Lifestyle Choices

The main reason that your stomach feels as though you are sailing the ocean waves is because its delicate pH balance has been upset. Live yogurt to the rescue. (more…)

When your blood is riddled with pollutants, your skin is starved of the nutrients it needs for healthy cell renewal. It ages quickly, sags and looks dull. Skin also becomes damaged through chemical and physical changes, some of which are irreversible. Clean up your blood and within days you can reawaken a youthful glow. That’s how the Inner Face Lift Diet works its wonders. Try it. Long term, protecting skin from toxic damage means understanding how widespread a threat this is and how to handle it. (more…)

Animal bodies, like ours, are made up of two basic components - lean body mass (LBM), which encompasses our muscle tissue, and fat. Lean body mass consists of organs like the heart, the liver, the pancreas, bones and skin, as well as muscle. It is your LBM that burns oxygen, uses nutrients from your food, thinks and feels, moves, grows and repairs itself. A high percentage of LBM is what gives wild animals their power, ease of movement, stamina and sleek bodies. The rest of you is fat. (more…)

The menus that follow are only meant to get you started. They’ll give you a feel for radiance eating. If you want to change your eating habits gradually, start by adding a radiance meal to your normal diet every day or two. If, like us, you like to jump into things feet first, spend a day or two cleaning out your cupboards. Refill your fridge with radiance foods. Then launch into it with unbridled passion. Balance things so you get good-quality proteins, fats, and fresh raw vegetables or fruit at every meal. You will be delighted with the changes you experience. (more…)

It lifts firms and contours skin and softens lines. It brings a glow to your eyes and radiance to your face.

On rising

200m1 spring or purified water with juice of a lemon squeezed into it

BREAKFAST

• 3/4 cup porridge made with steel cut or rolled oats. Not ‘instant oats’. They shunt too much sugar into your bloodstream too fast.
• 1 grated or chopped apple or a handful of berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, loganberries, blackberries — fresh or frozen)
• 1 — 2 tablespoons walnuts — preferably chopped but whole is OK (optional) c 1 — 2 tablespoons almonds — preferably chopped (optional)

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Breathing is a powerful way of constantly controlling the release of adrenaline. Breathing in faster than breathing out is calming. Breathing out faster than breathing in is energising. Deep, regular breathing, using the stomach as guide (and not the lungs as we’ve come to believe) is a natural way to keep the levels of chemicals stable. (more…)

Modern lifestyle offers us so much convenient junk food. Most of us didn’t have enough time to spend in the gym because of the job, family and friends. Looking forward for a health and balanced life is quite hard.

I think everyone who wishes to be fit and health want to find out a short cut to lose weight and a proper workout. Shot and intense workout is possible.

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Cellulite is a peculiarly female problem in which the hormone oestrogen is believed to play a part. It is characterized by unsightly lumps and bumps which collect in the thighs, buttocks, hips and sometimesthe upper arms. If the area is pinched, the skin puckers and ripples and ^-does not spring immediately back into place. The affected areas look like orange-peel and are cold to the touch. This is because the underlying tissue is saturated with water and stagnant wastes (unlike ordinary fat).

25 ml almond oil

25 ml extra virgin olive oil 15 drops of juniper

6 drops of orange

4 drops of patchouli (more…)

What you eat matters, because first rate nutrition is probably the single most important factor in gaining health and keeping it. The foods you eat form the foundation of every cell in your body and when they are the right foods, they contribute to sound tissues, organs, muscles and skin. (more…)

It may seem unusual to start a section on good nutrition with a plea for delicious food on your table. But it’s far too easy to fall into the trap of talking about nutrition as if it were only quantities of proteins, milligrams of numbered vitamins, units of minerals, and altogether a dry table of contents for the human body, used to correct deficiencies, control diseases and cure weight problems. (more…)

I love pitta, doughnuts, pasta, cheese, butter and cake. Since I got married, life was comfortable and convenient, I had a big house and close to work and all facilities.

