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Cider Braised Cabbage

A two-ingredient, ten-minute vegetable preparation that's mysteriously great. In a blind-tasting you probably wouldn't guess what it is. It's such a perfect flavor combination you'd think it was just one thing.
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Mock Turtle Soup: Wonder of the Week

A beef broth with root vegetables like turnips and carrots. A rich beef stock spiked with sherry vinegar and allspice. Very light and very satisfying. Less than 50 cents per bowlful. Two days worth of Vitamin A and a day's worth of Vitamin C.
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Short Circuit: Exercise Time & Space

Aerobic exercise in your own time and space. Find thirty minutes and twenty square feet. Elevate your heart rate and breathe hard for twenty or thirty minutes. No single exercise is strenuous. But do them all quickly and you'll sweat.
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Slower Sunday Puzzle

A garden maze like they have in the gardens of those 17th century mansions in Charleston. If you don't have a maze, take a walk in the woods. Someplace you can actually get lost. Really focuses you. But relaxes you at the same time. Take a minute. Press Play. For a clue.
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Bacon Cornbread

A persuasive case for eating less meat and enjoying it more. A little meat as the flavor kick for a mainly meatless dish. Whole-grain cornbread with a thin, crackling bacon-flavored crust around a soft, light, crumbly interior. Full of tiny, crunchy flecks of bacon.
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The Walk That Ate Charleston

The town where you can eat bacon three meals a day if you're not careful. Fortunately, they have really great bacon. Even Better, they have one beautiful walking street after another. 10 miles, 4 hours, 1,250 calories burned.
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Shrimp & Grits

Do your mouth a favor and make this. Or part of it. Sweet, creamy corn. Deeply, darkly rich sauce. Succulent, barely crisped shrimp. About four bucks per person for a thoroughly satisfying and spectacularly tasty meal.
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Don’t Just Sit There. Rock.

Even if you exercise vigorously for an hour every day - too much sitting significantly increases your risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity. So when you're in front of your TV or computer, do some calf rocking - or something like it - for a minute, every hour or two.
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Slower Sunday: Wave Theory

This is where I want to be. And I am. Take a long walk to something beautiful. Like this. Take a minute. Press Play. You don't need an ocean. But it's nice to have one. Once in a while. That's my theory, anyway.
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Cinnamon Pizza Puffs

A completely new addiction. The answer to doughnut holes, if you think of them as questionable. Light, airy, warm. Not fried. Five minutes in a very hot oven. Real easy. Real Cheap. About a penny a puff. Hard to eat them Slower. But you can always work on that.
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