores, but there isn't much science to back them up. So what’s the best way to beat blisters? Tape, specifically the kind you find in a first-aid kit. A recent study in The Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine concluded that simple paper tape reduced the incidence of blisters by at least 40 percent in ultramarathon runners. If it works for them, you can bet it'll work for you.

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No Time to Work Out? This App Schedules It for You

Google just released Goals, a nifty new part of its calendar app, and it's a procrastinator’s worst nightmare. Say you want to have more "me time" or run every day. Put your goal into the app, and Goals will automatically schedule it for when you have free time on your calendar. If you decide you’d rather go to happy hour, you can always postpone. But here's the game changer: Goals changes how it schedules activities based on these rain checks, making you more likely to complete your tasks in the future.

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Using a Cuticle Nipper

Cuticles are a sort of a ledge if you will see where the skin of your finger meets the nail plate. The 'base' of this ledge is your eponychium, which is a fancy word for live skin. You'll want to avoid cutting that since it will hurt and it will bleed.

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How Much Can You Safely Drink While Pregnant?

For decades, the message from the medical community has been clear: Alcohol and pregnancy do not mix. But if you love a glass of merlot with dinner or an IPA after work, questions arise. What about a glass of wine here and there? Or half of a beer? Does a celebratory sip of champagne really count?

Despite near-constant warnings from organizations such as the CDC, U.S. Surgeon General, and American Academy of Pediatrics—not to mention a vast library of research on the harmful effects of alcohol use during pregnancy—many women still partake. According to 2013 data from the CDC, one in 10 pregnant women reported having a drink in the past 30 days, while one in 33 even reported binge drinking.

Plus, some research has suggested that a little alcohol is OK: One Danish study published in 2012 found that low to moderate consumption of alcohol throughout pregnancy had no measurable effect on the babies in question when they were tested five years later. And a 2013 study found that light drinking during the first trimester had no impact on the behavior and development of over 10,000 7-year-olds. So is it really that bad?

The Bottom Line

So how much can you drink while pregnant? Not at all, experts say. Despite any outlier evidence and anecdotal advice, any alcohol is still a hard and fast no. Period. And drinking isn't any less risky just because it’s your birthday or New Year’s Eve.

“It’s not at all controversial for me because there’s only one answer: There is no safe low threshold of alcohol known in pregnancy,” says Alyssa Dweck, M.D., OB/GYN, assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

As she points out, some women are worried about getting their nails done while pregnant, but they’re wavering about drinking alcohol—which just doesn’t add up.

Think of it this way: When you drink, your baby drinks—and alcohol can be a toxic substance in utero. Introducing alcohol into the fetal environment (any amount, any type of alcohol, at any time) may cause brain damage, birth defects, or serious behavioral and learning disorders, such as autism or attention deficit disorder (ADD). And although many babies affected by alcohol may not have any physical birth defects, the impact of alcohol will become evident in later childhood or adolescent.

Why take any additional chances or risks with something that’s already so risky?

Niket Sonpal, M.D. assistant clinical professor of medicine at Touro College of Medicine, agrees: “From the minute you know to the minute you deliver, no alcohol,” he says. “Why take any additional chances or risks with something that’s already so risky?”

As for rumors that a glass of wine as you approach the due date can help you relax and speed up labor? Those are nothing more than old wives’ tales, our experts say. Each phase of pregnancy is critical to fetal development, so even in those final days, alcohol is a no-go.

“The fetus’s brain continues to develop in utero during late term, and there is no lower limit of alcohol that has been determined to be safe, either pre-conception or during pregnancy,” Dweck says. And it's doubtful we'd have a better idea any time soon, since many women underreport the amount they drink in studies and randomly assigning pregnant women to drink would be unethical, Dweck adds.

Finally, if you're trying to get pregnant, you may want to pay extra attention to your cycle (we assume you probably are anyway). "It's best to avoid alcohol from the time of ovulation for ladies who aren’t yet pregnant but hoping to be," Dweck says.

If you have alcohol and then find out you are pregnant, avoid drinking from that point on. “I say this out of an abundance of caution because, again, there is no known minimum amount of alcohol considered to be safe in pregnancy," she adds.

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This Tool Makes Bodyweight Workouts Way More Fun

Primal 7

We know, we know. The whole point of bodyweight exercises is you don't need any equipment. But sometimes your body can be your own worst enemy—bad form on a plank or push-up will show you that.

