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2008-10-07T11:23:00.000-07:00

Beauty Secrets You Can Make Yourself

2008-10-07T10:34:00.000-07:00

How can make you beauty?

At the age of 72, Sophia Loren is one of the world's most beautiful women. Sophia Loren's beauty secrets include using olive oil; in fact she says she has often bathed in it. Olive oil is one of the old-fashioned beauty secrets, and because it closely resembles our own natural oils it is totally absorbed into the skin.

Some of the most satisfactory beauty secrets are those you can make yourself with familiar ingredients. Old-fashioned beauty secrets handed down through the years, added to and improved upon, often turn out to be the most valuable of all the beauty secrets. It will take time to determine which beauty secrets are the best for your particular skin type. Not all the beauty secrets will be right for you or bring exceptional results. With practice you will learn how to adjust the ingredients, to meet your own specific requirements, and make the most of these beauty secrets. Bear in mind climate conditions often alter textures.

Remember with these homemade beauty secrets they lack the usual preservatives of chemical additives, so will not last long. To ensure you get the most benefits from using homemade beauty secrets only make small quantities and keep them chilled.

Below you will find beauty secrets for your skin and hair:

Beauty Secrets for Cleansing
Apricot Cleansing Cream 4 tablespoons of apricot oil 2 tablespoons of sesame seed oil 2 tablespoons of butter 1 tablespoon distilled water Beat the ingredients, by hand or in a blender, until completely smooth and creamy. Keep in a refrigerator

Olive Cleansing Cream 4 tablespoons green olive oil 2 tablespoons of sesame seed oil#2 tablespoons of lard (vegetable fat) 2 drops of any essence Beat the ingredients together until creamy. Keep refrigerated.

Beauty Secrets for Toning
Cucumber Toner 1 peeled cucumber 1 teaspoon of witch hazel 1 teaspoon of rose water egg white Mash the cucumber, add witch hazel and rose water; beat the egg white to a froth; mix well. Refrigerate. Strain before use.

Rose Vinegar 4 cups of dried red roses ½ cup of essence of rose 1 pint vinegar Put all the ingredients in a lidded glass jar; allow to stand for three weeks, often shaking it. Strain, and dilute with equal parts of distilled water. Use as a toner.

Beauty Secrets for Facemasks
Cucumber Mask 1 cucumber ¼ teaspoon of lemon juice 1 teaspoon witch hazel 1 teaspoon alcohol 1 egg white, whipped Peel the cucumber and extract the juice, add lemon juice, witch hazel and alcohol. Stir well; then blend in the whipped egg. Allow to dry on your face for a minimum of 15 minutes. Rinse off.

Honey Mask 1 tablespoon of honey 1 egg yolk 1 teaspoon olive oil Beat the egg yolk into the oil, then blend in the honey. Apply to your face and leave on for 15 minutes before rinsing away.

Miscellaneous Beauty Secrets
Anti-Sunburn Cream 1 egg white, beaten 1 teaspoon of honey ½ teaspoon of witch hazel Blend all the ingredients together until even. Smooth over bad sunburn. Always refrigerate.

Rose Essence 3 handfuls of dried rose petals sweet almond oil as needed In a glass bowl or jar, put the dried rose petals and cover with the oil. Put the pot in a pan of simmering water, heat until the oil has removed all the colour of the petals. Strain; keep tightly lidded.

Beauty Secrets for Your Hair
Olive Oil Conditioning Put a very small amount of olive oil onto the palm of your hand; rub your hands together so they glisten. Now apply to your hair where it needs it most i.e.: at the ends. Scrunch it sparingly through the rest of your hair avoiding the roots. Leave for ten minutes so the hair shafts can absorb it, then comb through, and style as usual. Your hair will absorb the oil and it will help to define curls and add weight to light flyaway hair. This is one of my favourite beauty secrets. For very dry hair, massage 2 tablespoons of warm olive oil from roots to ends. Wring out a towel in hot water and wind round your head turban-style and leave on for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes shampoo and rinse your hair using your normal shampoo and style as usual. This will give deep conditioning and leave your hair soft and manageable.

Beauty Secrets for Your Hands
Cuticle Softener I tablespoons of fresh or frozen pineapple juice 2 tablespoons of egg yolk ½ teaspoon of cider vinegar Mix together - a very sloppy texture in which nails should be soaked for 30 minutes. It can be preserved for a while in the refrigerator.

Protective Cream (wear under gloves) 1 dessertspoon of fuller's earth powder (buy sachet from pharmacists) 1 dessertspoon of almond oil 2 egg yolks Mix all three ingredients together into an even blend; keep chilled until use. Keep on during the day under gloves or overnight, then rinse off.

I have collected these beauty secrets together for you to make at home, some of them are well-known beauty secrets and some are little know beauty secrets. Above all, I hope you find them to be useful beauty secrets.

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Apply Foundation with Right Way

2008-10-07T10:17:00.000-07:00

How To Apply Foundation the Right Way

The right foundation will even out your skin tone and give you the appearance of flawless skin. But you have to do it right, otherwise you risk looking like a ... clown. Follow these steps for a flawless complexion.

Difficulty: Easy

Time Required: 2 minutes
Here's How:

Begin with clean hands and a clean face
Apply a moisturizing sunscreen, moisturizer or primer that's perfect for your skin type. All foundations will go on more smoothly if the skin is well-hydrated. Foundation primer is my pick, because it creates a smooth surface for foundation. (Some makeup artists believe it's a crime not to prime).
Let the moisturizer, sunscreen or primer set for a few minutes.
Wipe off any excess moisturizer with a tissue. Greasy skin will make the foundation slip and slide.
Camouflouge your dark, under-eye circleswith a concealer. Pat, never rub, the concealer into skin.
Using a makeup sponge or the tips of your fingers, apply dots of foundation on your cheeks, chin, forehead and tip of the nose. Makeup artists swear by foundation brushes to apply product. They soak up less foundation and blend flawlessly.
Using the sponge, your fingertips or the foundation brush, blend the dots together. Pay special attention to your hairline and jawline to ensure there's no obvious line.
Set the foundation with loose powder immediately after application.

Tips:

You don't have to put foundation all over your face. Try spot-fixes for those areas that need coverage (likely around the eyes, nose and chin).
Don't want to go all out with a foundation? Tinted moisturizers may be all you need if your complexion is dewy, but you want a light, sheer wash to even out blotchiness. My favorite tinted moisturizers are by Bobbi Brown and Laura Mercier.
If you use a sponge, make sure and wash out it out well so it doesn't start harboring all sorts of nasty bacteria. These Wonderpro sponges are cheap and work perfectly.

What You Need:

1 makeup sponge or foundation brush
foundation for your skin type
concealer
moisturizing sunscreen

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Perfect Foundation

2008-10-07T10:09:00.001-07:00

How To Pick the Perfect Foundation

Picking the perfect foundation for your skin can be daunting. Here's how to go about it while shopping in a department store. Remember, you always want to test before you buy. This is why it's best to get your foundations from department stores rather than from the makeup aisle at your local pharmacy or grocery store.

Difficulty: Average

Time Required: 10-15 minutes

Here's How:

Consider your skin type. Before you pick the right shade, you need to find out the right formulation for your skin. Are you oily? Dry? Combination?
Pick the right formula. If you're oily, look for words like 'oil-free' or 'oil-control' on the bottle. Got dry skin? Go for moisturizing foundations with 'hydrating' or 'moisture-rich' wording on the bottle. For combo skin, determine if you're more oily or dry and go from there. Cream-to-powder bases work great for combo skin.
Show up to the makeup counter with a clean, fresh face. It's OK to wear eye makeup or lipstick, even moisturizer on your face, but you don't want to show up already wearing foundation.
Select a few colors that seem close to your natural skin tone. Go for the yellow-based foundations, which look most natural on all skin tones. However, if you're very fair, try a pink, cooler shade.
Apply a couple dots of each color on areas of your jawline (the inner wrist or hand aren't the best spots, contrary to popular belief).
Take a good, long look -- near a window. Ask to borrow a hand mirror and stand near a doorway, or step outside, to see which foundation looks best in the natural light. The right shade is one that you can't see because it blends in so well. If you are purchasing from a drugstore, take a couple bottles to a doorway, hold them up to your neck and see which one matches the best.
Once you've bought the foundation, take it home and try it out. If you don't like it you can return it. If you're buying from a drugstore, purchase from one with a liberal return polic

Tips:

Try the color out on your jawline, not your wrist or hand
Remember to stand in a doorway or outside to see if the color matches
A foundation with sunscreen is a safe bet, but you will still need to wear sunscreen under your foundation. Also considering skipping foundation & opting for a tinted moisturizer instead.
Believe it or not, today foundation is totally optional. It's healthier for your skin NOT to wear foundation daily. If you have blemishes or pimples, try strategically placed concealer instead. Or just wear the foundation on the parts that need it most, likely around your nose & eyes & on your chin. Just make sure to blend properly.
Go for different looks for evening and day. A light foundation is perfect for work or weekend. While a sexy shimmer is great for evening.

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Facial At-Home

2008-10-07T09:53:00.000-07:00

How To Do The Basic At-Home Facial

There’s nothing better than getting a professional facial, but they can be expensive. To maintain your healthy skin between professional treatments or to do them yourself, try this basic at-home facial once a week. This basic facial works on oily, dry and combination skin.
And don’t worry, I’m not going to make you whip up a batch of egg-whites & oatmeal.

Difficulty: Easy

Time Required: 25-30 minutes

Here's How:

Cleanse the skinYou’ll want to wash the face to remove any grime or dirt. If you have oily or combination skin, try a cleanser like Clinique Wash Away Gel Cleanser or Purpose Gentle Cleansing Wash . For dry skin, your best bet is a cream or milky cleanser such as Cetaphil .
ExfoliateUsing your fingers, rub a gentle exfoliating scrub in a circular motion on your face. Concentrate on the areas around your nose and forehead or if you have combo skin, work harder on the areas that tend to be ‘greasy.’ Rinse your face well since exfoliating scrubs tend to be drying. Clinique makes a simple, but excellent face scrub .
Steam[/br] Fill your sink with warm water, dip a washcloth in and press to your face. Repeat 2-3 times.
The maskFor oily skin, use a clay-based face mask. For dry skin, go for a hydrating gel or cream mask. Apply the mask, avoiding the areas around the eyes. Keep it on for 10-20 minutes (or, according to the directions on the product). Rinse completely.
MoisturizeSmooth on a soothing, basic moisturizer such as Crème de La Mer Moisturizing Cream (very expensive) or the less expensive Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion .

Tip: Stay away from strong moisturizers containing retinols or acids. These will over-exfoliate your skin.

What You Need:

Gentle cleanser
Exfoliating scrub
Warm water & a washcloth
Clay-based or cream facial mask (based on skin type)
Basic moisturizer

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Face Mask

2008-10-07T09:20:00.000-07:00

Yogurt Face Mask for Sensitive or Sunburnt Skin

This mask is great for soothing chapped, sunburned or otherwise irritated skin. Extra tip: This mask works well for other skin types as well. For oily skin, add a couple drops of lemon or lime juice. For dry skin, mix in a couple tablespoons of honey.

Ingredients:

1 cup natural yogurt (we like it just-out-of-the-fridge cold)
½ cup oatmeal (any type of basic oatmeal works here)

Preparation:

Mix the ingredients together. Apply to the skin for 10-15 minutes.Wash off mask with a washcloth steamed in the microwave (careful that it's not too hot).

Two other fun options for oatmeal face masks: Egg whites. Mix the oatmeal and an egg white. Let the mixture dry on face, then gently wash off with a few splashes of warm water. Follow with a steaming washcloth to the face.

Peptol-Bismol. A friend of mine uses Pepto-Bismol with oatmeal for her masks. She got this tip years ago from a magazine. She suggests the active ingredient (bismuth subsalicylate) in Pepto-Bismol soothes your stomach as well as your face.

Yogurt Face Mask for All Skin Types
This simple (only two ingredients!) cooling mask is great for soothing a sunburnt face. It's great for all skin types.

Prep Time: 2 hours,

Ingredients:

1 tbsp natural yogurt, room temperature (not lowfat or non-fat)
1 tsp runny honey (microwave for a few minutes to soften hardened honey)

Preparation:
Combine mixture, then apply to face. Let sit for 15 minutes. Wash face with steaming washcloth. For dry skin, use an extra tsp of honey. Oily skin? Add a few drops of fresh lime juice.

Homemade Clay Mask for All Skin Types

Masks (homemade or otherwise) should stay on for 10-15 minutes. Follow with a cleansing and a thin layer of moisturizer.

Ingredients:

1½ tsp green clay (French is preferred)

½ tsp kaolin clay

1½ tbsp aloe vera gel

1 tbsp rosewater

2 drops rose essential oil

Preparation:
Mix green and kaolin clays together. Add in the aloe vera gel, rosewater and oils. Refrigerate mixture for up to four weeks.

Banana Mask for Oily Skin
This is a soothing face mask and great if you have bananas around the house.

Ingredients:
1 banana, preferably ripe (you can keep ripe bananas in the freezer. Let it thaw before using)
1 tbsp honey
An orange or a lemon

Preparation:
Mix the banana and honey together.Add a few drops of juice from an orange or a lemon. Apply to face for 15 minutes before rinsing with a cool washcloth or a steaming warm washcloth.

Homemade Juice Mask for Oily Skin
Strawberry and lemon juice contain natural astringents. Note: Recipe works for two people, so invite a friend, or cut recipe in half for just you.

Ingredients:
1 tsp lemon juice
2 egg whites
3 tsp honey
1 cup strawberries

Optional:
4 drops of your favorite essential oils
Preparation:Mash or blend the above ingredients.Smooth over face. Let it stay for 10 minutes.Rinse.

Homemade Clay Mask for Oily or Acne-Prone Skin
Clay masks help neutralize skin. You can pick up clay from any health-food store.

Ingredients:

A basic fuller's earth clay (if skin is sensitive, French green clay is a good option)
1 tsp honey
water (for a richer mask, substitute half-and-half)
your favorite essential oil

Preparation:
I find it's best to mix 2 parts water (or half and half) to 1 part clay, mixing in a bit of honey.Add more water (or cream) if clay is too dry.Add a few drops of the essential oil.Keep mask on for 15 minutes. Rinse off with a steaming washcloth (I like to steam my washcloths with a couple drops of the essential oils in the microwave, but make sure washcloth is not too hot).Tip: This recipe works for dry or normal skin too. Add another tablespoon of honey and add a few drops of essential oils for your skin type.

Simple Mask for Oily, Acne-Prone Skin
This recipe is adapted from Paula Begoun's book, 'The Beauty Bible'. According to Begoun in her famous book, Milk of Magnesia is actually liquid magnesium. Like clay, it's from the earth, but has disinfecting qualities and absorbs oil better than clay. A friend of mine tried this and said her skin never felt better. She loved the natural qualities of the mask, which she doesn't find in storebought products.

Ingredients:
1 bottle Milk of Magnesia (Paula insists no flavors, please)

Preparation:
Apply the Milk of Magnesia to face. Wash with cool washcloth after 10-15 minutes.

Rose Face Mask for Combination Skin
This mask, based on roses, is perfect for balancing out the oily and dry areas of your skin.

Ingredients:

Optional: 6 fresh rose petals
2 tbsps rosewater
1 tbsp natural yogurt, room temperature (not lowfat or non-fat)
1 tbsp runny honey (to get honey runny, you can warm it in a microwave for a few seconds).

Preparation:
Soak rose petals, then crush them in a bowl. Add the rosewater, yogurt and honey.Mix well and apply to the skin. Leave on for 10 minutes. Rinse.

Milk Mask for Dry Skin
This recipe makes a mask for two

Ingredients:
1 tsp powdered milk
1 tbsp runny honey
1 tsp aloe vera gel
2 drops essential oil

Preparation:
This is a classic milk mask for the face. Mix ingredients well, apply to face, let sit for 15 minutes, wash off with warm water. This recipe is enough for two. (Note: The original recipe called for 1 tbsp pulverized almonds, but I have removed it from the ingredients list because almonds, no matter how pulverized, can tear at skin).

Yogurt Face Mask for Sensitive or Sunburnt Skin
This mask is great for soothing chapped, sunburned or otherwise irritated skin. Extra tip: This mask works well for other skin types as well. For oily skin, add a couple drops of lemon or lime juice. For dry skin, mix in a couple tablespoons of honey.

Ingredients:
1 cup natural yogurt (we like it just-out-of-the-fridge cold)
½ cup oatmeal (any type of basic oatmeal works here)

Preparation:
Mix the ingredients together. Apply to the skin for 10-15 minutes.Wash off mask with a washcloth steamed in the microwave (careful that it's not too hot).

Two other fun options for oatmeal face masks: Egg whites. Mix the oatmeal and an egg white. Let the mixture dry on face, then gently wash off with a few splashes of warm water. Follow with a steaming washcloth to the face.

Peptol-Bismol. A friend of mine uses Pepto-Bismol with oatmeal for her masks. She got this tip years ago from a magazine. She suggests the active ingredient (bismuth subsalicylate) in Pepto-Bismol soothes your stomach as well as your face.

Source:beauty.about.com

Diet & Weightloss: Page-8

2008-10-05T22:06:00.000-07:00

How Coffee, Tea and Other Stimulants Affect Health

People drink coffee and tea all over the world. In some countries, like Italia, coffee is drunk up to five times a day. England is often associated with tea traditions. In business world it is common to offer a cup of tea or coffee for the office guest. But sometimes these stimulants can cause serious damage to health. Let us see, how it happens. If one is tired and has not eaten for some time or has just overeaten, so that their blood sugar first suddenly increases, then dramatically decreases, they feel depressed, lethargic and needs something to cheer up (like coffee). This effect is given by hormone adrenalin, which is emitted by the adrenal gland (that also emits cortisol). If the body cannot control the blood sugar, this is really bad news.

What Are Adrenaline and Cortisol
Adrenaline is always emitted by the organism which is stressed. The sources of stress can be different: when one is running, scared or screaming – the adrenal gland emits adrenaline. Adrenaline helps us deal with stress and gives the organism force to assume all safety measures during the crisis. The other adrenal gland hormone, cortisol, has a longer effect than adrenaline and is emitted, when a person is stressed for a long period of time. Cortisol increases blood pressure, blood sugar and has an immunosuppressive action. Exactly cortisol destroys the nervous system.

Adrenaline and Hunger
This reaction has evolved since primitive times, when people had to kill predators or rush along to the cave, after what the hormones came to normal and everything was good. But the modern reality is different. Today one is sitting at the office hungry till the lunch break, during this time adrenaline and cortisol are emitted and start to circulate in the blood of this person. Hunger gives a stress signal and, which happens quite often, if the person does nothing with this reaction, the hormones will circulate more and more every minute – this increases stress and anxiety. Our body reacts the same way, when one is fasting or dieting.

The Role of Caffeine and Other Stimulants
Various beverages containing caffeine, like coffee, cola and tea, stimulate adrenaline emission, which is a norm for the organism only in extreme situations, and thus increase the blood sugar level dramatically. But lots of people drink coffee and tea really often during the day. If they do this to stop the hunger (which is a stress) for some time, their adrenal gland goes on emitting adrenaline. As it was said above, if the organism is stressed for a long period of time, the adrenal gland starts to emit cortisol, which destroys the nervous system. This is how caffeine and other stimulants affect your body.

