Avail the unsurpassed cosmetic makeover

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Constantly, the cosmetic makeovers are not linked with your skin or splendor. The harms that the diverse cosmetic surgery systems solve are much deeper than your beauty. Billions of persons across the globe are tormenting from diverse inborn defects as well as so, they consider the cosmetic surgery as a magical solution to their harms. Cosmetic surgery is an unbelievably huge domain of recent medical science that has the power to augment the numerous tribulations of millions of folks across the globe. Cosmetic surgery can help you improve your appearance, your figure as well as most importantly gives persons the much needed normal configuration that they are not gifted with. The overall look of a individual would fully change due to the cosmetic makeover. It may involve the ways such as the cosmetic dentistry, hair makeovers, facelifts, liposuction, eye cosmetic surgery, lip augmentation, skin cancer surgery, skin cancer reformative surgery, the chin along with the cheek implants, breast implants, etc. Thus, cosmetic surgery not just copes with your phony tribulations but also helps you to get over your deep rooted harms.People suffering from chubbiness or cellulite repeatedly prefer undergoing the cosmetic makeover surgery that is known as the liposuction. The patients can recuperate their original outline of body with the help of the cosmetic surgery method. Cosmetic dentistry is an added section of the cosmetic makeover that copes with solving the tribulations associated to your jaws as well as teeth. Many individuals bear from a misshapen jaw structure that also includes the chin harms. With the help of the cosmetic dentistry, this crisis could be reformed for that precise zone. Skin cancer in the recent times has become a very ordinary trouble in the various countries that have troubles with their ozone layer and also have high pollution levels. With the help of the skin cancer reformative surgery you can totally restore this sickness.Cosmetic surgery also helps you to refigure your injured parts that are affected due to disasters in addition to similar calamities. You are now able to reform even your eye tribulations with the help of eye cosmetic surgery. Getting free of your crinkles in addition to scratch marks through the cosmetic surgery is something that most individuals are alert about. Folks mostly experience the face lift methods for solving their face linked troubles.Therefore, you must not hide your crisis from the world, rather you should avail help of the cosmetic surgery methods in order to treat your harms.

Benefits of Black Tea

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We all know the multitude of skin care and health benefits associated with green tea but do you know black tea is beneficial to our skin and health as well?  Black tea is made from the dried leaves of Camellia Sinensis which is a perennial green shrub. Green tea, black tea, and oolong tea are all derived from the same plant. Black tea is essentially green tea but the leaves are further dried which change the color and taste.

Black tea has caffeine which stimulates the central nervous system, relaxes the airways, stimulates the heart, and acts as a diuretic. Aside from the health benefits, black tea is also rich in antioxidants, vitamins E and C and help to fight free radicals that cause pre-mature aging. Fresh has taken these benefits and created a line of products using black tea.

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Fresh Age Delay Eye Cream ($65) is a 3 in 1 product that targets all your under eye issues. It’s shown to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, soothe puffiness, and banish dark circles. It also helps your skin from losing its elasticity and firmness.

Fresh Age Delay Cream ($125) is a rich moisturizer that reduces fine lines, firms and smooths your skin. The formula contains lychee which works to boost collagen and cell regeneration.

If your skin teeters on the dry side, you might want to try out the Fresh Instant Perfecting Mask ($85). The whipped textured cream hydrates, firms and smooths out your skin for up to six hours after application.

Who knew black tea was as powerful and beneficial as green tea? It’s great to have options in our journey towards amazing skin. And we all want younger, fresher and healthier looking skin, right?

Summer sustenance: The bounty of local farmers' markets

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ind plenty of good food — food that's good for you — at local farmers markets

 

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Fresh vegetables get sold at Happy's Home Grown stand at the farmer's market at 21st and Ridge.

Ask a couple of dietitians about the best summer finds at the grocery store and farmers market, and you'll get lots of ideas. And some fun facts. Wichita registered dietitians Linda Nye of Via Christi HOPE and Lisa Friesen of Sedgwick County Extension had no problem coming up with a list of summer goodness.

"As we return to savoring simple pleasures in these 'economically challenged times,' how easy, environmentally friendly and relatively inexpensive it is to add beauty and richness to life with good food," Friesen says.

These are readily available at farmers markets, she says, which means lower transportation costs and a way to keep food dollars invested in the local economy.

Here's the list, plus comments from Friesen and Nye:

Squash

The smaller the squash, the more flavorful it is. Squash is low in calories, high in fiber and full of vitamins and minerals. Pumpkin, a winter squash, is one of the best sources of vitamin A and beta-carotene.

The world's longest zucchini was 70 inches, Nye says. The world's largest squash weighed 654 pounds.

Friesen says, "Squash has become my absolute favorite stir-fry ingredient, usually with sweet onions and red bell pepper for color. Yellow and zucchini squash are my workhorses, but other varieties are fun and easy to experiment with also."

Cabbage

There are three main varieties: red, green and savoy. Cabbage is a cruciferous vegetable high in phytochemicals associated with lower risk of a number of cancers; it's also a good source of vitamins K and C, fiber, manganese, B6 and folate.

Nye suggests cutting the amount of lettuce in your salad by half and replacing with thinly sliced cabbage.

The world's largest cabbage weighed 123 pounds.

Swiss chard

It's a leafy green vegetable related to the beet and has white or red stems, which can be used as you would celery. It's a good source of carotenoids, vitamins K, A and C, manganese, potassium and iron.

"I saw some at Omaha's botanical garden on my vacation," Nye says. "I paid to see them growing, even though my husband always grows them. He uses it in his sandwiches and wraps instead of lettuce."

Watermelon

What would summer be without watermelon, an excellent source of beta-carotene and vitamin C? Rather than having seed-spitting contests, scoop seeds out and do what they do in China: Roast them, salt them and eat them like popcorn. (But they're 65 percent fat, Nye says.)

Friesen cuts watermelon into thin wedges for her "super-simple summer potluck staple."

Cantaloupe

Another great source of beta-carotene and vitamin C, a cantaloupe won't ripen under refrigeration, so keep it at room temperature. When the aroma indicates it's ripe and sweet, refrigerate.

An average cantaloupe will make 45 to 50 melon balls, Nye says. Friesen says they make a delicious frozen snack.

Peppers

Peppers are a good source of vitamins A and C. Red bell peppers have more vitamin C than oranges. Sweet red peppers are 11 times higher in beta-carotene and 1½ times higher in vitamin C than green peppers.

The hotter the pepper, the more capsaicin it has. Wear gloves when working with hot peppers or you'll feel their heat when you touch your eyes or lips. You can decrease the heat by 70 to 80 percent if you remove the white ribs and seeds and rinse the pepper in cold water, Nye says.

"Capsaicin does not dissolve in water or beer," she says. "They only spread the capsaicin. Ideal remedy is to use milk, yogurt or sour cream. The protein casein in them breaks the bond between capsaicin and the pain receptors in your mouth."

Eat lots of hot peppers and you'll become less susceptible to their heat. There also is some research linking spicy foods and hot peppers to lower body weight, Friesen says.

