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A plastic surgery kit left a woman from the Midwest scarred after her do-it-yourself lip injections went awry. Now, she is forced to spend thousands in hopes doctors can undo the damage.

If you want something done right, you shouldn’t necessarily do it yourself.

Case in point is a woman from the Midwest who injected her lips and face with a silicone product she purchased online. It was a do-it-yourself kit version of a product that her doctor had used to fix her facial scar and cost her all of ten dollars. But the product she injected was actually a personal lubricant rather than official medical-grade silicone.

The woman, who asked that her name be withheld, was thrilled with the results at first. But within a single day, her face became inflamed and blistered.

And now, rather than saving money, she is facing major medical bills to repair the damage. Fixing the problem isn’t only a matter of draining the product but surgically removing the silicone under the skin, resulting in unavoidable scars.

Many of these so-called do-it-yourself at-home cosmetic surgery products have been cited for causing health problems. And the people who buy them often don’t know proper medical techniques, so they risk hurting themselves further.

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WHY? WHY? WHY?

Former supermodel Janice Dickinson (right) gets breast implants that are too large for her body, too high on her chest and too close together.

Actress Lara Flynn Boyle (below) has her lips pumped up so they look like something crawled onto her face.

Country singer Kenny Rogers (bottom photo) gets his face lifted so high that he always looks surprised.

I could go on, but I don’t need to. You can think of many other examples, including Michael Jackson, of course.

But what’s the reason this happens so often, and has for years? Why do celebrities, with all their money and Hollywood connections, end up visiting cosmetic doctors who turn them into parodies of themselves?

It’s a question I discussed with plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Sundine in Wednesday’s regular online “In Your Face CHAT.”

Part of the reason we’re so aware of celebrities’ bad plastic surgery is simply celebrities’ prominence. We notice and remember their mistakes. The wind-tunnel face of Mary Tyler Moore is much more memorable than the weirdly post-surgical face of a woman who passes us in the mall.

We also have intense mental images of what Hollywood stars look like — actually, of what Hollywood stars used to look like in their most memorable films.

By contrast, whenever we encounter family, friends or colleagues in our daily lives, we subconsciously make minute adjustments to our mental images of them as they age. We do the same for our own self-image when we see ourselves in the mirror.

Not so with our mental images of stars. They’re fixed in movie frames and in our minds. Over time we rarely adjust that image, although new movies might add new images to old ones.

As a result, at the supermarket checkout counter we’re shocked by the difference between our fixed mental picture and the tabloid reality of a movie star who has aged, put on weight or had plastic surgery.



The stars themselves not only see the tabloids, but also see their faces and bodies in excruciating detail on 20-foot silver screens. That must do a number on a star’s self-image, creating a strong enticement to fix flaws and amplify good features, even if that’s a risky proposition.

If the movie projector makes your lips appear six feet wide, what’s the harm with a little injection that plumps them out a fraction of an inch? After all, you’re surrounded by fans and toadies who’d never tell you that your lips have started to look like slugs. And you would like to look more like Angelina Jolie, wouldn’t you?

Mother Nature’s gifts are the foundation of celebrities’ appeal, which stars amplify by becoming experts at presenting themselves in the best light. What Mother Nature giveth, Mother Nature taketh away, but stars have a hard time admitting it.

For many normal people, aging is just one more thing to come to terms with.

For stars, aging can threaten their career and destroy an exquisite self-image they’ve enjoyed since childhood. No wonder they take risks to try to preserve what can’t be preserved.



Would Kenny Rogers be happier if he were more wrinkly? He doesn’t say that, even though he admits that he hated the results of plastic surgery. But he adds, “As that stuff settles in it looks better and better. If I don’t die soon it’ll look great,” he said.

Breasts and doctors are other factors that lead celebrities to bad plastic surgery.

“If you look at bad celebrity photos, the breasts are almost always overdone,” Sundine said. “This is the biggest problem.”

Dickinson, for example, runs a modeling agency and was a supermodel, so she should know what looks good. But Sundine sees a series of mistakes.

“These breast implants are way too large,” he said of her. They’re also “extremely high, and too close to the mid-line.”

Dickinson may not have chosen the placement of her implants, but she did choose the size. She knew what she was doing, even though it strikes many people as a botched job. She knows about the appeal of breasts.

Subtly or overtly, men encourage women to opt for large breasts if they’re considering implants.

In an unscientific survey of readers of the O.C. Register’s “In Your Face” blog, 85 percent of women said men are attracted to women whose breasts have been enlarged with implants.

But men aren’t the only breast fans. Cosmopolitan magazine uses cleavage to attract female buyers.

I’ve often heard from plastic surgeons that their patients’ most frequent regret is getting implants that are too small.

The proper size for implants isn’t just a woman’s whim, but also a medical determination based on the size of the patient’s chest and breasts, Sundine said.

Yet “sometimes the surgeon might listen to the patient’s desires too much without looking at the limitations of the surgery,” he said. “Bigger isn’t always better.

“Frequently with oversized implants, patients don’t understand,” he said, that “over time the weight of the implants will pull the breast down.”

A doctor confronted with a celebrity might have a tougher time saying no than with a non-celebrity patient, but I still consider celebrities to be responsible for their own blunders.

Sundine, though, places more blame on cosmetic doctors.

“They don’t say no,” he said. “That is the problem.”

Photo of Janice Dickinson courtesy of Dr. Michael Sundine. Photos of Lara Flynn Boyle courtesy of FamousPlastic.com. Photo of Kenny Rogers from AP.

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Cynthia Rowland - Anti Aging Specialist & Beauty Consultant
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Double chins, softening jowls and pouches near your mouth indicate that your face is showing visible signs of aging and these areas will not improve unless you are willing to take control of the aging process.