Normally if one has a low blood sugar, they like and consume coffee, cakes or sweets. Sugar and stimulants are like a drug for lots of people, for example, coffee with sugar, tea with sugar, chocolates, Cola and so on. Some people very often consume many carbohydrates, others permanently eat or drink stimulants, but the majority becomes dependent on both.

Stimulants and Disturbed Metabolism
Furthermore, stimulants upset the balance of the blood glucose and thus enhance the resistance to insulin (which regulates the blood sugar level). This provokes excess weight and fatigue more and more. Body and mind are very sensitive to the mechanism of glucose and hormones balancing. Finally the organism gets so tired of permanent daily stresses – stimulants (nicotine and caffeine) and refined food – that it becomes unable to defend itself and the metabolism gets disturbed. An organism with the disturbed metabolism develops various diseases and becomes a fat maker.

Cold Treatment. Lemon-onion Salad

It’s winter now, and apart from the beauty outside which is created by the snow-covered landscapes, there are low temperatures, cold wind and some concomitant problems. One of them is familiar to each of us – the common cold. If you have caught a cold, it should be treated. I’d like to share with you a very simple Uruguayan recipe, which is very effective against cold. It contains only two ingredients – onion and lemon. Exactly they should be eaten during this illness to recover.

Onion is also very effective against heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and other diseases. It has anti-inflammatory, anticancer, anticholesterol and antioxidant effects. It is rich in so many vitamins and minerals, that I just don’t want to bore you with listing all them. Believe me, fresh onion should be eaten. But how, if it is not to everyone’s taste? And what can be done with the smell? Look here.

Take one onion and a half lemon. Chop the onion and press the lemon and pour the juice over the chopped onion. Stir it thoroughly. Leave for 30 minutes to let the onion get saturated with the lemon juice and that’s it! It you like, you can add some black pepper to it.

Back on the onion odor and taste. Lemon juice neutralizes the odor and the bitter taste of the onion, but the medicinal properties of the onion stay the same. By the way, lemon is very rich in vitamin C and is also good for the cold treatment. This salad can be eaten with meat, fish and so on, so just add it to your dinner, no fear, it will be tasty! Eat the same meals you normally prepare and treat your cold while you are eating.

Controlling Cholesterol For Your Beauty And Health

Today I decided to write on the topic which is concerned with both beauty and health of both women and men – cholesterol. Cholesterol is manufactured by liver from digested fats and is essential for the synthesis of vitamin В and some hormones. Cholesterol is carried in the blood and its level is influenced by the diet, because cholesterol is present in food. If blood cholesterol level is too high (more than 60 mg), this is dangerous, because too much cholesterol blocks the arteries, interrupts the blood supply to the heart and leads to atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease (or heart attack) and stroke.

What is “good” and “bad” cholesterol
Dietary Cholesterol (contained in food) can be “good” and “bad”. “Good” cholesterol (High-density lipoprotein) is contained in healthy food, such as fruits and vegetables, it gives the body necessary energy. “Bad” cholesterol (or Low-density lipoprotein), which is contained, for example, in junk food, is dangerous, because this is the fat which, if not burned during exercising, builds up in arteries and blocks them.

“Apple” and “pear” figure types
If you see someone overweight, unfortunately this means, as a rule, that this person either has or will have heart problems. Normally fat accumulates around belly and hips. The first situation (fat belly) provides so-called apple-like figure, which is more typical for men. The second one makes the figure pear-like (the biggest body part are hips) – this is more characteristic for women . Both are not supposed to look ideal, but those who are “pears” are more lucky, because it is very unlikely for them to have heart problems. It however does not mean they can consume tones of sweets and hamburgers with no affect on their health – they should also keep fit. Those whose figures are apple-like should really wary of their health, because exactly they are the risk group which develops heart diseases. People with this figure type need to start to work on their body as early as possible in order not to let “bad” cholesterol and fat build up in arteries and form plaques.

How to control and lower blood cholesterol
But what should “apples” do? What can they eat without fear for their health? Or how can one lower blood cholesterol? The most effective drugs for the treatment of high cholesterol are statins. They inhibit the liver enzyme used in the manufacture of cholesterol. But before doctors prescribe statins, there are other ways. In order to keep cholesterol level in the normal range, regular sports, keeping a healthy weight and a balanced diet are of vital importance. Even if you do not consume cholesterol, your liver manufactures it for the body’s needs. But the less cholesterol you consume, the better. If you want to control blood cholesterol, avoid foods that contain a lot of cholesterol: for example, eat less meats and eggs. All animal foods contain cholesterol and eggs are also known as a “cholesterol bomb” because of the high cholesterol content. Eat more fresh fruits, vegetables, salads and grains without oily dressings. For the food preparation it’s better to use oils like sunflower, corn or olive (the best one). Choose low-fat yoghurts, cottage cheese, egg whites instead of whole eggs, skimmed milk. Avoid fatty and fried foods, junk food, lots of sugar, stop smoking, control alcohol intake, keep fit, relax regularly and avoid stress. Following these hints will significantly help reduce blood cholesterol.

Ways to be Beautiful: Dieting vs Exercising

Some count calories, some follow a diet which made a celebrity slim, some pay attention to the fat content of the food, use pills against hunger or develop their own diet, such as “no more than 5 cakes a week”. The others spend hours at the gym, swim a lot, exercise at home while watching TV. There are different ways, but the goal is the same: to be beautiful, sporty, get rid of body fat.

Counting calories
Once I decided to figure out, how much I really eat. How many calories do I consume daily? I hated maths at school, at the university and I still do now. However I started this topic. And found out that it’s possible to do it with the packed food where it’s written, how many calories it contains. But what to do, I you prepare food at home? Or if you go out for dinner? You can’t eat only salads because vegetables are nonfat. Too much “grass” could damage your alimentary system. So, you never know exactly, how many calories you get.

Dieting makes me crazy
The other time I decided to diet. I managed not to eat a lot for breakfast, dinner and forbade myself any food after 6 pm. But that day I came back from work as usual after 7 pm. And I was very hungry. But I it worked! I didn’t even open the fridge. This meant to be the first small victory. But as I went to bed, my hunger became unbearable, I could even hear my stomach cry. It was impossible to fall asleep and I decided to watch TV. Everything was pretty okay… until the ad began. I wanted every single product they advertised, I could eat EVERYTHING! I switched the channels, but the food was in the films, shows, clips – everywhere! I turned the TV-set off, fell asleep after about an hour passed, still don’t know how. I think I had a nightmare that night.The next day I felt slimmer, I had a smaller belly, but my hunger was the same. The breakfast was little, at the lunch-hour I managed to eat less than my colleagues. But I dreamed about the dessert later instead of working. And the night was a déjà vu of the night before. The next dieting day I became totally crazy. I was mad about every mention of food, imagined tasty dishes, chocs, supermarkets, couldn’t concentrate on work, couldn’t think of anything else except for food all day long. On the forth day I gave up, prepared a tasty evening meal with dessert and was happy. Dieting is not for me. But I still wanted to be beautiful and attractive. So, I decided to start with sport.

I eat whatever I want and exercise a lot
As for me now, I eat everything I like: ice-cream, chocolate, smoked cheese, pop-corn. I eat this so much I want and at the same time not too much. For example, when I get to my mom’s, who takes offence if you don’t eat each from the 6 dishes she prepared, each time I take care that, that I will be able to get rid of the consequences of this food. This means a simple, but important rule: I don’t eat more than I burn. So, after such visits I train a lot to burn all this fat.I adore badminton, sometimes jog and try to do exercises at home every day independent from if I trained that day or not. In these exercises I work at the most problematic zones: belly, buttocks, triceps, inner and outer thighs. I don’t diet at all and after 2 months of such regime I not only feel my muscles, I see them. I eat whatever I want, and everything I eat goes to my muscles, the fat is always burned. I didn’t become much slimmer, but now I’m rather sporty and my “problematic zones” are trim and tough. I hate dieting and love sport. And what do you choose to be beautiful?

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Diet & Weightloss: Page-7

2008-10-05T22:01:00.001-07:00

Green Tea Protects from Superviruses

A cup of green tea every day prevents superviruses infection, claim Egyptian scientists. Superviruses are common viruses that mutated into superbugs (an infective microorganisms that have become resistant to antibiotics) under the influence of modern antiviral medicines. Antioxidants contained in green tea block the reproduction of most superviruses known today. It was proven before, that green tea has a positive effect on cardiovascular and nervous systems.

Sugar Substitutes Cause Weight Gain

Researchers at Purdue University’s Ingestive Behavior Research Center have compared the way artificial sweeteners (saccharin) and sugar effect health. Sugar substitutes are much sweeter than natural table sugar, but have practically no calories compared to 15 calories/teaspoon contained in the latter. Nonetheless, experimental mice, who ate yoghurt sweetened with zero-calorie saccharin, consumed later more calories and, as a result, gained more weight and fat than those mice, who ate yoghurt with glucose (simple sugar).

The scientists claim, that the substances contained in artificial sweeteners disorder the appetite regulation, because the body might get confused by the taste of sweetness followed by a lack of blood sugar rise, and cause upping appetite. This can explain the hypothesis that diet soda consumption contribute to obesity. Maybe it’s time to stop fooling mother nature?

Probiotics in Yoghurt Drinks Affect Metabolism

A new study conducted by Nestlé Research Center along with a team from Imperial College London has found, that probiotics, such as drinking yoghurts, which contain live bacteria, may have a serious effect on the metabolism. As probiotics contain potentially beneficial bacteria playing an important role in the metabolism, they have an effect on the biochemistry of the gut microbes. Probiotics contain so-called “friendly” bacteria, which help the digestive system. The study of how exactly it occurs was the goal of the research.

Probiotics Effect Fat Amount
The researchers had used two groups of mice for figuring out, how probiotics effect the metabolism. One group had received probiotic treatment, and the other one had not. Then different metabolites in the liver, urine, blood and faeces of both groups were compared. The researchers observed many biochemical changes in how the mice treated with probiotics metabolized bile acids. These acids are produced by the liver and their primary function is to emulsify fats in the upper gut. As probiotics had an effect on the way in which bile acids are metabolized, then they can influence the amount of fat the body can absorb.

How Probiotics Influence the Metabolism
The study shows, that adding the “friendly” bacteria contained in probiotics change the makeup of the bugs in the gut. It increases the number of these bacteria and works with other bacteria in the gut amplifying their effects. Probiotics interact with other bacteria and indeed influence the local microflora. The changes probiotics bring about have to be studied further to find out the influence on overall health. But what is established is that probiotics can change the dynamics of the whole microbes population in the gut. Further researches will open up the possibility of developing new probiotic therapies and finding customized nutritional solutions to maintain or enhance health at an individual level.

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5 Reasons Why Women Can’t Lose Weight

Lots of women try to lose weight by dieting and working out, but far from all women manage to become slim this way. Scientists have discovered some psychological reasons, why women can’t lose weight, although they want it so much. Many of us have already experienced it: you eat less, avoid late dinners, work out almost every day, however, you can’t reach that desired slender waist and less weight. Here’s why.

Reason 1 Why Women Can’t Lose Weight
The first reason, why women can’t lose weight is the subconscious wish of every woman to be solid. This means, to feel she is big and powerful – this is enough to cope with problems. Sometimes this is not only a psychological feeling, but also a physical one, which makes one eat more.

Reason 2 Why Women Can’t Lose Weight
The second reason is shyness. Excess weight becomes a kind of protecting coat for many women. Under this coat there can often be found an unsure person. Scientists claim, when there’s “too much” of you, it helps cope with problems.

Reason 3 Why Women Can’t Lose Weight
Psychological traumas may also be the reason preventing women from losing weight. Those, who as a child experienced an unpleasant incident because of their unattractiveness, unconsciously don’t want to attract attention. And the best way to avoid attention is to gain weight.

Reason 4 Why Women Can’t Lose Weight
Many women like telling about how they struggle against excess weight and that there’s no way they can get rid of it. Scientists claim, that women do it to make others feel sorry for them.

Reason 5 Why Women Can’t Lose Weight
Another reason women can’t lose weight is the lack of joy in life. When a woman is in a bad mood, the only thing to improve it is food.

Lack of Cholesterol Is Worse than High Cholesterol Levels

Nowadays lots of people around the world are concerned with their blood cholesterol level, as it is now well-known: cholesterol deposits on vascular walls and abnormally high levels of it lead to cardiovascular diseases. Deficiency in (bad) blood cholesterol can be even more dangerous, than high cholesterol level, claim Japanese scientists. They have found, that maintaining a low cholesterol level for a long time or decrease of cholesterol level significantly increase the risk of cancer, infectious diseases, Parkinson’s disease and early death.

Look, how important cholesterol in reality is:

Cholesterol builds and maintains the cell membranes.
Cholesterol contributes to the strength of the intestinal wall.
Vitamins A, В, E, D and K are made from cholesterol.
Cholesterol participates in the development of nervous system of babies and children.
According to some researches, cholesterol acts as antioxidant.
Cholesterol makes sex hormones.
The lack of cholesterol due the use of certain drugs or diet can upset hormone balance.
Cholesterol is secreted by glands in the skin to protect it from infections and micro-traumas.

I will not go into greater medical detail of why we need cholesterol and how it works in human body: our organisms need a certain amount of cholesterol every day to function properly. Cholesterol is not evil, it is essential for us, this is a fact.

Yoghurt to Prevent Diabetes

A new simple and tasty remedy for diabetes has been recently found. It has been discovered, that probiotic drinks containing a certain kinds of healthy bacteria may prevent grown-up from developing diabetes. As it is known, bacteria play an important role in digestion – they participate in fixation of essential nutrients, they synthesize vitamins and perform protective functions.

A recent research has shown, that changing the usual ration of the microorganisms in the bowels can treat insulin resistance, which develops together with gaining excess weight. So, eat and drink more probiotic yoghurts to both enjoy the good taste and to prevent diabetes.

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Healthy Nutrition Rules

There are many people wanting to lose weight. Some of them really need it, while the others just think they do. But both groups need to follow a healthy diet. And even if you don’t need to lose weight, you should know the healthy nutrition rules. In general, you should eat whatever you like and only reduce consumption of unhealthy foods: alcohol, sugar, spices, chips, hot sauces, fried foods, smoked foods, frankfurters, products made with white flour, and any food which contains preservatives. Here are other healthy nutrition tips.

Replace unhealthy products with the healthy ones. For instance, sugar with honey, sausages with meat.
Do not eat too much. Do not gorge your stomach with food. Eat only when you feel hungry.
Chew your food well; do not gulp down the breakfast, lunch, or dinner within a few minutes.
The ideal daily nutrition proportions are: 3/5 of the entire ration should be carbohydrates, 1/5 – fats, and 1/5 – proteins.
Consume fruits separately from the meals.
Season the salads and main dishes with vegetable oil.
Do not use fats when boiling or steaming the food and make sure to watch the cooking time.
Cook the food as long as it should be cooked and not even a minute longer.
Avoid frying the food, its better to bake it in the stove or to boil (steam).
Try not to mix proteins with starch, starch with fats, fats with proteins, and so on.
Do not drink when having the meal or right after it.

Cottage Cheese – the Healthy Facts

Cottage cheese is often called an essential component of healthy and adequate nutrition. This product is considered to be a diet food, on the other hand, however, people from any age group can benefit from consuming it. You bet! Consider this information: 17% in it are proteins, 18% - fat, and 2.5% is lactose. In addition to those components we have Calcium, Phosphorus, Iron, and Magnesium.

Health Benefits for Children and Pregnant Women
The elements listed above are required not only for kids, when they grow and as their teeth develop, but for pregnant women as well. Interesting enough, cottage cheese helps treat fractures, diseases of blood making organ, rachitis, heart conditions, kidney diseases and many others.

Amino Acids in Cottage Cheese
Besides, the proteins found in cottage cheese are rich in valuable amino acids – methionine and choline. The second one replaces animal made proteins, even in people for whom those proteins are contraindicated. By the way, cottage cheese is easily digested.

Don’t Eat Too Much Cottage Cheese
Regardless of the entire set of good properties, abusing cottage cheese consumption is not a good choice since the product contains quite a bit of animal fats, which can accumulate and clog up the renal ducts. Thus, it is better to buy non-fat cottage cheeses and consume no more than 0,4 lbs (about 200 grams) a day.

8 Foods Beauty Diet

You already know, what foods one should eat in order to rejuvenate the body and skin. I’ve already shared the “Beauty Sandwich” recipe, which has this fantastic effect on the body, with you. Besides, yesterday I published a story about 8 healthiest drinks. Dieticians named a list of foods which can help any woman become beautiful. The main condition, however, is weekly consumption of those products.

8. Millet
First of all, the silicon-rich millet keeps the skin youthful and elastic. Not all of you like millet, this is why there are other foods named.

7. Avocado
Avocado moistures dry skin and restores the hair shine. In addition, it’s a real storeroom of vitamins A, B, C, and D.

6. Kiwi
Kiwi, thanks to the vitamin C in it, stimulates collagen production helping this way keep the skin flexible and resilient.

5. Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut considerably improves complexion and helps resolve skin problems. Lactic acid, which is found in the kraut, clinkers the body.

4. Oysters
Oysters – a great choice for those who dream of shiny hair and beautiful nails.

3. Hard Sorts of Cheese
Hard cheese is a loaded storeroom of calcium, which helps keep the bones, teeth, and nails strong.

2. Champignons
Champignons make a great wrinkle fighting treatment. The powerful antioxidants (pantothenic acid and selenium) found in them work better than any anti-aging cosmetics.

1. Circassian Walnut
The first place on the honour roll was given to the vitamin E rich Circassian walnut. The nut moisturises and nourishes the skin making it flexible and preserving its youth

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2008-10-05T06:25:00.000-07:00

How to Stop Overeating

Why do some of us always overeat and keep on gaining weight while others stay fit? The scientists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, stimulated the feeling of being full in some volunteers while analyzing their brain reaction and noticed that obese people feel full not as often as others, even when their stomachs are actually full.

As it turns out, those people have lower-than-normal blood flow to amygdale, one of the brain structures, and weaker nerve impulses which hand over the information to the brain about being full. Hence the person does not receive the “order” to stop eating in time.

The scientists believe that by influencing some particular brain regions they will be able to control chronic overeating. But for now we should listen to our own body and try to catch the moment when the time comes to set the plate aside; try to do it a little bit earlier than usual and this way you will not overeat for sure!

Cucumbers for Weight Loss

Those who believe that greenhouse cucumbers are of no value for the body are mistaken. Quite the contrary, greenhouse cucumbers contain a greater amount of valuable minerals than the regular-grown cucumbers. Therefore, cucumbers can not only assist you at removing excess liquid but can help you lose weight as well.

In fact, cucumber is one of the most powerful diuretics. Moreover, the vegetable is highly valued for its high alkalinity. It means that cucumber can balance out the acid imbalance faster than other vegetables. It is very important, since acid imbalance usually intensifies various illnesses; the processes of festerment in particular.

