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3 Tips to Make Sure You’re Hiring the Best Professionals
Need a good doctor, lawyer, or contractor? FIRST polled the experts for the best ways to track down trustworthy professionals who can really help you! To pinpoint the best doctor: Ask your pharmacist With 25 percent of doctors over the age of 45 retiring in the next two years, finding a GP you’re happy with…
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4 Easy Tips to Heat and Cool Your Home In an Instant
Keeping your home cool throughout the summer and warm during the winter is challenging, no matter the season. It becomes doubly as hard when you aren’t even able to make any structural changes to the home. Here, we share four easy tips on how to heat and cool your rooms in an instant! Closed Off…
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Are Flip Flops Bad For Your Feet?
Summer is in full swing, which means it’s time for our sandals to shine. However, if slipping on a pair of flip flops is your go-to for warm weather footwear, you might want to reconsider: Flip-flops are often bad for your feet. We aren’t saying you have to skip the popular sandal style — just think a…
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Looking Hot, Feeling Cool: The Best Undergarments for Menopause
I recently went to Victoria’s Secret, where a 20-something sales associate named Sydney with a blond ponytail, a perky attitude, and a tape measure asked me if I knew my correct bra size. “Yes,” I said, because my natural tendency is to eschew help when shopping in malls. “What is it?” she asked — somewhat…
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This is How Often You Should Really Be Changing Your Bed Sheets
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that hopping into bed after putting on clean, fresh sheets is one of life’s greatest pleasures. But, we know that sometimes the time between that is much longer than we’d like to admit. Hayley Worley, co-founder of Melbourne label The Sheet Society, is here to tell us how often we should actually be…
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Why Cottonseed Oil Could Be Your New Fat-Burning Meal Enhancer
If you haven’t heard much about cottonseed oil benefits yet, expect that to change very soon. Recent research shows this cooking oil — extracted from the seeds of cotton plants of various species — might be linked to lower cholesterol and burning fat. The November 2018 study published in Nutrition Research analyzed 15 healthy men…
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Fight Dark Marks and Wrinkles With a Blueberry Face Mask
Rather than spend a bunch of money on anti-aging beauty products, use what you already have in your kitchen to take care of your skin the all-natural way. Nature is chock full of powerful compounds that can be used to boost your skin, reducing and preventing the appearance of things like wrinkles and dark marks.…
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This $20 Supplement May Help Reduce Symptoms of Depression
Stephanie Dalfonzo sat at her computer and Googled “ways to elevate mood.” Though Stephanie knew she had many reasons to smile — a loving family and a successful business as an integrative hypnotist — she was often plagued by unexplainable sadness. Will I ever feel completely happy? she wondered. It had been nearly 20 years…
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Save on All Your Prescriptions by Asking These 9 Questions
Did you know that Americans pay twice as much for their prescriptions as people in other developed countries, where pharmaceuticals are more tightly regulated? That’s because here, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), by law, cannot consider the price of any drugs it may approve for sale — even when their development was financed with…
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This 10-Minute Meditation Gave Me More Energy and Better Sleep
It’s 2 o’clock, you’ve just finished lunch, and now your energy is starting to tank. You want to reach for that second (or third?) cup of coffee, but something tells you there must be another way. We get it — and there is! While many are exploring the myriad benefits of meditation, one of the…