There’s already an army of items that try to make working out more entertaining and effective, but as far as at-home gear goes, nothing matches the Primal 7. The training system combines two adjustable suspension straps and resistance bands for a super-safe and intense bodyweight workout. The resistance band is the serious game changer. Do a normal push-up, and the band makes it way easier (even for beginners), but grab hold of the rings on the suspension straps and now you have a challenging abs exercise.

Then, of course, there's the part where you get to use the resistance band to move around like an acrobat (it's totally normal to shout "I'm flying!"), doing modified supermans, cable flys, or speed skaters. If that sounds like jibberish, don't worry, Primal 7 comes with tons of easy-to-follow videos.

Setup couldn't be simpler: Put the two anchors over the top of a door, close it, and you're good to go. At $199, Primal 7 is pricey, but it makes workouts so fun we found ourselves using it all the time.

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11 Healthy Lunch Wraps That Put Sandwiches to Shame

Why Food Labels With Exercise Equivalents Are a Horrible Idea

Nutrition labels can be confusing (we even put together a guide to make things easier). That's why health policy advocates in the U.K. suggest adding icons that show how long a person needs to run, walk, bike, or swim to burn off the calories. (A chocolate bar, for example, would take 22 minutes to run off and 42 minutes to walk off.)

Activity-equivalent calorie labeling is intended to curb the U.K.'s obesity problem, remind people of the importance of exercise, and make nutritional information simpler. But this suggested change could open up a dangerous door, says nutritionist Tara Coleman.

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"This goes along with the idea that you must punish yourself if you do indulge or the idea that whoever eats the least wins," Coleman says. Not to mention, it's crazy to suggest you have to work off every calorie you consume. Your body still needs plenty of energy (a.k.a. calories) to keep your heart beating, your stomach digesting, and your lungs breathing.

Some primary care physicians, like Bola Oyeyipo, M.D., support the initiative. She sees the labels as a way to help people make healthier decisions, but she isn't sure they'll actually work, since many people view exercise as a chore. In other words, some may simply avoid foods with the exercise label.

While in theory this could lower the amount of processed food we eat, it greatly oversimplifies the notion of what's healthy. "Sure, knowing the amount of exercise time needed to work off a cookie is good to know, but will it actually modify behavior?" says Dan Park, M.D., an emergency medicine physician at the Medical University of South Carolina. "One cookie may require 10 minutes to burn off and a piece of fruit could require the same, but we all know that fruit contains more nutrients."

This initiative is especially dangerous for people who struggle with or are at risk for developing eating disorders, says Claire Mysko, CEO of the National Eating Disorder Association.

"Instead of thinking about exercise as movement that gives you strength and energy, it focuses purely on burning calories, which is a major symptom of eating disorders," Mysko says. "We need to start encouraging all kids, regardless of their size, to learn about food and exercise in a framework that is more about strength and what makes you feel good."

These labels are only in the idea phase (and in the U.K.), but they bring up an important conversation. Diet and exercise are just two pieces of the bigger puzzle of how we think about our health.

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Here's How Often Happy People Have Sex

It’s not surprising that, in general, people who have more sex report feeling happier. But that doesn't mean you have to get it on every night. While libido varies from person to person, a recent study found that for most of us, the mood-boosting benefits plateau after having sex once per week. Whether you add it to your GCal or take the spontaneous route is up to you.

(h/t CNN)

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Protein Powder for Weight Loss - What You Need To Know

Losing weight is never an easy process. Those people that choose the purely physical means like exercise face incredible rigors that tax the body to its very limits. Likewise starvation or semi-starvation will be doggedly resisted by the body and the dieter could end up piling on the pounds instead. It is from this background that these tips on choosing the best protein powder for weight loss are discussed below.

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Diabetic Meal Replacement Shakes for Weight Loss

Diabetes is a condition that is successfully managed through strictly adhering to a diet more than anything else. Consistently keeping to a diet will help a diabetic to have greater control of the levels of sugar in their blood, which is very significant in reducing the risk of complications. Another very effective way to better manage diabetes is weight loss

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When a Person Should Consider Hip Replacement Surgery

If a person experiences less mobility due to hip joint pain, they should consider hip replacement surgery. People should discuss with their doctors if they should also consider nonsurgical treatments first.

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Why More People Are Using Apps Instead Of Using Websites for Healthcare

With the increasing use of advanced technology in healthcare setups, many innovations have hit the market, the most convenient of which are mobile phone apps for doctors. Mobile apps have become the most common communication modality between doctors and their patients.

