Product Review: Moisturizers

Product Review: Moisturizers

Style & Beauty / Product Reviews

Moisturizers are a crucial part of any healthy skincare regimen. It doesn’t matter if you’re 15 or 50, everyone can benefit from a proper moisturizer (guys too, for that matter). A proper moisturizer helps increase the water content in the outer and lower layers of skin, which helps prevent dryness….

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Shampoo

Shampoo

Style & Beauty / Product Reviews

We all appreciate having choices in life, but sometimes an overabundance of choices can be overwhelming. Such is often the case when it comes to hair products, particularly shampoo. While some women simply purchase hair care products from their hair stylist’s salon, many have found that today’s economy calls for…

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The Zone Diet

The Zone Diet

Diet Reviews / Low Carb

For several decades, founder Barry Sears tried to develop a system to restore hormonal balance to the body. The Zone is his answer. This calorie-restrictive plan is a balance of low-density carbohydrates (40%), adequate protein (30%) and essential fats (30%). Rich in vitamins and minerals, food is used as a…

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Dark Chocolate for Heart Health

Dark Chocolate for Heart Health

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

by Richard van Beek Researchers are actually telling us to eat dark chocolate for heart health. How is this possible? Up until now, we’ve always thought chocolate was bad for us! It turns out that dark chocolate made from unprocessed cocoa contains high amounts of flavonoids and phytochemicals. These are…

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Get Back to Family Dinner

Get Back to Family Dinner

Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating

by Dr. Lynne Kenney Families today are busy. With after-school sports and other activities driving of our lives, a sit-down dinner often falls off the “to-do list.” But a family dinner is more than just eating vegetables; research shows that sitting down to dinner is an important protective factor in…

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Breathe Easy: Home Remedies For Kids’ Colds

Breathe Easy: Home Remedies For Kids’ Colds

Moms / Mom Tips

There’s nothing worse than nursing a sick child back to health. Most parents feeling completely helpless as their little ones cough, sneeze, vomit and wheeze. That’s when it’s time to call in the cavalry – and by cavalry we mean those home remedies that many moms swear by. Although these…

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Best Braids: Front and Center

Best Braids: Front and Center

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Whether you’re 9 or 39, side braids are all the latest rage. From Sienna Miller to Lauren Conrad, it seems like the hippest actresses are donning variations of this fun yet feminine hairstyle that enable women to get in touch with their inner flower child. Not only is this ‘do…

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Turkey Neck? Try Ultherapy

Turkey Neck? Try Ultherapy

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

If you can empathize with Nora Ephron, who wrote the book I Feel Bad About My Neck, then there’s a new noninvasive cosmetic procedure that can tighten up that turkey neck. Instead of having a nip and a tuck under your chin to get rid of that undesireable extra skin…

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The Strangest Fragrances on the Market

The Strangest Fragrances on the Market

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Everyone has a preference for certain fragrances, like musks, florals and citrus – all common notes in the perfumes you find in department stores and drugstores. But some might want to make a more unique choice and break from all the Calvin Kleins and Estee Lauders of the fragrance world….

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Effortless Day-to-Evening Looks

Effortless Day-to-Evening Looks

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Whether it’s an office get-together, date or other event to which you’ll have to race after you finish the daily grind, it’s tough to pull together a pretty look after logging 8 hours in your work clothes. But with a little planning, you can go from day to night elegantly….

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