Tomatoes

Botanically, the tomato is a fruit, actually a berry, Nye says. The U.S. Supreme Court declared them a vegetable in 1893 for tariff purposes — so they could tax them, Friesen says.

Choose a vine-ripened tomato for the best taste, store them stem-end down at room temperature and slice just before serving. If ripened in direct sunlight, they lose most of their vitamin C.

Cooked tomatoes are higher in lycopene, an antioxidant that helps reduce the risk of some cancers.

Adding chopped carrots to tomato-based recipes will reduce the acidity, Nye says. And never cook a whole tomato in a microwave — it will explode.

Link between moles and skin cancer found

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Rex Features

Scientists have discovered that two genes that regulate the appearance of moles can double the risk of skin cancer.
The genes were identified after researchers at the Department of Twin Research at King's College London scoured the genetic codes of more than 1,500 adult female twins in Britain.
It was already known that having a lot of moles is a major risk factor for the disease but this discovery could help research teams develop treatments.
Dr Veronique Bataille, a consultant dermatologist at the Department of Twin Research, who took part in the study, said: ‘These new genes may be useful for screening but will also help in understanding melanoma genetic pathways with possible therapeutic targets.
'If you do have many moles, especially large moles, it is recommended that you have them checked.’

Elliston: On a different track, from farmland to intermodal site

Elliston farmland that once housed a thriving cannery and meat-packing plant could become the property of Norfolk Southern if the plan for an intermodal rail yard is realized.

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By Jeff Sturgeon | The Roanoke Times

The Roanoke Times

File April Frank Howard imagines a day when he won't have a choice but to pack up and leave the family farm in Elliston.

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The land that would be occupied by the railroad project is located on the south side of U.S. 11/460, where it meets Cove Hollow Road.

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Douglas Sink, a resident with a long history in Elliston, stands in the old tomato cannery building, which he worked

in.

 

ELLISTON -- From his porch, 74-year-old Frank Howard sees a field.

He recalls how his family grew tomatoes there and packed them in a steamy cannery out back.

Howard scalded the red fruit in water, among other jobs. Local farm women peeled the still-hot tomatoes. After the tomatoes were packed in tin cans and the cans cooked in a vat of boiling water, Howard's mother applied a red-and-blue label saying "Mountain Beauty" with flour paste.

A truck driver hauled cases of tomatoes to grocery stores and to train stations for shipping.

Just up the road was the Green Hill meat-packing plant, another prosperous industry.

Norfolk Southern Corp. intends to turn this same ground adjacent to U.S.

11/460 into an intermodal freight center.

Though they have long been retired from commerce, the story behind the Mountain Beauty and Green Hill brand names is still accessible through the tales of old-timers such as Howard, historical photos and real estate records.

Motorists can see the old industries from U.S. 11/460 -- but possibly not for much longer.

Montgomery County's elected leaders have sued to block the state from paying the lion's share of the $25 million cost for the intermodal yard and $11 million expense for road work. If the county wins, it could scuttle the project.

But Norfolk-based Norfolk Southern contends state financial support is appropriate for an expansion leading to greater freight efficiency.

It is buying land for the project even though a judge has not yet decided the case.

Last month, the railroad bought part of the former Howard farm, including the former cannery.

Howard, who has not struck a deal yet, can imagine a day when he won't have a choice but to pack up and leave the family farm, where he was born and raised, so crews can level his house and acres of adjacent crop land for paving crews. He expects to see the old cannery and the meat plant come down.

Where crews picked Mountain Beauty tomatoes from fertile eastern Montgomery County soil, machinery will forward steel boxes of general freight 40 or 50 feet long moving along the Heartland Corridor intermodal shipping route between the Midwest and the Port of Virginia, according to the railroad's plan. The meat plant site is needed for a road.

U.S. 11/460 and two train tracks border a rectangular, flat agricultural field nearly three-fourths of a mile long with a silo in Elliston adjacent to the Montgomery County-Roanoke County line. State and railroad officials call it the Elliston intermodal rail yard site.

Intermodal rail freight moves in containers carried either by ship, rail or truck, or a combination of those. The planned Elliston yard is designed to shift goods between trucks and trains, and vice versa, and span 65 acres.

That would appear to spell the end for the former Green Hill Inc. meat-packing plant on U.S. 460, which operated for most of the second half of the last century and employed 150 people during its heyday. It closed in 1990 and has been vacant since.

Under owner Walter Lipes since 1946, who also led the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors, the slaughterhouse would kill up to about 150 hogs in one day. Workers could convert a live animal to sausage in 28 minutes, he said.

"That's how we got the meat to stay fresh so long. Rigor mortis never had a chance to set in," Lipes said.

Former salesman Orville Pendry of Elliston said he called on grocers and grocery warehouses, taking orders for the company's whole hog sausage.

As a bonus, Lipes, 91 and now living in Myrtle Beach, S.C., took key personnel fishing in North Carolina in the spring and to New York in the fall.

"I enjoyed working there so much, I wondered why they paid me," said Pendry, who went on the trips. "Everybody knew everybody and everybody treated everybody with respect. It was a good situation."

Jerry Akers of Salem, who owns the Green Hill building, said he is open to talking to the railroad about a possible sale.

"You can't fight progress," he said.

While Lipes made his name in pork, the late R.H. "Robert" Howard made his prosperity in tomatoes.

Howard, originally of Pulaski, started what became a large family tomato business on the broad Elliston plain. His son, Raby Howard, joined in. Eventually, so did his children, who include Frank Howard. The year the business started is unclear. The family told Esso Farm News in 1954 that canning began under a tree about 1928.

Frank Howard said the canning moved inside a wooden shed beside the family home and, later, to a block building. He said his dad and granddad made a good living at it.

"Most of ours went to Kroger or Mick-or-Mack," he said.

When Howard retells the story of the business, he uses a stack of black-and-white pictures he owns. There's him dumping a load of scalded tomatoes in front of a crew of women in white aprons -- the peeling team. There's him watching a basket of sealed cans about to be dunked in a vat of boiling water for cooking. There's his mother, Mable, labeling.

Douglas Sink of Shawsville worked in the Howard fields and cannery.

"Anything to make a nickel," he said in a recent interview.

The growing operation grew to about 50,000 tomato plants on 40 acres, Frank Howard said. Crews doused the plants with the pesticide DDT to kill tobacco hornworms, green caterpillars that grow to 4 inches long, and copper dust for blight, Howard said.

At canning time, the business employed about 50 people in the field and 50 in the cannery, Howard said.

"Everybody that you talk to that lives in Elliston will tell you they worked here at one time or another," said Joyce Howard, Howard's wife.

She described Elliston during these times as "a booming little place."

Folks shopped at the Sunset Service Center supermarket, ate at Wilson's, which doubled as a truck stop, and filled up at the Esso station. All are closed.

When Robert Howard's health deteriorated, he pulled back and the tomato business wound down in the late 1950s, said Frank Howard, who later pursued business in contract services and cattle.

Robert Howard died in 1966 and is buried in the family cemetery. It is on a hilly part of the family property the railroad isn't interested in, he said.

The railroad has sought and so far obtained a portion of the former fields, paying $2.4 million in three transactions, county real estate records show.

