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Losing weight can be one of the hardest things to do. Even the strongest willed is going to eventually start thinking “If I keep this up, I’ll never get to have the ‘goodies’ again.”

The best thing to do is find things that allow you to have some of the tastes that you’re craving only without some of the unwanted parts. For example a longtime favorite of mine is French fries. I don’t have them at all often and that’s probably a good thing, otherwise I’d have to have a pack of fries in one hand and a bottle of alli weight loss pills in the other.

Fortunately, there’s an easier way to have the fries and leave the grease out of them and still have something that’s really good.

Start out with a couple of medium potatoes. Don’t bother peeling them, just give them a good scrubbing. Make sure to get rid of the ‘eyes’, any sprouts or the occasional bad spot. The reason to prep potatoes this way is because a large part of the nutritional value in potatoes is within 1/8 inch or so of the skin and normal peeling generally puts this part of the potato in the trash.

Cut the potatoes in half lengthwise, then slice each half into lengthwise pieces, finally slice each piece into however many 1/4 inch wide pieces that you can. Don’t worry about being accurate, it’s just fine if you make some larger or smaller.

Soak the potato slices in cold water for twenty minutes or so, then drain and dry them.

Put the potatoes in a large plastic bowl with a tight fitting lid (or a plastic zipper bag works good too). Add some vegetable (or Olive) oil and shake well to coat the potatoes.

Spray a cookie sheet with your favorite non-stick cooking spray and then arrange the potatoes in a single layer. Bake in a preheated 450 degree oven for twenty minutes, stirring them once in a while.

To season them, Just before they’re done sprinkle with salt, pepper and / or whatever your favorite seasonings are. Paprika, celery salt, chili powder, onion powder are just a few possibilities that would work well (though probably most wouldn’t want all of them at once.)

They’re sure to be better than anything you can get at any fast food outlet.

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It’s interesting some of the ways that food is used other than as something to eat. I was looking around at some of them for the heck of it and saw a load of ways in which foods are used as part of a beauty regimen. I can’t honestly say if any of them qualify as the best wrinkle cream but it is interesting just the same to see the extremes that people will go to avoid looking their age.

Here’s just one example of a home made anti-wrinkle treatment that I ran across in my surfing. Note, I make zero claims as to it’s effectiveness since I really don’t know anything about that sort of thing and why this or that works. Although in one case I suspect that the effect is derived from enjoying the silliness of smearing smashed banana all over your face.

Beat the white from one egg, mix in 2 tablespoons of Cucumber juice, a teaspoon of lemon juice, a teaspoon of Rum or Brandy and a teaspoon of Sodium Benzoate

Keep the mixture refrigerated and apply it as needed.

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Green tea has been part of traditional Chinese medicine for a long time. It’s been used to treat a wide variety of ailments including acne and improve overall health in general. It has gotten very popular worldwide in recent years both because of its taste and the many health benefits associate with it.

Aside from things like fighting off bacteria, there’s been research thats shown green tea can help reduce redness and inflammation, and even slow hormonal activity. Which means green tea can not only speed up healing and help prevent acne.

Green tea has also been gaining ground as one of the newest in a long line of acne solutions. Using it to treat acne you could take it as a drink, green tea extract in pill form, or as a topical cream. You can also simply place a warm teabag on pimples which can help draw out toxins and promote faster healing.

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