Beauty – Fashion Tips for Women

A noted philosopher and politician Aristotle once said, women are the best creatures of god.

According to the varying shape and size or body shape and colours, etc., here are few wrapping and carrying tips i.e. Fashion Tips for Women.

But before jumping into those tips to make you smarter, beautiful and bold definitely you would like to know What is Fashion for Women, especially if you are a bit extra cautious about your looks and appearance.

Fashion for Women

Women are directly linked with fashion. It would be right to say that the word fashion is synonyms to woman. It is something more than wearing clothing. If you are an urban beauty, the fashion trend and style should go well and that too in advance with you. Few of the factors that define your fashion statement are body frame, skin tone, level of comfort and personal attitude.

• Body Frame – Are you a plump woman, if yes, trying avoiding sleeveless cuts. Choose dark colour clothing rather than lighter shades. Or prefer over a range of dull colours like dull blue or dirty blue. If you wear small prints and vertical line prints, you will look slimmer. If you have extra pounds in you, avoid kola sarees and cotton sarees and stick to Chiffon and Georgette Sarees. Choose beige and fawn colours, if you have a medium structure. In case of dresses, try on nets as these are of great help in disguising physical flaws. Thin women, cheer up, you will look gorgeous in all the colour ranges. All the colours and shades will suits on you. You also can try on sleeveless, deep cuts t-shirts and strapped blouses.
• Skin Tone – If you have fair complexion, gold with a blend of copper will make you cool. If you are a medium / whitish coloured, prefer mix shades of white, beige and bronzy golden. If you have dark skin, prefer to wrap yourself in golden copper shades.
• Personal Attitude and Level of comfort – Your attitude and level of comfort is very important along with your appearance and clothing sense. If you want to maintain a cosmopolitan outlook but do not feel very much comfortable with western wear, try Indo Western style. A blend of Indo Western style should add an extra charm to your personality. A boat necked saree with a squared necked blouse is definitely for a shy and introvert women. Bold and beautiful should choose from sleeveless, deep-necked blouses and may be straps.

So no matter what is your body frame and skin tone or how bold is your personality, fashion is for you, LADIES.

Smoking – health risks

On average, each cigarette shortens a smoker’s life by around 11 minutes.

You can eat five portions of fruit and vegetable, take vitamins daily and exercise regularly, but healthy behavior means little if you continue to smoke.
The message that ‘smoking is bad for you’ is an old one, so not everyone gives it their full attention.

Below is the list of  health risks of smoking.

ACETONE – a paint stripper & nail polish remover
AMMONIA – floor/toilet cleaner
ARSENIC – rat poison
BUTANE – a lighter fluid
CADMIUM – rechargeable batteries
CARBON MONOXIDE – car exhaust fumes
DDT/DIELDRIN – insecticide banned in U.S.
FORMALDEHYDE – embalming fluid
HEXAMINE – barbecue lighter
HYDROGEN CYANIDE – gas chamber poison
METHANOL – rocket fuel
NAPHTHALENE– found in mothballs
NICOTINE – addictive drug/insecticide
POLONIUM 210 – cancer causing radioactive element
STEARIC ACID – candle wax
VINYL CHLORIDE – makes PVC pipe

Thinking about quitting?
As well as reducing your risk of getting a smoking-related illness, there are other benefits to quitting smoking.

• General health improves – tiredness and headaches can be linked to smoking.
• Your sense of taste and smell improve.
• Your heart will be less strained and work more efficiently.
• Stopping smoking is the single biggest thing you can do to improve your health, but it’s a difficult task.
• Smokers who are trying to kick their habit may be disappointed to find there’s no single quit method that guarantees success.
• The weight of evidence suggests that smokers should set a date to stop, and do their best to quit completely from this point.
• On average it takes four to five attempts to give up, and there are a number of things that can help willpower:
• nicotine replacement treatment (NRT) in the form of gum, skin patches or nasal spray
• Zyban (bupropion) is a medicine that’s licensed to help smoking cessation
• behavior modification programmes
• alternative therapies such as acupuncture and hypnosis.

Why quit smoking?
‘Cardiovascular’ means the heart and circulation.
Cardiovascular disease causes:

• poor circulation
• angina (chest pains)
• heart attacks
• stroke.

