Now It’s Over! Top 4 Reasons to Quit Smoking

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Motivation complacent? You are welcome …

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Lung cancer, heart attack : Yes, smoking is bad for the body. Known. Stop still falls damn hard because smoking is more than an annoying habit. It is a true-addiction.

Nevertheless, with the right motivation anyone can make it, finally throwing away cigarette butts and start in a cigarette-free life. It need only the right reasons here. Those who lead a the hard hitting facts in mind, but at the same time make courage.

If you stop smoking, for example, is super fast experience better quality of life. Even after 48 hours, improve the smell and taste. How good taste chocolate without the nicotine filter? Or a creamy ice cream? And after only a month to listen to even the annoying coughing fits, which are always so embarrassing.

Whom it has so far not impressed that in Germany per day from about 300 to 400 people die from the consequences of smoking (there are annually up to 140,000), or that the life expectancy shortened by a good ten years.

  • Smoking costs an incredible amount of money

What it costs! Smoking is an expensive vice. Even those who only smokes four cigarettes a day, throwing out a good 400 euros to the window in one year. A week All-inclusive holidays are for the money loose inside!

Who smokes a pack a day, so about 20 cigarettes, comes in good Euro 1900. For the money you can really make a lot of holidays, go shopping, eat in fancy restaurants .

  • Smoking increases the risk of dangerous lung cancer

Yes, well, everyone knows smoking that lung cancer risk increases with every cigarette. But to whom is clear that 90 percent of all deaths are caused by lung cancer from smoking? Around 43,000 persons die each year from lung cancer in a small country.

BUT: Those who manage to quit, after only ten years smoke-free reduces the risk of lung cancer by half! And after three months, the lung function by up to 30 percent improved, the Federal Centre for Health Education.

  • Smoking increases the risk for cancer danger there

Not only is the risk of lung cancer increases, other cancers caught smoking about twice as likely as Non smoking. In women it is especially breast cancer and cervical cancer.

BUT: After only ten years to stop smoking, the risk significantly reduced in air and oesophageal, kidney or pancreas developing cancer.

  • Also smoking always increases the risk for cardiovascular disease

And still quite a blow to the health and life expectancy: Smokers suffer more frequently from cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack or stroke.

BUT: Cessation worth it in no time! After only 24 hours, according BZgA reduced the risk of heart attacks. After only one year, the risk of heart attack falls to half the risk of smokers and after 15 years it is not higher than the risk of a nonsmoker.

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Trendy Crafting Fun! How to Make Loom Tapes

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Loom make tapes for yourself

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Here, a bracelet for you – because you like it – Colorful Loom Bracelets are just the absolute trend in kindergarten and school. Especially little girls spend much of their free time with the tying of the ribbon. For themselves and of course their girlfriends. Because friendship bracelets are still as popular as in our childhood and youth.

Loom Bracelets can be done quite easily by you. It requires only a Loom (the frame), many colorful rubber bands and a hook and clips to pin the finished tapes.

Meanwhile, there are an infinite number of variations of the Loom Bracelets. Not only the colors, but also in the way how they are made. A simple step-by-step instructions are available on the following pages.

That you need for the colorful rainbow ribbons:

  • Colorful rubber bands
  • A Loom
  • A hook
  • S or C-clips

Step 1

Take the first rubber band and loop it as in the picture diagonally by two pins. Make sure that the average number of pins is set slightly higher.

Step 2

Now take a different colored rubber band and loop it diagonally from the right pin to the center pin.

Step 3

Take another rubber band, and it wraps diagonally to the middle and the right pin.

Step 4

Does that always so on until the end of the Looms.

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Step 5

If a rubber band and loop it like an eight to two fingers. Then solves the tape carefully from the fingers, so that the remains Eight, and puts the tape together.

Step 6

Is now the folded strip about the center pin, to which the final rubber was set.

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Step 7

Rotates the Loom around now, so that the end piece with the folded belt lies before you. Then take the hook needle, she sticks by the folded light blue band and performs the hook of the needle under the yellow rubber.

Step 8

Pull the yellow rubber over the pin out .

Step 9

And … loop it diagonally over the right pin on the already sits the other end of the yellow gum.

Step 10

Then go with the needle as in the image below to see the green rubber, it pulls slightly and inverts it diagonally on the pin at the other end of the green rubber. So keep going until you have arrived at the end of the loop.

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Step 11

Almost there! Take now a s-or c-clip, …

Step 12

… Connect it to the last rubber and solves the tape carefully from the Loop from. Closes the clip to the other end of the tape. Now the bracelet can even be tightened.

 

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A Tribute to Grandma! Make Eggnog Quite Easily Yourself

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Make eggnog

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Grandma was always the best! For hours to sit with her at the kitchen table – to a glass of eggnog – hach, which was always nice. Speaking of eggnog: Then could still make it by yourself! But how? Is not a problem because you need for this fresh eggs?

The truth: If you want to make eggnog itself,  you can not avoid the use of fresh eggs. Tip: take only very fresh eggs, then nothing can go wrong too. And then it says invite friends and ran to the mixer, because make eggnog itself is easy and tastes in a girls lap simply the best.

