Anti Aging Skin Care
Posted by Patricia on Feb 25, 2008
True anti aging skin care is not a matter of smoothing a particular skin cream over your face twice a day. Nor is it a matter of adopting any particular beauty treatment you can name, although for sure these things have a place in making you look and feel good.
Don’t let that depress you though, because there is a system of anti aging skin care that will guarantee you perfect skin and a beautiful body to go with it long into old age.
In this series we’re going to take a look at the simple things you can do to make sure you keep your looks for as long as possible.
Anti aging skin care that really works is what you put inside your body. Every part of you depends on the nutrients you take in on a daily basis to maintain youthful looks and performance. If your nutrition is deficient then your body will decline onto a path of accelerated aging.
Oils are the most important aspect of your nutrition. We use oils to make important hormones called prostaglandins. They run everything: Our body systems, our brain, skin, hair, eyes and even our teeth. Most of all, our sexuality depends on the right balance of oils for hormones.
The diet of nearly every single person in the Western world is deficient in the right kind of oils to keep us healthy. Here are the reasons why:
The Low Fat Movement is a Travesty
One of the most damaging things you can do to your face and the rest of your body is stay on a low-fat diet. The low-fat craze is responsible for more cases of accelerated aging than just about anything else.
Don’t Eat the Wrong Fats
Eating the wrong kind of fat is just as damaging as low-fat. You must take steps to eliminate trans fats from your diet immediately. This means more-or-less cutting fast food out of your life. Hard? You just need to decide what you want more: fast food or a healthy old age. It IS that bad.
Commercially prepared oils also need to be cut out of your life. They all contain trans fats and are too high in the Omega 6 fatty acids. In the old days, the common diet provided an equal balance of Omega 6s and Omega 3s. Now we have a horrific imbalance: the average US diet provides between 30:1 and 60:1 in favor of Omega 6s. This is destroying our health. Making even small adjustments can affect your health tremendously. This is just one more reason to take cod liver oil every day, by the way, as it provides pure Omega 3s.
In my house we only use extra-virgin olive oil and butter or butter ghee.
Fast food is so damaging precisely because the oils are highly-processed and denatured. It’s not enough that they don’t provide vital nutrition that feeds your body. In the bargain they pose a threat as the transfats they contain pollute the body so that even when you do eat good fats, your body has to fight the deficit first, clearing away layers of cell-pollution, before it gets to the task of rebuilding.
Another aspect of the perfect anti aging regimen is movement. It’s true that not all movement is equal, but any kind of movement is far better than an inactive life. We’ll look at that later, just after we take a look at other aspects of the diet that affect how our skin looks and ages.
Lopez reportedly strikes deal worth millions for baby photos…
Posted by Patricia on Feb 21, 2008
I don’t know about you, but this headline made me feel sick. This poor child is not even born yet and his mother is already striking deals to make money off of him. That to me is a betrayal of parenthood. It’s as if the glorious gift of motherhood is just another way to make money for Ms Lopez. I am disgusted.
Wonder how that baby is going to feel a few years down the road when he discovers that he was just a commercial venture to his mother. A child has a right to feel loved and protected by his mother and father–not sold to the highest bidder. A child also has a right to be able to respect his mother and father. What respect can there be when she is prepared to sell his most private first moment? Yuck. 
Skin Care for Bad Skin Days
Posted by Patricia on Feb 18, 2008
Everyone has days when their skin isn’t as good as usual. Over the years I’ve been called on to help with skin crises in a number of situations. The #1 cause for panic is bad skin just before an upcoming wedding, or other very important life event. I’ve come across so many people who are convinced that there’s nothing they can do to get rid of blemishes in a hurry–or even in the long term.
Don’t Panic: You Can Have Wonderful Skin in Time for Your Wedding!
If you have even a couple of weeks to your special event, there is still time to considerably improve the look of your skin.
The first thing you have to do is eliminate white sugar, white flour, chocolate, chips and sodas from your diet. You must drink at least 8 glasses of water a day–more if you are overweight. Eating lots of salad and fruit and vegetables is also a must. There are valuable vitamins and minerals in these foods that just can’t be reproduced in a multivitamin no matter how good it is.
