Diabetes Management

Diabetes is a chronic disease and unfortunately has no quick fix. Instead, the effective management of diabetes requires a healthy diet, regular exercise, doctors visits and blood and urine test.

This to-do list is a guide to types of tests you should be having as a diabetic. Neglecting this tests increases your risk of allowing diabetes to harm other parts of your body, such as your heart, brain, kidneys, eyes, and limbs.

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Saccharin Has Mostly Sweet Following, Studies Say.

This artificial sweetener is made from granulated
saccharine, among other things

Think Saccharine is unsafe? You may want to think again. Saccharin was first identified as a hazardous, potentially cancer-causing chemical by the US Food and Drug Administration in the 1970s. But since that time it has slowly been exonerated by states and federal agencies.

The FDA changed it position on the chemical in 2001, misclassifying it as OK for consumption, as did the state of California. Now the EPA has announced removal of the sweetener from its list of hazardous chemicals too.

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Change on Community Points at Swom (New Rules)

As you know, we're always striving to improve Swom and
make it the premier place for marketers to network.

So we're making some changes to encourage higher quality 
interaction between members and reduce spam.

From 10th Feb, 2011 (after commissions calculations):

- community points will no longer be given for simply 
posting and commenting irrelevant content.

- Instead, a new 'Like' feature will been added. 

- You may 'Like' up to 10 activities per day on your 
newsfeed. The author of the content will receive community
points for each of your 'Likes'. 

- Get more 'likes' by posting quality content and engaging 
in quality interaction with other members.

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A Single Girl's Valentine

Being Single on Valentine's Day could be the best thing that ever happened to us. Why? Because it's the best excuse in the world to turn th mushy/lovely greeting card, advertising campaign holiday into All About You day.

Some liberating approaches to the day associated with hearts and flowers are offered;

High Expectations

Valentine's Day brings with it high expectations of being in a relationship, being in love and having the whole 'Hallmark' package on one day. There is a tendency to reflect on the past relationships, how you feel as a single person and what this mean to you. Sometimes it is a marker of another year gone by as a single person, and rather than perceiving this positively - not compromising your standards/settling - we can berate ourselves for losing out, feel unwanted, unattractive, or as there is something wrong with us.

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Romantic Texting 101

Showing your feeling has never been easier since the advent of text message. Anytime or anywhere you can instantly shoot of a message across the globe to the one you love letting them know they are on your mind.

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