Category Archives: Nutritional Guide

Dead Sea Mud Mask

When I hear of mud mask what really came into my mind is a gear that you use when you’re in a dirt bike or when you’re up for an off road challenge. Just recently my husband and I planned for a holiday adventure and adventurous as we beauty regiment is at times overlooked.

I come across with the word today when I search for Dead Sea. My brother had visit the place and told me his experience when they visit.  What I came across with is rather different; a product that captured my interest. I am aware that a lot of people bath in the Dead Sea for therapy but I never thought that Dead Sea mud extract can be used to treat or prevent skin impurities such as acne, pimples and blemishes.  Adovia has ingeniously made use of the wonders that the blessed Dead Sea has to offer and come up with Adovia Dead Sea Mud Mask; a product made from a formula consist of mud extracted from the Dead Sea, Vitamin C and Aloe Vera, the mask works to extract oil and other fragments from the skin – leaving behind glowing, healthy skin. As the mask dries, it smoothly pulls out toxins and dirt that can contribute to block pores that can make the skin appear old.

 There’s a lot more that the mud mask has to offer, better look for it now while it still can be found and enjoy the benefit of the wonders of the Dead Sea mud.

Fiber Rules

Fiber plays a crucial role in weight control, diabetes, and digestion. It also helps protect against colon cancer. Eating a variety of unrefined foods is the best way to provide your body with the fiber it needs.

The principle is simple. For every plus, the food you ate added fiber to your diet. For every minus, a refined food added little, if any. Too many minus signs on your list? Then it’s time to make some adjustments to your menu.

When it comes to dietary fiber the Western diet is full of minuses. First, its focus on meat and other animal products provides a shaky foundation. Any food that comes from an animal has absolutely no fiber. Zero.

Second, about half of the calories in the standard American diet are empty calories. An  empty calorie provides no vitamins, minerals, or fiber.    

If you are following the western diet, it’s time you started replacing fiber-free foods with fiber-filled foods in your diet.

Color your Food

The 1980’s began a new era in nutrition because of an increasing interest in the improvement of health. Nutritionists now realize that there is more to diet than carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water; that foods contain physiological active substances called phytochemicals.

Phyto in greek means “plant.” Phytochemicals are chemicals that are produced by plants and exclusively found in plants foods. Currently, the term is used only for plant chemicals that may have health-related effects but are not considered essential nutrients. Plants chemicals are usually related to plant pigments-yellow, red, orange, purple, brown, blue, and green – the colors found in fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, and whole grains.

Does cooking destroy phytochemicals? Not significantly. Lycopene, the phytochemical found in tomatoes and carotenoids in carrots, are better available in the processed form than raw.

Some ways to incorporate more phytochemicals in your diet: Drink fruits and vegetables juices of soft or alcoholic drinks and coffee. Snack of fresh fruits, nuts, and raw vegetables. Add vegetables to your instant noodle soups. Add chopped nuts and fruits on cereal and baked products. Eat a variety of plant foods. This is more important than overemphasizing on one particular kind to get the full benefit of phytochemicals. Try new recipes that naturally and brightly colored vegetable juice.   

The Art of Salad Making

An attractive main dish salad for luncheon, a pretty fruit salad for dinner, or a luscious frozen dessert salad when planning a party – how easy it is to find just the right salad for occasion!

Salad Pointers

Use only chilled and fresh salad greens. See to it that greens do not extend beyond the edge of the plate. Excess greenery can dwarf the salad. Go for color, flavor, form, and texture contrast when combining salad ingredients. Always chill canned fruits and vegetables before using. Drain canned fruits and vegetables thoroughly in strainer or sieve. Arrange salad on a chilled bowl or plate in a simple manner. Avoid a cluttering effect. Combine or arrange salads just before serving for fresh, appetizing appearance.

Salad Greens

A variety of greens adds color, flavor, and texture to your salad. Fresh and crisp greens are essential to salad making. Select the best quality. Remove wilted part from salad greens first, and then wash well in lukewarm water. After washing, drain them in wire rack. Greens must be thoroughly dry for attractive salads. Once they are dry, store in vegetable crisper or plastic bag and refrigerate as soon as possible to keep them crispy.

Salad Dressing or Topping

Go for contrast in texture, flavor, and color when choosing salad dressings, toppings, and garnishing. Serve salad with the salad dressing or pass dressing around. For fruit salad, use canned fruit syrup or thin mayonnaise in any desired consistency. For fruit salad topping, soften cream cheese with canned fruit syrup. Sprinkle fruit salad with any of the following: coconut (plain or toasted), walnuts or pecans, slivered almonds, chopped candied ginger, or maraschino cherries. 

The Passion for Fruits

A healthy-conscious individual should develop a passion for fruits. The health benefits of fruits remain unprecedented. Fruits play a role in the prevention of disease and the promotion of health.

It’s best to eat fruits raw with either their skin on or peeled off. If you’re not a fruit buff but want to indulge in nutritious stuff, squeezing juice is a good option. A fruit press, a juicer, or a blender can make things easy for you. Freshly squeezed juice is best to drink. It is a rich source of vitamin C, potassium, beta-carotene, and fiber, if no pulp is discarded.

Try juicing the lowly passion fruit (pasionarya). It is not very popular because its orange, pulpy juice carries with it as many as 250 small, hard, black seeds. But its unique flavor is appealing –musky, guava-like, and sweet/tart to tart.

