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Beautiful skin

If you are looking to add more moisture to your skin, or want to get rid of blotchiness or blemishes, you have to make sure that you are eating foods that contain vitamin C and vitamin E. Citrus fruits are good for your skin, and include fruits like oranges, grapefruits, and limes. But I suggest to eat tropical fruits in season(summer and fall)

You can find vitamin E in green and leafy vegetables and as well as in certain lean meats, nuts, and beans.

Foods to eat for clear skin include tuna, brazil nuts, and whole wheat bread, which is rich in selenium, a derivative of vitamin C which is necessary for skin cells to develop and reproduce properly. It has also been proven that even if your skin has undergone significant sun damage and if your diet is high in selenium, the damage will not be severe. Skin rejuvenating vitamins and properties are found in selenium, and these are a great compliment to foods which contain vitamins A and E, and they are essential for skin health.

So what about vitamins and supplements?

Before you switch to vitamin or mineral supplements, be sure to talk to your doctor about which supplements are best for you, especially if you are consuming lots of medicines.

All Natural

Here is one of the best antioxidants we use: OPC-3 Beauty Blend.

Some of the benefits:

· Supports a smooth, soft and even-toned complexion

· Promotes healthy functioning of the skin at the cellular level, which results in healthy, vibrant-looking skin

· Replenishes essential vitamins and minerals that are co-factors for many enzyme reactions in vivo to help the entire skin to grow and cells to divide

· Helps maintain normal cell growth

· Supports healthy skin with key micronutrients to replenish and rejuvenate skin to look, feel and function its absolute best

· Supports healthy joints

· Supports healthy skin elasticity to keep skin looking young and firm (tight)

· Helps maintain healthy collagen production

· Helps maintain skin elasticity and moisture

· Helps maintain healthy connective tissue

· Maintains healthy collagen and elastin levels to help preserve the elasticity of skin

· Plays a role in maintaining elasticity of capillaries in the dermis, which helps maintain healthy blood flow, minimizing the appearance of spider veins in the skin

Obesity epidemic

Weight loss pills

Americans spend a whopping 40 billion dollars a year on diets and diet related products. On any given day you can see commercials and read advertisements about fat blockers, carb cutters and appetite suppressants.

With all of these amazing pills on the market and the billions of dollars being pumped into the diet industry, why is it that America’s obesity problem has reached epidemic proportions?

The problem is that many people believe the magic bullet or rather, supplement that’s going to solve all of their overweight problems. Many people want a quick fix or an easy solution.

Diet pills come in many forms ranging from pills marketed as appetite suppressants to others marketed as carb blockers, fat blockers and metabolism boosters. Many of them include Ephedrine and use the name “thermo”, “lean” or “fat burner.”

According to the FDA, products containing ephedrine extracts have caused hundreds of illnesses, including seizures, heart attacks, strokes and even death. They are amphetamine-like compounds with powerful and potentially lethal stimulant effects on the central nervous system and the heart.

There are many prescription diet pills on the market as well including the popular and most commonly prescribed prescription appetite suppressant Phentermine. It is sold under the brand names: Lonamine and Adipex. These supplements, like most others, suppress the appetite and stimulate the central nervous system.

Each diet pill has its own set of potential side effects. Many, especially stimulant-based diet pills, are habit-forming and lend themselves to abuse. Abuse of these drugs may lead to psychological and/or physical dependence.

Appetite suppressants.

When you consume TOO FEW calories, your metabolism actually slows down. As your metabolism slows, the amount of weight you lose also slows down. Eating too much or eating too little may have devastating effects on the body. The best thing to do is to find a healthy medium. Did you know that in order to lose weight safely, effectively and long-term you have to actually consume a moderate amount of calories?

Fat blockers, like Xenical, may have many side effects as well including; oily spotting, anal leakage, intestinal cramping, gas with discharge, nausea, diarrhea, oily discharge, fecal urgency, loose and oily stools, fecal incontinence, frequent bowel movements.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that two in three Americans are overweight and one in three are obese, and the drug market is hungry for an effective diet pill. But the idea has been difficult to pull off.

There has not been a prescription pill for weight loss approved since 1999, when Xenical, which works by blocking the absorption of fat, was approved.

And although the FDA allowed a version of Xenical known as Alli to be sold over the counter, doctors say gastrointestinal side effects such as diarrhea have kept many consumers from taking it for long periods.

Prescription diet pills have had trouble winning respect with consumers and doctors because of safety issues and side effects. In 1997, a diet drug combination known as fen-phen was yanked from pharmacy shelves after it was linked to heart valve damage.

Following the panel’s decision on Qnexa, Biotech Stock Research, a research firm that follows drug development, Tweeted that it believes “no drug will ever be proven to be as safe as exercise in the minds of reviewers.”

So what is the answer? I think everybody knows the answer. In a few words: Eat properly

Reduce stress

Get enough sleep

Don’t eat out more than oce a week.

Physical activity-get your butt off the couch!

Exercise regularly

Some natural supplements can help.

One of the more useful programs is Transitions Life Training”

And last but not the least: educate yourself. Read about proper diet, organic food, exercise.

There is no magic bullet (pill)

Beauty of Nature

Vitamin D has risen to the ranks of nutritional superstardom. Research suggests this nutrient will perform best if you take it during your biggest meal of the day — be it breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

Table 1: Selected food sources of vitamin D^10-12

Here is the Vitamin D in isotonic form

A new study has linked chocolate with depression once again. The article merely tells us what our intuition already knew-chocolate helps us feel better. But how? Chocolate works on the same receptors as marijuana, too. Smoking a joint fills the receptors reserved for endocannabinoids, and the sole other ways in which to fill these receptors are through chocolate and exercise. Throw a very little caffeine for further dopamine and chocolate is the right mood enhancing substance for anyone needing a boost.

Chocolate improves your mood