What You Need:

Step by Step Instructions:

1. To create this cocktail simply combine ice, blueberries, blueberry nectar, seltzer, limeade, lime juice and tequila, if using, in a blender and blend until smooth.
2. Rub rim of 2 glasses with lime wedge and dip in salt. Divide the margarita between the prepared glasses and serve.

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In the opening scene of The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg portrays a cold Mark Zuckerberg getting dumped by his girlfriend, who is exasperated by the future Facebook founder’s socially oblivious and obsessive personality. Eisenberg’s Zuckerberg is the stereotypical Silicon Valley geek — brilliant with technology, pathologically bereft of social graces. Or, in the parlance of the Valley: ‘on the spectrum’.

Few scientists think that the leaders of the tech world actually have an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which can range from the profound social, language and behavioural problems that are characteristic of autistic disorder, to the milder Asperger’s syndrome. But according to an idea that is creeping into the popular psyche, they and many others in professions such as science and engineering may display some of the characteristics of autism, and have an increased risk of having children with the full-blown disorder.

The roots of this idea can largely be traced to psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen at the University of Cambridge, UK. A

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Menopause, like many other women’s health issues, tends to have a different effect on every woman. Some women will struggle greatly with this big life change; other women may experience little or nothing in the way of symptoms.

It’s no wonder that most women do experience symptoms, however. Your body is changing dramatically. As you get older, your ovaries stop producing estrogen and progesterone. You’re going to probably have irregular periods, difficulty sleeping, mood swings, hot flashes, and more.

There are many things you can do to help deal with menopause. There are five major lifestyle concerns you need to address if you want to ease the symptoms of menopause as you enter the next great stage of your life cycle:

1. Pay close attention to your diet. If you’re not particularly knowledgeable about nutrition, it’s time to become so. Learn to eat a balanced diet. It will help with energy level (a common problem for women in menopause). Watch out

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• 77% of respondents said they get a good night’s sleep on at least a few nights per week
• 42% said they experience a good night’s sleep every night or almost every night
• 13% reported rarely or never getting a good night of sleep

Overall, people report sleeping more on weekends than during the week. The average nightly sleep for weeknights was 6 hours and 30 minutes, at the low end of the recommended 6-8 hours per night. The weekend average rose to 7 hours and 12 minutes. Those with the strongest sleep habits–people who reported sleeping well every night or almost every night—also reported sleeping more on both weeknights and weekends, averaging almost 1 hour of additional sleep, compared to the rest of respondents.

How much sleep do we think we need to function at our best? The sur

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That’s why it took me until today to learn about the list that’s been reverberating around Facebook: 100 Foods to Eat Before You Die Late to the party … again

It reminds me of the games we used to play at sleepovers when we were younger: If you could choose anyone, who would you want to be stuck on a desert island with? In th

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A potential new treatment for type 2 diabetes targets the hormone glucagon instead of insulin, according to a new study in mice.

Although the research hasnt yet progressed past animal models of the disease, initial results suggest that the novel therapy can lower blood sugar, decrease insulin resistance, lower cholesterol and help keep fatty deposits from settling in the liver.

Whats more, the researchers didnt see any adverse effects from the treatment.

A new target for the adverse effects of glucagon on diabetes has been identified, and with treatment we got rid of all the bad stuff, but didnt cause side effects, said the studys lead author, Dr. Ira Tabas, a distinguished professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, in New York City.

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“Area 13 includes the South Edisto and Ashepoo rivers and all of their tributaries,” said Mike Pearson, manager of DHEC’s Shellfish Sanitation program. “The beds of this area have been reopened because water quality sampling results indicate bacteria levels are suitable for clam and oyster harvesting.”

Doctors across the board prescribe prenatal vitamins to pregnant women these days. Additionally, many doctors suggest continuing to take prenatal vitamins after baby is born, particularly if you are breastfeeding. But why are they important?

First of all, understand that no vitamin can make up for a poor diet. Prenatal vitamins are intended to be a supplement, ensuring that you get sufficient doses of vitamins and minerals which are particularly important to women while they are pregnant and to their babies. However, this should be used in addition to a balanced, nutritious diet. If you’re not sure what kinds of food you should be eating, ask your doctor or nutritionist.

