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Preparation H. That’s right---you read this correctly. The same cream used to cure hemorrhoids is also being used to help women shrink the puffiness around their eyes. It supposedly restricts the blood vessels in the area where it is applied. OK, I’ve heard of home remedies to cure what ails you but I think this is ridiculous! I can’t image putting anything, used to cure...

For some reason, I can't see a person retiring one day going into a business that demands more time and energy than what they just left. I thought the purpose of retirement is to obtain the freedoms to do what you want when you want it without having to answer to anyone (except your spouse of course!) Many of us dream of getting the boat out every day and driving to the lake to fish and dream...

Below are nine of the commonest excuses we make to shirk our responsibility to our bodies and our health. How did I come up with this list? I've used all of these reasons at one time or another. What I came to realize, however, is that they were lies I told myself to keep the status quo in place. The excuses had all of the substance of cotton candy. Once I decided to get fit, each one dissolved...

A true athlete knows that proper preparation before a big event is very important, and I am...

I was feeling a little "stuck" in my weight loss progress and I expressed this to Keith St. Onge last Thursday. My weight had plateaued for weeks and nothing was budging from my body. "I know what you can do," he said. "Bikram Yoga!" I had heard about this previously from my niece, but couldn't imagine myself getting through a workout in a hot room. Heck, I usually counted the minutes until I...

Hey ya'll! If you look at your calendar or your cell phone or the sign outside the bank as you travel around your environs today, you'll see that last Friday was Friday the 13th! To quote SCTV character, Count Floyd: "Very Scary, Kids! Ow-Ooooo!" Or is it really? I dunno.... As far as I'm concerned superstitions are really in the head of the beholder, or is that in the hold of the beheader?...

Whenever I make a marinade, I take many things into consideration. Quality and freshness come first – the quality and freshness of the product I am about to marinate and the ingredients I use to create my marinade. The recipe ingredients and the type and size of meat, poultry, seafood and vegetables also affect the amount of time you marinate your product. Marinades are meant to enhance, or...

Rapid Crisis Response - Strategies for Business and Community Leaders in Guiding their Teams back to Stability How can you keep employees motivated to work after they have experienced a major crisis event? Critical Incident Specialist Dwight Bain offers the following strategies as guidelines for business leaders to help their employees get safely back to work after experiencing a traumatic event....

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. After 11 years as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life of adventure by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Her unlikely transformation from office worker to ocean rower, described with humor and soul-baring honesty in her blogs, captivated a worldwide audience. Roz is now...