Food Choices For Young Women

Is your teenage daughter always dieting or worrying about eating too much?

Teenage girls often seem preoccupied with their weight. Even though they need fewer calories than teenage boys, girls continue to grow until about age 16. So consuming enough calories is very important. Too few calories can result in a failure to grow.

Exercise At Work

Office work can be very stressful to city dwellers who have no time for outdoor exercise. Prevent burn out and injury.
Here are exercises you can do five times each while standing or sitting at your desk.

Head to Toe Self Massage

Massage is invigorating and you can do it for yourself. Just follow these easy techniques:

Good Foot Massage

Give your feet a break with a good foot massage. You can do it with a partner or try the massage on your own.

Breast Massage

A recent study* of 4,700 women found that women who wore bras had an increased chance of acquiring breast cancer. It is very possible that the constant pressure that the bra puts on the breast is limiting the flow of toxins that need to be released, resulting in the increased cancer rate. Any more than a gentle amount of pressure can flatten the lymphatic vessel and stop the toxic flow from the breast.

Healthy Eating Habits

With skimpy swimsuits and trips to the beach in mind, toning various body parts and dropping a few pounds in time for summer has become a priority for many. Coupled with regular cardiovascular exercise, healthy eating habits can severely impact ones weight as well as ones overall body image.

Relaxation Techniques

 High-stress jobs, multiple roles and endless personal obligations may leave just about anyone torn and tattered. Renew body mind and spirit with simple relaxation techniques that require only minimal time and energy investment. 

In addition to relieving a degree of ones current stress load, practicing relaxation techniques on a regular basis has also been shown to promote overall healthier living, better mental condition and fewer incidences of heart attacks, strokes and repeat heart attacks.

Girls Slumber Party

Grown-Up Girls Stress-Busting Slumber Party

Remember when your biggest problem was choosing a prom gown or letting the boy you liked know how you felt? Ahh, those were the days. Problems seemed so great, yet in the grand scheme of things, you really only needed a chocolate milkshake or a pint of Ben & Jerrys to assuage your every concern.

Pilates

Pilates: A Workout for Body, Mind and Soul

Concentration, control, flexibility, alertness, shape, alignment, strength. These wonderful characteristics unite in an effort to give you the body you�ve always wanted, merely using your strong mind and your determination. The unification of mind, body and spirit in a coordinated effort will produce the results that you seek as you weave Pilates into your life.

Pilates, founded by Joseph Pilates, focus on the strength of ones powerhouse, which includes abdominal muscles, lower back, buttocks and inner thighs. Designed to follow a natural flow from one position and exercise to the next, Pilates typically features a low number of repetitions in a controlled setting.

Chocolate

Should We Fear Chocolate? 

Women on a diet or women who are conscious of their weight and figure always display a certain fear of chocolate. They avoid it like plague, thinking that the sugar and the calories that chocolate contains will make their diet and weight-loss plans go haywire. And yet, when things go wrong and they are feeling down, they go and raid the fridge and gobble on as much chocolate as they can. When these women come to their senses later on, they feel horribly guilty and try to burn the sugar and calories gained from the binge.

Facial Fitness Exercises

Being beautiful on the outside is all about keeping the face young and looking healthy. We know that the absence of wrinkles and sags, as well as having taut, toned, smooth and glowing skin are the signs of youthful and healthy beauty. Some go through so much just to maintain the vigor and agelessness of their faces, so much that they would spend a fortune on face lifts and other procedures that would keep them looking as close to 18 years old as possible.

Fat Girls and Fat Women

Modern societys image of the beautiful woman is someone who fits a certain size, usually size 6 or smaller, someone with a certain kind of bone structure, someone with a certain kind of face. This image is glorified in many, many fashion magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Elle and Vogue. This image is, unfortunately, not true for the average woman, who has to struggle with size 8 or bigger, who does not have the same delicate bone structure, who does not have the particular kind of face that one would see on a model.

Relax at Home

A lot of us have come to believe that the best way to unwind from the stress brought about by the daily grind to work and to whatever activities we have that makes our schedules jam-packed is to escape to the spa. True enough, the services we get at a spa are designed to pamper us from head to foot, making each trip a relaxing indulgence that is truly worth getting addicted to.

