ALERT: Online Dating Sites May Betray You

What’s wrong with seeking love on the Internet? Online dating has been around for awhile now and, not coincidentally, so have the horror stories about scammers exploiting seekers of love and companionship. Scammers have targeted …

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Cool Resources for Savvy Seniors

Betty Friedan is credited with writing that “Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”  Of course, our favorite is:  “Seniors are like aging strudels – the crust may not …

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The Straight Scoop on Coffee

  So what is a discussion about coffee doing on a consumer web site?    Anything that costs consumers upwards of $1,000 per year seems to be worth analyzing.     Yup — that daily …

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Shootin’ at Gluten: How to Go Gluten-Free

So is gluten-free really a “fad diet”, as some suggest?  Will it result in Vitamin B deficiencies and fiber-deficient meals?  Should a gluten-free diet only be followed by people who have been diagnosed with celiac …

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Do Probiotic Supplements Actually Work?

The probiotic supplement business is a large and growing industry but, like its vitamin-pushing brethren, it may be pushing useless placebo pills. Sales of probiotic “products” are predicted to exceed $52 billion by 2020.   Since 2008, …

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Deconstructing Detox Diet Scams

Detox:  you constantly see it mentioned but what does it mean?  Actually — nothing;  it’s a nebulous term used by snake oil-salesmen to sell products cloaked in pseudoscientific babble on late night television and throughout …

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