Although the railroad has the power of eminent domain, meaning it can buy land from an owner who does not want to sell, it has not used the process. Instead, it has found the people who had acquired various parts of the Howard farm willing to sell. Norfolk Southern owns the former homes of Howard's sister Helen Lawrence of Riner and late brother, John. Both are unoccupied.

Down a country road, the block building that housed the cannery and a silo beside it are railroad property.

Frank Howard still owns his 65-acre share of the family farm, where he grows hay and lives with his wife. Four tomato plants grow beside the house.

Frank and Joyce's son, Allen, lives a stone's throw away in his house with his wife, Staci, and their daughter, Allison, 7, the fifth generation of the family to live on the farm.

The railroad wants about 20 acres of Frank Howard's land, including the house, and his son's land and house. Frank Howard said he is waiting for the railroad to offer a price he agrees with.

It is more than a place to live he is being asked to give up.

Health notes: Calling time on sunbeds

 

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In February, 14-year-old Kirsty McRae was rushed to hospital with first-degree burns. She’d spent 19 minutes on a coin-operated sunbed in Barry, South Wales, where a sign advertised four minutes’ use for £1. When Kirsty had asked about getting a spray tan because she felt pale, her mum had said no: ‘I wish now I’d said yes,’ she said.

Two months later, Kelly Thompson, just ten, sustained burns over 70 per cent of her body after 16 minutes on an unmanned sunbed; two minutes more and she would have needed skin grafts. She will have to avoid direct sunlight for the next ten years.

Shockingly, anyone can set up a tanning ‘salon’. Although the Sunbed Association’s Code of Practice, in line with EU and UK government guidance, states that sunbeds should not be used by children under 16 (because of their delicate skin), only 22 per cent of sunbed operators are members. And unmanned beds may or may not have warning signs.

According to guidelines, sunbed users should be asked a set of questions (including how old they are and if they’re taking any medication) and have their skin type assessed (the very fair should never use sunbeds).

But in a report (awaiting publication) of 69 manned facilities by Julie Barratt, director of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health in Wales, secret shoppers found that more than half would allow under-16s to use the sunbeds if they had parental consent or were with an adult. Only 23 per cent checked skin type and just two salons asked if the ‘customer’ was taking medication.

But horrific burns are not the only risks sunbeds present. ‘Any sunburn increases the risk of potentially fatal malignant melanoma, particularly a sunburn in childhood [under 18], which may lead to cancer years later,’ says Professor Antony Young of St John’s Institute of Dermatology in London.

According to Cancer Research UK, there are twice as many cases of malignant melanoma as there are of breast cancer among women in their 20s. Although the Sunbed Association website claims it’s a ‘myth’ that ‘melanoma is directly associated with UV exposure’, leading experts disagree. ‘It’s like the tobacco industry saying there is no evidence that tobacco causes lung cancer,’ says Professor Young.

Sunbed operators say their equipment delivers mostly UVA, which has in the past been linked to ageing, rather than UVB, responsible for burning. But, says Professor Nick Lowe of the Cranley Clinic, London, ‘There is ample evidence implicating UVA as the silent skin damager in melanoma.’

And Professor Young adds that ‘sunbeds still emit some UVB, which is 1,000 times more powerful than UVA, so even a tiny percentage can be dangerous’. Cancer Research UK warns that those who use a sunbed once a month or more can increase their skin cancer risk by more than half.

After reviewing all published data, American dermatologist Dr David E Fisher, president of the Society of Melanoma Research, and colleagues conclude that, ‘Whereas genetic and other factors undoubtedly contribute to skin cancer risk, the role of UV is incontrovertible, and efforts to confuse the public, particularly for purposes of economic gain by the indoor tanning industry, should be vigorously combated.’

In the UK, a beauty industry lobbying group, led by Michelle Feeney, CEO of St Tropez, and Welsh MP Siân James (and supported by professors Young and Lowe), is calling for legislation to ban the use of sunbeds by under-18s, to end all unmanned facilities and introduce health warning signs similar to those on cigarette packets.

But first Siân needs a minimum of 10,000 signatures to present in a petition to Parliament. Sign up at st-tropezskinsmart.org. Many experts hope the outcome will be a total ban on sunbeds.

Parabens out, quids in

Asda has launched its own no-nasties nappies and baby skincare range at credit-crunch-busting prices. Products are paraben-free, dermatalogically tested and low-fragrance, and come in 25-per-cent-recycled bottles. We love the Little Angels baby shampoo (98p for 250ml) and the degradable nappy sacks (£1.71 for 75). What’s more, the eco-nappies (with biodegradable backing) don’t leak!

Coffee break benefit

Giving up coffee cleared Mary Bryson’s severe acne after 20 years of break-outs: ‘Doctors are sceptical but nothing worked until I discovered this intolerance. I suggest sufferers have a food sensitivity test now,’ she says.

Website of the week

ompadma.co.uk

Gorgeous yoga weekend bags, £35, and accessories, including a charming pink or turquoise Karma Shopper, £12.

All made by a women’s cooperative in India, sourced by ex-Treasury high-flyer Lou Tilbury.

Friend, you've gotta measure something...

G'day Friend,
As you know I've been a fitness author and professional for the
past few years and I get hundreds of emails each week for specific
fat loss nutrition answers.
I enjoy you're email and it's a highlight of my day to chat with
you but I also get EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED with many emails I receive.
Just yesterday I got an email from someone who asked if they should
cut their carbs in order to lose more fat.
I didn't answer, almost.
I usually DO NOT answer these emails and instead direct you to one
of my comprehensive articles or videos or programs so you can
answer the question yourself (which will also test how serious you
are :) )
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Why don't I answer all your emails?
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To be honest, unless I know this person personally, I usually don't
answer these emails BECAUSE unless you are MEASURING what you are
doing nutritionally, there is NO ONE-MINUTE CHANGE THAT WILL MAKE A

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DIFFERENCE.
My advice would be useless because none of the other nutrition
variables in your program are CONSTANT so you would have no way of
measuring if this one-minute change actually worked or not.
Answering your question becomes a waste of time for me and asking
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As you know, I really do want want to see you build your best body
so I do answer them but in a way that is more helpful because this
person is asking the wrong question!
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The Best Way I Can Answer Your Questions...
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Unless you show me EXACTLY what you have been eating EVERY DAY for
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You may be applying "nutrition health tips" found in magazines like
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Kazam - straight from Mother Nature