Chances are if you are over the age of 35, you are beginning to notice slight sagging in certain areas of your face and neck; this probably has caused you to think about the remedies that are available to keep you looking younger.

Using injections is an option; however, injections are temporary, they cost a lot of money, the needles and serum inflict pain and they only work in a limited way. Plumping up nose to mouth lines when your chin is sagging or using muscle paralyzing toxins in your forehead when your eye lids are heavy is a complete waste of your resources.

Surgery can certainly hike up those eyebrows and provide the ever popular wind-tunnel look when loose skin is swept upward toward the ear. Never mind that dispensing with thousands of dollars, putting yourself at risk for complications and infection and settling for results that are less than perfect – surgery can certainly change your appearance. Surgery, too, is temporary because we continue to age. And, repeated surgeries can easily make one look freakish and unnatural.

The above options cannot compete with exercise.

Oh sure, the advertising agencies stake their reputations on brainwashing the consumer to make them believe that one can only look younger and prettier by enlisting the aid of a plastic surgeon who is willing to cut into perfectly healthy tissue in hopes that you will like the results.

Or that by making an appointment for injections of cadaver materials and toxins will somehow magically transform your tired, lined face into one ten years younger.

No matter that these injections can create additional wrinkles when the face is made to act unnaturally or that you might have adverse long-term reactions.

Exercise is natural and that means that your body stays safe. Using only your fingers and thumbs while wearing white cotton gloves, specialized movements can easily give sagging facial muscles new life and vitality. Just as you use exercise to keep your body sleek and toned, you can exercise your facial muscles.

Learning to artfully and successfully alter the shape and contour of your face when it is currently misshapen and spongy requires that you exercise only minutes a day. In the privacy of your home, you can take control of the aging process and make yourself look younger!
Sagging in the face, just like sagging in the body, is a result of muscle atrophy. Muscle atrophy is a result of disuse of the muscles; even though you have laughed, smiled, grimaced and frowned, these movements do not stop the muscles from elongation. Gravity continually tugs at all our muscles – we see the result in our arms, thighs and buttocks; and, we see it in our faces. In fact, by the time our age is 55, the muscles in the face will have elongated about one-half inch.

When droopiness continues to affect your face, you will look older. Exercise that uses resistance with isometric contraction will stop the cause of sagging in the face and the look of youthfulness will return in just a few short weeks. Sagging cheeks will lift, the forehead will tighten, upper eyes will look vibrant and that double chin and wattle will be toned and lifted. Every area of your face and neck will experience the benefit of these remarkable exercise movements.

Imagine looking at least 10-15 years younger without surgery, drugs or risk. Just like exercise works to maintain the body's youthfulness, facial exercise will help you look and feel years younger.

Cynthia Rowland is widely recognized as an expert in all natural facial fitness with over thirty years experience in health & beauty related fields. She has appeared on The View, NBC 4, Fit TV, HGTV and other popular shows. This author, speaker and television personality is leading the crusade to keep men and women looking vibrantly younger through natural techniques without spending their children’s inheritance.

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I was in Florida for seminars and met Paul Allen, publisher of NuYou Magazine, and his lovely wife, Tracy. They attended an Innisbrook workshop where I got to work “magic” on Tracy’s face. She was delighted with her results and just could hardly believe her eyes when her jowls lifted.

Here is what Paul wrote in the August 2009 edition of NuYou: Good-Bye Facial Wrinkles!

Last month I went to a seminar that was put on by Ms. Cynthia Rowland who is a pioneer in the field of “facial fitness”. Cynthia believes that exercise will tighten the muscles in your arms, belly, chest, buttocks and thighs …. she also says that facial muscles are no different! When you think about it, she’s 100% correct. Why wouldn’t muscles located in your face do the same thing that other muscles in your body do?

Cynthia teaches a system that features eighteen different exercises that will tighten and lift your cheeks, jowls, eyelids, forehead and neck muscles. They are easy to do and a fantastic alternative to plastic surgery or botox injection. Cynthia represents “Facial Magic” and they sell a line of merchandise that includes: Daily Lift, Deep Cleansing Gel, Daytime Skin Nutrition, Overnight Sensation, Under-Eye Nourisher and a Lip Pumper that is something to see!

If you would like more information check out www.FacialMagic.com and see everything Cynthia has to offer!

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Control weight and boost energy with hour-by-hour tips.

By Lauren Gelman, Prevention

Raise your hand if you wish a nutritionist would tell you exactly what to eat and when to look and feel great all day long. Yeah, we thought so—that’s why we tapped three experts who counsel real women on the simple secrets of smarter meal planning.

Here’s what they told us:

1) Have a meal or small snack every 3 to 4 hours. This fuels your metabolism and helps prevent binges and blood sugar crashes.

2) Combine protein (meat, fish, beans, nuts, eggs, dairy) and fiber (whole grains, fruits, vegetables) at every meal. When eaten together, these foods take longer to digest than simpler carbohydrates, so you stay fuller, longer.

3) Get up, move around, and drink water often. This daily meal plan has a wide range of calories (from about 1,550 to 2,100); if you’re active you can go toward the higher end of the range. (Use our calorie counter to see how many you need based on your age, weight, and activity level).

Finally, remember that even the “perfect day” isn’t perfect if you eat the same thing over and over again. Use the principles outlined here to mix and match your own delicious, healthy meals.

6:30 to 7 a.m.: Wake up with water

“Before you put coffee, tea, or food into your body, it’s best to first break your fast with a glass of water with lemon,” says Ashley Koff, R.D., a nutritionist in Los Angeles and founder of ashleykoffapproved.com. When you sleep, Koff says, your body isn’t just abstaining from food, but from water, too. “Because many vitamins are water-soluble, having a glass before you eat will help your body better absorb nutrients from food.” The acidity of the lemon helps rebalance your digestive tract by making it alkaline, allowing “good” bacteria in your intestines to thrive and facilitate optimal nutrient absorption.