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5 Tips to Lose Weight and Look Great

Losing weight is not only about looking good but feeling fit and healthy as well. Following tips to lose weight should be coupled with a constant commitment to health and exercise because losing weight should be a lifestyle change and not a short-term goal. If you're ready for this challenge, check these great health fitness tips.

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Hair Care Tips For Black Men

The hairstyle that you select can tell a lot about your personality. Black men have naturally strong and kinky hair, which calls for proper care otherwise it can look messy and unkempt. Hair damage is not something that only affects women but is it also very common amongst men which make it even more important to ensure that you accord your hair the care that it really deserves. Dryness is one of the many challenges that black men face with their hair, but with the right care, you can easily eliminate the common hair concerns.

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5 Top Taper Fade Haircuts For Men

Fade cut can be defined as a hairstyle that features the gradual transition from short to longer hair. There are so many variations of fade haircuts, but the idea remains the same across all the variations. The hairstyles are great for casual and formal looks, and you can experiment as much as you want as long as you have a skilled barber you can trust. Even though taper fade cuts have been around for years, they have gained popularity in modern times but there are some that seem to be more popular than others.

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Blowout Haircut Ideas For Men

Blowout haircuts are still very stylish and many personalities wear them; the styles have actually made a comeback and they are trending. Most men would rather stick with the traditional old school look but a good number love modern variations and some actually make a personal trademark using the blowout haircuts. There are so many ways of wearing blowout haircuts and you can come up with your very own unique style, but here are some ideas you can use to look amazing in a blowout cut.

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What Should You Consider When Choosing A Haircut?

Contrary to what many people might think, hairstyles are not just popular among women; a huge number of men care about their looks too, and take the time to choose the best haircuts and hairstyles. There are numerous styles for men, but what factors should you consider to help you get the best haircut?

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Bad Hair Day and the Effects on Your Health

Have you ever had one of those days where your hair is just out of control? Having a 'bad hair' day affect more than just your appearance, it can have a deep effect on your mental well-being.

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Discover Calories Needed to Lose Weight

There are 3,500 calories made up in one pound of fat and to lose weight properly, you should understand how many calories needed to lose weight. In this article, you will discovery tips how to cut excessive calorie intake and increase physical activity to achieve your weight loss goal.

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How to Know if a Diet Is Legit or Just a Fad

Our BS meter spikes sky-high when we hear about a new miracle plan that promises fast and easy weight loss. But as this video from TED-Ed explains, fad diets aren't always so obvious. Skip to the two-minute mark for common red flags, including cutting out an entire food group (no carbs!) or limiting yourself to only one type of food (salad all day, every day!). If you're looking for sustained weight loss, developing a customized plan with your primary care doctor or nutritionist is probably your best bet.

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5 Healthy Lunches You Can Make From 1 Chicken

Waist Training: The Art of Body Shaping

Waist training is a process that involves wearing tight waist training cincher, corset or slimming garment to cinch in your waistline. It's been used for centuries to give your figure a more exaggerated hourglass look by making your waist smaller.

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Most Common Orthopedic Surgeries

Orthopedic surgeries are those that deal with the muscles and skeleton in the human body. This kind of surgery corrects problems that arise in the skeleton, attachments, ligaments and tendons. Some other common problems arise from injury to the spine or damage due to aging.

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Your Most Common Period Questions—Answered

We know: It's not exactly everyone's favorite topic. But periods are a fact of a life. So we've rounded up your TMI questions and found the science-backed answers you need to have a healthy, worry-free flow.

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Hospital Characteristics That Make It The Best

Healthcare organizations of today focus on quality, cost and reliability of their services. These are the pillars on which these organizations redefine the way they do business. This ultimately leads to happy customers.

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Are Goji Berries Effective For Weight Loss?

In the current generation, losing weight is one condition that almost everyone has given a shot at one time in their lives. In fact, overweight and obesity are among the health conditions that a good number of people are aware of their effects hence the increasing need for ways of losing that extra pound. Though we desire to cut weight so as to boost our self-esteem and have a better feeling, weight loss for health reasons is also very critical.

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Curbing Your Apetite - The Opposite Effects of Too Many Spices

I once read a book about the therapeutic effects of the food in TCM. The author mentioned that for some spices, when taken too much, could lead to the opposite effects. Take nutmeg as an example. It can boost our appetite. However, when taken too much, it can curb our appetite.

