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As we all know, you cannot make a second first impression. Consequently, your home must look inviting to prospective buyers from the moment they arrive at your door which makes curb appeal very important.

The lawn should be mowed and shrubs trimmed. Inexpensive spots of color can be added with flowering hanging plants and potted plants near the entrance. If necessary, the front door should be painted and the house numbers made to shine.

All the clutter should be removed as potential buyers like a sense of spaciousness in your home. Kitchen counters especially should be clutter free and the house should look like Mrs. Clean lives there. After years of living in a house, clutter accumulates in many places such as shelves, counters, garages, basements, closets and drawers. As a homeowner, you become used to it and it will likely take a trained eye to see what needs to be changed. If necessary, a small investment in a professional cleaning service will result in a higher selling price.

Keep blinds and curtains open to let in as much natural light as possible. Turn on lights in bathrooms or areas that do not have windows. All windows should be clean and sparkling. In summer, be sure to keep your air conditioning at a comfortable level. If the weather permits, keep your windows open to allow fresh air to penetrate your home.

Time for a garage sale! Go through your closets and pack up all those old clothes to either sell or donate to your favorite charity. Get rid of the junk in your garage. If necessary, rent a storage space and deposit any items that you cannot throw away or sell.

Attend to your back yard. Sweep and hose down the patio, mow the lawn and trim the shrubs. Roll up the hose and store the garden tools away. As with the front of the house, add some colorful potted plants geraniums are inexpensive, cheerful and will thrive almost anywhere.

Do not cook any fragrant veggies such as cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli or Brussels sprouts no matter how much you may love them. Also, you may want to refrain from burning incense. Some people are allergic to incense and you would not want to lose a potential sale because your buyer had an attack of sneezing. If you feel the need to add a fragrance to your home, the aroma of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies pleases almost everyone.

If any of your rooms are painted an exotic color like deep purple, repainting the walls with a neutral color is a good idea. Home buyers need to be able to project themselves into your house and imagine living there. Most people prefer soft, neutral colors so they can move their own furniture right in without having to make any decorating changes. Note the dcor in builders model homes that features wall and window treatments as well as furniture in colors that most buyers are comfortable with and find appealing.

Marc Rasmussen
Realtor in Sarasota, Florida
http://www.LuxurySarasotaRealEstate.com

Are you ready to die and abandon this place forever? Wait a minute, because you wont go very far and I have a better proposition for you. You have to really read my words in order to understand what I have to explain you before you continue with your death mission.

I may sound like an old person because I really am one, but Im not far from teens either because my son is one of them, and so are his friends. Our apartment is like a hotel and a restaurant for all of them Besides, I was a teen not so long ago, and I still very clearly remember how I felt at that time. I grow up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is a very big city, with too many people. So, my time was not that different from your time, even though there are surely many differences in our times. Anyhow, Im just telling you that Im not like all grownups that have lots of advice to give you, Im different. Dont think youll waste your time reading what I have to tell you because you wont be disappointed in the end.

No matter how desperate you are, do not kill yourself because you will waste an opportunity of leaving this place forever in the right way. You cant leave before your time. This is a rule you have to respect, if you dont want to waste time. You may not understand what Im telling you right now. I suggest you read my articles The Roots of Human Suffering and the Wise Solution and Scientific Help for Depressed and Suicidal People in my collection of articles at my site or at EzineArticles.com where they are published. Youll have an idea about reality and about how impossible is for anyone to simply run away from all problems by putting an end to ones own life. This is a scientific truth we have to respect because suicide is a very violent action against all the people who care for the person who decides to commit suicide and for society in general. So, if you do something this violent and extreme, you will feel like a murderer in the end.

You dont know where the end really is. You may think you are going to rest peacefully or to become a nonexistent nothing after death, but a lot of scientific evidence from many different scientific fields show us that there is a continuation of human life after death, the same way that there is a preparation for human life on Earth before the appearance of any organism since each human being and animals inherit several behavioural programs in their learning system that enable them to survive on this hostile planet.

You may think you are going to get rid of all your problems, whereas in fact you are only going to acquire more problems, besides the ones you already have, because they wont simply disappear, just as you cannot simply disappear either. So, you better solve them now while you are still alive and the conditions are not that bad. I dont think you can expect better conditions after death

You can also have scientific explanations about the process through which the wild side of your conscience invades your human conscience, suggesting several things that appear to be solutions for your problems, but are, in reality, mistakes that youll regret making if you follow these suggestions. You have to be afraid of your own thoughts because they may come from the wild side of your psychic sphere, which is completely violent and wants to destroy the human conscience in order to control your behaviour. You may want to learn more about this subject. If this is your case, please read my article Suicidal Thoughts and Craziness.

You will notice that all the suicidal thoughts that pass through your mind are not yours as you think They come from the wild side of your psychic sphere, which tries to destroy your human conscience through craziness. You inherit craziness inside your psychic sphere, because your ancient conscience, which was not transformed through consciousness, is still alive and it is wild, evil, and very violent. It is alive inside you, and it keeps giving you suggestions. If youll do what this wild side induces you to do, youll fall in its trap and become crazy. Then, youll commit suicide. This is how things work.

