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4 Ways to Get More Hours in a Day

Have you ever noticed how really busy, well organized people navigate through their day? Do they seem frazzled rushing from one task to another? Probably not. People who have a lot on their plate know how to manage their time.

Otherwise, they'd be running from one thing to another putting out 'fires' and by mid-afternoon, drained of energy and sharp decision-making skills.

Most of us would like to squeeze more time out of each day, although knowing how, is another matter. The good news is you can do it. First, back up and look at where you can make changes -- chances can replace current habits with new positive ways to sail through your day.

The key is to plan to free up more down time each day.

1) Embrace the Planner in You

Many people feel like they are always a "day late and a dollar short." If you are missing out on life beyond office or house work because you have too many tasks and meetings stacked up every day, you are not alone.

So many people operate in that manner that a term has been coined to describe this behavior. This all too common problem is known as "the planning fallacy." That means people forget to factor in basic things when they are planning out time to do tasks.

Researchers at Carleton University have found that people tend to overestimate how long it will take to finish a simple task like cleaning the kitchen, but they underestimate how much time it will take to complete a bigger project like painting the bathroom.

Why do people under or overestimate time? Researchers found many times people don't factor in how much time it takes to do the basics each day. If you estimate it's going to take eight hours to paint the bath, are you also factoring in time to have lunch, make or return phone calls or take care of other things like prepare the room's surfaces and then clean up afterward?

If time is not on your side, follow these tips to have more get-up-and-go, and find more time and energy to do what you really want to do each day.

2) Prioritize and Delegate

Have you ever noticed that if you are in the house all day you always find something that needs to be put away, washed, dried, dusted, repaired, or spot cleaned? Sure, you may sit down and read the paper or watch TV for a short period of time, but then you notice the stack of newspapers and magazines that should be sorted through and tossed. And so the process of endless housekeeping starts anew.

Prioritize what you need to do then focus on those tasks until they get done. Instead of letting yourself be interrupted throughout the day, concentrate on the work at hand.

Here's a tip that busy people know: Focus on getting the difficult, most important tasks done early in the day. That way you'll have fresh energy and mental dexterity you need in case you feel sluggish later.

If you have too much work for the amount of time you have to do them, delegate. Sometimes you can rid yourself of many to-dos on your daily list by finding others to do them.

3) Do Tasks in Batches

Changing habits is not easy, but when you make a change you'll start seeing the positive results of your work.

Take emailing, for example -- are you constantly writing and responding to emails throughout the day? Take a tip from busy professionals such as physicians. They aren't emailing patients or other contacts throughout the day because they simply don't have the time. But they typically 'batch' these tasks. Emailing patients, for example, is done at once or twice a day, not sporadically throughout the day.

You can do the same thing with things that interrupt the flow of your day. Instead of going to the post office in the morning and running to the grocery store and library later, try 'batching these tasks" and do them all together. You'll save time instead of going in and out of the house to run errands more than once.

4) Weekends are for Week-End Pleasures

One of the hardest things for people to change is how they use their weekends. Many, especially those who work outside the home during the week, see the weekend as the time to catch up on household chores.

If that's you, of course you have more time to do home maintenance during an off-time, but are you really getting the most out of life with that schedule?

Consider the fact that there always will be housework. Always! The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that women who work full-time spend 15.1 hours a week (for men who work full-time, it's 9.6 hours) doing household chores. Of course that's far less than in 1965 when women spend 30 hours a week on housework.

So where are housework hours getting used today? You guessed it -- mostly on weekends.

Consider doing some of the weekend chores during the week and delegate a short time on weekend for doing them. Whatever doesn't get done on weekends try to roll the tasks into the new week.

If you can train yourself to do that, you'll free yourself up for more down time with family and friends on weekends. Those precious few days at week's end will give you more time to enjoy just being you.

