health-and-wellness

How to Have Beautiful Face Skin Free of Acne

2008-12-01T20:57:00.000-08:00

To have beautiful, soft, radiant skin you need to eat plenty of the right fresh fruits, vegetables, fiber, and water. Water and fiber are critical because it helps to move out toxins using the regular channels of elimination rather than using the skin as an exit point.
A word of Caution: Sudden face or body eruptions can indicate a potentially serious medical condition. If your blemishes look large and like welts, this could be caused by a serious medical condition and you would need to see your doctor immediately.
You can deal with you acne or skin problems by, also applying known nutritional and herbal remedies that give you better health and give your skin the nutrients it needs.
The beauty of your skin is a reflection of the health of your organs and upon your psychological condition. The way the inside of your body looks like is reflected on your face, physical appearance and your thoughts.
The amount of work you put into clearing your acne will determine how quickly you clear your face. By being consistent in following good health practices, you will be able to get rid of your acne.
If your acne is heredity, it is not true that you cannot do anything about it. If you know that other members of the family have had acne and previous generations also, then you are susceptible to acne. Knowing this, you can now arm yourself with some powerful nutritional and hygiene habits that will prevent acne from taking hold.
Traditional Medical Acne Treatments
I do not recommend using medications for acne, such as,
* Benzoyl peroxide - opens pores to kill bacteria * Antibiotics - erythromycin, tetracycline - kill bacteria everywhere it goes in your body and skin. * Retin A - helps to break open plugged pores, prevents new plugged pores, and helps to prevent scarring. * Topical steroid, cortisone derivative, drug
These drugs and many others have serious side effects that you will want to avoid. If you are dark skinned and are using Benzoyl Peroxide, you can end up spotting your face as a side effect.
Most of these medications take three to ten weeks to provide results.
All my recommendations are for natural methods to relieve acne.
Different Remedies
In future articles, I will be outlining some of the remedies and steps you need to take to clear your acne. These remedies and natural foods that you use will not only help beatify your skin but will also help you to get rid of acne.
You may have to experiment to determine what works for you. By providing you with many choices, this gives you the best possible chance of you succeeding in gaining better health for your face. Also, not all remedies provide the same benefits to each person.
So this is where your experimental skills come in. You may have to test a few things, but in the process you will be learning about how to take care of your body. This information will stay with you a lifetime.

Keep Your Skin Clean and Acne Free by Brushing

2008-12-01T20:54:00.000-08:00

The skin is the largest of the elimination channels. Through the skin toxins are eliminated which are brought to the skin surface from the blood. When the regular elimination channels are sluggish or partial plugged up such as your colon being constipated, not all toxins move out through your feces.
Toxins that accumulate in the colon tend to move into the blood, when colon walls have been weaken through constant constipation or abused through eating excessive junk food. Once in the blood they move into the liver for detoxification.
If you are frequently constipated, than your liver will be overworked and unable to detoxify all of the colon toxins. The liver will store a lot of these toxins in its own tissue and else where in your body's tissues, joints, organs, cells and skin. When your pores are not working properly, excessive toxins in the pores can lead to acne.
When you have excessive toxins and your immune system is not able to detoxify them, these toxins will moved to the skin surface through the blood where they are enter the hair pores - follicles - and try to move to the skin surface. When your pores are not working properly, excessive toxins in the pores can lead to acne.
Body odor is also a result of toxins coming out through the skin that should be moving out through the other elimination channels.
If your body skin is clean and its pores are open and unclogged, toxins will move out through the pores without creating acne, pimples or eruptions. The skin normally moves 1-2 pounds of toxins out of your skin daily.
You can tell when your pores are open. You sweat freely during exercise. If you do not sweat much during hot weather or during exercise, then your skin pores are probably plugged.
To keep your skin active and serving as a good channel of elimination you need to brush your skin daily before you shower or during your shower. When you brush your skin, brush in one direction, starting from your feet towards your heart.
In her book, Detox For Life, 2002, Loree Taylor Jordan, C.C.H., I.D. says,
"One of greatest gifts of health that you can give yourself is the gift of skin brushing. Dry skin brushing in one of the finest of all baths. No soap can wash the skin as clean as the new skin you have under the old. You make new skin on the body every 24 hours. The skin will only be as clean as the bloodstream. Dry skin brushing removes the top layer. This helps to eliminate uric acid crystals catarrh, and various other acids in the body. The skin should eliminate 2 pounds of waste acids daily."
Understanding how your skin lives will help you keep it clean. Brush your skin daily and bring toxins to the skin surface where you can get rid of them during your shower.
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Three Top Women's Exercises

