Uncommon Body provides five excellent strategies to keep your heart healthy, and encourages readers to control their lifestyle choices.
Although you’ve probably heard it before, some of the public health authorities could do with making advice as sensible and digestable (!).
To add my own two cents worth, I’d recommend owning (or walking!) a dog. Dogs help […]

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Most of us think of sugar as nothing more than a sweetener. You might be surprised to know that there’s quite a number of traditional uses for sugar as well. Often regarded as mere housewives tales, the tips below are actually tried and true tested solutions.

Keeping cut flowers fresh - adding a […]

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James Yeang’s post 10 Tips to Make Better Coffee got me thinking: you don’t always get time to make proper coffee every morning in a house with kids, dogs, cats and goldfish demanding your attention. If you still need your coffee but only have time to grab a cup of instant, there are […]

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Every morning, I start my day with a freshly brewed cup of coffee served up by my tea lady. Doing it yourself, and getting it right, is a whole different ballgame altogether. Wikihow has two articles which I found very useful, and I’ve picked and summarised 10 useful tips from those articles.

Make […]

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Here’s the scenario: you’ve invited someone over for dinner, but you have to work late. On the way home you just about have time to pick up a few groceries and a bottle of wine -or mineral water, if that’s your tipple. As you enter your apartment, you realize you haven’t done the cleaning. […]

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Those of us who eat more processed meat such as salami and bacon show an increased risk of stomach cancer, a group of Swedish researchers claims.
The researchers from Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute reviewed 15
international studies on stomach cancer and processed meats including bacon, sausage, hot dogs, salami, and ham. They concluded that the risk of […]

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There are a stack of wasps in Sweden at the moment because of the long, dry summer. Wasp and bee stings are painful, but fortunately not dangerous for most people.
If you’re stung by a wasp or bee remove the sting, if you can see one, very carefully with your fingers. Apply a cold compress to […]

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Many of the things we eat from time to time could help us live longer, better lives if we would eat them more often, some even every day.
I know that my diet could use some tweaking, and so I wanted to find some foods that I should be eating more often.
Askmen.com had recently […]

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Preparing Food
Let’s face it, over half of America deals with weight issues. It’s obviously a very serious problem. Obesity is now considered a disease and the disease is spreading like an epidemic. We’ve all seen the supposedly fast and easy weight loss solutions being advertised on the internet and on TV. But, as we’re all […]

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Common household salt that everyone has on hand may be used for a lot more than just seasoning food. It is cheap and readily available, so make good use of it as follows:
Healing
Salt to the rescue if you just had a tooth pulled or a sore finger or an open blister on your foot. To […]

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Here is a quick and easy method for starting your plants from seed (especially good for making sure your old packages of seeds are still viable for use).
Items needed:

1 or 2 new garbage bags
roll of paper towels
shallow bowl of warm water
clean plate
some long plastic bags (empty, clean plastic bread bags)
seeds
marking pen
masking tape

Needed Later: […]

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Jeneth Blackert, a nutritionist, recently contacted me to take a look at her newly started blog, and what I found were some very interesting articles and a growing diary of her daily healthy meals. I admit to not being the most healthy and active person, and so I could definetly use her help, and […]

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Many people try “fad diets” and they just don’t work. Though people are continually convinced that a certain fad diet should work and to a point they are right as most of them do hold some element of truth to their main idea or concept.
Sugarbusters Diet
A diet like Sugarbusters looks to have you […]

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