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How To Grow a Thicker Beard

You have finally decided to come into the circle of real men right? Men who are bold and don’t care about what people say about the latest fashion knowing that growing their beard makes them more manly than the next man out there. With a long thick beard and beards generally comes a feeling of manliness and greatness. If you doubt me, take a look at the most noble of men who we consider classic and you’ll see that they all took time to grow their beards and stick with it. Before you get started, understand that on the journey to becoming manlier, there will sure be naysayers, people who will tell you it is not possible or that you will look ugly etc. you know what to tell them in your mind? ‘You don’t exist!’ They are afraid to take the giant step to becoming manly so they take solace in discouraging you too. Ignore them and move on!One thing you have to be aware of is the fact that this journey to growing a thick long beard is a journey on patience. Beards don’t grow long overnight, they take time. You have to brace yourself up to be very, very patience. Give yourself at least 8 weeks before you start seeing decent result. Before then, live with it like an expectant woman who is expecting a baby! The joy of a new baby far supersedes the pain of labor.Now that you mind is set on the above, let’s have some step-by-step guide on how to grow a healthy, long thick beard 
 
1. Pick a really convenient time to begin growing your beard. 
 
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Just pick a time when you will have space to give your beard the needed attention. Remember that you have passed the stage where you bother about whatever anyone say or will say! 
 
2. Avoid shaving for the next 2 weeks at the very least. 
 
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Like I wrote above, growing beard takes time. Be patience. 
 
3. Shampoo and condition your growing beard.  
 
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It is part of you; you have to keep it neat. It’s very important. 
 
4. Apply Growth Serums 1-2 times per day.  
 
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Apply it to your beard every day for the next 8 weeks at least to see the wonder. Since it is an herbal product, you can be too sure that it just works. 
 
5. Be ready to eat a lot of green vegetables and protein.  
 
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It will help you stay healthy and grow better, long thick beard. 
 
6. Make it a habit to trim your beard regularly.  
 
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Keeping a beard is so much more fun than barbing your hair. Enjoy it, spent some little time with it. You can buy a beard trimmer to make your work more convenient. It will help soften the edges and healthy. 
 
7. Drink a lot of water.  
 
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It will help your overall body metabolism and in turn give you a long, thick, healthy and beautiful beard! 
 
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10 Fun Facts About Grapes

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Perhaps many of you love to eat this tiny fruit but taste incredibly amazing, grape. But some of the people make it as wine to drink and it do taste better. However, below are 10 fun facts about this amazing little fruit you should know : 
 
1. Grapes are one of the world’s favorite fruits, regularly listed in the top 10 (other are mangos, bananas and tomatoes). 
 
2. Around the world there are more than 8,000 varieties of grape. There are 7 different grape colors: red, green, white, black, purple, blue and golden. 
 
3. Grapes have been thought to have healing properties since ancient times. In China, wine was mixed with frogs, snakes and other animals to create a cure for illness. 
 
4. America’s oldest grapevine is 400 years old and is in North Carolina. 
 
5. Wine has been made from grapes since 5,000BC. 
 
6. About a quarter of the grapes used in the US come from Chile. 
 
7. While grapes are 80% water, when they become raisins the water content is just 15%. 
 
8. You can get about 15,000 glasses of wine from an acre of grapes. 
 
9. 72 million tons of grapes are produced around the world each year. 
 
10. With more than 200, California’s Napa Valley has the world’s highest concentration of wineries. 
 
How many of those facts did you already know? 
 
credit to <a href="http://www.kiawahresort.com/blog/kiawah-island/2012/02/29/10-fun-facts-about-grapes/">Kiawah Resort</a>

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11 Facts About Healthy Living

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1. More than one-third of adults and over 12.5 million children and teens in the US are obese. In the last 30 years, obesity in children and teens has nearly tripled. 
 
2. One can of soda contains 10 teaspoons of sugar and the average American adult drinks 500 cans of soda every year, estimating about 52 pounds of sugar consumed in soft drinks alone. 
 
3. An unhealthy diet leads to diseases like diabetes, hypertension, certain cancers, obesity, and micronutrient deficiencies. 
 
