Quotes of the Day

Supplementing your diet with herbs and plants to lower glucose is reasonable, both in capsule form and added into dishes. A few grams of cinnamon have demonstrated benefits at lowering blood glucose and improving lipid parameters without apparent side effects. Gymnema sylvestre is also mildly effective. Powdered fenugreek seeds require too large a dose to be effective so are more difficult to utilized. There are other plants and plant extracts that have little side effects and have been shown to mildly lower blood sugar. They include green tea, acacia extract, hops, bitter melon, and nopales cactus. [2013] - Joel Fuhrman

The Home Buyers Plan (HBP) allows you to withdraw up to $20,000 from your RRSP to buy or build a qualifying home. This is permitted under CRA policy. Generally, you can participate in the HBP only once in your lifetime, as it is designed for first-time home buyer. You do not have to include the withdrawn amounts in your income, and the RRSP issuer will not withhold tax on these amounts.Under the HBP, you have to repay the withdrawal to your RRSP within a period of not more than 15 years. Generally, you will have to repay a minimum amount to your RRSP each year, e.g. 1/15 of the withdrawn amount, until you have repaid the full amount you withdrew. If in any year you do not repay the amount you have to repay for that year, the amount you do not repay will be included in your taxable income for that year. [2006] - Douglas Gray

Many banks will loan money on a franchise and not to a small start-up business. Many famous franchises cost a million dollars or more to buy. [1999] - Robert T. Kiyosaki

Exclamation points can help move the energy forward and inject passion, but limit your profile to one per section. Too much enthusiasm can read as disingenuous. [2013] - Laurie Davis

For adults 65 and older, the National Sleep Foundation recommends 7-8 hours of sleep a night, which correlates with about the sleep duration associated with the lowest risk of frailty and age-related muscle loss. [2023] - Michael Greger