Atasi Permasalahan Kulit Kering

Atasi Permasalahan Kulit Kering Meski pun kita tinggal di negara tropis yang hangat, tetapi nyatanya kebanyakan orang beraktivitas di ruangan yang dingin oleh penyejuk udara. Kondisi ini bisa menyebabkan kondisi kulit kering, pecah-pecah, dan terasa gatal. Untuk menyiasatinya, simak tips dari American Academy of Dermatology agar kulit terjaga kelembabannya.

- Mandi air dingin

Mandi air hangat memang bisa membuat rileks, tetapi air hangat membuat kulit lebih mudah kering. Ini karena minyak alami pelindung kulit terhapus oleh air hangat. Karena itu biasakan untuk mandi dengan air dingin. Bila ingin mandi dengan air hangat, mandilah dengan cepat.

- Pilih sabun

Kulit seharusnya terasa lembut dan kenyal setelah mandi. Jika kulit malah terasa kering atau tertarik, mungkin Anda perlu mengganti sabun. Bila kulit Anda tergolong kering, pakailah sabun yang ditambahkan dengan pelembab. Terkadang memang diperlukan beberapa kali uji coba sebelum menemukan sabun yang tepat. Biasakan untuk menggunakan sabun pada area tertentu saja seperti wajah, ketiak, kaki, atau sekitar paha.

- Pakai pelembab

Waktu paling tepat untuk memakai pelembab adalah setelah mandi ketika kulit masih dalam kondisi lembab sehingga zat pelembab mudah diserap dan dikunci. Pelembab dalam bentuk krim adalah yang terbaik untuk kulit kering. Bila memungkinkan pilih produk yang bebas parfum. Untuk wajah, gunakan pelembab yang mengandung vitamin C dan E.

- Konsumsi air yang cukup

Meski tidak berkaitan secara langsung, namun konsumsi air yang cukup bisa memperlancar metabolisme dan membuang toksin sehingga tubuh tetap sehat dan fit.

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Tipe Wanita Pembelanja

Tipe Wanita Pembelanja Rasanya, tak ada perempuan yang tak suka berbelanja. Namun seperti ketika kita memiliki selera yang berbeda tentang apa yang dibeli, kita pun memiliki cara yang berbeda dalam mendapatkan barang tersebut. Jika Anda mengaku sebagai a big shopper, enam kategori di bawah ini mungkin berlaku untuk Anda:

The One-Store Shopper. Anda hanya akan browsing di satu butik saja, tak peduli apa pun yang Anda inginkan. Anda setia dengan satu atau dua merek saja atau dengan toko tertentu saja, dan betah berlama-lama di dalam butik tersebut untuk membeli atasan, jeans, sepatu, jaket, tas, atau aksesori lainnya.

The Bargain-Hunter. Anda sangat menikmati pusat pertokoan yang mirip gang senggol, asalkan Anda bisa menawar harga sepuasnya. Anda terbiasa blusukan di pertokoan di kawasan Tanah Abang, atau ITC untuk mendapatkan harga terbaik, dan hafal dimana letak toko-toko langganan Anda. Anda begitu pintar merayu, hingga seringkali pemilik tokonya turun tangan menghadapi Anda untuk memberikan harga khusus. Selain itu Anda juga termasuk pemburu diskon di department store. Asalkan diskon cukup besar Anda pasti akan membeli barang tersebut, tak peduli apakah Anda membutuhkannya atau tidak.

The Buying-Things-Without-Trying-Them-On Shopper. Seringkali karena malas menunggu antrian di fitting room, Anda memutuskan untuk langsung membeli barang tanpa mencobanya lebih dulu. Anda juga tak ragu-ragu menggunakan kartu kredit untuk membayar barang yang cukup mahal, dan tidak merasa sayang karena harus berhutang dalam waktu lama. Akibatnya, lemari pakaian Anda dipenuhi baju-baju yang tidak terpakai, karena meskipun muat di badan, pakaian-pakaian tersebut tidak layak dipakai. Entah karena belahan dadanya terlalu rendah, potongan di ketiak terlalu sempit, atau bagian bahu yang terasa tidak nyaman.

