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The DHA Dilemma: Why Vegetarians Need to Make Just One Exception in Their Diet

DHA (short for docosahexaenoic acid) is a long chain omega-3 fatty acid with 22 carbon atoms that is absolutely essential for life and health. DHA is incorporated into cell walls or membranes, where it serves...

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The Fountain-of-Youth Gene and an Herb That Stimulates It

Imagine a single gene in your body that could control your health as some kind of central processing point for things like inflammation, insulin resistance, blood sugar, obesity, heart disease,...

14 comments    health diet weight loss
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How I nearly re-invented the modern computer

I first ran into computer programming when a neighborhood friend and I were trying to work out the logic for "3 dimensional, 4 square, tic-tac-toe". We had a little box of folded tin that we had hooked...

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Why You Need to Take Borage Oil Supplements

Borage Seed Oil is the second of the "four most important diet supplements," which are: Fish Oil, Borage Seed Oil, Green Tea and Magnesium. These four products correct major deficiencies in the average...

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Why Fish Oil Beats Flaxseed Oil for Omega-3 in Your Diet

New research reveals millions of Americans are deficient in the vital digestive enzyme called D6D (delta-6 desaturase) required to convert flax oil into EPA and GLA, the two nutrients that fight inflammation....

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Coffee, Tea and Caffeine Improves Your Health

Drinking coffee can cut your risk of developing diabetes, insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome by 50% or more. Major health studies show that drinking 6, 7 or more cups of coffee per day tend to...

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How to get healthy and end food cravings

The principles of a healthy diet that controls cravings and generates rapid improvements in dozens of metabolic diseases are now established and proven. Even governmental authorities are now recognizing the...

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Is Obama a Great Visionary and Do We Want Another One?

This hub began as a comment to the marisuewrites hub about Barack Obama. I have expanded it to add content about Nixon and Truman, and added a lot of new historical references. It has evolved more into an...

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Getting Healthy By Focusing on the Big Picture

Some people point out that when we try to get healthy, we need to develop custom health strategies for each individual person, or at least for different categories of people. Okay, so you want to treat us...

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Politics Always Starts on Someone Else's Sofa

If you wait until the primary or caucus to vote, you have missed the single place your vote really counts -- the local precinct. Definition: Precincts are also called 'wards' or 'census voting districts' or...

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