Vary your usual instant powdered juice. Go for passion fruit juice.

Water Still

A lot of people drink more soft drinks than water. That means they are getting a lot of calories but not much nutrition. Drinking calorie-loaded beverages is one sure recipe for gaining weight. Switch to water – it is the slender person’s drink of choice.

What are you drinking? Sometimes it’s eye-popping to find out. Listed on the next page are some popular beverages. How many of each do you drink on a typical day? Then, for each type beverage, multiply the number consumed by the number of calories. Write this in the Total Calories column. When you’re done, add all the totals to get your grand total.

It takes 3,500 excess calories to make a pound of fat. Assuming you eat enough to maintain your weight, how many days would it take you to drink on an extra pound? You can calculate this by dividing 3,500 by the number of calories you get from beverages each day. For example, if you drank a beer and two coffees, the calculation would be:

                 Total calories for a beer and two coffees   =  300

                 Therefore, 3,500 / 300 = 11.6 days

 In other words, it would take just under 12 days to add an extra pound of fat. At that rate you could gain 30 pounds a year just from what you drink! Now it’s your turn. Take your Grand Total from the previous exercise and divide it into 3,500 to see how long it takes you to drink an extra pound’s worth of calories. Fill in the blanks below:

      Number of days to drink 3,500 calories 3,500 / calories you drink _______  =  ______ days

 If you are serious about controlling your weight, it would be wise to eliminate those sneaky liquid calories. Stop the sodas, lose the liquor, and shelve the shakes. Water is what your body needs and craves. 

Cut calories by drinking more water and fewer high-calories beverages. If you don’t like the taste of tap water, add a twist of lemon or buy bottled water. The more water you drink, the less likely you are to reach for other beverages. That alone will cut the calories and help stabilize your weight. 

Stubborn Blackheads

Blackheads seem so difficult to get rid of. And if you don’t start to make a step to get rid of blackheads they might spread out. Sure you do not want to see these stubborn skin imperfections swell out on your nose, cheeks or all over your face.  Worst is that if you also have them not just on your face but also on chest and back too.

Last Tuesday, I notice that there is a bloody spot in the face of my husband. I ask him what happen with his face. He pricked his blackheads. He usually gets blackheads when he forgot to wash his face with facial wash soap. This usually happen every time he stays up so late. Perhaps that’s because sebaceous gland is more active when a person stays up late, and forgetting to wash oily face would cause dust and germs to accumulate in the pore and would result to blackheads.         

Air Purifier

Technology is growing rapidly. Hundreds of cars are manufactured and sold everyday and so are cars owners. Additional factories are built almost everyday. Technology grows, and so is pollution.

I developed asthma when I was 21. That was when we were mountain climbing; we rested from a long ascending walk. We were all sweat and one of my co-climber threw me to the water falls. Since then I became very sensitive to dusts and dirty air. My husband is also the same. Humidity, dust and dirty air make him sick. He’s got what we call allergic chronitis. We need something to purify the air. We installed an air-conditioner in our room. Well air-conditioner was a great help in keeping cool air, somehow it’s able to filter some dust, but we don’t think it’s the appropriate machine to purify the air. My sister-in-law suggested that we use an air cleaner as it will surely help especially that we have an infant in our room.

We went around the mall and check every appliance center.  IQAir HealthPro Compact Plus Air Purifier seem to fit what we need so we haste to procure it. Since then we seldom get sick. If ever we may it is caused by air that we get to inhale outside our home.

Be Blemish Free

All skin types can obtain blackheads, whiteheads and red swollen bumps. Oil-producing sebaceous glands that lie just underneath the face of the skin are the cause of most bad skin. Excess hormone can trigger these glands to produce too much sebum. And if the hair follicle gets blocked by dry skin cells, oil builds up with nowhere to go.

This build-up of oil crafts a perfect environment, in which acne bacteria can replicate, triggering a chemical response and the development of a skin condition. We have plenty of sebaceous glands in our face, chest, neck, and back – which is why blemishes are most commonly found in these regions.

A thorough daily skincare regime is one of the numerous ways in keeping a blemish free and perfect skin. It is often adequate to keep black and whiteheads at bay. In doing so, you have to cleanse, tone and moisturize day and night, using gentle products that won’t strip or aggravate the skin. Opt for oil-free water-based products when choosing cosmetics and cleansers. Those that include alcohol are best avoided because alcohol can be incredibly drying, even for oily skin. You may want an oil-control cleanser to take away excess oil from the skin’s surface.

 

Stomach Fats

Keeping in shape has always been an issue for most women. A naturally slim figured woman may grow fat especially during pregnancy or after giving birth. And on these cases the mostly affected part is the stomach. A woman may be able to easily tone or shape her hip and thigh but the hardest is the stomach. This has been my case. After giving birth to my first born I can definitely say that I am fat. And being a naturally round person I was really having a hard time getting back into shape. I was able to get my hip and thigh shaped but my stomach. So the question of how to get rid of stomach fat was the last quest left for me to delve into. I search the web and had visited get rid of stomach fat.org and I was amazed with the products available in store for me to get an answer to my quest. I give in to some of the food supplements since I am no longer breastfeeding and really got some favorable result.