April 2011
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Be Wise to the Acne Forums
As a long time acne sufferer in my youth, I often felt the need for relevant information and advice regarding acne. However, those were the days before the advent of the internet, and more often than not, I found myself poring over health magazines, leaflets of new anti acne medicine and discussions with friends. While [...]
Acne Scars Can be Dealt with
Acne is a source of stress and embarrassment for many people. The anxiety a breakout can cause is often magnified by the threat of acne scars left behind after the skin clears. The breakout is bad enough without the idea of having a permanent mark left behind. In the effort to treat blemishes and clear [...]
Ishares and ETFs: Indexed Investment Illusions
How many of you remember the immortal words of P. T. Barnum? Of Yogi Berra? On Wall Street, the incubation period for new product scams may be measured in years instead of minutes, but the end result is always a lopsided, greed-driven, gold rush toward financial disaster. The dotdotcom melt down spawned the index mutual [...]
Ishares and ETFs: Indexed Investment Illusions
How many of you remember the immortal words of P. T. Barnum? Of Yogi Berra? On Wall Street, the incubation period for new product scams may be measured in years instead of minutes, but the end result is always a lopsided, greed-driven, gold rush toward financial disaster. The dotdotcom melt down spawned the index mutual [...]
Online Trading: Should You be a Trader or Investor?
Through online trading, you can easily buy or sell thousands of stocks. Orders are routed through the brokers online system to the particular stock exchange and executed within a few seconds, usually without any manual intervention. Online investing is different from day trading. In day trading, an individual buys and sells shares in a very [...]
The Meaning of Hunger
In the weight loss industry, hunger is a dirty word, the villain that must be stopped in its tracks; however, it is this determination to eradicate hunger that has created the worst propaganda for diets. DIET has become a dirty word, associated with pain, starvation and all things “undo-able.” But if we look at hunger [...]
Smart Eating
For several years, I ate a vegetarian diet; the only problem was that my definition of “vegetarian” was too limited; I had a meatless diet, but in the regimen that I kept, there were very few alternate protein sources, like soy or fish. I ate mainly low-fat complex carbohydrates ( brown rice, whole grains, pasta, [...]