Thursday, March 25, 2010

Why Eating Balanced Meals is so Important

When losing weight, many people think that if they only eat fruits, vegetables, and low fat diary products, they'll be able to lose weight safely and healthily. But this isn't always the case: sometimes, neglecting the five food groups completely can cause greater health problems then weight gain. You can become deficient in important vitamins and nutrients, and this can lead to greater problems. For example, if you stop drinking milk in favor of a protein shake, you could become deficient in calcium, which could lead to osteoporosis and other diseases.

When on a diet, you should eat enough from each food group. TheWhen losing weight, many people think that if they only eat fruits, vegetables, and low fat diary products, they'll be able to lose weight safely and healthily. But this isn't always the case: sometimes, neglecting the five food groups completely can cause greater health problems then weight gain. You can become deficient in important vitamins and nutrients, and this can lead to greater problems. For example, if you stop drinking milk in favor of a protein shake, you could become deficient in calcium, which could lead to osteoporosis and other diseases.

When on a diet, you should eat enough from each food group. The Canadian food guide recommends the following:

  • 4-7 Vegetables
  • 3-7 Grains
  • 2-3 Dairy
  • 1-3 Meat and alternatives

For more information, go to For more information, go to http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/index-eng.php

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Home Remedies for Arthritis

While many people believe that home remedies are a waste of time, many of them actually work quite well. Of course, since every person has a different medical problem and reacts differently to different treatments, someremedies are very effective for some people, while on others nothing happens. So, that’s why there is more than one treatment that can be done from home. For arthritis, because of the severe pain caused by movement, there is no home remedy that works for everyone. However, there are quite a few to choose from, so a bit of trial and error will eventually find a home remedy that works.

  • Cut up a potato into slices, and then let stand in a glass of cold water overnight in the fridge. You should probably make more than one glass a day, in order to have enough to get you through tomorrow. Drink the mixture straight, and wait for the pain to fade.
  • Using the above method, except without using potato juice, you can use a juice from any other vegetable. While the resulting mixture may taste vile, it will help you get over the pain in your joints.
  • Calcium has been linked to pain relief or elimination in some arthritis patients. You can either take a vitamin, change your diet to include more calcium, or take calcium lactate three times daily, mixed with water, in 2 teaspoon doses.
  • Eating garlic has been linked to reducing pain and inflammation of the joints. Can be eating either cooked or raw, but for best results on it’s own.
  • Lastly, a slightly more extreme method for getting rid of arthritic pain is to go on a diet of only bananas for three or four days. Eating nine or ten bananas daily has been known to help reduce the pain in some arthritic patients, but you should consult with your doctor before going on a diet like this, as it can have some unwanted side effects.

Hopefully, these home treatments will help you live a normal life without pain and full of movement.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Adbrite Vs Adsense

Adsense has long been the staple of bloggers and online media makers since it was released. It's trustworthy, as Googleis publicly traded stock, and a large corporation. While easy to use, it does have some downsides. Publishers are able to put no more than three ad blocks per page, limiting the amount of impressions you can generate. Checks are only mailed out at a hundred dollars, which can take months, years even, for small bloggers to generate. Ads are only offered on a CPC basis, so raw impressions will do nothing for you. However, if you have enough quality traffic to your blog,Adsense can be your number one source of revenue.

Adbrite, on the other hand, is just as trustworthy. While they don't belong to a major company, they do have some pretty big clients, as well as flexible pricing for advertisers. Ads are offered in a variety of formats, and can come in bothCPM and CPC formats. In text ads are easy to implement, as well as large, full page ads in between your content. Checks are mailed out to bloggers at amounts from five dollars and up, so even if you're only getting a hundred or so hits a day you can get a check in your first month or so.

From my own personal experience, I have earned more from Adsense, but that's because I have implemented Adsenserevenue share into Triond, another benefit of Adsense. A quick web search will show hundreds of sites that offer revenue sharing with Google Adsense on their site. Adbrite, however, has Adsense on very even ground. With CPM ads, no limit to the amount of ads per page, low cash outs and varying ad sizes, Adbrite is an equal opponent to Google's advertising giant.

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Six Home Remedies for Acne

  1. An oatmeal mask is one of the most common household acne treatments, and also one of the most common. Simply put, you make the oatmeal as you usually would, and after it's cooled you apply it to your face and let sit for fifteen to twenty minutes before removing.
  2. Tea tree oil is another essential treatment for people with bad acne, but be warned, misuse can seriously damage your skin. Buy it mixed with water, or in a gel with something else, for best results. Put it on your face before you go to sleep at night.
  3. Similar to an oatmeal mask, a honey and apple mixture mask is another good way to get rid of acne. Grate an apple and mix it with honey and apply it to your face for fifteen to twenty minutes.
  4. Vinegar is another great treatment for acne. Just mix it with water and dab on your face, and you'll start seeing results in a few days.
  5. Egg whites are as good, if not better, then the other treatments listed above. Like tea tree oil, all you have to do is dab a bit onto your face before you go to sleep, and rub it off in the morning, to start to see results later on in the week.
  6. Lastly, similar to the honey and apple mask, you can do a pineapple and honey mask and expect the same results. Be sure to mash, and then drain the pineapple of the juice before making your mixture though, as too much juice will limit the effectiveness of the mask.

Two Social Bookmarking Sites That Will Pay You to Backlink Your Work!

Creating backlinks to your articles and blog posts is a long process, eating up valuable time that could be spent instead on writing more content. But creating these backlinks is extremely important, and if you want to get visitors there's no way around it. However, backlinking would probably be more enjoyable if you got paid for it, wouldn't it? Well, I have found two sites that will pay you through google Adsense if you use their sites to create backlinks.

SheToldMe

SheToldMe is described as "Like Digg, except you get paid". SheToldMe has a 100% Adsense rev-share policy, which means that every link that you share could potentially earn you money through your Adsense account. Your ads are shown all the time, and you keep all of your earnings, so there's really no downside. It is extremely easy to get onto the front page of the site, and you'll continue to get large amounts of traffic on popular posts for weeks after you've posted them.

Xomba

Xomba allows you to either write articles or post links with short descriptions. For best results, you should only post links to outside content, called Xomblurbs, and comment on other people's work. You can add links into your signature so that every single comment and forum post works for you as well as your links. There is a 50/50 revenue split between you and Xomba, but every click will give you half of the revenue, so this is a good backup to SheToldMe.

Either site can create powerful backlinks and lots of hits, but they work best when used in combination. I have provided my referral link to both sites, which gives me a portion of revenue, but does not decrease your own. Instead, the sites themselves will pay me. Please sign up using those links if you're interested in either site.