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Kate Gosselin Fired from CouponCabin

It looks like Kate Gosselin is back on the hunt for a new job. After leaving the TLC spotlight (when they canceled her family’s reality show “Jon and Kate Plus 8” – later titled “Kate Plus 8), Kate was welcomed as a blogger for CouponCabin.com. But unfortunately, after just 11 months, the mom of eight seems to have gotten her pink slip there as well.

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How to Get Lean for Women

Toning up muscles and burning fat both lead to a leaner body and a sleeker look. You need to maintain an adequate level of nutrition when you exercise, so do not cut back drastically on calories. Keep enough fuel in your body so that you keep your metabolism levels up, enabling you to burn fat while you build lean muscle mass. Exercise is essential to build muscle, but watching how many calories you eat and maintaining a healthy diet helps. Women naturally have fat stores in their hips and thighs, but abdominal fat is potentially harmful to your health as its presence indicates an increased risk for high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

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The Best Diet Plans for a Family

Whether you family prefers vegetarian food or ethnic food, or if everyone has a different favorite food plan, you can create a diverse and nutritious family diet plan. Consider your goals and your family’s goals with the family diet. You might want to lose weight, change bad eating habits, develop fitness, diversify food choices or simplify the meal preparation routine. Use these goals to guide you through the steps of budgeting, shopping, cooking and eating out.

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Make Healthier Fast Food Choices

All of a sudden corporate giants are jumping on the health food bandwagon – touting new products as the newest discovery since sliced bread. Check out Mickey D’s new major campaign for their Real Fruit Smoothie. It’s great that you can drive-in and buy yourself a $2.29 smoothie, but buyer beware. Do you realize how many grams of sugar are in that 12 oz. drink? 42!!! That’s about 85% of your sugar intake for the day – based on daily intake of 2,000 calories. The good news is – it’s better than a soda with high fructose corn syrup, which of course, we all know should be outlawed. Don’t even get me started on “energy” bars. Here’s some helpful tips on eating fast food – because as Mickey D says “You deserve a break today”.