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Archive for November, 2009

Listen to the NLM Director’s Comments on controlling costs by care management. Providing care management to patients with five or more chronic conditions could improve health and reduce spiraling medical care costs in the U.S., suggests a recent essay in the New England Journal of Medicine…

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From the Bottom of my Heart:

On this Thanksgiving weekend I have so much to be thankful for–including YOU!  Thank you for reading.  Thank you for your comments.  Thank you for bringing DailyDivaDish into your life!

And when I ran across the following quote–I knew I needed to share.

If I’d had it for my Thanksgiving Day post I would have included it.  But rather late than never, right?

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Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

~ Margaret Cousins

❤

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Bra burning may have been a sign of the coming of age of female emancipation; and in fact many women may be happiest in no bra at all, the fact is that for many women, going braless is most uncomfortable.

For those women, who would not dream of venturing out without this item of intimate clothing, what is important is to have a well fitting bra that is the correct size and to recognize what the right size for chest measurements is. You can tell that you are wearing the wrong size of bra if:

• There is an ‘overflow’. If there are portions of the breasts that do not fit right into the cups and spill over at the top or near the underarm area, then bra is too small.
• If the back of the bra rides up. Ideally the back of the bra should remain parallel to the front base of the bra, if the back rides up, then either the straps are too short/tight or the bra has lost a lot of its elasticity and is not staying put in the position it is meant to be in.
• If you have never been professionally measured. Research has shown that between 60 and 80% of women wear the wrong size bra, and if you have never been measured, chances are that you wear the wrong size!
• If you have been wearing the same size bra for ever.  It is important to acknowledge that age, childbirth and breast feeding will all take a toll on the breasts, their size cannot remain the same forever.
• If the cups are wrinkly. This would mean that you need smaller cups.

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No, it won’t fill you but it can help you burn calories faster. A study from from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, found that drinking 500 millimieters of warm water caused people’s metabolic rates to increase by 30 percent. The study suggests that drinking two liters of water a day could cause you burn an additional 100 calories.

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