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Simple Daily Exercises That Professional Writers Can Use to Enjoy Pain Free Hands

If your occupation requires your hands, assuredly there will be some hand pain that follows at some point in time. This indisposition, tragically, affects countless people as they go about their daily routine and their lives. For persons who rely upon their hands to accomplish their daily tasks, aching hands, fingers, wrists and elbows are the plague that besets them from time to time, and one that detrimentally hampers their productivity. It is this beguiling menace that often can keep many of us otherwise avid writers from adequately performing our daily duties and meeting our obligations. As a professional writer, I've learned this the hard way over a great deal of years. After struggling with the symptoms, a few methods have been earmarked along the way that have helped me enjoy pain free hands. In this article, I will share a few secrets of the trade with you.

Stretch Your Arms and Hands Every Hour

Your arms, fingers, hands and wrists - and other digits - contain muscles, ligaments, tendons, nerves and joints. If you overuse them, they will become strained. Think of writing, or working long hours with your hands, much in the same manner that you would, say, going for a jog. You need to stretch out before you work out. That being said: make sure that you are fully stretching your arms, fingers, wrists, elbows and hands every hour. After all, as a pro writer, you are working out every hour of the day.

Behold: The Open Hand Flex

This move is a simple one that I like to call the Open Hand Flex. I've found it marvelous over the years for ensuring that I enjoy pain free hands. This method is rather basic yet very effective. Extend your palms so that your fingers point upwards, with your knuckles aiming at your front side. Now stretch out your fingers so that your digits are fully extended on your hands. Hold this position while flexing your fingers outward for 30 seconds and repeat three times for a full stretch.

The Five Finger Wall Press

A great method I use from time to time to combat aching wrists can help you do battle with arthritic symptoms. Open your hand flat and perform the Open Hand Flex move (mentioned above). Now press your palms against a wall and push in so your fingers are being pressed towards you. Hold this press for about 10 seconds and repeat three times.

The Pullback Method

A very effective and quick method for easing pain involves using pullback methods. This one is very easy to execute. Spread your palm and fingers again, as mentioned in the previous exercises, only do this for one hand. Then grab the tips of your fingers with the other free hand and slowly pull them back towards your body. Pull until you feel light tension and then hold. Keep the hold - or pullback - for at least 10 seconds. Make sure you repeat this exercise on the opposite hand. Be sure to perform this routine at least twice per day for the best results.

Ongoing Strengthening and Conditioning Methods

Remember, your hands will only be as strong as you build them up to be. The more that you build and stretch them, the stronger and more resilient they will be, not to mention that your range of motion will drastically expand as well. Be sure that you consult with your physician or physical therapist for further strengthening and conditioning methods that can net you pain free hands more often than not.

Michael Lazar has been a professional writer for most of his waking life. After writing his first book at the tender age of 16, he knew that writing was his professional calling. By the age of 20, while in college studying for a masters in English, Lazar realized that if he didn't protect his most precious resource - his hands - he would never be a writer for very long. He then spent a great deal of time learning appropriate exercise methods to enjoy pain free hands. When he's not writing, Lazar enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, his friends and his hobbies.

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Coconut Oil For Yeast Infections

A yeast infection caused by the fungus Candida albicans goes undetected so frequently that it remains one of the most common and widespread health problems of our society.

Many reasons permit yeast infections to continue plaguing and haunting our society.

A few of the most common reasons are listed below:

• Society overlooks the fact that men and infants also get yeast infections.


• Traditional medical (allopathic) doctors often prescribe antibiotics that are only able to treat symptoms of yeast infections. This fact is so important, that it is worth mentioning again... Candida albicans are a fungus. Antibiotics fight bacteria. That's it. They do not also fight viruses or fungus.Antibiotics kill all bacteria leaving yeast to flourish.

Prescribing antibiotics for a yeast infection can only assist with it persisting over time. Antibiotics work because they kill bad bacteria in your body. But antibiotics can't tell the difference between good and bad bacteria, so they actually kill the healthy bacteria in your body too. Once bacteria has been eliminated, non-bacteria-life such as fungus (yeast) have room to grow and flourish with little to stop it or slow down its growth.And, if you have ever had a yeast infection, you may be aware that they have a tendency to "return" periodically. Please understand that they will return periodically, every time the cause goes untreated.

