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Sugar cravings always seem to hit at the worst possible moments and can completely derail your best intentions around healthy eating. Gymnema tea gives you a physical fix that works within an hour to make sweet foods taste flat and unappetizing. Ayurvedic medicine has used this herb for centuries, and modern science is figuring out why it works. Gymnemic acids, the active compounds, temporarily block the sweet-taste receptors right on your tongue. Research studies found that those who took gymnema before eating ate 21% less chocolate and said that high-sugar foods were 31% less pleasant than they normally would be....

Plenty of consumers drop $50 every month on greens powder, yet more than half of that cash ends up going down the drain because of basic prep slip-ups that ruin the nutrients. Your body's absorption can swing by as much as 70% depending on how you take the powder. Heat alone wipes out nearly all the vitamin C in minutes. Stirring it into coffee or tea blocks 60-90% of the mineral uptake through chemical reactions. Poor storage after you open the tub loses another 10-15% of the potency every six months. These five blunders turn expensive supplements into nothing more...

Sea salt spray is supposed to give you those effortless beachy waves that everyone wants. Curly hair, though, comes with a pretty annoying problem - your curls end up feeling drier and less defined after you use these products all the time. It's frustrating because you want the styling benefits, yet you're starting to wonder what all that salt might be doing to your hair in the long run. Curly hair is built differently than straight hair, and it dries out way faster already. Salt actually has a few obvious effects on your strands, and this explains why these sprays...

Breakouts that just pop up along your chin and jawline can be pretty frustrating when you've stuck to steady skincare habits. Everyone assumes that it's because they're not washing their face properly, or maybe they're trying the wrong products. Your gut and your skin are always in communication with one another in ways that shock most folks. Digestive problems can actually send messages that show up as breakouts on your face. Bacterial imbalances in your gut can develop, and your intestinal lining can start to break down, and toxins can leak into your bloodstream and throw your hormones off balance....