4. In a survey of 9th through 12th graders in 2011, 13.1 percent of the teens admitted to skipping breakfast in the past 7 days, while 11.3 percent had drunk 3+ servings of soda per day in the same time frame. 
 
5. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day because it feeds your body and mind with the necessary nutrients and energy to function throughout the day. Eating breakfast regularly will also help keep weight off because it gets your metabolism going. 
 
6. In the same survey, more than 15 percent of the students were overweight, and more than 12 percent admitted to starving themselves for 24 hours or more in the last month in an attempt to lose weight. 
 
7. Rest is a very important aspect of living a healthy lifestyle. Teenagers need 9 or more hours of sleep per night for their bodies to function properly. Less than a third of high school students in 2011 reported getting 8 or more hours of sleep per night. 
-Sleeping the right amount can prevent sickness, obesity, high blood pressure, and injury. 
 
8. Physical activity like aerobic exercise (walking, running), muscle-strengthening (weight-lifting), bone-strengthening (jumping rope), and balance and stretching activities (yoga, pilates, dancing) are especially beneficial to a healthy body. 
 
9. The more fresh foods you consume, the healthier you will be. Foods that do not expire contain unnatural preservatives, additives, and chemicals that deteriorate your body. Focus on fruits, vegetables, lean meats, whole grains, low-fat dairies, and above all, moderation in whatever you eat. 
 
10. Snacking is important. By eating small meals or snacks throughout the day, you will keep your metabolism up and running to burn the calories you eat. Smart snacking means cutting out the vending machine chips and candy bars and adding in the granola, bagged fruits or veggies, protein bars, or nuts. 
 
11. Depending upon the amount of physical activity you do, you can calculate how many calories per day are healthy for your weight and lifestyle. For teens, the average recommended caloric intake is 2,100 calories, but it is important to base your diet on your activity. 
 
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1. More than one-third of adults and over 12.5 million children and teens in the US are obese. In the last 30 years, obesity in children...

5 Amazing Facts About Meditation

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Interest in meditation and research into its benefits has exploded over the last ten years and we now know more than ever about how it helps our bodies and minds. In many ways it’s no surprise that science has shown that meditation can lower stress, ADHD symptoms, migraines, PTSD symptoms and more; after all, it’s been practiced since antiquity in one form or another. Still, some of the facts we’re learning about meditation may surprise you. Here are a few that just might encourage you to take up this holistic, beneficial practice. 
 
1. Meditation Causes Neuroplasticity 
Neuroplasticity is your brain’s ability to change, both functionally and structurally, based on input. For a long time, researchers believed that the brain lost its ability to stop changing once humans reach adulthood but we now know this just isn’t true. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin found that experienced meditators have higher levels of gamma wave activity and their minds don’t become stuck on a particular stimulus, even after they stop meditating. Basically, that means long-term meditation helps you control your thoughts automatically! Pretty cool, right? 
 
2. Meditation Makes You More Alert than Sleep! 
Amazingly, meditation can even be better than sleeping when it comes to alertness. A study in 2006 asked college students to either watch television, meditate or sleep and they were then tested on alertness by pressing a button every time they saw a light flash on the screen. While the students watching television scored the lowest, those who spent time meditating scored 10% better than those who took a nap! 
 
3. Meditating Can Help You Ditch Medication 
Meditation has been found to help more than medication in many cases, such as high blood pressure. In 2008, a doctor named Randy Zusman asked his high blood pressure patients whose condition couldn’t be controlled with medication to use a meditation program to reduce their stress for three months. At the end of the study, he found that 40 of the 60 patients had significant drops in their blood pressure levels and could reduce their medicine. That’s because meditation aids in relaxation, which naturally forms nitric oxide to open your blood vessels. 
 
Other studies have also found that meditation can significantly reduce the symptoms of ADHD and even PTSD. In the latter case, a recent study found that active duty returning soldiers with symptoms of PTSD saw a significant reduction in their symptoms when using guided imagery — a form of meditation also known as guided meditation — combined with traditional treatment compared to those who just received the usual treatment plan. In many cases, guided imagery helped to reduce their symptoms past the threshold for a diagnosis! 
 
