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Make Onions Even Healthier with This Storage Trick

Written by Press Release
Thursday, 26 August 2010 21:03
By RealAge Onions are fairly bursting with antioxidants and other nutritious goodies. But you can get even more out of them if you tuck them away for a spell. Storing red onions for several months may boost their levels of cancer-fighting, heart-disease-diminishing quercetin by up to 30 percent, according to a new study. Know Your Onions Thick-skinned storage onions are the perfect pantry addition. Not only do they make a great addition to savory soups, spinach salads, and crusty-bread sandwiches, but they store well, too. So snap up whatever you can find this summer, and keep the extras until fall. Choose a cool, dry, dark location, and store them in a mesh bag, a nylon stocking, or a container that allows the onions to breathe. (Try these other nutrition-boosting tips for fruits and veggies.)
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Nine Ways to Avoid Salmonella From Eggs

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Thursday, 26 August 2010 20:58
By Mark Huffman ConsumerAffairs.Com U.S. consumers are on alert to use care with eggs in the wake of a massive egg recall. So far, 380 million eggs, potentially tainted with Salmonella bacteria, have been recalled. Hundreds have been sickened and health officials are worried the eventual number will be in the thousands. How can you avoid getting sick? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says cooking reduces the number of bacteria present in an egg; however, an egg with a runny yolk still poses a greater risk than a completely cooked egg.
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What Position Should I Sleep In?

Written by Todd Donohoe D.C.
Thursday, 26 August 2010 20:51
Every day I have this conversation with at least one of my patients. I thought it about time that I put it into writing. Most people don’t think about sleep as being a “stress” to their body, but think about it… The average American lives 78 years. That’s 28,470 days or 683,280 hours. We are in bed for 1/3 of those hours or 227,760 hours over our lifetime! You do anything for that long and it’s going to be a major stress to your body! You either do it right, or you pay the price. The importance of sleep posture cannot be understated. Pretty much everyone has experienced the effect of sleeping awkwardly even for just an hour or two; the dreaded “crick in the neck”. Though this one is usually self-limiting within 3 days or so, repeated postural stress from poor sleep postures can contribute to much more complicated problems over the years. Let’s discuss a bit of anatomy first. Perhaps you’ve heard of the term “pressure point” as it relates to mattresses. Well, in reality, these pressure points are sensitive parts of your anatomy. These pressure points are the points where your body weight presses hardest into the mattress. If you lie on your back, these points are your buttocks and lower back as well as your upper back. When lying on your side, these points are your hips and shoulders. The problem with a pressure point is that it can restrict blood flow and, if there’s an underlying weakness, even affect nerves. The irritation that results from these pressure points causes the average sleeper to change positions up to 80 times per night! Of course, the sleep surface has a lot to do with this as I’ll discuss next month, but improved body mechanics on any sleep surface can drastically reduce the effect that pressure has on these points.
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Public Speaking - The Fear Factor

Written by Doug Monte
Thursday, 26 August 2010 20:18
In spite of today’s media-frenzied society, with virtually hundreds of TV reality shows, celebrity talk shows and homemade YouTube videos, most people still rank public speaking as their number one fear. Speaking in front of a group small or large is not easy, which explains why the fear level has been ranked higher than the death, flying, and illness. To the best my knowledge, no one has ever died from public speaking, but the level of fear explains why people avoid public speaking as much as possible. During the he first semester of Southern Illinois University, our class participated in a public speaking course. The class was awesome because it taught us how to make a presentation and how to listen to one as well. If you are one of the many people who fear speaking to groups of people, remember this, YOU have something important to say and no one can say it better than YOU. Having said that, it is important to be prepared. Below are a few tips to help you the next time you are asked to make a group presentation.
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Inspiring the Human Spirit - WEEDS

Written by Paige Parker
Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:44
I learned a lesson one day when I saw some weeds in my lawn and did something completely out of character for me; I know that people who know me aren’t going to believe this, but I actually started pulling the weeds. Now, lest you expect that it will ever happen again, it won’t. I started with the small weeds, knowing that I was probably going to have to have some sort of tool for the larger ones. This was an impromptu defoliation after all, and I really didn’t want to dampen my enthusiasm by having to spend time wading through the tools in my garage to find something to dig with. The first weed I pulled produced just what I expected, a small weed and a small root that was easy to extract. The second weed produced the same. Don’t begin to worry about me at this point….I didn’t grow so attached to this experience that I numbered my weeds. It just happened. Now we come to weed number three, and isn’t it just like anything worth the telling, it’s always weed number three that begins the important part of the story. Weed number 3, although quite small, had a root that was at least two-feet long and required the use of a tool and quite a bit of muscle and leverage to pull that huge thing out of the ground. I had been taught as a child that if you leave any part of the root in the ground you might as well not pull the weed because it would begin growing again. I pulled the entire weed. Root in tack.
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