Archive | October, 2009

Trick or Healthy-Halloween-Chocolate Treat!

Hey Guys!! Hope you are having a great week. Halloween is right around the corner, and chocolate is in the air!! And probably all around your office, your kids’ schools, and maybe at home right now! As you might be able to tell from some of my recipes, I am definitely a chocolate lover. Make [...]

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A Potent Cleanser to be Used Correctly: Garlic

  Hi my loves! In lieu of many of us being concerned with immunity and keeping ourselves healthy right now, I thought I would talk about an old, common kitchen friend: Garlic. Well maybe not so much of a friend to some of us! Many of us have strong reactions to garlic. It notoriously may [...]

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Rethinking Tea

Hi Guys! I’m always surprised, and slightly amused, when I make fresh mint tea at a dinner party or for friends, and they act like it is the most novel and amazing thing in the world! It made me contemplate that there are so many things that we have accepted, just because we are used [...]

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Doctors Against Eating Animal Products

Hi Guys! It is interesting too see that slowly but surely, with surmounting evidence that even physicians can not deny, veganism is starting to be promoted heavily even by certain members of the medical community. Hallelujah! I am NOT a doctor myself. But I firmly believe that being a vegetarian is great, and to reach [...]

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An Extension of Our Skin We Must Protect: Our Nails

  Hey Guys! Hope you had a nice weekend. Friday afternoon, after a long but wonderful week, I decided to go out and buy this dark nail polish (pictured here). I painted it on, and felt instantly transformed! Isn’t it so great that us ladies can transform with something so simple as nail polish? I [...]

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Dry Winter Skin: How to keep your body and face moisturized in the cold months

  Hi Guys, So 2 days ago that once-a-year occurrence happened, that really means the cold weather is a ‘comin: The heat turned on in my apartment. “What?! Big deal,” some of you non-New Yorkers are probably saying. But in NYC, guys, most of us have NO control over the heat in our apartments. It [...]

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Why I Will Not be Getting the Flu Vaccine OR the Swine Flu Vaccine

Hey Guys! So the last few days I’ve been skipping about New York, walking as I usually do across all different neighborhoods and listening to my iPod as I get from appointment to yoga class to appointment again.  On Sunday, I was in Grammercy, then had to pop up to the Upper East Side to [...]

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