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Feeling a little stressed, short-tempered or on edge? Putting on a few pounds around the middle? Having trouble maintaining your edge at work?

Here’s something that’s going to shock you a bit. For some of you, it’s even going to be a bit of good news. Your stress-inducing job, French-cruller breakfast-smoothies and increasingly sedentary lifestyle might not be entirely to blame.

In fact, a good chunk of your weight gain, moodiness and brain-fog may be due to your sleep habits.

For more than 60-million Americans, there is a relentlessly powerful evil force at work in their lives. Something that, altered just a bit, could help you drop weight, improve your mood, be healthier, live-longer and excel at work…and there’s be nothing to buy. Only something to do…

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Stress and worries dealing with money matters seem to be facts of life in modern society. While this problem usually evolves around a lack of sufficient funds to take care of short and long term obligations, it is also common in people who have large sums of money as well. Being “stressed out” due to financial problems can effect ones marital life, and health, leading to disastrous consequences.

Many families develop undue internal stress due to not being able to manage their finances adequately. The influences of advertising, easy availability to credit (especially revolving credit cards), and not sticking to a financial plan are the most common causes of financial crises and subsequent stress. Marital monetary stress, usually revolving around what to spend limited amounts of money on, are common causes of marital stress and ultimate serious crises situations resulting in divorce or even worse…

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I’ve vowed before to give up fake food. It was one of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2007, in fact.

But I fell off the wagon pretty quick. I did manage to give up the fakest of fake foods, my beloved Nutritious Creations chocolate-chip cookies.

Nevertheless, I was still eating tons of “food” that came in crinkly packages from corner delis. One-serving packages of Apple Jacks or Sugar Pops, Snackwell’s cookies, Nutrigrain bars…I didn’t kid myself that this “food” was healthy, but I ate a lot of it.

Somehow, reading Gary Taubes’s Good Calories, Bad Calories a few weeks ago finally convinced me to stop, cold turkey. And I haven’t had fake food in three weeks.

I know myself well enough to know that I had to give up all fake food, cold turkey. I’m in the same camp as Samuel Johnson, who remarked, “Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult…”

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