By Sandy Cosser
Of the original seven deadly sins, Christians consider pride (or vanity) to be the most serious. It is the cardinal of cardinal sins, and gives rise to the other six. These days, the seven deadly sins have fallen largely by the wayside, considered more as cautionary guidelines, if they're considered at all. This is good news for the entire population of Earth, because there are very few of us who don't indulge in a daily spot of vanity.
The truth is that vanity makes for very good business. One needs only to look at the booming cosmetics industry, alongside the outrageous wealth and celebrity of cosmetic surgeons, for proof. We are willing to go to any lengths, even to the point of injecting paralysing toxins into our faces, to maintain our fresh, vibrant, and above all, youthful beauty.
When we think of the Chinese people, one of the first associations that springs to mind is their Zen philosophy, which helps them face life with calm acceptance. Even they are not above vanity, however. They have been fighting the signs of aging for thousands of years and so, understandably, their weapons are more refined.
They make use of the subtle manipulations of their hands to relax muscles and increase circulation. Facial massage has long played an important role in a Chinese beauty regime. But it is only now being touted across the Western world as a "miracle" cure to fight wrinkles and restore vitality to tired and aging skin.
There are many things that contribute to wrinkles and puffy or sagging skin. Your genes play an important role, but so does lifestyle. Sedentary ways of life, bad eating habits, shallow breathing and exposure to pollution all take their toll on skin tone. Facial massage improves blood flow and reduces lymph build-up, which results in enhanced skin tone and creates a healthy glow.
Over time our skin loses its elasticity and suppleness, the facial expressions that we most often use become etched onto our faces, and so we get frown lines, laugh lines and lines along our lips. Facial massage gently loosens up the muscles so that they slide back into place more quickly after being tensed into an expression. Regular facial massages relax your skin to such a degree that you look younger, less tense and flushed with good health.
One of the reasons that facial massage has been so slow to take off in the West is that we've held onto the belief that the tissue in our face is too delicate to be manhandled. We now know that so long as treatment is gentle, it can be extremely beneficial to our skin. Not only do we see the benefits of increased circulation and lymph drainage, but our skin's ability to absorb important ingredients in the creams and oils that we use is also greatly enhanced.
Like botox, facial massage requires regular treatments for results to be sustained. So while it may not be as permanent as cosmetic surgery, it is less invasive and offers the chance of beauty by way of pampering. One of the nice things about living in today's global village is that East meets West, which results in more choice for consumers. So if you want to ease your way into cosmetic surgery, facial massage is a good way to start.
Go to http://www.womenfitness.net/beauty/skin/facial1.htm to find out more about facial massage to suit your skin type. Recommended site:
http://www.ellecanada.com/Beauty/face/soft-touch-the-benefits-of-facial-massage-n257415p1.html
Sandra wrote this article for the online marketers MediClinic modern, private medical service provider a modern private medical centre offering a range of services from health screens to psychiatric services to cosmetic procedures.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sandy_Cosser
Friday, April 25, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Combining Diet And Moisturizer Can Help You Look Younger
By James Schramko
You are what you eat, goes the old saying. You are also what you drink and what you breathe. In the battle against aging skin, it's vitally important to pay attention to what goes into your body. Toxins, dehydration and pollutants are all factors that play a part in making your skin look older.
In addition to modifying your habits, using a good anti-aging, anti-wrinkle product can help.
Free radicals contribute to the signs of aging on the skin. These are tiny unstable molecules that arise naturally and that kill healthy cells. They cause wrinkles and lack of elasticity in the skin. The production of these small but nasty molecules is accelerated by environmental factors such as pollution, chemicals, and exposure to cigarette smoke.
The best way to battle the effects of free radicals is to eat a diet rich in antioxidants. These are found in a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables. Anti-oxidants are also key ingredients in anti-aging products. Look for a skin care product that boasts an unusually high percentage of antioxidants.
Good nutrition is tremendously important in the quest for younger-looking skin. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low in chemical additives leads to greater overall health, which is reflected in the skin. If your diet is inadequate, the addition of supplements and vitamins will help to keep your skin healthy, making it appear younger.
