Saturday, October 6, 2007

Put on a Healthy Face

Tips from Dermatologists

Here are some tips for fabulous skin from women dermatologists, over age 40. These are simple and inexpensive.

Products for the face that contain silicone help fill in the lines and creases and hold moisture in. Silicone allows other skin products and makeup to go on smoothly. When you're choosing your moisturizer look for dimethicone or cyclopentasiloxane. Olay Regenerist contains silicone and is great for under the eyes.

Dermatologist also recommend products with Vitamin C, E and Green or White tea because of the antioxidant effect.

Vaseline was recommended by one dermatologist for use on lips, eyelids and cuts to reduce scarring. She also uses vaselin on her hands and feet and as a makeup remover. Now that's a pretty inexpensive fix.

Use gentle cleansers. Many dermatologists recommend Dove soap because it is less drying for mature skin and less acidic. Cleansers that contain aloe and chamomile leave the face soft and don't remove beneficial oils.

Remember that after age forty, skin care becomes more of a challenge, but with just a little pampering you'll have fabulous skin.





I love my aesthetician, I really do. But sometimes I can't get in to see her. But mostly my skin care appointments are costly. Of course, I have to have glowing skin...I must!

Okay now you know beyond a doubt that I'm vain. But it's more than that. I want to look as good as I feel, I really do. Plus I've spent some time in the sun and now I have to undo some of that damage.

My aesthetician taught me some valuable things about face care. She also gave me the most wonderful facial massage. I didn't want to have to get up and go home.

Each visit was about $50 a pop...well worth it, don't get me wrong. But I didn't go back every four to six weeks like I was told.

I found a professional solution that I could use at home. Plus I'd been reading even more about the benefits of facial massage and decided I had to have the Fyola Facial Massager. I did the math and realized it would pay for itself in a matter of about five months. I've spent a lot more than that for my facials already.

Massaging your face makes your skin more elastic. It brings blood and nutrients to the skin surface. Blood carries oxygen to the skin and literally revitalizes the cells. All of this in turn stimulates collagen and elastin keeping those wrinkles and furrows at bay and improving the ones you already have. It also keeps your skin firmer providing a more youthful appearance.

The Fyola facial massager also makes it easier for my moisturizer to absorb so I'm not throwing money away on skin care products that are just laying on the surface of my skin.



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Kit includes a deep cleansing French Clay mask to remove impurities and revitalize the skin.

Pearl Cream to moisturize - good for all skin types. Pearl cream is a blend of deionized water, glycerin and vitamin A & E in a rich base of Aloe Vera and Green Tea Extract.

Moisturizing Pearl Cream is made from well selected pure precious pearls, which are reduced into a very fine powder. The pearl powder is then blended with rich moisturizing lotion, cooling Aloe Vera and soothing Vitamin E to give the skin a smooth layer of protection from the elements. The blend is balanced with the appropriate amounts of nutrients and moisture. Pearls are an excellent source of minerals, amino acids and calcium carbonate, the most absorbable form of calcium. Pearl Cream is recommended to speed the skin's natural metabolism in order to tone and rejuvenate complexion. It has been used to heal blemishes, minimize large pores and reduce redness. Pearl Cream and Pearl Powder are one of the best natural products for scar reduction!

Calendula, Basil, Dandelion and Red Clover herbal wash to cleanse and improve the overall condition of the skin.

Witch Hazel toner combined with Chamomile to close pores and protect the skin from the elements.

Floral scented face and body splash - the beautiful flowers of spring blended with distilled water and green tea extract.

All five products are available for $59.95. Choose from: Normal, Dry, Oily Problem/Combination Skin


What Your Diet Says About Your Face



We all want smaller waistlines. If that isn't enough to curb your sweet, tooth, consider the following:

Experts now believe that eating sugar can make your skin dull and wrinkled. Appropriately, the process is referred to as the AGE's process: a natural series of events where sugar attaches to proteins and form harmful molecules called Advanced Glycation End products - or AGE's. The process worsens as we eat more sugar, causing a cascade of events.

Collagen and Elastin are the targets of these harmful molecules and the process starts at age thirty five. Collagen is the most prevalent body protein; it's present in all of our cells. When collagen is damaged, it becomes dry and brittle - thus wrinkles and sagging skin.

Type III collagen is the most prevalent in our bodies. The Glycation process turns Type III collagen into Type I, and Type I collagen is more fragile.

It's never too late to build new collagen. Skin products that contain Retinol can be purchased over the counter. In addition, follow these steps for younger looking skin.

