Techniques to ease stress, treat depression and increase relaxation.

Stress is one of the top health hazards we face today. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to go through life without the irritations that make us tense. Some people deal with the situation better than others. Here are some techniques for easing stress and increasing relaxation:
-    Get enough sleep
-    Meditate regularly
-    Give up junk Food
-    Adopt a pet
-    Surround yourself with supportive people
-    Limit your exposure to chemicals
-    Enjoy yourself
-    Exercise regularly such as stretching, aerobics etc
-    Take Your Vitamins

You should learn to control stress before it controls you. There are also medications available for people whose stress levels are bad enough to impact their ability to function effectively. Doctor in some instances may prescribed medication for you but are usually prescribed for no more than a few months as medications may have the potential to cause side effects such as sleepiness and some nausea.

Those who afraid of the side effects should seek natural treatment. One of the natural treatment that is available in the market is Relagen. Relagen is a natural product that treats the various and debilitating symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression. Relagen unlike Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Wellbutrin and Effexor is produced to treat you safe and naturally without unwanted side effects that can be found in the prescriptions medication. With Relagen, you can lose that stubborn excess weight around your waist caused by high levels of the cortisol stress hormone.

Treatment for stress and anxiety, or depression is not that simple because brain is not that simple. Scientist has found that certain naturally occurring ingredients can assist in treating stress and anxiety, or depression. The active ingredients in Relagen help to regulate the chemicals that influence your moods safely.

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10 Great Hair Care Tips

If you watch the tabloids, you know that even the stars have bad hair days. It just seems that when the professional stylists are out of the picture, it is inherently human to have a less than glamorous mane. But you can do your part to stay ahead of the battle by following these great tips for hair care.

1. Use a professional conditioner that is formulated for your specific hair type. While you can skimp a little on the shampoo, a good, professional conditioner is a must have. Look for products in salons that are customized for your hair type. For instance: If you have color or a perm, choose a conditioner that is for chemically processed hair. And stay away from those all-in-one shampoo and conditioner combos.

2. Choose a cut tailored to your face and body shape. The number one mistake that people make when choosing a new hairstyle is to pick a style based on popularity rather than how it will enhance their features. Always choose a new cut based on how it will enhance or detract from your facial features and build. If you have broad shoulders, choose a full-bodied cut over a close cropped head hugging doo.

3. Don’t forget your UV protectants. Just as your skin gets damaged by wind and sun, so does your hair. To combat this, look for finishing products such as mousses, gels and sprays that block UV rays.

4. Keep your appointments. Did you know that your hair will split faster than it will grow? You need to get a trim every 6 to 8 weeks, even if it’s just a micro trim. A good hairdresser makes them good because they know what to leave on the head, not take off.

5. Leave chemicals to the professionals. There is a reason why beauticians need to go to school to learn how to handle chemicals and hair processes. You can do irreparable damage with these products even if the package says that it’s way easy. And even if you don’t make your hair fall out, you could end up looking like a clown and paying a stylist big bucks to fix your mess. (Note: Most stylists charge double the rate for corrective color than they do for normal color processes)

6. Get color for interest and body. Every cut needs a little bit of color to make it truly breathtaking. No matter whether your taste is subtle or dramatic, you can add interest and volume to your tresses with a color process. Highlights, lowlights, all over color, gray coverage, you name it, it’s all good for your look.

7. Do weekly conditioning treatments. Even if your hair is extremely healthy, it is constantly on the attack from wind, sun, cold and heat. During the summer months, your hair is battered even more when it absorbs chlorine and other chemicals from your pool.

8. Get an ionic ceramic flat iron. Instead of frying your hair with a conventional metal plated flat iron. Straighten your tresses, add shine and infuse moisture with one of the a negative ionic flat irons. We personally use T3 irons for all our work.

9. Choose your styling products wisely. Avoid products that leave build-up on your hair. If you see white gunk, that means that your product is not water-soluble and may be coating your hair shaft. Build-up causes limpness, breakage and inability to curl not to mention the white flakes.

