HDL and LDL cholesterol and maintaining a healthy diet
HDL and LDL cholesterol are the measures of the good and the bad, respectively, cholesterol in your blood. HDL and LDL can be measured either at once, or independently. HDL and LDL can be taken at face value or as a ratio. They can be added together, and graphed, and studied for years by a [...]
My girlfriend has spent most of her life looking for gender discrimination everywhere she turns. Whether it’s something as innocuous as an opening to a newscast (Founding Fathers, not fathers and mothers), sideline reporters at sporting events, or the percentage of male executives to female executives in any given workplace, she maintains that gender discrimination [...]
Adult Halloween Costumes Ideas
Last year American consumers spent over 5 billion dollars on Halloween. Thats 5 billion dollars worth of candy, decorations and costumes. All of that spending breaks down to an average of around sixty-six dollars per person. But you dont have to break the bank in order to come up with a great adult Halloween costume [...]
Americans are very serious about dieting and making sure they do their best to maintain their weight. While it is debatable whether dieting works, many people invest a lot of time and money each year to try new diets, hoping it will work wonders. The controversy lies in whether or not the diets [...]
Is a 1000 Calorie Diet Right For You?
With summer on the immediate horizon, lazy beach days are approaching with great rapidity and with all the other joys that summer brings with it – surf, sand, and ice cream cones – it also brings with it the stress over our bodies. Are we bathing suit ready? What is it going to take to [...]
Do You Have Good Hospital Insurance?
You may pay into your medical and hospital insurance for years and never use it, but you want to know that if you need it, it is going to cover you if you have to have a stay in the hospital. Medical costs are high, and if your insurance is sub standard, or does not [...]
Advice for Getting Into College
Having come out the other side of over six years of higher education, I feel like I am in a position to provide a certain amount of advice to people interested in getting into college. There is no question that getting into college opens up doors and opportuniteies that simply don’t exist for people with [...]
Want to travel cheap and still have the time of
Want to travel cheap and still have the time of your life? It’s entirely possible!
Most of us are buttoning down the hatches when it comes to our travel budgets. You might well say, Travel is a luxury, one I can’t afford this year! This dismal economy opens the door wide to the nay-sayers, who quickly [...]
Is your credit card debt spiraling out of control? Practical
Is your credit card debt spiraling out of control? Practical pointers on taming the beast
The average credit card debt carried by every consumer is about $9200. However, many of us have far more than that figure, as this is only the average. Young people who may qualify for just one credit card with a limited [...]
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