Thursday, June 25, 2009
Are You Embarrassed By Unsightly Dandruff?
Dandruff is not a life-threatening problem, yet it often threatens your mental peace.
Undoubtedly, you do not wish to be embarrassed by the white flaky dandruff powdered all over your shoulders. It is not surprising that Americans spend $300,000,000 on anti-dandruff products each year. Dandruff affects around 50,000,000 people.
You could well imagine the condition of your scalp with deposits of white flakes
on them. The moment you scratch your scalp, white scales fill up your nail and leave you more vexed and frustrated.
Have you ever thought about its underlying cause? As you know, shedding of skin is a natural phenomenon. The skin of your scalp replenishes every month. The dead cells that previously formed your scalp now make up the dandruff. The presence of negligible dandruff is inevitable. The problem arises only when the presence of dead cells in the form of flakes suddenly increases uncontrollably. The removal process works at a normal pace and soon there is excess-deposits of dead cells on the scalp.
Because of the myriad of over-the-counter products and medicated lotions, you do not need to worry about the problem of dandruff. You just need to find the remedy that works for you. It is easy to control dandruff by using some of the various remedies available. The most convenient method with mild dandruff is to wash your scalp regularly to remove the excess flakes. If you are suffering from stubborn flakes, treatment through a medicated shampoo is the answer. Dandruff is not contagious and it is not a disease!
Never Be Embarrassed Again!
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Follow These Feng Shui Tips And Sleep Better
If you are having problems at the time of falling asleep or you simply wish to improve your sleeping, you should follow the feng shui tips we will detail in the next lines and let this ancient Chinese wisdom help you. It is very important that we pay attention to our sleep due to the fact that it affects all the activities we do during the day as well as it has a direct impact on our health.
First of all, it is very important to avoid sleeping with the head towards the door. According to feng shui, the proper position in which to have the bed and to sleep is in such a place that allows us to see the door but without being right across from it. This way, you should always avoid sleeping with your feet right in front of the entrance.
It is also highly recommendable to avoid sleeping under a window. Sleeping right under a window would have a bad impact on your chi as well as it might cause you to loose some of your positive energy by dispersing it. Also, if your bed is right under the window, any bad chi which could enter into the room through it would go directly to you and therefore affect you. If you can't avoid sleeping under a window, then you should hang a curtain which doesn't allow bad chi to enter.
According to feng shui guidelines, it is also recommendable to avoid having pictures of water in the bedroom. Keeping pictures of water in the bedroom can cause insomnia as well as attract bad luck to those who sleep into the room. Therefore, if you do have a picture of water in your bedroom you should remove it or at least make sure it is as far from the bed as possible.
It is very important to make sure that there isn't any poisoning arrow pointing towards the bed. In order to find out if there are poisoning arrows, you should check for any edgy element or corner which might point towards the place where you sleep. If you find any and you can't get rid of it, you can neutralize its bad effect by covering it or by placing a plant in front of it.
About The Author
Jakob Jelling is the founder of http://www.fengshuicrazy.com. Please visit his website and learn all the feng shui tips you'll ever need!
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Are Your Really an Emotional Eater? Try this Experiment and
Several weeks ago I discovered the Rosedale Diet. The author claims his program will urn off your hunger switch. Even more importantly (in my opinion) is the claim that the plan will also curb sugar cravings by addressing the modern problem of leptin insensitivity. This is done by increasing Omega 3 fats, and limiting protein and highly refined carbs.
Naturally, if I recommend a diet, I have to try it out on myself. It wouldn't be very fair to do otherwise. I bought some fish, nuts and avocados, and kept to the diet for about two weeks. During that time I can honestly say that I had little desire to eat very much. I wasn't sure if this was caused by the leptin balance, or simply because I told myself I wouldn't want to eat. During the beginning phase of a diet, it's always easy to convince myself that it's working.
Then I had company, and I used it as an excuse to head down to the Cuban restaurant I'd been hearing so much about. It was a treat, and I found more excuses for more treats while my company was in town. For a few days, the diet was forgotten. In just that short time, I became aware of a remarkable difference in the way I felt about food.
Almost immediately after going off the Rosedale diet, I felt compelled to eat everything in sight. It took willpower and commitment to not give into this compulsion.
But I was not hungry! I was no more hungry after I went off the diet than I had been while following the program. What seemed to be missing was the ot hungry signals that tell the brain to quit eating.
Hungry is a feeling that middle-class Americans rarely (if ever) experience. Yet we eat, and eat, and eat. We blame it on cravings, emotions, nerves, and habits. But perhaps Dr. Rosedale is right. We may be missing the ot hungry signals that are needed to turn off our hunt for food.