10. Did you know that if you use a towel after your shower to dry your hair you are causing split ends and adding static electricity to your hair. Don’t rub the towel back and forth over your hair, scrunch the towel around your hair like your would scrunch crackers in your soup.

While all of these tips won’t make you look like you’ve hired a personal hairdresser, they will help you look the very best that you can each and every day. When it comes to hair care, remember that you wear your hair everyday. Now isn’t it worth the time, effort and money that it takes to keep it looking spectacular?

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5 PROVEN Tips To Help You Wipeout Your Depression So You Can Live A Happy Life

Are you lonely?

Did you know that being lonely is a normal part of our everyday lives.

Lets face it, we've all been there.

We get depressed when we fail in our exams, when we're rejected by the person we love, or when someone very close to us passes away.

That's just part of life.

But, depression, however, can be more fatal than just plain loneliness. It could render Life-Long consequences that could ruin your Self-Esteem, Health, and Well-Being in the process.

Well today is your lucky day because I'm going to share with you some great tips to help you conquer the 'Melancholy Mood' so you can get the MOST bliss out of your daily activities.

So, with that said, lets go to Tip #1.


Tip #1. Do you get enough Light and Sunshine?

Did you know that lack of exposure to sunlight is responsible for the secretion of the hormone called Melatonin, which could trigger a dispirited mood and/or a lethargic condition.

Melatonin is only produced in the dark. What it does is it lowers the body temperature and makes you feel sluggish.

So, if you are always cooped up in your room (with the curtains closed), it would be difficult to restrain yourself from staying in bed.

This is the reason why many people suffer from depression much more often in winter than in the other seasons.

It's simply because the nights are longer.

If you can't afford to get some sunshine, you can always lighten up your room with brighter lights to help offset the darkness.

Or...

You could go have lunch outside the office for a change and take frequent walks in the early afternoon instead of driving your car over short distances.

The choices are endless. It's really up to you.


Tip #2. Keep Busy and Get Inspired.

You'll be more likely to overcome any feeling of depression if you keep your mind busy doing the activities you like doing the most.

Do the things you love.

If you're a little short on cash, you could engage in simple stuff like taking a leisurely stroll in the park, playing sports, reading books, or engaging in any activity that you have passion for and would love to pursue.

Also, set a Goal.

No matter how difficult or discouraging life can be, remain firm and have an unshakable belief that you are capable of doing anything you desire.

With this kind of positive attitude, you will attain a cheerful disposition to beat the blues.


Tip #3. Take a Break. Sit back and Relax.

I mean it.

Listen to some soothing music you like. Soak in a nice warm bath. Simply take a break from your stressful workload and spend the day just goofing around doing the things you love.

In other words, go have fun. Life's to short as it is.


Tip #4. Maintain a healthy diet and Stay Fit.

Avoid foods with lots of Sugar, Caffeine or Alcohol.

Sugar and caffeine may give you a brief moment of energy; but they will later bring about Anxiety, Tension and Internal problems.

Alcohol on the other hand is a depressant. Many people would drink alcohol to simply "forget their problems."

All they're doing is aggravating their conditions in the process.

Also, did you know that exercising regularly is a vital depression buster.

Why you ask?

Simply because it allows your body to produce more Endorphins than usual.

Endorphins are sometimes called "the happy chemicals" because of their Stress-Reducing and Happiness-Inducing properties.


Tip #5. Get a Social Life outside of work.

No man is an island. Your inner circle of friends are there to give you moral support.

Spending time and engaging in worthwhile activities with them could give you a very satisfying feeling.

And we all now... nothing feels better than having group support.

And... never underestimate the power of Touch.

What I mean is... doesn't it feel so good when someone pats you on the back and gives you words of encouragement during your most challenging times?

Hug or embrace someone today.

Get intimate.

Establish close ties with your family and friends.

The love and care expressed by others could tremendously boost your immune system and fend off illnesses.

Best of all, you'll live a more secured and happy life.


