Drinking water before each meal has been shown to help promote weight loss, according to a new study.

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So, you’ve fallen off the wagon on your diet. You’re craving a fast food fix. What’s it gonna be – a burger, or a slice of pizza?

Well, Burger King has bad news for you: the new Pizza Burger, which packs in 2,500 calories and 144g of fat…

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Never underestimate the power of a shapely shoulder to give your body a lean, fit look. Daily Spark has seven ways to achieving stronger shoulders.

What’s the fastest way I know to get kids to eat their fruits and veggies? Put it on a stick. For some reason a fruit or veggie dressed up “kabob-style” always leads to a request for “more!” from my kids. Great idea for summer parties, too!

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You don’t need a Slim Fast diet guide to be successful with the Slim Fast plan. The Slim Fast plan is built for do it yourself dieting. The plan is easily accessible on your own, and slim fast products are widely available in stores. As with all diets, the success of the plan relies on your own self-control. In order to aid your slim fast dieting, slim fast offers ready made balanced meals and meal plans. Recipes are also available ..read more

Summer Travel Tips: Healthy Airplane Snacks

By Jennifer R. Scott, About.com Guide

Updated April 27, 2009

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Think ahead and have a smart snack at home to keep mid-flight cravings at bay! Image: © [2009] www.clipart.com

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Look at that winner. Melodi Dushane, 24, of Ohio, was sentenced to 60 days in prison for punching two McDonald’s employees, and smashing a drive-thru window at a Toledo restaurant earlier this year.

Why? Did workers spit in her food, or point out that she needed to dye her roots? No, McDonald’s has the gall not to serve Chicken McNuggets during breakfast time.

Oh snap! It’s on like Donkey Kong. And lucky for us, Dushane’s McNugget meltdown was captured by ..read more

No it isn’t. Science be damned! If you’re an adult and you still won’t eat vegetables because they’re “gross,” you’re behaving like an infant, and you need to grow up.

But, odds are your parents did a lousy job of introducing you to new foods. So, if you were raised on a diet of potato chips, snack cakes, fast food, and cola, I guess its not totally you’re fault.

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Although fitness specialists claim that there’s no exercises for reducing specific spots, the abdomen can be an exclusion. The matter is, this is the region of high sensitivity to insulin. If you have the insulin sensitivity problem, the best thing for you is a low carbohydrate diet. In this case, the abdominal fat really goes away first.

However, there ARE exercises to tone your upper abdomen so that when your fat layer disappears, the strengthened muscles will hold the shape.

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If you think you are allergic to a specific good, the best you can do is seeing an allergist. These doctors can do a specific test and if it really is allergy to strawberries, you will better avoid them at all times. In its severe form, it can cause an allergy-caused shock.

I would also advise you to have anti-allergic pills with you in case there’s another food to cause you this reaction.

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Until now, the best science we had on sports bras was the bouncing breast video created by sports bra manufacturer Shock Absorber. A video that quickly went viral, mostly by 13-year-old boys.

But, thanks to several new studies, researchers believe they may have finally discovered the secret to the perfect sports bra. That’s the good news, now here’s the bad: no one has even attempted to create it yet.

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