While prenatal vitamins offer a number of nutrients, here are the ones which are particularly important for expectant moms and their developing babies:

• Folic acid. It helps reduce your baby’s chances of certain birth defects such as spinal bifida. The folic acid helps the neural tube to develop. It h

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How’d you like to have the name Irene right about now? Apologies to my friends with that name I still love you But for many others, you’ll be forever associated with a devastating hurricane that affected 65 million people and killed more than 40 Estimates run from $3 billion to $5 billion in insured damage and total losses of around $7 billion And as I write this, days after Irene hit, there are still over 5 million people in the eastern United States without power I’m one of those people Yes, while I’m lucky that our house is still standing and everyone is safe, more than anything I worry about food safety With a refrigerator and freezer full of food, what stays and what goes?

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One of our all-time favorites, the Prima Pappa Diner is the original Peg Perego high chair. In recent years, we’ve updated the Diner with super-chic, colorful designs and must-haves like our dishwasher-safe double tray. The Prima Pappa Diner is perfect for families looking for a high chair that will last for years to come.

With a touch more sophistication, our Prima Pappa Best is one luxurious high chair. Thi

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It is a well-established fact that an inherent fear of snakes is present in both man and non-human primates. Numerous studies involving anxiety responses to images of snakes in both adults and children have shown that an intrinsic fear of snakes has roots that go beyond and are independent of learned behavior and personal experience.

Studies using laboratory primates that have never seen a snake show that captive-borne primates can display typical snake-induced primate behaviors such as cries of alarm , anxiety, distress and other behaviors typically seen in wild monkeys from snake-infested environments.

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After the initial impact, the connections between nerve cells in the brain retract and sometimes the blood vessels constrict (vasospasm). Research by Parker, a bioengineer at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his colleagues suggests that a signalling pathway involved in cell contraction — the Rho–ROCK pathway — is responsible for both of these effects.

Their findings are reported in two papers, one published today by PLoS ONE¹ and the other last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences².

Shrinking cells

Although Parker doesn’t have a neuroscience background, as a postdoc he worked with integrins — membrane-spanning proteins that attach a cell’s inner structure, or cytoskeleton, to an outer matrix. He knew

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What we don’t know from these results is whether sleep apnea is a factor in causing stroke, or whether people who suffer strokes are then more likely to develop sleep apnea. When a person suffers from sleep apnea, their airway collapses during sleep.

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Its not uncommon for a woman to want to experience childbirth without pain medications that can dull both the body and the mind. Today especially, women are recognizing that pain medications can take away from the experience of birth, rather than enhancing it. Pain medications can prolong labor, and in some rare cases they can cause complications for the womans health or the babys health.

Just because you decide you dont want labor pain medications, however, doesnt mean that you have to deal with all of the pain of labor at its maximum intensity. Even apart from taking pain medications, there are a number of things that you can do to try to avoid labor pain.

Here are two of the most common things women to do avoid labor pain medications:

• Consider herbal products. There are a number of herbal creams that are designed to not only relieve the pain of labor, but to also help labor progress. Some of the herbs you might find in these creams include lavender, kukui nut, blue cohosh, and black cohosh.

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A new type of medication for type 2 diabetes helps to lower blood sugar levels when used in concert with insulin and other diabetes drugs, new research suggests.

The medicine is called dapagliflozin, and average blood sugar levels were lower in those taking the drug compared to those taking a placebo; both groups in the trial also took insulin and other diabetes medications. Daily insulin doses went down for those on the drug, and body weight dropped slightly.

This study looked at the effects of dapagliflozin treatment in people with type 2 diabetes with high blood sugars despite insulin treatment, and found it was effective at reducing blood sugar, body weight and blood pressure, said study author Dr. John Wilding, head of the department of obesity and endocrinology at the University Hospital Aintree in Liverpool, England.

Possible disadvantages include a slightly higher risk of urine infections and genital fungal infections, although most of these responded well to standard treatment, he added.

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