Love The Skin You're In Your skin is the body's largest organ It weighs between two and four kilos (or 4 and 8 pounds), covers between one and two square metres (9 to 36 square feet) and completely renews itself every seven to ten weeks, with approximately five million dead skin cells rubbing off on a daily basis Your skin reflects your state of health and your biological age, being soft and smooth when well-cared for, or dry and flaky when taken for granted To be the ...

Protein Power For Weight Loss According to the latest statistics, the obesity epidemic continues to grow worldwide and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon An astonishing 596% of Australian and New Zealand adults are overweight or obese, while 30% of Australian and New Zealand children are clinically overweight More than half of the American population is overweight Those who have adequate amounts of protein in their diet, however, may find they've escaped being part of this alarming trend That's because the latest nutritional research indicates that protein has ...

Tips For Winter Wellness 1 Go for a walk even when the weather is really cold - your body has to work overtime to get warm and you may burn up to 50% more calories than you would on the same walk in summer! But remember, go a little slower until you get warm and keep up the hydration 2 If you find it hard to get motivated to exercise in winterjust think of spring and how much harder it is to get back into shape rather ...

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Flax Seed Oil - Essential Fatty Acid Flax Seed What is Flax Seed Oil ? Flax Seed Oil is also known as Linseed Oil FlaxSeed is a blue flowering plant that is grown on the Western Canadian Prairies for its oil rich seeds FlaxSeed oil is highly recommended for the general well being, whole body nutrition and helps in restoring body's natural balance of good and bad prostaglandins Flax Seed Oil is considered to be nature's richest source of omega-3 fatty acids that are required for the health of almost all ...

Should You Relax Or Perm? Not everyone is blessed with hair that falls perfectly into place Some need to coach their hair a little to get the look they want and others fight a never-winning battle when it comes to taming their tresses In order to help in this battle, many turn to chemical relaxers and perms to make their job easier Should you? The first thing to remember when choosing to perm or relax your hair is that chemical processes can cause damage to your hair This ...

What More Can You Do To Prepare For A Flu Pandemic? If you want to do more than just hope the government will have resources such as a vaccine available in the event of a flu pandemic, what can you do? Have a strong immune system! Are there ways to boost your immune system? What can weaken your immune system? Stress, Poor Diet, Alcohol, Lack of good sleep, Lack of exercise Environmental Toxins Sound familiar? These are the same ills you doctor has been warning you about that will ...

Face Transplants: Medicines New Victory The whiners who cry about face transplant surgery not being warranted need try walking around the mall for a couple days shopping for Christmas presents and then get back to me about moral and ethical issues There are no moral or ethical issues Period As you read this the Cleveland Clinic in the United States is screening candidates in preparation for the world's first full face transplant Nothing could be more exciting or moral ethical! The surgeons, who need not defend themselves spoke at ...

Understanding Preeclampsia What is preeclampsia? Once known as toxemia, it is caused by a defect in the placenta which causes a pregnant woman's blood pressure to rise, endangering mother and baby Affecting about 7% all pregnancies, it is the most common of the serious complications of pregnancy About one in 50 women are afflicted by severe preeclampsia In severe cases, preeclampsia can be very dangerous to both mother and baby The mother could develop seizures and, due to the possibility of a low platelet count caused by ...

How To Lose That Post-christmas Bulge Over-indulged at Christmas New Year? Feel full, bloated and unhealthy yet again? It's that time of year when we all promise ourselves we will get fit this year, we will lose those extra pounds and we will join a gym and keep going beyond March - it's going to be different this year And this year, it CAN be different There IS an alternative to trying every new fad diet that's around; there IS an alternative to joining a gym and giving ...