Most people know that smoking can cause lung cancer, but it can also cause many other cancers and illnesses.
Smoking kills around 114,000 people in the UK each year.
Of these deaths, about 42,800 are from smoking-related cancers, 30,600 from cardiovascular disease and 29,100 die slowly from emphysema and other chronic lung diseases.
How do cigarettes damage health?
Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemical compounds and at least 400 toxic substances.
When you inhale, a cigarette burns at 700°C at the tip and around 60°C in the core. This heat breaks down the tobacco to produce various toxins.
As a cigarette burns, the residues are concentrated towards the butt.
The products that are most damaging are:

• tar, a carcinogen (substance that causes cancer)
• nicotine is addictive and increases cholesterol levels in your body
• carbon monoxide reduces oxygen in the body
• components of the gas and particulate phases cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD).

The damage caused by smoking is influenced by:

• the number of cigarettes smoked
• whether the cigarette has a filter
• how the tobacco has been prepared.

Smoking affects how long you live
Research has shown that smoking reduces life expectancy by seven to eight years.
Of the 300 people who die every day in the UK as a result of smoking, many are comparatively young smokers.
The number of people under the age of 70 who die from smoking-related diseases exceeds the total figure for deaths caused by breast cancer, AIDS, traffic accidents and drug addiction.
Non-smokers and ex-smokers can also look forward to a healthier old age than smokers.
Major diseases caused by smoking
Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death due to smoking.
Hardening of the arteries is a process that develops over years, when cholesterol and other fats deposit in the arteries, leaving them narrow, blocked or rigid. When the arteries narrow (atherosclerosis), blood clots are likely to form.
Smoking accelerates the hardening and narrowing process in your arteries: it starts earlier and blood clots are two to four times more likely.
Cardiovascular disease can take many forms depending on which blood vessels are involved, and all of them are more common in people who smoke.
A fatal disease
Blood clots in the heart and brain are the most common causes of sudden death.

• Coronary thrombosis: a blood clot in the arteries supplying the heart, which can lead to a heart attack. Around 30 per cent are caused by smoking.
• Cerebral thrombosis: the vessels to the brain can become blocked, which can lead to collapse, stroke and paralysis.
• If the kidney arteries are affected, then high blood pressure or kidney failure results.
• Blockage to the vascular supply to the legs may lead to gangrene and amputation.

Smokers tend to develop coronary thrombosis 10 years earlier than non-smokers, and make up 9 out of 10 heart bypass patients.
Cancer
Smokers are more likely to get cancer than non-smokers. This is particularly true of lung cancer, throat cancer and mouth cancer, which hardly ever affect non-smokers.
The link between smoking and lung cancer is clear.

• Ninety percent of lung cancer cases are due to smoking.
• If no-one smoked, lung cancer would be a rare diagnosis – only 0.5 per cent of people who’ve never touched a cigarette develop lung cancer.
• One in ten moderate smokers and almost one in five heavy smokers (more than 15 cigarettes a day) will die of lung cancer.

The more cigarettes you smoke in a day, and the longer you’ve smoked, the higher your risk of lung cancer. Similarly, the risk rises the deeper you inhale and the earlier in life you started smoking.
For ex-smokers, it takes approximately 15 years before the risk of lung cancer drops to the same as that of a non-smoker.
If you smoke, the risk of contracting mouth cancer is four times higher than for a non-smoker. Cancer can start in many areas of the mouth, with the most common being on or underneath the tongue, or on the lips.
Other types of cancer that are more common in smokers are:

• bladder cancer
• cancer of the esophagus
• cancer of the kidneys
• cancer of the pancreas
• cervical cancer

COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a collective term for a group of conditions that block airflow and make breathing more difficult, such as:
Term watch
Chronic means long term, not severe.

• emphysema – breathlessness caused by damage to the air sacs (alveoli)
• chronic bronchitis – coughing with a lot of mucus that continues for at least three months.

Smoking is the most common cause of COPD and is responsible for 80 per cent of cases.
It’s estimated that 94 per cent of 20-a-day smokers have some emphysema when the lungs are examined after death, while more than 90 per cent of non-smokers have little or none.
COPD typically starts between the ages of 35 and 45 when lung function starts to decline anyway.
Quitting can help
Lung damage from COPD is permanent, but giving up smoking at any stage reduces the rate of decline in lung capacity.
In smokers, the rate of decline in lung function can be three times the usual rate. As lung function declines, breathlessness begins.
As the condition progresses, severe breathing problems can require hospital care. The final stage is death from slow and progressive breathlessness.
Other risks caused by smoking
Did you know?
A single cigarette can reduce the blood supply to your skin for over an hour.

