The skin is considered to be the largest organ of the human body and yet most of the people neglect to maintain their skin’s health. Healthy and supple skin is everybody’s dream it is possible, if you take proper precautions and pay attention to your diet and exercise. Balanced diet, hydration and protecting from sun and wind should be a part of your daily regimen for skin care. Skin care must be done according to your skin type. The secret of consistently good skin is a daily skin care routine consisting of various processes such as cleansing, toning and moisturizing. These processes are effective for both men and women. These are the four basic steps for your face skin care and cannot be skipped on any account, if you really want a naturally glowing skin.

Cleansing skin: Cleansing skin regularly is quite important to avoid acnes and other types of skin problems. For this process the type of cleanser you choose will depend, to a great extent, on the type of skin you have as well as personal preference. Nowadays various types of cleansers are available in the market such as soap, creams, wipes, milks and lotions etc. Regularly wash your skin using a mild face washes and wipe off with a clean washcloth. It is very important to get free of any impurities like dirt particles and make up is required before going to sleep so that your skin can breathe properly at night. Try to use mild cleanser at least twice a day and make sure that it rinses away easily, does not cause skin irritation and do not wash away natural oils present on your skin.

Toning skin: Proper use of a toner is immediately done after cleansing which would ensure complete removal of any remaining particles of makeup, dirt and the cleanser itself. Apart from these toners cools, nourishes, hydrates and freshens up your skin. These toners contain a small proportion of alcohol, which has a pleasantly astringent effect. These toners tighten up skin and close up any skin pores that may have opened up while deep cleansing the face. Toners must be alcohol-free as alcohol dries off your skin. Toners for oily skin usually contain the most alcohol and for dry skin, it will be least. Exfoliating skin: Exfoliant removes dead cells from the skin, rejuvenate the skin and eliminate fine lines and wrinkles from the face. Exfoliant not only cleanse up the skin but also removes dead skin flakes. The younger skin which, surface after exfoliation naturally looks more beautiful and glowing. These products generally have alpha or beta hydroxy acids in order to quicken up the process. Avoid use of granular exfoliant, which may cause skin damage.

Moisturizing skin: All types of skin need moisturizing, no matter what its type. Like our body, our skin also needs hydration and proper nutrients to keep it very healthy. There are numerous moisturizers available on the market, which can reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles on your face. So, treat your face with a good moisturizer and a broad-spectrum sunscreen with more than SPF 15 every day and night cream daily, which helps the skin to balance and restores any damage that might have occurred to it overnight.

———————

Irene Levy is the managing director of Planet Berry LLC. Irene has been associated professionally with the Health and Wellness industry for over 25 years. Starting out in the Aerobic Fitness Industry in Southern California pioneering state of the art classes for aerobic dancing and exercise. In addition, Irene has worked for major Hospitals (St Jude’s) where she managed patient therapy programs with the attending Physical Therapists. Throughout the years Irene has grown to understand and help others manage healthy and nutritional diet programs utilizing experience and research available over the years. For more information please contact her at info@planetberries.com or visit her on the web site at www.planetberries.com

Over 40% of people with severe headache pain aren’t even aware their condition is technically and medically a migraine.
Additionally, many migraine headaches have been actually misdiagnosed as tension headaches, sinus headaches or even TMJ - headaches associated with jaw problems. Most people who are researching the internet for information on migraines clearly understand that they have migraine headaches. But for the remainder it may not be so clear. Many of you have written us with detailed descriptions of your headaches and asking, “Do I have migraine headaches”? Nearly half of the messages our clinic receives on a daily basis can be summed up in a single question:

“What kind of headache do I really have?”

And the answer is usually very simple:

Your TENSION (or SINUS) (or CLUSTER) headache might actually be a MIGRAINE headache!

Here are the facts - approximately 1 out of every 10 Americans experiences migraines. For women, it is much higher number – as much as 1 out of every 3 around the age of 35.

Yet many people suffer needlessly because neither they nor their doctors recognize the symptoms that can accompany migraines. They also underestimate the impact that their headaches are having on their lives and on their families.

The bottom line is if you don’t get the relief you need for your frequent bad headaches, you may have migraines. In fact, in the United States alone over 14 million people who suffer from migraines have not been diagnosed with migraines yet. Could you be one of them?

Cluster Headaches are often misdiagnosed as well.

Cluster headache, which is an incredibly severe headache, is frequently just another form of a migraine headache. Cluster headaches are usually found in men. There is a great deal of controversy whether cluster headaches are a subset of migraine headaches since many of the symptoms overlap.

