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Tips to Save Money at Home

If it feels like your expenses are growing faster than your income, a few simple strategies at home may keep more money in the bank account. Cutting back to save money often brings to mind meals of Ramen noodles, lighting the room with candles or huddling together for warmth. While these extremes are always an option, less drastic strategies save money across different spending areas, adding up to a significant savings.

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Exercising and Gestational Diabetes

About three to five percent of all pregnant women develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes usually developsbetween 20 to 24 weeks, and is caused by the changes in hormones in your body during pregnancy. In most women, the pancreas is able to make additional insulin tocombat this insulin resistance. When the pancreas makes all the insulin it can, and there still isn’t enough tofight the effect of the placenta’s hormones, gestational diabetes results.

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Home-Work: Get Your Home Maintenance Buttoned Up

When youre working, wrangling the kids, and generally living a full life, its easy to let taking care of your home fall to the bottom of the priority list. But you need to stay on top of your maintenance chores if you want to keep your home and all the good things in it functioning smoothly. As fall approaches, its time to start thinking about a top to bottom inspection to check for any damage and prepare for the upcoming cold, winter months.

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How to Identify Green Friendly Products

It’s not enough anymore for us to simply compare prices, quality and performance when buying. Growing environmental pollution and toxic waste makes it necessary to consider how every aspect of consumerism will impact the environment. Responsible consumers work on finding ways to reduce waste and save energy, but sometimes we need help knowing which products are the safest and most eco-friendly choices.