7 a.m.: Short walk

This is your ideal fat-burning window, says Koff. A light bout of cardio soon after you wake up and before you eat—a 20-minute walk with the dog, jumping jacks, or running up and down stairs in your home, etc.—taps into your body’s energy reserves. “I don’t mean a 2-hour hike or an intense 45-minute spin class on an empty stomach,” she says. The idea is to fit in some easy activity and try to eat within an hour or so of waking up.

7:30 a.m.: Breakfast

All of our experts loved oatmeal for breakfast. Have one-half cup of uncooked oats or a packet of instant. “Your body digests the fiber slowly, so you stay full for a couple of hours,” says Brooke Alpert, M.S., R.D., founder of B Nutritious, a private nutrition counseling practice in New York City. For protein, add a glass of fat-free milk, yogurt, or a hard-boiled egg. Or stir some nuts (almonds or walnuts) into your oats. For fruit, Alpert recommends one-half cup of mixed berries for vitamins and antioxidants and more fiber. You can also pour a small glass of OJ, which has nutrients like vitamin C, folate, and potassium.

Bonus tip: Whatever you do, don’t just sip coffee all morning and wait to eat until lunch, says Alpert. “You’ll be so hungry, you won’t make healthy choices.”

Calorie Count: 300 to 400 calories.

9 a.m.: Water

You know you’re supposed to have multiple glasses a day. But it’s better to sip a little water all day long instead of chugging a giant glass when you suddenly feel parched. “If your tongue feels dry to the touch or your pee is bright yellow, you’re dehydrated,” says Alpert.

10 a.m.: Stretch and walk

Get up, stretch, and stroll every hour to hour-and-a-half, says Heidi Skolnik, MS, a nutritionist at the Women’s Sports Medicine Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Walk to a coworker’s cube instead of shooting off an e-mail or take the internal stairs when you head to another floor in your office.

10:30 to 11 a.m.: Small snack

Eat every 3 to 4 hours to keep energy up and avoid big mealtime binges. For fiber and protein, try an apple with a string cheese or a handful of nuts (especially if you didn’t have them at breakfast). “Everyone should have an apple in her desk drawer,” says Alpert. “They’re the perfect take-along snack—they don’t bruise in your purse and they’re easy to eat anywhere.” Or try yogurt (Koff likes the nonfat Greek kind) with some berries.

Bonus tip: Sit whenever you eat, says Koff. Take small bites and try to drag out your snack for as long as possible (ideally 10 to 15 minutes). Research shows the more chewing you do, the more nutrients your body absorbs.

Calorie Count: 150 to 300 calories

11:30 a.m.: to Noon: Water, vitamin, and a walk

Finish your glass, refill it, and swallow your multivitamin. “I recommend clients take their multi shortly before lunch because the B vitamins and certain minerals help your body utilize carbs so you have more post-meal energy,” says Koff. Then get up and stretch at your desk. These moves also help keep energy up, so you’re not tempted to snack out of boredom or fatigue. Plus, some movement before lunch jump-starts your digestive system, Koff says.

1 to 1:30 p.m.: Lunch

Build yourself a rainbow salad, says Alpert. Start with dark, leafy greens and pile them high with a mix of colorful veggies, protein, and good-for-you fats. Try tomatoes, carrots, peppers, and mushrooms for a healthy mix of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Add 1/4 cup of avocado for healthy, monounsaturated fat, and ½ cup of protein, like tuna fish, grilled chicken, turkey, beans, or lentils. “Get adventurous with different veggies every day,” Alpert says. “The more color and variety, the better.” All of the nutritionists gave the okay on dressing, but don’t drown your salad in it, and choose a light version or an olive oil–based one. “You want some fat in your salad because it helps your body digest fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, E, and K,” says Skolnick. Wash your meal down with water.

Bonus tip: If you want, have a slice of whole grain bread on the side. “People love bread,” says Alpert. “If you’ll feel deprived without it, I’d rather you have the 100 or so calories here than risk going overboard later.”

Calorie count: 400 to 500 calories.

2 p.m.: Water and a walk

Doing this now will help you make a sensible choice when those 4 o’clock cravings strike. “Get outside if you can, especially if you didn’t go out for lunch,” says Koff. “The fresh air and sunshine will boost your spirits and stop you from overeating because of a bad mood.”

3:30 to p.m.: Afternoon snack

Welcome to the witching hour: Almost everyone needs to snack between lunch and dinner, says Alpert. For a fiber-protein mix, try a 6-ounce yogurt (the natural milk sugars help with sweet cravings) and a handful of high-fiber cereal. Have a banana with a tablespoon of peanut or almond butter. “Or pick something fun,” says Koff, like an ounce of dark chocolate (70% cacao). It’s packed with polyphenols, a type of antioxidant shown to help lower blood pressure, keep your brain sharp, and more.

Bonus tip: Let your appetite be your guide here—you may not need the same type of snack every day. If you had a big lunch, you may only need a small nibble. If you plan to hit the gym after work, you may want to eat more or save some of your snack until closer to your workout (an hour or so beforehand).

Calorie count: 150 to 250 calories.

6 to 7 p.m.: Walk or work out

If you didn’t walk in the morning, now is a good time to squeeze in some exercise. “When you’re home waiting before dinner is when the munchies happen,” says Alpert. She recommends some kind of regular predinner activity to all her clients, whether it’s just circling your block a couple of times or going to the gym. “When you have something scheduled, you’re less likely to float in and out of the kitchen.” It’s also a smart to try to include walking in your commute. If you drive to work, pick a far-away parking spot, says Alpert. If you take a train or bus, hop off a stop earlier than your usual and hoof it the rest of the way.

