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Raw Dessert Favorite: Jaffa Cheesecake

Not all fruits get the same attention. Even fruits that rank at the super-food level are often forgotten in favor of the more familiar and popular fruits such as bananas, peaches and nectarines. Such is the fate of the fuzzy…
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Healthy Balanced Meals for a Healthy Balanced Body

Without a doubt, most of us have allowed ourselves to fall deep into the trap of becoming accustomed to prepackaged foods, fast foods and restaurant foods…all highly concentrated and calorie-dense choices. Refined foods pack a punch of calories in a…
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Strength Training and Seniors

Strength training is good for everyone…especially seniors. Wisdom is the reward that seniors enjoy. The experiences of life have tempered them and wisdom is the result. That’s a good thing. But aging also presents numerous health and fitness challenges and…
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Delicious Goji Bars

There’s an “old” berry making a new appearance and getting lots of attention. Goji berries are small but powerful super berries gaining favor in Western countries after catching the attention of health enthusiasts. These little but powerful super berries are…
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Exercise Your Body to Increase Your Long-term Memory

It seems that regular consistent physical exercise increases the volume of regions of the brain that are important for thinking and memory. A study published in Neurology showed that adults in their seventies that exercised the most experienced the least…
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Dates are the perfect replacement for Sugar in Nut Free Caramel Sandwich Bites

Dates are considered a super-food because of their potential to protect against free radical damage. They are rich with vitamins and minerals, provide a nice boost in energy (they are the perfect snack if you need a quick pick-me-up) as…
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Yummy Cashew Cream

If you love to add that last dollop of rich cream to your homemade pies and cakes before serving…if you love to serve fresh berries with cream on top or cereals with a dollop of cream but hate to deal…
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Hypertension and Heart Health

Cardiovascular conditions and disease like heart disease, arteriosclerosis, congestive heart failure, heart attack and stroke are all grievous, possibly life-threatening diseases that are likely the result of years of unhealthy eating combined with sedentary lifestyles. Hypertension, or what is more…
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Blackberry Green Smoothie Goodness…

You’d have to be fairly isolated in the world these days not to have heard something about the health benefits that drinking green smoothies offer. What exactly is a green smoothie? A green smoothie is a healthy mix of green…
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Get Your Beauty Sleep and Lose that Excess Weight…

Sleep, it does a body well. Insomnia, on the other hand, breeds cranky moods and confusion and causes the many balanced and working mechanisms in the body to go wonky. It’s no big secret that people who do not sleep…
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