The Online Shopper. Karena sudah merasakan asyiknya berbelanja secara online, Anda makin yakin bahwa kebanyakan online store dapat diandalkan. Anda merasa nyaman dengan cara berbelanja ini, karena menghemat waktu dan uang, dan tidak repot. Online shopper sendiri terdiri atas beberapa tipe: orang yang memang malas berbelanja dan bertransaksi di toko, orang yang termakan iklan (karena begitu melihat katalog langsung tertarik berbelanja karena takut kehabisan), dan orang yang ingin membeli barang-barang yang unik atau enggak pasaran, yang hanya tersedia di toko-toko online.

The Thrift Shopper. Anda suka mendatangi acara garage sale untuk mendapatkan barang-barang bekas berkualitas dengan harga murah. Entah itu pakaian, sepatu, buku-buku, alat olahraga, juga perabotan atau alat-alat rumah tangga. Namun ada juga orang yang justru menyukai barang-barang yang terlihat sudah dipakai, misalnya perabotan dari kayu jati.

The Emotional Shopper. Nah, Anda tentu paling paham siapa yang dimaksud dengan pembelanja emosional. Mungkin Anda termasuk di dalamnya. Anda menganggap aktivitas berbelanja mampu mengusir stres dengan cepat. Anda merasa langsung ingin ke mal dan pulang membawa sepatu baru, ketika sesuatu yang buruk terjadi pada Anda. Anda baru putus dengan kekasih, jenuh dengan pekerjaan yang seolah tak ada habisnya, atau tak tahan berada di rumah karena kakak atau adik sering bertengkar dengan ibu Anda. Untuk mengatasi semua masalah itu, Anda merasa berbelanja jalan keluar satu-satunya.

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The danger must be borne passive smoking

Despite repeatedly echoed, the danger to secondhand smoke is still often underestimated. Whether it's for active smokers or passive smokers.

But for passive smokers, it's time to be assertive. Goal, so that events experienced Noor Atika Hasanah, 28-year-old woman who died from secondhand smoke, does not happen again.

For women who familiarly called Tika this, be smokers pasih not a choice, but compulsion. Circumstances force turns out this is what drove him to death. In the Twitter account @ tikuyuz, he revealed that he was exposed to the disease Duplex bronchopneumonia, which is a type of chronic lung disease.

After a long struggle against the disease arising as a result of spots on the lungs, Tika breathed her last on Thursday, December 30, 2010 yesterday. This condition is very pathetic. One of the triggers of chronic lung disease experienced by Tika is because he becomes a passive smoker. Tika even wrote in his Twitter account "For the parent smoker, I really beg to ngerokok as far as possible from the children so far away from possible contact with lung spots".

You deserve to know if exposure to secondhand smoke are three times more dangerous. The danger must be borne passive smokers are three times more than the dangers of active smokers.

According Setyo Budiantoro of Public Health Association of Indonesia (IAKMI), as much as 25 percent of the hazardous substances contained in cigarette into the smoker's body, while 75 percent circulates freely in the air that enters the body at risk of those around him.

The concentration of harmful substances in the body of passive smokers is greater because of toxins inhaled through cigarette smoke is not filtered active smokers. While cigarette toxins in the body of active smokers filtered through the end of the cigarettes smoked. However, concentrations of toxins active smokers could increase if the active smokers inhale smoke again that he exhales.

Largest cigarette toxins actually produced by the smoke from the tip of the cigarette is not smoked. Therefore, the smoke produced from burning tobacco that is not perfect.

To determine the amount of secondhand smoke following fact some of his data. Global Youth Survey data years 1999-2006, as many as 81 percent of children aged 13-15 years in Indonesia exposed to smoke in public places or exposure to secondhand smoke. "Whereas the average percentage of only 56 percent of the world," he said.

The survey also showed that more than 150 million Indonesian population to secondhand smoke at home, in offices, in public places, on public transport. While the data of the National Economic Social Survey 2004 showed that more than 87 percent of active smokers to smoke inside the house when you're with family members.

