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25 Diet Cheats: Tricking Your Body Into Thinking Its Not Hungry

Lack of water can lead to dehydration, a condition that occurs when you don't have enough water in your body to carry out normal functions. Water is your body's principal chemical component, comprising about 60 percent of your weight.
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40 Fantastic Exercise Hacks

Start slow. The biggest mistake that people make when starting an exercise plan is starting too fast or too hard. Take it easy, start as small as possible, and worry about endurance or intensity later. The key in the beginning is to make it enjoyable and accomplishable.
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Aging Gracefully: Feeling Great at 60--and Beyond!

You might be able to feel as good as you used to (or even better) by picking up a few new good health habits. It may seem like more trouble than it's worth to start doing something new. However, even small changes can improve your health. One small change you can make is to add some activity to your daily life. Another is to eat more fiber or to make sure you get plenty of fruits and vegetables in your diet.
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Chelation: How the Body Processes Nutrition

We can eat right and swallow as many vitamins and minerals as we desire, but how does nutritious food, proteins, vitamins and minerals actually absorb into the bloodstream to be used by the body? That process, called chelation, was discovered in the 1920s, but we are just now coming to a full understanding of how to take advantage of this natural process to aid in personal nutrition.
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Energy for Living

Nutritional supplements are consumed by millions everyday to maintain a healthy lifestyle, boost energy, aid in sleep, promote weight loss or to treat an illness.
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Functions of Vitamins in the Body

Vitamins promote normal growth, provide proper metabolism, ensure good health and protect against certain diseases. Vitamin is required by the body in small amounts for metabolism, to protect health, and for proper growth in children. Vitamins assist in the formation of hormones, blood cells, nervous-system chemicals, and genetic material.
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Health Benefits of Kissing

Kissing is one of the easiest ways to express affection. It's a universal language that requires no translation—and has amazing health benefits. The following facts were gathered from various studies over the years:
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Health Benefits of Water

Lack of water can lead to dehydration, a condition that occurs when you don't have enough water in your body to carry out normal functions. Water is your body's principal chemical component, comprising about 60 percent of your weight.
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What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition

Although American medicine is among the most advance in the world, overall, the medical community in the United States is lacking in knowledge of a key area of patient care: nutrition. Though nutrition courses are mandatory at medical schools nationwide, nutrition has gradually given way to a largely pharmaceutical and surgical approach to patient care.
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