Smoothy Slim
Smoothy Slim
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Not only has it been proven to be beneficial for weight loss and management, but you're also likely to sleep better since your body has had time to digest the food you ate hours prior. Research has found that people who eat earlier benefit from better heart health than those who don't chow down until later at night.
Vitamin B6 is responsible for producing white blood cells and T cells, which regulate immune responses. Vitamin B6 also helps the body make the...
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Getting enough vitamin B12 may give you more energy, improve memory, and make learning new things easier. It also has been shown to help improve...
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This effective juice jolts the metabolism, boosts energy and burns fat all day.
Learn More »For as long as I can remember, dinner has been a meal cooked, eaten, and cleaned up in time for the 5 o’clock news. Generally on the stove by the time I walked in the door from school, the last meal of the day was a welcome smell and sight in those mid-afternoon hours when my lackluster cafeteria lunch was a distant memory and my stomach was beginning to grumble. By 4 p.m., when most of my friends were eating Doritos or Dunkaroos on the couch and watching MTV, I was sitting at the dining room table eating my dinner, and frankly, I preferred it that way. Of course, this practice isn’t possible for everyone. I’m a full-time writer and editor with the luxury of working from home, which means I can grab meals between tasks without much interruption to my schedule. Since I start work earlier and end later than the typical 9-to-5 hours, I’m back at my computer once dinner’s done rather than using the meal to punctuate another day done. Most adults have jobs that keep them out of the house until well after five or six in the evening. This means that dinner times are getting later, and we’re spending less time cooking and eating our meals, as people are opting for fast food and pre-prepped meals due to childcare and work commitments. With these considerations in mind, the idea of a 4 p.m. dinner seems a dream at best and downright laughable at worst. Still, for those who can swing it, there are plenty of well-documented benefits to eating your last meal earlier in the day rather than later at night. Not only has it been proven to be beneficial for weight loss and management, but you’re also likely to sleep better since your body has had time to digest the food you ate hours prior. Research has found that people who eat earlier benefit from better heart health than those who don’t chow down until later at night. None of these factors are my primary motivator for eating early, nor do I think they factored into my mother’s decision for us to do so when I was a kid, but they’re certainly welcome bonuses. Of course, a penchant for late afternoon meals does come with a few social complications. I can’t always do it when I’m meeting up with friends, since most dinner dates are understandably held after office hours. I’m always a little cranky and over-hungry by then, but I make do. It’s also a no-go on the days that I’m not working from home, as the expectation is that you’ll get dinner when the work day is done (though I tend to eat lunch at “normal” hours, around noon, even when I’m working from my apartment). Those circumstances aren’t ideal, but they’re rare enough that nine times out of 10, dinner is a distant memory by the start of primetime TV.
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Learn More »One of the biggest arguments I get from people when I tell them about my preference to eat before 5 p.m. is that I must go to bed starving since I ate so long ago. I eat generous meals with healthy portions of foods that are filling, nutritious, and keep me going just fine until morning. On the rare occasions that I do feel a bit peckish before bed, I drink a glass of water or herbal tea. While I’m not against the occasional handful of M&Ms after lunch, I’m generally full enough from my meals that it’s unnecessary to do so before bed. Besides, I like being nice and hungry for breakfast in the morning; breakfast is the best.
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Made into a potent powdered supplement blended right into water or your favorite beverage to be appreciated as a scrumptious morning smoothy.
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A potent powdered supplement, based on the diets of among the healthiest, longest-living hamlet in the world.
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