3/30/2012

Care More about Lips


1. We often spend time to remove dead skin from our body but we couldn’t do the same thing to our lip. Use a dry toothbrush gently to brush the dead skin off your lips. Do this at least once a week.
2. Use lip balm to add moisture to your lips and to get rid of dry lips. Avoid flavored lip balms at all costs. You may constantly lick your lips which may cause chapping.
3. If you want to cause an illusion of larger lips apply a little gloss to the centre of your bottom lip. The gloss will reflect light giving the appearance of larger lips.
4. Avoid darker colored lipsticks if you have thinner lips. They will highlight your thin lips even more so avoid. Stick to more neutral colors instead.
5. If you have larger lips there will be plenty of women who envy you but large lips can sometimes play down the rest of your features.

3/28/2012

Tips for A Bright Smile


Tooth ache is the worst disease for me, it is so disturbing and annoying. The easiest way to solve this problem is to protect your teeth. For a bad teeth will cause you great pain.

The main reason for tooth decay is lack of hygiene. The food particles you eat will get deposited in the gaps between your teeth. This will get deposited there and result in the growth of microorganisms. This is the main reason for tooth decay. The best thing to prevent this is to brush your teeth after taking food.
Supplying your teeth with fluoride supplements will help a lot in protecting it from decay. Choose the tooth paste very carefully. An herbal one will be the best for your tooth. There are many dental whitening products available to brighten your smile. You can use them until you are sure of its quality. Superior quality products should only be used for your tooth.
Smoking is one of the major reasons in yellowing your tooth A tar will get deposited in your teeth if you smoke. The nicotine present in the cigarette will get deposited on the teeth and will spoil your teeth. Therefore you should stop the habit of smoking and chewing tobacco.
Mint and clover are the best for your teeth. You can choose them to refresh your self and to fight the germs in your teeth. Always keep your mouth and teeth clean to avoid diseases. You can use herbal products to protect your teeth.

3/26/2012

Drink A Cup of Wine Everyday

Benefits of wine is plenty and hard to list them all. The benefits always surprising me. Except for the known ones such as lose weight, reduce forgetfulness, boost your immunity and help prevent bone loss. And now go with me to explore more.
1. Feed your head
Wine could preserve your memory. When researchers gave memory quizzes to women in their 70s, those who drank one drink or more every day scored much better than those who drank less or not at all. Wine helps prevent clots and reduce blood vessel inflammation, both of which have been linked to cognitive decline and heart disease. Alcohol also seems to raise HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, which helps unclog your arteries.
2. Keep the scale in your corner
Studies find that people who drink wine daily have lower body mass than those who indulge occasionally; moderate wine drinkers have narrower waists and less abdominal fat than people who drink liquor. Alcohol may encourage your body to burn extra calories for as long as 90 minutes after you down a glass. Beer seems to have a similar effect.
3. Boost your body’s defenses
In one British study, those who drank roughly a glass of wine a day reduced by 11% their risk of infection by Helicobacter pylori bacteria, a major cause of gastritis, ulcers, and stomach cancers. As little as half a glass may also guard against food poisoning caused by germs like salmonella when people are exposed to contaminated food, according to a Spanish study.
4. Guard against ovarian woes
When Australian researchers recently compared women with ovarian cancer to cancer-free women, they found that roughly one glass of wine a day seemed to reduce the risk of the disease by as much as 50 percent. Earlier research at the University of Hawaii produced similar findings. Experts suspect this may be due to antioxidants or phytoestrogens, which have high anticancer properties and are prevalent in wine. And in a recent University of Michigan study, a red wine compound helped kill ovarian cancer cells in a test tube.
5. Build better bones
On average, women who drink moderately seem to have higher bone mass than abstainers. Alcohol appears to boost estrogen levels; the hormone seems to slow the body’s destruction of old bone more than it slows the production of new bone.
6. Prevent blood-sugar trouble
Premenopausal women who drink one or two glasses of wine a day are 40 percent less likely than women who don’t drink to develop type 2 diabetes, according to a 10-year study by Harvard Medical School. While the reasons aren’t clear, wine seems to reduce insulin resistance in diabetic patients.

