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Normal Cholesterol Levels for Women

Cholesterol affects your body differently than it does a man’s body. This could be, in part, to your estrogen levels. High estrogen, like the levels you produce during your most fertile years, raises good cholesterol and reduces heart disease risk, according to the American Heart Association. On the flip side, women have higher triglyceride levels than men, as a general rule. A heart-healthy lifestyle and medication can help you get your total cholesterol to a safe level and keep it there.

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What Is the 5 Factor Weight Diet?

Hollywood weight loss fads change faster than the latest hip hairstyle or fashionable cut of evening dress. The latest hot weight loss plan is Harley Pasternak’s 5 Factor Diet, a plan Pasternak used, according to his main website, with celebrities like Jessica Simpson and Eva Mendes. Based on a food and exercise regimen that uses components of five–five meals a day, five minutes of weight training–to simplify getting in shape, Pasternak assures that the 5 Factor Diet is an easy-to-use way to transition to a healthy lifestyle.

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Fall is the New Spring

We’re one month into autumn. School and work and life schedules have reverted to some sort of “normal” structure. Sweaters and suits have come out of closets to replace bikinis and sunglasses. Leaves are changing from green to red, gold, and brown, or, depending on where you are, have already begun to fall. There’s a…

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Autism’s Sneaky Trick

Autism’s Sneaky Trick (This is not a Halloween post!) I sometimes get lulled into a sense of “normalness” with regards to my son. I forget. My son is very high functioning (yes, I’m using this term here). Now at age sixteen and a junior in high school, I’ve noticed myself beginning to take things for…