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Northern Europe and Canada have a big Salmon culture. Gravad Lax is a traditional Scandinavian/Scottish dish, Lox and Bagels (lox and anything actually lol). You can use smoked salmon for any number of regular recipes. The BC (British Columbia) Benny is Eggs Benedict with smoked salmon and my favourite! Also, smoked salmon…
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I will be turning 50 in February 2015. I was shopping at my local whole food/Health and Wellness grocery the other day and was told that I looked more like 30 when I set up my preferred customer account (including my birth date). I agree with all those before me regarding no diet (in the vein of restriction and…
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Hi Stella...yeah, feeling icky is not fun.I always advise my clients to "maintain" regarding exercise, when feeling under the weather unless their condition medically precludes them from activity. If you drop your regular routine down a notch and do half of the reps or resistance, either way you are at least keeping moving…
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Have a Just-in-case stash of foods you like that are balanced that are quick and easy to eat. Depends on your taste. My go-to snacks are wholewheat bread with Almond butter or peanut butter in a pinch, cottage cheese, wholegrain cereals with Almond milk, nuts and raisins or nutrition bars of varying kinds. Lately i have…
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I am growing sweet potatoes for the first time this year. IF you have a yarde, a couple or three sweet potato plants could give you a small yield for next to no money.
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I understand that cramps are really muscle contractions, not technically "cramps". Thus intuitively one should benefit from exercises and stretches that stimulate and relax the muscles around the reproductive organs. So that would include all core musculature - low back including pelvic joints and the sciatic nerve that…
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If reverse crunches are too difficult because of back issues, try graded leg lifts. Lying flat on the floor, legs straight and ankles together, raise straight legs to the ceiling and lower as far as you can go without resting on the floor if possible. It's a little more tolerable and you can lower legs as it suites you and…
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Well the electrolyte question has been answered sufficiently. As far as back exercises, one must always remember that the spine is like a bridge supported by muscles (suspensions) all around its column. Each side, back AND FRONT. Thus abdominal muscles, (deep and inferior/nearer the surface) should also be worked to ensure…
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Lindt Dark Chocolate 70% Cocao or above (the higher the % the less sweet-30 to 50 cals per inch square), Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Milk Chocolate (approx 30 cal per square) and any Skinny Cow product. Skinny cow ice creams are around 160 cals each and sizeable.