4. Meditation Can Relieve Pain Better than Morphine 
You might not believe it, but a study conducted in 2011 determined meditation can reduce pain intensity a whopping 40% and the unpleasantness of pain by 57%. Compare this to morphine, with a pain reduction of only 25% on average. How does it work? Meditation actually reduces activity in your brain’s somatosensory cortex while boosting activity in other areas. 
 
5. Boost Gray Matter Through Meditation 
Finally, a study published 8 years ago found that men and women who meditated for 40 minutes every day had thicker cortical walls than people who don’t meditate. This translates to slower aging of the brain and it’s also associated with memory, attention and making decisions. No surprise, given that other studies find that meditation can help you improve test scores! 
 
There you have it, five cool and surprising facts about meditation you probably didn’t know. And, that’s just the beginning! Meditation can help with so many areas of life and promote general well-being. If you don’t already have a daily meditation plan, now’s the time. It takes only 10-20 minutes a day to enjoy the most benefits and anyone can set aside this amount of time, no matter how busy your life may seem. As the old adage goes, “You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day — unless you’re too busy, then you should sit for an hour.” 
 
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How The Rest Of The World Brushes Their Teeth

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There’s a 99 percent chance you are not super rich. But there is a good chance that you are part of the orally hygienic elite 1 percent. 
 
While it’s common in the U.S. and other developed countries to use nylon and electronic toothbrushes, most of the world’s population, especially indigenous cultures and developing countries, still use old-world techniques to keep their teeth clean — if they use anything at all. 
 
But are modern oral hygiene products and techniques infinitely better than the sticks, animal bristles and bones, twigs, feathers and porcupine quills that non-first-world societies used centuries ago — or continue to use today — to clean their teeth? 
 
Is what one eats more important in determining oral hygiene than the materials used to clean the teeth and gums? 
 
In other words, if tribes, clans and indigenous societies stick with their traditional diets and don’t eat processed sugar and junk food, is teeth-brushing even necessary? 
 
Lack of oral hygiene can lead to heart disease, maybe 
A 2010 study published in the British Medical Journal concluded that people who brushed less than twice a day had an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, due to inflammation and loss of connective tissue and bone support of the teeth. In the BMJ study, people who brushed their teeth less than twice a day, habitually, had a 70 percent higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The study, however, did not consider the participants’ diets. 
 
But Sally Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit nutrition education foundation, tells Mother Nature Network that in traditional societies that have no access to Western foods with processed sugars and white flour, many of these indigenous people have no cavities, and flash smiles with perfect pearly white teeth, even though tooth brushing is rare, (or was rare, depending on the society). 
 
“Within a very short time of forgoing their traditional, native diets, though, cavities become evident,” says Fallon, adding that the next generation of natives who eat processed food will begin to develop crooked teeth. 
 
Fallon points to the research pioneered by the foundation’s namesake, Dr. Weston Price, an Ohio dentist, referred to in some circles as the "Charles Darwin of nutrition." The late Price, in the 1930s, traveled the world as a sort of a cultural dental anthropologist. His book, "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration," features many photos of the teeth of various native societies, from isolated villagers in the Swiss Alps, to the Maori of New Zealand, to the coldwater fishermen of Scotland’s Hebrides islands. 
 
Vitamin K to the rescue 
Price discovered a substance he termed "Activator X" that all the natives with healthy teeth had in their saliva. Price didn’t know exactly what Activator X was, but shortly after his studies, science classified the cavity combating compound as vitamin K. A study published in the Journal of Dental Research states that in 1942, it was proven that vitamin K prevented the formation of acid buildup, which is a major cause of cavities. 
 
Some of the foods that are high in vitamin K that Price observed traditional societies consuming were: 
 
 
<ul>
<li>Chicken or goose liver</li>
<li>Fermented foods like sauerkraut</li>
<li>Grass-fed animal fat</li>
<li>Grass-fed, raw butter</li>
<li>Egg yolks</li>
</ul>
 
 
So should you run to your nearest health food store and swallow a pill of vitamin K and not worry so much about brushing your teeth twice a day? And perhaps buy some goose liver? 
 
