Yeah, summer is coming again, summer is the time when we sweat highly and beating the heat is always high on our agenda. So, we move on to aerated drinks or other beverages. But what we tend to ignore is that we can fight the heat in a much healthier way. That is through FRUITS. Fruits not only provide us with the required fluids but also the electrolytes which we lose while sweating.
Excess of dehydration can cause headaches, dizziness, loss of concentration and muscle cramping. So to counter that, Summer provides us with a larger variety of fruits so that we can make up the lost fluids and electrolytes. Here is the list of some highly beneficial fruits special in summers.
1) Watermelon: Watermelon is the best cooler for the body specially in summers as it is high in water. It is rich in Calcium too. The word "watermelon" itslef brings water in our mouth.
2) Apples: Apples are one of the best source for fibre. Besides that, skin of the apple has antioxidant flavonoids which reduces free radical damage.
3) Muskmelon: Muskmelon with its unique property of rehydrating of body is considered one of the best fruits for summers. Besides being rich in water, it also provides body with Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Iron, Sodium and Potassium.
4) Berry family is always high on the list of fruits for summer. This family is again high in fibre and vitamin C. Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries come under the wide roof of berry family. They are also good for diabetics too. Also, they aid in Weight Loss.
5) Mangoes: No one can resist Mangoes in summer. They would be undoubtly the king of summer fruits. They are rich in fibre, beta-carotene and vitamin C.
6) Banana: Last but not the least: Banana helps keep your system cool. Prefer taking bananas in breakfast.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Eat these fruits to protect you skin in summer
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Monday, February 11, 2008
New or Used Car?
If you are at the crossroads of buying a new or used car, there are few tips you ought to find out before you sign those papers...
1. Decide what kind of vehicle you need. Shift focus to your lifestyle if you are to cater to city highways and not off-road tours, you might want to think twice before investing into a four-wheel drive. Or maybe SUV for kids on the way...
2. Car depreciation value. Consider if you want a late model or brand new as car depreciation rates are as high as 20% each year. Paying few thousand dollars more this year and few less next year will be a pain to bear.
3. Note auto leasing. Low down payments, convenience, and accounting advantages are for businesses. It is almost imposibble, over the long run, to lease a car for less than it costs to buy.
Insurance Considerations
Regardless of where you live, auto insurance is required for you and your vehicle. These are few for you to work around with
Bodily Injury Liability - for medical or death expenses resulting from an accident in which you are at fault.
Property Damage Liability - for repair or replacement and legal expenses for property damaged in an accident in which you are at fault.
Personal Injury Protection - for expenses resulting from injury or death to you or your passengers, regardless of who is at fault. This coverage also pays death benefit to the deceased's survivors.
Comprehensive - for damage caused by theft, vandalism, fire, and most natural disasters. Equipping your vehicle with certain antitheft devices can reduce your premium.
The motor picture
Do your own research prior talking to a salesperson. Know the value of your future car. Read up technical and performance data including repair history to prepare you the availability for car maintenance.
Vehicle Value
Determine the amount of money for your car. Having a bigger car definitely has bigger liability and you might want to get the best deal from the auto showroom. Slow sellers would be able to get more on discounts where as hot cup cakes very unlikely.
Get rebates
Normally you can get 2-3% rebate of the sticker price. Thus make full use of your negotiation skill and kill
Trade-in
If you clean up your car and sell it yourself you might get better value then asking it from the shop. Watch out for lower value offered when you liaise with you car dealers.
Always bear in mind that what you see might not be the exact of what you will get. Investigate further to avoid pain in the future.
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Friday, February 8, 2008
Need to sleep in the Airport?
If you are always going on travel, a place you need to cross is an airport. Maybe you will on a long journey, so make an airport as a place you take a rest or sleep. Below some tips may help you sleeping well at the airport.
- Always have a Backup Plan to why you are sleeping in the airport instead of a hotel!
- Expect your flight to be cancelled and be prepared so you won't have to worry about late for an appointment.
- Bring something comfortable to sit on, inflatable raft or some sleeping bags but be wary of you being to comfortable as the authority might forbid you or others with sleeping bags.
