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Food cravings can be harmful to your health. Especially, if you are not able to resist cravings for junk foods, high carb items and fat foods, you may end up getting affected by metabolic disorders.  Experts have found that high insulin levels in the body may make you crave for high carb items like sweets, ice creams, cakes and pastries. If you succumb to such temptations, you may want more of these items and your insulin levels may go up still further. It becomes a vicious cycle and therefore, you must break this habit. The following tips may be useful.  - The first and foremost step you should never ignore is that you must never skip your meals. By skipping meals, you'll feel more hungry and so, you may look for such unwanted food items. Your blood sugar levels may come down due to your famishing and that is the reason you may be looking for these items because these items may quickly increase the blood sugar levels. But if you have your meals on time, you may not...

Bad behaviors in preteen kids will be embarrassing to parents. If you are a parent of preteen kids, you may find the following few tips useful.  Kids may generally not be regularly disrespectful. But if you find that your kids show disrespect to you or other adults on a  routine basis, don't delay taking action. Make them realize that you won't tolerate this. But don't snub your kids in front of the visitors. Once the visitors leave, tell your kids that if they continue with such behaviors, you won't be allowing them to play their favorite games or watch the TV shows they like.  Further, as a parent, you must be a role model for your children. If you avoid back-talking about others and if you show respect to everyone, your kids will also learn from your behaviors.  Treat your kids with respect. This is also important. If you bully them, they will also learn the habit and may try to bully other children or even adults. Thank your kids profusely when they...

I have come across several instances that clearly prove that thinking differently helps our life to a great extent. That is the reason experts advise that all of us should look at things with a new perspective and try to do them differently. I wish to give a few instances in which my out-of-the-box thinking helped me in my life. I was working for a company that used to buy iron ore and export the ore to various countries. Mine owners were sending ore from their mines to our stock-yard by lorries. We had a weigh-bridge in which the gross weight of the lorries would be weighed first. Then, the lorries would dump the ore at the yard and come back to the weighbridge where the empty lorries would be weighed. The difference between the two weights would give the weights of the ore dumped in the yard.  For making payments to the suppliers, the company opened Letters of Credits in the bank. Suppliers would come to us and take what are called Weight Certificates. We used to write ...

Parenting experts point out the academic performance of children can greatly be improved if parents involve themselves appropriately in the learning process. In fact, it's the duty of parents to support and if possible, guide their children in their learning. But at the same time, parenting experts caution that they should not overdo things also. The very purpose of education is man-making and therefore, parents should help their children in developing good habits. Good habits outside the school or college play a vital role in the success of children in learning. Therefore, you, as a parent, shouldn't ignore the importance of healthy habits at home and outside the school. Helping In Avoiding Distractions You should make your children get up early in the mornings and finish their homework and other tasks on time and if they struggle to avoid distractions, help them overcome this problem. The best way to help them overcome distractions in their studies is to provide them with a...

You cannot expect that you will always be in a cheerful mood. Melancholy may sometimes embrace you and this can happen even without any rhyme or reason. When you experience such moods, you should immediately try to come out of them because such situations may not allow you to come out with your best in the endeavors you undertake. The following tips may be useful.  Is There A Better Way To Uplift Your Mood Than By Smiling? The effects and benefits of a smile are too many to explain. You must therefore try to smile whenever you find yourself affected by a sad mood. The best way is to view humor scenes on the television or go through a book that contains only jokes. You can listen to some melodious music also for uplifting your mood. The point that is stressed here is that you should learn to smile whatever may be your situation. This will help you in improving your self-esteem . Dress Appropriately This is an art. Some people wear ill-fitting clothes or those outfits the colors whe...

The commercial world is not the same as what it was a few decades back. We can boldly say that it is the Internet that has brought about this major change. More particularly, the marketing efforts companies make lean more on the Net than on the traditional methods they used to follow. This is because they will be able to access hundreds of thousands of potential clients through the power of the Net.  Further, companies can know if the marketing strategies they adopt yield the results they desire to have, again thanks to the concept of online marketing.  That companies rely upon SEO marketing for improving the rankings of their websites on the search engines is a point that can not be debated. But SEO or Search Engine Optimization can produce optimum results only if companies adopt the right methods.  Companies can never ignore the fact that while they are trying to do SEO marketing, their competitors are not keeping mum. They will also be adopting SEO techniques...

If you develop your ability of giving a great presentation , you can effectively convey your message to your target audience. Even in the business world, presentation skills help in expanding the client base and increasing the sales. In fact, those who have excellent presentation skills are recognized and respected by everyone. Unfortunately, many people feel uncomfortable while trying to give presentations. But learning to give a good talk is certainly possible. These tips may be useful. Be Clear About Your Message You must have a clear idea as to what message you want to pass on to your target audience. You must mainly know how your message will benefit the target audience. You cannot give a good presentation if your audience thinks that the message is not worth their time. If you provide fresh, useful and unique information, they will certainly be impressed. Further, your audience may be a busy group of people. So, grabbing their attention as quickly as possible is important. Thes...