If you have nonhealing wounds or acne – eat more cucumbers.

The vegetable contains tartrate acid, this is an obvious merit. The substance prevents carbohydrates from turning into fats and getting stored in the body. Do you see the meaning of this? In addition there is only 10 calories in 100 grams of cucumber. Hence, eat cucumbers and slim down!

Many Diets Are Absurd

Mass media offers women who try to lose weight such a great variety of diets that each of us should be able to choose a frugal menu that would fit our taste: buckwheat diet, color diet, sweet diet… Dieticians are shocked by a number of offered ways to lose weight; they argumentatively criticize the diets which involve changing one’s diet by limiting oneself to some particular products.

The Soup Diet
For instance, the so-called “buckwheat” or “soup” diets can result in the woman having deficiency in animal protein and a number of vitamins and minerals.

The Color Diet
Color diet (which bans colored products and allows only the white-colored ones), as dieticians believe, is ultimately illogical. What have carrots and tomatoes done wrong? Moreover, there is no difference between differently colored apples.

Sweet Diets
Sweet diets, as doctors believe, are the most absurd ones. Chocolate, strong coffee and caramel simply enhance the appetite and promote fat storage.

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2008-10-05T06:17:00.000-07:00

Ice Cream and Slimming Diet

How can you resist an ice-cream! Especially in summer, when you want to enjoy something refreshing and tasty. Judging by myself, it’s often impossible. But can you have it if you are watching your diet? Yes, you can! – dieticians say. Only, you have to follow some advice.

No Chocolate in Your Ice-cream
Choose regular ice-cream without chocolate topping. While regular ice-cream is lower in calorie, it is pretty nourishing.

Best Time for an Ice-cream
Eat the treat before noon when our digestive system works better.

Balance your Diet
Keep in mind that if you had your ice-cream you’d have to stay away from some other food at lunch. You should do that to ensure you stay at 1300-1500 kcal per day.

When Eating Ice-cream Is Beneficial to You
Ice-cream is worth eating, anyway. Natural ice-cream is a good source of calcium, amino acids, milk protein, vitamins and minerals. In addition, as we wrote earlier, ice-cream can help lift our spirits, fight stresses and insomnia.

Healthy Breakfast

Nutritionists state that breakfast in a hurry is not just unhealthy, it is even harmful. According to the widespread belief, breakfast is the most important meal of the day and it should include certain foods. Which ones? Here’s one example. It could be fresh fruits or dark chocolate, as fruits are rich in antioxidants and dark chocolate has a large amount of flavones which prevent various cardiovascular diseases. Below you will find more ideas of making your breakfast healthy.

Healthy Breakfast 1. Cantaloupe
It is not forbidden to have for breakfast a slice of cantaloupe with homemade non-fat cheese and a bit of cinnamon with berries. The melon and berries have antioxidants and a piece of fat-free cheese is a substitute for a daily norm of dairy products required for the body.

Healthy Breakfast 2. Yoghurt
A healthy breakfast could consist of non-fat yogurt with fruits and nuts or fruit drinks with a piece of tofu, a glass of grapefruit or pomegranate juice.

Healthy Breakfast 3. Soup
A homemade soup for breakfast is also welcomed. However, this is the case only when it has vegetables in it, even if they were bought frozen.

Healthy Breakfast 4. White Chicken Meat
A piece of tofu and white chicken meat are ideal for breakfast. Together these ingredients are not just tastier, but are also very healthy as the body gets proteins from them.

Healthy Breakfast 5. Salad
Fresh vegetable salads or just raw vegetables for breakfast are also good. Fresh vegetables are low in calories and are rich in antioxidants and cellulose. As known, cellulose facilitates the dropdown of cholesterol in the body. A wonderful alternative for them are various nuts. They are also rich on cellulose and healthy proteins.

Diet for Healthy and Beautiful Hair

Doctors insist on the notion that the health of hair depends on the blood circulation and on the diet. Also it depends on the wellbeing of thyroid, liver and the level of stress. It does not matter if you already suffer from hair loss or just want to prevent it, these tips from the professionals will come handy anyway.

Fresh Fruits and Vegetables for the Hair Health
You should control all ingredients in your food. Most eatables do not have enough vitamins, minerals and nutrients. For instance, by consuming organic food you significantly improve the health of your hair. Fresh fruits and vegetables are especially healthy as they improve the condition of your hair and your skin very quickly.

Sulphur for Beautiful Hair
Foods which are rich in sulphur and silicon, such as onion, garlic, green leaved vegetables and eggs, are also very healthy. Sulphur, which is often called “the mineral of beauty” and is found in high concentration in hair, skin and nails, highly improves circulation and lowers any inflammatory processes. There is a theory that an adequate amount of sulphur can lead to hair growth in people who suffer from baldness or hair loss. Foods rich in iodine and calcium, such as marine algae, also assist in hair growth and in the increasing of the density of the hair.

General Healthy Hair Diet
Less coffee, sweets and salt is also very helpful in making your hair healthy and beautiful. Instead of coffee or sparkling water drink mineral water as human body consists of 60-80 percent of water. Lack of water in the body can lead to degradation of cells and as a result the health and beauty of hair becomes worse.

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2008-10-05T06:11:00.001-07:00

Germinated Seeds Make You Younger
Germinated seeds are not a tribute to fashion. It is qualitatively different food with healing and preventive properties. The secret is that germinating seeds have the increased content of potassium, iron, magnesium and other useful substances. They improve the functions of the internal organs, protect from infections and make us generally younger.

For example, germinated wheat seeds normalize the heart and brain functions, prevent blood clots and improve the condition of skin and hair due to its high content of B-vitamins and vitamin E.

Geminated seeds of buckwheat, pumpkin, sunflower, rye, lentil and soybeans are not less healthy. It is better to eat them fresh in salads.

Cooked Vegetables Are Healthier than Raw Ones
British scientists have discredited the conventional wisdom that raw vegetables are much healthier than the cooked ones. Experts at the Institute of Food Research reported that most boiled and baked vegetables could bring us more health benefits.

Carrots
For example, it doesn’t make sense to eat raw carrot because we can get beta-carotene only if it’s boiled. What’s more, the antioxidant content of boiled carrots is three times higher than that of raw carrots.

Spinach and Broccoli
Cooked spinach and broccoli are also healthier as they supply up to 30% carotenoids (compared to max. 3% contained in raw vegetables).

Tomatoes
Even simmered and boiled tomatoes are far more beneficial because thermal treatment improves the uptake of lycopene, a strong antioxidant that helps prevent blood vessels diseases and lowers the risk of cancer.

Bake Vegetables
Baking is the tastiest and healthiest way to cook vegetables. While they are as healthy as boiled vegetables, baked vegetables taste as if they were simmered.

When Vegetarianism Is Unhealthy
As soon as the summer season starts, many fruit-and-veggies diet fans are filled with happiness. Finally the body can consume plenty of natural vitamins – they rejoice, without suspecting that even the healthiest nutrition can lead to so called “overdose”. When eating fruits and vegetables, the most important thing is not to go too far. A complete denial of animal food is not very welcomed by the body. As well as excessive intake of greenery and some other summer foods. Which ones?

Vegetarian Foods That Should Not Be Overeaten
For instance, except for the green additives to the table it is not recommended to overeat watermelon, raspberries, citrus, currants, sour apples and garlic.

Consequences of Certain Vegetarian Foods Overeating
Even though that watermelon is healthy because it normalizes the stool, in most cases it leads to a heartburn and belch. Raspberries eaten on an empty stomach can cause diarrhoea. Citrus, currants, sour apples are “instigators” of ulcer and gastritis. Garlic is not a welcomed guest in case of hernia of esophagus.

Why Not Becoming Completely Vegetarian?
Even in case of reasonable limits it is not recommended to fill ones diet only with fruits and vegetables – vegetable food does not have a component, which is very important for a human body – protein. Protein is one of the most important building materials for cells, it helps the cells regenerate actively. In any case, it is better to include meat and fish in every menu.

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Why Is Kebab So Unhealthy?
New research of fast food has shockingly revealed that a doner kebab contains the equivalent of a vine glassful of cooking oil, and other junk foods are not far behind. Dietitians claim that eating two of these high fat meals per week can result in a heart attack within 10 years.

Doner Kebab – Too Fat to Be True
Food experts at Hampshire County Council examined menus of popular fast food restaurants, including Chinese and Indian cuisine, pizzas, kebabs, fish and chips, and made worrying discoveries. Denise Thomas, head of nutrition and dietetics at Portsmouth Hospitals Trust, said she was shocked at the results. Lots of the dishes provided daily fat allowance in just one meal. One of the doner kebabs contained 111gr of fat, which is twice the entire fat allowance for one day.

Fast Food – Fat food
If this kebab weighs 400g, the fat content is a quarter of the whole meal. That, on its own, gives you 1000 calories which is equal to a wine glass of cooking oil. Most of kebab fat is saturated, meaning it increases cholesterol levels and thickens arteries.

Eating such food twice a week in addition to your regular diet is like a ticking bomb of congestive heart failure.

Is Junk Food Really That Dangerous?
Denise Thomas comments this the following way. “It depends on the diet you are maintaining. Seniors and people with sedentary lifestyle are less likely to get that fat out their bodies. It’s not a big deal if the rest of your diet is high in fruit and veggies. But if you eat pies, chips and fried foods for breakfast, you are moving directly to a heart attack within 10 years.”

So you’d better cook at home using healthy ingredients, instead of eating fast food killers.

Healthy Cooking Tips
The coming of fall season brings vitamin deficiency. And that’s not only because we get less fresh vegetables and fruit into our diet. As our body adapts to fall season, all nutrients are increasingly consumed. Here are some crucial tips to follow when keeping and cooking the food to make your diet as healthy as possible.

Fruits and Vegetables
Obviously, you have to wash vegetables and fruits well, but make sure you don’t soak them as it’s important to retain vitamins C and B.

Preparing Salads
Do not make more salad than you can eat up.

Don’t in Cooking
Do not cook using copper utensils, because they destroy such essential vitamins as C, E and folic acid.

Milk Keeping
Avoid keeping milk in glass containers as it results in losing riboflavin (vitamin B2) as well as vitamins A and D. Use enamelled containers.

Bread Keeping
Cover bread, otherwise it will lose its essential nutrients.

Cooking Cabbage and Beet
Make sure not to overcook cabbage and beet when boiling.

Preparing Oatmeal
Instead of boiling oatmeal, soak it in boiling water and cover to save all its health benefits.

How to Kick the Sugar Habit?
It’s no secret sweets are fattening and damage our teeth. In fact, eating lots of sugar is both bad for our looks and health. Here are two ways how you can control your blood sugar level. The first way is a low carb diet based on the consumption of protein rich foods and small amounts of fats. The second way is to choose low GI foods (glycemic index). Actually, GI ranks carbohydrates according to their effect on our blood sugar levels. The higher GI produces considerable changes in our blood glucose. Experts say, however, the second way works mostly for diabetics. Low carb diet is more suitable for those who just want to watch their diet.

How to Quit Sugar?
Inveterate sweet tooth persons can’t imagine how they deny themselves sweets. Of course, it’s not like going through withdrawals. However, you will inevitably experience both physical and psychological discomfort and an urge to have something sweet. Here are some tips for those who want to get rid of sugar addiction. If you do everything right, you can make it within 5 days.

Eat More Oatmeal
As a rule, we consume more sugar for breakfast. It’s a great idea to substitute morning sweets with oatmeal slightly sweetened by raw or unfrozen berries. It also makes a nourishing breakfast, so you won’t feel hungry longer and will eat less than usual during the day.

Have Frequent Small Meals
In theory, this diet plan includes breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks during the day. Following this meal schedule, you support normal blood sugar level and fight your sugar addiction.

More Vitamin C
Foods high in vitamin C help lower blood sugar level and cure sugar-related disorders. Eat more apples, oranges and pomegranates; drink fruit juices or just ask your druggist for good vitamins.

More of Natural Food
Sweet tooth person often develops specific eating habits. For example, some have a late-night sweet tooth urge. Figure out the time you need a “sugar fix” and offer yourself a healthier snack – a handful of berries, for example.

Physiologically, it is a good way of adapting your body to reduced sugar consumption. Psychologically, you outwit your own habits.

Give up Coffee
Not only does caffeine invigorate us and increase the blood pressure, but also causes the fluctuations of blood sugar level. What’s more, coffee breaks and tea times “call for” sugar and candies. You don’t need another temptation.

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Makeup: Create Smoky Eyes

2008-10-04T05:41:00.000-07:00

Eye Makeup. How to Create Smoky Eyes by Yourself Smoky eyes

Smoky eyes is a glamourous makeup, which has been one of the most fashionable makeups for a few seasons. It creates a refined and mysterious image. Wondering how to get it by yourself? The key to the perfect smoky eyes is to blend colors properly. Avoid blue hues, choose black, gray, brown or dark green shadows and liners instead. Here are 7 easy steps to create smoky eyes. Below you will find two videos, which will also help you to create it.

What You Will Need for Creating Smoky Eyes

Eye primer (eyeshadow base),
2Shades of shadows: a light one and a darker one,
Eyeliner.
Makeup brushes.
Mascara.

Step 1. Prepare Lids
Start with an eyeshadow base to remove oil from your eyelids and to keep eyeshadow from melting into your eyelid crease.

Step 2. Use Eyeliner
If you’ve chosen a typical black, brown or gray smoky eye, apply a soft eyeliner in one of the colors above the upper lash line. The line should be thicker in the middle of eye. If your choice is jewel-toned eyes, line your eyes with a purple, blue or deep green liner. Use the pencil liner from the inner eye corner to the outer. Smudge both lash lines with a cotton swab or an eyeliner brush.

Step 3. Color on Bottom Lids
To give your bottom lids the color, which will be the key to smoky eyes, apply the liner of a lighter color to the bottom lids: dot it between your lower lashes. The most important point here is to smudge it. To do it, apply a bit of shadow to get full smudge effect.

Step 4. Light Base Color on Upper Lids
Sweep light base color over the lids to the browbones. It’s better to use cream shade of mousse shadow. The shadow should also be shimmery. Thus, you have the eyeliner and the base.

Step 5. Apply Darker Color – Smoky Effect Itself
Choose a darker eyeshadow shade. Using a brush, blend in color starting at your lash line and then applying it into your crease, blending up and outward. Blend color so that the eye liner disappears.

Step 6. Correcting Smoky Eyes
Make sure your eyes match and use a Q-tip, if needed.

Step 7. Apply Volumizing Mascara
Finish your smoky eyes with some coats of black volumizing mascara you usually apply. That’s it!

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2008-10-04T04:50:00.000-07:00

Tips for Beautiful Lips

If you want to turn up the volume of you sexual attractiveness, pay more attention to your lips. Every woman has ever used a lipstick. The average woman consumes about 6 pounds of lipstick over the course of her lifetime. Fortunately lipstick is not harmful for one’s health. And every woman can experiment with lip make-up to make her lips more beautiful. Here you will find some useful tips, how to make lipstick last long, how to choose the right color of the lipstick, how to apply a lip liner and define lip shapes, how to make your lips appear fuller and other lip make-up ideas.

How to make your lips appear fuller

There exist different lipstick types on the market: glossy, matte, creamy and even frost. Chose one that suits you best depending on your lip skin type. For those who have thin lips it is better to choose lighter colors of the lipstick. Darker colors match more to beauties with thicker lips. Lip-gloss makes your lips appear visually fuller at the expense of volume and shine. Such lips sparkle, attract other’s eyes. Lips with lip-gloss applied on them look better on younger faces. So, extra shining lip-gloss is usually not recommended to older women.

Tips how to make lipstick last long
The secret to making your lip color last longer is first of all to apply a layer of foundation, dust some powder on lips and then color. After these manipulations your lipstick will not change color or dark your lips. It’s also useful to apply two coats of lipstick for long lasting lip color. Matt lipsticks normally last longer than the shiny ones.

Applying a lip liner
After preparing the lips, take a lip liner to define the shape of lips. Outlining the lips is good, if you want to prevent lip color bleeding. The color of the lip liner should be close to lipstick color: the best variant would be the same or a little bit darker color.Here are tips how to apply a lip liner. Start at the centre of lips, draw a “V” on bow of lips, after it draw the line to outer corners. Then line the bottom lip. If you want to make your lips look thicker, outline them just outside your lip line. In case you want your lips appear thinner, make the outline just inside your natural lip line. After the shape is defined, fill it with lipstick. After filling the interiors, apply the lipstick in the corners, which is easier with the open the mouth

Some more tip for lip care and a beautiful lip make-up

Use lip care stick before going to bed with your other face treatment. Your lips are sensitive and need care and rest. Very dried and chipped lips can also be helped by applying sunflower oil on them.
You can apply lipstick with a brush.
Mix lip care stick with color lipstick, if your lips tend to look dried and chipped. Too much lip care stick can make the final color brighter in the middle and the rest color concentrate on the periphery of the lips.
Refrain from licking your lips.
Lip-gloss can be applied either alone or on matte lipstick to make your lips shine.
Apply cotton buds to remove excess lipstick.

You can always experiment and create new beautiful looks with different colors of the lipstick and lip liners, mixing lipstick and lip-gloss, drawing different shapes of your lips. While experimenting don’t forget to regularly take care of your lips, because if your lips are healthy, they look much more attractive and can be a real turn-on.

Permanent Makeup Makes Your Face Always Beautiful

Normally we do not look very beautiful in the morning. Even if a woman had a date the day before, wore her favourite and “lucky” dress, had a perfect makeup and the night was fantastic, what a man sees the next morning can differ from that beautiful woman yesterday. The hair sticks up, the mascara was washed off in the shower and the lashes are gray, the lips appear thinner and are no more red, wet and sexy. Even a loving man can notice this difference.
Men like makeup
The vast majority of men cannot distinguish between a “natural” face and a made up one. A woman can have black mascara, a bit of light eyepen, lip liner and lipgloss. And if at the same time there are no sparkling green shadows, pink lipstick and pearly blusher on the face, that means for a man “natural”. The same thing with hair, very often they do not notice, if you have had your hair cut or dyed. Men say they do not like on faces, but in reality men find a made up face much more attractive, if your makeup is well-done.

Permanent beauty with permanent makeup
Imagine that you wake up near your man and your makeup is still on you. At the same time there is no mascara under your eyes and no lipstick on the pillow. You are the same beauty for him in the morning, or while you are coocking, or at a party. How? With permanent makeup.

Permanent cosmetic makeup is a form of cosmetic tattooing. It can also be called “micropigmentation“, “micropigment implantation” or “dermagraphics“. The procedure includes the implantation of tiny individual pigment into the derman skin layer. Eyebrows and lash enhanced, your eyeliner never smudges, fuller looking and more defined lips are guaranteed. You can save your time with permanent makeup, because you need no makeup anymore. By the way, those, who would like to camouflage scars, also benefits from permanent cosmetic makeup. You may want to look your best not only for your beloved, but also in situations, when you cannot apply makeup. For example, if you are a physically active woman (I hope you are), who likes jogging, swimming or aerobics. The following types of permanent cosmetic procedures can be done: eyebrows, lipliner, full lip colour, hair imitation, skin grafts, eyelash enhancement, areola restoration or repigmentation and others.