• Smoking raises blood pressure, which can cause hypertension (high blood pressure) – a risk factor for heart attacks and stroke.
• Couples who smoke are more likely to have fertility problems than couples who are non-smokers.
• Smoking worsens asthma and counteracts asthma medication by worsening the inflammation of the airways that the medicine tries to ease.
• The blood vessels in the eye are sensitive and can be easily damaged by smoke, causing a bloodshot appearance and itchiness.
• Heavy smokers are twice as likely to get muscular degeneration, resulting in the gradual loss of eyesight.
• Smokers run an increased risk of cataracts.
• Smokers take 25 per cent more sick days year than non-smokers.
• Smoking stains your teeth and gums.
• Smoking increases your risk of periodontal disease, which causes swollen gums, bad breath and teeth to fall out.
• Smoking causes an acid taste in the mouth and contributes to the development of ulcers.
• Smoking also affects your looks: smokers have paler skin and more wrinkles. This is because smoking reduces the blood supply to the skin and lowers levels of vitamin A.

Smoking and impotence
For men in their 30s and 40s, smoking increases the risk of erectile dysfunction (ED) by about 50 per cent.
The British Medical Association estimates that up to 120,000 men have ED because of smoking.
Erection can’t occur unless blood can flow freely into the penis, so these blood vessels have to be in good condition.
Smoking can damage the blood vessels and cause them to degenerate: nicotine narrows the arteries that lead to the penis, reducing blood flow and the pressure of blood in the penis.
This narrowing effect increases over time, so if you haven’t got problems now, things could change later.
Erection problems in smokers may be an early warning signal that cigarettes are already damaging other areas of the body – such as the blood vessels that supply the heart.
Smoking and others
There are many health-related reasons to give up cigarettes – not just for smokers, but to protect those around you.
Babies born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy are twice as likely to be born prematurely and with a low birth weight.
Passive smoking
The ‘side-stream’ smoke that comes off a cigarette between puffs carries a higher risk than directly inhaled smoke.
Children who grow up in a home where one or both of their parents smoke have twice the risk of getting asthma and asthmatic bronchitis. They also have a higher risk of developing allergies.
Infants under two years old are more prone to severe respiratory infections and cot death.
For adults, passive smoking seems to increase the risk of lung cancer, but the evidence for an increased risk of heart disease is not yet conclusive.

Hereditary excuse for obesity is a fact

What is obesity?

You are apple-shaped if fat is on the stomach.
Obesity is more than just a few extra pounds.

Obesity is the heavy accumulation of fat in your body to such a degree that it rapidly increases your risk of diseases that can damage your health and knock years off your life, such as heart disease and diabetes.

Blueberries Decrease Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Obese Men and Women with Metabolic Syndrome.

Among all fruits, berries have shown substantial cardio-protective benefits due to their high polyphenol content. However, investigation of their efficacy in improving features of metabolic syndrome and related cardiovascular risk factors in obesity is limited.

Researcher found that people can work off around 40 per cent of the extra weight that “fat genes” laid on them by exercising, cycling is recommended.

Although some people do have a predisposition to be overweight or even obese, scientists at the Medical Research Council’s Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge discovered that having an active lifestyle could go a long way to countering a person’s genetic inheritance.

The researchers made their conclusions after analyzing the genes of over 20,000 men and women aged 39 to 79, looking for 12 genetic markers known to increase body mass index (BMI) and the risk of obesity.

With this, they calculated a “genetic predisposition score” for each person.

They then asked them to fill out questionnaires about their physical activity levels at work and elsewhere.

They concluded: “The findings challenge the popular myth that obesity is unavoidable if it runs in the family and could guide future treatments to combat the obesity crisis.”

Dr Ruth Loos from the MRC, who led the study, said: “Our research proves that even those who have the highest risk of obesity from their genes can improve their health by taking some form of daily physical activity.”

