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1. Phishing The Scam: You get an email purportedly from your bank, credit card provider or utility company. Often, it will say there’s some emergency or that there’s an issue with your account. The messages include a link that takes you to a fake version of the company’s website, with a login prompt that exists solely to capture your user name and password. With access to your account, a crook can peek inside and get your mailing address and any associated account numbers. Avoid It By: If you get an urgent-sounding message from any company, especially a financial institution, that you do business with, don’t click on anything. Go to the company’s site directly and call or email to verify that the message is legit. 2. Pretexting The Scam: This works exactly the same as phishing, but it’s done over the phone. “People pose as legitimate businesses to trick you into giving out information,” says John Everett, spokesman for the National White Collar Crime Center. The c...

5 Things Women Want Most in a Man What keeps women happy in relationships? FNC iMag Text Size   What makes women happy? Believe it or not, it tends to be the little things that make women the most satisfied in relationships. We spoke with Dr. M. Gary Neuman, family counselor and author of “Connect to Love,” who, based on his research, gave us some insights on what women want. Time: Of all the things we talk about women wanting, time with their spouse is it. The vast majority of women in happy relationships get 30 minutes of uninterrupted time with their husbands each day. Twenty-four percent of women who claim to be in unhappy relationships spend fewer than five minutes a day with their spouses. Ask yourself, “How much time do I spend with my spouse?” Uninterrupted time means time spent without iPhones and Blackberrys, a conversation with nothing else on. READ: What Truly Keeps a Marriage Together? Apprec...

Outsmart your sweet tooth Published May 24, 2012 All You All You If your typical after-dinner snacks are ice cream, chocolate and cookies, make your sweet tooth work for you. Satisfy sugar cravings and get important nutrients at the same time. These desserts are so good, you won't feel like you're missing out. Chocolate apples Melt a quarter cup of dark-chocolate chips in the microwave and enjoy it as a dip with sliced fresh apples. (You can dip any of your favorite fruits.) _________________________________________________ More From All You: Shake Up Snacktime: 7 Easy, Healthy Ideas 4 Energy Boosting Diet Swaps Tasty Takeout Alternatives 6 Forbidden Foods You Should Eat _________________________________________________ Honey-yogurt dip Mix 8 ounces of vanilla yogurt with a teaspoon of honey and a teaspoon of cinnamon. Use it as a dip with fresh, in-season fruit. Hawaiian smo...

Ingenious Way to Be Your Happiest I f you could go back in time, what would you change? Would you study harder in school? Push yourself to make more money? Perhaps even love someone else? What makes billionaires, movie stars, and gifted leaders so different from you and me? Is it more brainpower? More talent? More wisdom? No. These people have discovered the power inside each one of us. Unlocking the ability to be happy, successful, and strong. Now you can use a clever solution to unlock your potential today. Don't let your mood, mind, and emotions hold you back. Millions of Americans suffer from poor mood support. Like a car running on cheap gas, your body is only as good as the food and nutrients that you put into it. You wouldn't put diesel into a Ferrari, so why should your body be any different? Scientists have recognized the link between some mood ingredients and healthy adults for years. But like expensive fuel, most...

Facebook’s $104 billion initial public offering on Friday transformed thousands of young people into instant millionaires – as well as a few billionaires – and already the booming luxury market in Silicon Valley is experiencing an upswing. Multi-million dollar mansions and $100,000 Porsches are flying off local shelves in the Palo Alto, Santa Clara and Menlo Park areas of California. And the charge of luxury living is being led by a group of young entrepreneurs and techies as well as investors and venture capitalists that have scored famously from Facebook’s Nasdaq debut. Facebook ( FB : 38.23, +0.23, +0.61% ) began trading on the stock exchange Friday morning in a $104 billion IPO that marked the second-biggest in history behind Visa ( V : 112.64, -2.37, -2.06% ) and ahead of General Motors ( GM : 21.18, -0.43, -1.99% ). When CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell, he and few close colleagues became instant billionaires, while thousands of lower-level ...

Overeating, poor memory formation, learning disorders, depression  – all have been linked in recent research to the over-consumption of sugar. And these linkages point to a problem that is only beginning to be better understood: what our chronic intake of added sugar is doing to our brains. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) , the average American consumes 156 pounds of added sugar per year. That’s five grocery store shelves loaded with 30 or so one pound bags of sugar each.  If you find that hard to believe, that’s probably because sugar is so ubiquitous in our diets that most of us have no idea how much we’re consuming.  The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) puts the amount at 27.5 teaspoons of sugar a day per capita, which translates to 440 calories  – nearly one quarter of a typical 2000 calorie a day diet. The key word in all of the stats is “added.”  While a healthy diet would contain a signific...

Thanks to Health.com and foxnews.com for the hint You'd like to do something—anything—to speed up your metabolism, but it's out of your control. Right? Not quite. Although genetics and your age both play a role, recent studies suggest you have plenty of say over how well your metabolism—which involves your body's ability to break down food into usable energy—functions. In fact, you can all but negate the metabolic slowdown that happens after 40 by tweaking your diet, exercise, and sleep habits. "Think of your body as an engine—your metabolism is the rate at which your engine runs," explains Dr. Scott Isaacs, an endocrinologist in Atlanta and author of Hormonal Balance: How to Lose Weight By Understanding Your Hormones and Metabolism . "By making adjustments to these three elements, you can actually make your engine rev higher." The eating and exercise plans on these pages were designed to keep your metabolism humming to the tu...

Workplace Safety and the Flu Workplace Safety and the Flu This widget will move to a new location in -2 days . You can find the new version here . This page includes information for workers and employers about how to reduce the spread of the flu in workplaces. It provides information on the basic precautions that should be used in all workplaces and the additional precautions that should be used in healthcare settings. Workers who perform certain types of healthcare tasks for patients who may have the flu may be at a higher risk for exposure to the flu virus; additional precautions are needed. Some of these healthcare tasks include direct patient care; aerosol-generating procedures; specimen analysis; and other patient support, like dietary and housekeeping services. These tasks can be performed in different settings such as inpatient and outpatient healthcare facilities; home hea...