“There’s nothing wrong with brushing twice per day. We are genetic mongrels in America. None of us has a perfect diet, so I would definitely recommend brushing your teeth,” Fallon says. 
 
It’s not just junk food that causes cavities 
Dr. Jacquie Fulop Goodling, a Manhattan-based orthodontist who has traveled the world educating people about oral health, addresses a common misconception that modern-day processed foods alone contribute to dental caries. 
 
“Diet plays an important role but even natural carbohydrates like bread, rice and pasta — the staple in many diets — break down into simple sugars, which can cause decay. Also, there are many factors contributing to periodontal disease and diet is only one of those factors,” Goodling says. 
 
Some societies that don’t use toothbrushes 
“In many regions of the world, people are cleaning their teeth with twigs, most often from oak and neem trees,” says Dr. Steven Goldberg, a Boca Raton, Fla., general and cosmetic dentist and inventor of a modern oral care product, DentalVibe. 
 
“They break a twig in half, splay and soften the broken end and then rub it on their teeth, in effect, wiping the surface of their teeth clean,” Goldberg adds. 
 
Arab Bedouin tribes still clean their teeth by using the twigs of the arak tree, which contains antiseptic properties. Other Muslim and African cultures use a similar stick, called miswak, which naturally has a high concentration of cavity-fighting fluoride. 
 
A paper posted on the National Academy of Dentistry’s website says that Hindu Brahmins and priests clean their teeth using cherry wood for an hour, facing the rising sun. Another religious group in India, Jains, cleans their teeth using fingers and without using a brush. 
 
In other rural areas of India, people use twigs from mango, cashew or coconut trees. 
 
What some cultures use for toothpaste   
Some folk in rural India, Africa, Southeast Asia and South America use brick, charcoal, rangoli powder, mud, salt or ash for cleaning the teeth. This may result in gingival recession, abrasion and dentin sensitivity, says the National Academy of Dentistry. 
 
Should Americans ditch their toothbrushes and clean with sticks instead? 
The inconvenient truth about going to the dentist at least twice a year and replacing your toothbrush is that all the discarded toothbrushes and toothpaste containers end up in the landfill. But it seems that Americans are in no rush to clean their teeth with twigs. Toothpaste, whiteners, sugarless gum, mouthwash, manual or electric toothbrushes, floss, and other oral care items retailed at $9.1 billion in 2008, according to the U.S. Market for Oral Care Products, 7th Edition. 
 
Whether or not you choose to go native and clean your teeth with a tree twig, “Oral hygiene can be a very important component to our overall health. The mouth is full of bacteria and not caring for it can cause inflammation. The gums can become unhealthy if proper dental hygiene is neglected and this can create low-grade infection that can cause inflammation and other problems throughout the body,” says Rebecca Crowley-Huey, physician assistant at BodyLogicMD of Houston, who adds, “Brain fog, autoimmune disease, gut infection or imbalance, and fatigue can be some of the problems caused by inflammation and your mouth is sometimes your first line of defense against foreign material.” 
 
Two times a day is much better than only one time per day, says Steve Krendl, a dentist at Hopewell Dental in Heath, Ohio. “A thin film of organic matter, called a biofilm, forms quickly on our teeth throughout a day. Left undisturbed, this turns into plaque, which can harden within 24 hours.” 
 
Now that’s something to chew on. 
 
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Bottled water is healthy water — or so marketers would have us believe. Just look at the labels or the bottled water ads: deep, pristine pools of spring water; majestic alpine peaks; healthy, active people gulping down icy bottled water between biking in the park and a trip to the yoga studio. 
 
In reality, bottled water is just water. That fact isn't stopping people from buying a lot of it. Estimates variously place worldwide bottled water sales at between $50 and $100 billion each year, with the market expanding at the startling annual rate of 7 percent. 
 