In a broader scope in the world, deaths from secondhand smoke is also quite high. According to research carried out 'Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare' and 'Bloomberg Philanthropies', as many as 600 thousand nonsmokers die each year worldwide.

The study was conducted by analyzing data of smokers in 192 countries around the world, since 2004. About 40 percent of children and more than 30 percent of women and men become passive smokers. Based on the analysis, the adverse effects of secondhand smoke triggers an increase in deaths from heart disease (379 thousand), deaths from respiratory distress (165 thousand), deaths due to asthma (36.9 thousand) and deaths due to lung cancer (21.4 thousand ).

"This study helps us understand the ill effects of smoking. The combination of infectious diseases and secondhand smoke is death," said Armando Peruga, Program Manager of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tobacco-Free Initiative, who led the study, as quoted by Fox News.

So, if you do not smoke, try not to be around smokers or use a mask when in public places. This is for your health is not only short term but also long term.

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Rarely Breakfast Trigger Heart Disease

Leaving home with an empty stomach can increase the risk of heart disease. The conclusion that emerges through the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

The research team from the University of Tasmania's long-term dangers track skip breakfast. This reinforces previous studies showing positive effects of breakfast for the heart.

The study involved 2184 participants who were followed for 20 years. The result, too often skipping breakfast can lead to an increase in cholesterol and fat deposits around the abdomen. The condition is clearly a major factor in the increased risk of heart disease.

Skipping breakfast can also trigger increased levels of insulin in the blood, which is an early marker of diabetes.

This study shows, the greatest increase in risk upon those who always skip breakfast when still a child. And, it's a bad habit continued into adulthood.

The habit of skipping breakfast is also usually followed by a favorite sweet snack foods, less exercise, and non-fulfillment of intake of fiber, vitamins, and minerals properly. Nutritionist, Catherine Collins, said, skipping breakfast is a sign of an unhealthy lifestyle.

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Hormones 'Love' Cure Headaches

Recent studies have revealed that oxytocin, known as the hormone of love effectively boost your confidence while strengthening social ties. Injections of this hormone could also work as a headache-relieving drugs.

As quoted by MSNBC, about 50 percent of patients the headache feels better after getting the intake of oxytocin via nasal spray. While those who got fake hormone sprays do not feel the pain reduced.

On average, the effect began working four hours after spraying. Benefits last up to 24 hours.

About 40 patients involved in this study had chronic headache conditions, among which migraine attacks accompanied endless. "This patient has tried various ways before, and no one can give results much," says research director of the Stanford University School of Medicine, David Yeomans.

He said, currently, only two treatments that are proven effective in preventing health disorder. One is the botox injections, said researcher Dr. Egilius Spierings, a professor at Harvard Medical School who studies the management headaches.

Botox therapy has just received approval from the Food and Drug Administration as a headache reliever in October. Another treatment is topiramate. In the United States, recorded at least six million sufferers of chronic headaches.

However, Spierings said the two therapies have several drawbacks and has no long-term effects. He hopes the study of the more perfect that oxytocin injections can help heal patients.

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Read Fertility and Health Through Finger

Was ever noticed the size of the five fingers of your hand? Comparison of the size of the ring finger and index finger can be a medium for detecting the condition of one's life. Ranging from healthcare to the fortunes of life.

As quoted from the pages of the Guardian, the ratio of the size of the finger that he can show an indication of the level of fertility, the risk of prostate cancer, sexual orientation, to the opportunities of wealth.

The study British Journal of Cancer shows that men with longer ring fingers the size of the index have a higher risk of prostate cancer. The majority of men do have a measure of the length of the ring finger, but it's worth making the results of this study as an alertness alarm.

In 2002, Dr. John Manning, researchers conducted a study that focused on the finger launched a book that reveals that men with long ring fingers have higher fertility rates than men with shorter ring fingers.

Risk of heart disorders can also be detected by comparison of the size of the finger. Based on a study in 2001, guy with the size of the index finger shorter than ring fingers have a lower risk of heart disease.