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Kazam Natural Body Care is a family based business that manufactures natural, organic, handmade health and beauty products like lotions, soaps, natural perfumes, shampoos, conditioners, as well as products for men and babies.
Marjorie Moutari, the founder and CEO of Kazam Natural Body Care not only has a knack for making amazing beauty products but she also has a giving nature and a kind heart. She has conducted workshops and seminars to train African women to make their own beauty products which enable them to gain independence and generate income for their families. Moutari is a also a supporter of the American Cancer Society.
Products I highly recommend:
Beautiful Hair Conditioner ($14): This conditioner couldn't be more perfect for my hair type. My hair is over-processed, dry and frizzy which calls for intense conditioning. This conditioner is not only vegan and mineral oil and petroleum free, but it smells aromatherapeutically beautiful! It's packed with plant oils and extracts which moisturize and nourish the hair and scalp. I've been using this conditioner every day for a week and I've fallen in love with how manageable and smooth my hair is when I use it.
Ingredients: Water, aloe, sopropyl palmitate, cocoa and shea butters, Vitamin E, fennel, sage, yarrow, jojoba, bergamot, geranium, rosewood, ylang ylang and rich moisturizing oils.
I love essential oil perfumes - they don't contain any synthetics, petrochemicals, parabens, alcohols or chemicals.
Kazam has quite an array of essential oil perfumes to choose from: Aphrodisiac, Angelic Presence, Sweet Dreams, Prosperity, Exotic Pleasure, Sweet Romance and Lavender.
Prosperity Essential Oil Perfume ($18): As much as I wanted to try the Sweet Romance perfume, I figured I could use a lil' help in the prosperity department (seeing I'm all set with the romance *wink*). When I got this perfume in the mail, it came in a super duper cute ruffley, green organza baggie. The specific essential oils for this perfume were not listed on the bottle or on their website and I made a conscious decision not to inquire about the ingredients because a) it's probably a secret "prosperity" formula and I know that if I had come up with it, I wouldn't want to share that info and b) I wanted it to simply be a prosperity perfume for prosperity's sake. I didn't want to dissect the formula and spoil the magic. In these rough economic times I'm sure we're all seeking a little extra prosperity. I've been wearing this perfume for about a week and I love it! It smells exactly like my Tinkerbell Perfume from when I was a little girl (how did they do that?) . You know how powerful sense memory can be... It makes me feel young when I'm wearing it and it has a feminine, girlie smell to it. To top everything off, how cool is it to tell my peeps that I'm rcokin' Prosperity Perfume? It's cool. :) As far as beckoning prosperity with my perfumey potion, I believe a week is too soon to tell, so I'll have to keep you all posted.

Natural Products Foundation Program Makes First 'Healthy Match'

New initiative unites underserved community health programs with donations from natural products manufacturers

WASHINGTON, June 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Natural Products Foundation (NPF) is pleased to announce the first "match" in its new effort to connect community health programs that are feeling the strain of the current economic climate with natural products companies willing to donate products, such as nutrition bars, dietary supplements and health and beauty aids. Named "Healthy Match," the program's first beneficiary is the Sarasota Community Medical Clinic, which offers a variety of health care services to the uninsured and financially needy throughout Sarasota County, Fla. Donations to the clinic are coming from Aubrey Organics, Carlson Nutritional Supplements, NOW Foods and Franklyn BioScience.

"Our population of patients will greatly benefit from having donated dietary supplements and personal care products," said Kathryn Cantley, R.N., B.A., clinical manager of the Sarasota clinic. "These products are generally something our patients cannot afford, but will definitely enhance their quality of life."

Thus far, seven additional community health programs across the country are participating in the project: No Aids Task Force, New Orleans, La.; Leahy Clinic for the Uninsured, Scranton, Penn.; Erie Family Health Center, Chicago, Ill.; West Side Community Health Services, St. Paul, Minn.; Creating Health Institute, Spokane, Wash.; Fourth Street Clinic, Salt Lake City, Utah; and North by Northeast Clinic, Portland, Ore.

"The community organizations participating in Healthy Match provide services to the needy free of charge," said Tracy Taylor, executive director of the Natural Products Foundation. "Often staffed only by volunteers, these community-run centers help ensure that individuals who are unable to afford health-related services do not simply slip through the cracks of a broken health care system."

The NPF is continuing to enroll community health programs and natural

products companies to participate in Healthy Match. All products contributed go directly to the community program of the donor's choice, and contributions, material or financial, are generally tax deductible. Learn more about the Healthy Match program at: naturalproductsfoundation.org/healthymatch.

The Natural Products Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation organized exclusively to stimulate and support research, education and knowledge regarding dietary supplements, nutritional foods, and related products, with the overall objective of advancing the knowledge of the public, and thereby, improving the public health.

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Ageless beauty

 

June 28, 2009

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Belle epoque ... Michelle Pfeiffer. Photo: AP

This Hollywood star found turning 50 liberating, writes Helen Barlow.

When Michelle Pfeiffer purred the words to Makin' Whoopee while sprawled across a grand piano in 1989's The Fabulous Baker Boys, the scene went down in history as one of cinema's sexiest moments.

"Oh it was the cinematography of Michael Ballhaus," Pfeiffer defers, initially citing the camera's dizzy circling as the reason. She then reconsiders. "I guess it is one of my finest moments. I know it took a lot of courage to get up on that piano and sing."

Now 20 years later, Pfeiffer at 51 is still stunning. Today wearing tight blue jeans, a V-neck top and little jewellery or make-up, she is doing nothing to accentuate her beauty, but it startles nevertheless. She seems to be just pushing 40, though to her credit she has embraced passing a half-century.

"If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait till you turn 50," she muses. "You dread it for years, then it happens and it's no big deal."

Outspoken against the wide use of plastic surgery she prefers to work out in the gym to keep fit. She radiates health. "You know I'm fit when I'm working and maybe not so fit when I'm not filming," she says, flashing a megawatt smile. "It's just the older you get the less you can eat. Isn't that horrible? I figure that by the time I'm 70 I will just be a breatharian. I won't have to eat anything to keep going the way I am.

"I remember my grandmother used to survive on the craziest thing. She would literally have the same thing every day - half a piece of toast with something on it - and she was very, very lean, strong and very fit. I used to think, `how could she eat so little?' " She pauses, lowering her voice in that haunting way only Pfeiffer can. "I know now."

Strong genes or not, the three-time Oscar nominee (for Love Field, Baker Boys and Dangerous Liaisons), whose 1992 version of Catwoman (in Batman Returns) left Halle Berry with impossible shoes to fill in the recent incarnation, possesses a rare show-stopping presence - especially when it comes to period dramas.

She was unforgettable as Madame de Tourvel in Stephen Frears's classic Dangerous Liaisons, she was impressive as Countess Olenska in Martin Scorsese's The Age Of Innocence, and now she reunites with Frears (and writer Christopher Hampton) for Cheri, playing Lea de Lonval, an ageing courtesan during the belle epoque, a decadent moment in early 20th century French history. The story is based on a 1920 novel by Colette, who chronicles the risque mores of her time. The film opens on July 23.

"I didn't know about this period at all and I was really surprised when I read how Colette describes the character," Pfeiffer notes. "You sort of have your ideas about what a high-class prostitute or courtesan is, and what I love about Colette's writing is that there was nothing undignified about Lea.

"The story's really about her feelings and about a woman making a choice to sell sex. Everyone's going to have different feelings about that, but Lea really has a lot of integrity, is very smart and thinks about other people. I hadn't seen that character before."

Pfeiffer's comfort with her age made her one of just a handful of contenders for the role, Hampton has said. "You needed an actor who was about 50, who was clearly very beautiful, and was sufficiently relaxed in herself to give herself to the story and not be made anxious by it," he told Canada's The Globe And Mail. "It's a tough subject for a woman turning 50 . . . and Michelle had absolutely no provisos about being shot in a way that made her look as if she was ageing."