To do eggnog itself, you need the following ingredients (for 4 glasses):

  • 2 very fresh egg yolk
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 3 tablespoons cold cream
  • 2-3 tablespoons brandy or rum

And here’s how:

  1. Bright and thick foamy open 1st egg yolks and sugar with an electric mixer.
  2. Then the cream and stir in the cognac.
  3. Fill and Serve the eggnog in four liqueur cups or shot glasses.

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Colorful Donuts with Eggnog Filling

Ingredients (for 15 pieces):

For the dough:

  • 375 g flour (Type 405)
  • ½ cube of yeast (about 21 g)
  • 35 g butter, softened
  • 60 g sugar
  • 175 ml lukewarm milk
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • A little grated peel of one lemon

For the topping:

  • 150 g icing sugar
  • 6-8 tablespoons eggnog

Also:

  • Flour for the work surface
  • Round cookie cutter (diameter about 6 cm and 2 cm)
  • Baking paper
  • Fat for frying
  • 2 tablespoons colorful sugar confetti

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Eggnog Punch

Ingredients (for 1 serving):

  • 2 cl white rum
  • 4 cl eggnog
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • Hot milk to fill
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Hot on ice! A Frozen Yogurt Recipe For The Home

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If it’s out really nice and warm, there is nothing better than ice. Or rather than frozen yogurt! Here comes the recipe …

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The great thing about Frozen yogurt ice cream is not just that there are so nice and light and fresh taste, but of course, that you can top it with lots of delicious toppings. Colorful chocolate beans, crispy nuts, sweet caramel sauce … and of course fruity like strawberry puree or fresh fruit cut into small pieces taste great with our Frozen Yogurt recipe.

Topping Ideas for our Frozen Yogurt Recipe:

Also great: To make Frozen yogurt yourself, you need not many ingredients. For the recipe, which you can add to taste flavors that these are here:

Ingredients for our Frozen Yogurt Recipe (4 servings)

  • 1 kg yogurt (3.5% fat)
  • 100 g icing sugar
  • 1 vanilla pod

And so the Frozen Yogurt recipe turns out perfectly:

  1. Put the yogurt in a large bowl and with a large whisk (or use a food processor) by beating vigorously until it has a smooth creamy consistency.
  2. Then let trickle the icing sugar through a sieve into the yogurt, while continuing to stir vigorously and until this has completely blended with the yogurt.
  3. The vanilla bean with a very sharp knife, cut lengthwise and scrape out the seeds with a knife.
  4. Add the marrow to the yogurt icing sugar mixture and beat well through everything again, until the vanilla is evenly distributed.

The fifth bowl with the yogurt then ground with a piece of plastic wrap covered for at least an hour in the freezer (this depends on the performance of the freezer and your own taste).

Important: The mixture must be stirred every 10 minutes, otherwise the frozen yoghurt ice cream and crystallized just not creamy!

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Work Makes You Sick! So The Office is Really Dangerous

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Caution in the office! These diseases lurk every day

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Bungee Jumping? Dive with sharks? compared to a day at the office. If you look even more closely, the notes that as a desk job can be damned dangerous.

Since threaten rather innocuous ailments such as the fiery red phone ear or the mouse hand. But even serious diseases such as heart attack and burnout can be caused in the office! Of the threat posed every day by the dear colleagues, not to mention. Someone is always cold, has gastrointestinal and mutated so that the bacilli-spin.

Find out on the next pages of the dangers of exposure to the office everyday. Do not panic, much of it is completely harmless and provided with a wink. Nevertheless, too much stress and too little exercise can also drag severe disease after an entire series. Relax and do not let stress should be your motto from now on!

Back problems

The neck is tense, back aches and at worst threaten disc problems. Who crooked sits all day in front of his PC, which is ideal for back problems of all kinds.

Bend your front office with a little gymnastics. Stretch and stretch regularly, get up and walk a few steps. Make sure that your workplace is individually created for you. The chair must have the correct height, just like the screen.

Obesity by unhealthy lunch

Canteen, snack, bakery: Who works in the office, has mostly not really much choice when it comes to lunch. Ready meals and fast food are fast because of everyday life. Who then does not drive enough sports and even in between nibbles, has fix a couple pounds too much on the scale.

Better: Cook yourself and warm the food in the office on. Alternatively, there is only one self-noon sandwich and a salad and you cook dinner fresh.

Mouse hand

A slight tingling sensation, pain in the wrist or a short numbness are the first signs of a mouse or a hand Mausarms. Those who sit all day on the PC and back the mouse on the pad and pushes that spans unusual muscles, tense the ligaments and can lead to inflammation. The disappear with a bit of rest and care mostly by itself again.

So that it does not come that far, you should definitely have a not so cramped posture habit and hands regularly shake out and relax. Also helpful: Special Mouse, who built a small collection, so that the hand rests relaxed.

Phone ear

Flame red with a slight throb: Who phoned constantly risked a red ear! Although this is better again after a few minutes of non-telephony, but need not be. Who phone a lot, you should get a headset. This is much more enjoyable and you also have your hands free.

 

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