Then you need to go and get a good multivitamin tablet from your local health store. There are plenty to choose from; ask if you’re not sure.
The Secret to Magical Skin Improvement in the Shortest Time Possible
And now we come to the most important ingredient of your new skincare regimen: Cod liver oil. Yep, this is the secret that has drastically diminished, or completely eliminated dreaded blemishes from countless faces. It is hailed as a ’superfood’ in the health-food universe, and with good reason.
Plentiful supplies of vitamin A and vitamin D ensure rapid response to your skin problems. In fact, you’ll probably find that cod liver oil makes you feel and look better all round.
Emergency Blemish Treatment
For emergency treatment, you can mix cod liver oil with zinc oxide and dab it on your spots. It’s safe–meaning non-toxic–and it won’t dry your skin like so many other topical blemish treatments. But in the long term you shouldn’t need to do this if you’re following the other recommendations and taking cod liver oil every day.
I’m confident that you’ll see such wonderful results that you’ll carry on taking cod liver oil long after your special event is over.
Secret Strategies for Keeping a Cold at Bay
Posted by Patricia on Feb 16, 2008
My daughter phoned me a little while ago. She has a terrible cold. In fact, she has had a cold almost constantly this past year.
She is pregnant and her daughter is only a year-and-a-half, so that’s one reason her immunity is low. The other thing is that she suffers from extreme morning sickness (just as I used to) so her nutrition hasn’t been at all good for some time now. To cap it all, she’s a teacher so she works hard, struggles to keep up with her housework and looking after her kids, and basically has no mercy on herself.
The first thing she needs to do is pay particular attention to her nutrition now that her morning sickness has eased slightly. Then she needs to go and get some vitamin C and som zinc. Zinc is essential to a healthy immune system, and you use a lot of it when you’re nurturing a new life. In fact, any time a woman is hormonally active she needs more zinc. I would love it if she’d take a really good multivitamin too, but if they make her vomit then obviously she’s better off not vomiting.
And what we all have to remember is that it’s so easy to be wise from afar. It’s always a lot more difficult to cope with a given situation than it is to set things right from a distance. 
Found a Good Body Lotion Lately?
Posted by Patricia on Feb 16, 2008
Because I have very dry, sensitive skin, I’m always trying out new body lotions. If I don’t take care of my skin with excellent diet and constant moisturizing I develop eczema. Horrible.
Most moisturizers don’t work at all for me, and I’m allergic to the smell of many of them too. It’s terrible to have an allergy to all artificial fragrances, lol.
Anyway, recently I tried a new one that I really love. It’s from the new Nivea range and it’s called Sensitive Balance Body Lotion.
Try it. If you have dry skin that needs pampering you’ll love it. The smell is delicate and unobtrusive too.
The Mall
Posted by Patricia on Feb 15, 2008
Yesterday my daughter and I went to the mall. It was a cold, rainy day but she was desperate to get out. She has been mainly home since her daughter was born two weeks ago, and my two-and-a-half year old grandson was also desperate to stretch his legs. Sitting outside our favorite coffee shop I felt so blessed watching my daughter tend to her baby and the little one running around burning off some of his energy.
But then I remembered my two daughters, sons-in-law and my four other beautiful grandchildren so far away in Raleigh. Tears came to my eyes, I miss them so much.
I’ll be seeing them again in a few short weeks but having your family all over the world is not an easy way to live.
Serendipity
Posted by Patricia on Feb 15, 2008
Serendipity: The art of making happy and unexpected discoveries by chance. It sums up my life and I’ve always had a great affinity for this word.
I’ve been promising myself for some time that I’d start a blog just for me. In the course of my day I inevitably feel the urge to write about a multitude of things that don’t fit into any of my work blogs. It’s considered bad form to write off-topic, so I restrain myself.
This is my personal blog so I’ll be writing about anything and everything as the inspiration comes to me.
Hope you’ll join me on a regular basis, and please, don’t forget to bookmark my posts, stumble me, and most important, leave your comments and your highly-valued opinions.
