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You are about to discover​ ​your Sparketype™, the essential nature of work that fills you with meaning and lets you feel fully-expressed, alive with​ ​purpose and absorbed in flow ("sparked"). Your Sparketype serves as one of the single biggest clues in your quest to figure out what to do with what the poet...

Can Beetroot Powder Improve Athletic Performance? The supplement can boost endurance and offer other benefits, including for sexual health A powder made from grinding dried beets may be the secret to better performance in activities such as distance running, cycling and … ahem … a certain other sweaty endeavor. Research shows that consuming beetroot powder or beet juice can boost physical performance and stamina by increasing blood flow and oxygen delivery in your body. Basically, it’s blood doping via a root vegetable. So, what kind of magic is the humble beet using? Let’s find out from registered dietitian Carly Sedlacek, RDN, LD. What is beetroot powder?...

What Is the Average Height and Weight for a School-Age Child? Here are some disturbing facts about "what's normal" for kids nowadays in addition to uncontrolled childhood obesity. More young children (6-11) are obese than older children (11+) by 3%. More children are born with diabetes, or develop diabetes before the age of 12 than ever before in history 1 in 6 children have been diagnosed autism, undiagnosed numbers are predicted higher. IQ Scores Have Been Dropping for Decades, and the Media Might Be to Blame More kids are on pharmaceutical drugs on before age of 10 than ever before....

The Full-Body Dumbbell Workout Plan If you don't even have dumbbells, you can just skip the weights altogether and go for BFR brand (Blood Flow Resistance) for workouts. You can also choose to do full body workouts instead of single exercises for body parts. The key is to challenge yourself and muscles and keep variation into the workouts. Higher intensity less of the time and slower and less intensity more of the time. Remember the best exercise is the one that you will do and keeps you safe and healthy and strong and fit and all that good stuff. :)...