Want whiter teeth?  Check out Ch-Ch-Changes, from More Magazine for tips on how to get the sparkle back.  What do dentists say works best - don’t use a brush with medium or hard bristles - it wears down the enamel on your teeth faster.  Use a brush with soft bristles or an electric toothbrush instead.  Avoid the store bought whiteners, and instead whiten your teeth at the dentist.  It can be expensive, but the treatments that dentists use can speed up the whitening to take only about an hour.  Also check out More’s shopping list for things to buy to easily improve your smile in no time.

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Easy Teeth Whiteners

Women’s Health sat down with Michelle Obama and talked about everything from her family’s healthy eating habits to her fabulously buff arms (and yes, they got the secret!) in What Michelle Wants.  Eating dinner as a family, restricting TV and computer privileges for her daughters and encouraging her daughters to do something for themselves, not for anyone else, is the way she and the President do it.  But what guilty pleasures, if any, does the First Lady have?  French Fries - she says she could eat them for every meal!  Eating right and exercising regularly are a few other things she does to keep up her killer figure - and are values she and the President are instilling in their daughters at a young age.

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In a workout rut?  Well, not anymore! Check out this article from Fitness - Trading Laces - to see the stories of 6 women who traded workouts, and busted out of their old, tired workout routine.  A stay-at-home mom trades with an editor at Fitness and learns how much more motivating the gym is, rather than her DVDs, an editor learns the benefits of doing both cardio and an ab-crunching workout, and an avid runner learns how much leaner she can get using a pilates tape.  Check out all the secrets of these  workouts here!

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Check out this article, about the Top Cholesterol Myths - Exposed!  Think Cheerios will reduce your cholesterol? False.  What about ginger and garlic? Wrong again.  Heart Healthy Living looked at the 7 most common cholesterol facts, and put them to the test - seeing which were true, which were false, and what you can really do to help lower your cholesterol.

Look Inside >> Fall 2009

If wrinkle lines are something that you’re dealing with, you may want to read this interesting article from the latest issue of More about the possible connections between sugar and aging. While sugar has long been known to be a factor in weight gain, recent studies are implicating the sweet substance in even more health issues from heart attacks to liver disease, including the rate at which we age.

Is Sugar Aging You? has lots of serious food for thought for anyone concerned about their health (and who isn’t?). The article also includes helpful tips like how to easiest cut down on your sugar intake (hint: avoid the soda aisle at your grocery market).

Look Inside >>  July/August 2009

Do you have a medicine cabinet full of skin care products? If so, this article is for you. The latest issue of Ladies’ Home Journal takes a look at the current expert advice on skin care, and it sounds refreshingly simple! Three Steps to Heavenly Skin advises that you really only need three products in your skin-care arsenal: a good cleanser, a moisturizing sunscreen, and a nighttime cream to keep your skin healthy and glowing. That works for me!

Look Inside >>  July 2009

Prevention is featuring an enlightening article about dieting this month. If you’ve struggled with different diets, and find yourself still gaining weight even when you’re following a strict diet, you should definitely give My Perfect Diet is Making Me Fat a read.

In this article, two diet experts review the weekly eating diaries of women who thought they knew quite a bit about healthy eating, but in each case they found items that were potential trouble-makers. By trimming just 100 calories / day from your diet you can lose up to 10 pounds in a year, so it makes good sense to pay attention to every thing you eat. If you want to really lose weight, it pays to sweat the details!

Look Inside >>  July 2009

Here’s another great find from Adrienne’s twitter feed about home remedies that actually work. (If you’re on twitter, you can follow Adrienne at a4coverleaf.) The latest issue of Ladies’ Home Journal features an article that presents some of the latest scientific research about home remedies and drug-free cures, and it’s well worth a read.

I knew about the benefits of eating yogurt when taking antibiotics, but I had no idea that toothpaste is an effective treatment for bee stings (it worked better than all over-the-counter insect sting medicine they tested!) or that liquid detergent can keep poison ivy at bay. Or that duct tape is better at removing warts than freezing them off. Check this fascinating article out, you may be amazed at what you can accomplish with ingredients you already have in your kitchen and bathroom cabinets.

Look Inside >>  June 2009

I don’t know about you, but there are plenty of nights that I toss and turn and end up feeling like I haven’t gotten a good night’s sleep. So I really perked up when I saw the article We’re Sleeping Better than Ever in the latest issue of Prevention. The article follows three women who have been having sleeping problems as they get advice from a sleep expert.

From establishing a before-bed relaxation technique that includes unplugging from the tv, computer, and phone an hour before going to sleep, taking a warm shower or bath and meditating, to limiting nighttime liquids, keeping a journal, and setting a bed time and sticking to it, there are tons of good, common-sense, and relatively easy suggestions here for improving your sleep. It’s very inspiring to read about the improvements these women had to the quality of their sleep by following some pretty simple advice. I know I’m going to give some of these a try!

Look Inside >>  June 2009

This advice certainly seems counter-intuitive to me, but the latest issue of Prevention magazine cites a recent study that showed that dark chocolate had some hunger control benefits. Control Cravings With Chocolate highlights the findings of a recent study done in Denmark that showed that people who ate relatively small amounts of dark chocolate were not hungry again as quickly as people who ate milk chocolate, and also that they were less interested in fatty, salty, and sugary foods.

Sounds too good to be true! The article points out that you can add just a tablespoon or two of dark chocolate chips to some fruit to get the benefits of dark chocolate while still keeping the caloric intake within reason. I’m definitely going to try this approach.

Look Inside >>  May 2009