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By Ashleigh Schmitz

Who doesn't love Olive Garden salad? It's a scientific fact that no one can get enough of it (thank goodness for their unlimited portions). And that dressing? Yum!

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Luckily for our cravings Olive Garden is one of the kinder restaurants, posting recipes for many of its beloved dishes online (including the Venetian Apricot Chicken from the new Lighter Italian Fare menu, which has less than 575 calories). But noticeably absent is everyone's favorite pre-entrée salad (or in my case sometimes entrée). Bummer!

Thankfully the salad is easy to make at home. And while there are several copy-cat recipes for their famous Italian salad dressing on the interwebs, you can get rid of the trial and error chef-ery because their salad dressing is available by the bottle at Sam's Club. And honestly, I could eat cardboard if it was covered in that salad dressing.

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By Lily di Costanzo

While I usually wouldn't call myself much of a pack rat, I've come to realize that I have a very strange aversion to throwing away nail polish. Maybe it's just the fact that I love the way the pretty little bottles look, but I'd hasten to say that maybe a fourth of my nail polish collection is utterly unusable - just totally gloppy in that way that nail polish gets after a while (why? Any readers out there nail-art scientists?) Shackled with all of this polish (and very little cabinet space), I took to Pinterest to see how I could re-purpose these seemingly useless bottles. Why? Because Pinterest has an answer for everything. This I firmly believe.

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To my delight, Pinterest proved it self to me once again by providing all sorts of DIY tutorials that put these once loved nail colors back to use.

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Got an old bottle of polish on your hands? Try out one of these

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What exactly is diabetes?
Simply put, people with diabetes have too much sugar in their bloodstream. When we eat, our bodies break down carbohydrates into glucose and absorb it for energy. The hormone insulin, which the pancreas produces, helps the process occur. But diabetes interferes, either hindering the release of insulin or the body's response to it.

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Are you at risk?
Answering yes to any of these questions could mean you're more susceptible to developing type 2 diabetes.

• Are you overweight?
• Are you older than 45?
• Are you African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic or Native American?
• Do you have a first-degree relative with type 2 diabetes?
• Do you or did you have gestational diabetes while pregnant?

Type 1: Usually develops when the patient is a child or adolescent. The pancreas doesn't create enough insulin.

Type 2: By far the most common form, affecting 90 to 95

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Perhaps, says new research… In a recent study from the New England Journal of Medicine consumption per capita. Interesting!

Switzerland had the most Nobel Prize winners per 10 million people and the greatest chocolate consumption per capita, which was 14 pounds per year. Sweden was a close second, Denmark was third and the US fell somewhere in the middle.

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Whether these new findings are pure coincidence or not, I don't know. But I think we all rejoice in the underlying message: Chocolate is good for you. Yes, you've heard it before, but as a self-proclaimed (dark) chocolate fanatic, I don't think I'll ever grow tired of hearing it.

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In addition to being associated with helping lower blood pressure and heart disease, the flavanoids (antioxidants) found in cocoa has been known to boost brain power and reduce age-related brain decline. So go ahead, enjoy a

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Want to save even more on your online purchases? The secret to a bigger discount is not through a coupon code, special membership or sale-it might be in walking away. That's right, abandoning your shopping cart before purchase could actually get you additional savings from the retailer.

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According to reports on Time.com, Reuters and Reddit, retailers like Home Depot, Best Buy, Land's End and Zappos have begun emailing additional discounts to would-be customers after the shopper, for whatever reason, decided not to make a purchase. Just as you would threaten to walk away after haggling over the price of a bag at a flea market, the act of getting to the point of purchase and then deciding not to buy, will get you a lower price. Sound too good to be true? It's not; here's why from Reuters:

"In the online retail space, abandonment rates of shopping carts hover around 65 percent, according to an analysis by Baymard Institute of 14

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Ever since I joined Pinterest I've used it more as a way of collecting inspiration and keeping it all in one place than an actual shopping list, after all that's what a Pinterest board is for. But there are often times when I wish that I could shop items straight from my pins-especially when there's an outfit I wish I actually owned or a new piece of home décor to spruce up my apartment.

Zappos, the online-shopping website, has pioneered a tool to do just that. PinPointing recommends shoppable items based on pins and boards.

It takes a pin or a board and suggests similar items available on Zappos that you may like to buy based on that pin. And while this tool is meant to be a companion to Pinterest, it could also be used alone.

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The PinPointing homepage has a ticker across the top of popular Pinners and boards that it generates suggestions for. At first glance it gives some good suggestions, but when you look a

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With all of the newly-svelte physiques being paraded in commercials for Jenny Craig, NutriSystem and Weight Watchers, weight loss programs make it seem like it's so easy and glamorous to lose weight. But there's good news: Baruch College in New York City found in a new study proved Weight Watchers works better than clinical weight loss programs.

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In a 48-week period of time, the study followed 141 overweight or obese participants (both male and female) divided into three groups. One group saw a behavioral weight loss professional, one group used Weight Watchers and the third began with a professional for 12 weeks and finished the other 36 weeks on Weight Watchers. The results showed participants in both Weight Watchers groups losing slightly more than 13 lbs. and slightly less than 12 lbs., respectively, while the group seeing a professional lost an average of 8 lbs.

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While the weight

AllYou That little bottled bear in your pantry can be used for a lot more than flavoring your morning cup of tea. In addition to these nifty uses for honey, we have three new recipes that will make your family say, "Sweet!"

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Honey Cashew Chicken

Prep: 25 min., Cook: 10 min., Serves: 4

Cost per serving: $3.37

Ingredients:

• 1 Tbsp. cornstarch • 1½ tsp. honey

• 2 Tbsp. soy sauce • 6 Tbsp. low-sodium chicken broth

• 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil • 1 medium onion, thinly sliced

• 3 cloves garlic, minced • 1 Tbsp. grated fresh ginger

• ½ tsp. crushed red pepper • 1¼ lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts or thighs, cut into ¾-inch dice

• 6 oz. snow peas, trimmed (about 2cups) • 1 large red bell pepper, seeded, cut into strips

• ½ cup unsalted cashews • 2 tsp. sesame oil, optional

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Directions:

1. In a small bowl, whisk