How to Keep Your Food Clean and Safe

 

The easiest way for bacteria to enter our bodies is through our food. It is always best to be careful when preparing and storing our food in order to avoid food poisoning.

If your family’s meals are to be dependably safe, follow these rules for food storage and preparation

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Things You Should Know About Energy Drinks

Almost everyone you see at the gym or any outdoor event seems to be gulping energy drinks.  How effective are these? Are they safe and healthy as they claim to be?
Athletes, young adults, and even students studying for exams rave about energy drinks.  The brands and varieties that are currently available in the market are countless, including Red Bull, Pimp Juice, Rage, Monster, etc.  These drinks claim to boost your sports performance or make you more alert – or both.

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How to Keep Children Motivated

In any new activity such as school or extra-curricular lessons, children are often excited at the start.  But this initial enthusiasm tends to turn stale after a few weeks of sessions.  This is natural especially with children.  The challenge is keeping this eagerness going even after the initial excitement period.  How then will you keep your child’s motivation up? This is important particularly when the child is enrolled in an after-school enrichment program such as music, arts, and sports courses.

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Warning Signs of Stroke

The symptoms can last a few seconds or minutes and may occur several times a day, or only from time to time over a period of several years.

One of the most important findings in recent years has been that strokes usually do not strike without giving you some warning.  The Stroke Foundation in New York lists at least three major early warning symptoms:

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Treatment advances show promise for stroke victims.: An article from: Mississippi Business Journal

Famous Homeschoolers

There are a lot of reasons why parents have chosen to homeschool their children. There are also many people who will mistakenly doubt that any success can come to a child if they do not attend public school. This list include famous people who were homeschooled at some point in their educational lives and include both historical and modern homeschoolers.

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To Have or Not to Have Children

 Some parents, whether rich or poor, cited straight economic costs as the primary reason for their decision to opt for a smaller family. Most parents, however, felt they could afford large families and, in the long run, would benefit economically from having children.

When parents, particularly those living in urban areas, beget children, it is the emotional benefits of having children that are foremost in their minds, according to a study conducted by the International Development Research Center (IDRC) and the Ford Foundation.

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Do Children Help Strengthen a Marriage?

 Some 27 percent of divorces involve no children, although only 9 percent of marriages are childless.  There are cases when children have grown up before their parents divorce—hence the parents come into the “childless” category, but childless marriages always appear more prone to visible breakdown, especially if this is a result of a lack of desire for children.  This may be because of the temperament of childless couples, but will also reflect the general unwillingness of a responsible couple to have children if they feel that their marriage is under stress.  There is also little need to stay together if there are no children affected. There is probably a good deal more masked breakdown in marriages with children, where the couple keeps up a front “for the sake of the children.”

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Identifying The Urgent Versus The Important

Many of us can remember situations when we spent so much energy preparing for an event or presentation that when the great day finally arrived, we were so exhausted we just wished it would end quickly.
How can we decide in our own lives which is important and which is urgent?

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Using Regrets To Your Advantage

“Regret is an example of a negative emotion that spurs people to problem-solving and personal betterment,” says Dr. Neal Roese, a leading researcher on regret and the author of If Only.

One positive purpose of regret is to help us learn from our mistakes, gain insight, and cultivate hope for the future. It signals us to stop and evaluate. By inflicting discomfort and or distress, it grabs our attention and begs us to question, “What could I have done differently?” Fact is, no one likes to think about their blunders. Perhaps this is the reason why some people insist they never have any regrets. Nevertheless, that “coulda-shoulda-woulda” thinking is normal. It’s apparently wired into our neural structure.

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Safe Snowmobiling With Children

Snowmobiling is among the most thrilling ways to enjoy the winter weather as a family since they can usually rent state-of-the-art snowmobiles together with safety equipment that's required instead of investing large sums of money into the sport. Winter holiday resorts often give guests this lease option to relieve the hassle of dragging your equipment with you when you stay with them. In order to step-up you family’s chances of having a fun and successful snowmobiling experience, though, there are a few safety tips to follow.

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