Bottled water is big business. But in terms of sustainability, bottled water is a dry well. It's costly, wasteful and distracts from the brass ring of public health: the construction and maintenance of safe municipal water systems. 
 
Want some solid reasons to kick the bottled water habit? We've rounded up five to get you started. 
 
1) Bottled water isn't a good value 
Take, for instance, Pepsi's Aquafina or Coca-Cola's Dasani bottled water. Both are sold in 20 ounce sizes and can be purchased from vending machines alongside soft drinks — and at the same price. Assuming you can find a $1 machine, that works out to 5 cents an ounce. These two brands are essentially filtered tap water, bottled close to their distribution point. Most municipal water costs less than 1 cent per gallon. 
 
Now consider another widely sold liquid: gasoline. It has to be pumped out of the ground in the form of crude oil, shipped to a refinery (often halfway across the world), and shipped again to your local filling station. 
 
In the U.S., the average price per gallon is hovering around $3. There are 128 ounces in a gallon, which puts the current price of gasoline at a fraction over 2 cents an ounce. 
 
And that's why there's no shortage of companies that want to get into the business. In terms of price versus production cost, bottled water puts Big Oil to shame. 
 
2) No healthier than tap water 
In theory, bottled water in the United States falls under the regulatory authority of the Food and Drug Administration. In practice, about 70 percent of bottled water never crosses state lines for sale, making it exempt from FDA oversight. 
 
On the other hand, water systems in the developed world are well-regulated. In the U.S., for instance, municipal water falls under the purview of the Environmental Protection Agency, and is regularly inspected for bacteria and toxic chemicals. Want to know how your community scores? Check out the Environmental Working Group's National Tap Water Database. 
 
While public safety groups correctly point out that many municipal water systems are aging and there remain hundreds of chemical contaminants for which no standards have been established, there's very little empirical evidence that suggests bottled water is any cleaner or better for you than its tap equivalent. 
 
3) Bottled water means garbage 
Bottled water produces up to 1.5 million tons of plastic waste per year. According to Food and Water Watch, that plastic requires up to 47 million gallons of oil per year to produce. And while the plastic used to bottle beverages is of high quality and in demand by recyclers, over 80 percent of plastic bottles are simply thrown away. 
 
That assumes empty bottles actually make it to a garbage can. Plastic waste is now at such a volume that vast eddies of current-bound plastic trash now spin endlessly in the world's major oceans. This represents a great risk to marine life, killing birds and fish which mistake our garbage for food. 
 
Thanks to its slow decay rate, the vast majority of all plastics ever produced still exist — somewhere. 
 
4) Bottled water means less attention to public systems 
Many people drink bottled water because they don't like the taste of their local tap water, or because they question its safety. 
 
This is like running around with a slow leak in your tire, topping it off every few days rather than taking it to be patched. Only the very affluent can afford to switch their water consumption to bottled sources. Once distanced from public systems, these consumers have little incentive to support bond issues and other methods of upgrading municipal water treatment. 
 
There's plenty of need. In California, for example, the American Society of Civil Engineers estimated the requirement of $17.5 billion in improvements to the state's drinking water infrastructure as recently as 2005. In the same year, the state lost 222 million gallons of drinkable water to leaky pipes. 
 
5) The corporatization of water 
In the documentary film Thirst, authors Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman demonstrated the rapid worldwide privatization of municipal water supplies, and the effect these purchases are having on local economies. 
 
Water is being called the "Blue Gold" of the 21st century. Thanks to increasing urbanization and population, shifting climates and industrial pollution, fresh water is becoming humanity's most precious resource. 
 
Multinational corporations are stepping in to purchase groundwater and distribution rights wherever they can, and the bottled water industry is an important component in their drive to commoditize what many feel is a basic human right: the access to safe and affordable water. 
 
What can you do? 
There's a simple alternative to bottled water: buy a stainless steel thermos, and use it. Don't like the way your local tap water tastes? Inexpensive carbon filters will turn most tap water sparkling fresh at a fraction of bottled water's cost. 
 