If you experience any 3 or more of the following symptoms, you are highly likely to have migraines:

• Your headache feels like someone has stabbed an ice pick inside your brain
• Pain is usually one-sided (but can be both-sided, especially if around the eyes)
• Your headache does not respond to regular over-the-counter painkillers
• Pain is pulsating, pounding, or throbbing
• Light and sound bother you a lot
• Pain worsens when you move or bend over
• Pain becomes so intense that you throw up or become nauseated
• You get dizzy just by turning your head (lying in bed)
• You feel that you have to lie down, go to bed, or withdraw to a quiet dark room
• Vision may be blurred, like a curtain comes down over your visual field in one or both eyes
• The headache can last from several hours to several days (or even weeks)

People with tension headaches or sinus headaches do not and never will have a disabling headache. Cluster headaches are frequently a subset of a migraine headache.

The key word here is “DISABLING”. If your “tension” or “sinus” headache is disabling, then you do not have a tension or sinus headache. You have a migraine. Only migraine headaches are disabling.

If you are reading this article because of severe, debilitating headaches that are poisoning your life, do not respond to painkillers, and keep coming back over and over again, you are very likely to have migraines. People with standard tension or sinus headaches do not bother to look them up on the Internet.

You are here because YOUR bad headaches are interfering with your life and you are looking for a way to fix that. If you keep suffering through tremendous pain along with other symptoms mentioned above, then you have migraine headaches.

For those of you who have been told by numerous doctors over the last decade that your disabling headaches are not migraines – the good news is that migraine headaches are now a treatable and curable condition.

A Better Method

There is another option as opposed to suffereing and just treating the “outbreaks” – a migraine cure. Cure the migraine and never worry about headache pain again.

Recent reports indicate migraine headaches can indeed be totally abolished – as a number of elite medical clinics catering to women have testified. Under their treatment protocols, migraines are completely eliminated in 80% of their patients.

These successes are limited to women only, as addressing a woman’s hormones is the basis of the cure. Some clinics have published their treatment protocols and even made them available to the public.

The Women’s Health Institute of Texas believes that a migraine cure certainly eliminates the migraine headaches altogether - at least in women.

——————
Dr. Andrew P. Jones, M.D. is the Medical Director for the Women’s Health Institute of Texas. http://www.WomensHealthInstituteofTexas.com He is Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and by the American Academy of Biologically Identical Hormone Therapy. Find out more about Dr. Jones and the cure for migraine headaches at: http://www.migraine-headaches-information.com His medical experience primarily revolves around the relationship of women’s health issues and bio-identical hormone management of PMS, menopause and migraine headaches.

The Principle of the Rubber Band:

This principle explains that being stretched can turn out to be very positive. Imagine you hold one end of a rubber band in one hand while stretching the opposite end with your other hand. The more you stretch the rubber band, the more it wants you to let go of it so it can come back to its original position. It just wants to return to its place of comfort.

Yet if we continue stretching it, that rubber band will eventually grow into a new size. When we let go of it now, it will come back some, but not the entire distance. In essence, it has developed a new dimension.

Now imagine that you dip this original rubber band into hot wax and remove it quickly. You then allow the wax to dry. At this point, if you repeat the stretching exercise you’ll notice that the wax caked around it cracks and crumbles, as you extend the rubber band. Then it falls off.

The same dynamic occurs with humans. We don’t want to get stretched, because it will involve letting go of some external layers. We are comfortable within those layers, and they may even seem to be protecting us. Yet, in fact, they are getting in the way of the new, evolving being who we already are on the inside. They are an impediment to our growth.

Like that rubber band, we must temporarily experience being uncomfortable when we stretch and grow. In the process of becoming the butterfly we were metaphorically meant to be, we are outgrowing a cocoon. The butterfly doesn’t snip off its wings and re-enter the cocoon. It knows of no such thing. But we, as human beings, have a tendency to snip our own new-grown wings so we can retreat to the cocoon that represents our old zone of comfort. Unfortunately, the zone of comfort is seldom the territory of fulfillment. The butterfly has no choice.

As human beings we have the ability to make choices. The next time you are feeling stretched and uncomfortable, pat yourself on the back and say “Good for me. I must be growing!” In fact, if you are not stretching, growing, and evolving, then you
are probably too attached to being comfortable. A true lesson of life and a new level of wisdom will both arrive when you instead respect The Principle of the Rubber Band.

It is absolutely crucial that you must not judge, criticize, and compare yourself to others while you are being stretched. To do so will only make you feel stuck. You will focus on the pain of stretching, and want to go back to your old cocoon. Instead, treat yourself as compassionately as you would a child who is learning to ride a bicycle without training wheels. Give yourself extra nurturing. Drink a cup of hot tea, go for a walk, read a book, take a few deep breaths, and above all be patient. Training wheels have allowed that child to develop a sense of balance, to know how the bicycle is ultimately going to feel under their control. But if that child doesn’t eventually ride without training wheels, they will never experience how fast they can truly go, how sharply they can maneuver around obstacles, and how self-confident they can feel.

