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Sugar Alcohols – What You Need to Know

Anyone who has ever tried to decrease their dietary intake of sugar, especially diabetics, knows first hand the nightmare of reading all those labels with their long list of ingredients that most of us have never heard of and definitely cannot pronounce. Packaging of food products can be so misleading and difficult to understand. Some ...

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The Foundation of Singing – Cord Closure

Singing voices are generally categorized in two ways: 1) breathy/airy; or, 2) squeezed/pressured. The key to maintaining a pure and pleasant singing voice is a technique called cord closure. Cord closure is a term used to describe the way in which the vocal cords meet in order to produce sound1. The amount of closure between ...

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11 Things to Do with Salt, (Other Than Eat It!)

As a home schooling Mom, I love to teach the kids to experiment with every day items. Salt is the bargain of the supermarket. At just pennies per pound, I bought enough to experiment with. Here are some of the ‘old wives’ tales’ and folk wisdom I tried out and had good experiences with. ~ ...

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The Amazing World of Dairy Free Milk Substitutes

There are a variety of reasons that people might avoid dairy based milk. Whether you’re a vegan who wants to avoid animal products or suffer from lactose intolerance making it difficult to digest dairy based milk, there are a variety of good substitutes for milk available to you these days. When people think of non ...

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Grief Recovery for the Newly Widowed

Are you newly widowed and having a difficult time with the loss of your spouse? Does it seem challenging to participate in your regular daily routine? What you are experiencing is normal and grief recovery does take time. To help understand grief recovery and what you can do to recover, I have interviewed therapist Frieda ...

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Health Benefits of Panax Ginseng Extract

Panax ginseng extract or simply ginseng is a very popular herb in Asia as well as Europe. This herb grows extensively in the northern parts of China, Korea, Japan as well as Nepal and this is has been used as a traditional herb for curing many ailments such as headaches, stress, blood pressure etc. This ...

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The Many Benefits of Turmeric Powder

Turmeric powder is the main ingredient in curry powder. This spice has been around since the 1900s originating from India. Turmeric has been known throughout the world as a seasoning to make foods taste very good. Today turmeric is being used all over the world as a seasoning and a health product. In this article ...

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A Guide to Finding Latin Home Decor Online

A room redecorated with a Latin American flair immediately becomes warm and inviting. If you are going to be redecorating a room in your home be it a bedroom or a common room and are thinking of going with a Latin decor the following sites are great places to find authentic decor or just fun ...

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Election of 1908: Roosevelt Abdicates to William Howard Taft

Candidates: Republican Party: William Howard Taft (Ohio) and James Sherman (New York) Democratic Party: William Jennings Bryan (Nebraska) and John Kern (Indiana) Socialist Party: Eugene Debs (Indiana) and Benjamin Hanford (New York) Election Results: Taft and Sherman: 7.67 million popular votes, 321 electoral votes. Bryan and Kern: 6.40 million popular votes, 162 electoral votes. Debs ...