Consider taking Food and Water Watch's No Bottled Water Pledge. Conserve water wherever possible, and stay on top of local water issues. Want to know more? Start with the Sierra Club's fact sheet on bottled water. 
 
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7 Best Fruits For Your Health

You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body. Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look! 
 
 
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KIWI: 
 
Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange. 
 
APPLE: 
 
An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoid which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke. 
 
STRAWBERRY: 
 
Protective Fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals. 
 
ORANGE: 
 
Sweetest medicine, eating 2 to 4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer. 
 
WATERMELON: 
 
Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C & Potassium. 
 
GUAVA & PAPAYA: 
 
Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene; this is good for your eyes. 
 
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7 Benefits Of Drinking Coffee

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That Cup of Joe might have some positive effects — if you're drinking it properly. 
 
"Often people think of coffee just as a vehicle for caffeine," writes Dr. Rob van Dam of the Harvard School of Public Health. "But it's actually a very complex beverage," containing hundreds of different chemical compounds. Grown in more than 70 countries around the world, coffee has something of a contentious history with health experts, who have long cautioned that over-consumption may be detrimental to our health. More recent studies, however, paint a rosier picture for the Coffea plant's roasted berries (they're not actually beans), suggesting that when consumed in moderate amounts — and without heaping on the sugar and cream — the magical stuff can harbor numerous potential health benefits. A look at a few of them: 
 
1. Coffee may help fight depression 
Start your day with a smile: A joint study from the National Institutes of Health and the AARP discovered that folks who quaffed four or more cups of java a day were 10 percent less likely to be depressed than someone who didn't drink coffee at all. Oddly, the same mental-health benefits didn't extend to other caffeinated beverages — particularly cola, which was linked to a higher risk of depression (perhaps because of the high sugar content). Therefore, researchers suggest coffee's "mood-lifting effect might be traced to its antioxidants," reports Prevention. 
 
2. It may be good for your liver 
Numerous studies have suggested that caffeine helps the liver regulate itself. Research presented this month by the Mayo Clinic found that regular coffee consumption may reduce a person's risk of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), a rare autoimmune disease that can lead to cirrhosis of the liver, liver failure, and even cancer. But that's not all. A separate 22-year-study of 125,000 people found that heavy drinkers who consume one cup of coffee a day were 20 percent less likely to develop alcoholic cirrhosis. Once again, those health benefits did not extend to other caffeinated drinks, including tea. 
 
3. Java may help you (temporarily) lose weight 
The use of green coffee-bean extract exploded when Dr. Oz claimed on his show that it "burns fat fast" with no additional diet or exercise. (Sure.) But what is the substance, exactly? Green coffee beans are seeds that haven't yet been roasted, thus preserving a compound called chlorogenic acid that disappears when heated. Although limited research has been done on the extract, and no serious side effects were reported in clinical studies, WebMD cautions that the actual weight-loss research so far is "preliminary and poor quality." 
 
While caffeine products generally do help with appetite suppression, the Mayo Clinic suggests that the results of water loss from caffeine consumption or calorie-burning via thermogenesis — when your body generates heat and energy from digesting food — aren't permanent. When it comes to weight loss, caffeine should be viewed as a supplement, and not a magical cure-all. So don't try this at home:</div>
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4. It's a legal performance boost 
It's hardly a secret: Athletes and coaches have long used coffee to boost athletic performance before a competition. Caffeine, in particular, "has been proven to increase the number of fatty acids circulating in the bloodstream," reports The New York Times, "which enables people to run or pedal longer." (One study suggests that as many as two-thirds of Olympic athletes were found with caffeine in their urine.) 
So: How much should you drink prior to competing? Researchers at Coventry University in England discovered that the magic performance-enhancing ratio appears to be 6 milligrams of caffeine for every 2.2 pounds of body weight. For a 154-pound person, that's about two cups. 
 
5. It may lower your risk of type II diabetes 
Consuming three to four cups of coffee a day was found to be associated with a 25 percent lower risk of developing type II diabetes, reports Science Daily. But researchers weren't able to infer a causal effect between coffee and the disease explicitly. They think, though, that the decreased risk may have something to do with the ability of chlorogenic acid and the alkaloid trigonelline to reduce early glucose and insulin responses. 
Worth noting: The report in question was published by the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee, which — you guessed it — is a non-profit devoted to coffee's purported health benefits. Take heed. 
 
