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Inspiration & Foods to get rid of your belly

There are many reasons that your belly will grow over the years. It could be from lack of food allergies, alcohol, sugary foods or just from sitting on your couch watching everything on your DVR over and over again.

When you break it down it always comes back to the fuel you put in your body compared to what you really should be eating. It’s easy enough to just grab that pop-tart in the morning and then eat a bag of chips on your break washed down by a soda. Which seems to more often than not lead to a fill up on a carbohydrate laced pasta meal at a restaurant during lunch to prepare you for your afternoon nap under your desk.

Facebook Places – update your privacy settings

Apparently Facebook management still hasn’t gotten the clue that users would like these options turned off by default and allow us to turn them on when we want. If you haven’t heard, and I wouldn’t be surprised with how little Facebook does to inform their user base, there is a new feature called ‘Places’. It’s [...]

Paula Dean – a years worth of fat in one meal

This is beyond disgusting! Cooking shows should not teach these types of things and I am not quite sure how this woman hasn’t died of a heart attack yet … maybe she’s a robot!

5 Best Personal Project / Time Management tools

It’s funny that I work in an industry where Project & Time Management are as essential as breathing yet I don’t take the same approach when it comes to things within my personal life. Recently I stumbled across an article over at LifeHacker regarding

Brew your own beer

Over the course of my beer career I have experienced pretty much every quality of beer. From the kind that I crave at the simple mention of it’s name down to the home brew that some friends brought to a house party once that quite bluntly tasted like piss.

How To: Clean a Coffee Grinder

Once you’ve used freshly ground coffee at home you will never go back to buying the other stuff. However, there is a bit of a residual problem of doing this on a daily basis and this is of course a dirty coffee grinder.

DIY – Ketchup

One of the changes I’ve made recently in my life is to limit the intake of refined sugars in my diet and try to use alternatives as much as possible

Your Guide to Healthy & Local

The sites reviewed and listed below are perfect for those that want to eat healthy & local and even just for those that want to support local business. Now that we are all deeply immersed in a world of convenience we tend to easily forget the negative impact it can have on our body, our local economy and our overall lives.