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The Forgoing Facebook Experiment

Confession: I have 738 Facebook friends. In reality, I would only actually call up a handful of them to go to lunch with or to talk to while I’m making a long drive. I only talk to a couple dozen of them in person on a regular basis. And I sure as heck do not care that that one girl I met in college who friend requested me 5 minutes after we introduced ourselves is “going to work…then having a grilled chicken salad for lunch YUM! xoxo”. Maybe this seems rude, but I don’t expect them to care about what I’m doing every second of the day either!

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The Skinny on Diet Soda

I know how tempting diet soda can be. When you want to enjoy a bubbly flavored drink without the calories, a diet soda seems like the perfect solution. But, bad news for all your diet drinkers out there — put down that can of diet Coke and listen up!

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I Need Help With My Prescription Drug Addiction

Beware of prescription drugs if you are younger than 65, have a history of depression, have abused drugs in your past and use any sort of psychiatric medication. If you fall into all four of those categories, you have a 26 percent chance of becoming addicted to prescription drugs, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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Does the Acai Berry Diet Work?

Numerous wondrous properties have been assessed to the mysterious, exotic acai berry, one of the more compelling being that it functions as a diet aid. Named by the Better Business Bureau as one of the “Top 10 Scams and Rip Offs of 2009,” an acai berry diet — whether you drink the juice or take the supplements — won’t result in weight loss.