7:30 p.m.: Dinner

Start this meal off with soup, recommend our experts. Studies show that people who do end up eating less overall. Have a cup of a low-fat broth-based kind, like minestrone, miso, or gazpacho. For the main meal, “I’d like to see a nice portion, 3 or 4 ounces, of grilled wild salmon because it has lean protein and provides healthy omega-3 fats,” says Alpert. Add cooked vegetables like sautéed broccoli or spinach and 1/2 cup of brown rice.

For a nonfish option, try turkey meatballs (roll in some whole oats for extra fiber and spices for antioxidants) over a bed of spaghetti squash, which has the texture of pasta but counts as a veggie serving. Use 1/2 cup of tomato sauce, and sprinkle a handful of pine nuts on top for extracrunchy texture. Have water with dinner, ideally, but a small (4 ounce) glass of wine is fine from time to time, our nutritionists concurred.

Bonus tip: Stick to proper portions, especially when it comes to your proteins and carbs. For a realistic perspective, try our portion control quiz.

Calorie count: 400 to 500 calories.

9:30 p.m.: Dessert

Wait an hour or so after dinner for a before-bed snack. You don’t have to strictly follow the fiber-protein rule, but it should be more than just empty calories. A few options: A tablespoon of chocolate drizzled over 1/2 cup of berries, apple slices with honey, or coconut water or orange juice ice pops.

Calorie count: 100 to 150 calories.

10:30 to 11 p.m.: Head to bed

Aim for 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night. If you get less than that, and you up your risk for a host of health problems, including weight gain, diabetes, high blood pressure, and more, not to mention the odds that you’ll feel more tired, frazzled, and likely to overeat the next day. Drink another glass of water shortly before bed, and give yourself plenty of time to wind down with a calming routine, such as a bath or reading in bed. For more tips to get a good night’s sleep, check out our 100 Ways to Sleep tool.

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1. GET THE NUTRITION YOU NEED & ENJOY TASTIER FOOD!
Many studies have shown that organically grown food has more minerals and nutrients that we need than food grown with synthetic pesticides. There’s a good reason why many chefs use organic foods in their recipes—they taste better. Organic farming starts with the nourishment of the soil, which eventually leads to the nourishment of the plant and, ultimately our bodies.

2. SAVE MONEY
Growing your own food can help cut the cost of the grocery bill. Instead of spending hundreds of dollars and month at the grocery store on foods that don’t really nourish you, spend time in the garden, outside, exercising, learning to grow your own food.

3. PROTECT FUTURE GENERATIONS
The average child receives four times more exposure than an adult to at least eight widely used cancer-causing pesticides in food. Food choices you make now will impact your child’s future health.

“We have not inherited the Earth from our fathers,
we are borrowing it from our children.”
– Lester Brown

4. PREVENT SOIL EROSION
The Soil Conservation Service estimates more than 3 billion tons of topsoil are eroded from the United States’ croplands each year. That means soil erodes seven times faster than it’s built up naturally. Soil is the foundation of the food chain in organic farming. However, in conventional farming, the soil is used more as a medium for holding plants in a vertical position so they can be chemically fertilized. As a result, American farms are suffering from the worst soil erosion in history.

5. PROTECT WATER QUALITY
Water makes up two-thirds of our body mass and covers three-fourths of the planet. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates pesticides - some cancer causing - contaminate the groundwater in 38 states, polluting the primary source of drinking water for more than half the country’s population.

6. SAVE ENERGY
American farms have changed drastically in the last three generations, from family-based small businesses dependent on human energy to large-scale factory farms. Modern farming uses more petroleum than any other single industry, consuming 12 percent of the country’s totally energy supply. More energy is now used to produce synthetic fertilizers than to till, cultivate and harvest all the crops in the United States. If you are growing your own food in the city, you are cutting down on transportation and pollution costs.

7. KEEP CHEMICALS OFF YOUR PLATE
Many pesticides approved for use by the EPA were registered long before extensive research linking these chemicals to cancer and other diseases had been established. Now the EPA considers 60 percent of all herbicides, 90 percent of all fungicides and 30 percent of all insecticides carcinogenic. A 1987 National Academy of Sciences report estimated that pesticides might cause an extra 4 million cancer cases among Americans. If you are growing your own food, you have control over what does, or doesn’t, go into it. The bottom line is that pesticides are poisons designed to kill living organisms and can also harm humans. In addition to cancer, pesticides are implicated in birth defects, nerve damage and genetic mutations.

8. PROTECT FARM WORKERS & HELP SMALL FARMERS
A National Cancer Institute study found that farmers exposed to herbicides had six times more risk than non-farmers of contracting cancer. In California, reported pesticide poisonings among farm workers have risen an average of 14 percent a year since 1973 and doubled between 1975 and 1985. Field workers suffer the highest rates of occupational illness in the state. Farm worker health is also a serious problem in developing nations, where pesticide use can be poorly regulated. An estimated 1 million people are poisoned annually by pesticides.

Although more and more large-scale farms are making the conversion to organic practices, most organic farms are small, independently owned family farms of fewer than 100 acres. It’s estimated the United States has lost more than 650,000 family farms in the past decade. And the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicted that half of this country’s farm production will come from 1 percent of farms by the year 2000, organic farming could be one of the few survival tactics left for family farms.

