Student Tips: How to Make it Through School-When Sleeping Sounds More Sensible

Here are tips on how to survive school when you suffer from FMS or any other chronically painful illness. I did survive and am alive to tell the tale. I did not know these tips, when I was in high school, so what I did instead, was skip school quite a bit in order to sleep. This is actually effectiv

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Surviving Dry Itchy Winter Skin

We all know the feeling - we kick on the furnace for the winter and within days our skin starts screaming... loudly... for attention! It "screams" by getting dry and itchy, developing rough flaky patches, and just generally acting cranky! We have to DO something - we rush to buy the latest, greatest

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Book Review: The Zentrepreneur’s Idea Log and Workbook

by Ron Rubin and Stuart Avery Gold As a reader of the motivational Zentrepreneur Guide's series of books, I looked forward to the advice, knowledge and inspiration that these books usually contain, when I received the new idea log and work book. The pages of this workbook follow the same theme, us

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Product Review: My Doudou Bed Bumper

This is one of those simple ideas that make you say "I wish I thought of that!". The Doudou padded bed bumper easily Velcros right to any wall running next to your bed. This cute and soft bumper then protects you from bumping into the hard wall, while tossing and turning in the night. It also helps

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Personal Essay: Baby Steps, People

Most of my friends admire me for what I accomplish. Those closest to me know my deepest horror stories, and most embarrassing moments concerning my disease. Having an inflammatory bowel disease is not a pretty picture- or a pretty smell either. It puts extreme limits on your everyday life, and makes

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Book Review: The Wonder of Probiotics

A 30 day plan to boost energy, enhance weight loss, heal GI problems, prevent disease, and slow aging. by John R. Taylor N.D. and Deborah Mitchell I have been hearing a lot about probiotics lately, in the news, on television and even by some of my health blogging friends. Simply put, probiotics ar

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Cookbook Review: the no-salt, lowest sodium international cookbook

The title of this new cookbook might not immediately grab you with it's lowercase lettered title and the concept of low salt dishes. This is a cookbook that you buy with good intentions of getting healthy and cooking nutritionally better dishes. Since I wanted to write a review of this book I needed

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Tips: Decorating the House for the Holidays!

I love going to people’s houses during the season and seeing how everyone decorates their house, however, when it comes to decorating mine, it’s not my favorite task. Even worse is taking it down at the end of the season. Because I still live at home my parents and sister help so it’s not too

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Product Review: Burt’s Bees Honey Lip Balm

In the wintertime, one of the most annoying issues is dry, cracking lips. The weather outside isn't just frightful for those going out, but it is horribly damaging to the delicate tissues of your pout. I have found a product that will keep your pucker prettier then a petunia in bloom. The product

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ButYouDontLookSick.com gets NEW upgrades!

We are always working hard to make our website the best it can be. Now we are better then before! You have been asking for some of these new features, and we have been listening! We are very proud to announce new upgrades and site features! If you have not been to our website lately - please come to

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