1. Limit added sugar in your diet. Sugar is present even in fruits and
Vegetables. High fructose corn syrup is the worst. Click here and find out how
many calories you should eat daily. Your sugar calories should be no
more than 10% of your total for the day.

2. Watch for hidden sugar. Prepared foods are the worse culprits. Try to eat
freshly prepared food. Look for ingredients like barley malt, corn syrup,
dextrose, fruit juice concentrate, maltose, maple syrup, molasses and turbinado
to find these hidden culprits. To help a bit more: the average consumer eats
about 31 tsps. of sugar daily - 465 calories. Ten percent of that is about 46
calories which should be your daily sugar intake maximum -one 12 oz can of
Coke or about six Hershey kisses.

So, when reading labels, find out how many grams of carbohydrates your food
contains. divide it by four (one tsp. of sugar equals 4Gms.) and you'll know
how many tsps. of sugar are in your food. Once you know what your calorie intake
should be it's easier to monitor.

3. Take B Vitamins - at least 1 mg. of B1 and B6 a day. They are potent AGE
inhibitors according to a number of studies. You can get them from food, but
taking a vitamin supplement will ensure that you're getting your "B's". If
you're over age fifty you should take 1.5 mg.

4. Wear sunscreen every day.

5. Eat fruits, nuts and vegetables (cranberries, walnuts and red bell peppers to
name a few). These foods keep sugar from attaching to proteins, halting the
Glycation or AGE process. Skin products with green tea, Vitamin C and E are
real skin savers.

6. Look for skin products that contain aminoguanidine and alistin - they block
the formation of AGE's.




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Senior Health

Yoga in Chairs



Here's a link to a video you could purchase to learn chair dancing Click Here



I'm starting to get those senior citizen discounts and I'm beginning to notice a few more aches and pains. I used to take jazz and no, my kicks just aren't so high anymore. But I'm still going to dance.

In fact, the secret to staying pain free, flexible, injury free as well as preventing an entire plethora of other illnesses is simply to exercise.

It doesn't matter what you do, but you have to move. It also doesn't matter what your physical limitations are (unless they're severe of course) - YOU HAVE TO MOVE!
Point taken?

It would literally require pages for me to discuss the reasons why this is so important. Here's the "Reader's Digest Condensed Version" of why exercise is so important, especially as we age.

Physically active senior citizens have less difficulty just getting around.

You will gain muscle strength and endurance which slows physical declne.

Exercise improves quality of life, mood, blood pressure, helps prevent heart disease and actually buffers the effects of obsesity. So even if you're overweight you should exercise.

Resistance training and exercise improves sexual health.

Research continues to point to the benefits of exercise, even moderate, no matter what your age.

If you want a better quality of life - EXERCISE!!!! SPEAK WITH YOUR DOCTOR FIRST.

Where Do I Start?

Go to Mark Eagle's Blog and read this post.. Then take a good look around at his articles. Mark is a fitness expert and I'm sure he will answer all your questions about how to get safely started with an exercise program. Just leave him a comment with your questions or even share what you know with his readers.

Don't MAKE me sell you a massager for aches pains and injuries. Instead, simply enjoy the joy of massage after a nice exercise.

Antibiotic Dangers

The following antiobiotics, all in the same family, are frequently used to treat lung, urinary, skin and intestinal infections - Cipro (we all heard about this drug during the Anthrax scares), Floxin, Tequin, Levaquin, Maxaquin and Noroxin. The FDA has issued a safety warning for elderly people who receive these antibiotics. You may have already taken one of these fairly common antibiotics in the past.

A previous warning from the FDA cautioned against the risk of tendon rupture while receiving antibiotics in this class, and even up to several months after the antibiotics are discontinued.

The new precautions extend the risk to "severe" tendon disorders that could even require surgery if you are over 65 and if you are taking steroids while on any of these drugs.

Doctor's are advised to have their patient stop the antibiotic and rest if symptoms occur that might indicate a tendon disorder while they're receiving any antibiotics in this particular class - Fluoroquinolones.

Winter is coming. Elderly persons are more susceptible to bacterial pneumonia in the coming months and it may be necessary to take one of these antibiotics.

You shouldn't refuse any antibiotics that your Doctor might prescribe, but be aware of these warnings and report any unusual pain - shoulders, Achilles tendon, hands or any other painful movement that you've not previously experienced.

RELATED LINKS FOR SENIORS

Senior Health – EverydayHealth.com
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