As she had done so convincingly in 2007's I Could Never Be Your Woman with Paul Rudd, Pfeiffer is again paired with an even younger man in Cheri. Initially she is meant to just keep the wayward youngster in line, yet, as she lolls around on satin sheets with up-and-coming British actor Rupert Friend (Keira Knightley's beau off-screen) it seems impossible to imagine they're not meant for each other.

Enhance your natural beauty with a smile

 

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A Happy Healthy Smile

A smile on your face can not only lighten your look, increase your natural beauty, stimulate inner joy, it can also make you feel better! And feeling better can only lead to one thing - more smiles!

Smiling can bring you joy, as well as, lighten the mood of others around you - sometimes those you may not even notice. A smile on your face is a free, natural, and easy way for you to enhance your natural beauty, bringing your inner self outward. It tends to lowers others resistance towards you, or at least make them stop and think twice before doing something to upset you.

As far as natural health goes, if "laughter is the best medicine" then certainly a smile is in a step in the right direction.

Some research shows a face uses at least one more muscle to smile, rather than frown. Why not enhance your looks with a smile? Don't you enjoy seeing people smile at you rather than frown?

Smiling, even if your embarrassed about a missing tooth, or not-so-white teeth (all things that you can fix if you want to), just might be the thing that encourages a new person to speak with you, lands you that job your interviewing for, sends an uplifting vibe out to others who may be feeling depressed, or at a minimum makes you feel better!

If you find it hard to muster a smile, think of one thing that gives you pleasure, or something that you're grateful for. Perhaps as soon as you thought of it, a smile began to emerge - did it?

A smile is such an easy way to spread a little joy everyday - try it for yourself and see!

Author's note: As this article was being prepared for publishing we learned of the passing of our beloved Farrah Fawcett - one of America's most beautiful and adored women. Our condolences and our heart goes out to her family and loved ones. Farrah was a stunning natural beauty, known for her long luscious hair, and acting ability, as well as her gleaming dazzling smile. It may never be measured in quantifiable terms how much joy she gave all of us by sharing her spectacular smile. 

Health & Wellness Expo

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Come join us at Bella D'ora Spa & Salon's Health and Wellness Expo on Tuesday, June 23rd, at 4 - 7 p.m.
Extraordinary resources are being brought together empowering you with knowledge and understanding that will not only strengthen your resolve towards bringing new vital energy and long-term health to yourself and your family, but give you with the necessary information. Seminars on the subjects of Stress, Understanding Alkaline Water and Acupuncture will be given at 4:15, 5:15 and 6:15. Experts from all types of wellness fields will awaiting your questions and helping you with your needs in individual rooms across from the Spa.
Bella D'ora will also be offering FREE neck and shoulder massage, FREE foot scrubs, FREE reflexology, FREE hair consultation with clean-up, bang trim or scalp massage, FREE microdermabrasion, and FREE lip or brow wax. FREE Gift Bags for the first 50 qualified guests and chances to win many incredible and valuable services and products. Finally, at 7:00 p.m., there will be a drawing for 'A Day of Beauty'. To win, you must be present.
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Bella D'ora can be reached via El Camino Real and Faraday Avenue, one block North of Palomar Airport Road. Our address is Faraday Avenue, Suite 125. If you need more explicit directions, please call 760-438-7404. We look forward to seeing you there.

Tuesday, 23 June, 2009

04:00 PM - 07:00 PM

Big beauty

 

CHIEFTAIN PHOTO/MIKE SWEENEY -- Big Hill, as preserved open space, has trails for hiking but is fenced off to motorized traffic.

Dr. Anne Courtright and her late husband, Dr. Clay Courtright, along with their dog, Honey, stand in their backyard on Big Hill overlooking Pueblo's West Side in this 2001 photo.