9. PROMOTE BIODIVERSITY
Mono-cropping is the practice of planting large plots of land with the same crop year after year. While this approach tripled farm production between 1950 and 1970, the lack of natural diversity of plant life has left the soil lacking in natural minerals and nutrients. To replace the nutrients, chemical fertilizers are used, often in increasing amounts. Single crops are also much more susceptible to pests, making farmers more reliant on pesticides. Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974, crop losses due to insects have doubled—partly because some insects have become genetically resistant to certain pesticides.

10. HELP BEAUTIFY YOUR COMMUNITY
Besides being used to grow food, community gardens are also a great way to beautify a community, and to bring pride in ownership.

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Most people don’t think they need to worry about dehydration. To them, dehydration is something that happens to travelers in the desert when they run out of water. But there is a chronic form of dehydration that does not have the sudden and intense nature of the acute form. Chronic dehydration is widespread in the present day and affects everyone who is not drinking enough liquid.

This list of 13 symptoms will inspire you to go get a glass of water, and then another, and another … (After each symptom we will show how lack of fluid affects the issue.)

1. Fatigue, Energy Loss:

Dehydration of the tissues causes enzymatic activity to slow down.

2. Constipation:

When chewed food enters the colon, it contains too much liquid to allow stools to form properly, and the wall of the colon reduces it. In chronic dehydration, the colon takes too much water to give to other parts of the body.

3. Digestive Disorders:

In chronic dehydration, the secretion of digestive juices are less.

4. High and Low Blood Pressure:

The body’s blood volume is not enough to completely fill the entire set of arteries, veins, and capillaries.

5. Gastritis, Stomach Ulcers:

To protect its mucous membranes from being destroyed by the acidic digestive fluid it produces, the stomach secretes a layer of mucus.

6. Respiratory Troubles:

The mucous membranes of the respiratory region are slightly moist to protect the respiratory tract from substances that might be present in inhaled air.

7. Acid-Alkaline Imbalance:

Dehydration activates an enzymatic slowdown producing acidification.

8. Excess Weight and Obesity:

We may overeat because we crave foods rich in water. Thirst is often confused with hunger.

9. Eczema:

Your body needs enough moisture to sweat 20 to 24 ounces of water, the amount necessary to dilute toxins so they do not irritate the skin.

10. Cholesterol:

When dehydration causes too much liquid to be removed from inside the cells, the body tries to stop this loss by producing more cholesterol.

11. Cystitis, Urinary Infections:

If toxins contained in urine are insufficiently diluted, they attack the urinary mucous membranes.

12. Rheumatism:

Dehydration abnormally increases the concentration of toxins in the blood and cellular fluids, and the pains increase in proportion to the concentration of the toxins.

13. Premature Aging:

The body of a newborn child is composed of 80 percent liquid, but this percentage declines to no more than 70 percent in an adult and continues to decline with age.

Source: www.care2.com

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By Elizabeth Cohen
CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
St. John’s wort can cause serious side effects
Doctor: More than 5 grams of fish oil supplement per day is too much
Tell your surgeon absolutely every natural remedy you’re taking
Read your supplement labels carefully


(CNN) — Carole Grant doesn’t really trust medical doctors. She never has. Whenever she has had a health issue, she has headed straight for an herbalist, acupuncturist or other “natural” healer.

A few years ago, her alternative practitioner of choice was a self-described “intuitive healer” in New York, where she lives. The healer put Grant on a regimen of herbs, supplements and vitamins to help her lose weight.

A few weeks later, Grant, a geriatric care manager, was closing up an apartment for an elderly client who’d died when she started feeling strange sensations in her toes.

“They were tingling like crazy,” Grant said. “I thought it was the carpet in the apartment, because it was old and dirty, and I’d taken my shoes off.”

When the tingling in her toes spread to her feet, Grant knew that it was more than just the dingy carpet. When it spread to her legs, she knew that she was really in trouble.

“Both legs went numb up to my knees,” she remembers.

Grant sought help from a podiatrist, who insisted that she get care from a medical doctor. Grant chose Dr. Roberta Lee, vice chairwoman of the Department of Integrative Medicine at the Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. Watch more herbal and vitamin supplement No-Nos »

After some testing, Lee discovered the reason for Grant’s numbness: She had sky-high amounts of vitamin B6 in her blood, which can interfere with circulation.

“The intuitive healer had told me to double my dose of vitamin B6,” Grant said. “She never told me when to stop the double dose, and I never checked with her.”

It turned out the healer was having Grant take about 100 times the normal dose of B6, according to Lee. The healer had intended for Grant to take this high dose for a few weeks. Instead, she took it for more than four months.

“It blew my mind to think this could happen to someone like me,” Grant said. “I’m so careful. I’ll use every natural modality I can before taking medicine.”

Lee says that although it’s unusual, she’s seen other patients get into trouble with herbs, supplements and vitamins precisely because they’re less cautious with something that’s natural than they would be with a drug.

“A lot of people think herbs are safe because they come from nature, and they are safe if used properly,” Lee said. “But you can still get into trouble with them.”

“I don’t think any herb is good or bad. It’s how we use it,” said Dr. Brent Bauer, director of the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program at the Mayo Clinic. “Sometimes people take too much. They think, if two is good, then 20 must be better.”

Here’s a list of herbs and supplements that can be dangerous if taken the wrong way: either in high doses, in combination with certain drugs or before surgery.

1. St. John’s wort

This herb, often taken to relieve depression, is always at the top of the list of potentially problematic natural remedies because it can cause serious side effects and increase or decrease the potency of many medications. The Mayo Clinic recommends that many people should avoid it, including those taking antidepressants, anti-blood-clotting drugs, certain asthma drugs, immune-suppressing medications or steroids.

2. Kava

A sedative herb, kava is associated with serious liver problems, even when taken for a very short time, according to the Mayo Clinic. It’s especially risky if you’re taking drugs to lower cholesterol.