Another thing I noticed while eating the Rosedale way was that I was actually more interested in food while on the diet than I was during the days when I fell off the program. I mean that I was more interested in the taste of food.
While not on the program, I felt compelled to eat anything that came my way. I had little interest in the flavor, aroma or texture of the food - I simply found myself hunting through the cupboards for anything I could find, then fighting the compulsion.
It wasn't hunger or desire that was pushing me to eat. In fact, there was no bodily sensation at all that could account for my eed to overeat.
Perhaps this is why it is so easy to blame our overeating on our emotions and nerves. If there is no bodily sensation telling us to eat, but we feel compelled to eat anyway, it must be something in our mind that is causing the behavior.
That something can easily be mistaken for an emotional or mental problem, even if it's caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Therapists tell us that we overeat because we are trying to compensate for childhood traumas - Dr. Rosedale tells us that our leptin sensitivity is out of whack because we eat sugar and flour products, and not enough Omega 3 fat. If the ot hungry signals can't get through, our brain will not tell us to stop eating. Without that signal, we don't stop hunting for food.
I love the simplicity of this concept, because anyone can do the same experiment I did - try eating the Rosedale way (it's like a merger between the Okinawa diet and the Mediterranean diet) and then go back to eating whatever you eat now. Pay attention to your behavior around food, and notice if you want more or less food on the diet or off it.
You may not react as I did, but it won't hurt to find out. You may just find a way to let go of the compulsion to overeat, without expensive therapy or even willpower. And that would be a gift for almost all of us.
Naturally, if I recommend a diet, I have to try it out on myself. It wouldn't be very fair to do otherwise. I bought some fish, nuts and avocados, and kept to the diet for about two weeks. During that time I can honestly say that I had little desire to eat very much. I wasn't sure if this was caused by the leptin balance, or simply because I told myself I wouldn't want to eat. During the beginning phase of a diet, it's always easy to convince myself that it's working.
Then I had company, and I used it as an excuse to head down to the Cuban restaurant I'd been hearing so much about. It was a treat, and I found more excuses for more treats while my company was in town. For a few days, the diet was forgotten. In just that short time, I became aware of a remarkable difference in the way I felt about food.
Almost immediately after going off the Rosedale diet, I felt compelled to eat everything in sight. It took willpower and commitment to not give into this compulsion.
But I was not hungry! I was no more hungry after I went off the diet than I had been while following the program. What seemed to be missing was the ot hungry signals that tell the brain to quit eating.
Hungry is a feeling that middle-class Americans rarely (if ever) experience. Yet we eat, and eat, and eat. We blame it on cravings, emotions, nerves, and habits. But perhaps Dr. Rosedale is right. We may be missing the ot hungry signals that are needed to turn off our hunt for food.
Another thing I noticed while eating the Rosedale way was that I was actually more interested in food while on the diet than I was during the days when I fell off the program. I mean that I was more interested in the taste of food.
While not on the program, I felt compelled to eat anything that came my way. I had little interest in the flavor, aroma or texture of the food - I simply found myself hunting through the cupboards for anything I could find, then fighting the compulsion.
It wasn't hunger or desire that was pushing me to eat. In fact, there was no bodily sensation at all that could account for my eed to overeat.
Perhaps this is why it is so easy to blame our overeating on our emotions and nerves. If there is no bodily sensation telling us to eat, but we feel compelled to eat anyway, it must be something in our mind that is causing the behavior.
That something can easily be mistaken for an emotional or mental problem, even if it's caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Therapists tell us that we overeat because we are trying to compensate for childhood traumas - Dr. Rosedale tells us that our leptin sensitivity is out of whack because we eat sugar and flour products, and not enough Omega 3 fat. If the ot hungry signals can't get through, our brain will not tell us to stop eating. Without that signal, we don't stop hunting for food.
I love the simplicity of this concept, because anyone can do the same experiment I did - try eating the Rosedale way (it's like a merger between the Okinawa diet and the Mediterranean diet) and then go back to eating whatever you eat now. Pay attention to your behavior around food, and notice if you want more or less food on the diet or off it.
You may not react as I did, but it won't hurt to find out. You may just find a way to let go of the compulsion to overeat, without expensive therapy or even willpower. And that would be a gift for almost all of us.
About the Author
Jonni Good is the author of a self-help book for sugar addiction, and the owner of a website concerning sugar and your health.
http://www.howtothinkthin.com
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