Two years ago, a number of researchers from Cambridge conducted a study that led to the conclusion that people with longer ring finger has the ability to make money better than those with shorter ring fingers.

A California study that analyzed 720 male and female finger from San Francisco shows that women who have a measure of the length of the ring finger and index finger tend to have short-masculine trait. In fact, has the potential to become homosexual.

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It's the fattest man Broken Heart

Love can make a gallant even worse. Having abandoned her lover, Paul Mason turned into a compulsive eater and resulted in her weight jumped up to 444.5 kg.

At the age of 26 years, Paul was finding true love the day after Christmas 1986. Hope all devoted to special women aged 39 years. Unfortunately, the boyfriend decides himself and chose engaged to another man. Separation can not be avoided and Paul heartbreak.

Misfortune befall streak continues. His father died, followed by paralysis of the mother due to illness. In an effort to heal the broken-hearted, Paul eat for 24 hours nonstop. He no longer thought of what went into his mouth. The day he could eat more than 20 thousand calories, nearly ten times the normal male food intake.

Breakfast is a large portion of bacon, four sausages and four eggs and bread and rice as much as 2700 calories. Lunch was four servings of fish and chips with a kebab. At night, Paul munch roast beef, chips and pizza. Snack each day consisting of 40 rods and 40 bags of chocolate chips.

"Food is my medicine to fill the loneliness in my heart is empty at the time. Whereas before, I never eat compulsively, and I was always active," she recalled critical periods of his life that was published in The Sun. Within a year, on weight 70 kg.

Body that continues to swell makes forced to quit their jobs due to the foot of letter carriers who could not hold the weight. He also moved to another part, because the theft involved a criminal who took him to jail. To make up for the penalty, Paul remortgage the family home worth £ 10,000, equivalent to Rp28 million ultimately was unable to fly due to be repaid.

Paul compulsive eating habits increasingly frenzied. Paul did not have time apart to eat. Since 2000, he was no longer able to walk. Huge body lay on the bed. As a result, at the age-48 years, doctors ultimatum Paul can survive only two years. He was placed in a special room with a bed super big and inspected every three days.

Right on the 50th anniversary, he has weighed 444.5 kg. Every year, the treatment cost £ 100,000 equivalent to Rp1, 4 billion. He had tax arrears worth one million pounds or 14.5 billion.

In 2009, Paul became a figure super jumbo. He could no longer walk. Experts suggest that Paul's immediate surgery and reduces food intake in order to survive.

An extreme gastric bypass procedure at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex last spring followed by a strict diet. Now the young man from Ipswich managed to reduce its weight 190.5 kg. With a body of 'new', he hoped to find a new love after more than 20 years of burying feelings.

"For the first time in decades, someone who makes me think about love. He's an amazing woman who supported me face everything."

One time, Paul hopes to have lost enough weight to share his life with the woman of his dreams.

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smoking can rob a woman living

Everyone would know the pleasure of smoking cigarettes behind the attack of lung cancer and heart stalking. And yet in fact, many people, whether it be man or woman who still let themselves addicted to cigarettes.

But you know, sex what is most susceptible to the dangers of cigarette smoke? Apparently, women are most disadvantaged dangers of nicotine cigarettes than men, according to data of Statistics Agency Government of the Netherlands, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS), quoted from the pages of Mad Health.

According to the statistics that have examined the death rates from lung cancer, the effects of tobacco smoke sucking on women is believed to affect one's life span. Smoking among women will reduce life expectancy by 11 years, whereas in men over the past three years.

Still according to agency statistics, this indicates that the negative effect of nicotine is much more serious in women than on men. However, statistical agencies do not mention the reason for the differences in nicotine's effects.

Researchers believe, increased cases of lung cancer among Dutch women since the 1970s is directly related to their addiction to tobacco.

Statistics agency says the average woman suffering from lung cancer due to tobacco dies at the age of 70 years, but their life expectancy can reach 81 years (no smoking).

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