3. Fish oil

Though it’s a very safe supplement to increase your intake of heart-healthy fat, Lee says she’s seen patients have excessive bleeding when taking high doses of fish oil. “It’s not life-threatening, but for example, I’ve seen where people are taking too much fish oil, and they’ll have prolonged bleeding from acupuncture needles.”

How much fish oil is too much? More than 5 grams — or 5,000 milligrams — a day, according to Bauer.

4. Artemisinin

Last week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, put out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, details the case of a man who developed hepatitis after taking the herb artemisinin for stomach problems. There was no other reason for his hepatitis, and the disease went away when he stopped taking the herb, and the authors suggested that doctors be aware of a possible relationship between the artemisinin and hepatitis.

5. Various herbs when taken before surgery

Dr. David Rowe, a plastic surgeon, was operating on a patient when he noticed an unusual amount of bleeding.

“The tissue was just oozing, and we couldn’t figure out why,” he remembered, noting that the patient had told him he wasn’t taking any supplements. “After the surgery I asked the patient, ‘Are you sure you’re not taking anything?’ and he said, ‘Oh, yes, I’m taking this, this and this.’ ”

In a paper published this year in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, Rowe listed about a dozen herbs that should be avoided within two weeks of surgery, including common ones such as garlic, ginseng and echinacea. Some increase bleeding and some affect the heart, and others interfere with anesthesia or other drugs.

It’s imperative that you tell your surgeon absolutely every natural remedy you’re taking, says Rowe, an assistant professor of plastic surgery at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. Studies have shown that 60 to 70 percent of patients don’t tell their physicians about supplements.

He tells his patients to read their supplement labels carefully.

“One supplement can have 10 or 15 things in it, so you may not know what you’re on, which is really scary for us surgeons,” he said.

As for Grant, she’s still feeling tingling and numbness in her legs and feet even three years later.

“I still need to lose weight, but I’m not taking any supplements,” she said. “I’m just too gun-shy at this point.”

For more information about herbs, vitamins and supplements, visit the Web sites for the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and the Alternative Medicine Foundation.

CNN’s Sabriya Rice contributed to this report.

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Stress shows on faces. Sometimes it can look like a frown and sometimes stress makes us look tired, drawn, mad and upset. One thing for certain, when you allow stress to continually affect your face, you are destined for down-turned mouth corners and a perpetual scowl.

If you have been asked, "Are you mad at me?" or "Did I say something that upset you?" you know that your face is blatantly wearing your emotions because your smile has turned upside down.

You can easily remedy your facial appearance with facial exercise.

Skeptical? Probably.

As you sit at your computer take notice of your face posture.

Are you allowing concentration furrows to develop between your eyebrows? Does your mouth feel slack? Do your eyebrows feel heavy?

Aging faces soften because the muscles require certain movements to keep them taut. Conversation, singing, and laughing can help release tension but unfortunately droopy features will begin to become apparent as you advance in years. Couple that with tension from life's stresses and all of a sudden your face can look misshapen.

The old adage, "your face will stay that way" can become true. How we mold and hold our faces over a span of years and years attributes to the look that causes us to despair.

There is no reason to feel hopeless about your face. We want to look our best and we want to feel sensational about ourselves but sometimes we let stress, lines and a sagging face destroy our confidence. All this can be remedied when you spend just a few minutes a day being proactive with simple exercise movements.

Working from the inside to out your face can change from old, matronly even elderly to look brighter, firmer and certainly less stressed.

How does this happen? Exercise produces oxygenated blood to the muscles, the tissues and skin. This fortifies your face with circulation that pumps up the muscles and revitalizes the shape and contour of your features.

In addition to frown lines between the brows, a deeply lined forehead, a down turned mouth and maybe grooves, pouches, folds or jowls, and sagging muscles, facial exercise helps every area of your face and neck.

Facial exercise can help change the way you think and feel about your appearance. Using a dynamic approach produces a certain satisfaction that you are the master of your fate (face) and that you need not spend large amounts of money or endure certain risks to improve your appearance.

Using your thumbs, fingers and white cotton gloves one can easily begin to turn back the look of an aging face. Putting forth the effort works from the inside out. Learning then using isometric techniques involves anchoring, tensing and releasing the facial muscles. This action creates increased circulation so that your muscles and skin benefit from the oxygenated blood.

The stress and tension you feel and see in your face may be a career liability. So why not begin a facial exercise routine as a career investment so that stress and tension are alleviated in an all natural way. This means your face will no longer appear rigid and stiff.

The process is easy, it takes only a few minutes and in just days, you will see how the stress that plagues your face melts away. You will look healthier, happier and even younger as you retrain those tiny muscles hidden beneath your skin.

Cynthia Rowland is widely recognized as an expert in all natural facial fitness with over thirty years experience in health & beauty related fields. She has appeared on The View, Fit TV, HGTV and other popular shows. This author, speaker and television personality is leading the crusade to keep men and women looking vibrantly younger through natural techniques without spending their children’s inheritance. Cynthia Rowland "I Save Faces" http://www.rejenuve.com/FacialMagicSL.htm
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While our modern beauty regimens certainly don’t lack weird ingredients, by tradition our good looks have often been achieved at the cost of good taste and health. What deadly and disgusting things have people used to stay young and pretty? Here are a few of the truly disturbing used throughout history.

1. Bathing in Crocodile Excrement

For some reason, the ancient Greeks thought crocodile excrement had restorative and beautifying properties. It was mixed into natural mud holes or baths full of warmed mud, and Grecian lovelies hung about in it until they felt restored and beautiful (I’m guessing that took quite a while.) We don’t know how they collected it (or why they decided it was a good idea in the first place) but it was all the rage in the wealthy and youth-seeking circles. Thankfully, bathing with water was also in vogue and there are no official reports of reptile-poo poisoning.