Do you like yourself more with makeup or without? If you are a busy professional or mom or you just want your husband admire you 24 per day, this is for you. Be beautiful even in the morning.

Eyebrow Shaping. Plucking, Waxing or Tattooing?

Some women do not think they need to pluck their eyebrows. They find their brow shape perfect without tweezing, it hurts therewith. Some of them just have no idea, how to take care of the brows. But in reality even thin and delicate brows need shaping. If your choice is a beautiful eyebrow shape, you should take care for it. There exist some methods of shaping the eyebrows.

Plucking Brows
Millions of women around the world find eyebrow plucking an ideal way to have a beautiful brow shape. Plucking your brows hurts, but if you do it regularly, for example, once or twice a week, during these several days there appear only few hairs and you do not have to pluck a lot. At the same time if you shape your eyebrows with a pair of tweezers quite often, your skin gets less sensitive in these areas. This is why it does not hurt so much. Some of us visit beauty salons to get the brows shaped, some make it by themselves at home. On the one hand, plucking the brows at home is less painful and you always know, at what moment and in what place it is going to hurt. On the other hand, a professional cosmetologist can advise, what brow shape is appropriate for your face type and will do this for you without any mistakes.

Waxing Brows
Beauty salons offer such service as brows waxing. This can be also done at home. Waxing brows can provide a very nice look and brow shape, as well as plucking. One of the drawbacks are in-grown hairs. But you can prevent in-grown hairs by cleansing the brow area with a toner. This should be done immediately after brow waxing. Cleansing grains are also good for it.

Cosmetic Tattooing
Permanent cosmetic makeup is one more alternative to plucking, which has recently become quite widespread. Cosmetic tattooing means implantation of pigment into your skin. It sounds a bit scary, but the result (beautiful eyebrows) lasts really long and you never need to use brow shadows, tint your brows or draw you brows with a pencil. But even with brow permanent makeup you should anyway get rid of extra hairs around the line, that is again plucking or waxing. There exist one more drawback of cosmetic tattooing – if it is not done by a professional, it can turn out worse, than you expect.

Lots of women ignore their brows and do not take care for them. But brows are the part of the face, and if you take care for your lips or skin, why not doing it with the brows? A good start is choosing the proper brow shape. Read about brow shapes for different face types, tips to shape the brows and how to make tweezing less painful in “Eyebrow Plucking. Brow Shape Types and Tips”.

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How to Apply Eye Shadow

We often hear the adage that the eyes are the windows to a person’s soul. In a sense it is true, because we can almost always know what kind of person someone is, or what is the underlying meaning of the words he or she speaks, simply by looking at the eyes. The eyes are prominent features of the face and are used a lot in communicating through non-verbal language. A person’s eyes are the features that attract attention whenever other people look at the face, women would do well to play up their eyes to enhance the face. There is nothing more attractive than lovely, tantalizing eyes.

The trick to creating eyes that will merit more than a second glance lies in the proper application of eye makeup, particularly the eye shadow. Here are a few tips and tricks guaranteed to make the eyes look enchanting.

Blend it Well
One of the keys to perfectly made-up eyes is in how the colors of the eye shadow are blended on the lids. The colors of your eye shadow should be flowing smoothly and harmoniously from one shade to the other upon your lids. To do this, you will need to use three colors for your eye shadow: the base color, the main color, and the highlighter. Apply the base color on your eyelids first, and then put on the main color. Afterwards, highlight the crease of your eyes.

Bring out the Color of Your Eyes
The colors of your eye shadow should bring out the color of your eyes, whether to match it or to go in contrast. Experiment with colors and see how well they go with your eyes.

Leave Your Brow Bone Alone
Putting eye shadow on your brow bone is too much; simplicity goes a long, long way. Put color up to your brow bone, but leave the brow bone itself alone.

Highlight Carefully
The purpose for putting highlighting color on the eyes is to set the eyes off and to complete the effect you are trying to achieve with your eye makeup. So it is important to apply your highlighter carefully. Blend your highlighter at the outer edge of the crease to make your eyes look larger. If your highlighter is too close, you will end up with beady-looking eyes.

Use a Primer
Use a primer before applying your eye shadow. Using it makes your eye shadow look smoother and also makes it last longer on your eyes.

Tone down the Shimmer
Shimmer is great for bringing out the eyes, but be careful in laying it out – it can bring out not just the eyes, but also the lines and the wrinkles.

Limit the Smoky Hue
If you are trying your hand at a smoky eye, try to keep your color on the eyelid and don’t let it come close to the crease.

Work the Lips
If you want to have dramatic red lips, keep your eye shadow light and use a concealer to hide unsightly lines on your lids. You would not want to look like a clown with red lips and heavy eye shadow.

Brighten with White
To make your eyes seem brighter, add a few dots of white just on the inside of eyes.
Color, Color, Color

Experiment with various shades of eye shadow. If you have bought something that you find too dark or bold for you, try to mix it with other colors.

How to Protect Lip Skin in Summer

Most women tend to avoid color lip makeup in summer in order for their lips to get necessary vitamins from the sun and to look more natural on the beach. Instead, many of us use lip balm or lipgloss, but is it really healthy for your lips? Summer is just around the corner, and here are tips on whether to use lip makeup in summer and, if yes, what kind of it to use and how to protect your lips from the summer sun.

Lip Care Products and Lip Cancer
According to scientists at Baylor University, Dallas, it’s better not to use lipgloss on the beach. Lipgloss and lip balsam focus ultraviolet on the tender lip skin, which increases the risk of malignant cell regeneration. Lip cancer is one of the most malignant, it develops faster, than in other body areas.

Tips on Lip Care in Summer
In order to protect your lips on a sunny day, scientists recommend to do the following:

apply lip balm and lipgloss only over sun-protection cream,
if you are planning to spend more than 20 minutes on the beach, apply 30 SPF (Sun protection Factor) cream,
reapply lip balm and lipgloss throughout the day,
in case of any white spots, color change or desquamation of the lip skin for a long time, visit a doctor.

Givenchy Makes a Revolution in the World of Mascara

Round brush instead of the straight one? Definitely it’s a revolution in the world of makeup! Givenchy company presents a new mascara called Phenomen`eyes. Up till now, none of the manufacturers offered such shape of the brush. The creators assure that round brush-ball will oust its precursor from the cosmetic market thanks to the numerous advantages it has: the brush carefully separates each eyelash, it slides in any direction easily and comfortably, from the roots all the way to the tips, without leaving behind even the smallest eyelashes in the inner corner and the tail of the eye.

The mascara’s curling formula (it contains special fixative polymer) along with the brush itself, which thoroughly coats the eyelashes, make the task much easier and create astonishing panoramic effect! In addition, the new product also has strengthening effect thanks to the D-Pantenol component.

Phenomen`eyes will come into stores this august; the line will have two shades – black and brown. I should definitely give it a try!

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How to Apply Foundation

There’re so many types of foundation, or “base”, with so many colors: cream powder, cream sticks, tone mousse. It’s getting really difficult for a modern woman to understand, what kind of foundation to use to have a perfect face tone and an even skin texture. Yesterday we busted some myths about foundation. Today here are the rules how to apply various types of foundation.

Liquid Foundation
Liquid tone cream provides the lightest effect. It’s recommended to apply it using fingers. Do it in the following way: at first put some cream on your palm, then lightly puff the cream over the face skin with your fingertips. To finish up, push the cream into the skin using a fine-pored sponge. The sponge will pick up the excess foundation and spread it even more evenly. For the lightest, semitransparent effect, apply the cream onto a dump, fine-pored sponge. Then apply the base by tapping the sponge on the skin.

Squeeze the sponge when putting the cream onto it, once the sponge is back to its normal form, the cream will be evenly spread.

Thick Cream Foundation
Thick tone cream is used for denser coating. This type of cream usually contains various oils, so the cream fits dry skin perfectly, especially in winter. It’s recommended to apply it using fingers.

Foundation Mousse
Foundation mousse provides the same semitransparent effect as the liquid foundation applied with a sponge. This foundation type can be applied using either a sponge or fingers.

Tone Cream-Stick
Tone cream-stick contains a lot of oil and color pigments. It fits uneven skin with apparent imperfections, but is visible on wrinkled skin. It is best to apply this type of base by tapping your fingertips on the skin, avoiding the eye area. Finish up with some face powder.

Cream Powder
Cream powder combines properties of both tone and powder. The product has good masking abilities, but you should avoid using it on wrinkled skin, as the cream has a tendency to enhance visibility of the wrinkles. There are two application techniques for the cream powder: with a dump sponge for light coating and with a dry sponge for thicker coating.

Womans’ body absorbs about 5 pounds of makeup chemicals a year. As 9 of 10 women use expired makeup, these chemicals are harmful - some of them can even cause cancer.

Always check for expiration date of the product you use to avoid skin damage. If the cream has delaminated or changed its scent, it is best not to use it. Besides, do not forget to wash the sponges regularly, preferably with the gel you use to cleanse your face.

How Long Should You Keep Makeup?

Jars, tubes, boxes with makeup are part of the customary arsenal which women use in the fight for beauty, youth, and attractiveness. But apart from the cosmetic benefits, scent and decorative packing we should also pay attention to one particularly important detail – expiration date. Cosmetics past its expiry date can be a source of bacteria which can bring about different infections, acne, and other complications.

Eye Shadows Keeping
Eye shadows can be kept for a year (some a little bit longer) on conditions that you carefully look after the condition of the brushes, applicators, and sponges. You should wash them at least once a week, or if you are too lazy for that you should better periodically buy new ones.

Mascara Keeping
Mascara can be used for 3 to 5 months; it quickly goes bad due to the frequent contact with air and the eyelashes, but when not used often it simply dries out and should not be diluted.

Powder, Lipstick and Rouge Keeping
Compact and friable powder, as well as dry rouge, “live” for 12 to 18 months; oily rouge and eye liner can be used no more than a year, lipstick and lip gloss – no more than a year and a half.

Eyeliners and Lipliners
Eyeliners and lipliners, as well as deodorants, can be kept for three years.

General Makeup Keeping Tips
Makeup should be kept as far as possible from the sources of heat, cold, and moisture; keep it also away from sunlight. Thereat bathroom is not a good place to keep makeup and perfumery. Bathroom is a good place for keeping soaps, shower gels, and shampoos; but it is not recommended to keep them on an open shelf, better store them in a closable cabinet. Note that shelf life for those products is usually no longer than a year.

Note the Date
When you open some new makeup make sure to write the date when you open it on the package. This way you will know for sure how much longer you can use the substance, nevertheless, you should not wait till it obviously goes bad.

Expired Makeup
Keep your make up as long as the expiry date permits, keep it in perfect condition, and do not use expired products - this way your skin will remain healthy and beautiful for years.

How to Prevent Eye Makeup from Creasing

Your eye makeup is so perfect after you’ve just applied it - you look so nice, so fresh. Self-confident, you leave, but, unfortunately, when you check your makeup in the mirror in the lunch hour, it is no more that great. But how can you come back home after a busy day with the same perfect eye makeup, how do you keep it from creasing? Unfortunately, there is no method that would “work” for everybody. A lot depends on the anatomy of the eyelids. Yet here are some suggestions that might help.

Use Foundation for Eye Shadows
Applying a foundation for eye shadows is a must. First, without the foundation, your eye shadows will slide off. Second, dry eye shadows dry your skin out. Pick an eye makeup primer and corrector of dryish texture or a special eye shadow base as the foundation.

After applying any base, powder your eyelids.

What Kind of Eye Shadow to Choose?
Eye makeup of dry powdery matte eye shadows has the longest staying power. Choose those eye shadows for your daily makeup and save your liquid shadows for special occasions.

How To Apply Eye Shadows Correctly
The thinner the layer of eye shadows, the longer they stay. Use an eye shadow brush for applying dry shadows and an applicator for pearl ones. Do not apply eye shadows with your fingers. Doing so, you won’t be able to smudge them smartly and a natural lipid layer of the skin will make your eye shadows oilier.

Mascara Application Tips

Minimalism is important in summer, like in no other season; the makeup is usually restricted to one product. Mascara is most commonly chosen and the application process transforms into a highly responsible one. Here are some tips which will help you have perfect makeup and make your eyes look ultimately expressive

Remove Excess Mascara from the Brush
Imagine yourself standing at the mirror, you are holding mascara in your hands, and even have opened it already. Hold it! Check whether there is too much mascara on the brush. If so, remove the excess with a tissue. Do not be greedy since such “generosity” will result in nothing else but clots and weighted eyelashes.

Starting to Apply Mascara
Start from the upper eyelashes first; move the brush from the roots to the tips in a curling manner. While at it, look at first up and then to the side – this way you can cover the corner eyelashes better. Even if you do have some clots left in spite of all the effort you put into the process - remove them with a Q-tip.

Cover Eyelashes from Above
Let the mascara dry up a bit once you are done with the first layer and then carry on. Powder the eyelashes before the “second round” to give them some extra volume. Do not forget to cover them from above, especially if your eyelashes are naturally light-coloured. You may not notice the results of such negligence, but others surely will.

Comb Eyelashes
To complete the process comb the eyelashes with a special small comb. Hold it at the roots from below and then carefully turn it up.

Tomorrow I’ll share some secrets of makeup artists with you - they will help you achieve a perfect eye look.

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Eye Makeup Tips. Applying Eyeliner

These days using eyeliners in the daily eye makeup has become very popular – even Hollywood stars do this. Eyes extended to the temples give a woman authoritative and mysterious look. Ideal liner is liquid, in a tube or a bottle. When using the liner you will need light arm movements, but once you master the skill, you will simply not be able to live without it. To learn how to apply eyeliner, use the following tips.

Step 1. Apply Dark Shadows
Apply some black or dark-blue eye shadows along the eyelid line, concentrating mainly on the eye corners. A newbie can make a “rough line” with some powder.

Step 2. Draw the Line
First of all make sure the liner brush does not contain clots of dried dye or some hair. Pull the eyelid with the left hand towards the temple. Make a thin line starting from the outer corner. You can always add some thickness to the line depending on the image you wish to achieve.

Makeup artists use napkin edge as improvised ruler.

Step 3. The Cat’s Eyes Line
If you want to extend the line beyond eyelid bounds, for example, if you want to create the “cat’s eyes” effect, make sure to have some backup. Apply some crumby powder on a sponge or brush and make a line along imaginary liner line. Furthermore, apply the liner along this line; once you are done – brush the left-behind powder with a brush.

You should not extend the line over half centimetre beyond the eye corner since excessive usage of the liner will create theatrical look.

Step 4. Complete the Image with Mascara
To complete the image apply mascara which boosts the eyelashes volume; make sure to apply two layers on eyelashes in the outer eye corner to accent on the lines more.

Lead Found in Leading Brands of Lipstick

Lipstick produced by many leading makeup manufacturers contain too much leads - these data were obtained by a large-scale makeup testing in the US and Canada. The study involved samples of such well-known brands as Dior, L’Oreal and Covergirl. Two-thirds of the examined samples contained twice as much lead, as it is permitted by the sanitary standards.

According to the scientists, even a double exceeding of the lead content standard is harmful to the body, as lead, in the first place, affects the function of the nervous system and the reproductive function. The scientists insist on the firm control of the lead content in makeup products. After I found this information I convulsively checked my lipsticks to know if I used any of the “leading” ones. No, God be thanked, my nervous system is out of danger and I will still have children.

How to Choose the Right Blush Color

A lot of women believe that blush simply does not go with them or that it is impossible for them to select the right color. Yet a single brush-stroke can give a fresh and well-rested look to your face. There are some rules to be followed when hunting for the right blush color.

Check the Blush Color on Your Skin
Never buy blush unless you have checked out the tone on your face. The color in the box may look differently and the blush you liked so much in the shop might not suit you at all once you try it at home.

Light and Blush Color
Examine the tone of the blush in well-lighted room, daylight is preferred. Artificial electrical light may distort the color.

Blush Tones That Suit Every Woman
There are no universal tones, but neutral beige-rosy shades suit almost everyone, while brown-orange ones look bad on literally everyone.

When choosing the blush color, take the color of your lipstick into account - both tones should match.

Natural Way to Choose the Blush Color
The simplest way to determine which shade is the one you need is to pinch your cheeks quite intensively, then the perfect tone should be similar to the one you get on your face after this procedure.

Blush and Lipstick Colors
When applying blush, remember that the blush should match the color of your lipstick. For instance, red lipstick can be matched only with either neutral, almost unnoticeable blush or the one with the same reddish color, similar to the one of the lipstick.

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How to Care for Makeup Brushes

Makeup brushes, particularly made with natural hair, are easy to build up and accumulate dust and dirt quickly. Soon they become a breeding ground for bacteria. Many women with oily skin who often notice the traces of inflammation appear on their face don’t suspect they keep infecting their face skin with their makeup brushes, provoking new rashes. That’s why regular care for your brushes is so important and helps make your useful beauty kit last longer.

Here’re some tips how to take proper care of your makeup brushes.

It’s enough to wash your brushes once every 7-10 days. You can use makeup brush cleansers or any soft shampoo and liquid soap.
Pour warm water in your palm, add some mild shampoo or cleanser, make foam and wash the brush. Then, rinse the brush in running water until the water runs clear.
Gently squeeze your brush and let it dry in a standing position. Make sure not to fluff its bristles.

If your skin is oily and inclined to rashes, it is recommended you cleanse your brushes, besides rinsing. In this case you have to buy a special cleanser to “soak” your brushes in once every three weeks. These cleansers are available at professional beauty stores. There are different brands out there, including Sephora and Smashbox. Do not ever let anybody use your makeup brushes. It’s not hygienic.

After applying any base, powder your eyelids.

How To Apply Eye Shadows Correctly
The thinner the layer of eye shadows, the longer they stay. Use an eye shadow brush for applying dry shadows and an applicator for pearl ones. Do not apply eye shadows with your fingers. Doing so, you won’t be able to smudge them smartly and a natural lipid layer of the skin will make your eye shadows oilier.

Manicure Myths, or How to Make Nails Look Nice and Healthy

You’ve certainly heard so many beliefs about manicure, such as: remove your nail polish time to time to let your nails breathe; or nail polish remover containing acetone is very harmful for the nails; or eating plenty of gelatin makes your nails especially strong and healthy. But all these statements are just myths. Let’s break these and other myths about how to make nails look nice and healthy.

1. There is a view that only specific color of nail polish can match warm or cold tone of skin.
In reality, any color of nail polish may go with any skin tone if you choose the right shade. If your skin is of darker tones, it has a yellow hue. Choose a lilac-colored nail polish or a violet-colored nail polish with yellowish hue. For white skin, pick violet nail polish with blue and cold undertones.

2. Do not file your nails back and forth as it leads to splitting nails. You can file your nails only in one direction.

In reality, filing nails back and forth is absolutely safe if you use a 240 grit nail file or more.