Avoiding pollutants such as cigarette smoke is vitally important to skin. Toxins in smoke and pollution age the skin, producing fine lines and a blotchy complexion.
For years, healthcare professionals have been encouraging us all to drink enough water. Eight 8-ounce glasses, or three to four pints, is considered an adequate amount for the average adult. It is especially important to replace fluids if you are drinking caffeinated or alcoholic beverages, both of which are dehydrating.
How does your water intake affect your skin? First, it cleanses. Water removes toxins from our bodies. Next, it hydrates. Moisturized skin has fewer fine lines and is firmer. Your cells are made mostly of water, and need it to stay plump and healthy.
Using a high-quality moisturizer is another necessary step in keeping your skin hydrated. Skin that is exposed to sun and other elements is depleted and dehydrated. A good cream locks in moisture, aiding in the disappearance of fine lines and sagging.
So when you eat right and take steps to feed your skin the right nutrients you can slow the effects of aging both inside and out.
Make sure your skin cream has a high concentration of anti-aging anti-oxidants.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=James_Schramko
You are what you eat, goes the old saying. You are also what you drink and what you breathe. In the battle against aging skin, it's vitally important to pay attention to what goes into your body. Toxins, dehydration and pollutants are all factors that play a part in making your skin look older.
In addition to modifying your habits, using a good anti-aging, anti-wrinkle product can help.
Free radicals contribute to the signs of aging on the skin. These are tiny unstable molecules that arise naturally and that kill healthy cells. They cause wrinkles and lack of elasticity in the skin. The production of these small but nasty molecules is accelerated by environmental factors such as pollution, chemicals, and exposure to cigarette smoke.
The best way to battle the effects of free radicals is to eat a diet rich in antioxidants. These are found in a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables. Anti-oxidants are also key ingredients in anti-aging products. Look for a skin care product that boasts an unusually high percentage of antioxidants.
Good nutrition is tremendously important in the quest for younger-looking skin. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low in chemical additives leads to greater overall health, which is reflected in the skin. If your diet is inadequate, the addition of supplements and vitamins will help to keep your skin healthy, making it appear younger.
Avoiding pollutants such as cigarette smoke is vitally important to skin. Toxins in smoke and pollution age the skin, producing fine lines and a blotchy complexion.
For years, healthcare professionals have been encouraging us all to drink enough water. Eight 8-ounce glasses, or three to four pints, is considered an adequate amount for the average adult. It is especially important to replace fluids if you are drinking caffeinated or alcoholic beverages, both of which are dehydrating.
How does your water intake affect your skin? First, it cleanses. Water removes toxins from our bodies. Next, it hydrates. Moisturized skin has fewer fine lines and is firmer. Your cells are made mostly of water, and need it to stay plump and healthy.
Using a high-quality moisturizer is another necessary step in keeping your skin hydrated. Skin that is exposed to sun and other elements is depleted and dehydrated. A good cream locks in moisture, aiding in the disappearance of fine lines and sagging.
So when you eat right and take steps to feed your skin the right nutrients you can slow the effects of aging both inside and out.
Make sure your skin cream has a high concentration of anti-aging anti-oxidants.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=James_Schramko
Friday, April 11, 2008
Anti Aging Methods
By Chess McDoogle
There are legitimate and genuine methods for anti aging. One will not only feel younger, but look much, much younger. Reversing the aging process has different methods, here are three of the strongest:
1. Exercising properly.
This may seem rather obvious, but it's effect is so great that it has to be mentioned first. Everyone knows someone who has said: "After I started to exercise, I feel so much better...more energy, more vitality, and mentally I'm much more positive." With so many positive benefits for exercise you really should make it a staple of your anti aging regimen.
Exercise need only consist of getting your heart rate up for a continuous 30 minutes or longer. This can be done through walking, biking, light jogging, or other forms of cardiovascular exercise.
2. Build your muscle.
Now, you don't have to get bulky and big when it comes to building your muscle. You likely will not even come close to the bodybuilder look. What you will achieve is a stronger body, a firmer body, a more leaner body, and a body that can function the same or better than when you were much, much younger.
