How to cope with anxiety.

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10 Spices & Condiments To Keep In Your Kitchen

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by Rocco DiSpirito  January 22, 2016

Celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito’s latest book, The Negative Calorie Diet, is all about eating whole foods to fuel your metabolism. In this excerpt he talks spices — and the best ones to incorporate into your diet for maximum benefits.

Spices offer a variety of fat-burning and health-promoting benefits.

Here are my favorite “negative calorie” condiments and spices:

1. Cayenne pepper
Regarded across various cultures as a medicinal food for at least 9,000 years, cayenne pepper can rev up metabolism and boost fat-burning by up to 25 percent. Just remember: A little goes a long way!

2. Black pepper
This kitchen staple has a thermogenic effect and has been shown to help alleviate sluggish digestion. I strongly encourage you to keep a pepper mill filled with peppercorns and grind your pepper fresh for each use.

3. Turmeric
This bright orange spice has been valued…

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Seattle’s First Cat Cafe Opens, Take 2

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Card of the Day – 8 of Wands – Tuesday, January 26, 2016

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And, away we go! Today is Mercury’s first full day of being direct, and some things will pick up the pace quickly. Some others may need to wait until after Mercury leaves shadow, February 14, but you will see tremendous improvements in forward movement each day.

This is a card of rapid developments, change and communication; trusting the messages to be clearer and correct should become a little easier now. You are finally jumping into 2016 with a sense of what you do and don’t want; this is an important milestone for you, as last year was spent feeling as though change was necessary, but the past wouldn’t let you go. Well, now you can.

The delays around you are becoming less and less. Indeed, now that you have been spun around for 3-1/2 weeks, which direction are you facing? It is different than what you thought it might be…

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BOOKS A PLENTY…

Nice Book choices!!! Enjoyed the series His Dark Materials.

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I love my books! Lately I have been reading A legend series by Marie Lu. The first of the series is called Legend and the second is Prodigy. They are set in futuristic post apocalyptic U.S. or what’s left of it. The book is told from the view point of two very different people with two very different lifestyles when suddenly their worlds collide in a fatal way circumstance. There is adventure/ action galore, mystery, and plot twists you just cannot fathom. I loved it.

Another series that has caught my eye is the fantasy fiction Time series by Madeleine L’Engle. So far I have read the first three volumes: A wrinkle in time, A wind in the door, and A swiftly Tilting Planet. I can say just as you think you are about to possibly lose interest she knows just how to draw you back in with a new twist…

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