- Bring your journal, entertainment device or get a magazine to distract you from those heavy lids from the uncomfortable airport seats and died of boredom.
- Act Innocent and inexperience giving large head prints like 'I really wish I am home but I can't and I am stranded here. I have no other choice but sleep here 'like homeless man''
- Solo travelers: Never leave your belongings alone as to they might think it is a suicide bomb and ended up your backpack filled with dirty hiking clothes.
- Enjoy the sleep, be it for the fun or the saving money bit, it is an adventure! You might just want to have your Swiss Knife in your hand just incase.
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Sunday, February 3, 2008
7 Tips for Family Vacations with Children
Before you taking a vacations with your family, I think you need to prepare the things below to avoid screaming kids, feet-stamping children and crying toddlers as they are famished.
1. Photocopy all the passports and IDs of your children. Place them in the luggage and leave a copy with another family member.
2. Bring a carry-on-bag with common medicines for the young ones especially if you have toddler tagging along.
3. Book seats in bulk and front row of the plane for more leg room and for kids to move around.
4. Take along some entertainment such as favourite movie to keep them entertained over long drives.
5. Make a family-rescue plan in case one goes missing from the lot.
6. Let the children participate in planning activities for the family.
7. Bring some snacks or light food with you to accommodate hungry children.
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What you should know when you buying a real property
Many people are confuses when they want to buying a real property. Well, real property is often considered synonymous with real estate. The terms real estate and real property are used primarily in common law, while civil law jurisdictions refer instead to immovable property. In recent years, many economists have recognized that the lack of effective real estate laws can be a significant barrier to investment in many developing countries. In most advanced economies, the main source of capital used by individuals and small companies to purchase and improve land and buildings is mortgage loans. If we are talking about the mortgage in real estate, we should know about the mortgage rates.
The mortgage rate is the interest rates of mortgage loan. There are many different type of mortgage that makes you difficult to find what you need. But Nationalrelocation.com makes it easier. It helps you to find the right type of mortgage and the best mortgage rate to fit your needs. When getting ready to move, the next thing is find which moving companies offer the best value for their services, have the strongest reputation, and are licensed and insured. Well, about this, Nationalrelocation.com gives you free quick moving quotes from local movers, long distance movers, National movers and shippers just by few clicks.
Beside that, Nationalrelocation.com also offers access to one of the largest databases of foreclosure listings in the nation. Foreclosure is the equitable proceeding in which a bank or other secured creditor sells or repossesses a parcel of real property due to the owner's failure to comply with an agreement between the lender and borrower. At here you can get the foreclosure listings for home buyers, investors and bargain hunters across the United States . Well, Nationalrelocation.com offer you a complete relocation services.
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Friday, March 23, 2007
How to make Read More in New Blogger
Do you know, the default template from blogger, we can't do an expandable post. If we have a long articles, it's a good to make it short in the frontpage.
Here is a simple tips that we can create an expandable post summaries. Just following the step below ( I have implemented in this blog):
- Login to blogger.com, then choose the blog you want to edit, click the layout then edit html.
- Don't forget to check the expand widget templates, otherwise you can't edit the full template.
- Put the following code before the </head> tag or exactly after }]]></:skin> code:
<style>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
span.fullpost {display:inline;}
<b:else/>
span.fullpost {display:none;}
</b:if>
</style>
- You have finish the first step, next to make the post cut, find this <p><data:post.body/></p> code in your template, then add this following code after it:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'> Read More..</a>
</b:if>
- It's finishing for the template edit. Now, make sure everytime your post you just need to add the tag <span class="fullpost">...</span> for the article you want to be cut.
Example:
This is a simple tips for you to create an expandable posting in new blogger. Just following this tutorial step by step, this is not difficult.
<span class="fullpost">Don't forget this tutorial is for new blogger, not a classic blogger.</span>
You will see your posting like this:
This is a simple tips for you to create an expandable posting in new blogger. Just following this tutorial step by step, this is not difficult.
Read More..
Finish. Ok, see you next time...
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