3. You have to remove your nail polish and top coat occasionally to give your nails some air.
In fact, nails are composed of firm keratin, so they can’t breathe. Any coatings, from base coat to fake nails, protect nails from external damage, dryness and fragility.

4. The nail polish remover with acetone content is harmful for nails.
In fact, it’s all the other way round. Acetone removers are just perfect because they fully remove coloring pigments of nail polishes and evaporate quickly. Acetone-free removers evaporate much slower, leaving a sticky layer on nails.

5. Only pale shades of nail polish look good on short nails.
In reality, darker nail polishes are much better for short nails. They give them a nice and tidy look. Short nails with a light neutral nail polish on will look natural but not bright enough. So, depending on the look you want to achieve, you may choose any nail polish color with short nails.

6. Eating gelatin makes nails strong and healthy.
In fact, there is no scientific evidence that gelatin supports the growth of nails and makes them stronger.

7. It is only trimming cuticle off that can make your nails look perfect.
In reality, trimming the cuticle off make it thicker eventually. The more you cut it off, the stronger its growth. Cosmetics for untrimmed manicure can help break the vicious circle. They are gradually removing horny skin and, if used daily, give cuticle a healthy and nice look, preventing dry skin.

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Source:geniusbeauty.com

Proper Hair Care Prevents Hair Loss

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Proper Hair Care Prevents Hair Loss

It is normal, if you see some hairs on your comb after using it. But if you notice lots of hairs on the floor, while you are tidying up your house, it is time to sound the alarm. I have already mentioned the main causes of hair loss in article ”Pregnancy, Stresses and Menopause Lead to Hair Loss“: male sex hormone testosterone, constant stress or shock, pregnancy, hyperactivity of the thyroid glad and others. Some medicines and certain infections can also cause hair loss. You can do nothing about your heredity or hormones at home, but proper hair care helps prevent hair loss. If the problem already exists, it is also possible to reduce hair loss using only home remedies.

Tips against Hair Loss
First of all, the following easy tips help prevent hair loss.

1. Please, love your hair, don’t torture it with tight hair rollers or pigtails. Avoid any hair pulling.

2. Wash your hear regularly using a high quality shampoo and conditioner, which suit your hair type.

3. Avoid changing shampoos frequently, your hair will not like it.

4. When shampooing your hair, each time spend a minute to massage your head. You will stimulate blood supply to the follicles. Or ask your boyfriend (husband) to do this, you will adore it!

5. Comb your hair every day.

6. If you use hair dye, follow all the instructions, and first of all, spread hair dye to the hair roots in the last 10-15 minutes of the whole process. Otherwise you risk to get the inflammation of the hair follicles.

7. Avoid using excess hair gel and hairspray.

8. Wear a hat in winter, because cold affects hair follicles.

9. Excess warmth is bad, too. Try to reduce using the hairdryer. In case you cannot do without it, do not hold hairdryer with hot air over one and the same area for too long.

10. Use protecting hair mask regularly.

11. If your hairstyle allows, wash hair before sleep and let it dry a natural way instead of using a hairdryer after the morning hair wash.

12. Do not comb wet hair.

13. Do not let your face cosmetics mix with your hair care products.

14. Avoid long staying in the sun with head unhatted.

15. Eat healthy food.

Home Remedies for Hair Loss
Your hair is something natural. This is why it needs natural, organic care products. Prepare hair masks at home and apply them, if you want to have healthy and beautiful hair. Here you will find some effective home remedies for hair loss:

Henna mask – you will find the recipe on the package.
Kefir or sour clotted milk mask. Spread kefir or sour clotted milk plentifully on hair and massage it in circular motion. After it cover your hair with polyethylene film for 15 minutes, then wash your hair with warm water.
Castor-lemon mask. 1 teaspoon of castor oil, 1 teaspoon of honey, 1 teaspoon of aloe juice, 1 spoon of lemon juice. Mix the ingredients and apply the mask to your hair. After 25 minutes wash hair. This mask is good for all hair types.
Olive-Egg mask. 1 spoon of olive oil, 1 egg yolk, 1 spoon of lemon juice and 100 gr. of warm water. Mix the ingredients and apply the mask to your hair. After 10 (not more!) minutes wash your hair.
Liquid remedy for hair loss. 8 spoons of lime blossom, 1/2 liter of water. Bring this to the boil and boil 20 minutes more. Cool the liquor and wash your hair with it.

Rules of Hair Loss Remedies Use
Follow the rules below, when preparing a hair mask:

1. Mix the mask ingredients thorougly.
2. Apply the mask right after the preparation.
3. Wash you hair properly after the mask application.
4. Do not exceed the time during which the mask should be applied.

Whatever mask you choose, repeat the process two to three times a week, if you want to reduce hair loss. In order to prevent hair loss, use the mask once a month. You will find more home remedies for hair loss and dandruff in the next articles.

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Cereals Prevent Breast Cancer

Most women trying to be thin and lose weight don’t eat bread. But in reality coarse meal bread and whole grain bread can reduce the risk of breast cancer in young women. This has been found due to a seven-year study of 35000 women. According to the researchers, 350 patients developed malignant breast tumor before menopause. All of them consumed food rich in proteins instead of fibers. As a result, this type of diet was one of the causes of breast cancer. Pr. Janet Cade from University of Leeds claims, that nutrition can have a dramatic impact on cancer development in young women.

The researchers did not find the link between diet and breast cancer for older women, but before menopause particular diets contribute to breast cancer. This means, that those preferring healthy food rich in fibers are less likely to develop breast cancer. To prevent breast cancer eat cereals, muesli, grains, bread, pasta, fruits and vegetables, as they are rich in fibers.

Body and Skin Rejuvenation Diet

Cosmetic care is not enough for a longer healthy and young looking skin; when taking care of the face skin, the diet plays important role as well. To make it short, how fast your body ages depends on what you eat. Below in the text you will learn about some healthy eating habits that will help you stay young longer. A diet can not smooth out the wrinkles, but can prevent the new ones from emerging.

Oatmeal
When was the last time you had some oatmeal? If a long time ago, now is the time to look back at those days and make a bow of porridge into daily breakfast habit. Those of you who have never had oatmeal in their life will be the first ones to notice its rejuvenating abilities. A daily beauty salad, that revives the face complexion is made with cooked oatmeal, slices of fresh fruits and berries.

Drink Water
Insufficient hydration is reflected on your looks before anywhere else. Drink more and more often – up to 8-10 glasses a day. Don’t feel like drinking? Try taking a sip of pure mineral water each time you reach out for a cup of coffee, cookie, or a smoke.

We confuse thirst with hunger or a wish for a smokeonce too often!

Cucumber to Fight Chloasma
Making some salad? Donate a couple of cucumber slices for your face, neck, and hands skin. Cucumber helps get rid of the emerging age related chloasma; freeze a cucumber, thaw it out, and use its juice to wipe your skin.

Eat Red Foods
Red beet and carrots are the kings of the rejuvenation kingdom. Add those vegetables raw to any salad, when making some braise, or even put in water when boiling some pasta.

Green tea
Japanese scientists found out that the polyphenols found in green tea are 20 times more effective than the widely recommended vitamin E; they slow down the aging process in the tissues, act as antioxidants, and lower the cholesterol level. The flavonoids found in green tea can prevent you from developing the heart diseases.

To live longer, drink no less than 2 cups of green tea a day.

Smart Fasting
You could live up to age of 180 if you do some smart fasting; such an outstanding conclusion was made by scientists. As it turns out, when our body encounters extreme situations, such as fasting, it produces a special protein, which can extend our life span at least by 50 per cent. This mechanism was found only in mice so far, but the scientists believe, that our body has a similar one and promise to develop proper technologies soon. Meanwhile, for those of you who wish to activate the “protein of life” on your own, they advise to go for some reasonable fasting. Dieticians, however, note that fasting, especially a long-term one, should be carried out only under a doctor’s supervision.

Lemon in Your Green Tea Cup

It doesn’t need to be mentioned again and again, how healthy green tea is, everybody knows it already. But how lemon effects the beverage is something no one has the idea of. Meanwhile adding lemon to green tea also significantly contributes to the increase of the antioxidant effect of green tea. You already know, that these very substances decrease the risk of cardiovascular diseases and even cancerous tumors. However, instead of lemon you can use any other citrus fruit. This would make the beverage tastier, more fragrant and five times more beneficial to your health.

Adding fruit juices to green tea makes the catechin content five times more, and when you add citrus juice to it, it becomes seven times more. And if you mix ascorbic acid with green tea, you will get a beverage, which is 13 times fuller of cathechin, than an average cup of tea.

In general green tea has much more healthy substances than black tea has: potassium, iodine, fluorine, copper, vitamins С, В1, В2, РР, К and organic acids, that improve the digestion. Moreover, green tea contains catechin and tannin, which are strong antioxidants. So, feel free to add different fruit juices to green tea.

Strawberries – Very Delicious and Very Dangerous

Strawberries with cream or cold champagne – how can anyone resist such a temptation? You should, however, resist if you are well acquainted with such ailments as allergies, gastritis, gastroduodenitis, especially gastric ulcer.

Strawberry and Sickly Stomach
A failure to stay away from strawberries can cause those who suffer from the abovementioned sicknesses, experience some serious mucous irritation. The troublemakers are the seeds which cover the entire surface of the appealing berries. Those are particularly dangerous for people with sickly stomachs.

Strawberry, Gout and Hypertension
There is also a belief that strawberries are not welcomed for people suffering from gout, as the berry can worsen the joint issues. For those suffering from hypertension and taking pills based on enaphryl because of that, medics recommend being careful as well, since the substance once mixed with the evil berry can hit kidneys.

Strawberry and Allergy
Strawberries are simply prohibited for highly allergic people, since the porous structure of the berry easily stores a highly powerful allergen – the pollen.

Why Strawberry Is Dangerous
Healthy people should also be cautious, when consuming strawberries, as the berry may seem to be fairly clean, but at the same time contain tons of dangerous parasites, which arrived on it with the organic fertilizers added by the farmers. You can not get rid of those parasites by simply rinsing the berries out. You can, however, process the berries with a special device – ozonizer. Processing them with the ozone does no harm to the good qualities of the strawberries, but you surely can reduce health hazards this way.

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Which Drink Is the Healthiest One?

Every day we drink water, juices, tea etc. Each of those drinks has its own effect on our health. But which drink, consumed by people regularly, is the healthiest one? Some researchers tried to find an answer to this question. They singled out eight pretenders for the title of the leader and explained the values of each.

Healthy Drink #8. Orange Juice
Orange juice found itself in the eighth place. The juice has vitamin C, which boosts the immunity, protects from various diseases, such as cataract, cancer etc. In addition, the orange juice is a great source of the folic acid, which is very important for the prevention of the fetal development defects.

Healthy Drink #7. Cranberry Juice
It is hard to overestimate the value of the cranberry juice. It helps prevent the gum diseases and fight the urinary tract infections. The juices sold in stores often contain sugar in them.

It is advised to choose the 100% pure cranberry juice (no sugar added) or to drink no more than 1 glass of it a day.

Healthy Drink #6. Tomato Juice
The next drink in line for the leadership is unsalted tomato juice. It protects us against a number of cancer types. It contains a large concentration of lycopene, even more than the fruits contain themselves. Lycopene is associated with lowered cancer risk of the following organs: mouth cavity, lungs, stomach, liver, mammary glands, uterine neck, colon and rectum. In addition, lycopene protects the heart from the action of the free radicals, and hence it reduces the risk of the cardiovascular diseases

Healthy Drink #5. Hot Chocolate
The next drink is particularly loved by children. It is the hot chocolate or cocoa. The valued properties of those drinks lie in the fact that they lighten the mood and prevent the development of the cardiovascular diseases. In addition, cacao contains a lot of polyphenols which protect the cells from the action of the free radicals. Consumption of hot chocolate enhances production of the hormone serotonin (low levels of it have bad effect on one’s mood).

Healthy Drink #4. Soy Milk
Next drink was the soy milk. Regular consumption of this substance helps reduce the risk of developing the cardiovascular diseases. The dietary fibers and proteins found in the soy milk lower the level of “bad” cholesterol and triglycerides. You can not, however, completely replace the cow’s milk with the soy milk since then your body will not receive calcium and vitamin A and D.

The soy also contains phytooestrogens, which are associated with breast cancer development. Hence you should consume it in reasonable amounts.

Healthy Drink #3. 1% Fat Milk
Applicant number three was the 1% fat milk. It contains complex carbohydrates, proteins and a little bit of fat, thus the product is digested slowly and you do not feel hunger longer. Thanks to it the blood sugar stays stable. Milk also contains calcium and vitamin D. Calcium assists cells at burning fat, facilitating this way normal rate of weight loss.

Healthy Drink #2. Mint Tea
The second place went to the mint tea. It can fight an upset stomach, helps relieve colics, assists digestion by helping the food go through the gastrointestinal tract.

Healthy Drink #1. Green Tea
Green tea was named to be the leader. It is valued for the flavonoids it contains, which help reduce the risk of osteoporosis, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases. In addition green tea is valued for the polyphenols and antioxidants which protect the cells from the damages and neutralise the free radicals.

Healthy Breakfast

Nutritionists state that breakfast in a hurry is not just unhealthy, it is even harmful. According to the widespread belief, breakfast is the most important meal of the day and it should include certain foods. Which ones? Here’s one example. It could be fresh fruits or dark chocolate, as fruits are rich in antioxidants and dark chocolate has a large amount of flavones which prevent various cardiovascular diseases. Below you will find more ideas of making your breakfast healthy.

Healthy Breakfast 1. Cantaloupe
It is not forbidden to have for breakfast a slice of cantaloupe with homemade non-fat cheese and a bit of cinnamon with berries. The melon and berries have antioxidants and a piece of fat-free cheese is a substitute for a daily norm of dairy products required for the body.

Healthy Breakfast 2. Yoghurt
A healthy breakfast could consist of non-fat yogurt with fruits and nuts or fruit drinks with a piece of tofu, a glass of grapefruit or pomegranate juice.

Healthy Breakfast 3. Soup
A homemade soup for breakfast is also welcomed. However, this is the case only when it has vegetables in it, even if they were bought frozen.

Healthy Breakfast 4. White Chicken Meat
A piece of tofu and white chicken meat are ideal for breakfast. Together these ingredients are not just tastier, but are also very healthy as the body gets proteins from them.

Healthy Breakfast 5. Salad
Fresh vegetable salads or just raw vegetables for breakfast are also good. Fresh vegetables are low in calories and are rich in antioxidants and cellulose. As known, cellulose facilitates the dropdown of cholesterol in the body. A wonderful alternative for them are various nuts. They are also rich on cellulose and healthy proteins.

Diet for Healthy and Beautiful Hair

Doctors insist on the notion that the health of hair depends on the blood circulation and on the diet. Also it depends on the wellbeing of thyroid, liver and the level of stress. It does not matter if you already suffer from hair loss or just want to prevent it, these tips from the professionals will come handy anyway.

Fresh Fruits and Vegetables for the Hair Health
You should control all ingredients in your food. Most eatables do not have enough vitamins, minerals and nutrients. For instance, by consuming organic food you significantly improve the health of your hair. Fresh fruits and vegetables are especially healthy as they improve the condition of your hair and your skin very quickly.

Sulphur for Beautiful Hair
Foods which are rich in sulphur and silicon, such as onion, garlic, green leaved vegetables and eggs, are also very healthy. Sulphur, which is often called “the mineral of beauty” and is found in high concentration in hair, skin and nails, highly improves circulation and lowers any inflammatory processes. There is a theory that an adequate amount of sulphur can lead to hair growth in people who suffer from baldness or hair loss. Foods rich in iodine and calcium, such as marine algae, also assist in hair growth and in the increasing of the density of the hair.

General Healthy Hair Diet
Less coffee, sweets and salt is also very helpful in making your hair healthy and beautiful. Instead of coffee or sparkling water drink mineral water as human body consists of 60-80 percent of water. Lack of water in the body can lead to degradation of cells and as a result the health and beauty of hair becomes worse.

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Hair Split Ends

Split ends in the hair are the most common problem among those who don’t have their hair cut regularly. When hair grows to a certain length, the protective layer of the hair, a cuticle, breaks down, causing the hair fiber to split. It often happens with hair ends, but hair may also split all the way down. As a rule, split ends are 1-inch long, and they are lighter than the rest of hair.

Tips to Avoid Split Ends
Here are some tips to help you avoid split ends or delay the problem.

Drink more water. Water tones our body and hair and moisturizes hair from within.
Do not brush your hair often. Frequent brushing damages the hair cuticle.
Never comb wet hair as it might weaken your hair.
Instead of brushes with metal bristles, use a hair brush or a comb with sparse bristles. A wooden hair brush is also a good option.
Choose shampoo and conditioner carefully to fit the type and condition of your hair.
Do not trim your hair with blunt scissors. It makes split ends even worse.

Split ends are caused by physical or chemical stress of your hair.

Hairstyling to Cause Split Ends
Avoid hairstyling compositions (such as hairsprays, fixing gels, mousses, hair wax) and shampoos with alcohol content. Alcohol dries hair out and makes it brittler. When drying hair with a hairdryer, use cool air blow. Using hot air blow dries hair out and makes it thinner and brittler.

Hair Dye to Cause Split Ends
Do not dye your hair often. Whatever the quality and price your hair dye is, it dries and weakens hair anyway.

The hair starts splitting when it needs more moisture and loses natural fats (surface skin fat). Surface skin fat is a natural fatty oil that saturates your hair.

How to Remove Split Ends
If you’ve faced the problem of split ends, all you need is to cut them off and keep doing it every 6-8 weeks as well as to pick split end treatment products.

Hair Care in Summer
Get rid of hairclips as their uneven (or jagged) ends may damage and even break your hair. Protect your hair from sunlight. Excessive exposure to the sun without headwear also dries your hair out.

Moisturizing is what makes your hair look beautiful and healthy.

Hair Care in Cold Weather
In cold or bad weather, you should get your long hair into a bun to prevent static hair caused by the contact with woolen or synthetic clothing as well as to protect your hair from harmful environmental influences.

Most Stressful Jobs

Do you often experience a job-related stress? You come back home exhausted and you wished it were Sunday again? Do you think nothing could be harder than your job? American Physiological Association decided to make a list of the most stressful jobs. Top jobs on the list are those many people just dream of getting.

5. Peeple Employed in Service Sector
Those employed in service sector are on the fifth position in the list of the most stressful jobs. Their stress stems from having to be polite and dealing with unhappy customers daily.

4. Baby Sitters
Nurses and baby sitters placed fourth. While this job is inherently difficult, it is not high-paying.

3. Teachers
Teachers placed third. They are exposed to constant stress because they work with specific target audience – children who are pretty difficult to deal with. To cap it all, they have to cope with pressures of parents, students and their management.

2. Creative Jobs
Creative personalities placed second. Movie directors, writers, journalists, painters are not able to separate their work from personal life, and that’s why they find it difficult to rest. Along with overwork, they always need for recognition, which contributes to their stress.

1. Celebrities
Public professions, like showbiz stars, TV hosts and politics are on the top of stressful list. Not only should they look perfect, they are also chased by paparazzi. Add to that their hectic schedule and always being on the road. Movie stars, for example, can be filming on other continents for many months, away from their family and friends.

