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Flush Food Allergies and Relieve Rosacea

Anti-inflammatory GLA helps clear your skin and can even help relieve PMS. Do you blush easily? Have small, red bumps on your face? Or irritated, crusty eyes? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may have rosacea. Up to 100 million people worldwide do, says the International Rosacea Foundation. Most at risk … READ MORE

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The Hidden Weight Loss Trigger

How GLA ignites your fat burning engines. A flurry of new research regarding the role of fat in “fighting fat” came out in early 2009 in the New England Journal of Medicine. It was followed up by a media blitz earlier this year when Harvard researchers uncovered a newly-discovered exercise hormone that holds real promise … READ MORE

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Put Your Best Face Forward

Winter weather is no match for the magical moisturizing effects of BeauCle! If winter skin has got you down, don’t despair – repair! Our precious skin is the very first line of defense against the weather. But targeted ultra-hydrating skin care ingredients on the inside and on the outside can visibly combat the dehydrating, drying … READ MORE

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Erase Dark Circles, Wrinkles and Redness From the Inside Out

Your skin doesn’t lie….read your face like a book. It provides so many clues – when properly deciphered – that can lead you to the underlying causes of many outward beauty conditions that plague us all. We all love a quick fix that reflects cutting-edge science or simple healing wisdom passed down through the ages. Here … READ MORE

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The 6 Fat Flush Commandments: Part 1

Surprising links between weight loss, your liver, your lymph and eating the right fat. 1. Love Your Liver Fat Flush is dedicated first and foremost to supporting the liver in its daunting role as the body’s purifier. In reality, the liver is perfectly designed to detoxify itself automatically, without any help from you or Fat … READ MORE

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Revisiting Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Omegasizing our kids. Are our children suffering from a Ritalin or Adderall deficiency? Judging by the number of prescriptions for both meds, you would certainly think so (1.9 million for Ritalin in 2005, 8.2 for Adderall 1). While Ritalin is historically the best known and best-selling drug prescribed for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), by … READ MORE

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Ignite Your Fat Burning Engine

Blast off fat this 4th of July. A hot topic (literally) of late has been capsaicin, a substance that has been firing up the circulation for centuries. Found in sweat-inducing foods and spices like cayenne, capsaicin provides the power to get the blood pumping efficiently, the body’s metabolic rate stimulated—and fat blasted out of the … READ MORE

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GLA: The Good Omega 6 that Flushes Fat

Part two in our series on Fat Flushing supplements. Since the 1980s, many studies have focused on the power of GLA, or gamma linoleic acid, to serve as a natural aid to weight loss. Found naturally in seed oils, such as borage, evening primrose, and black currant seed oils, GLA is an essential fatty acid, … READ MORE

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Dangerous Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet

Also pay attention to supplement-drug interactions. Worldwide, prescription drug abuse is even higher than the combined use of illicit drugs like cocaine, ecstasy, and heroin, finds the UN International Narcotics Control Board. In this country alone, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently reported that abuse of prescription painkillers has led to an alarming 111% … READ MORE

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Silent Risks for Heart Attack

Choose the right carbs to slim down and protect your health. White bread and ice cream are much riskier foods for women than men, a new Italian study of close to 48,000 adults finds. At least one quarter of women eating high-glycemic carbs had double the risk for heart disease as those who ate the … READ MORE

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