Big Hill a unique geographical location in Pueblo

By TOM PURFIELD
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN

One way to feel the true essence of a city is by looking down on it from above, finding its highest point and taking in as much of the view as possible in one look.
In Pueblo, no spot matches Big Hill for a prime vantage point.
With its peak at the south end of Seventh Avenue, the Big Hill open-space park encompasses a rocky outcropping lush with native brush and plants. Its borders of 18th Street, Montezuma Road, 24th Street and the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo lock in one of Pueblo's singular areas on the North Side.
"It's kind of a unique place with a wonderful view of the whole area," said Dr. Anne Courtright, a retired psychiatrist who, along with her late husband, Dr. Clay Courtwright, was instrumental in Big Hill being preserved as open space. "It's a nice place to walk and a little bit of nature in the middle of town."
Big Hill features open prairie along its outer rim, complete with cactus and other native vegetation that provides an ideal habitat for lizards, rabbits and fox. It is also a bird watcher's paradise and there are occasional sightings of bear, scorpions and deer. As the area ascends to its peak, the terrain becomes more rocky. There is an exposed cretaceous limestone bluff and a wetland area fed by a spring that seeps out of the hill.
It is at the top, however, that Big Hill's most valuable resource can be found: It's unparalleled view.
From the south end of the hill, there is about a 320-degree panoramic view unobstructed to the west, south and east. Only the view to the north doesn't stretch to the horizon due to the parallel lay of the land in that direction. "Just being able to have an open view, we enjoy it very much," said Glenn Ross, Anne Courtright's son-in-law who lives at the south end of Seventh Avenue. "We love seeing into the distance, seeing the weather change and develop, and seeing the colors of the mountains change throughout the day."
The view attracted many home builders when the development of Seventh Avene began in earnest in 1956.
"It's a full sweep of the mountains from Cheyenne Mountain and Pikes Peak to Liberty Point, the Wet Mountains, Greenhorn Peak and the Spanish Peaks," Dr. David Morton, who built his home at 2209 Seventh Ave., said in 2001. "We love to watch the sunrises and sunsets, which can be seen to good advantage."
The offerings of Big Hill have provided an advantage to many through the years, all the way until it was preserved as open space in 2000.
Big Hill history Anne Courtright did an in-depth historical study of her cherished Big Hill and unearthed some interesting tidbits.
The first recorded land sale in the area was from the United States of America to Charles B. Kountze in 1870. After the land changed hands several times, the Hartford Co. acquired it in 1890 with the intention to develop it as Hartford Highlands.
Hartford's financial difficulties prevented development and led to the sale of portions of land at a time. William S. Ingraham ended up with the whole of the Big Hill area by 1914.
After two new deeds were issued, Dr. Harvey and Helen Rusk gained ownership of the land on April 14, 1944. The Rusks deeded the strip of land that became Seventh Avenue to the city in 1953 and the beginning of development on the hill began in 1956, the year the first two houses were built at 2125 (the Rusk home) and 2111.
Before any structures existed, there were reports the Ku Klux Klan would burn crosses on the top of the hill, that mining took place for unknown material and that a ball field on the flat southwest corner was a hot spot for kids. During World War II, bombers would fly low over Big Hill to land at the air base and pilots would wave at the kids playing on the hill.
New kids on the block The top of Big Hill was prime real estate for TV and radio, due to the unobstructed signal range.
What is KOAA-TV today built the first structure on top of the hill in 1953 at 2200 Seventh Avenue. Prior to that, the only other building in the entire area was a barn along Montezuma Road, which was owned by a man with two horses.
The television station - KCSJ, which was owned by The Pueblo Chieftain & Star-Journal - also housed KCSJ Radio for a number of years before the radio station moved Downtown.
"As a weather man, it was real handy for me. I could go out behind the studios and see the panorama, watch the storms come in firsthand," said J. Ralph Carter, who was a longtime weather forecaster for KOAA. "It was the perfect geography for a weatherman. I'm sure Mike (Daniels) does the same thing to this day."
Carter's most vivid memory of working atop Big Hill is his twice daily walks to work. He lived on the north corner of the 2400 block of Seventh Avenue, and it was his mission to trudge up the steep hill on foot regardless of the weather to get some exercise.
A byproduct of those walks was gaining a special friend. Carter said a Siamese cat began waiting for him outside the station following the nightly news broadcast. It would follow him until he went into his house and this routine continued for some time.
One night, it was raining and Carter took the cat into the studios. He couldn't find it and discovered the next day that it had been making itself right at home in the station.
"I found that cat curled up on the set on my weather chair," Carter said. ‘‘At that point, I said ‘OK, that does it. I guess you’ve found yourself a home.’ ’’
Carter named the cat Gypsy for its wandering ways.
Uncertain future Residential development began in 1959 and within a few years, nice homes lined both sides of Seventh Avenue north of 24th Street. The street ended in a cul-de-sac a couple hundred yards from the southern end of the hill.
J.D. and Janet Macfarlane purchased the entire south end of the hill in 1964 with the thought of developing a housing area. They built 2109 Seventh Ave. on a design by Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, a granddaughter of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
The Macfarlanes' plan for development was delayed by moving to Denver after J.D. was elected attorney general, in addition to finding difficulty gaining zoning. They sacked the idea and sold the property to the Lighthouse Baptist Church, which also had plans to develop the top of the hill.
Another change hinted at heavy development in the area when the Kona Kai Apartments were built in 1971-72. Kona Kai is just west of the steep dropoff toward Montezuma Road.
The church, which became Lighthouse Bible Church, fell on tough times financially and was forced to sell the land. Several companies took out options on the land but withdrew after learning of the cost and difficulties of developing it.
It was around this time the Courtrights began looking at ways to preserve Big Hill's natural beauty.
Visionaries After Rusk's widow, Faye, died in 1997, the 9 acres between Seventh Avenue and CMHIP went to their sons. Residents along the west side of Seventh Avenue became more concerned about what would happen to the open space behind their houses.
The Courtrights and neighbors David and Kayoko Morton, Wayne and Norma Harr and Gene and Mary Pflum purchased the land for $50,000 and donated it to the city for open space.
While the west strip of the area now was protected, the Courtrights were concerned about the south end of the hill. Following a meeting with all of the homeowners on the hill, they decided to purchase the remaining 33 acres of the Big Hill area from the Lighthouse Bible Church for $300,000 and began plans to donate it to the city as a park.
City officials planned to help with the project by applying for a $100,000 Great Outdoors Colorado grant to offset the Courtrights' cost. Anne Courtright said then-City Manager Lou Quigley and Jim Munch and Steve Meier of the City Planning Department were a tremendous help in facilitating the project.
City Council approved the plan to apply for a GOCo grant, but the first application was denied in 1998. Meier rewrote the application for City Council to resubmit in 1999 and it was accepted.
The city acquired the land after giving the Courtrights the $100,000 GOCo grant and an additional $30,000. The deal was finalized in 2000 and Big Hill was dedicated as open space on Oct. 27 of that year.
The area is now fenced off to motorized traffic and is under the management of the Pueblo Parks and Recreation
Room with a view The Courtrights retained two 1-acre plots at the southern tip of Seventh Avenue. In 2000, they moved into the "Ingraham House," a unique structure with a central atrium and greenhouse top that once housed services for the Lighthouse church.
Clay Courtright died in a plane crash in April 2005, but Anne still lives in that house today.
They built a house on the other lot at 2110 Seventh Avenue, primarily to

cut auto access to the southern tip of the hill. For decades, the location was prime for people looking for the best view in town.
Now, when Anne Courtright steps onto her back porch or looks out the window, she knows the spectacular scene laid out in front of her will remain undisturbed.
"I feel real glad it will be available, hopefully in perpetuity, for the people of Pueblo," she said.

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7 in 10 Households Choose Foods & Beverages with the ’Sweetened with SPLENDA® Brand’ Logo

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Decatur, Ill. – Research confirms it. SPLENDA® Brand Sweetener has become a household name widely used in food and beverage products.

Tate & Lyle reveals in a recent consumer study that more than 70 percent of U.S. households purchase foods and beverages displaying the familiar ‘Sweetened with SPLENDA® Brand’ logo on the package.

The study, conducted by Information Resources, Inc., confirms that a majority of U.S. households, an estimated 82 million, purchase products with the ‘Sweetened with SPLENDA® Brand’ logo annually. These purchases occur across an extensive array of categories where consumers expect great sweet taste without added calories, such as yogurt, juices and soft drinks, cookies, ice cream, baking mixes and even pickles. More than 1,600 individual products carry the SPLENDA® logo in the U.S.

“The most important thing the study reveals is that SPLENDA® Sucralose is a broadly accepted lifestyle ingredient across a wide cross-section of American households,” says Dave Tuchler, Vice President of Marketing for SPLENDA® Sucralose, Tate & Lyle. “When shoppers repeatedly purchase products with the ‘Sweetened with SPLENDA® Brand’ logo, it’s their vote of confidence that the ingredient helps deliver great taste, as well as health and wellness benefits in their favorite products.”

Tuchler adds, “Consumers are increasingly looking for great-tasting products that help them meet their and their families’ healthy lifestyle needs. Seeing the ‘Sweetened with SPLENDA® Brand’ logo helps make the purchase easier.”

About SPLENDA® Sucralose

Tate & Lyle’s SPLENDA® Sucralose starts with sugar, tastes like sugar, but it’s not sugar. SPLENDA® Sucralose comprehensively outperforms all the high-intensity sweeteners on the market through its unique combination of taste, versatility and stability – making it the best choice to help manufacturers seize the market opportunity for tastier, healthier, lower-calorie foods and beverages. For more information about SPLENDA® Sucralose, visit www.sucralose.com

About Tate & Lyle

Tate & Lyle is a world-leading renewable food and industrial ingredients company, serving a global market from more than 45 production facilities throughout the Americas, Europe and South East Asia. Our efficient, large-scale manufacturing plants turn agricultural products, corn and cane sugar, into valuable ingredients for our customers. These ingredients add taste, texture, nutrition and increased functionality to products that millions of people around the world use or consume every day.