When Food before Sleep Is Healthy

How many times it was said that having some food before bed is unhealthy. But it turns out that some foods eaten before sleep are not unhealthy at all, but, on the contrary, are very beneficial. They are not just harmless to our organisms - they help us to fall asleep faster. Usually such foods contain such elements as serotonin and melatonin in their chemical composition, as well as magnesium. The last one relaxes body muscles, which facilitates a pleasant falling asleep.

Why Eating Banana Before Sleep?
The most “serotonized” fruit is banana. It means that it is not forbidden to be taken in before sleep.

Why Taking Camomile Potion Before Sleep?
Among herbal potions a camomile drink is very healthy before bed. It has a light soporific effect and is an ideal natural relaxant both for the body and soul.

Why Drinking Warm Milk Before Sleep?
Warm milk is a good alternative to camomile. It contains tryptophan – amino acid which has soothing effects, and calcium which helps the brain to absorb tryptophan. That is why milk as if plunges a person into half-forgotten feelings of early childhood and helps to fall calmly asleep.

Why Oatmeal Porridge Before Sleep?
A small plate of oatmeal porridge will have a relaxing effect and will fend off hunger, for oatmeal is nothing else but a source of soporific melatonin. Especially if a bit of honey is added to it.

Why Cracking Almond Before Sleep?
A handful of almond will also help fall asleep. It contains tryptophan and a sufficient amount of relaxing muscles magnesium.

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How to Stay Young and Beautiful Longer

Often enough our lifestyle — daily routine, work, kids, and other circumstances - simply prevent us from spending enough time on ourselves. Yet, at the same time each woman would love to stay young and beautiful as long as possible. If we want to stay so longer, using high-quality cosmetics is not the only beauty rule out there; some other simple rules should be followed daily. Anyone can do it. So, your own youth and beauty are in your hands.

Beauty Rules in Summer. Sun
Do not forget to wear protective sunglasses; it will help you prevent wrinkles from popping up around the eyes. Protect your skin from sun rays as well. Tanning is surely in fashion those days, yet by no means it is a healthy procedure, if done too often and without skin and eye protection.

Beauty Rules at the Office. Coffee
Try to limit yourself in the amount you consume this “heavenly drink” - coffee. Do not stick to the “vigor drink” only, but remember about mineral water and green tea as well.

Beauty Rules at Work. Computer
Remember to keep your back straight. Proper back posture is very important if you want to have well toned skin on your neck. Also, don’t forget about eye exercises to maintain good eye health.

Beauty Rules at Night. Cinema
Late night TV sessions - can you say a NO to this habit? Do not forget that we need at least 7 hours of sleep every night. Sleep is the time when skin cells regenerate.

Beauty Rules at Home. Cosmetics
Using the flagging strength just to creep to the pillow? No matter how tired you are by the evening, make sure you do your evening cosmetic procedures before sleep. Remember, you should clean and moisturize your skin before going to bed - at least one hour before, so that your skin has enough time to absorb the cosmetics, and the creams do not end up on the pillowcase.

Germinated Seeds Make You Younger

Germinated seeds are not a tribute to fashion. It is qualitatively different food with healing and preventive properties. The secret is that germinating seeds have the increased content of potassium, iron, magnesium and other useful substances. They improve the functions of the internal organs, protect from infections and make us generally younger.

For example, germinated wheat seeds normalize the heart and brain functions, prevent blood clots and improve the condition of skin and hair due to its high content of B-vitamins and vitamin E.

Geminated seeds of buckwheat, pumpkin, sunflower, rye, lentil and soybeans are not less healthy. It is better to eat them fresh in salads.

Juices Inhibit Drugs Absorption

Scientists at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, discovered the components of fruit juices inhibit the absorption of drugs into the blood. So far, it has been known only about bergamottin in grapefruit juice that reduces the activity of ferment responsible for breaking down drugs in the bowels.

New study shows that naringin (substance that gives the bitter taste to grapefruit) blocks OATP1A2 protein that transports drugs from small intestine to the blood. On the other hand, if you wash your pill down with water, it will be half-absorbed into the blood. The ability to block the protein transporter has been also discovered in apple and orange juices. That’s why, scientists advice that you wash down your drugs strictly with water.

Vegetarian Foods That Should Not Be Overeaten
For instance, except for the green additives to the table it is not recommended to overeat watermelon, raspberries, citrus, currants, sour apples and garlic.

Consequences of Certain Vegetarian Foods Overeating
Even though that watermelon is healthy because it normalizes the stool, in most cases it leads to a heartburn and belch. Raspberries eaten on an empty stomach can cause diarrhoea. Citrus, currants, sour apples are “instigators” of ulcer and gastritis. Garlic is not a welcomed guest in case of hernia of esophagus.

Why Not Becoming Completely Vegetarian?
Even in case of reasonable limits it is not recommended to fill ones diet only with fruits and vegetables – vegetable food does not have a component, which is very important for a human body – protein. Protein is one of the most important building materials for cells, it helps the cells regenerate actively. In any case, it is better to include meat and fish in every menu.

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Pros and Cons of Coffee

Many people can’t think of their working day without a cup of coffee. Coffee is both tasty and healthy. Some people believe coffee is harmful, for example, to their cardiovascular system. New studies, however, have proven otherwise. The question is what prevails in coffee – advantages or disadvantages? And how can we harness the benefits of this tasty beverage and minimize its negative effects?

Pros of Caffeine
Due to its caffeine content, coffee is a stimulant that boosts out activity. Coffee is a great diuretic and (in spite of conventional wisdom) does not influence blood pressure. A cup of coffee is refreshing and increases our attention.

Cons of Caffeine
At the same time, however, caffeine decreases our stamina because it prevents coronary vessels form supplying enough oxygen. It is not advisable for those suffering from digestive disorders to drink coffee on an empty stomach.

You shouldn’t drink tea and coffee after meal either because caffeine hinders digestion, promoting fermentation and decaying processes in stomach.

Cons of Coffee
Coffee removes such essential substance as vitamin B1 from our body. And this is what supports the normal functioning of our nervous system and regulates carbohydrate metabolism. B1 deficiency causes insomnia and depression.

Best Way to Drink Coffee
Physicians recommend that we drink beverages with caffeine content not more than 2-3 times a week. That’s how our body can fully recover.

Night Shift Job Causes Cancer

If you think working the night shift is safe to your health, you make a mistake. In fact, experts at the World Health Organization (WHO) classify night work as carcinogen. WHO is officially announcing their findings as early as in December of this year. The organization is also going to insist on putting night shift jobs on the list of perceived carcinogens.

American Cancer Society is expected to join the initiative and put the night shift jobs on the list, too. WHO’s findings are based on the data provided by authorized agency indicating that both men and women who work the night shifts are more likely to get breast cancer or prostate cancer. One of the theories goes that the cancer is caused by biorhythm disorders.

Shampoos and Creams are Poisonous

On average, each person uses nine hygiene products daily that contain 126 various ingredients in total. While existing safety tests can show if the products cause flushed skin, rash or itching, their long-term effect on our health and environment remains unknown. So-called “cocktail effect” is the major reason for concern. Every day we apply many toxins of different nature to our skin, and nobody can say for sure if they won’t harm our health in future.

Chemicals are basic components of shampoos and hand creams. These chemicals seep through the skin and can store in fat tissues as well as in the liver, kidneys, reproductions organs and in brain. Cosmetics manufacturers complain about stirring up hysteria, but you can’t argue the facts. Scientists detect phthalate plasticizers in urine, parabens (preserving agents) in mammary tumors, artificial flavorings and anti-bacterial remedies in the milk of breastfeeding mothers.

Medical studies show that flavorings can provoke asthma, cleaning agents in shampoos can damage eye mucosa, and chemicals used in hair dyes may cause urinary bladder cancer and lymphoma.

With pharmaceutical industry, suspicious products would be withdrawn from the market and huge funds would be invested in the safety studies for drugs. As far as cosmetics industry is concerned, safety policy is neglected. And while many people tend to believe in promises of smooth skin and snow-white smile, the hygiene products with potentially harmful components are still being sold and used. And who thinks in the mornings of how poisonous the hygiene items on the bathroom ledge could be?

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Eating Fish Protects Eyesight

Those days, when millions of people spend most of their day in front of computer and pressure on the eyes is really extreme, it is time to listen to the medics’ advices. And what they recommend is consumption of fatty fish at least once a week – they claim that by doing so we can prevent development of eye illnesses when we get old.

British scientists held a study which was specifically designed to examine this question. They established that regular consumption (at least once a week) of fatty red fish decreases the probability of having poor eyesight beyond the age of 60 by 50%.

In addition, it was also discovered that only red fish, such as tuna, salmon, mackerel, has the ability to protect eyesight.

Healthy Cooking Tips

The coming of fall season brings vitamin deficiency. And that’s not only because we get less fresh vegetables and fruit into our diet. As our body adapts to fall season, all nutrients are increasingly consumed. Here are some crucial tips to follow when keeping and cooking the food to make your diet as healthy as possible.

Fruits and Vegetables
Obviously, you have to wash vegetables and fruits well, but make sure you don’t soak them as it’s important to retain vitamins C and B.

Preparing Salads
Do not make more salad than you can eat up.

Don’t in Cooking
Do not cook using copper utensils, because they destroy such essential vitamins as C, E and folic acid.

Milk Keeping
Avoid keeping milk in glass containers as it results in losing riboflavin (vitamin B2) as well as vitamins A and D. Use enamelled containers.

Bread Keeping
Cover bread, otherwise it will lose its essential nutrients.

Cooking Cabbage and Beet
Make sure not to overcook cabbage and beet when boiling.

Preparing Oatmeal
Instead of boiling oatmeal, soak it in boiling water and cover to save all its health benefits.

Why Does Hair Turn Grey?

Grey hair is a common sign of aging. Our hair turns grey because the pigment cells in the hair die. As a rule, we go grey gradually. The color of hair changes from grey when there is still some pigment in hair to silvery white when pigment disappears completely. Stresses at any age may cause premature grey hair. It suggests that our nervous system plays role in the pigment formation.

Premature grey hair shows you need to strengthen your overall health, especially your nervous system. In this case, vitamins B2, B6, B1 and PP can help.

The B-vitamins deficiency weakens the nervous system and overall metabolism, which influences the nourishment of hair and pigment formation in its turn. Lack of vitamin B2 causes disorders in the pigment formation process. Vitamin PP is essential for the nervous system as well as for proper hair and skin metabolism. Finally, pantothenic and para-aminobenzoic acids promote hair growth and the formation of hair pigment.

Therefore, if you want to avoid premature grey hair, get more of these vitamins and keep stress away.

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Honey Instead of Antibiotics

Honey is well known for its various healthy properties. But scientists could not even imagine that this common folk remedy is in fact that effective. Canadian researchers discovered that honey can destroy the bacterium which brings about chronic runny nose. The effectiveness of this remedy in some cases even surpassed the one of antibiotics.

The Effect of Honey on Bacteria
Canadian scientists from Ottawa University studied effect of honey on 11 strains of organisms, including such dangerous disease agents as golden staphylococcus and blue suppurative bacillus. The last two disease agents often develop resistance to antibiotics, so that they no longer get affected by them.

Honey Better than Antibiotics?
As it turned out, honey managed to kill bacteria in solution as well as on the surface of water. The effectiveness was furthermore compared with the effectiveness of antibiotics.

The antibiotic-resistant bacteria also died under the treatment with honey.

Honey Effect on Runny Nose
The scientists stated that this study confirmed that honey can cure chronic runny nose. It is well known that runny nose can be brought about by viruses as well as bacteria. Viral runny nose usually does not require treatment with antibiotics and will go away on its own.

When Honey Is Essential
Bacterial one, on the other hand, needs to be treated with antibiotics; but if the bacteria is resistant to antibiotics the illness progress and take a chronic form. When the disease is chronic honey can be used as an effective replacement of antibiotics and can help you cure it.

How to Perm Hair Safely?

Permed hair is a good trick women with thin and smooth hair can use as well as those who want to have a nice hairstyle all the time. On the other hand, hair perming strongly influences the structure of hair, which can lead to serious problems in some cases. Here is how you can ease possible bad effects of hair perming.

Before Hair Perming
Do not dye hair or enhance the color of your hair using chemical remedies before hair perming. That will overburden your hair. In addition, perming agent will make the hair lighter anyway. It should be a minimum two weeks interval between dyeing and hair perming.

Hair Perming Contraindications
You’d better reschedule your hair perming if you feel sick or have low blood-pressure. By the way, hair perming requires warm room and your full stomach.

After Hair Perming
Right after hair perming your hair is very sensitive. Therefore, try to avoid washing your hair three days after hair perming. For washing premed hair, use permed hair shampoo or mild shampoo for damaged hair.

Hair Masks for Permed Hair
Hair masks providing healthy substances (moisturizing panthenol and keratins, collagen and silk proteins) can help moisturize and strengthen permed hair and make it shiny and silky again. Hot oil hair masks bring the same effect.

There are some hair-friendly perms with low alcohol content available on the market. This is what you are looking for if you are out for a perm.

Perming and Hair Color
If hair perming pales your hair, use organic remedies to enhance your hair color. These remedies not only add richer color to your hair but also help make it healthier. Organic dyes cover the hair with protective layer, horny layer gets smooth making your hair shiny.

Split Ends after Hair Perming
Often, hair perming leads to split ends. To make hair look healthy, trim the ends off regularly or apply a special cream.

Comb or Brush for the Permed Hair?
To make your curls last longer, brush your hair with a wide-toothed comb. Hair brushes or combs with close-set teeth impair the form of your curls.

The “Gloomy” Age Has Been Finally Calculated

Young people struggle against the lack of independency, while elderly - from the idea of approaching of death. But the ones who go through the hardest times are, as scientists believe, those “over 40“. Moreover, the peak of this crisis takes place around the age of 44. Earlier studies in this area showed that psychological health of the person does not depend on the person’s age. Yet, specialists from University of Warwick, Dartmouth College in the U.S. opposed those results.

The Age Study
They conducted one of the largest studies in the area of psychological health. Two million of respondents from America, Europe and some other countries were questioned during the study. The scientists organized the data they received into a “chart of happiness”. According to this schedule, people accept themselves the most during their youth and when they hit the retirement age, while the middle age seems to be the unhappiest and the most challenging period for them.

Respondents
The scientists were very careful when selecting the respondents for their study and did their best to ensure that the range of people who participated in it included all kinds of social groups, nationalities, income statuses, interests, and so on. The results of the study were practically consistent regardless of the category that the person belonged to: either it was a wealthy or a poor person, one with a family or a single, male or female.

Forty four appears to be the most challenging age for everyone.

Why We Are Happy in Youth
Specialists presented a couple of theories at ones which commented on the reasons behind such tendency. Some believe that during our youth we are filled with aspiration and wishes which seem to be quite accomplishable at that time. But as years pass we go through various disappointments, and feel like giving up or reconsider our personal values.

When Life Is Not Easy
Andrew Oswald, one of the developers of the study, noted that by far not everyone can become a rock star or an outstanding soccer player. They said that reality hits us with the problems and hardships of life when we reach the age of 30-40. But as we grow older we learn to accept the truth of life and start to feel more comfortable about it. By the age of 50 most people already are in the process of overcoming this psychological fall.

Why We are Happy in Youth
Perhaps, realization of the fact that such state is a natural matter for this particular age will help go through this period and by the age of 70, of course, if our physical health is in relatively good condition, we can be as happy and psychologically healthy as we were during our twenties, the scientists believe.

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Unreasonable Cleanliness May Cause Diseases

Pursuit of cleanliness is an asset. But too much water drowned the miller, as they say. Scientists found that chasing dirt may increase the risk of various diseases. According to statistical data, there was a sharp increase in type 1 diabetes among children for the last 5 years. Scientists have been unable to explain the upsurge for a long time until they finally found the link between the diabetes in kids and their parents’ unreasonable pursuit of cleanliness.

Studies show some bacteria and viruses that live in the air provide a kind of “tempering” to our body. They make children’s bodies develop immune proteins, which lowers the risk of diseases in future. One of these bacteria is turned out to prevent type 1 diabetes.

The lack of this bacterium in the air can lead to allergies, asthma and other diseases related to weak immune system.

Experiments over laboratory mice supported the findings. Gnawers who grew under bacteria free conditions were 80% more likely to suffer from various diseases than mice placed into regular environment.

I don’t mean to say you should throw your vacuum cleaner away or let dirty dishes pile in a sink to temper your body – that will only make a breeding ground for bacteria and viruses. Just make sure your house in not totally sterile.

13 Healthy Foods for Good Eyesight

Maintaining good eyesight throughout life is challenging. Right diet will make the task easier, for example, if you add some avocado, spinach or beans to your daily diet. Having perfect eyesight in youth doesn’t mean you will be able to see as clearly when you become a senior citizen. 30% of seniors worldwide 65 years of age suffer from eyesight diseases. This figure goes up to 50% among people 80 years of age. While some diseases can be cured, the others can cause blindness.

What Is Age-related Macular Degeneration?
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of vision impairment. Macular is an area in the back of the eye that sends visual information to the brain. Statistics shows that nearly 30% of people over 75 years of age suffer from AMD. It is not only aging to blame, however. Intensive sun exposure, smoking, alcoholism and even excessive weight significantly contribute to the risk of vision deterioration. Your diet may also play its role.

Latest studies show that high fat foods and the lack of vegetables in your diet aggravate retinal deterioration.

How to Keep Your Eyes Healthy?
The most common natural remedies for bad eyesight are carrot and blackberry. They are rich in substances that strengthen our eyes. Scientists, however, are losing their interest in these natural foods. Latest studies show that fruit and vegetables of green and yellow colors are more beneficial for retina than those of orange color. They contain zeaxanthin and lutein, which are pigments with stronger healing effect.

List of Foods for Eye Health
Surprisingly, these magic pigments have been also found in foods of animal origin. Check out the list of healthy food for eyes. Doctors encourage us to choose the most suitable items from the list and get them into our regular diet (in theory, there must be at least five items from the list):

Spinach
Head cabbage
Loose leafed cabbage
Marrow5. Corn
Broccoli
Brussels sprout
Lettuce
Leaf lettuce
Beans
Pistachios
Chicken eggs
Avocado.

The Best Cancer Preventive

A study was conducted in Israel which revealed a correlation between painful moments in woman’s life and development of breast cancer. The university Ben-Gurion, Beer-Sheva, Israel, studied 255 females aged under 45. The women shared one thing in common - each of them was diagnosed with breast cancer. The information about those women was compared to the one about 367 healthy women who shared with them the age group. It’s notable, that women diagnosed with cancer had life situations of the similar kind before the disease development.

The results of the study showed apparent connection between painful life events, such as loss of a parent or both parents, relatives, or husband, parents getting divorced when the woman (child) was under 20 years old. The scientists noted that a woman has to go through a number of such painful events in her life for them to result in triggering cancer development. The possibility of such women to develop breast cancer is higher by 62%.