2008-12-01T11:22:00.000-08:00

The exercises I will list here will go against the belief in the mainstream of women's training. But I think you should listen for a few minutes, and I promise you will gain great benefits from these exercises as long as you make them part of your training routine.
Do the SQUATS
Women who perform bodyweight or added weights utilizing full squats (full squats is where you lower your bottom well below the knee level.) can have healthier ankle, knee, and hip joints and an overall healthier body than women who don't do squats.
Performing full or deep squats have been shown in one study* that I am aware of to recruit more muscle fibers for the thighs (front and back) and the gluteus maximus ( the butt muscle) than the knee parallel or quarter squats exercise.
Another benefit from performing squats or similar compound exercise for that matter is increasing the testosterone hormone to grow more muscles, become leaner, and obtain more energy.
Being completely honest with you, all compound exercises should be the core of your training. I chose the exercise squats because it is basic and fundamental to many other complex exercises. If you become good at it, most likely you will become good at other complex exercises like the Olympic lifts.
Another reason I am mentioning squats is because most people in developed countries sit all day long whether working in the office, watching TV, or commuting. All these repetitive patterns create imbalance in the musculoskeletal system and things like squatting or bending knees can be limited and in many cases painful.
So practicing squats and bending your knees will make you as a woman first and equally as a Mom more mobile for dealing with your children like lifting them up the right way and with relative ease (the way is supposed to be). It will also make your life less challenging and give you more pleasure.
One more note about squatting and knee or back injuries, Let me tell you a short story. I was born and raised in Kuwait in the Gulf Region in the Middle East. In Kuwait we have foreign labor and many are from India, the Philippine Islands, Sri Lanka, and other third world countries.
These workers including my family's cook and maids are perfectly fine squatting with their back upright for more than an hour or two while carrying on a conversation.
Humans' joints are designed to squat and do other movements that are not found here in U.S. and other developed countries which for many of us are very difficult to perform.
Wrap up
So the take home message is this; Women as Moms, career women, etc. no one is immune from becoming dysfunctional if you are living in this modern time with all the convenient tech that are provided to us. So make sure you introduce yourself to the squat movement in the case of not being able or are having difficulty performing it until gradually you become comfortable and enjoying the squat position for healthy joints and the other reasons mentioned previously.

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Do You Have a Food Addiction?

2008-12-01T11:20:00.000-08:00

Our brains are wired to love sweets. Moments after you indulge in sweet treats, your brain's pleasure center releases opiate-like substances.
The same brain chemicals that create narcotic highs also keep you coming back to sugary treats. Beyond the physiological addictive qualities, sweets are highly associated with comfort and pleasure.
For most of us, the problems start in childhood, when we are rewarded with sweets for good behavior, setting up a lifetime association between sugary treats, reward and soothing.
Underlying feelings often drive food cravings as well. My clients will often say "it's easier to stuff my feelings with food than to feel them."
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1. Do you feel that you just don't want to stop indulging in a particular substance - caffeine, sugar, alcohol, excessive carbs - right now, although you could at any time?
2. Have you ever tried to stop for a week but were unable to do so?
3. Do you resent the advice of others who express concerns about your health?
4. Have you ever tried to control your behavior by switching to a different substance?
5. Do you envy people who can indulge without a problem?
6. Do you isolate yourself (eat alone) when you are over-indulging?
7. When the food is limited or unavailable, do you feel deprived and/or go out of your way to get some anyway?
8. When the food is not available, do you feel anxious or worried about how to get some?
9. Are you afraid others will find out?
10. Do you plan your life around your food?
11. Do you often consume more of it than you intended to?
12. Do you consume as much as you can and feel reluctant to throw leftovers away?
13. Do you reach for this food when you are disappointed, depressed, lonely, bored or going through a difficult time?
14. Does it affect your sleep?
15. Are you afraid if you stop using it that you will lack confidence, the ability to relax or that you won't know how to handle situations?
16. Do you hide the evidence or lie to others to cover up?
17. Do you feel your life would be more productive if you weren't indulging in this substance?
18. Do you lack self-control when deciding whether or not to consume this food?
19. Is this habit affecting your health?
20. Do you feel you aren't living up to your potential because of it?
Food addiction is entirely solvable! You can live peacefully with the food you love. In fact, that is my goal: peaceful indifference to food.
Only you can decide if you have a problem deep enough to do something about it.

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Stay Fit and Healthy With These Simple Rules

2008-12-01T11:17:00.000-08:00

What does it take to be fit and have a healthy body?
Eat more fruits? More vegetables? Doing sports activities regularly?
Some of them are true. But, we have to know what kind of nutrition we need and how we combine all of that so our body needs for nutrition could be fulfill.
Beside vitamins, we also need minerals to fulfill our body needs. The benefit of vitamins and minerals for health just found recently in this 20th centuries. Nutrition is one of the health factor which is important for our body. And other factor is get enough rest and being positive all the time. The balance of these factors will make an optimum health for us.
Nutrition that our body need everyday divided in 2 parts, which is:
1. Macro Nutrition: such as carbohydrate, protein, and fat. 2. Micro Nutrition: such as vitamin and mineral.
ABOUT MACRO NUTRITION:
1. Carbohydrate (50-60% from total calories* a day)
From rice, bread, noodle, or pasta and sugar, which is simple carbohydrate.
Benefits are energy and vitamin B complex sources.
2. Protein (10-12% from total calories* a day)
From beef, lamb, chicken, fish, milk, egg, and cheese. Others are nuts, grains, vegetables.
Benefits are: - Protein is one of the most important elements for our body, beside water. - To help growth and development of body network. - Replacing damaged organs. - Creating hormones, enzymes, and antibodies in our body.
3. Fat (20-30% from total calories* a day)
7-10% maximum from not saturated fat such as red meat, butter, cheese, and yellow egg. 10-20% from saturated fat such as olive oil, avocado, and nuts. 10% from fish, sea foods, soy bean, and corn oil.
Benefits are energy source, protecting cell membranes, establish hormones and nervous system, also sources and transportation of fat-soluble vitamins.
*Total calories: may vary according someone's age, weight, and their height. Please check with doctors to know total calories needed by your body.
With combining these 3 nutrition, we will be fit and have a healthy body. THAT SIMPLE!!
STAY FIT AND ALWAYS HAVE A HEALTHY BODY

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