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No truer words have ever been spoken. Some folks (me) live, breath and sleep with coffee. No joke sleep. I have heard of several individuals you can drink coffee and go right to sleep. Coffee when used correctly can be a powerful life tool. It shouldn’t be your end all to hunger, thirst, mood altering and more.

Everyone gets that feeling of lethargy during the day where they just can’t seem to muster enough energy to focus on the tasks at hand. The first inclination is to pump your body with an excess amount of caffeine to get you motivated. But if you do that hours before a workout, however, you may be hurting your performance and endurance. Continue reading →

Basically, put down your coffee (NO!), no mid-night snacks, loosen up your belt and the most painful one that you will need to be most pro-active in solving, slimming down your big belly. Your man may like rubbing on it or using it as a bean bag, but it’s not worth the pain and suffering that goes along with heartburn.

A night of rich food and flowing wine sounds like a great night—unless you have heartburn, that is. The number of people suffering from the condition—which causes uncomfortable pain beneath your chest—has nearly doubled in the past decade. If this sounds all too familiar, we have some tips to help prevent and sooth the burn. Continue reading →