6. It may lower your risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's 
Yes, coffee may help keep your mind sharp as you age by slowing the onset of neurodegenerative disease. Multiple studies have suggested that coffee drinkers have up to a 60 percent lower risk of Alzheimer's and dementia, and the beverage may help reduce a person's risk of Parkinson's by 32 to 60 percent, reports Lifehacker. 
Why? Chuanhai Cao, a neuroscientist at the University of South Flordia, has a theory: Cao tellsWebMD that caffeine "inhibits production of beta-amyloid," a protein that has been shown to build up in the brain of people with Alzheimer's disease. The older you get, the harder it is to metabolize — or use up — all that excess protein, which causes a log jam in your brain. The stimulant boost from java ensures "your system only metabolizes all of the available protein," says Cao. 
 
7. Coffee might even make you smarter 
Time and time again, studies have shown that caffeine — which blocks the neurotransmitters in the brain associated with sleep — can temporarily boost cognition, especially when you're not getting enough shut eye. "When you're sleep-deprived and you take caffeine, pretty much anything you measure will improve" Harris Lieberman, a research psychologist for the military, told CNN in 2006. "Reaction time, vigilance, attention, logical reasoning — most of the complex functions you associate with intelligence. And most Americans are sleep-deprived most of the time." 
 
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Remedies for Insomnia

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Sleep may elude you if your bed is too hard or too soft, or if your pillows aren't just right. Sometimes, insomnia is can also be caused by being awakened repeatedly by loud noises. Often, the sleeper is not aware of what awakened them. 
 
Try sleeping in a quieter room, or wear earplugs. The best sleep environment is one that is dark, quiet, comfortable, and cool, according to the National Sleep Foundation. You should also use your bedroom only for sleep and sex. No work, no eating, no television, and no arguing with your bed partner. 
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Although alcohol can make you feel drowsy and may actually put you to sleep, it has the unpleasant side effect of waking you up later on in the night with a headache, stomachache, or full bladder. In addition, once alcohol's sedative effect wears off, there's a rebound effect that actually makes you more likely to have trouble falling back to sleep. 
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You should finish eating two or three hours before bedtime. However, that comforting nighttime snack of milk and cookies may be just what the doctor ordered to get you back in bed. Sugary foods eaten about 30 minutes before bedtime can actually act as a sedative, and you can wake up without the morning fuzziness that accompanies synthetic sleeping pills. 
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Some experts believe a tryptophan deficiency can cause problems with sleep. Made from tryptophan, 5-HTP helps the body make serotonin. Low levels of serotonin are a known factor in sleepless nights. Taking a 5-HTP supplement may be a benefit if your body has low levels of tryptophan. How do you know if you're low? Low levels of tryptophan are most common in people who are depressed. If your insomnia is associated with depression, it might be a good question to ask your doctor. In one study, 100 mg of the supplement was enough to make sleep longer and better.</div>
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Melatonin is the timekeeper of the body. It's a hormone that regulates your biological clock. As you get older you make less melatonin, which experts believe is probably why older folks have more trouble sleeping. Research is showing that taking a melatonin supplement can help you sleep. Ask your doctor about taking 1 to 3 mg of melatonin 11/2 to 2 hours before bedtime.</div>
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Valerian is a staple medicinal herb used throughout Europe. And, unlike benzodiazepines, using valerian to treat insomnia increases the amount of time spent in deep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Valerian contains chemicals with strong muscle-relaxant and sedative properties called valepotriates. All parts of the plant contain these chemicals, but they are most concentrated in the roots. Ironically, even valerian preparations without valepotriates have helped some people to fall asleep, raising the possibility that some still unidentified chemical, or a reaction amongst various compounds in the root, may produce a calming effect.</div>
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Throughout human history, dreams have been the subject of science and pseudoscience alike. (Last year’s announcement that scientists in Kyoto could partially “read dreams” sounded like BS, but it checks out.) In today’s crazy online world where you can’t always believe your eyes, we hope you’ll sleep better knowing that the following facts are the real deal.</div>
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Your brain’s activity looks very different when you’re asleep, which sheds some light on the nature of dreams. For starters, your primary visual cortex is out of commission during sleep (because your eyes are closed), but your secondary visual cortex (which normally interprets outside visual stimuli) is still going at it, trying to make sense of the images the rest of your brain is conjuring up.</div>
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By now everyone knows that we categorize human sleep in five stages: some deep stages with boring number-names, and REM, famously responsible for dream time. Au contraire! More recent research indicates that dreaming also occurs during non-REM sleep (slyly abbreviated as NREM). REM sleep is the stage closest to waking, though, so you’re more likely to remember REM dreams than those in NREM.</div>
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Since each sleep stage represents different brain activity, different stages will result in different types of dreams. During REM sleep, for instance, people typically report interacting with two to three characters outside of themselves––usually people they know in waking life––while NREM may host more characters, more of whom are strangers. At the same time, the dreamer more often initiates socially aggressive interactions in REM sleep, while NREM hosts friendlier social initiations. Makes it hard not to read a “don’t you dare wake me up” subtext into those REM dreams... </div>
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You probably already knew this: The tone of a dream can set the tone of the following morning, for better or worse. But there’s more to it than that. “Daytime mood and social interactions” have been found to correlate with dream details––although universal patterns across dreams are almost impossible to quantify reliably. Details as seemingly arbitrary as the number of characters the dreamer encounters may have more to do with the person’s actual sleep patterns than actual dream content (see bullet #2). But as in Stickgold’s memory experiments, dreaming about stuff that’s bothering you can help the brain process during sleep what you might not be thrilled to process during the day (see bullet #5). In short: Dream on, little dreamer. It’s good for ya.</div>
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Facts About Apple