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9 Fast Ways to Calm Down When You're Anxious AF

Why You'll Never Have the Perfect Body (Spoiler: It Doesn't Exist)

Most of us have spent more time than we'd like to admit staring in the mirror, daydreaming about how much better our lives would be if we had better arms, legs, or abs. This tongue-in-cheek video from Elite Daily may not rid you of those negative thoughts, but it does provide some perspective (like is giving up happy hour really worth it for a smaller waistline?).

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Why Chronic Care Management Is A Revolution In the Healthcare Industry

A lot of American health care systems' resources are devoted to the management and treatment of chronic conditions. Management of chronic health problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and hypothyroidism is a key part of most basic care physician's work. In the conventional model, the medical doctor sees a patient for an incident of care, examines the status of the conditions, offers suggestions, alters medications, and instructs any determined testing. The patients are counseled again when they are told to revisit for follow-up care.

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5 Sites to Check Before You Freak Yourself Out on WebMD

If you're feeling under the weather, a quick internet search could save you a trip to the doctor, or it could turn you into a full-fledged hypochondriac. WebMD's symptom checker is especially notorious for instigating unnecessary freak-outs. Fill out a set of questions about your back pain, and it'll say you could have a muscle strain or a kidney infection.

Luckily, there are many sites out there that can give you the medical information you need:

• Informulary: Started by two professors from Dartmouth Medical School, it gives you facts about any FDA-approved medication.
• UpToDate: The go-to resource for doctors who want to stay up to date (as the name suggests) with the latest research. Most parts of the site are behind a paywall, but you can get general summaries on conditions and symptoms for free.
• The Mayo Clinic: The website for the nonprofit hospital group has its own symptom checker, but this one zeroes in on a few potential causes.
• Medline Plus: A collection of medical information from the National Library of Medicine that includes lots of great animated videos.
• Cochrane: If you're considering a specific treatment, this resource has easy-to-understand summaries of the latest medical research.

(h/t Vox)

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How To Shape Your Brows Like A Pro, Even If You Don't Have Any Brows!

The Power of Your Brows! Don't underestimate this part of your face. You can apply makeup to your face, but many women ignore this most important feature.

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The 13 Fitness Pros You Should Be Following on Snapchat

How to Find a Clinical Trial to Participate In

Many people with both minor and major illnesses are keen to participate in clinical trials, and this is often for the very good reason that they can often bring a great deal of advantages to the patient in question. Although not all clinical research will successfully treatment an illness, in many cases the chances are that improvements can be made, health-wise.

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4 Common Misconceptions About Clinical Research

Clinical trials present an opportunity for many people to seek alternative treatment options for a range of illnesses and diseases, and are also often undertaken by those who have an interest in contributing to science and medicine by giving their time to clinical research. There are indeed many benefits to clinical research, including the often improved outcomes of certain people with serious and non-serious medical conditions and a higher standard of care.

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Six Unexpected Weight Loss Tips

Embarking on a weight loss journey might not be exciting. However, there are ways to spice up the process and even inject a little brevity into your hard work.

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7 Foolproof Ways to Win Friends and Influence People

The Beginner's Guide to Strength Training

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20 Vegetarian Dinners With 5 (or Fewer) Ingredients

Why You Need to Stop Everything and Clean Your Earbuds

Imagine a coworker asks to borrow your toothbrush since she left hers at home. You’d be disgusted! So why are earbuds any different?

Studies have found that people who frequently use earbuds have substantially more bacteria in their ears than those who rarely use them. That makes total sense when you think about all the germs earbuds pick up as they go from your pocket to your ear to your bag and back to your ear. Plus the natural moisture and heat from your ear canal is a prime environment for bacteria to multiply.

Before you swear off earbuds for good, there are a few ways you can mitigate the microbial problem. First and foremost: Don’t share them! It’s a surefire way to introduce earwax that isn’t yours. If you must share, disinfect them with a cotton ball dampened with disinfecting spray or rubbing alcohol before you use them again. In fact, you should clean your earbuds at least once a week whether you share them or not. And be sure to store them in a clean, dry place.

(h/t BuzzFeed)

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This Viral Photo Shows What It Really Means to Be Strong

Every once in a while a photo stops you in your tracks. Which is why thousands of people shared this image of David Douglas, a 29-year-old powerlifter, walking hand in hand with Lindsay Ratcliffe, a 12-year-old who suffers from progeria, which ages people much faster than normal. The unlikely friendship started when Douglas met Ratcliffe at a celebrity powerlifting event.