2. Sticking Bird Droppings Up Your Nose

In the early days of the geisha, Japanese women used a whitening paste on their faces made mostly of rice flour and bird droppings. It was applied over the entire face, including the ears, inside the nostrils, on the eyelids and lips.

3. Dyeing Hair With Cow’s Blood

Hair dye has long been a staple of modern women, but ancient Iranian women also enjoyed a good dye-job. They compounded a nasty mix of henna, tadpoles, and the blood of black cows, which they applied liberally to darken and condition their hair. It was thought that the blood gave the cows their dark coloring and would do the same for human hair. Although henna is used as a natural dye to this day, the inclusion of tadpoles still confounds me.

4. Wearing Wigs That Caused Nosebleeds

The women of England have been famous throughout history for their elaborate and strange beauty routines. In the era of Queen Elizabeth, when red hair was in fashion, women used a powder made of sulfur and safflower petals to color their hair and wigs. The blend caused headaches, nausea, and frequent nosebleeds.

5. Wearing Poisonous Eye Makeup

When it comes to heavy metal poisoning, no one trumps the ancient Egyptians. Men and women painted their eyes almost daily with a mixture called mesdemet, made from a dark gray lead, among other things. Also, a green paint called udju was used, made from a copper ore. Although neither product could be considered healthy, the eyepaint that Egyptians wore is credited with repelling insects and preventing infections due to the high antimicrobial activity of copper ore.

6. Liberally Applying Arsenic Powder

In a medieval version of today’s CoverGirl compact, European women used a powder (pressed into cakes or small jars) to whiten their skin. The fashionable pallor was created by using white lead ore and arsenic, among other unhealthy-but-white ingredients.

7. Gargling With (Portuguese) Urine

Dental care was a little lax throughout most of history, but Romans in the time of Jupiter appreciated white teeth nearly as much as we do today. To improve the color of their teeth and freshen their breath, Romans imported Portuguese urine (believed to be stronger than their own) to rinse their mouths. While obviously unpleasant, urine contains several compounds like ammonia and urea that actually kill germs and help fight the gum disease gingivitis.

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I found an article written by Simon Crompton, UK, where he coined several new word descriptions that describe certain plastic surgery procedures gone awry. I wanted to share the new vocabulary with you.


Just when you thought it was safe to indulge your whimsical fantasies of a younger looking face using the latest and greatest plastic surgery techniques, you discover the tell-tale signs of injections and surgery to be blatant indicators of the ugly truth: these procedures can disfigure you and leave ugly reminders like scars, pits, unnatural lumps and bumps.

The injecting and over-injecting along with surgical missteps have caused a new vocabulary to evolve. Simon Crompton, a health journalist for 20 years, writer and editor, who has earned many acclaims, recently introduced the following maladies in his article The Real Perils of Plastic Surgery at Timesonline.uk:

Bat brow

An injection of Botox in the correct forehead muscles makes them pull up drooping brows and eyelids. Hit the wrong muscle, though, and it pulls the brow down. Putting too much Botox in can give you a startled look, known as “bat brow”, distinguished by permanently raised outer eyebrows, not unlike those displayed by Mr Spock. Fortunately, Botox wears off so the effect is usually temporary.

Ping Pong Face

There are around 140 injectable wrinkle fillers available in the UK and none of them are subject to the scrupulous testing required of medicines. Most are temporary, based on natural substances such as hyaluronic acid, that are reabsorbed by the body if something goes wrong. But there are also permanent fillers containing long-lasting synthetic substances, which can harden, cause obtrusive lumps and even move around. This week, 49-year-old Lea Martin spoke of how she had been left with an irremovable “lump the size of a ping pong ball in one cheek” after the injection of a permanent filler. Injecting too much filler can also result in over-inflation of the skin, known as “pillow face”.

Trout pout

Because of the actress Leslie Ash, trout pout is probably the best-known cosmetic catastrophe; Donatella Versace and Pete Burns have also had it. Most cases of overenthusiastic lip plumping are temporary because natural substances such as collagen are injected. These slowly disappear from the lips into the body. The real and permanent problems occur when synthetic substances such as tiny plastic beads are injected, causing scar tissue to grow around them and becoming almost impossible to remove without scarring the face.

Rock in a sock

“Encapsulation” is the most common complication of breast enhancement surgery, occurring in about 10 per cent of cases. The body does not react well to an unnatural implant — it will try to reject it by becoming inflamed and then forming scar tissue around it, so the area around the implant becomes hardened. The problem can be especially bad in women who have had children and the breast is sagging. The implant pulls the breast down farther, and the hardened implant resembles a rock in a sock.

Skewiff eyelid

Hollywood celebs love an eye-lift, designed to tighten baggy lids above and below the eye. But surgeons admit that it is tricky. If the cut eyelid is repositioned incorrectly, it can turn slightly outwards and the eye becomes prone to running. Alternatively, the lid can become too tight if too much skin or fat is removed during the operation. Correction can involve inserting implants to stretch the skin.

Turkey tummy

Removing too much fat with liposuction, or removing it too close to the surface of the skin, can leave the patient with dimples, irregularities, ripples and saggy skin. Many people who have lipo are not good candidates in the first place because they have too much abdominal skin — removing underlying fat only makes it sag more, leaving the midriff resembling a turkey’s neck. “Smart lipo”, which uses lasers to melt fat, reduces the problem by simultaneously tightening skin — to a limited extent.