Now go give those 5 Tips a try and see how they pan out for you.

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New Year Resolutions: Lose Weight?

What is your New Year Resolutions? Is it losing weight? Losing weight is very common New Year resolutions. At start, we have the energy and determination to accomplish the task but a few weeks later we fall back into our usual lifestyle. Here are some health tips on how to make sure that we stick to our weight loss resolutions.

“WHY”! Determine all your whys and write it down.
What are you reason why you want to lose weight. Is it you want to look sexy and gorgeous during summer while wearing your beach attire? Is it to be healthy and get rid of heart disease and diabetes? Or do you want an active and happy lifestyle? Do you want more energy to play catch with the kids? Be as specific as possible.

Now, grab some notebook and write down your big WHY???

Set and write down sensible weight-loss goals.
The next important tip to being able to stick to your weight-loss goal is to set a sensible goal to begin with. You shouldn’t expect yourself to lose more than 1 to 2 pounds per week. Look for a Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator online to help you determine whether you are underweight, normal, overweight, or obese. The higher BMI, the more weight you can expect to lose in the long run. If you are in the normal range, but feel that you should lose weight, you may not want to aim for more than 5 pounds. On the other hand, if you are obese, than losing 50 pounds this year may be a good goal for you.

Please consult your physician before starting a weight loss program

Make a plan you can stick with all year long.
You know yourself better than just about anyone else. Most likely you’ve been on a diet or two (or more). So you already know what doesn’t work for you. You’ll be most likely to stick with something common sense making small changes that you can live with from here on. Eat healthier and consume fewer calories, but also get more active.

Set small goals along the way.
Look at where you are at now and at your goal for the end of the year. Now break it down into several small goals. You want to break your weight loss journey down into small chunks that seem more attainable. Focus on the first “mini” goal until you reach it and then move on to the next one.

Keep track of your progress.
Keep a journal and record what you eat and how active you are during the day. If you chase the kids around the yard for 20 minutes, record it. You’ll find yourself thinking, “If I eat that cookie, I’ll have to write it down. I better skip it”. Or if you haven’t been a couch potato all day, you may be motivated to take a quick walk around the block so you can jot it down in your journal.

Celebrate each small goal.
Remember those small goals you planed out? Make sure you celebrate each goal you reach – but not with food. Reward yourself with a new blouse, a manicure, or a good book. Pick something you truly enjoy. This will build some positive reinforcement that will keep you going until you reach the next goal.

Keep your “Why” in mind.
Don’t lose track of the big picture. Remind yourself daily of your big “Why”, the reason why you want to lose weight. Keep the sheet of paper with your reason for losing weight close by and read it every morning or every evening. This is another big motivator to keep you going all year.

Losing weight can seem like a daunting task, especially if you have a fair amount to lose and you are just starting out. Don’t let it intimidate you though. Take it one step and one pound at a time. Before you know it, it will be the December and you will be 5, 10 or 50 pounds lighter. I know you can do it!

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Are You Worrying Too much?

As we lived on our daily life we may encounter some stress, but when you noticed that this kind of stress leads you to sleepless night and can't fully concentrate on your work, and then it’s time for you to move and take action. Worry and Fear are the emotion that so powerful that we can't almost control and it can cause to anxiety and depression if left untreated.

Anxiety is like seeds, it cannot grow without soil and water, you anxiety cannot grow without you nourishing it, feeding it with fear and worried about the possible outcome. The possible way to avoid it is to control your mind, the thoughts on your head.

It is okay to have a little anxiety, everyone does it, the serious problem begins when you keep worrying and let it dictate your life. Think back when you worried about something, did your fear came true? How much you time you wasted on keep thinking and worried about something that could never be happen.

Worry is a form of intense fear that could freeze us to death and it can never solve anything. Anxiety is a fear that prevents us from making a solution and solving our problem. Instead, a negative thought keep rolling into our head and created additional fear.

