Cinnamon is the Wonder Spice for Health and Well-Being

Cinnamon doesn't just taste good, but it can also improve your health and well-being. New studies show cinnamon may help with managing chronic diseases, such as diabetes and arthritis.

Cinnamon is well known as the world's oldest spice. It has a beautiful warm aroma that makes it an inviting ingredient to add to food. In the past Cinnamon was seen as an expensive luxury that was used as an aphrodisiac, and as it was more expensive to buy than silver, many people simply used it as currency. It is a wonder spice for health and wellbeing.

Apart from its amazing taste and aroma that made it so popular for cooking cinnamon was also used by many physicians to treat colds, coughing and sore throats. Burning Cinnamon in your household was thought to cleanse the air and the people within. Roman Emperor Nero took this literally and after he murdered his wife he ordered a year's supply of cinnamon to be burnt to cleanse him of the crime.
While burning cinnamon may not actually be able to clean out your soul modern day research has found that this most ancient of spices is very good for your health.

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Eating More Fruits and Vegetables Can Increase Men's Sperm Counts

A new study says that eating more fruits and vegetables can increase men's sperm counts.

Real men eat lettuce, or at least they should. Lettuce and other types of high-antioxidant fruits and vegetables have been found to improve sperm quality, according to the findings of a recent study published in the journal Fertility and Sterility. Read more

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Ninja Warrior Plyometrics and Explosiveness Training

Plyometrics is by far the best way to get an advantage in any sport. You can use it football, basketball, tennis, or track and field. It helps build your fast twitch fibers and leg muscles. Here is the workout:

-Squat Jumps
-Lunge Jumps
-Knee Tuck Jumps
-Tangled Lace Jumps
-Duck Jumps
-Frog Jumps
-Rocky 3 Steps
-Double Hop Jumps



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What's in Your Water?

It's not just the traces of this and that, but the "stew effect."

It is true that trace amounts of birth control and other medications—as well as household and industrial chemicals of every stripe—are present in many urban and suburban water supplies around the country, but there is considerable debate about whether their levels are high enough to warrant concern.

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What may be more troubling is the mixture of contaminants and how they might interact to cause health problems. “The biggest concern is the stew effect,” says Scott Dye of the Sierra Club’s Water Sentinels program. “Trace amounts of this mixed with trace amounts of that can equal what? We don’t know.” Read more

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Men Should Be Glad to Be Gray or Bald

Men should be glad to be grey or thinning on top. There are good scientific reasons why young women may prefer an older man as a mate, and they'll expect him to be bald.

... Men have evolved to attract women. Because only some men go bald, we must assume that different women are attracted differently. Some women will be attracted to young men, but young men are untried and therefore risky, so some women will seek sugar daddies instead. Mating with sugar daddies invokes a different set of risks but the trophy wife is nonetheless making a rational choice - one that may well have been rewarded preferentially in the Stone Age - to which she is in part guided by baldness in her man. Read more

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Man Makers

Man makers are an extreme burpee with dumbbells. Try a few of these with 15 pound weights to work on form. Start out doing 10 if you can. Do these first for time, and then increase the weight and try to keep doing them for time. Once you can do 35 pound workouts in a good time, increase the number of reps in your set.

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Why Fat People Can't Sleep

The ultimate misery: you're overweight AND you can't get to sleep at night. It turns out these two problems may be related.

Insomnia has long been associated with poor health, including weight gain and even obesity. Now researchers at UCLA have found out why.

In a study to be published in the May issue of the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology and currently available online by subscription, Sarosh Motivala, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, and colleagues looked at two hormones that are primarily responsible for regulating the body's energy balance, telling the body when it is hungry and when it is full. The study found that chronic insomnia disrupts one of these two hormones. Read more

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