3/21/2012

Lose Weight Before Wedding


The only thing you want to do is to get thinner to put yourself in the delicate wedding dress. So you would like to lose weight before your wedding and show your guests your most beautiful side. Here are the tips:

1. Start early: If you really want to lose some extra pounds just before the wedding, start at least three to six months before the D-day. Plan your fitness regime carefully with a good nutritionist and a trainer.
2. Morning’s the best time: Hit your gym/go for a walk/do some yoga or aerobics earlier in the day. The more you postpone this, the lesser the chances of success due to your hectic schedule before the wedding.
3. Avoid crash diets: Do not fall for any crash diet that promises quick weight loss – you run the risk of looking worn out and depressed on your big day.
4. Small meals are good: Eat small, healthy frequent meals throughout the day. Apart from a good breakfast, lunch and a light dinner, grab something small every 2 hours (it could be just some groundnuts/a cup of milk/ some curd/an orange etc).
5. Rope him in: If you are lucky enough to have your man staying close to you, work out together. Lay the foundation for a healthy relationship.
6. Stretch: Get into the habit of stretching – you very well know how supple muscles can benefit you (and your sex life!) soon.
7. Meditate: You need it after all that stress you are going through. More stress = more hormonal imbalance = more weight gain and bloating.
8. Learn to cook: Start spending some time buying veggies and fruits. Try cooking exotic low-fat recipes at home. While it helps control your current weight, you are also consciously learning healthier cooking for your life after marriage.
9. Load up on supplements: Get your daily dose of vitamins with supplements. With all the stress and running around, you need it girl!
10. Don’t get stressed out: Your man has chosen you for what you are, in whatever shape you are. Be confident, just follow these tips and lose weight without fretting!
So, go shopping for your dream wedding dress, you’re worth it.

3/19/2012

Have A Picnic in Spring


Weather turns warm and the sun begins to shine and bring us the long awaited Spring, it must be wonderful to spend some time in the great outdoors. The only need is to follow the tips.
1. Make it Interesting
Make picnic foods interesting and easy to eat – think finger food. Salad in boxes takes up much room, instead stuff pitta bread with goat’s cheese and handfuls of salad – two in one.
2. Things to Avoid
Avoid ice cream, sticky puddings, and cakes – apart from that, they are fragile to transport wasps and other insects love them.
3. Make it Simple
Ensure all picnic foods are simple to transport and not too heavy to carry. Some picnic spots are isolated with a long walk to reach them. Opt for paper or plastic plates and cutlery: also easier to carry.
4. Make it Few, Make it Well
Prepare just a few things and do them well. To ease up on the cooking visit your local deli or farm shop and top up a few homemade goodies.
5. All at the Same Time
Choose foods to serve all at the same time. The fun of a picnic is to spread all the food on the blanket and let everyone laze around, helping themselves.
6. Plan Carefully
Plan carefully how much food you may eat. Take too much and you have to carry it all back.
7. Keep it Cool
Use cool bags or an icebox -picnic hampers look lovely but often are heavy to carry. Cool bags will keep food at the correct temperature to help avoid any risk of food poisoning.
8. Think Smart and Make it Easy
Put small bottles of water, juice in the freezer for a few hours before the picnic if you have time. These can then double-up as chiller-blocks to keep food cool and when you reach your picnic spot, the drinks will still be cold.
9. What You Must Take
The sun may shine take sunglasses and sun block.
Napkins or hand wipes, bugs love sticky fingers.
A good, reliable bug spray, just in case.
Bags to take all your rubbish home. Make sure the perfect picnic spot remains a perfect picnic spot.