If you made a mistake or there is something wrong, focus your mind on finding solution and answer on how are you going to fix it? If it can be fixed then why worry about the tomorrow outcome. Worry on its own has never fixed anything.

Anxiety can become a vicious cycle that feeds itself. The only way to overcome the anxiety is to overcome the fear, and this is accomplished by changing your thought process. Rather than having a mind full of fear, fill it with hope and favorable outcomes. Events seldom turn out as terrible or as wonderful as we imagine they will. Our thoughts tend to the extreme while life is usually somewhere in the middle.

Concentrate on the positives and when you feel any negativity creeping into your thought process, push it away and go back to the positives. It is like a tug-of-war, either you control your anxiety or your anxiety will control you. Start with small issues and work your way up to larger ones, always picturing a positive outcome. Once you can keep these positive results in mind, you then need to begin taking positive action to make them come about. The cure for anxiety begins as a thought and then works its way into a positive action.

If you are carrying around a lot of worries, you need to either let some of them go or get yourself bigger shoulders.

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Maintain your weight during Christmas and Holidays

All the holidays, especially at Christmas is the season that our family groups again, enjoy time with friends. At this time we tend to eat a lot, especially high calorie, high fat rich food items like pastries or meat based dishes. And when the holiday is over, we found out that we gain a couple pounds to our weight. This is because of not having a control on what we eat on that span of time. A lot of people are facing these issues while on their holiday they can't stop from eating.

Here are a few Health tips one can take to maintain their healthy weight over Christmas and holiday seasons;

1. Routine -
If you have a regular routine on how and what you are going to eat, well you must try to maintain it during this holiday season. Which means having your breakfast and lunch at the right time and right amount to prevent unwanted craving for food. Monitor what you are going to eat, select the right and healthy food.

2. Exercise-
It’s really hard to do exercise when you are travelling during this Christmas or holiday season. One way to burn calories is to take a walk instead of driving a car while going to the grocery or waking on stairways instead of elevators. Any form of exercise will help burn the excess fat we get from eating all those rich food.

3. Experiment with food-
Experiment your before a couple of weeks before your holidays, try different food or recipe and see what suits you. Cut down on meat and focus on vegetables, which is pretty good in controlling calories.

4. Lifestyle alteration-
One should understand on how to adopt on lifestyles while maintaining their weight. During holidays, parties or social gatherings, watch the amount of alcohol you consume, as this will add to your calorie consumption.

The important thing to remember is to stay healthy and not concerning on weight only, have a happy holidays everyone.

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Stress Can Cause Acne

Skin is the largest organ in our body, and the way we live our life affects how healthy our skin is. Stress can cause bad effect into our skin health. Let’s talk about stress and how to prevent them ruining our skin and giving us acne.

External Stressor – This include our external environment. We always need to look out on our environment to prevent skin clogging. Preventing acne involves clearing our pores from clogging, infected and irritated. The grease, oil and sun can clog pores for example when you are in the kitchen or near machines or out in the sun all day. These things will make your skin irritated and infected thus causing bad and ugly acne.

Use protective gear like wearing long sleeves and other protective wear or you can ask your dermatologist for other options. A small amount of sun is good and healthy to our skin but too much is bad. Under the sun for too long will cause the sebaceous glands to create more oil to cast of dried skin, too much oil will cause pore clogging. Use sunscreen when you are outdoors with minimum protection of SPF 15 and both UVA and UVB protection.

Internal Stressor – Your fear, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and different types of internal emotions create chemical reactions and it will flare ups acne and skin irritations. Adrenal glands create more cortisol when we have these emotions. Cortisol the chemical that trigger your sebaceous glands to create more oil which will block pores. Same thing happen, extra oil + extra dead skin = pore clogging.

To fight internal stressor and prevent skin acne here are some health tips. Sleep and Rest play a big role on fighting acne. Maintain regular hours of sleeps regardless of work shifts. Reduce your stress, anxiety, worry and tension. Reading books, resting, listening to music, talking a walk, exercises, going out for an ice cream coffee, etc… can lesser these bad emotions you have.

