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HALLOWED SNACKING

October 28, 2009

It’s that time of year again, when orange bags teeming with crunchy, chocolaty, chewy goodness overflow out of the candy aisle, to the front of the supermarket and into impulse-buy wagons. While these treats are no more tasty than the everyday candy fare that you try to ignore, they have the added lure factor of [...]

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ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO BUY THAT?

October 23, 2009

When pricey pretty magenta and deep green spring lettuce leaves politely wave at you, how do you pass them up for a head of a pale head iceberg lettuce?
To help justify–or nix–your decision to your Manolo Blahnik supermarket equivalents, there’s the Affordable Nutrition Index (ANI), unveiled at the American Dietetic Association’s Food and Nutrition [...]

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IF THE SNEAKER FITS…YOU WON’T GET HURT

October 19, 2009

Replacing your sneakers every 300-400 miles you clock is a critical precaution–but if you weren’t wearing the right sneakers to begin with–then the new ones will just kick in the same old problems.
STEP ONE
There are two types of running shoes:
A. Sneakers that let the foot move freely through the gait cycle (neutral).
B. [...]

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