Acne Treatment – Does Exfoliating Get Rid of Pimples?
By Samantha Flecha
Flawless beautiful skin, we all want it! Unfortunately some of us are not born with great skin. We have to do a lot more then the people who were but it s not imposable to get there. Learning all about it is the best place to start. The more you know the better you can treat it. Acne is a worldwide problem. Finding an acne treatment that works for you can be an upsetting and costly process. I myself have suffered with acne since I was 12. My oldest son, now 16, had it extremely bad. No matter your age of what type of acne you have there are treatments and you can make it better! I know firsthand what it does to person’s self-esteem, confidence and overall personal growth. The emotional scars can be worse than the physical ones.
When I see the commercials on TV for the hundreds of products to help treat acne, I get a little upset. Only because there are 7 different types of acne and they are all different, therefore they each need a different acne treatment and special care. So those commercials that say this product will help everyone always makes me skeptical. Reading the ingredients is where you will learn which type of acne each treatment is more likely to help or be good for. If it is even affect at all.
There is the mildest form of acne which is whiteheads and blackheads. These are clogged pores filled with excess gland oil and dead skin cells. White heads are closed as where blackheads are partially open. Read the rest of this entry »
Sitting Dangerously
Posted by admin in Health and Fitness on February 2, 2011
By MJ Kaye
At a time when many boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) are supposed to be considering retirement or maybe working less, they are working harder and many are sitting long hours throughout their day.
Sitting at work is just one facet of sitting time. To really understand how much you sit in a day one needs to calculate all sitting time. Assessing sitting time is relatively easy and will require some patience. Calculate not only sitting at work but also sitting in the car (buses, subway, trains, planes and their respective waiting areas), and then when you return home, calculate sitting time in front of the television and computer. Next calculate time sitting to time awake. Average drive time to work is 30-45 minutes, average sitting time at work is at least 7 hours (don’t forget there is sitting at lunch time and/or driving to lunch and back), average drive time back home is 30-45 minutes, then sitting while watching television or sitting in front of the computer adds another four hours totaling an average sitting time at 12 to 13.5 hours per day. Most people sleep an average of 7 hours a day therefore the average sitting time is 70-79% of the day.
Prolonged periods of sitting creates musculo-skeletal (spine, muscles, nerves) dysfunction resulting in problematic symptoms throughout the body including: headaches, pain in the neck, upper/middle back, lower back and hips; and pain, tingling, numbness, and heaviness in the arms and legs. Read the rest of this entry »