Category Archives: Live Happy

THIS CHRISTMAS GIVE THE GIFT OF HEALTH, SEX, AND HAPPINESS

By ns | Published: December 17, 2010
Christmas is a time of permission to eat, and so candy and cookies and other highly refined carbs are gifts that people give and receive during the holidays. People also give perfume, body lotion, and cosmetics. Cosmetics have some of the nastiest ingredients; it’s really like giving your loved one poison. My grandma used to talk about a friend of hers who murdered her husband (ostensibly intentionally) by feeding him nothing but hot dogs. So I suppose you could commit the perfect crime that way. So there’s a lot of potential for giving unhealthy gifts and indulging in an unhealthy way.
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Forget Diet Resolutions and Retrain Your Brain — For a Healthier, Less Food-Obsessed New Year

By ns | Published: December 16, 2010
You may still be feeling remorse about gorging at Thanksgiving, but you’ve slept off the food coma . . . and now the next wave of holiday madness is upon us. Even if you wanted to, you can’t escape the in-your-face edible reminders that the holiday season is in full swing. In fact, celebrations never cease: Blink and it will be Valentine’s Day seducing us with gilded boxes of luscious chocolate.
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PEOPLE FOOD, KID FOOD, DOG FOOD (Excepted and adapted from Death by Supermarket: The Fattening, Dumbing Down, and Poisoning of America)

By ns | Published: October 26, 2010
When I was in the sixth grade I decided I would babysit to make some extra money. I put the word out in the neighborhood and a couple down the street called me. When I arrived they were all dressed up like Don and Betty Draper, ready for an evening out.
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REAL LIFE AS A MOVIE

By ns | Published: October 22, 2010
Right now 68 percent of all Americans are overweight or obese and one in ten have type 2 diabetes. A new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that could escalate to one in three by 2050.
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HOW DO YOU WANT TO LOOK ON THE BEACH NEXT SUMMER?

By ns | Published: October 12, 2010
Summer is over and now we face the holidays when a lot of people generally pig out and promise to go on a diet after the holidays are over. After New Years the dieting begins. Since 95 percent of all diets fail—resulting in rebound weight gain, most dieters end up on several diets before summer.
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