Organic Tomatoes Better Research Proves Organic

Organic tomatoes have more antioxidants
According to new research published recently in the online Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry (2007, 55 , pp 6154–6159), tomatoes grown with organic methods have more heart-disease fighting antioxidants than those grown conventionally.

Organic Grass Fed Beef is Better and Healthier

The four stomach compartments of a cow are designed to digest grass, not grains, or corn.
Have you ever seen a cow running around in a cornfield peeling the ear and eating corn?

Grass-fed beef contains more of the essential fatty acid omega-3, as well as conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), an essential fatty acid that helps regulate the way our bodies deal with other fats, boosts the immune system, fights cancer, and has other health benefits.

Organic Apples Are Better

Unfortunately, apples are consistently found to be the most pesticide-contaminated fruits, together with peaches.
In the US and Canada, apples are the most popular fruits and because of the high pesticide residue content they are a health hazard.
Apples are a major source of exposure to organophosphate pesticides, which some studies suggest are linked to decreased intelligence and increased attention deficit disorders in children, and changes in hormone levels for some adults.

Saturated Fat Does NOT Cause Heart Disease Three Major Studies Found

Despite the long held idea that saturated fat causes artery blockage by raising blood cholesterol and thus contributes to the risk of having a heart attack (diet-heart hypothesis), the scientific evidence is just not there!

Nutritional Superiority of Organic Foods

he need for a return to healthy organic foods is supported by a comprehensive review of forty major scientific studies published since 2003 which delivers definitive evidence on a controversial issue “why organic?”
The report “New Evidence Confirms the Nutritional Superiority of Plant-Based Organic Foods,” State of Science Review, March 2008, prepared by Charles Benbrook, Xin Zhao, Jaime Yanez, Neal Davies and Preston Andrews claims the nutritional superiority of organic foods.

Best Nuts Healthiest Nuts

A study conducted by Loma Linda University in California involving 31,000 Seventh Day Adventists found that eating nuts lowered the risk of heart disease and helped participants keep their weight down.
Other large-scale studies, including the Physician’s Health Study, the Harvard Nurses Health Study and the Iowa Women’s Heath Study also found that eating nuts lowered heart disease risk.

Organic Coleslaw Recipe

Organic Colesalw Recipe

A tasty organic coleslaw recipe – healthy side dish.

Organic Hot Pepper Good Health Benefits

Hot pepper has many health benefits

Organic hot pepper, though its compound Capsaicin, boosts the generation of heat in the body, leading to more calories burned – good news if you are on weight loss diet.

Peaches Contaminated With Pesticides

Tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found traces of more than 50 different pesticides on peaches destined for U.S. stores. Five of the compounds were found at levels higher than those considered safe by the Environmental Protection agency, and six of them were chemicals not approved for use in the United States.

The peaches were grown both domestically and overseas. These were not organic peaches.

Best Natural Antioxidant Spice

Best Natural Antioxidant Spice – Cloves

Researchers have identified cloves (Syzygium aromaticum) as the best natural antioxidant spice, because they contain high levels of phenolic compounds, as well as having other properties.

How to Grow Mushrooms in Your Home

Mushrooms are simply delectable. They add a rich and earthy flavor to any dish you put them in. They are also very nutritious – they contain high levels of protein and potassium, but have very little fat and are low in calories. Mushrooms are delicious and are good for you.

Avocado Is Rich In Minerals And Nutrients

In his book Purseglove named the avocado ” …the most nutritious of all fruits.” (Purseglove, J. W. 1968. Tropical crops: Dicotyledons. Wiley, New York). The avocado fruit provides  20 vitamins, minerals (fourteen minerals), and phytonutrients.

Must Buy Organic And Low Pesticide Foods

 So which produce are Must Buy Organic?

Common growing practices make the crops shown on the left above and listed below the most likely to contain pesticide residues:

Try to buy these organic as much as you can!

Cruciferous Vegetables Health Benefits

Cruciferous vegetables includes broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, collard, turnips, bok choy, kohlrabi, horse radish, and a few other vegetables.
Cruciferous vegetables are master detoxifiers. (1)

The cells in our body, especially in the liver, have “detoxification factories” in them called enzymes. These factories relentlessly work to process the things that can damage the body.

Organic Farms Better For People And Planet

After conducting side-by-side comparisons of organic and conventional strawberry farms and their fruit, scientists found clear evidence that organic farms produce more flavorful and nutritious berries and leave the soil far healthier and more genetically diverse.