Traditional medical doctors who properly identify a yeast infection, often attempt to treat it with a local topical agent or cream. Illustrating the extent of this issue, on the day this article was published, WebMD.com reported... "Yeast is a fungus that normally lives in the vagina in small numbers. A vaginal yeast infection means that too many yeast cells are growing in the vagina... If you have had a yeast infection before and can recognize the symptoms, and you aren't pregnant, you can treat yourself at home with medicines you can buy without a prescription. You can use an antifungal cream... "

Clearly, one of the major misconceptions by traditional allopathic medicine is that yeast infections are a "local" (isolated) issue, when in fact, they are systemic (whole body) issues. By definition, Candida albicans are a single cell fungus (or yeast) that live in the intestinal tract and on the surface of mucous membranes in every living person.

To make a long story short, yeast infections often start somewhere deep inside the body (commonly due to intestinal tract flora issues, for example), travel throughout the bloodstream (making their way through the entire body), and rear their ugly head in the form of a something bothersome, like a skin rash.

Without proper treatment, a yeast infection may last for years, resulting in a wide range of long-term health problems.

Demonstrating some hope for traditional medicine, the Office of Women's Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services maintains a webpage that acknowledges that yeast infections are not often caused by local problems. This webpage states, "Most often, women don't get yeast infections from sex. The most common cause is a weak immune system."

In addition to a rash, typical and uncomfortably inconvenient symptoms of a yeast infection include:

• Vaginal itching, soreness or discharge
• Fatigue
• Headaches
• Depression
• Allergy-like symptoms
• Pain when passing urine
• Pain when having sex
• Recurring fungal skin infections (athlete's foot, jock itch, etc.)

Please note, if you are treating a symptom on this list, expect to continue treating that same rash, itch or pain, because you are probably not treating the actual yeast infection.

The following things may encourage yeast infections:

• Antibiotics
• Poor eating habits (high sugar diets)
• Some oral birth control
• Certain steroids
• Immunosuppressive drugs

Scientific research assisting the true fight against yeast infections, was well underway by 1966. At that time, Dr. Jon J. Kabara led a team of researchers at Michigan State University on an investigation of lauric acid. From this research, he was able to begin reporting its antimicrobial activity. Shortly thereafter, lauric acid research began to show positive results against viruses, bacteria and fungus.

Lauric acid, being a medium-chain fatty acid (MCFA), actually shares these antimicrobial properties with other medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA). As should be expected, research has been conducted on many of the other fatty acids and results have proven to be similar.

Your skin is the first line of defense your body uses to defend against invading bacteria, fungus and viruses. One of the primary weapons supporting the skin in this fight is MCFAs. Sebaceous glands, located at the base of every hair shaft, produce an oil. This oil contains MCFAs. In addition to its natural antimicrobial characteristics, this oil also helps prevent dry and cracking skin, slowing an invaders entry to the blood stream.

MCFAs are also in mother's milk to help support and nourish the brand new immune system of babies. But, where can you get MCFAs if your body needs additional support?

Very few foods naturally contain high levels of MCFAs. Some items like butter and milk fat report that they contain lauric acid (one MCFA), but only about 3% of the total fat in these items is actually lauric acid.

Coconut oil, however, is not like most food. Approximately half of the fat content of coconut oil is lauric acid. And, lauric acid is only one of five fatty acids in coconut oil. The fatty acid composition of coconut oil commonly appears as follows:

• 48% lauric acid (12 carbon saturated fatty acid chain)
• 18% myristic acid (14 carbon saturated fatty acid chain)
• 8% caprylic acid (8 carbon saturated fatty acid chain)
• 7% capric acid (10 carbon saturated fatty acid chain)
• 0.5% caproic acid (6 carbon saturated fatty acid chain) (1)

Coconut oil naturally contains one of the highest levels of lauric acid and one of the largest naturally occurring amounts of MCFAs known.

According to the University of Michigan's Health System website, test tube and animal research has shown caprylic acid to have antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties. Preliminary reports from the 1940s and 1950s indicated that caprylic acid may be effective against yeast (Candida) infections in humans. And, doctors still recommend amounts of 500 mg to 1,000 mg three times each day.