In the course of the study the scientists also discovered much higher depression level with low optimism and happiness level in women diagnosed with breast cancer when compared to healthy women. The scientists suggest that there is a negative correlation between cancer development and depression or lack of happiness in the female’s life. “The happier you are and the more optimism you have in your life, the lower chances of you developing breast cancer” - believes the supervisor of this study.

So, dear ladies, please, don’t be pessimistic and try to find at least one single positive thing in every situation.

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Source:geniusbeauty.com

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Acute Backache Treatment Methods. Home Remedies

Backache can catch everyone off guard, in this situation something should be done quickly. This article tells about home remedies, that help to get rid of acute backache and also dietaries for backache. These tips are useful for those, who experience back pain, but may not or do not want to take pain relievers, like allergic people or pregnant women. Pregnancy is often associated with backache, as the body of a pregnant woman changes a lot because of the growing baby, the increase in weight and the change in the center of gravity. As pregnant women are not allowed to take particular medicines, there exist home remedies for back pain, which are safer. These home remedies are efficient not only for expecting moms, but also for any other person suffering from acute backache.

Tips to Get Rid of Acute Backache
Apart from the exercises, that lessen and prevent backache, which were described in article “Backache Treatment Methods. Physical Exercises”, use home remedies and follow the tips below, if you are experiencing acute back pain.

Lay down and let your back muscles relax.
Ask somebody to massage the aching area gently. Massage with herbal oils can be more effective.
Place a hot towel or a hot-water bottle on the aching area for 20 minutes.
Apply a raw potato poultice to the aching area.
Take vitamin C (2.000 mg daily).
Mix lemon juice (1 lemon) with salt (0.5 teaspoon) and take the mixture twice daily.
Take 2 garlic cloves every morning.
Fry 10 garlic cloves in 50 ml of mustard, sesame or coconut oil in a frying pan on a slow fire till they are brown. Cool the garlic oil and rub the aching area of the back with it. After two hours the oil can be washed away.

General Tips for Backache Treatment
If you are not experiencing acute backache and suffer from backache only seldom, you should anyway pay attention to your back. Follow these easy, but useful tips to prevent back pain:

If you have to sit or stand for long periods of time, do not forget to change your position from time to time.
If you have to lift heavy things, straighten your knees and keep your back straight all the time as you are lifting the load.
Choose a firm mattress to sleep on. Do not sleep face down.
Choose a chair with good back support.
Give up smoking.
Do regular exercises for back, visit swimming-pool regularly or practice yoga.

Nutrition for a Healthy Back
Backache prevention and treatment are also connected with diet. Daily meals of a person taking care of their back should contain plenty of raw vegetables and fruits (except bananas). The backache sufferer should have three to four meals every day, which include, apart from fruits and vegetables, wholewheat products, milk and fruit juice. One suffering from back pain should avoid fatty and fried food, sugar, spicy condiments, strong tea and coffee.

For those, who do not like eating plenty of raw vegetables, there exist many recipes of salads including both fresh vegetables and natural additives, like sauces, oils or cheeses, which make the salads taste very good. As an example of such a salad I would recommend my favorite Light Bulgarian Salad. I hope, you will like it too.

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Mediterranean Diet During Pregnancy Wards off Childhood Asthma and Allergy

A two-stage study has shown, that women, who follow Mediterranean diet in pregnancy, also protect their babies from childhood asthma and allergy. During the first stage of the study, 1997, doctors recruited 507 women who attended an antenatal clinic on Menorca, Spain. These women were quizzed about their dietary habits. Six years later the children of these women were examined for asthma and were tested to see if their organisms responded to six common allergens. The researchers found, that the diet of children did not influence the fact whether they had these problems. The main reason was the dietary intake of the mothers while pregnant.

Study Results
The researchers elaborated the Mediterranean Diet Score System, which measured the consumption of fruits, vegetables, olive oil, nuts, legumes, fish and wholegrain cereals. One third of the quizzed mothers had a low rating on this score, while two-thirds had a high score. At the same time children from the “low score” group were almost twice likelier to develop allergies and about four times as likely as children from the “high score” group, to develop asthmatic symptoms.

What is the Mediterranean Diet
There are two main components in the Mediterranean diet: antioxidants (vitamin compounds that kill free radicals) and polyunsaturated fatty acids. In our case the first ones were found effective against asthma in babies, the second ones protected against inflammation.

In general, the Mediterranean diet consists of the following products:

lots of fruits and vegetables,
fish,
bread
wheat and other cereals,
moderate amounts of red wine.

Mediterranean diet differs from that one typical to the Americans a lot: the second one has the high amount of animal fats, while Mediterranean diet means first of all the consumption of a lot of olive oil, which lowers cholesterol levels in the blood, blood sugar level and blood pressure. This is why Mediterranean diet is associated with longevity.

How to Prevent Stretch Marks and Be a Beauty
Normally our skin is elastic, but if you grow really fast, there appear lines on the body which are called stretch marks. It can happen during puberty, pregnancy or postpartum, when the body changes a lot and quickly. The usual places for them are abdomen, breasts, arms and thighs – that are all body parts with larger amounts of fat. Postpartum depressions is also not a rare case. When here appear stretch marks too, postpartum period is becoming nearly beyond endurance. Sometimes stretch marks become almost imperceptible after some postpartum time passes. But sometimes they are so deep that they could even be felt by their haver.

What is a stretch mark?
Our skin consists of three layers: the epidermis (the outer), the dermis and the subcutaneous stratum (the inmost). No stretch mark can appear if there’s enough support in the dermis. The hormones responsible for the occuring of stretch marks prevent the forming of collagen and elasting fibers in the fibroblasts. Collagen and elasting fibers are the main and very important supportive materials when the skin is quickly stretched. As a result of their lack the dermis and the epidermis tear. In these places occur unpleasant stretch marks, spoiling the appearance of our beautiful bodies.

How to prevent stretch marks?
In order to prevent stretch marks, some doctors recommend stomach moisturizing during pregnancy. But it doesn’t mean it could help everyone. For some women stomach moisturizing prevents stretch marks, but some are simply prone to them. About 80% of pregnant women develop stretch marks to some degree. The skin needs to be more flexible to be prepared for pregnancy. Balanced diet, being well-hydrated and moisturizing the pregnant belly help avoid stretch marks. What is also to do with stretch marks is to use creams or undergo laser treatments; dermabrasion is one more remedy. Collagen hydrolysates, Gotu Kola extract and vitamin E can reduce the chance of the occurrence of stretch marks. In case they are too deep they can be removed by more drastic methods provided by the modern medicine. But if it’s not the case, the mentioned ingredients help significantly improve the appearance of the existing stretch marks.

Whether your stretch marks are deep or superficial, don’t hung up on the bad, you are beautiful even with stretch marks!

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Best Age for Motherhood

Many U.S. women, as well as women in many other countries, delay the birth of the first child to the age of 30 due to some reason. But is it healthy for women to delay parenthood till this age? And what makes women behave so? Most women want to have children, but when – this is the most wide spread question and problem. Well, it was a problem. Since now the scientists have found the best age for motherhood.

Late Motherhood or Best Age?
According to new research by sociologists of The University of Texas at Austin, the best age for woman to become pregnant for the first time is 34 years. Exactly at this age a woman achieves the balance of her health and material well-being. It’s usually not so simple for younger women to combine motherhood and career. This is why younger women normally experience serious health problems, as well as their children.

Woman’s Health and Motherhood
Older women are more careful of their health and manage to cure all possible diseases that could do harm to both baby and herself. As a result, women, who became mothers for the first time at the age of 34, are biologically about 14 years younger, than their peers, who gave birth to their first baby at the age of 18-20.

When Is it too Late for Motherhood?
At the same time, the researchers warn, that after 35 years the levels of hormones providing fertilizing ability start to drop in the woman’s body. This is why the vast majority of experts recommend to think about parenthood a bit earlier. So, the best time to bear the first child is the period between 27 and 34 years.

Silicone Womb Will Make In-Vitro Fertilization More Effective
A new device silicone womb is being currently tested in Great Britain. It’s going to make in-vitro fertilization much more effective, than it has been before. The goal of the silicone womb is to develop stronger, more resilient embryos for eventual pregnancy. The silicone womb holds test-tube embryos, which are currently developed in an incubator, inside the womb to expose them to more natural conditions. It allows them to be implanted inside the mother for up to four days. During this time they are exposed to the uterus through 360 holes each around 40-micron across.

The silicone womb allows embryos created in the lab to be incubated inside a perforated silicon container, which is inserted into a woman’s own womb. After 2-3 days the capsule is recovered and some embryos are selected for implantation in the womb.

Some researchers still doubt, that it will work at all, as the embryos will be located in the uterus and they would develop more naturally in the fallopian tubes. It’s to hope, that the environment inside the uterus will effectively substitute them. Anyway, 40 women have been recruited for the trial and we’re expecting for the results in some time.

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How to Bear a Smart Baby

The baby’s intellect depends by around 20% on the mother’s environment during the carriage and on the child’s surroundings during the first couple of months after birth. Scientists have recently carried out a number of experiments on the development of intellect during infancy. One particular well-spread belief, that infants get smarter when they listen to classical music, was not confirmed. The scientists did, however, establish that a child’s IQ is affected by the following factors.

Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Those are particularly important for the intrauterine development as well as the child’s sight. Pregnant females should by all means consume fat-rich fish or take special Omega-3 capsules.

Choline
This substance plays important role in the development of the brain areas responsible for memory and learning abilities. Pregnant women are recommended to consume 450 mg of choline daily, while the nursing moms need 550 mg every day. Choline is abundant in eggs, beef, and dairy products.

Mom’s Dental Health
A pregnant woman suffering from periodontitis or some other dental problems has higher risk of having a premature or underweight infant. Such babies, in turn, have higher risk of experiencing troubles learning.

Stress
The studies have confirmed that, when an expecting mother goes through high stress, it leads to reduced blood supply to the womb, leading to inhibited brain development in the infant. Hence, if you have some troubles to worry about during pregnancy – turn to a psychologist for help!

Can a Pregnant Woman Consume Alcohol?
Many pregnant women wonder, whether they can take strong drinks during the pregnancy. If so, how much of alcohol is allowed for them. As it turns out, a woman bearing a child under her heart has to trust her own intuition regarding the alcohol consumption during the expectancy period. Researchers still vary in their views on the topic.

Pregnant Women Should Exclude Alcohol from Their Diet
The specialists at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine state, that women should completely exclude alcohol from their diet during pregnancy, since alcohol consumption can put the life of the child in danger as it facilitates development of the Fetus Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). Children with the syndrome are known to have low IQs, disturbed attention and various physical abnormalities. The American, South African, and Scandinavian scientists support this point of view. In the course of studying the question they concluded that those women who consume alcohol during the pregnancy have increased possibility of bearing diseased fetus.

Drinking Wine Is Healthy for Pregnant Women
The scientist from the British Health Care opposed this point of view. They noted that the results of the above noted studies were publicized by the governments when pursuing the anti-alcohol politics. This fact signifies, that the conclusions made by the scientists at that time are not necessarily valid. In fact, the British believe that wine is good for pregnant women if reasonably consumed. According to them, a pregnant woman can have no more than two glasses of wine per week. Only the woman and her physician can decide for themselves which of the scientists are correct.

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2008-10-03T22:42:00.001-07:00

5 Myths about Nutrition During Pregnancy

Pregnancy is not an easy period in a woman’s life. This time is associated with many changes: nutrition, physical activity, dress size, interests, health and so on. There are enough and to spare myths about pregnancy, such an important moment for any woman, which we unfortunately believe. This time we will debunk some of the myths concerning nutrition during pregnancy.

Pregnant Women Need to Eat for Two
Normally, a pregnant woman needs extra 300 cal a day. Excessive food consumption leads to the mother gaining excess weight, in addition the baby may be overweight, and she might develop diabetes or toxicosis.

Coffee Is Forbidden During Pregnancy
Studies have shown, that excessive consumption of coffee may lead to miscarriage or the baby may be born underweight; this is, however, an extreme case and the mother has to consume a huge quantity of caffeine to get into such situation.

Up to 3 cups of coffee a day is a safe dosage for pregnant women.

Try to balance the consumption throughout the day and not to consume more than 0,8 cup at a time. Don’t forget, that caffeine is also present in other products, such as cola, tea and others.

Hemoglobin Level Is Kept Within Standards During Pregnancy
There is a physiological decline in hemoglobin level during pregnancy. This is due to the increased blood volume and the needs of the developing baby. The mother, therefore, should supply sufficient amounts of iron to her body. To do this, she can consume iron-rich food or take special pills. Substantial shortage of iron increases miscarriage and preterm delivery risks, the baby may be born underweight.

Eat Mostly Green-Coloured Vegetables to Supply Your Body with Iron During Pregnancy
Iron-rich products are mostly found in meet: liver, beef and veal, turkey, chicken and fish. Cereals are also rich in iron. Green vegetables do contain iron, but it is not fully digested and absorbed.

It Is Important to Start Consuming Folic Acid 3 Months Before Conception
This, however, is not a myth, but the truth. Studies have shown, that sufficient consumption of folic acid (400 mg a day) three months before conception and during the first trimester of pregnancy helps lower the risk of congenital malformation of the baby’s nervous system. The nervous canal forms during the first trimester and then transforms into the spine.

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Sterility Problem Will Be Completely Resolved

In about 30 years sterility problem will be completely solved. But that’s not the half of it. Any person, regardless of age, will be able to have babies. The enquiry is that in the near future we will not need even human sex cells to create a human embryo. Skin cells will be good enough for the job. This opinion belongs to a biologist from the University of Medical Biology in Singapore – Davor Solter.

The scientist noted that sex (germinal) cells – sperm and ovules, will be successfully obtained from omnipotent stem cells, in other words the cells which can transform into any cell type of the body. Therefore, we will be able to get stem cells from skin cells and then turn them into sex cells, and furthermore combine them and obtain human embryo.

Depression During Pregnancy Is Dangerous
They say not for nothing that a pregnant woman should be taken well care of and her caprices must be indulged. British scientists believe that depression during pregnancy slows down the child’s intellectual growth and development. Probability of such defects grows by extra 34% comparing to the moms with normal psychological well-being. During pregnancy try not to take to heart small issues and avoid any situations which can make you feel nervous.

Scientists found out that if the mom’s depression persists even after the child is born then the chances of the baby having mental retardation rise from 34% all the way up to 50%. This data was collected during a specially organised study. Over 11 thousand moms and babies participated in the study.

According to the information provided by the World Health Organization (WHO), in 12 years depression will rank second in the list of disability and lethality causers around the world. Those days, around 15% of suicides are done by depressed people. In addition, one in five people had depression in their life but did not consult a specialist.

Why Pregnant Women Should Avoid High-Fat Food
Yesterday you probably read the article about the myth and truth about nutrition during pregnancy. Here’s one more thing regarding diet pregnant women should know. We all know, that pregnant women should avoid fat food (actually everybody should do it), but do you know, why women are not recommended to consume too much fats during pregnancy? She risks her baby’s health.

It has been recently discovered, that if the woman eats a diet rich in fats during pregnancy or breastfeeding, the risk of early pubescence of her baby increases. This, in turn, can lead to obesity of the child. Moreover, early menstruation is one of the factors contributing to adolescent depression and developing breast cancer, when the girl becomes older. So, please, go easy on food rich in fat during these periods for your baby’s sake. By the way, this is also recommended, if you want to recover after pregnancy faster.

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Heartburn – Pregnancy’s Well-known Companion

Pregnancy is a happy time for every woman since once this period in her life is over she bears a child. On the other hand, pregnancy is connected with other problems as well, one of them is heartburn. Often enough heartburn becomes pregnancy’s constant companion. What are the reasons behind this? How can we rid ourselves of this unpleasant feeling?

Causes of Heartburn
Heartburn is usually present in the last months during pregnancy since the womb grows bigger. As it grows it squeezes the internals more and more. Stomach is also affected by this process. Its reaction to this regular squeezing is heartburn, since there is some excessive production of stomach acid which is accompanied with burning pain, acid eructation, and sour taste in the mouth.

How to Get Rid of Heartburn
Heartburn does not usually bring particularly heavy discomfort to pregnant women, besides they can do some self-help to relieve themselves. For instance, exclude any products which can bring about heartburn from the diet.

Those products include:

beans,
fat and farinaceous foods,
too hot or too cold foods.

Dieting Tips to Relieve Heartburn
If you experience heartburn rather often, you may have to substantially change your diet. Preferably eat steam-cooked food, cooked cereals, vegetables, and completely give up any products which can bring about the heartburn. Eat often, but in small helpings.

Babies Get Healthy Eating Habits From Mother’s Milk

You don’t have to develop healthy eating habits in your baby, according to new research. These habits develop naturally if a breastfeeding mother sticks to a healthy diet herself. The fact has been discovered by Danish pediatricians from the University of Copenhagen. Their findings show that breastfeeding helps develop a taste for healthy food (like fruit and vegetables) in babies. The researches say that the link is even stronger if a woman eats more fruit and vegetables herself.

So we can conclude that breastfed babies may get to a variety flavors because breast milk is flavored by the foods a woman eats. Ultimately, it makes weaned babies accept the flavors of many foods that their mother’s milk contained. For example, the flavor of banana lasts in breast milk within an hour after being eaten while mint is detectable up for eight hours.

The researches claim their findings can help mothers to develop healthy eating habits in their babies.

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Swelling During Pregnancy

Swelling occurs quite often during pregnancy. And the gravity force is what makes swelling in legs especially noticeable. Usually, swelling becomes worse towards the evening and in hot weather. Pregnant woman has more water in her body, and that leads to swelling. Tissues store and retain water, causing a woman to swell.

Little Swelling
Little swelling feels uncomfortable and doesn’t look nice, but it isn’t harmful and is common on pregnant women. About 25% of women don’t have any visible swelling at all.

How to Fight Swelling
Avoid being on your feet or in a sitting posture for a long time. If you spend much time walking, you have to take a rest in a chair once in a while. If you spend much time sitting, you have to take five minutes long walks every hour.

Clothes and Footwear to Avoid Swelling During Pregnancy
Wear comfortable shoes (all these narrow shoes on heels pinch and feel uncomfortable, anyway). Walk in comfortable and soft slippers around the house.

Stay away from tight socks, pantyhose and stockings. Let your blood and water circulate in your body naturally.

Water to Prevent Swelling During Pregnancy
Drink more water. Some would say it makes no sense to fight swelling with even more water. Drinking 8-10 glasses of water daily, however, can help remove excessive natrium and other “wastes” that retain water in your body, resulting in less swelling eventually.

Postpartum Fitness

After having a baby, a woman should focus on her exercises. It all depends, however, on the woman’s desire to look real good because no matter how difficult it is to allow just a little time for your own needs, it is still possible. There are lots of programs to strengthen your muscles and regain your body tone weakened after pregnancy and childbirth. To do that, you don’t have to leave your baby for a few hours and go to a fitness center.

Best Time for Fitness after Pregnancy
Physicians recommend that women start exercising 6-8 weeks after vaginal birth and 9-10 weeks after Cesarean operation. Make sure you start exercising with care as every woman recovers after childbirth differently. Start with simpler exercises that do not cause negative sensations in the weakened body.

