Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Women aren’t men

Women aren’t men. It’s been proven that men can lose weight more rapidly than women can, which is likely due to our physiological makeup (women are supposed to have more fat than men, because they’re the birthing gender). This isn’t a sexist statement to make – it’s pretty much the truth. As such, females should expect to set separate goals than males – especially if you’re working on losing weight together, side by side.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Nivea Creme

old school beautyEvery day a new breakthrough wrinkle cream, or state-of-the art moisturizer is released, and it’s amazing how far the beauty and skin care industry has come to bring us cutting edge anti-agers. This is what we are led to believe, but I realized most of my skin care staples are pretty old-school!

Retin-A
Back in the late 80s, I went to Tijuana with my parents and a bunch of my dad’s co-workers. All of the woman made a beeline to the cheap pharmacies there, and came back with tubes and tubes of Retin-A. My mom informed me that Retin-A was supposed to be a miracle wrinkle fighter, and it was the best wrinkle cream out there. Flash-forward 20 years, and guess what - Retin-A is still the best wrinkle cream! Now there is Renova, and Retin-A Micro, but it’s still basically the same thing. Thousands of wrinkle creams have come and gone, but Retin-A is still the best. It’s by no means a “miracle” but I view it as better than nothing.

Nivea Creme
Recently I started using Nivea Creme since it’s super cheap, and it’s a great moisturizer. It’s been around forever - since 1911! The other moisturizer I like is Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion. That’s been around almost forever as well!

There are, however, better moisturizers out there that are packaged in airtight stable packaging, that contain loads of antioxidants. But I have yet to find the perfect affordable super hydrating moisturizer that does come in stable packing, loaded with antioxidants, without pore-clogging ingredients. I know it’s out there, but I haven’t found it yet.

Sunscreen
All sorts of recent advancements have been made with sunscreens. The introduction of Mexoryl, Avobenzene, Tinosorb, and Helioplex are relatively new. But guess what - my favorite sunscreen ingredient is Zinc Oxide, which again has been around…forever! Actually I do concede that while Zinc Oxide has been around a long time, it hasn’t been in its micronized form for that long, so before that happened, Zinc Oxide sunscreens weren’t clear like they are now.

Chapstick
After years of sufferering from horribly chapped lips, blue Chapstick cured me! Petroleum-based Chapstick has also been around forever, and it never worked that well for me. There’s something special in the blue Chapstick, even though it only contains Petroleum, and two sunscreen ingredients. So since the blue Chapstick has only been around for 10 years, I guess you could say it’s new product, even though its ingredients are ancient. I also like using its retro cousin Vaseline for a variety of purposes - taking off eye makeup, slathering it on my lips or cheeks when I can’t find my Chapstick or Nivea Creme, and a few other random purposes.

There really have been some great breakthroughs with beauty products - much better self-tanners, excellent foundations, topical antioxidants, better pigmented eyeshadows, and I’m sure I’m missing a whole bunch of breakthroughs. But, despite all these advances, I’m still pretty old-school with my beauty products, even though I do fully embrace the newer Cosmetic Dermatology discoveries of Botox for wrinkles, fillers, and lasers.ambien detox

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Sell your Kids on Healthy Eating

Wouldn’t it be great to hear your youngster utter those words? With a bit of effort – or make that a lot of effort- you could be one of the lucky one. The great thing is – it is worth it!

Is it really important for kids to eat their vegetables? Or fruits? Or drink their mil? Don’t they all outgrow most of their bad eating habits anyway? While this is true in many cases, it could just be too late!

We need to make an investment in our kids’ future health while they are young. Take good bones, for example.

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The nutritional support receives in the preteen and teenage years determine its susceptibility or resilience to fractures in later years. This calls for careful monitoring of both calcium-rich foods as well as exercise to make those bones grow strong and stay strong.

As soon as children start speaking, they have lots of questions to ask. They ask many questions that we feel difficult to answer. But answering to their questions is very important. Children will learn from our answers. Children questions reveal a great deal about their power of understanding things.

Even when children do not know how to speak, there are many core questions that they ask many times each day. They have many questions in their mind, which are unknown to us due to absence of language.

If you do not know the answers to their questions simply say that you do not know. If you are embarrassed or uncomfortable to answer any of your child’s questions, do not give wrong answer. Children learn that answer from you. Giving wrong information will only create confusion to them when they grow up. Do not avoid to answering their questions. If you can’t answer immediately in case if it is not the appropriate place to talk about, tell them that this is not the proper place to talk. It is a surprising fact that how many questions can be answered in a day, and how much information a little brain can acquire.

Child grooming is an art and the parents who know it are extremely successful with their kids while others are not? Some people think luck is a major factor, think over it again. The process of child rearing is not a matter of luck it depends on the parent knowledge, if not learned, would mean trouble for whole family.

In the 21st century kids’ parenting is getting harder but it can be the most paying if the art of parenting is known and practiced. This art doesn’t hide any ’special secrets’ and every parent is invited to implement it. The time tested principles can help you bring up your children and build a prosperous family.