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5 Easy Ways to Speed Up Your Metabolism

#1 Eat your Breakfast

Don’t forget to eat your breakfast; this meal jump starts your metabolism and helps being tired at the end of the day. Don’t include coffee to it, sugar may suppress your hunger but at later part you will be surely hungry and you more likely eat a lot. Eating complex carbs like oatmeal with protein and fat (low fat milk or yogurt), will keep your energy high.

#2 Eat more often

Eat three to six small meals a day. Eating more often make your blood sugar stable, when your sugar count drops; there is a tendency that you want to eat a lot. You can control your appetite by always checking your blood sugar stable it can also make your metabolic rate high. When starving your body will preserved energy and thus hurting your weight loss efforts.

#3 Include proteins in your meal

Protein will help you suppress your appetite, it takes more energy and time to digest and the results is your feel full than eating carbs only. Eating protein foods will help you lose weight without even cutting calories. Foods that contain a large amount of protein: turkey on whole wheat; hummus and pita; vegetarian chili; fruit and nuts; or protein bars and protein shakes.

#4 Stop Eating snacks

Most of us eat snacks when we are hungry or feeling tired, this confusion of being tired and hungry allow us to eat snacks which is not necessary. If you’re feeling tired, try walking about 15-20 minutes, this will pump your heart rate and give you energy and drink a glass of water. If you are really hungry and you can’t hold yourself from eating, try to eat protein bars or complex carbs snacks, wheat crackers and peanut butter or cheese.

#5 Eat enough for your body’s needs

Eating not much or not eating at all slows down your metabolism, if you want to lose weight, do not cut off calories forcefully as a replacement cut out some extras like juice, soda, packaged goods, or candy. Preserved foods contains high fat and calories and very low in vitamins, fibers and minerals.

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Your Metabolism for Healthy Weight Loss

Do you know someone who is on diet and get into better shape? then you already heard the sentence such us, “I only eat one meal a day” or “I don’t want to eat because I’m afraid to gain much weight”. This misbelieve is the reason so many people struggles to lose weight. All over the world people always says that eating three times a day or eating breakfast will make them fat. Well in fact the truth is as long as they’re eating the right types of foods and exercising correctly, then three meals or six small meals will work better with metabolism than eating the wrong amount or not eating at all. These couples of years people are gaining weight at rapid rate, we should need to understand how metabolism works related on losing weight. Why risk having a heart attack, a stroke, cancer, or diabetes when all you need to do is make a few tweaks and live a healthy life?

First, the metabolic rate of a person is defined by the amount and structures of respiring cells that compose the body’s tissue and second the intensity of the metabolism in these cells. Calories or the physiological foundation of the amount of energy are the results of combining these two factors, which our body uses. We all know that energy is cannot be created or destroyed just change. Energy comes from the foods we eat.

If you are talking about weight loss, remember the three components of energy:

1. Calories Intake
2. Calories Stored
3. Calories Burned

If your calories intake is equal to your calories burned then you will have a stable body weight. When you eat more food than being burned the energy on the food is destroyed and being stored on body and called fats. You are still gaining weight even eating a low-fat food. The main reason is that dietary fat is stored while our body is burning carbohydrates and proteins for energy. The problem is that when a person gains weight, the increased level of fat becomes stored energy until the calorie balance is negative. Burning a lot of amount of calories than what we consumed is what we need to release the stored fats.

Metabolism composed of three parts which our body needs energy to support the functions to sustained life.
1. Physical Activity (20%)
2. TEF – Thermic Effect of Food (10%)
3. RMR - Resting Metabolism Rate (70%)

Physical Activity: It is the quantity or amount of energy being burn during our daily activities such as housework, work, exercise, recreation and so forth. It’s obvious that someone who is very active physically will burn much energy than a regular person will.

