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Need More Reasons to Quit Smoking?

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Written by AstroNutrition 28 December 2009
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We're in the thick of the holiday season and the start of the New Year is right around the corner. Giving up bad habits and improving ourselves for the New Year is a great time to set goals and work to achieve them.

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Benefits of Hot Yoga

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Written by AstroNutrition 29 October 2007
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Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury (known today as Bikram) founded the Yoga College of India in 1964. When he was injured badly and told he was never going to walk again, he turned to hot yoga to heal him-and it did.

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Need Another Reason to Butt Out?

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Written by AstroNutrition 30 March 2006
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Brief Description: 

Smoking tobacco exposes you to 4000 chemicals (2000 poisonous and 43 carcinogens)!

Brief Description: Smoking tobacco exposes you to 4000 chemicals (2000 poisonous and 43 carcinogens)!
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1. Snuffing out cigarettes, following a healthy diet and adopting an active lifestyle can reduce your cancer risk by 60 percent to 70 percent, according to the American Institute for Cancer Research.

2. Another reason to quit smoking: Cigarette smokers are more likely than nonsmokers to go blind late in life. A review of studies conducted by researchers in the U.K. showed that smokers had a two-to threefold increase in the risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

3. Studies show that women who smoke about one pack of cigarettes a day will have an average deficit of 5% to 10% in bone density, which increases the risk of osteoporosis. Quit smoking. It may also help to cut alcohol and caffeine from your diet and to exercise regularly.

4. Smokers are 3-4 times more likely to experience fatal heart attacks than nonsmokers. Within a year of quitting, a smoker's risk of heart attack is cut in half.