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The Swinger Lifestyle and Sexual Health

Are swingers really at greater risk than others? Some years ago, an alarmist newspaper article ran the headline; ‘Middle-aged swingers indulging in drug-fuelled orgies are fuelling a rise in STIs’. A quick read of the article gave the impression that it was well based on unequivocal medical research. It was certainly convincing enough to have made ...

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The Best Fitness Gear—RIGHT NOW!

Goat Tape The best fitness products are the ones that solve a common problem. Problem: most athletic tapes sucks—they peel easily, and don’t hold up to sweat. Two CrossFitters solved that when they created Goat Tape, an athletic tape that is far stickier and more sweat resistant than what your average lifting coach is used ...

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Fitness Fix: Building Better Ankle Mobility

Think you can’t squat because of a bad back? Tight hips? Weak knees? You may want to look lower down in the kinetic chain — the problem may just be tight ankles. The role mobile ankles play in many fitness pursuits is underappreciated, says Kelly Starrett, DPT, author of Ready to Run, who runs the popular ...

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QUICK PRESSURE COOKER POTATO SALAD

THIS POST MAY CONTAIN AFFILIATE LINKS, WHICH WON’T CHANGE YOUR PRICE BUT PRESSURE COOKING TODAY WILL RECEIVE SOME COMMISSION. This Pressure Cooker Potato Salad Recipe is so easy you’ll fall in love with making potato salad again. Cooking the eggs and potatoes together in an InstaPot, and you’ll get quick, perfectly cooked eggs and potatoes every time. This one ...

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Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle For The Rest of Your Life

A healthy lifestyle encompasses all of the components of healthy living, eating food which your body finds highly nutritious, exercising the body on a consistent basis, getting enough rest and sleep, drinking plenty of fresh water etc. The real way to maintain that kind of lifestyle is to take action on all of those things ...

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Is It Work, or a Lifestyle?

There are two things that my friends find surprising, OK maybe 3: I travel more now than I ever have It’s Friday night at 7:30pm and I’m working I’m looking forward to some “office time” tomorrow The misconception here is whether I’m actually working (when travelling so much) and why I give up Friday nights ...

Type 2 Diabetes – Healthy Lifestyle Changes Benefit Women With Gestational Diabetes

Women with Gestational or pregnancy-related diabetes can improve both their own and their child’s health with lifestyle interventions, according to a report published in May of 2017 in the Cochrane Database System Review. Investigators at the University of Auckland and several other research facilities in New Zealand and the UK combined the results of fifteen studies and ...