Others prefer a more old-fashioned method like keeping everything written down and in a safe.

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While Tiger Woods tweets to over 3.2 million followers and Rory McIlroy converses with his 1.2 million fans, the Spaniard prefers the old-fashioned method of talking to people.

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As a doctor focused on obesity and nutrition, Dr Garvey maintains that the only real way to lose weight is the boring, old-fashioned, unsatisfying and ultimately successful method: eat fewer calories than you burn through exercise - not digestion.

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The curious hosts mix scientific method with plain old-fashioned ingenuity to separate fact from fiction among many popular beliefs.

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But the most reliable method is also the most old-fashioned: By blasting through an opposing defender.

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Bucher's method of achieving this has a decidedly old-fashioned feel.

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