Therefore, always strive for the courage to take the extra wheels off. And one day you will do it. Because you realize that remaining in the “training wheel zone” will prevent you from reaching a new level in life of manifestation and creation.

Now imagine that you are a gardener who tends a rose bush. You notice a new green bud that appears, but as the days go by it remains closed. It’s afraid of opening up. It is resisting the processes of blossoming, changing, and stretching.

Alongside it there is another new bud, one that has decided to open up and – in spite of the possibility of cold rain, tornadoes, and hurricanes – it has further decided to blossom. Once it has opened, people passing by are inspired to notice its beauty, smell its fragrance, and touch its silky pedals.

When eventually that rose dies, it’s petals fall all round. People who walk close by notice the pedals on the ground, and they know that a fully blossomed rose once existed. Meanwhile, the unopened bud also dies. It shrivels, crumbles, and falls away.
No one but the gardener ever noticed that it was alive or even notices now that it has gone.

———————–
Ellie Drake Savvy businesswoman, doctor, in-demand motivational speaker,mother and an inspiration to men and women around the globe. She maintains a demanding schedule of personal appearances as well as a series of web sites, each offering insights and products designed to help individuals achieve their personal best Ellie Drake is down to earth and funny! Visit Be a Millionaire Success

The benefits of an exercise program and a healthy diet are like a hand in a glove…the two go well together.

Now let me be clear, if I had to choose between physical health and nutritional health, I would choose nutritional health every time.

There have been world-class athletes that have drop dead because of diet related diseases, so to me nutritional health far exceeds physical health. Nevertheless as I stated before, the two go well together. So I highly recommend that you get into a good exercise program.

Exercise and a Clearer Complexion

During my early teen years I began having problems with acne on my face. I hated it.

When I turned 16 I joined the track team in high school and started running several days a week. To my surprise the acne on my face began clearing up. I later learned that exercising at an appropriate intensity causes the pores on your skin to open and release sweat, which contains impurities. Resulting in clearer complexion.

Exercise and Weight Loss

The concept of losing weight is simple…burn more calories than you take in.

The human body is like a motor vehicle. The faster or longer a car goes the more fuel it burns. The faster or longer our bodies move during exercise, the more calories that otherwise would be stored as fat is burnt. That is why getting into a good exercise program is such a great idea for someone wanting to lose weight.

Exercise and Mental Health

According to the 1996 U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Physical Activity and Public Health, physically active people tend to have better mental health.

To me this report helps confirm a research done at a major university on people that suffered from depression. 60% of those who took part in the research that exercised for 30 minutes three times a week overcame their depression without taking any antidepressant medication.

I was at a park sometime ago and met a gentleman who told me that he loved coming to the park to walk because he found that it was a great way to relieve stress.

I can tell you from my own personal experience that when you are in good shape physically you feel a lot better mentally.

Here are some other health benefits of exercise:

1. Helps in the reducing of High blood pressure.
2. Helps prevent and control type 2 diabetes.
3. Helps prevent Osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is the thinning of bone tissue and loss of bone density over time.
4. Helps prevent heart disease and stroke.
5. Helps improve mood.
6. Helps keep muscles strong.
7. Helps reduce risk of colon, prostate and breast cancer.

Tips on Beginning a Exercise Program

1.Before beginning any exercise program, be sure to talk with your doctor.
2. Make a commitment to yourself that you are going to make exercise part of your lifestyle.
3. It’s important to start an exercise program slowly if you have not exercised for a long period of time.
4. Choose an exercise program that you enjoy doing. (I like running). You may like walking, swimming, gardening, skiing, or riding a bike. Remember it is up to you.
5. If you find yourself getting bored of one exercise simply change it. For example you may want to walk for six months and then for the other half of the year jog.
6. Find a routine that works for you. I run 18 miles per week. I do nine miles on Wednesdays and nine miles on Friday or Saturday. That is what works for me. However there are people who run three miles per day six days a week. That is what works for them. Get the picture?
7. Have Fun! If you do you will stick to your exercise program.
Resource Box
© Nehemiah Maxwell (2007) Nehemiah Maxwell is the Writing Host at Healthy-Eating-Habit.com.
He believes that a healthy diet and exercise are keys to good health and has written some interesting articles on those subjects.
Free health tips are available online at his web site, http://www.healthy-eating-habit.com/exerciseprogram.html