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Having any type of digestive tract problem is very uncomfortable and painful for any person. Some people have the sad affliction of suffering with chronic digestive tract problems that are difficult to control and difficult to live with. One problem that is not often talked about but is a very real problem is constipation. This problem may not seem like a big deal to some one who has never had to deal with it but it is a very uncomfortable and harmful situation for a person to deal with. Untreated constipation can result in bowel impaction and can require surgical intervention when it becomes severe. Other problems that can occur with constipation are things such as hemorrhoids, anal fissures or prolapse.

It is important for anyone who suffers with this problem to find adequate and efficient ways of relief that will prevent complications and pain from occurring. Doctors usually recommend that people with constipation need to increase fluid intake, increase physical activity and most importantly increase fiber intake. A very beneficial way to increase fiber in the diet is for a person to have an intake of flax seed. Flax seed, otherwise known as linseed, is a very beneficial supplement in the diet that will not only help the digestive tract to function well but will provide other benefits to the human body.

How Flax Seed Works To Relieve Constipation

Flax seed is a very compact fiber that is very effective. The term fiber when used in terms of digestion suggests that the substance is not digested or broken down as it moves through the intestinal tract. Because it is not broken down the flax seed or other fibers make the stool bulkier and easier for the body to move by the action of peristalsis. With the bulky stool and an adequate fluid intake the person is able to eliminate wastes through the bowels more efficiently and constipation is prevented. Without adequate fiber intake of such items as flax seed the stool is smaller and clumpy making more difficult to move through the intestines.

Why Flax Seed Is Best

There are many types of fiber a person can use to aide in the efforts to relieve constipation but flax seed has proven itself to be one of the best fibers for the human diet that has been found. The reason this is so is because flax seed will not only prevent and treat the constipation but it has many other health benefits as well. Flax seed is rich in oil that contains Omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 fatty acids have been proven to help in several areas of body functioning. One important discovery of Omega-3 fatty acids is that by having an adequate intake of it in a diet a person will have reduce cholesterol and less incidence of heart disease. Omega-3 fatty acids have also been linked with a reduction of many types of cancer. Flax seed may also help in the treatment of diabetes by stabilizing the blood sugar levels. The studies in this area are not complete but it is surely something well worth investigating. A person who takes flax seed for constipation will also have these other benefits making flax the best fiber choice.

Who Should Use Flax Seed

Of course, any person who is thinking of adding a supplement to their diet should consult their physician. Flax seed should not be contraindicated for the average person but some people may find that they do not tolerate the fiber well. Most people, even those without chronic constipation, will find that they have great results in taking the flax seed not only functioning of the heart and other organs of the body. It is well worth trying as the benefits are only just beginning to surface in the scientific world.

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Obesity and fast foods - there's little doubt about the link. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United states. And it's an epidemic that has grown side by side, step by step with the the fast food industry.

Eric Schlosser in his brilliant and shocking book, Fast Food Nation, describes the US as "an empire of fat," and he lays the blame for this clearly and convincingly at the door of the fast food industry.

Obesity Fast Food Data

Twice as many American adults are obese today as in the 1960s. More than half of all adults and a quarter of all children are now obese. Over this same period, fast food has become cheaper and easier to buy. Further evidence for the link between obesity and fast food can be found outside the US. Since the early 1980s, American-style fast food culture has spread like wildfire around the world... And obesity has followed, accompanied by its many unwelcome side effects: heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and other ills.

As people in countries like Japan and China have abandoned traditional healthy diets in favour of fast food, the rates of obesity and associated diseases have soared.

In countries which have resisted the spread of fast food culture, like France, Italy and Spain, obesity is far less of a problem. The good news is that there is now more awareness about the ill effects of fast food than ever before, thanks in part to books like Fast Food Nation and documentary movies like Morgan Spurlock's popular and punchy Super Size Me.

There also seems to be a genuine change in people's attituded to to food and how it is produced. As Schlosser says modestly of his book: "its success should not be attributed to my literary style, my storytelling ability, or the novelty of my arguments.

"Had the same book been published a decade ago, with the same words in the same order, it probably wouldn't have attracted much attention. Not just in the United States, but throughout western Europe,people are beginning to question the massive, homogenizing systems that produce, distribute, and market their food. The unexpected popularity of Fast Food Nation, I believe, has a simple yet profound explanation. The times are changing."

What can we do about fast food and obesity?

So what can we do to as consumers to tackle the problem of obesity and fast foods?

First, we can stop supporting the traditional, unhealthy fast food chains. Let's rather buy from outlets that sell healthy alternatives. More and more of these restaurants and delis are opening. There should be at least one near you. Support it!

Another thing we can do is to lobby our congressperson (or MP or some other political representative if we're in a country outside the US) to ban all advertisements that promote foods high in fat and sugar to children.

As Schlosser points out, prevention is far better than cure. "A ban on advertising unhealthy foods to children would discourage eating habits that are not only hard to break, but potentially life-threatening."

Such a ban may sound far-fetched, until you remember that 35 years ago a ban on cigarette advertising sounded equally unlikely. Five years later Congress banned cigarette ads from television and radio. And those ads were directed at adults, not children.

Smoking has declined ever since.

It's time we did something similar with obesity and fast food

Alan Cooper is a journalist with 20 year's experience and the publisher of http://www.ObesityCures.com, a site with the ambitious aim of being a "one-stop-shop" for impartial information on obesity and weight loss solutions - including fad diets, prescription weightloss pills and herbal diet aides.