My weight seemed more comfortable than my life. I used to be 59kg and nice figure. 3 year’s time, I turned huge. My weight was 118kg. I just couldn’t believe myself.

I love shopping clothes. Since my body fitted nothing, shopping turned out humiliating. When I put on the clothes I carefully picked, I looked like a blooming bulb in the mirror.

My fat cheek, protuberant belly, and cellulite I hate it!

I tried different kind of dieting pills. It just didn’t work. Each time I was starving like a hell. I couldn’t just live on any kind of fruit or veggies. After 6 months weight losing trail, instead of losing weight, I gained 2 more kilograms.

I hided myself from my favorite places: malls, clubs, pubs, even my baby kindergarten. I really felt embarrassed of myself. (more…)

Blackheads

These are plugs of sebum or oil which clog the pores and blacken due to oxidation on exposure to the air. They can easily be removed if you take care not to damage the skin which could result in infection. Heat the skin first by applying a hot compress made of 1 tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda to a pint of hot water (as hot as your skin will take). Apply and re-apply the compress to the blackhead areas for about two minutes to open the pores and loosen the material clogging them. Then gently, with the tips of your fingers wrapped in a paper tissue, (not your nails) ease out the plug. Finish off with an application of alcohol or antiseptic cream. (more…)

Fibre, the part of whole grains, fruits and vegetables that is not digestible (the bran in whole wheat or the cellulose in raw fruits and vegetables) is removed in the processing of much of our food. Five years ago you would not have even heard the word fibre mentioned in connection with nutrition. (more…)

Natural foods taste great: red and green salads fresh from the garden, wholegrain bread and fruity jam, a chicken with real chicken taste — no wonder a return to natural foods is one of the most important trends we’ve witnessed in recent years.

Modern progress in preservation, production and processing has certainly added an enormous variety of trouble-free foods to our menus. But it is not all a miracle. Some methods are potentially dangerous to health. Gases are used to ripen and preserve fruits and vegetables. Chemical sprays are applied and fertilizers are spread with alarming casualness over our farm lands. (more…)

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT

Pressure cookers are a useful aid to the good cook, since they make it possible to cook inexpensive cuts of meat in a very short time. They are a form of high-pressure steamer, so you get the benefits of steaming instead of boiling as well. With today’s interest in food gardening, pressure cookers are also useful for preserving bottled fruits and vegetables, and sterilizing jam and marmalade jars. Buy a good solid model, and follow directions carefully. (more…)

Good food and good health can go together in everyone’s daily life. Don’t throw away all those lovely cookbooks you’ve collected over the years. Almost every recipe can be easily adapted to give more nutritional value and better, more natural-tasting dishes at the same time. Even if you are not on a diet, the following hints will help to retain the vitamin and mineral content in the food, lower the quantity of unnecessary fats, sugars and salts on your plate, and let the fresh taste of your food make mealtimes a pleasure for the entire family. (more…)

Here are some of the basic ingredients that need to be added to your daily diet if you want to boost and protect the performance of your immune system. Do remember that what is being aimed for here is a basic framework that can be adopted on a long-term basis in order to experience optimum health and vitality. The suggestions made are deliberately not extreme or drastic, but should be easy to stick to without feeling restricted or hard-pressed to know what to eat. (more…)

“A lady has lost her look. The last people saw her beauty was in her thirty.” (more…)

Our home environment works together with our lifestyle to either enhance or drain our energy levels. Regular exercise, eating a balanced diet and making relaxation time obviously increase our physical vitality, (more…)

Many disease processes involve inflammation, often characterised by swelling, redness, pain and heat.

These include all the `itis’ diseases — arthritis, dermatitis, colitis, nephritis and hepatitis, as well as asthma and others not often associated with inflammation, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s in which parts of the brain become inflamed. Inflammation also lies at the root of atherosclerosis, the common cause of thrombosis, heart attacks and strokes. In addition, it is an underlying cause of irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, now suffered by eight million people in Britain. (more…)