4 Myths About Antidepressants


4 Myths About Antidepressants. For years now, we've been led to believe that if we're falling behind in the joy department, we need only take a pill to feel calm and content. Yet, as many people are aware, antidepressants have been linked to significant side effects, including decreased sexual desire, weight gain, even an increased risk of suicide. 
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How to Break Your Carb Addiction


How to Break Your Carb Addiction. Consider this example: Imagine eating a healthy carb such as quinoa, lentils or a sweet potato with your lean protein and essential fats. Sounds healthy, right? But what if your body interpreted that carbohydrate as though it were a big bowl of chocolate ice cream? When we are sensitive to carbohydrates, our cells do not respond effectively to insulin (a condition called insulin resistance), which causes insulin levels to increase.
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How to Improve Your Mood Naturally


How to Improve Your Mood Naturally. Stress, anxiety and depression are major factors in the lives of many of us. An estimated 9.1 percent of the population of the U.S. suffers from depression every year, which translates to approximately 28 million Americans suffering from depression for at least two weeks with significant symptoms each year. This figure does not include greater or lesser degrees of apathy. Major depression claims 4.1 percent of the population, which is to say, from 12 to 13 million sufferers.1
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Simple Rules for Eating at Restaurants


Simple Rules for Eating at Restaurants. A recent study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior concludes you can eat out and still burn fat.
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Female Friendship Good for Your Health


Female Friendship Good for Your Health. This isn’t some newfangled health idea; they teach it at Stanford University! A Stanford professor is teaching his students about the mind-body connection and the relationship between stress* and disease. The head of the Psychiatry Department at Stanford said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married to a woman, whereas for a woman, one of the best things she could do for her health was to nurture her relationships with her female friends.
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The most common mistakes that one makes while consuming diet pills


Many people consume diet pills to shed off their extra flab quickly. But in this haste, they forget to go through the most important precautions that are required while consuming these diet pills. The result is that they do not consume these pills in the right way and fail to get anything out of their diet pills course. 
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Hidden Fat Triggers


There are certain factors in all our bodies that actually have determined our body shape. Some call it the Weight Code. Most people who are overweight and just can’t seem to get it off and keep it off are being influenced by hidden Fat Triggers that cause our bodies to be a certain type. One secret to losing that fat and finally keeping it off is recognizing and managing these “triggers”. These triggers are basically a set of 9 influences caused by emotion, environmental, and lifestyle circumstances that sabotage your Weight Code. 

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