Tate & Lyle’s range of leading branded food ingredients includes SPLENDA® Sucralose, PROMITOR™ Dietary Fiber, STA-LITE® Polydextrose, Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Sugar and Lyle’s Golden Syrup. Tate & Lyle also produces branded industrial ingredients including Bio-PDO™, Ethylex® and STA-Lock® paper starches; and staple ingredients such as high fructose corn syrup, sugar, ethanol, citric acid and basic starches. In addition to providing a wide range of ingredients our expert sales and product applications teams support customers by providing technical advice and proprietary consumer insight studies.

Tate & Lyle is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE.L. American Depositary Receipts trade under TATYY. In the year to 31 March 2009, Tate & Lyle employed 5,718 people in its subsidiaries and joint ventures, and sales totalled $6.4 billion (£3.55 billion) ttp://www.tateandlyle.com

Hypnosis Ignites Fast Weight Loss

Because most people are deeply indulged in the same old daily routine, it often leads to the health and appearance being overlooked. Making matters worse, most people cannot tell the difference between good and bad food therefore leaving them with weight gain. Unfortunately this eliminates your chances for fast weight loss.

Most people are enthusiastic about losing weight so they count their calories or follow a stringent diet plan. In search of fast weight loss a lot of us resort to dangerous medicines and surgery. Although some are successful, they need to make some lifestyle changes and learn to change their eating habits.

Although it would be nice to take a pill or have a surgery to end a lifetime of weight, its not that easy. If you are in search of fast weight loss, you should try hypnosis. Hypnosis has been in existence for many years. Hypnosis is an extremely effective tool in helping use their mind and gain control of their bodies.

Accepting that you have a weight problem is the most important step in losing weight. There are a lot of people who live in denial about this issue and expect to one day lose all of their weight magically. You can experience fast weight loss by having your subconscious mind programmed using hypnosis and begin creating the life that you longed for and desire.

If you want to achieve fast weight loss then hypnosis is the most effective way to achieve your goal. Many people underestimate the power that hypnosis has in losing weight and controlling cravings. Hypnosis helps change the way you think about food and your body reacts to your mind.

While in hypnosis, you can be given suggestions to lose your desire for bad foods such as sugar and any other inappropriate food. A suggestion can be given to make water your beverage of choice. You can also be programmed to think fast weight loss is easy, fun and something that your body really enjoys.

Given suggestions while in hypnosis can have a lasting effect and there is no limit as to what can be accomplished through ongoing programming. Suggestions that are not reinforced have a tendency to weaken after four days. To prevent this from happening and experience fast weight loss, reinforce a new behavior on a daily basis. This can be achieved by listening to a hypnosis CD everyday.

When you are in the state of hypnosis, you will experience a deep relaxation. Thirty minutes of hypnosis is equivalent to natural sleep. This makes it easy for your mind to be programmed for fast weight loss even when you are asleep, therefore allowing your mind and body to work together and create the exact body that you dream of.

Listening to hypnosis CD’s daily helps achieve the true success with hypnosis. The desire for inappropriate foods can be eliminated by strengthening your old weak habits with ongoing reinforcement. This process will assist you in achieving fast weight loss and will also give you more willpower, discipline and self control.

Beauty on the Beach: A Centennial Celebration of Swimwear at The Wolfsonian

Postcard c. 1940. Published by Asheville Post Card Co, Asheville, NC. The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, FL, Gift of William Dunlap.

MIAMI BEACH, FL.- From July 10 through October 11, 2009 The Wolfsonian–Florida International University presents Beauty on the Beach: A Centennial Celebration of Swimwear, a retrospective look at swimwear design and Sun Stroke Stimulus, an installation which focuses on contemporary bathing culture. The exhibition and accompanying installation, curated by Marianne Lamonaca, The Wolfsonian’s associate director for curatorial affairs and education, are part of The Wolfsonian’s “Celebrating America” series of exhibitions that explore various aspects of the American experience—social, political, and cultural—from the early 1900s to the present, through a range of viewpoints.
Beauty on the Beach, which presents swimsuits from the early twentieth century to today, engages the viewer to explore how swimwear design and marketing shape and reflect popular ideas about fitness, beauty, and glamour. The exhibition also features original illustration art, advertising, postcards, and promotional materials from The Wolfsonian–FIU collection and other private collections, including rare items from the Jantzen archive in Portland, Oregon.
Among the themes addressed in the exhibition are the swimwear industry’s use of new materials, such as the U.S. Rubber Company’s Lastex yarns, the changing strategies used by advertisers to sell swimwear, from clever advertising slogans and the promotion of beach resorts including Miami Beach and Atlantic City with images of glamorous, swimsuit-clad women to celebrity endorsements. Swimsuits worn by celebrities such as the Olympic swimmer and film star Johnny Weissmuller, Marilyn Monroe, Janet Leigh, and Princess Diana will also be on display.
“During the early years of the twentieth century,” Marianne Lamonaca explains, “the number of people living in cities increased, personal wealth rose, the marketplace expanded and travel and tourism flourished. In response to these changes in culture and society, swimwear designers created new styles and advertisers developed new marketing strategies that reflected attitudes about the health benefits of bathing (for both hygiene and fitness) and the exposure of the body, especially the female body, as well as advances in manufacturing techniques and materials.”
The show explores the beneficial effects of water, known since ancient times, for both health and hygiene. In America in the 1880s and 1890s visits to spas and beaches increased, but the “water experience” was primarily limited to soaking or bathing, rather than swimming. Photographs of bathing beauties from the 1890s depict women in dresses cut below the hip and worn with matching bloomers, stockings, shoes, and caps; their bodies hidden beneath layers of fabric. Swimming as a popular sport began to take hold just before the First World War. But it was the “new woman” of the 1920s, liberated from nineteenth-century Victorian dress and armed with her new found right to vote that flexed her muscles and exposed her body in new ways. The flat, ribbed knit bathing suits developed by Jantzen Knitting Mills in the early 1920s exploited new machine knitting techniques that provided both flexibility and durability, and revealed the arms and contours of the body. Beach towns like Atlantic City capitalized on the newly exposed female figure by using images of bathing beauties to promote visitation. Atlantic City famously hosted the Miss America pageant in which contestants in swimwear posed for judges and onlookers.
The exhibition also traces the history of swimwear design from the early twentieth century to the present with an emphasis on the interrelationship between changing cultural and social mores about the body, health, and beauty, and changing strategies for advertising. One stellar example is Jantzen’s International Set, a fashion line inspired by vernacular designs from across the globe produced between 1956 and 1959. The development of the International Set corresponds to the new-found accessibility to exotic places made possible through commercial jet travel. A number of these elegant swimsuits will be on view along with their supporting promotional materials to address issues of design inspiration and marketing. The Colombia-inspired Cartagena suit is embellished with fine Spanish lace. The Varadero sheath, named for Cuba’s famed beach, is made from Helanca (a highly elastic yarn) that clings tightly to the body revealing the model’s voluptuous contours. The powerful black and white promotional photographs for the International Set also reveal how carefully crafted images were used to promote commercial sales.
The Wolfsonian commissioned New York-based photographer Miles Ladin to create a contemporary portrait of Miami Beach bathing culture to complement the historical images on view in Beauty on the Beach. In the installation, wryly titled Sun Stroke Stimulus, Ladin sees in this series of photographs “both the raw beauty found in bathing culture as well as the aspirational desires presented in the display of flesh. Sun, surf, fabric stretched against a buttocks, cleavage, and biceps are all tactile elements that give our eyes pleasure. The acquisition of the tan, the physique, the lifestyle, is all meant to entice the viewer to desire what they see.”
A selection of Ladin’s provocative images will be on view in the museum’s entrance lobby, free to the public. His fashion photography has been featured in The New York Times Style Section, W magazine, and Harper’s Bazaar. Ladin views his own work as being about human consciousness. “My images,” Ladin reveals, “are also a subjective document of the human condition as it is reflected through contemporary times. I’m interested in man’s foibles and vulnerabilities. I also think that our existence is fraught with humor as well as challenges. Making pictures with intelligence and formal complexity, my desire is to open the viewer’s eyes to society’s excesses as well as the possibility for redemption in unvarnished beauty.”
Ladin has created two limited-edition artist’s books—Lunch Poems and That Various Field: A Salute to James Schulyer. Noted for his critical view of everyday life, Ladin’s work is included in the collections of The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Special Collection Library of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Special Collection Library at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Beauty on the Beach: A Centennial Celebration of Swimwear and Sun Stroke Stimulus are made possible thanks to support from André Balazs. The Wolfsonian–FIU also gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Jantzen Apparel, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Perry Ellis International, Inc., for providing access to and loans from the Jantzen archives.