Polly beak nose

Badly performed nose jobs can result in unwanted lumps where the cut surface of bone or cartilage pushes against the skin. One of the most common deformities after rhinoplasty is called polly beak — as in parrot nose. It occurs when the surgeon, in repositioning the nasal cartilage, leaves too much at the tip of the nose, and a break occurs between the cartilage and the bridge of the nose — making it look hooked.

Mr. Crompton has nailed the pitfalls as he discloses that a group of disfigured cosmetic procedure victims have launched a campaign in the UK to better regulate the cosmetic treatment industry. These women hope others who have experienced botched procedures will step forward to join them.

Anti-aging serums, toxins and chemicals, eyelid surgery, breast augmentation and liposuction are a partial menu of services that have been financially rewarding for medical practitioners for many years. It is time for them to be held accountable so that we can remove Revision Surgery, a by-product of botched procedures, from our vocabulary.

Funny thing though…the procedures, whether injections or surgeries are risky at best. Just remember, things can go wrong very quickly.

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By JoNel Aleccia

At last, good news for anyone who ever despaired of fitting into skinny jeans: Thin thighs might actually kill you. Or at least put a strain on your heart.

That’s the word from Danish researchers who studied more than 2,800 middle-aged people for up to a dozen years, only to find that those with the slimmest thighs had the highest chance of heart disease and premature death.

“There was up to a double risk for the people with the smallest thighs,” said Dr. Berit L. Heitmann, a director of research at Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark. “It’s quite substantial.”

People whose thighs measured less than 60 centimeters, or about 23.6 inches in circumference, were in trouble. And those with stick-thin gams (less than 18 inches around) were at the greatest risk, according to new study in the online version of the British Medical Journal.


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By that measure, supermodels everywhere would be in grave danger, while those who one fitness expert described as “normal-sized people,” would be in the pink. “Typically a 23.6-inch thigh on a female would be a size 6 to 8,” said Greg Benson, president of the International Sports and Fitness Trainers Association.

A woman with thighs that size might be 5-foot-1 and weigh about 135 pounds, a few inches shorter and a bit heavier than the reported measurements for singer Beyonce Knowles, who is known for her curves. A man with thighs like that might be 5-foot-7 and weigh 160, about the reported size of actor Tom Cruise.

Although the reasons for the increased risk of small thighs isn’t clear, it’s likely that those with smaller limbs lacked the muscle mass and lower body bulk necessary to ensure proper glucose and lipid metabolism, key factors for more serious disease, Heitmann said. “It would seem that having too little muscle or fat in that region would be a problem,” she added. Typically, of course, it’s the other end of the tape measure that signals trouble: People with too much junk in the trunk – and everywhere else – are usually obese and at risk for host of fat-related ailments. But Heitmann’s study, which was started in 1987 and followed patients through 2002, found that people with thinner thighs had a 50 percent to 100 percent higher chance of developing heart disease within a decade or dying by year 12 than their chunkier companions. The results were similar for both sexes, and, surprisingly, the thigh measurement stayed the same, too, noted Heitmann. She was quick to add, however, that the study should not be interpreted as a free pass for people who want to skip the gym. The protective benefits of bigger thighs stopped at the 60-centimeter mark. “There’s no further advantage there,” Heitmann said.

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(NaturalNews) According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), low back pain is an enormous health and economic problem in the U.S. In fact, Americans spend at least $50 billion annually on the condition. It’s the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading contributor to missed work days.

Although most occurrences of low back pain go away within a few days, the NINDS web site states low back pain can become chronic and lead to more serious conditions. However, new research shows there’s natural, drug-free and effective help for those with chronic low back pain — the ancient practice of yoga.

A study just published in the journal Spine found that a group of low back pain sufferers who regularly practiced yoga postures had less pain, improved function, and a better mood. What’s more, they were far less likely to take drugs for their back problem than a matched group who received standard medical therapy.

“Proponents of yoga have long described its benefits in reducing back pain,” researcher Kimberly Williams, Ph.D., of West Virginia University’s Department of Community Medicine said in a statement to the media. “But not everybody was convinced. This is a much bigger, much more rigorous evaluation than had been done before.”

The $400,000 study, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), covered three years and involved 90 people. All had mild to moderate functional disability from their back pain. Half were randomly assigned to study Iyengar style yoga and half received conventional medical therapy. Those practicing yoga took 90 minute classes two times a week for 24 weeks, working with postures targeted to relieve chronic low-back pain.

The classes were taught by certified instructors of Iyengar yoga. Iyengar yoga. One of the world’s most widely-practiced forms of yoga, Iyengar yoga emphasizes individualized asanas (postures) to build strength, stamina, balance and flexibility. Classes also typically end with a deeply relaxing asana.

The research team followed up on with the research participants both during the trial and six months after the medical therapy or yoga classes ended. The results were dramatic: the yoga group had far less pain, less functional disability and less depression when compared with the control group. “These were statistically significant and clinically important changes that were maintained six months after the intervention (yoga),” Dr. Williams stated.

The research team found that a significantly greater proportion of yoga subjects reported improvements in their conditions after both 12 and 24 weeks of taking yoga classes. When those in the yoga group did have pain, it was less intense. “There was also a clinically important trend for the yoga group to reduce their pain medication usage compared to the control group,” the authors of the study concluded.

The Spine study is another example of how mainstream Western medicine is finally taking a look — and validating — the health benefits of yoga. As NaturalNews previously reported, researchers have also already found yoga can help prevent middle-age weight gain (http://www.naturalnews.com/026878_y…), alleviate postpartum depression (http://www.naturalnews.com/025562_y…) and treat post traumatic stress syndrome (http://www.naturalnews.com/026201_y…). A Wake Forest University study published earlier this year In Psycho-Oncology documented that yoga practice significantly reduced depression and increased feelings of peace and meaning in women with breast cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/025740.html), too.

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