keep your skin healthy

Keep these tips in mind to keep your skin healthy.
(realbeauty.com)

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Test the makeup on a small portion of your arm to avoid bacteria transfer 

5. Be sure to shower off after your take a dip in the pool: Chlorine will linger on the skin, if you shower after, use super sudsy soap to get all that off. Chlorine dries your skin.

4. Ladies, wash off that makeup before you fall asleep: No matter how tired you are, I'm sure you don't want to wake up to a morning pimple. Leaving your makeup on when you sleep leads to clogged pores and bacteria infections. Not to mention it stays on your pillow, so the next night when you lay down, you're laying in yesterdays makeup.

3. Attention coffee drinkers! Caffeine will dry your skin as well, so keep up and drink lots of water to avoid that thirsty skin. Oh, this also will help you avoid magnification of wrinkles.

2. Don't pop those pimples!! Caution...popping them will push the bacteria and dirt deeper into your pores, just try to keep your hands away from your face.

1.Testing makeup: it's fun to test new makeup, see if that color or style looks good on you? Well, hang back and don't test it out on your face, imagine how many people's fingers and who knows where they've been have touched that same tester...Ew! Test the color or shade out on a small part of your arm. Avoid your face!

Effects of Alcohol on the body

So, I was going to do a post about the worst side dishes you can come across, but then my eyes landed on an article posted by Women's Health explaining the side effects of alcohol on the body. I am a frequent reader of Women's Health and subscriber, it's a great magazine and provides quick and simple work outs that are fat blasting and fun, not just monotonous. anyway.


Very interesting.

Effect's of alcohol:

1. Slower Recovery :(
Hard workouts definitely drain glycogen, or carbs stored in your liver and muscles, leaving them in repair mode. Drinking after a workout slows the recovery of your body; snack on a peanut butter on whole wheat crackers to get some carbs that repair your muscles in your body before hand.

2. Alcohol and fat: your body ends up having to focus on processing the alcohol. Alcohol also breaks down the amino acids and ends up storing them as fat. Then your body doesn't focus on burning those carbs and fat.

3. Sleep deprivation: (to put it lightly)
More so than in men, women's sleep is disrupted, especially in the second half of the night, according to WomensHealth.com. Women are more likely to wake up and get 30 minutes less sleep than if they didn't consume alcohol. It can stunt the human growth hormone output, which builds muscle up to as much as 70 percent.

4. Depletion of H2O and nutrients: 
ahh yes, stomach lining is irritated by alcohol. Your hangovers signal that your are severely dehydrated. That lining thats annoyed, it decreases the absorption of nutrients. not good. That's why your stomach hurts after you drink too much, plus it makes you use the bathroom, good bye nutrients.

Attention! DON'T DIET!

Yes, please and thank you. Here's a tip of the day to boost your metabolism.

I'd love to boost my metabolism, get that fat burning and get fit fast! Right?

DON'T DIET *gasp* don't diet?!

• Well yes, not eating will help you lost weight, but you'll lose everything else too! Muscle, weight, and strength. You'll be unbelievably weak. That isn't a fun place to be in. and plus, your body isn't going to look or feel healthy. AND, you get visceral fat . or the dreaded... *drum roll please* ABDOMINAL FAT! yuck. 
• Don't take the literal meaning for diet  = not eating. Moderation, it's all about moderation...not moderation of fast food now, moderation of healthy, organic, vegetables, proteins etc. 

CUT BACK

So, how many of you may think about dipping those carrots, or celery sticks into some yummy ranch or blue cheese dressing? A nice way to dress up those bland orange sticks huh?

Well, I know that sometimes I do get tired of eating plain tasting carrots and like a dip every now and then. Those vegetables are good right, add that into your daily servings of veggies. But keep in mind that if you dip and eat, you're getting a heap of fat, salt and the terrifying -- calories.

Certain foods you eat make you crave those sugars, fats and salts. Of course the more sugar you consume, the more addicted you will get, and it'll be harder to say no when making a menu selection.

Relief is here, it's possible to stop those crazy menu decisions. You just need to know what you're looking for.

Dopamine is triggered in your brain when eating foods high in fat, sugar and salts, according to Prevention.com 

1.) Ask what some of the ingredients are
2.) if you see sugar substitutes, don't get excited, it's just as bad as regular sugar, if not worse.
3.) If you're grocery shopping, read the nutrition labels. It'll help put your mind in perspective after you see what makes up the food you wanted to put in your body later.

Give it a try, start to detox your body of those chemicals and bad things in it. Decrease your sugar intake and you'll feel more energetic.

Wheat isn't wheat?!

I just read an interesting article about how the wheat we eat now makes us fat, and how it's not even wheat.

Why? It's mainly because of the crossbreeding of wheats now. It's all different from the ancient wheat eaten back in biblical days, even not long ago when our grandparents were growing up. So many foods are messed with now, and not many things are naturally grown anymore. GMO enhanced foods are different from this wheat process, they have their own problems.

Wheat was usually a four-foot tall plant, now it's stumpy and only two-feet tall, according to rodale.com.
What they do is cross non-wheat grasses with wheat to make new genes, weird right? They use high doses of x-rays to induce mutations.

So, some of these chemicals that are used are known to explode when mishandled, that freaks me out a bit. Pesticides, toxic chemicals keep crops alive.

The article also states that the crossbreeding creates  changes in amino acids and gluten proteins, which is what contributes to celiac disease.

Be careful what you buy when you look at wheat products.