3/14/2012

The Right Way to Eat Fruit



Although many recipes limit the edible of fruit due to its rich containing of sugar and carbohydrates, but generally speaking, fresh fruits contain low energy and full of antioxidants, vitamins and dietary fiber. That is to say, we could adopt the right way of eating fruits to avoid growing weight. See how to keep thin with eating fruit.
Drink juice has a higher heat than eat fruit directly. A medium size orange contain 62 calories while a glass of juice contains 108 calories. Juice may be the easiest way to gain vitamins and minerals, but the cost is high heat and lack of fiber. If you don’t want to give up drinking juice every day, then don’t add sugar to squeezed fruit and vegetable juices.
Preserved fruit has high heat. Although they could provide large amount fiber, the heat is rather high. So the amount should be taken great care of.
The good smell from the banana bread always attract us and you may think this is the most healthy food as “this is made of banana”. Don’t ever think a dessert contains fruit will be healthy. They usually contain butter, sugar and refined flour. Never indulge yourself to baked cookies, go for a piece of fresh fruit.

3/12/2012

Health Benefits of Lemon Juice


Lemon is a common fruit for us, and do you know the benefits of lemon juice?

For Stomach
Lemon juice not only helps to cut the symptoms of indigestion, but also aids in regular bowel movements. Apart from helping to manage constipation, lemon juice enhances the production of bile thus, digestion of food.
For Liver
Lemon juice helps in regulating bile flow, and liquifies it. This in turn adds to the health of the liver. When the liver enzymes become too dilute, drinking lemon juice may help to fix the problem. To add to this, it also helps in regulating levels of calcium and oxygen in the liver.
For Infections
As aforesaid, lemon juice is rich in vitamin C and therefore, is helpful in treating infections, and speeding up recovery. Infections related to throat, tonsils, etc., can also be taken care of by gargling with a mix of lemon juice and water.
For Skin
Minor cuts or bruises can be healed naturally by applying a few drops of lemon over the affected area. The juice also helps in blood clotting. So, if you have a cut, then simply apply a lemon over the injured area to stop the bleeding. Adequate intake of lemon juice helps in detoxifying the body, and this is reflected by a healthy glowing skin. People who are in a habit of taking lemon juice everyday, have fewer complaints against wrinkles and blackheads.
For Weight Loss
Lemon juice, when taken with honey and warm water, proves to be one of the natural weight loss methods. For best results, drink the mix first thing in the morning.
For High Blood Pressure
The potassium content of lemon juice helps lowering blood pressure thus, helpful for people with hypertension. The juice helps in toning up the arteries. Apart from keeping the pressure under control, it also keeps dizziness, and nausea from occurring, and reduces mental stress and depression.
For Other Medical Problems
People with asthma, breathing disorders, respiratory problems, rheumatism (any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues), and arthritis can benefit from drinking lemon juice daily. Lemon juice forms an important part of many home remedies for addressing cold, flu or fever. It cuts the production of phlegm in the body. It also helps in dissolving kidney stones, stones in the gallbladder, and in the pancreas. The juice's blood purifying quality, makes it an important remedy for treating cholera or malaria.

3/07/2012

10 Fitness Walking Tips


1. If you don't have a solid block of time, break your walking into smaller chunks. For example, instead of walking 1 hour, walk for 30 minutes twice a day. Studies have shown that this is as beneficial as walking for 1 hour at one time.
2. Wear reflective clothing at night and, if you must walk on a road or street that does not have a sidewalk, always walk facing traffic.
3. Incorporate hills into your walking route. This adds variety and challenge to your workout and raises your metabolism by at least 10%.
4. Interval train to get more out of your workout. Increase your walking speed for 1 or 2 blocks and then slow back down o your regular pace for the next 1 or 2 blocks. Continue to alternate between walking and speed walking.
5. If you are walking solo, listen to music or an audio book but always make sure that you can still hear what is going on around you.
6.Find a walking partner. In addition to the companionship provided, it will help keep you motivated as well.
7. Alternate your route to prevent boredom. Take one route every other day and another one in between. In addition to neighborhoods try the beach, a park, or a trail.
8. Another way to get more out of your walking routine is to swing your arms more. This helps burn more energy and helps you to walk faster. See power walking below for more information.
9. Add push ups, sit ups, and weight training to your pre-walk stretches to build muscle and strength.
10. Keep a log of your time, distance walked, and calories burned for motivation.