Students Hospitalized From Energy Drink

Four eight grade students ended up in the emergency room after drinking Redline, an energy drink.

For long time I have discouraged energy drinks. You should have good energy by eating right, not by taking tons of caffeine. In fact I'm even against drinking coffee if you do that as a way to wake you up in the morning.

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Good Articles on Sleeping

Getting good sleep (meaning sleeping enough and sleeping well) is one of the most important things you can do for your health.

These two articles have some good tips on how to achieve that.

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Think it's OK to Drink Diet Soda?

This woman did an experiment with aspartame and rats.

Over 50% of the rats developed large tumors.

And that is actually only one of the potential consequences of drinking diet soda, which contain aspartame.

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9 Habits for Weight Loss

This short article has some good little tips.

I just have to add about that just because you are eating smaller servings, you shouldn't eat constantly.

If you are familiar with my eating plan you know that I do not recommend eating 5-6 small meals a day. Instead you should eat 3 regular size meals, 5 to 6 hours apart.

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Alcohol Doesn't Really Warm You Up in the Winter

The claim that drinking alcohol actually makes you warmer is in fact a myth. What alcohol does is increase the blood flow to your skin, making you feel warmer. But in reality this causes a drop in your body's temperature.

In moderation this is not dangerous, but in excess, this can cause hypothermia.

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Oldest Woman Alive Drinks One Cup of Olive Oil Every Day

An Arab-Israeli woman has recently been discovered to be the oldest person alive. She is 120 years old!

One thing she makes sure to do is to drink one cup of olive oil every day.

Whether or not that is the main reason for her longevity, I'm sure it contributes for it. I usually recommend that people consume a good amount of monounsaturated fat (the main fat in olive oil), but this may be the beginning of breakthrough in nutrition.

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Beware of That Drinking Fountain

This video from Healthinspection.com shows that after testing 97 drinking fountains, microbiologist Anne Loving she found that the water from ALL of them had disease cause bacteria. Some even including E.coli.

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