There are bad hair days and then, as in the case of dandruff, there are really bad hair days. Dandruff can torment your scalp—making it itchy, irritable, and excessively flaky—and create some rather embarrassing social situations. With dandruff sufferers, the scalp sheds dead skin cells at an accelerated rate, resulting in flakes or scales. Doctors haven’t nailed down what causes dan...
Bitter melon is grown and eaten as a vegetable throughout Asia and it also prepared and consumed as a tea. For centuries it is known and praised for it medicinal and curative properties purposes. Used as a folk remedy to help with weight loss, blood disorders and bad hangovers; it helps lowering blood glucose levels in diabetics. Bitter melons may offer protective benefits against so...
Get rid of adult acne once and for all. Once puberty had come and gone, I thought my pimples had followed my prom dress into the back closet. But the joke was on me. At 31, days after giving birth, my face began breaking out in a freak show that could rival any teenager’s. Apparently, adults get acne too. In the October 1999 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology ...
Trapped inside? This is what happens when winter comes with snow storms. Sometimes you may loose power. Here are some tips that could keep you safe before and after the snowstorm, both indoors and out. Before the Storm – Get supplies ahead of time as much as possible Extra food, including foods that don’t need to be refrigerated.Bottled water.Flashlights and batteries and othe...
Have you ever cut an apple and left it laying out for a short time? The two halves turned brown. Free radicals at work! This process is called oxidation. Our body produces free radicals and they help in the metabolic process. The danger appears when the body produces too many. A free radical can destroy even a complete cell, not only an enzyme or protein molecule. Where do free radicals...
If I were a car I would not care about my maintenance. My owner would and I am sure he or she would be extremely cautious with my “health” because I cost a lot of money. Fact is, I am a human who does not have a car. I do not drive either but I know quite a lot of things about cars as almost all my friends have, at least, one and you can easily imagine that whenever we meet a part of t...
People, young or old, doing all kind of activities, suffer from joint pain. The most common culprit is arthritis which can strike at any age. Athletes count among the groups that are particularly susceptible to joint pain and inflammation. Proper nutrition and exercise techniques can help alleviate many of the symptoms of joint pain. The most popular and effective joint supplements typically cont...
Blueberries are not my favorite fruits but I eat them with great pleasure whenever I buy some, especially in summer. They are really very tasty this period of the year. It is totally different with the “winter” blueberries. Tasteless, absolutely tasteless. I spend a couple of hours per day on the Internet where I read on a lot of topics and, of course, I made some research about bluebe...
Have you been told the same lie I have? Eat a low-fat and high carbohydrate diet to stay lean and live a long healthy life. The opposite is actually true. You want to lose weight? Eat more fat. No, I’m not joking. You’ve been lied to. Fat is not the enemy. For weight loss, it’s your best friend. The three main reasons why eating a high fat diet will help you lose weigh...
During this phase of a woman’s life she have to eat for two individual. Hence the importance of a healthy and a balanced diet. The healthy diet must be maintain during the pregnancy and while the woman is breastfeeding. Maintaining a healthy diet ensures that the woman’s body get all the nutrients which are needed to aid in the development of the growing fetus in the uterus. Some of the impor...