Building muscle makes so much sense, as we enter later years and need to be strong and fit in order to maintain or increase our life activity. Look into building muscle through weight lifting or natural bodyweight exercises like push ups, pull ups, and dips.
3. Raw Vegetables.
This is huge, and usually the most under mentioned anti aging method you can do to reverse the aging process. Raw vegetables have amazing ingredients and properties which are absolutely ideal for anti aging. Unfortunately, cooking your veges tend to "cook out" most of these great qualities, so it's important to get some of your vegetables in the raw form.
There are amazing anti aging books available which have raw vegetable recipes and list exactly what to eat for anti aging benefits.
Here is perhaps the best Anti Aging manual, which lists all the anti aging raw vegetables to eat - http://www.squidoo.com/anti-aging-exercise
This guide also serves as one of the most definitive anti aging regimen manuals around, covering virtually everything you need to know about reversing the aging process naturally. Check out http://www.squidoo.com/anti-aging-exercise
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Chess_McDoogle
The Reverse Aging and Fitness Revolution
By Chad T Hart
There's nothing new about how Stress, Career, Poor Diet, and Environmental Factors are taxing our internal systems to the point that our biological clocks are revealing premature symptoms of advanced aging. Debilitating health issues and rising costs are no doubt leveraged on that fact alone. The Nutritional, Pharmaceutical, Alternative and Homeopathic industries have well within their right endeavored to respond to this challenge by dissecting the causes and throwing a bunch of Pills, Potions and mineral herb "fountains of youth" at the problem to see what would stick.
There are so many choices out there that by the time you address a few issues it's costing you an arm and a leg (sometimes literally). OK, let's consider the "but or what If" for a moment. Consider if you were 35 and were told by your doctor that if you didn't change your diet, lose weight, and change your habits, that you would not see your 40th birthday, what would you do? Such was the case of Jon Benson, author and publisher of "Fit Over 40". Obviously this was a wake up call for him, yet it launched him on a mission to reverse his life threatening condition. Needless to say, Jon's desperation and determination to find answers catapulted him in front of 52` 40-80yr. old ageless living role models. Many which were obese, diseased and drug abused. They revealed to him their secrets on how they overcame aging and disease and with their permission took the combined knowledge of the 52 and applied the principles of "Customizing" and "Modeling" that he learned from athletic and life coaches to create his own "Master Mind Model" that even had his mentors awe inspired. Within 12 months, he had totally reversed the damage he had done to his body and literally slashed at least 10-15 years off his biological age. One of his doctors didn't even recognize him.
Jon's story as well as these remarkable 40 and over ageless models are highlighted in his website. Jon also claims, "If you would like to discover the fastest and easiest way to lose weight and REVERSE the aging process in your body, then this will be the most important message you ever read in your life" He says that men and women of 30 years and older can enjoy: A thin lean waistline ~ Impressive muscularity ~ Higher levels of naturally-released growth hormone and testosterone ~ Remarkable energy and stamina ~ Increased mental alertness ~ A stronger heart ~ A powerful immune system ~ A better sex life ~ More ZEST for life! And much, much more.
The Anti-Aging and Fitness Revolution has just hit a new level and stride that perhaps will take us well into the 21st century to meet healths challenges with new invigorated sense of optimism. I just happen to be one of them. 53 years young, if you don't mind. I get compliments all the time. A witness to my vibrant "youthfulness" It has enhanced my career, family, social life and overall well being. And isn't that what were all looking for. Energy, Stamina and Mental Clarity to live a full-filled life. Nice thing is you certainly don't have to spend all your time and money in a gym, surgery, or health food store to get there.
ALLYourStrength LLC Promotes an easy to assimilate systematic program that will slash 15-20 years off your looks, boost your metabolism, gain muscle and lose all the weight you want naturally and safely. This simple lifestyle program is designed to Create an energy explosion, supercharge your metabolic engine, burn calories at an accelerated rate and make you feel young again.
It will also boost your immune system, armor plate your body defense system against flus, colds and viruses.