The decorated powerlifter says Ratcliffe's strength as she battles the debilitating disease inspires him in his day-to-day life. "She has pulled me out of rough spots just by thinking of her," Douglas told A Plus. "That is a priceless gift. That is why I made it my duty to help her out in any way that I can."

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Top 7 Ways To Shake Up Your Routine

So on Monday you go for a light jog and on Wednesday you go to "toning" class (oh how I dislike that word) and on Friday you go to step class and on Monday you go for a light jog and on Wednesday you go to toning class and... wow, can you say Groundhog Day? My top 3 ways that turned into my top 5 ways and now sits at my top 7 ways to shake up your fitness routine... ready?

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What You Really Get When You Buy Fat-Free and "Light" Foods

If you are trying to lose weight then lowering your calorie intake is what counts. In the fight to lower calorie intake we as a society tend to go through phases... the carbs are bad phase... the eat-low-fat-phase and of course with that there is the inevitable push to separate you from your money by introducing low-fat foods.

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10 Rules To Help You Keep Extra Weight Off Forever

The trick to maintaining your weight after losing those pounds is to live a better, healthier life. Follow these ten rules and you will soon find yourself on the road to self-improvement without regaining that unwanted weight.

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Several Ways To Shed Pounds In Several Days Without Slowing Your Metabolism Down

There aren't many ways to shed fat fast without compromising the functionality of your metabolism. The body is always working hard to protect itself and maintain a state of balance. This means that if you deprive yourself of too many calories for too long, it will slow down its fat burning abilities and enter into starvation mode. This is the fallacy of fad or crash dieting. The can help you lose weight, but programs like these certainly won't help you keep it off.

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Why You Should Let A Stylist Choose Your Next Hairstyle

It's a bit unnerving to sit in a stylist's chair without a solid plan for what you want and how you want to look. If you're dealing with a reputable professional, however, and have a relationship that's characterised by mutual trust, you should feel comfortable letting this person create your new look. Following are several reasons why you should let your stylist choose your next hairstyle.

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How to Buy and Use Clip in Hair Extensions

Clip in hair extensions have been around for many years and they are used by women around the world who want to add volume and length to their hair without permanent extensions. The clip in hair extensions enable you to transform your hair style with complete ease and change it back to normal when you get home again.

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Understanding Everything You Need to Know About Weave Hair Extensions

Weave hair extensions are different from clip in or loop hair extensions and deciding on these particular types will be determined by what you are hoping to achieve. If you are looking for a temporary hair lengthening solution or you want to add volume to your hair for a special event, then this is not the option for you.

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Things You May Not Know About Curly Hair Extensions

Of course the quality of the curly hair extensions that you buy is determined by the supplier you buy from. If you are able to buy from a reputable supplier with years of experience that specialists in one hundred percent human hair, then chances are that you will not encounter some or any of the problems and issues that some people find when they buy curly hair extensions.

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Eat Protein And Avoid The Yo-Yo Dieting Trap!

Everyone loves the compliments that ensue after a successful diet program. Losing 20-30 pounds of body weight is no easy feat and takes most people months to accomplish. The celebrations are short lived however when the weight slowly starts piling back on. In many cases, it isn't long before the happy dieter has not only gained all their weight back but even more. And so the cycle starts all over again with a new diet and up and down the body weight goes, however oddly enough each time we gain the weight back, it's more body fat than before. This is the sad but ever so common story of 'yo-yo dieting'. This phenomenon is rampant among dieters and can be blamed on one important missing ingredient unfortunately typical in most fad programs. Keep reading this article to learn this little known secret and how to prevent the yo-yo dieting roller coaster.

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9 Green Smoothie Recipes You’ll Actually Enjoy Drinking

19 Reasons to Start Strength Training

Tackle the Termite of Monotony That Is Hollowing Our Strength

Monotony rules where there is lack of variety and interest. It not only snatches away the flavor of life but devoid us from relishing the sweet giggly moments as well. A tedious routine or any repetitive activity leaves behind nothing but a passive mind and a fettered soul. Being mechanical, we become oblivion to the beauties of nature, and all bestowed blessings.

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The 9 Worst Things to Talk About on a First Date

Weight Loss - Three Habits That Make It Difficult To Lose Weight

Are you struggling to see the results you were looking for with your weight loss plan? If so, you need to consider a few of the habits you currently have that could be making it very challenging to see the weight loss results you were desiring. Some people develop negative habits without even realizing these practices are influencing their results. So, are you curious to see if you have a few of them? Here are the main ones you need to know about.

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