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Namli - who has written 81 posts on Sports & Cooking.

I'm Umit, I'm the one running this blog. Just started with blogging and I hope you enjoy the resullts.

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Update on what’s going on

Sunday, June 29, 2008

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I just wanted to let the readers know about what is going on and what will happen in the next month. I’ll be leaving for vacation next Monday. This means I won’t be able to post as regularly as I was before. This doesn’t mean I won’t be updating this blog at all. I will [...]

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5 Caffeinated water drinks

Friday, June 27, 2008

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A couple days ago I woke up and had a coffee in the morning. While this is a rare situation, it happens once a while. Usually I tend to drink water or thee in the morning, but these drinks don’t wake you up as much as coffee does and this make me wonder something. Aren’t [...]

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3 Delicious chicken breast recipes

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

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I don’t know if you’ll agree or not, but the most delicious part of a chicken is the chicken breast. You ask me why? Just because you can eat it without hassle. No skin that bothers you, no bones that crushes your teeth, just a delicious piece of chicken breast. And I think that many [...]

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5 Books I will be reading this year

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

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To expand my knowledge about the topics I’m writing about, I’m planning to read 5 books from now till December 31st. Some of these books I have mentioned before and suggested you read those as well. Now it’s time for me to read them and once I’m done reading them, I’ll write a review about [...]

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7 Ingredients that can spice up your salad and their health benefits

Saturday, June 21, 2008

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Earlier this week I wrote an article about how people thought salads were healthier than other fast food. And in that article I mentioned how fast food restaurants ruin your salad and did a little comparison, showing that salads were not healthier than the medium sized burgers from the same fast food restaurant. Today it’s [...]

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Wordpress.com stats showing 1000+ page views on june 19th, 2008

Thursday, June 19, 2008

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The blog has been going for 2 months and 15 days now and it had it’s up and downs (already), but today is a day for a big fat up, because today Sports & Cooking has, for the first time, had over a 1000 page views. Once again this spike in page views is generated [...]

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7 Different types of push ups and how to perform them

Thursday, June 19, 2008

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Not so long ago I did a little push ups series. It was a 4 part series, you can find them here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. These push up series are amongst the most viewed posts of this blog and I wanted to add a little flavor to the posts [...]

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Who said salads were healthier than fast food?

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

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Are you a person who goes to a fast food restaurant and orders a salad thinking it contains fewer calories than the burgers they sell? If you are the person I just described, I got some bad news for you my friend. For a while now, salads in fast food restaurants are getting a bad [...]

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Be careful with energy drinks

Sunday, June 15, 2008

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With the rapid popularity growth of the energy drinks, there is almost no escaping them. Nowadays you can see them everywhere. In supermarkets, fuel stations, your local grocery store on the corner of the block, just everywhere. It’s said that these energy drinks energizes you and give you a short concentration boost. While this [...]

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The Pros and Cons of a Raw Food Diet

Friday, June 13, 2008

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Raw food diets have been around for centuries and with the recent attention it’s getting from celebrities such as Demi Moore, Bryan Adams, Woody Harrelson, Uma Thurman, Natalie Portman and so on, it has gotten quite popular these days. The raw food diet is, if performed properly, a diet which can lead to weight loss [...]

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