Capric acid research may be even more promising in the fight against Candida albicans. According to a study published by the National Institute of Health, "capric acid causes the fastest and most effective killing of all three strains of Candida albicans tested." This same study also reported that "lauric acid was the most active at lowering concentrations (of Candida albicans)."(2)

So, if you are fighting a yeast infection, try adding coconut oil to your diet and to your love life. It may help you in more ways than you realise.

Cited:

(1) "The Coconut Oil Miracle - 5th Edition" by Dr. Bruce Fife, C.N., N.D. Copyright 2013 by the Penguin Group, page 73.

(2) the National Institute of Health PMCID: PMC90807 and appeared online February 2, 2014. Original study: Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2001 November; 45(11): 3209-3212. doi: 10.1128/AAC.45.11.3209-3212.2001, titled "In Vitro Killing of Candida albicans by Fatty Acids and Monoglycerides". Authors: Gudmundur Bergsson, Jóhann Arnfinnsson, Ólafur Steingrímsson, and Halldor Thormar.

Copyright © 2014 - Tawne Bachus

Disclaimer: The information in this article is not provided by a medical professional and is not intended as a substitute for medical advice. Please consult your physician before beginning any course of treatment.

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20 Detox Friendly Foods

I don’t necessarily believe in detox only diets, but I do think that adding more detox friendly foods into the diet can help with over health, energy, skin health, good digestion, weight management, and quality sleep. Below are 20 of my favorite detox foods which I consume on a weekly basis and absolutely love!

Lemon: Lemons have strong antibacterial, antiviral, and immune-boosting powers and can be used as a weight-loss aid because lemon juice is a digestive aid and liver cleanser. Lemon juice can also help manage acid reflux and reduce the acidity in the stomach. 

Cayenne Pepper: Peppers are one of the richest sources of Vitamin C. All hot peppers contain capsaicin, a compound known for it’s ability to regulate body temps, improve circulation and help reduce appetite and burn more calories.

Ginger: Ginger is perfect for getting your metabolism moving and flushing waste and toxins out of the body. Ginger is also a natural stomach ache cure.

Grapefruit: Grapefruit is an excellent source of vitamin c which helps to support the immune system. Vitamin C-rich foods like grapefruit may help reduce cold symptoms or severity of cold symptoms. Vitamin C also prevents the free radical damage that triggers the inflammatory cascade, and is therefore also associated with reduced severity of inflammatory conditions, such as asthma, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis

Green Tea: Green tea can help increase and even change your metabolism, so you burn more calories from fat. Studies show that green tea can also help you keep weight off once you’ve lost it.

Kale: Kale contains powerful antioxidant compounds that can help cleanse the body of harmful substances and potentially prevent cancer causing free radicals. It is also high in fiber, which helps cleanse the intestinal tract. 

Asparagus: Asparagus is a natural diuretic that can help rid the body of excess water weight and toxins seeking to rid the body. 

Turmeric: This powerful root is both an anti-inflammatory—great for sore muscles—and contains antioxidant properties. It’s one of the top ingredients in immune boosting shots, juices and supplements. I’ve also noticed smoother, clearer skin from my daily dose of turmeric. 

Broccoli: Broccoli has a strong, positive impact on our body’s detoxification system, and is able to support all steps in the body’s detox process, including activation, neutralization, and elimination of unwanted contaminants.

Cucumber: The high water content and dietary fiber in cucumbers are very effective in ridding the body of toxins from the digestive system, aiding digestion. Daily consumption of cucumbers can be regarded as a remedy for chronic constipation.

Apple Cider Vinegar: Raw apple cider vinegar is alkalizing, helps with digestion, and can help with fat metabolism. Look for raw, 8 unfiltered apple cider vinegar to get the most benefits. 

Cinnamon: Studies suggest that cinnamon may have a regulatory effect on blood sugar which is great for people trying to lose weight or manage diabetes. Cinnamon can also help lower cholesterol in the body and is heart healthy.

