Home  >  Lifestyles Healthy Lifestyles Putting Our Experts To The Test I write a lot about nutrition, good eating habits and healthy lifestyles. But as is so often the case, knowing what's right, and doing what's right are two different things. Holiday Fitness & Nutrition The kids are back at school and vacations are over. So all the good excuses for not exercising and eating right are gone. Now it's time to seriously think about getting in shape for the upcoming holiday season. How Your Metabolism Really Works According to Webster, metabolism is "the chemical and physical processes continuously going on in living organisms." Unfortunately, not all of us living organisms have metabolisms that "process continuously" in the same. Some have fast ones, others slow.   Easing Medical Insurance Pains I have this pet peeve. Well, actually it's one of many pet peeves, but this one concerns medical insurance billing. How come I spend a third of my time at the doctor's office filling out an insurance questionnaire and submitting my co-payment, only to get a bill from a lab or diagnostic center two weeks after my appointment?     Healthy Nutrition Habits Sometimes the things you think are safe to eat or drink, are the ones you should be the most careful about. For example, a website visitor writes that she switched from regular coffee to decaf about 6 months ago she has also been fighting weight gain for about two years, but even more over the past 6 months. Recently she was told that decaf coffee has a great deal of cholesterol because oil is used in the decaffination process. Our reader wondered if this could have anything to do with her current weight battle. Additional Articles How to Look Great and Feel Better The Many Sides of Dealing With Grief
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