She added: “People don’t have to run marathons to make a difference either – walking the dog or working in the garden all counts. It goes to show we’re not complete slaves to our genetic make-up and really can make a big difference to our future health by changing our behavior.

Experts fear three quarters of men will be overweight within five years.

Brain begins to decline at age 27

The human brain is the center of the human nervous system and is a highly complex organ. Enclosed in the cranium, it has the same general structure as the brains of other mammals, but is over three times as large as the brain of a typical mammal with an equivalent body size.

Mental powers start to dwindle at 27 after peaking at 22, marking the start of old age, US research suggests.
Professor Timothy Salthouse of the University of Virginia found reasoning, spatial visualisation and speed of thought all decline in our late 20s.
Therapies designed to stall or reverse the ageing process may need to start much earlier, he said.
His seven-year study of 2,000 healthy people aged 18-60 is published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.
To test mental agility, the study participants had to solve puzzles, recall words and story details and spot patterns in letters and symbols. 

The same tests are already used by doctors to spot signs of dementia.
In nine out of 12 tests the average age at which the top performance was achieved was 22.
The first age at which there was any marked decline was at 27 in tests of brain speed, reasoning and visual puzzle-solving ability.
Things like memory stayed intact until the age of 37, on average, while abilities based on accumulated knowledge, such as performance on tests of vocabulary or general information, increased until the age of 60.
Professor Salthouse said his findings suggested “some aspects of age-related cognitive decline begin in healthy, educated adults when they are in their 20s and 30s.”
Rebecca Wood of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust agreed, saying: “This research suggests that the natural decline of some of our mental abilities as we age starts much earlier than some of us might expect – in our 20s and 30s.
“Understanding more about how healthy brains decline could help us understand what goes wrong in serious diseases like Alzheimer’s.
“Alzheimer’s is not a natural part of getting old; it is a physical disease that kills brain cells, affecting tens of thousands of under 65s too.
“Much more research is urgently needed if we are to offer hope to the 700,000 people in the UK who live with dementia, a currently incurable condition.”

Brain Food Recommended:

Increase your mental agility and improve your memory by choosing the right foods.

Add vitality with vitamins
Folic acid and vitamin B12 help prevent homocysteine from building up in the body – levels of which have been found to be higher in people who have Alzheimer’s.

 

Fortified cereals are a great source of B12 and also contain complex carbohydrates which release energy over a long period and will keep you more mentally alert throughout the day.

We recently reported on the comprehensive health benefits from the highly unusual South American native berry called Acai…a berry that possesses not only all of the antioxidant, vitamin and brain benefits of other purple berries such as blueberries and blackberries but also (oddly, for a berry) contains Essential Fatty Acids like Omega-3’s like salmon, and and is even high in protein.

 

Pick up pumpkin seeds
Just a handful a day is all you need to get your recommended daily amount of zinc, vital for enhancing memory and thinking skills.

Ah, COFFEE. So popular, so ubiquitous, yet still so surprisingly misunderstood when it comes to “healthy or not”. How can this be?

You’d think that virtually everyone would be an expert on coffee these days, given the explosion of coffee chains like Starbucks over the last decade. Perhaps it’s because the situation is much like chocolate: the coffee bean, much like the cacao bean, is incredibly rich with antioxidants, amino acids, vitamins and minerals. Fresh-ground gently roasted coffee bean powder (again, like with cacao) has numerous brain and body health benefits…yes, including the caffeine content which has recently been shown to be GOOD for the brain, not bad, and particularly in the area of antioxidants. Regular coffee consumption has been shown to actually reduce the risk of mental decline and diseases such as Dementia and Alzheimer’s, and has also recently been found to be (shockingly) the “#1 source of antioxidants in the average American diet”…showing at once how health food-deprived the average diet continues to be while illustrating the surprising health benefits of something as common as coffee.

So where’s the controversy and confusion? The problem comes in when coffee is combined with other unhealthy things, as is so commonly done: triple-carmel-double-whip-chocolate-creme-mocha-blast-freeze drinks, weak over-extracted brewed cheap poor quality coffee, coffee loaded up with artificial cream and sweeteners, you know the drill. Compare such carb, chemical and fat-laden concoctions with, say, a high-quality organic coffee freshly ground into an Espresso-grade powder and served as a couple shots of fresh espresso, straight? No comparison. This should be obvious, but surprisingly, many or even most people still don’t get it.

