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The Effects of Crash Dieting Body

The Effects of Crash Dieting

We all have that friend who follows the latest dieting crazes. Whether that craze is strictly eating grapefruits and popcorn for seven days straight, doing a juice cleanse, or simply restricting their calories to an obscene proportion in order to love five pounds for an upcoming event. While they may experience immediate results, crash dieting is not always the way to go when focusing on weight loss and thinking about the long-term effects.

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You Have What? Weird Medical Cases You Need To Read To Believe Ailments

You Have What? Weird Medical Cases You Need To Read To Believe

The human body is truly amazing – and although we’ve been studying it for centuries, we’re still discovering and learning more about what it’s capable of. But for every awesome feat the human body can perform, there’s a totally weird and unexpected medical condition that can develop

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12 Weirdest Diets: Do They Work? Body

12 Weirdest Diets: Do They Work?

As we are full force in swimsuit season, it’s hard not to notice how a lot of marketing and advertising focuses on new health foods and other tools to help make losing weight easy. Throughout history, doctors, trainers, and all sorts of other health care workers — professional and otherwise — have tried to come up with the one definitive diet that can help everyone shed pounds and sculpt their bodies into a lean and trim shape.

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Are You Dehydrated? Ailments

Are You Dehydrated?

Dehydration is the cause of more maladies than just feeling a bit light headed in the sun, and hydration is the route to many more benefits than you had probably realized. After all, water makes up 75 percent of the human body and is found “inside cells, within blood vessels, and between cells.” Headaches, anxiety, constipation, and tiredness can all be the result of dehydration and solved by drinking more water.

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You’re Conscious, but Can’t Move: Sleep Paralysis, is it Harmful to Your Body? Body

You’re Conscious, but Can’t Move: Sleep Paralysis, is it Harmful to Your Body?

Have you ever woken up from sleeping, and found yourself unable to move? This horrific phenomenon has been happening to human beings since we’ve been conscious enough to talk about it, but it’s only been in the last century that we’ve been able to give it a name and start to analyze why it happens to us.

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Out with the Fam: Creative Ways to Exercise as a Family Body

Out with the Fam: Creative Ways to Exercise as a Family

Sometimes, when the rest of our family likes to exercise, and regularly gets outside to work out, it’s easier to just join in rather than sitting on the sidelines. Working out becomes a lot more fun when you have another person or a few other people to keep you accountable, especially if you live in the same house.

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