Intensive Walking after Childbirth
Gynecologists strongly encourage women to move actively as early as 2 weeks after childbirth. What they mean is not vigorous fitness activities, but intensive walking. You have to push a baby stroller a lot, and it is reasonable to use these hours for brisk walking that would help lose your weight.

Fitness Programs for Women after Childbirth
There are many programs for women after childbirth. For example, you can start yoga two weeks after childbirth, or isometric trainings after a month, or Chinese exercise system Chi Kung after just a few days. Of course, this is for healthy women with no childbirth complications. What’s more, all these exercise systems can relieve the stress after birth that occurs in about 50% of women. In fact, even minor exercises are very beneficial to both mothers and babies. Do not limit yourself with just slimming diet after you had a baby. Active lifestyle is a must to lose unwanted weight you gained during pregnancy and to get back in shape.

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Baby Who Grew in Abdomen Survived

British doctors successfully performed the surgery to save the baby who was growing not in the womb, but in the abdomen. Jayne Jones, 38, had repeating abdominal pains during her pregnancy. At a routine ultra-sound scan, doctors surprisingly saw a well growing baby outside the womb.

The embryo attached himself on the omentum – the layers of fat tissue with blood vessels that cover the bowel. One week after the scan, doctors insisted on the surgery because the pregnancy was dangerous for the mother.

The surgery involved 36 NHS staff whose efforts were rewarded and a boy was born weighing no more than 2 lb. Premature baby spent several months in an incubator. Today, the baby and his lucky mother are enjoying a healthy life.

Why Baby’s First Words Are Mama or Papa

A baby’s first words are often “mama” and “papa”, and it seems so natural for us that we hardly think why babies actually utter these words first. But the experts at the University of British Columbia have made brain scans of babies to successfully crack that mystery. The secret lies in repeating the same syllables.

The study involved newborns (age 2 days to 3 days). When babies heard repeating syllables, their brain activity increased in the zones responsible for attention, abstract thinking, hearing and speech functions. Figuratively speaking, more complex words go in one ear and out the other, causing no responses from the baby’s brain.

Conducted experiments convincingly explain why babies around the world speak nearly the same language. Mama, papa, dada are the most simple words for them to understand and to utter.

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Cosmetics May Cause Male Sterility

The cosmetics a pregnant woman is using may cause sterility in her future baby, scientists at the University of Edinburgh say. They tried some chemical components used in cosmetics industry on pregnant rats. The experiment showed that many components disrupt female hormone profile, which inhibits the male reproductive function that develops at 8-12 weeks of pregnancy. It may contribute to the risk of male sterility in humans. Therefore, scientists advise women avoid cosmetics at early stages of pregnancy.

Do you Want a Boy or a Girl?: Step-8
It is the fact that the sex of your unborn baby is determined at the moment of conception and depends on the type of a sperm cell that would fertilize an egg cell. If the X-chromosome sperm reaches the egg, then the baby is a girl. If the Y-chromosome joins the egg, then the baby is a boy.

Can We Choose Child’s Sex?
Since ancient times, people have been curious to find how they could influence the sex of the future baby. Obviously, most of the ways stem from superstitions and prejudices. However, some interesting observations and statistics exist that we can’t turn a blind eye to. So, one cannot state emphatically that the sex of a baby is impossible to predict.

Child’s Sex Statistics

Statistics show that the boys are more likely to be the first baby while the girls tend to come with later births.
The younger the couple, the more likely they will have a boy, and vice versa.
Girls prevail in the offspring of the people suffering from podagra.
Bald men have half again as many boys.
Babies born in a one year interval are often of the same sex. If the interval is about three years, the babies are most likely to be of the opposite sex.
If you get pregnant soon after an abortion, you are more likely to have a girl.

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Diet to Plan Your Baby’s Sex

Parents’ diet may play a role in whether they will have a boy or a girl. Studies show that the parents of boys had a lot of natrium and potassium in their diet while the parents of girls preferred foods rich in calcium and magnesium. Scientists have come up with two different diets including specific foods for those who want to plan their baby’s sex.

What to Eat to Have a Boy
If you want to have a boy, it is advisable to eat potatoes, mushrooms, lentil, sweet cherry, bananas, apricots, oranges, peaches and dates. Avoid lettuce, raw cabbage, nuts and beans.

What to Eat to Have a Girl
If you want to have a girl, you should eat eggplants, beet, carrots, cucumbers, green peas, hot pepper, onion and nuts. Avoid plums, bananas, oranges, currant and melons.

When to Stop Dieting
But medics warn women who are going to influence the sex of their baby through their diet. Women who keep diet over two months running are more likely to have spontaneous miscarriages than those who don’t plan their pregnancy. At early stages of pregnancy, the growing baby’s organs and systems start developing.

Nutrient imbalance, especially the deficiencies of certain substances, may cause serious disorders of embryonic development.

So it’s recommended to stop dieting, at least, a month before the conception. After the conception, watching diet doesn’t make any sense and can harm your baby and the progress of your pregnancy.

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Weight Loss after Pregnancy

“Well, it’s time to change your wardrobe! You can’t fit into your old clothes after having a baby”, - your friends are giving you a teasing advice. Here is how you can make fun of them after just half a year. Now that you checked out of maternity hospital and made your baby comfortable at home, you could finally take a breath. You looked at yourself in a mirror closely and winced! “My body will never be the same!” - a common fear among young mothers. So let’s get this straight. Yes, you will never be the same. But you can get your slim body back!

Why Do We Gain Weight during Pregnancy?
All pregnant women put the weight on. But you can’t say these pounds are unwanted because your body gains them naturally during the pregnancy. Enlarged uterus makes 9-10 pounds, lactating breasts – 2 pounds, increased blood volume – 3 pounds, overall volume of intercellular fluid – 2 pounds. Now add the weight of your baby (5.5-9 lb), and the total is how much you are supposed to gain during the pregnancy.

Why Do Pregnant Women Gain Excess Weight?
Did you get more? Well, your pregnancy is not to blame for the excess then. What is to blame are double portions of ice cream with syrup you indulged yourself in and wrong advice to “eat for two”.

Physical Activity and Hormones during Pregnancy
There are other reasons, too. First, future moms are less active. Some women can hardly walk during last months of their pregnancy. Second, your hormone profile is different. Progesterone and lactation hormone direct metabolism to produce more fat deposits.

You will need nine months to lose the “pregnancy weight”.

The Pregnancy Maths
Let’s do the math. Eating more, reduced physical activity, changes in hormone profile and that’s for forty weeks running. I hope you don’t expect your pregnancy pounds disappear as if by magic the day you deliver your baby.

Time a Woman Needs to Lose the “Pregnancy” Weight
You’ve been gaining pounds for nine months. Theoretically, it will take you three trimesters to shed it. Each period is specific. We are going to discuss them in details in the upcoming articles. What is going on inside your body? What prevents you from losing weight? And what, alternatively, could help to make it happen? This plan will help you lose approximately 2-4 lb monthly. It makes 33 lb a year after childbirth – exactly the number of your pregnancy pounds.

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Pregnancy & Childbirth:Step-3

2008-10-03T21:27:00.000-07:00

Weight Loss after Pregnancy.
Second Trimester

Your baby grew noticeably bigger, weighing twice as much as at the childbirth. Now that the digestion is working well, your baby is a calm sleeper and the most drastic change – the baby becomes inquisitive about the world. As for moms, they their psyche becomes increasingly vulnerable during the second postpartum trimester. Statistics shows, the second trimester is linked to an increased risk of postpartum depression. Half a year after the childbirth, many women start pondering on their looks and slimming diet opportunities.

What Prevents from Getting Slim?
Experts point out that young mother’s weight becomes stable after the childbirth and then starts increasing again after six months! The emotional state is what makes it grow. Your hormone profile keeps changing and the baby still takes all your time and efforts. Rather than help you lose the weight, diets at this stage are more likely to suppress the metabolism.

The results of dieting, if any, are always below your expectations, resulting in frustration and stress caused by the contradiction between being a good mother and a sexy woman.

Weight Loss during the Second Postpartum Trimester
How to lose weight during the second semester after pregnancy - pushing a baby stroller. Walks are both good for the babies as they are looking at the world around them with the eyes wide-open and for the mothers as they walk for several hours a day.

Postpartum Weight Loss Tips
What you really need is fitness. Besides walking, exercising at home will definitely do you good. There are lots of fitness programs out there, designed for mothers and babies. They are aimed at increasing your muscles tone. Fat in the trained muscles burns off faster, and indeed your appetite becomes less big. In addition, there is nothing more effective against postpartum depression than physical exercises.

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Pregnancy & Childbirth:Step-2

2008-10-03T21:21:00.001-07:00

Weight Loss after Pregnancy
First Trimester

You already know that women may gain up to 30 lb or even more during the nine months of pregnancy. And then, when your baby is born, it’s often a huge problem to get rid of the excess pregnancy weight. But you should still stay positive and work hard in striving for “the slim yourself” all the nine months after pregnancy. Here’s what prevents you from losing excess weight and what to start with during the first postpartum trimester.

New Life after Pregnancy
Got new experience? Childbirth is actually an eye-opening thing. First, you realize the view that babies sleep up to 15 hours a day is far from being true. Even calm babies are likely to catnap and give their parents a hard time round the clock. Second, realizing that those pounds are still there, a young mom goes into a tailspin.

What Prevents from Getting Slim?
But what prevents you from getting slim during the first trimester? Progesterone and lactation hormone still prevail in the hormone profile. It is linked to the increased appetite. That’s why your belly and hips are still a problem. Obviously, lack of sleep and unhealthy sleep contribute to your inability to lose weight (it relates to all people).

Losing Weight during the First Postpartum Period
How to lose weight? Breastfeeding does not impede your efforts towards being slim. With no childbirth complications and a healthy lactation, you will be losing excessive weight naturally as the fat is used to produce milk. At average, your body consumes 30-40 g of fat daily.

Postpartum Weight Loss Tips
Tips. Here is a hard and simple rule for you –don’t ever try to start a strict diet. Make sure you don’t eat more than usually, though. Breastfeeding mothers often make the same mistakes, trying to eat more of fatty food (to make milk more nourishing), chose too big portions (to ensure their milk is good) and even have a hamburger before sleep (to make sure they have enough milk at night).

In reality, the quantity of breast milk has nothing to do with breastfeeding mother’s diet.

What Stimulates Lactation?
The secretion of lactation hormone is influenced by the other female hormones –estrogen in particular, not by eating more. It also depends on how right the breastfeeding process is as well as on your psycho-emotional state. Both for the mother and her baby, emotional state and healthy sleep is much more important than portion sizes.

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Pregnancy & Childbirth:Step-4

2008-10-03T20:58:00.000-07:00

Weight Loss after Pregnancy
Third Trimester

It’s the third postpartum trimester. Your toddler has already achieved a feeling of independence in moving. Now it is impossible to leave the baby alone for even a moment. It would seem easy to place the child for a long term with relatives and start taking care of yourself at least occasionally. But something still prevents you from shedding post-pregnancy weight.

Baby’s Food Doesn’t Let You Lose Weight
What prevents from losing weight? Introducing solid foods. At this stage baby is ready to start eating solids. Start out slowly, preparing no more than a teaspoon or two and gradually increasing portion sizes. Yet you are not likely to cook just a few tablespoons of food for your baby everyday. Even the smallest baby food jars are bigger than two spoonfuls.

So mom finishes her toddler’s leftover food: don’t let good food go to waste!

Weight Loss during the Third Postpartum Trimester
How to lose weight? Third trimester is the time to think about a diet. Replace fatty foods with low-fat ones and don’t neglect dishes rich in animal protein, calcium and iron. Eat more vegetables, cottage-cheese, low-fat meat and fish. Drink milk and fermented milk products. Have the following “slimming” cocktail for your snacks. Mix a tablespoon of low-fat cottage cheese with a glass of low-fat kefir and add a spoonful of cereals and boiled buckwheat.

Dieting Tips during the Third Postpartum Trimester
Most breastfeeding mothers are soft on chocolate bars and cakes. It indicates carbohydrate-deficiency. You can substitute goodies to oatmeal with skim milk, hard wheat pasta and whole grain bread.

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Pregnancy & Childbirth:Step-1

2008-10-03T20:41:00.000-07:00

USB Pregnancy Test Kit

It has become really easy to find out, if you are pregnant or not – and you don’t even need to visit a doctor. Regular pregnancy tests you could earlier find in drugstores are no more actual, as there’s something much more interesting, something hi-tech – USB pregnancy test kit. Just do the same procedures as you do with the regular pregnancy test, but with an exception: the stick goes into a USB port. Sounds like somebody’s fantasy? No, it’s reality!

As already said, you should start as you do with most pregnancy tests. Pee on an absorbent test stick at one end. Then remove the cap from the other stick end, where you’ll find the USB connector, and pop it in your computer. The power from the USB port starts the electrospray ionization process on the device and creates a spectrograph of you urine. It analyzes your hormone levels inside the device: hCG (human Chorionic Gonadotropin), hCG-H (hyperglycosylated hCG, which is needed for detection before your first missed period), and LH (luteinizing hormone, which is necessary to detect your most fertile days).

So, if you’re not pregnant, you can find out the best days for the conception. And if you’re afraid you can be pregnant, the device should tell you, if you are, with 99% accuracy. The USB pregnancy test kit comes with 20 test strips. It costs about $18 and is already available.

When you’re done with the test results, pop the test out of the computer and change the strip. You will be able to review the results for more 5 minutes.

Please, note, that this gadget doesn’t necessarily detect pregnancy or ovulation, as your hormone levels can be influenced by other factors. Anyway, the idea is great!

I also want to tell you I need to say sorry for being so late with this information, as the gadget already existed about half a year ago. I found it only recently and thought, you would be interested, too. Finally, I can’t be the only one, who didn’t know about it!

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Source:geniusbeauty.com

Nature of India - 8

2008-09-30T12:38:00.000-07:00

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Nature of India - 3

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Nature of India - 1

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Nature of Bosnia -4

2008-09-30T09:21:00.001-07:00

Prenj-Hiking Bosnia
Reka i Kucice
Republika Srpska
Sekovici, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Nature of Bosnia
Nature of Bosnia
Nature of Bosnia
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Nature of Bosnia -3

2008-09-30T09:16:00.001-07:00

Banja Luka
Nature of Bosnia
Nature of Bosnia

Banja Luka Vrbas
Banja Luka Vrbas
Banja Luka Vrbas

Banja Luka River Vrbas
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Nature of Bosnia -2

2008-09-30T09:09:00.000-07:00

Banja Luka Restaurant in Fortress
Banja Luka Restaurant in Fortress

Banja Luka Muslim Quarters
Banja Luka Muslim Quarters
Banja Luka Restaurant in Fortress

Banja Luka Kayak
Banja Luka Mountains
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Nature of Bosnia -1

2008-09-30T08:47:00.001-07:00

Banja Luka Fortress

Banja Luka Fortress
Banja Luka Fortress
Banja Luka Fortress

Banja Luka Avenue
Banja Luka Fortress
Banja Luka Fortress
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Genocides in Vietnam-2

2008-09-29T09:47:00.000-07:00

shrine honoring those who died
Cambodia
skulls of some of those killed
Cambodiaskulls of the victims, Cambodia
The thought of babies being killed here
overwhelms me with despair.

Photo of excavation pits at the Killing Fields.
Photo of mass grave of victims without heads
Brutal. Photo of the ground at the killing fields
bones and pieces of clothing are everywhere.
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Genocides in Vietnam-1

2008-09-29T09:32:00.001-07:00

The United States Air Force dropped the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every eight minutes for nine years on the people of Laos, from 1965 to 1973 — over 2,000,000 tons. This was some of the heaviest aerial bombing in world history.

Estimated civilian deaths: 500,000 people

The United States dropped an estimated 285 million cluster bomblets all over Southeast Asia during the course of the Vietnam War — seven bomblets for every man, woman and child. By 1973 it was estimated that there were at least nine million unexploded bomblets still lying on Laotian territory.

As much as half a million tons of unexploded ordnance (primarily cluster-bombs) remains littered all over the Laotian countryside — 35 years later.
Every year, throughout all these past 35 years, hundreds of innocent Laotian children and civilian people are murdered or maimed by American cluster-bombs. Bombs dropped by United States Air Force crews.

With the passage of time cluster bombs become more unstable, making deadly accidental explosions increasingly likely.

The deprivation of the fertile lowlands because of the presence of unexploded bombs has created hunger and despair among the people.

Photo of excavation pit at the killing fields.
Photo of excavation pit with skulls of

people killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Killing field in the country_cambodia
mass grave which contained bodies of

100 women and children_cambodia
Photo of bones found at the killing fields.

A sign at the Killing Fields
Bones, clothing, and teeth can be scene

on the ground near the pits
Genocide
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Genocides in Bosnia and Herzegovina -2

2008-09-27T05:32:00.001-07:00

Srebrenica Potocari Memorial
The mass graves

Satellite photo of Nova Kasaba mass graves.
Serb tanks fire on Srebrenica
Serbian-Soldiers-in-Bosnia
Mass graves.

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Genocides in Bosnia and Herzegovina -1

2008-09-27T04:36:00.000-07:00

Bosnia Genocide - 1992-1995 - 200,000 Deaths
In the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, conflict between the three main ethnic groups, the Serbs, Croats, and Muslims, resulted in genocide committed by the Serbs against the Muslims in Bosnia.

Bosnia is one of several small countries that emerged from the break-up of Yugoslavia, a multicultural country created after World War I by the victorious Western Allies. Yugoslavia was composed of ethnic and religious groups that had been historical rivals, even bitter enemies, including the Serbs (Orthodox Christians), Croats (Catholics) and ethnic Albanians (Muslims).
Bosnian Muslims were hopelessly outgunned. As the Serbs gained ground, they began to systematically roundup local Muslims in scenes eerily similar to those that had occurred under the Nazis during World War II, including mass shootings, forced repopulation of entire towns, and confinement in make-shift concentration camps for men and boys. The Serbs also terrorized Muslim families into fleeing their villages by using rape as a weapon against women and girls.
The actions of the Serbs were labeled as 'ethnic cleansing,' a name which quickly took hold among the international media.

By now, over 200,000 Muslim civilians had been systematically murdered. More than 20,000 were missing and feared dead, while 2,000,000 had become refugees. It was, according to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, "the greatest failure of the West since the 1930s."

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Genocides and Mass killing in Iraq-3

2008-09-12T11:51:00.001-07:00

Torturing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib Prison
Torturing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib Prison
Torturing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib Prison

Torturing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib Prison
Torturing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib Prison
Torturing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib Prison
Torturing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib Prison
Torturing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib Prison
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Genocides and Mass killing in Iraq-2

2008-09-12T11:41:00.001-07:00

Genocides in Iraq
Genocides in Iraq
Six newborn victims of the 1991
bombing of Basrah hospital
Victim Iraqi Child
Torturing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib Prison

Genocides in Iraq
Genocides in Iraq
Bloodi face of a Iraqi
Iraqi man beheaded with gunfire at
an American checkpoint
Victim Iraqi Child
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