Equally odd is that for many people, coffee is still viewed as a ‘vice’, something bad for you, something ‘naughty’ that should be avoided…as if it were akin to smoking cigarettes or pounding shots of tequila. The origin of this bizarre thinking comes partially from the effects of the caffeine (and other elements) which contribute to the stimulating effects of drinking coffee, and yes, for some people, coffee is contraindicated due to sensitivity to caffeine or gastrointestinal effects that coffee can sometimes produce.

But generally speaking, the coffee bean is a safe, true superfood. And when properly consumed in ideal forms (such as pure Espresso), it’s one uniquely enjoyable beverage that also packs a host of brain and health-friendly properties to boot!

Based on the knowledge that the food we eat directly affects the performance of our brain.

Effect of stress on fertility

Women may have a more difficult time becoming pregnant when they’re feeling stressed, according to a new study that found women were less likely to conceive when they showed elevated levels of a stress-related substance called alpha-amylase.

Alpha-amylase is secreted into saliva in order to digest starch. But researchers have begun using the substance as an indicator of the body’s response to physical or psychological stress because it’s also released when the nervous system produces catecholamines, compounds that initiate a type of stress response.

For this study, researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the University of Oxford charted the ovulation cycles of 274 English women, ages 18 to 40, who were trying to conceive.

The results showed that women with high alpha-amylase levels were less likely to conceive than those with low levels.

“Overall, the 25 percent of the women in the study who had the highest alpha-amylase levels had roughly an estimated 12 percent reduction in getting pregnant each cycle in comparison to women with the lowest concentrations,” study first author Germaine Buck Louis, director of the division of epidemiology, statistics, and prevention research at the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said in a National Institutes of Health news release.

The study, published online in the journal Fertility and Sterility, is the first to show an association between a biomarker of stress and a reduced chance of becoming pregnant.

“It has been suggested that stress may increase with the disappointment of several failed attempts at getting pregnant, setting off a cycle in which pregnancy becomes even more difficult to achieve,” Buck Louis said.

The findings suggest that doctors need to identify appropriate ways to help women reduce stress when they are trying to get pregnant.

What do you do to help women to relax?

People often turn to alcohol or tobacco to relieve stress, but these substances also reduce the likelihood of pregnancy.

 Techniques worthy of investigation, she said, include meditation, biofeedback, yoga, and boosting social support.

Health Benefits of Organic Food

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Acai powder Raw and Organic 60g – Our açaí powder comes from the fruit of the açaí palm in Brazil.

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 Cacao Powder Certified Organic and Raw –  Raw Cacao Powder has at least 33% more Arginine, the amino acid enjoyed by lovers and body builders.

Hemp Protein Powder Raw and Organic – To attain optimum health we must eat foods that contain live enzymes, active phyto-nutrients, vitamins, minerals, Essential Amino Acids, and Essential Fatty Acids.

Guarana Powder Raw Vegan and Organic – Guarana is a woody evergreen climbing vine which adopts a semi-erect posture when cultivated in the open.

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Maca Certified Organic Powdered and Raw – Maca is a root from Peru. It looks like a little turnip or radish, and is a traditional staple food in Peru.Purple Corn Extract Powder Raw and Organic – There are very few purple plants to be found in nature, and if you want to eat a true rainbow diet, this purple corn extract is a helpful and tasty addition.

Yacon Syrup Raw and Organic  – Sweetness has never been so good for you! Imagine a natural raw & organic low-calorie sweet treat which makes you feel ecstatic. That’s yacon syrup! 

Purple Corn Flour Raw and Organic Vegan – The flour is great for use wherever you’d use wheat or other flours. Try substituting one third of purple corn flour to two thirds of normal or wholegrain flour in any recipes.

 

The Organic Premise: Many people are aware that food grown according to organic principles is free from exposure to harmful herbicides and pesticides, but that is only one small aspect of organic agriculture. A larger part of organic agriculture involves the health of the soil and the ecosystem in which crops and livestock are raised. Organic farmers recognize that healthy, vibrant, and live soils and ecosystems significantly benefit crops. Natural, undisturbed soil is alive with microbiotic organisms that exist in harmony with the native plant life and the inorganic minerals that provide the soil’s substrate.