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Summer is officially over....

so now that my lazy summer is over, okay not lazy but you'll understand, I am going to be working out early in the mornings, before class, then I will have a softball practice to attend to afterward. If I have the choice I don't want to mess with pro

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Too much sugar???

The past few days I have been in between ripe fruit so I got a big bag of organic vegan brown sugar to eat for energy before biking but its so yummy I've been eating it by the spoonful. It seems like a good solution for when there's not a ton of frui

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Sick!

Okay, so I came down with a very bad sinus infection, and I am being forced to take Avelox, a super strong antibiotic because I am allergic to penicillin and everything related to it. The problem is my stomach cannot take it, and it causes me to thro

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VITAMIN B12 QUESTIONS

Hey fruit people! So... I took aprox. 25 pills of vegan multivitamins for a month everyday and it contained close to 75 mcg of B12. I was wondering if that would stay in my body for a long time? And how often should I take it? I'd love if you'd give

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Weight Lost Support Groups?

I'm dealing with one of the lesser talked about issues with losing substantial amount which is the psychological difficulties that can happen. Before I went vegan/raw I was 410lbs pre-diabetic and already had serious cardiac incidents all before grad

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Mental health

Hi, I'm Amandine, from France, I'm 21 years old and I want to live with all my heart. :)

I've been on a raw food diet (low fat) for 9 months, but I ate about 1500 calories of fruits a day. I then begun to binge on high fat raw foods, when I was so sta

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Is walking good enough exercise?

I don't really have much time to exercise except when I'm working. I work as a server 3-4 times per week. Every time I'm at work i end up walking 10,000-15,000 steps per day which is like 4-5 miles. Is this good exercise? I'm usually walking pretty f

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marijuana vs. sugar

hey ya'll! just got thinking the other day about my experience so far with eating a high carb diet and began comparing it with smoking weed. I notice now that if i skip a meal or don't reach my required calories that i get REALLY grumpy and irritated

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