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<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Apples are a member of the rose family.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Archeologists have found evidence that humans have been enjoying apples since at least 6500 B.C.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">The apple tree originated in an area between the Caspian and the Black Sea.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Apple varieties range in size from a little larger than a cherry to as large as a grapefruit. There are apples that have an aftertaste of pears, citrus, cinnamon, cloves, coconut, strawberries, grapes and even pineapple!</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Planting an apple seed from a particular apple will not produce a tree of that same variety. The seed is a cross of the tree the fruit was grown on and the variety that was the cross pollinator.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Apples have five seed pockets or carpels. Each pocket contains seeds. The number of seeds per carpel is determined by the vigor and health of the plant. Different varieties of apples will have different number of seeds.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">It takes energy from 50 leaves to produce one apple.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Fresh apples float because 25% of their volume is air (thank goodness, or none of us would have ever experienced bobbing for apples!).</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Apples ripen six to ten times faster at room temperature than if they were refrigerated. For optimal storage, apples should be kept at 35-40 degrees with relative humidity of 80-90%.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">A bushel of apples weighs approximately 42 pounds, or 19kg. A peck of apples weighs 10.5 pounds, or 4.8kg.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">The average U.S. consumer eats an estimated 45 pounds of apples a year. Europeans consumers eat 46 pounds a year.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Sixty percent of the 2002 U.S. apple crop was eaten as fresh fruit, while 39 percent was processed into apple products, and 1 percent was not marketed. Of the 39 percent of the crop that was processed, 18 percent was used in juice and cider; 3 percent was dried; 2 percent was frozen; and 12 percent was canned. Other uses include the making of baby food, apple butter or jelly, and vinegar.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">The apple is the official state fruit of Rhode Island, New York, Washington, and West Virginia. The apple blossom (Pyrus coronaria) is the official state flower of Arkansas and Michigan.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">The old saying "an apple a day, keeps the doctor away" comes from am old English adage, "To eat an apple before going to bed, will make the doctor beg his bread."</li>
 
 
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Perhaps some of you love to eat apple. This is a little bit fun facts about the apple. Apples are a member of the rose family. ...

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