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3 Reasons To Use Natural Hormones Rather Than Synthetics
There has been a lot of confusion over natural versus synthetic hormones in stopping menopause symptoms. I'd like to outline three clear reasons to use Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy, or bioidentical hormones, rather than synthetic hormone replacement.
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Kalahari Cactus Tricks Your Brain into Feeling Full
Healthy-Thin, our revolutionary new weight loss product, contains as one of its five active components an extract from the Kalahari Cactus, called "Hoodia Gordonii," which tricks your brain into feeling full. Hoodia helps with hunger control so effectively that people naturally eat less. For those who want to lose some weight, without having to endure hunger pains, this herb can help you.
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Water on Airplanes Highly Contaminated, Survey Shows
Next time you fly and get thirsty, rather than asking for ice water from an airplane's galley, opt for bottled water instead. Recent EPA testing found the drinking water of 1 in 8 airplanes to be contaminated with coliform bacteria. This type of bacteria typically lives in animal or human intestines, and its presence in water indicates contamination from waste. Of 158 planes tested, 12.6% did not pass the federal standards for drinking water. Of the twenty planes with coliform bacteria, two tested positive for E. coli bacteria.
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Protein: A New Solution for Curbing Menopause Symptoms
Many menopausal women are unaware of a major obstacle in rebalancing their hormones: the lack of protein. As women enter middle age, they lose nearly half of the hydrochloric acid in their stomachs. This loss is due to natural aging and the fact that many people take prescription or over-the-counter medications -- such as mylanta, pepsid, zantac, prilosec, nexium, etc -- to block stomach acid.
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Outlawing Dietary Supplements: Is This Finally the End?
Roasted turkey with stuffing, potatoes and gravy, green beans, squash, pickles, cranberries, and pumpkin pie -- you've just ingested 38 "hits" of POPs, says the Pesticide Action Network of North America. POPs are Persistent Organic Pollutants, such as DDT, dieldrin, and other pesticides. At least 20% of our food contains trace amounts of them.
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Recipe of the Week:
Sassy Salsa
"This Sassy Salsa will become your favorite Mexican dip."
Gwynn's Having It All Without Wheat, Flour, or Dairy ( $22.95) and Eat Well and Live ($21.95) cookbooks are now available from Sound Food Publishing.
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