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Here are this week's read­ing diver­sions for your per­sonal enlight­en­ment. Have an amaz­ing weekend!

Bad Baby Name Leads To Inse­cu­rity, Less Edu­ca­tion, More Smoking

Accord­ing to research con­ducted by Euro­pean dat­ing web­site eDar­ling, a poorly cho­sen baby name can lead to lower self-esteem, fewer rela­tion­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties, higher like­li­hood of smok­ing and less edu­ca­tion later in life.

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Is low vit­a­min D mak­ing your teeth hurt?

Dr. Wright: One of the major signs of vit­a­min D defi­ciency is bone pain, tech­ni­cally referred to as osteo­ma­la­cia. And it's impor­tant to remem­ber that teeth are bones too. So sen­si­tive, aching, or throb­bing teeth that can't be explained by a den­tal cause might be a sign you need more vit­a­min D.

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Brain Decline Begins at 45, Study Shows | Stuff.co.nz

The brain begins to decline much ear­lier than pre­vi­ously thought, with new research show­ing mem­ory, rea­son­ing and com­pre­hen­sion skills can dete­ri­o­rate from the age of 45.

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40 Extra­or­di­nary Things Hap­pen­ing Right Now

Right now is a phe­nom­e­non.  Right now extra­or­di­nary things are hap­pen­ing.
Right now…

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10 Signs That You're Addicted To Your Cell Phone | Complex

In addi­tion to addic­tions to drugs, sex, and money, which have ruined bod­ies, hearts, and bank accounts, peo­ple have been known to catch addic­tions to all sorts of odd things—dirt, ice, and plas­tic surgery. So who says that addic­tions to cell phones aren’t real? Our Black­ber­rys, Droid devices, and iPhones are such big parts of our lives that we often become phys­i­cally and men­tally depen­dent on them. And just like other addicts, we’re so caught up in our unhealthy rela­tion­ships that we have no idea how real that fix­a­tion is. Don’t worry: COMPLEX has your back. Keep read­ing to see ten ways to know you’re addicted to your phone.

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The price of peanut but­ter is going up

Exactly how much more expen­sive is peanut but­ter going to be? Well, we're not talk­ing peanuts here. The esti­mate ranges between a 25 and 40 per­cent peanut but­ter price increase. Ouch.

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Triskaideka­pho­bic? Don't walk under a lad­der this Friday

Some peo­ple will refuse to leave their homes; a few will not even ven­ture out of bed. They are among the mil­lions of peo­ple who believe Fri­day the 13th is unlucky. As many as one in four are believed to sub­scribe to the super­sti­tion, accord­ing to research.

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Tips on how to live longer and bet­ter | Chatelaine.com

It's not just your phys­i­cal health you should attend to, either. Main­tain­ing con­nec­tions with friends, fam­ily and cowork­ers — espe­cially peo­ple who give you a sense of pur­pose — can make a big dif­fer­ence. So while Sudoku is a good call, it's no sub­sti­tute for get­ting out of the house and engag­ing with oth­ers. A happy mar­riage can also help you live longer, espe­cially if you're a man. And if you're a wor­rier, it's okay; recent research indi­cates that exces­sive wor­ri­ers might out­live their free­wheel­ing peers — pos­si­bly because wor­ry­ing makes peo­ple more conscientious.

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5 Win­ter Skin Myths To Avoid

The trick to beat­ing the effects of the cold­est sea­son? Help lock in mois­ture to the der­mis while still let­ting the skin breathe. There are also a cou­ple of gen­eral well­ness tricks that help keep skin sup­ple, like stay­ing active and using cooler water to bathe. For more skin myths — and a few bet­ter reme­dies to replace them with — click through below.

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8 Bad Dri­vers Nobody Com­plains About (Part 2) | Cracked.com

For most of us, there is noth­ing com­plex about pre­dict­ing that col­li­sion course, as the semi has prob­a­bly been chug­ging along at 50 for the past three hours or so, and we have a sophis­ti­cated set of range-finding devices called eyes that can tell us that from a good quar­ter mile away.

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Bacon roll a day linked to most lethal of can­cers
The find­ing adds to evi­dence from ear­lier stud­ies that processed meat – includ­ing ham, bacon and sausages – increases the inci­dence of can­cer of the bowel. Pan­cre­atic can­cer affects only one in 77 men and one in 79 women dur­ing their life­time. But it has among the poor­est sur­vival rates of any can­cer with almost 95 per cent of patients dying within five years.

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Aspirin a day may not be so good for heart

But the study, based on data from nine clin­i­cal tri­als involv­ing more than 100,000 par­tic­i­pants, found that long-term use of aspirin can lead to stom­ach ulcers and inter­nal bleeding.

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Helen Lamanna is Managing Director, and co-founder of AdvisorAnalyst.com. Read more from the author/contributor here.

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