Protect Yourself from Alzheimer’s Disease by Consuming More Vitamin E
According to a study published in the Archives of Neurology, getting more vitamin E from your diet – not supplements – offers significant protection from Alzheimer’s disease. In the Rotterdam Study, researchers from the Netherlands followed 5,395 healthy men and women, aged 55 and older, for 10 years to evaluate the link between vitamin E, vitamin C, beta carotene and flavonoids with the long-term risk of dementia. Participants whose diets provided the most vitamin E were 26 per cent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s compared to those who consumed the least. Vitamin C, beta-carotene...
Read MoreHow to Save Money on Your Beauty Routine With Home-Made Facial Scrubs
Exfoliation is an important part of any skin care routine – it helps remove dead skin cells, making your skin look younger, smoother, and more radiant. If you go to any beauty counter, you will be able to find numerous different exfoliation products, with various properties, and with prices ranging from reasonable to exorbitant. Or, you could just go into your kitchen, and mix up a home-made facial scrub in a few minutes, customized to your needs, and costing only pennies per use. Exfoliation falls into two main categories – chemical and mechanical. Chemical exfoliators typically...
Read MoreHow Are You Going to Choose to be Today?
How are you today? Have you ever given any thought to that question? Besides just answering “Fine, how are you?”, without really paying attention, I mean. The question kind of implies, to me at least, that how you are today is something that just happens, and is beyond your control. And, indeed, most of us just go through the day reacting to whatever comes our way. So, if you’re tired and grumpy, it’s because you slept poorly, had an argument with your spouse, got in to work late… What if, instead of leaving ‘how you are’ to chance, you decided to...
Read MoreWorking Out at Home – How to Get in Shape Without Joining a Gym
You’ve read the newspapers; you know that a little bit of exercise would make you healthier, and make you feel better. But you don’t really have a lot of money to join that fancy fitness club, and when it comes right down to it, you don’t really have a lot of time, either. If this sounds like you, then working out at home is probably the best solution. What should a home-based workout include? Ideally, your home-based workout should include each of the ‘three pillars of fitness” – cardio, strength, and flexibility. Cardio: A cardiovascular workout is, to...
Read MoreHome-made Facial Scrub
I’m always ready to try new things – so today, when I noticed a droopy branch on my huge aloe vera plant, I saw it as a great opportunity to use the aloe gel in a homemade facial scrub. Because I love the polished feel of my skin after scrubbing it with baking soda, I decided to combine the two – 1 tsp aloe gel, and 1 tsp baking soda. So, I cleansed my face, and then dried it off a bit, and mixed the aloe and baking soda together before scrubbing my entire face and neck (avoiding the eyes) for a few minutes. I rinsed it off with lukewarm water, and then decided to take...
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