Lifestyle Choices

Endurance enhances your ability to keep going under stress, whether jogging or walking briskly, without getting uncomfortably out of breath or tiring too quickly; it also helps protect you from heart disease. Body fat steadily decreases over the course pf an intensive aerobic exercise programme — not only because you’re burning calories but also because, for reasons that are not entirely understood, the desire to eat foods high in saturated fats and cholesterol declines. (more…)

Dehydration is one of the main reasons for feeling hung over. While you are enjoying alcoholic beverages your body is actually losing fluids. Drinking water is a top cure. (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…)

When you and your partner both have the hangover from hell, what better way to commiserate than by getting intimate with one another. It could make you both feel better. (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 control centre for both thirst and hunger is in the same place in your body: the hypothalamus. Often when you think you are hungry what your body is trying to tell you is that you need to take in more water. Perhaps the best-kept secret in the world about weight control is this: reach for a glass of water every time you feel hungry between meals and you will find your hunger diminishing within minutes. Try it and see. (more…)

The full busted (gosh, I love that euphemism) always look like they’re having the time of their life in the movies and in the strip club, but one place that ain’t so much fun for them is in the bra department, because there is a serious lack of sexy, cute bras. Here’s the solution. (more…)

Baby, bare your wares with wild abandon. Strut, preen, sashay, and parade what your mama gave you. Caress those curves, embrace your build, stroke your skin. You sing the body electric, because that’s what it is. Good vibes and positive currents run through those who can see the magic of their bodies, love handles and all. Loving and accepting your body unconditionally is a wondrous thing. It just feels good. (more…)

If you’ve got a body, it. I’m a body-conscious girl. I say why not show the guys what sex appeal is all about.

Okay, you and your booty are the best of friends now. Listen to Ms. Sly Fox and take your act on the road, with a few shamelessly indulgent treats and tips from the grad course of body appreciation: (more…)

The human ear may be ‘deaf to high and low frequency sound, but as every physicist knows, it does not mean they do not exist, nor that we cannot be affected by them. Similarly, as discovered at Warwick, we can respond both physically and emotionally to highly diluted fragrances, even though we may not be able to smell them. Could it be that we are responding to the subtle vibration of the aroma? If so, we might compare this to the action of homoeopathic and Bach Flower Remedies. These remedies are so highly diluted that only the energy pattern or vibration of the original medicinal material remains in the lactose tablet (homoeopathy) or the liquid (Bach Flowers). Yet if the correct remedy is chosen, the healing effect on both body and mind can be remarkable — and I can testify to this. (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…)

Life, the biological chain that holds our parts together, is only as strong as its weakest vital link..

You are as young or as old as your smallest vital links—the cells. The aging begins when your normal process of cell regeneration and rebuilding slows down. This slowdown is caused mainly by the accumulation of waste products in the tissues, which interferes with the nourishment of the cells. Each living cell is a complete living entity with its own metabolism. It needs a constant supply of oxygen and sufficient nourishment. (more…)

With intrinsic biological aging, the skin’s outer layer is thinned (over time by about 20 percent). The surface of the skin remains smooth. The border between the epidermis and the dermis becomes flattened, making the skin less resistant to friction (you get more blisters in snug shoes!). In contrast, extrinsic photoaging causes a thickening of the outer skin layer, with up to 50 percent more cells being accumulated onto the skin’s surface, making it feel rough and dry. Think of the grainy, thickened skin on the backs of the hands of a gardener, for example. With photoaging, accumulation of pigment in the basal cells is more markedly irregular than in intrinsic aging, causing the so-called “liver spots” or “age spots” (medically called solar lentigos), the unattractive dark spots especially prevalent on the hands, arms, face and chest. (more…)

In common with all other life forms, the human body goes through a natural cycle of decay. This normal deterioration is inevitable, but need not necessarily be uncomfortable. Discomfort and a poor quality of life mean that ageing is taking place too quickly. Ageing is a process; being old is a sentence. The ageing process should be like of brandy: the better the ageing process is managed, the better the end product. (more…)

You will notice at the base of the fingers that it says “ears” and “eyes.” With your right thumb, press on the pad just about where the fingers join your left hand. Use a press-and-roll motion here as you search out tender spots. When you find a sore spot, keep working it for a few seconds to release a flow of electrical life force into the congested area, thus giving nature a helping hand in healing whatever the malfunction might be. (more…)

You have a general idea of how each part of your body has a corresponding reflex located in the hands and fingers. In explaining how to work the various reflex points and their coinciding areas in the body.

We will start with the top of the thumb and fingers, and work the reflexes corresponding to the head. Then we will progress to the rest of the hands, explaining the reflexes and body areas as we go. (more…)

You Are Not Alone

Many teens suffer from depression, therefore you are not alone. There are effective treatments and hence no depression is a hopeless case. You need to be patient with yourself. It takes time for the mind to heal just as it takes time for the body to heal. Wishing that the depression will disappear is not going to work. It will not go away immediately but it will, eventually. Continuing with treatment and therapy will ensure that that day will come even sooner. In the meantime, try to relax yourself, sort out your feelings and thoughts, and allow your mind and emotions to recover. (more…)

Giant brown birthmarks may sometimes cover a large area of the body or the face and neck and cause a great deal of distress. Unfortunately simple excision is rarely the answer as the brown pigment usually extends deep into the skin. A skin graft may be necessary.

Removal of Brown Birthmarks

To remove the unsightly pigmented area with the best cosmetic results possible in each individual circumstance. (more…)

When I was a child growing up in Portsmouth, the naval town on the south coast, and we saw someone who was grossly obese, my mother would say pityingly, in a knowing stage whisper, ‘Trouble with their glands, dear.’ In those days Portsmouth was full of sailors of all nationalities and anyone who was very fat was unusual. Now, when I go back to my home town forty years later, the sailors have all gone and people who are very overweight are so common as to be unremarkable. The attitude to these heavyweights has also changed. They are no longer the subject of pity, but of a kind of loathing. Fat today says greedy, slothful and self-indulgent. As I will show you, hormones and obesity and intimately bound together. Trouble with your glands is indeed part of the obesity equation, including a gland that has only in the last decade been discovered to be secreting hormones — fat itself. (more…)

Actinic keratoses(AKs) are flat or slightly raised, sometimes red, scaly patches which appear on the background of sun-damaged skin — especially on the face, the scalps of balding men, the backs of the hands, arms, chest and back. Since they are rough to the touch, AKs are often more easily diagnosed by feel than by observation. They are especially prevalent on fair-skinned people who continue to develop AKs even long after discontinuing sun exposure. AKs are pre-malignant skin growths that can develop into squameous cell carcinomas. They must therefore be treated straightaway, either by cryosurgery or chemotherapy using Effudex (5-fluorouracil) or Actinex (masoproco) cream. These creams cause the skin to become markedly inflamed for at least one week, but there is also some decrease in wrinkles as a bonus! (more…)