Moreover you will discover the single most important factor in anti aging, and how you can harness its power to make you more resistant to heart disease, diabetes, stroke, depression and arthritis, while at the same time making you leaner, stronger, and more muscular.
My suggestion to you is spend some time on the SECOND page of Jon's website, especially if your already fit and trim. If anything you will not find hype, but living breathing testimonies of his life and the lives of other's that will inspire you if nothing else. Otherwise, get ready to see and do for yourself what very few have been able to do. Go beyond your years living life to the Max!
http://www.anti-agedandslimmer.com/
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Chad_T_Hart
There's nothing new about how Stress, Career, Poor Diet, and Environmental Factors are taxing our internal systems to the point that our biological clocks are revealing premature symptoms of advanced aging. Debilitating health issues and rising costs are no doubt leveraged on that fact alone. The Nutritional, Pharmaceutical, Alternative and Homeopathic industries have well within their right endeavored to respond to this challenge by dissecting the causes and throwing a bunch of Pills, Potions and mineral herb "fountains of youth" at the problem to see what would stick.
There are so many choices out there that by the time you address a few issues it's costing you an arm and a leg (sometimes literally). OK, let's consider the "but or what If" for a moment. Consider if you were 35 and were told by your doctor that if you didn't change your diet, lose weight, and change your habits, that you would not see your 40th birthday, what would you do? Such was the case of Jon Benson, author and publisher of "Fit Over 40". Obviously this was a wake up call for him, yet it launched him on a mission to reverse his life threatening condition. Needless to say, Jon's desperation and determination to find answers catapulted him in front of 52` 40-80yr. old ageless living role models. Many which were obese, diseased and drug abused. They revealed to him their secrets on how they overcame aging and disease and with their permission took the combined knowledge of the 52 and applied the principles of "Customizing" and "Modeling" that he learned from athletic and life coaches to create his own "Master Mind Model" that even had his mentors awe inspired. Within 12 months, he had totally reversed the damage he had done to his body and literally slashed at least 10-15 years off his biological age. One of his doctors didn't even recognize him.
Jon's story as well as these remarkable 40 and over ageless models are highlighted in his website. Jon also claims, "If you would like to discover the fastest and easiest way to lose weight and REVERSE the aging process in your body, then this will be the most important message you ever read in your life" He says that men and women of 30 years and older can enjoy: A thin lean waistline ~ Impressive muscularity ~ Higher levels of naturally-released growth hormone and testosterone ~ Remarkable energy and stamina ~ Increased mental alertness ~ A stronger heart ~ A powerful immune system ~ A better sex life ~ More ZEST for life! And much, much more.
The Anti-Aging and Fitness Revolution has just hit a new level and stride that perhaps will take us well into the 21st century to meet healths challenges with new invigorated sense of optimism. I just happen to be one of them. 53 years young, if you don't mind. I get compliments all the time. A witness to my vibrant "youthfulness" It has enhanced my career, family, social life and overall well being. And isn't that what were all looking for. Energy, Stamina and Mental Clarity to live a full-filled life. Nice thing is you certainly don't have to spend all your time and money in a gym, surgery, or health food store to get there.
ALLYourStrength LLC Promotes an easy to assimilate systematic program that will slash 15-20 years off your looks, boost your metabolism, gain muscle and lose all the weight you want naturally and safely. This simple lifestyle program is designed to Create an energy explosion, supercharge your metabolic engine, burn calories at an accelerated rate and make you feel young again.
It will also boost your immune system, armor plate your body defense system against flus, colds and viruses.
Moreover you will discover the single most important factor in anti aging, and how you can harness its power to make you more resistant to heart disease, diabetes, stroke, depression and arthritis, while at the same time making you leaner, stronger, and more muscular.
My suggestion to you is spend some time on the SECOND page of Jon's website, especially if your already fit and trim. If anything you will not find hype, but living breathing testimonies of his life and the lives of other's that will inspire you if nothing else. Otherwise, get ready to see and do for yourself what very few have been able to do. Go beyond your years living life to the Max!
http://www.anti-agedandslimmer.com/
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Chad_T_Hart
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