Chemotherapy Skin Cream Improves Sun-Damaged and Wrinkled Skin

 

The battle against aging and its tell-tale signs is universal, as there is just no escape from this natural human progression. The fight actually begins in a person’s early twenties, although visible signs may not become apparent for years. External aging occurs due to environmental factors including exposure to the rays of the sun. Together, natural aging and sun exposure can ravage the appearance of the skin.
From the application of sunscreen to the use of moisturizing soaps and creams to medical cosmetic procedures, the struggle to reduce the appearance of damaged and aging skin is an ongoing effort by more than a few of us. The newest form of treatment has recently been discovered by researchers from the University of Michigan Medical School. With the topical application of the chemotherapy drug fluorouracil, a significant improvement in the appearance of wrinkles and sun-damaged areas, as well a reduction of potentially precancerous patches, may be achieved.
Used in the treatment of colon, head and neck, pancreas, and other types of cancers, fluorouracil has contributed to noticeable changes in the skin appearance of patients who have received the drug. This prompted the development of a skin cream that containing fluorouracil in hopes of reducing the appearance of unsightly blotches and spots, and preventing the possible development of skin cancer.
To test the new skin cream, Dr. Dana L. Sachs and colleagues conducted a study of 21 healthy volunteers, ages 56 to 85, whose faces had sun-damaged skin and/or potentially cancerous skin lesions known as actinic keratoses. The participants applied the cream containing 5% fluorouracil to their faces twice daily for a two-week period. The results revealed that the average number of actinic keratoses was reduced from 11.6 lesions to 1.5 lesions per person. In addition, improvements were also noted in damage related to aging such as the reduction of wrinkles and liver spots.
Although the skin cream was generally well tolerated, most of the participants found the treatment at least moderately uncomfortable and one person developed severe skin inflammation and had to stop using the skin cream. The cream caused the skin to become red and irritated, making it peel as it worked to eliminate unhealthy skin. In the weeks following, the skin of the participants recovered with softer wrinkles and better texture. Fluorouracil works to reduce the signs of sun damage by increasing the levels of a precursor to collagen, which rebuilds damaged skin.
The twenty remaining participants completed a questionnaire in week ten of the study in which 40 percent reported sun damage to be much improved while 35 percent saw moderate improvement. For wrinkles, 42 percent experienced mild improvement, with 26 percent noting moderate improvement, and 16 percent had much improvement. All of the participants had at least a mild improvement in their skin texture, and overall, 75 percent said they were either moderately and very satisfied with the results.
The majority of the volunteers said they would opt to undergo the treatment again, with 17 out of 19 of them even acknowledging that they would be willing to pay for it. According to the researchers,  the skin cream would be less costly than laser skin resurfacing, however, use of the cream may not achieve the same degree of improvement.
The participants were followed for almost six months, during which time they received skin biopsies and dermatology checkups on a regular basis. In addtion, close-up facial photographs were taken of each participant.
In their report, the researchers wrote, “For patients in whom a course of topical fluorouracil is indicated for the treatment of actinic keratoses, there will likely be the additional benefit of a restorative effect from sun damage.” They concluded, “It is possible that for some patients topical fluorouracil may have an important role against photo-aging…. Undoubtedly, there will be patients who desire a therapy such as topical fluorouracil for cosmetic purposes given the relatively low cost of this therapy compared with ablative laser resurfacing.”

Cosmetic surgery industry expected to boom

Cosmetic surgery industry expected to boom

Ankita | Sep 13 2008

Cosmetic surgery, also known as plastic surgery, is the method of remolding the original physical features to acquire a look that is approved and appreciated by the society. The surgery was earlier recommended for those suffering with major burns or deformities to correct their looks, however, with time people have started using it to enhance their looks the way they want.

According to a new study published by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the predicted number of people going under the knife would be well over 55 millions by 2015. This amounts to approximately one cosmetic surgery for every five Americans, including children. The most favored surgeries for women are breast augmentations, liposuctions and eyelid enhancements while that for men are liposuctions, eyelid enhancements and nose reshaping. In the non surgical category, however, Botox remains the favorite for both the genders.

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Personal Care Products?

Are used everyday whether it is to clean your hair, moisturise your face or to keep yourself healthy and fit. They truly make a difference in everyday living and they are improving year by year.

Examples of Personal Care Products are:

1. Hair Removal products eg to achieve a silky, smooth skin. These come in the form of lotions and creams and are used by both women and men.

2. Hair Thinning Products to address the hair thinning problem eg in aging men. These can be found in the form of shampoo, conditioners, treatment solutions and hair brushes.

3. Skincare creams, lotions, sprays to help reduce frown lines and wrinkles and to give a younger look for aging people.

4. Products to help you relax and ease the tension(s) of everyday stresses.

5. Medicine Products and Multivitamins to help maintain a persons overall health.

6. Everyday shampoos, conditioners, soaps, toothpastes, lotions, creams.

Personal Care Products, available at affordable prices, help you become more beautiful and help you maintain good health.

You can shop for Personal Care Products:

1. at local pharmacies, chemists, drugstores, and supermarkets or grocery stores. You get the benefit of seeing the product before you buy.Sometimes you also get the benefit of a sale.

2. through party plan. This is where you can have a fun evening (or afternoon) with a group of friends , at someones house, looking at a range of products which are demonstrated and displayed by a Representative for the certain brand of product. You may even be able to try before you buy.

3. by mail order brochures. You can shop in the comfort of your own home and the products are delivered to you.

4. online, which some shoppers prefer because they say that the price is more affordable, especially if the store offers a discount on their quality products. There is also a wide range of online sellers and suppliers to choose from to meet your shopping needs.

So determine your need for Personal care products, whether a man or a woman, find a suitable shopping method for you and enjoy a healthy, more beautiful you.

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