TEF - Thermic Effect of Food involves on how energy was being use on digesting and absorbing nutrients which vary on what kind of meal are being eaten by a person. TEF increases when a person eats a lot of foods than what we normally eat because more food must be digested. As a result our metabolism will be confused. 1 pound is equal to 3,500 calories. Let’s say a person consumes more than 3,500 of calories. Well that person will not gain one pound because the TEF is accounted to that but if a person is going to cut off 3,500 calories to lose weight that person’s TEF may decrease for a reason that he’s no longer receiving a lot of nutrients to process. And as a result to that person’s energy expenditure will decrease and making him lose less than one pound of his weight. So in other words TEF can’t work properly when a person is cutting off too much food. Just bear in mind not to eat a lot of junk foods. Make sure all the calories you’d consume are not that big for you to fight weight gain. It also doesn’t mean that you must stop eating because in that way you are not helping yourself, instead you’re pushing it to the point that your body can no longer help you in fighting weight gain.

RMR - The number count of calories that the body needs to run its vital functions as well as chemical reaction at rested pace is called Resting Metabolism Rate. This section of metabolism handles the large amount of calories that being burned every day. RMR decreases when increase in protein metabolism happens and you loss lean weight because of it. People on a strict diet usually do this. What really happens is when our body releases a negative nitrogen balance our body continue to loss a huge amount of protein than what we take or replace. When you loss protein there is a continuous loss of weight. In order to maintain muscle growth dieters usually they protein o maintain their muscles. Our body if forced to use more energy on our stored body fats.

Make your metabolism you’re for you, here are some heath tips for healthy diet:

• Add lean muscles to your body this will increased your metabolic rate up to 200% daily.
• Lean weight can burn as much as 20 times more calories than fat weight.
• Exercise is the best way to speed up your metabolism
• Eat small meals or 6 meals a day can boost your metabolism rate. While eating healthy foods, researcher proves that body fat attributed a lot on a person’s weight.

Always put in mind that excess in body fat can lead us to many health threat and diseases. Always check your BMI (Body Mass Index) as well as your body fat. Watch over your body fat while exercising, we always thought that we lost body fat while doing that but most dieters failed to do that, they only lost lean weight or muscles. The best way to do this is to add weight training to your exercise. You are the one who own your body so take responsible and make good decision to it. This is the time to live a healthy lifestyle.

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Lower Bad Cholesterol In A Natural Way!

A higher lever of "bad" cholesterol can elevate the risk of heart disease, lowering the level is not that hard, you can use drug treatment to lower them but you can also use healthy method in a natural way, which means eating low saturated fats and foods rich fibers helps lower bad cholesterol.

We will offer you some piece of health tips on what to eat and not to eat in order to lower bad cholesterol level. Put this mind that this tips is not very difficult and it requires strength and determination.

1. Minimize eating red meat in your daily meal, replace it with white meat, fish and chicken meat is a good example to this.
2. Stop eating or eat less saturated fat, which means you should drink skimmed milk, low fat zero cholesterol spreads. These light foods may not good in taste but it can save your life.
3. A healthy diet can make your digestion healthy. Eat foods which is high in fiber like whole grain cereals, this can help lower cholesterol by removing dietary fats.
4. Don't fry your food, instead, try to grilling them. You may lose the important vitamins while frying the food but not if you're grilling them. Therefore you are eating healthy foods.
5. Eating is the big challenge to lower your cholesterol, if you are going to eat at the restaurants make sure to order low cholesterol dishes, you should ask to separate the dressing and gravies to the main dish or it will ruin your diet. Stop eating on Fast Food Restaurant, it is a big no! No!
6. Use vegetable oils when you are cooking, your best choice is olive oil or canola oils.
7. Read the Nutrition Facts label on every product especially the fat level that you are buying to make sure you choosing a healthy one.
8. Stop drinking too much alcohol, it can ruin your efforts, but a glass of red wine a day can lower cholesterol sometimes.
9. If you were prescribed by your physician to take lower cholesterol medication, well it is a good thing; we can achieve the maximum effectiveness of your diet together with the medication.
10. Working on this diet will not only lower your cholesterol but it can also help you lose weight.

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