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"Health is not just about what you're eating. It's also about what you're thinking and saying." - Unknown Years ago, my relationship with food was "natural." I never felt as if I ate too much or too little. I had a healthy relationship with my body. I ate what I wanted: fruits, vegetables, and junk food when I craved some. I wasn't skinny...

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"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." - Charles M. Schulz Personally, I believe in destiny, but of course, just like with how you take a shot of tequila, prepare the grain of salt. I believe in hard work, first and foremost, but sometimes, life just hands you lemons and you can't make anything sweet out...

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  "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." - Ray Bradbury By no means am I declaring myself the biggest bookworm there ever was, but I have loved reading from the tender age of four. My favourite gifts have always been books, a little fact that my mother learned early on. I read various versions of...

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"You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana." - Harvey Korman As a health goal this year, I intend to decrease and to eventually cut out sugar from my diet. I reckon that there's a misconception that as a vegan, we're all very healthy and that there is no kind...

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"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." - Charles M. Schulz Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, in a land of tropical fruit trees and rice plantations, there was a young girl named Carla, who was crowned the “Princess of Picky Eaters.” In this faraway land, animal meat was deemed as the holiest of...

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"Every time you tear off a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress." - Charles Kettering I don't know about you, but I never keep New Year's resolutions. Not a single one. Perhaps, all will go well for a few months or so, and then it's downhill from there. Come December, I would feel rather disappointed...

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