Pomegranate: Pomegranates are high in antioxidants, vitamins, fiber, minerals. With potassium, vitamins C and K, this winter fruit is great for your heart, skin, immune system and it’s great for post workout recovery. 

Chia Seeds: These tiny seeds are high in essential fatty acids like heart healthy, Omega 3, in addition to vitamins, antioxidants, minerals and fiber. They are one of my favorite ways of adding heart healthy protein into my diet. 

Garlic: Garlic contains manganese, vitamin B6, antioxidants, anti- inflammatory properties, as well as valued sulfur compounds that contribute to heart health! 

Probiotics: Probiotics are an excellent way to add good bacteria back into the intestinal track and help with digestion. 

Blueberries: Blueberries contain natural aspirin that helps lessen the tissue-damaging effects of chronic inflammation, and also act as antibiotics by blocking bacteria and thereby helping to prevent infections.

Strawberries: Berries are high in antioxidants like resveratol, essential vitamins and also contain fiber to keep you feeling full! Strawberries are also a great source of folate which has been shown to help keep your heart healthy. 

Fish Oil: Some experts believe that getting fish oil can help you regulate your cholesterol in the body, because fish oil has high levels of omega 3 fatty acids. Besides cholesterol regulation, fish oil benefits include anti inflammatory properties and positive effects on the bodies composition.

Water: Water is the bodies best form of detox. Since our bodies consist of primarily water, increasing water intake is like feeding the body in its most natural state. If you really want to feel great and flush out toxins, drink up!

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9 Simple Home Remedies Help Your Stop Bad Breath

75% of the world population suffers from bad breathe or related problems but most people who suffer from bad breath aren't even aware that they have a problem! Do you have bad breath? This can be an embarrassing problem if it isn't treated effectively. Follow these steps! There are several remedies on how to stop bad breath. Most of them are easy to do and proven effective.

1. Eat Vegetables: Eating vegetables such as carrots, apples and celery will clean your tongue. The rough texture of these vegetables will give your tongue just the cleaning it needs to fight bad breath bacteria.

2. In the morning and at night before bed take the juice ofone fresh squeezed lemon and mix with a little honey to taste and drink. Besides the absence of bad breath, you will also notice that you will feel more energized and rejuvenated. For extra punch, may also add cinnamon or cayenne powder.

3. Brushing teeth with one pinch of the Baking soda using a regular tooth paste before doing the normal brushing, flossing and tongue cleaning twice a day.

4. Do not eat foods like fish, tuna, liver, or any food that have a strong odor. Instead, make it a habit to add foods like ginger, cilantro, and parsley to your diet. That will help you treat your bad breath. Eat them raw as they will help in the restoration of colon bacteria which can give you the fresher breath you want.

5. Drink Tea: Drinking tea can slow the growth of bad breath bacteria. The compounds in the tea work as a wall to block the bacteria. Stay Hydrated: Make sure to stay well hydrated as bacteria will emerge when your mouth is dry

6. Brush your teeth with a little pinch of the soda, using a regular tooth paste after and it does the trick. Meaning, it will stop the bad breathe from coming through. What i personally try and do is, brush my teeth with the soda in the morning and in the evening, floss (properly), brush with regular tooth paste, rinse and then rinse again using lukewarm water and salt. To maintain a healthy gum and fresh breath means investing a lot of time towards looking after it, flossing and cleaning properly (a good five minutes) twice and day - morning and evening.

7. Using two drops of tea tree oil in the toothpaste used for Brushing. Use the oil to moisten dental floss used for flossing as well.

8. bad breath comes from bacteria on your tongue not the plaque on your teeth. To remove those odorful micro-organisms, use a spoon to scrape your tongue a few times making sure to get the far back where most of them dwell. Check out what comes off, it's not toopretty. They do sell special tongue scrapers in stores but a spoon works fine.

9. Mix one part water with one part hydrogen peroxide. Add a pinch of salt and a pinch of baking soda in it and use the solution to gargle your mouth after brushing, flossing and using a tongue cleaner. 

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