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9 Simple Morning Rituals to Boost Your Metabolism. Start off your morning with these 9 rituals and you’ll be well on your way to boosting your metabolism and keeping it revved up all day long.

9 Simple Morning Rituals to Boost Your Metabolism

The key is to incorporate them one at a time until they feel totally natural, rather than trying to overhaul your current morning routine. 1. Drink Warm Lemon Water Right When You Wake Up When you wake up and don’t know what to do first, taking up the habit of having a cup of warm lemon water will serve you well. It cleanses the digestive system and gets your metabolism on point so that you’re firing on all cylinders. The water should be warm so that it’s not a shock to your system, but you can switch to cold water for the remainder of your water intake, as this has been shown to raise your resting metabolic rate. You can also add in a bit of organic, raw honey to sweeten up the sour lemon and introduce digestive enzymes and antioxidants to the equation. 18 Health Tricks to Teach Your Body: Cure Your Toothache. Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD.

Medicinal Value of Whole Foods. Fourni par Traduction For the first 5000 years of civilization, humans relied on foods and herbs for medicine.

Medicinal Value of Whole Foods

Only in the past 50 years have we forgotten our medicinal "roots" in favor of patent medicines. While pharmaceuticals have their value, we should not forget the well-documented, non-toxic and inexpensive healing properties of whole foods. The following list is but a sampling of the health benefits from whole foods. Apple. Asparagus. Avocado. Banana and Plantain. Barley. Beans. Beets. Bell Pepper. Blueberry.

Broccoli. Brussels Sprouts. Cabbage (including bok choy). Carrot. Cauliflower. Celery. Chili Pepper. Cinnamon. PICTURE JOKES » Just some advice :) First post, 3 years in the lurking.

PICTURE JOKES » Just some advice :)

This is me and my Papa (grandpa) He went on a trip last Friday… … and returned on Sunday to find his home of 50 years burnt to the ground. He built that home, but had no insurance (the foundation was on lava rocks). He lived there with Granny until she died. My house burnt down 17 years ago. There was nothing left for me, my mother, sister, and brother. The shirt I had on my back… 15 Secrets of Happy Couples. (How about that... four of the five posts so far are advertisements for dating sites.)

15 Secrets of Happy Couples

Well, this one is NOT! I wanted to say something about the "chores" aspect of a relationship. I began a relationship with a woman who was so frightened of doing more than her share it completely prevented any chance of our making it. I did most of the grocery shopping (since I did most of the cooking... just something I enjoyed). On week-ends I would put in solid 8 hr days doing things on the outside of the house - but all I ever heard was, "... you never do [this], you never do [that].

" If only ... : Nature. 10 Natural Remedies for Back Pain. 10 Natural Remedies for Back Pain. Death of the Blowjob - Oral Sex in Pop Culture. March 27, 2012, 10:23 AM And the rise of cunnilingus By Geoff Dyer More from this author Eight of ten men preferred performing cunnilingus to getting head.

Death of the Blowjob - Oral Sex in Pop Culture

Published in the April 2012 issue The blowjob has fallen on hard times. When I first came across these lines, in 1972, aged fourteen, they seemed excitingly rude — if a little yucky. Some of this enthusiasm lived on into the late twentieth century. If this all seems rather quaint, then Susan Minot's 2002 novella, Rapture — about a single blowjob — was perhaps a last, jaw-aching hurrah. I recently undertook a small survey of some more mature male friends, and the results, while not unanimous, were overwhelming. I'm not claiming that the latter did not exist back in the 1970s, but it was regarded in much the same way as paying for a round at the bar: You had to do it, but if you could avoid it, you did. ALSO IN THE "SEX" ISSUE: The Sofia Vergara Cover Story, The Sex Survey, and Lisa Taddeo on Why We Cheat. The Best Sex Positions Ever.

You Need More Sleep. Female Ejaculation Video. Female Ejaculation Controversy We know that there is a great deal of controversy regarding female ejaculation and that many people assume that it is urine.

Female Ejaculation Video

It is actually an understandable thing to think as women can urinate and ejaculate at the same time. Questions of where the fluid comes from and how it could possibly be so much if it is not urine are things that must be addressed. We cover this in detail in The Art of Female Ejaculation as there are some very logical reasons for people to question it, but let us give you a glimpse into why female ejaculation is a normal and healthy sexual experience- As you know we all start off as female in the womb with an X chromosome. Considering that we now know that draining the prostate in males reduces the risk of prostate cancer, would it not in turn be advantageous for a woman to also drain her gspot?