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Health & Fitness > Healthy Living & Wellness Feed your brain and sharpen your mind: 31 of 59
No matter what your age, you can take steps to sharpen your mind and keep it sharp as you approach old age. Challenge yourself: Physical exercise strengthens the body. Likewise, mental exercise strengthens the mind. A number of approaches can stretch your mind and keep it sharp. Logic and sudoku puzzles challenge and sharpen... More..
Parenting & Pregnancy > Teen Challenges Arguments against teens working after-school jobs: 22 of 41
Taking a job as a teenager has its benefit$, but strong arguments exist against encouraging, allowing or leading your teen to work during these formative years. Working a job, obviously, takes away a teen's free time and cuts into other interests. Many teens with afterschool jobs cannot participate in extracurricular activit... More..
Arts & Humanities > Writing & Rating at Helium Writing articles that earn high ratings at Helium: 13 of 24
My key to comparison ranking articles in Helium is presentation. Most of Helium's writers provide solid content, but some articles do a better job of presenting material than others. Presentation is vital to reaching as many readers as possible at all levels. Here's my key criteria to rating, established over a lifetime of r... More..
Health & Fitness > Diet & Weight Loss Making the choice between small meals and big meals: 6 of 11
Diet plans conflict on how many meals you should eat per day. Traditionally, society teaches people to eat three square meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Recent diet plans, however, popularized the idea of eating 5-6 smaller meals throughout the day. Which one is right for you depends on your priorities and needs. Bigger m... More..
Computers & Technology > Internet Tips Tips for handling cyberbullying on Facebook: 5 of 9
As one of the internet's top social networking sites, Facebook offers as easy a chance as any for people to harass others through unsolicited messages and Wall posts intended to insult and denigrate someone. Cyberbullying is like any act of bullying, in that a person leverages a target's own fears and insecurities against hi... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Immigration Guest worker program: The solution to the immigration issue?: 16 of 28
A guest worker program can legally facilitate more workers from outside the United States. Outside workers from Mexico and other Latin American countries south of the border may not necessarily want to emigrate to the U.S. Some may not have the ability to do so. This would allow such workers to enter the U.S. and work as gue... More..
Hobbies & Games > Video Game Culture & Community Video games marketed at young children: Too much, too soon?: 4 of 7
The nation and its advertising outlets need to take more responsibility regulating advertising towards children, especially with regards to video games, which are more engaging and addictive than other toys marketed to children. Children are impressionable and advertising has preyed on their impressionability for decades. Ma... More..
Celebrations & Holidays > Celebrations & Holidays (Other) An overview of the Kwanzaa Karumu feast: 4 of 7
The Kwanzaa holiday culminates with the Karamu feast on December 31. Kwanzaa creator Ron Karenga intends for the feast to bring together African American families, elders and other distinguished guests on the 6th day of the seven day Kwanzaa celebration, and Karenga outlined a model that the ideal Karamu should follow.... More..
Education > College Life Tips to avoid the Freshman 15: 10 of 17
Many new college students first encounter a problem that many adults routinely battle with: Weight gain gets easier and keeping the fat off becomes harder. The average college student gains roughly 15 pounds in his/her first year of college, hence the term 'Freshman 15'. If you're heading to college and dreading this possibi... More..
Personal Finance > Smart Spending Gift cards: Great idea but be wary of the pitfalls: 6 of 10
With gift cards on the rise as the gift of choice for more Americans, be careful about the downsides a recipient faces with gift cards. For these and other reasons, 25-30% of gift cards never get used, making them not much of a gift at all, and sometimes even a hassle. - Store confinement: Gift cards for a particular store c... More..