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Carrot Face Mask
1 Tbsp. olive oil – nourishes and cleans the skin
1 lemon – astringent and acidic. This maintains the acid mantel of your skin which keeps in moisture and keeps out germs.
Directions:
- Peal the carrots and steam until soft.
- Mash the carrots into a creamy consistency.
- Mix in 1 tbsp. of all natural honey.
- Stir in 1 tbsp. of olive oil.
- Squeeze a few drops of fresh lemon juice into the face mask mixture. Lemon is a natural astringent and will help clean greasy skin. If your skin tends to dry easily, add only 8 to 10 drops; if you skin tends to be oily, add up to 1 tbsp. of lemon juice.
P.s. This is all food ingredients to after, any that you don’t use on your face – you can eat!
The lemon juice which is acidic when used topically has an alkaline influence internally because of the specific minerals it contains.
More Masks:
Randy’s Mango Mud Mask with before and after photos
Mango Mud Mask: with proper directions
10 Whimsical Ways to Cut 100 Calories
One hundred calories doesn’t seem like a lot, but you can easily add at least one or two of these fun, easy strategies and they will add up over time.
I’m not lazy by any means, but in my opinion, if you have to strain or deprive yourself, you may not keep it up. To eliminate calories, you can either burn them up by adding a preferred activity or avoid the calories by making a smart substitution of some common food you are eating.
I have listed only healthy, green tips. Hopefully these examples will help jog your mind to others. What steps do you take to be active and be smart?
1. Dance Skinny
Click on your MP3 player right now, dance with a little passion to just four songs and you will look and feel 100 calories lighter. The new Footloose movie is sponsoring a video dance contest around the globe. It’s never too late to participate!
2. Substitute Sugar with Stevia In Your Coffee or Tea
Stevia has practically no calories and because it is so much healthier than sugar, we consider it a powerfood. It has none of the problems of white sugar and is not artificial. It takes no time to reach for stevia instead of sugar and your life could change because of it.
3. Invite Your Friends to Dinner
This sounds counterintuitive, doesn’t it? But even before your guests arrive you will be working to prepare the meal. It happens that 38 minutes of chopping and cooking will cut 100 calories and make a great meal. You could achieve the same results just for yourself, but you probably wouldn’t bother and it would not be as much fun.
4. Lighten Your Salad Dressing
I find all commercial dressings way too sweet so I just add about half water. This also cuts about two tablespoons of oil which means 100 calories less. Time: 30 seconds.
5. Romancing the Pounds Away
You would think the heart pounding effects of romance would burn the calories off quickly but not so. It would take a full 50 minutes of smooching to burn the first 50 calories and another 30 minutes in bed for the final 50. I doubt if anyone is complaining.
6. Eat Two Apples a Day
Besides keeping the doctor away, an apple is low in calories. Eating two of them instead of of two bananas or two mangos would eliminate 100 calories. Apples are powerfoods with many benefits.
7. Digitally Demolish Those Coke Calories
Microsoft’s Xbox program called Kinect Sports Calorie Challenge tracks your body movements and displays them in a virtual contest against various food items. You can fight against a Coke, for example, or a chocolate bar (177 calories). It keeps you playing and active until the required amount of calories is burned up. If someone one gave me an Xbox and the game, I wouldn’t mind trying it out.
8. Go Fly a Kite!
This is not an insult but one of the quickest and most exhilarating ways to shed 100 calories. Find a beach or grassy hill, wait for a good gust of wind and then run like crazy. You only have to do so for 12 minutes to burn 100 calories. Hint: if you bring a small child with you, no one will suspect you are reliving your own childhood.
9. Balance with Tai Chi
Tai Chi is not extremely active but has tremendous health benefits and once you learn the basic set of movements you are encouraged to do it every day. Doing one set slowly takes about 20 minutes and it takes 24 minutes to get to the 100 mark calorie-wise.
10. Walking Them Blues Away
Studies have shown besides living longer, walkers enjoy improved mental health and spiritual benefits. About 20 minutes burns 100 calories. This is a no brainer.
By now you get the picture – almost everything burns calories – some things just faster or slower than others. Just move in some way and you will feel better and slim down in the long term. Also with a little food planning, you can make big changes in the quality and number of calories you are inputting.
I personally prefer activities that are outdoors. That way you get the sunshine, the fresh air and the big skies around you. Some inside activities can burn up calories very fast (like a rowing machine at just over eight minutes for 100 calories) but I don’t have that machine at home and it sounds like work!
Eat, Pray, Love…WEEDS
What do you do with weeds?
EAT as many weeds as you can stomach.
PRAY they don’t take over your lawn or garden.
LOVE them?
Weeds are some of the most powerful, vigorous, and nourishing plants on the earth.
Wouldn’t we all like to “grow like a weed’?
Eat Weeds:
If you bother to walk out to your lawn or garden; you can probably find enough weeds to solve many of your health problems.
- Dandelion leaves for example have much more nutrition than any of the lettuces you can buy in the supermarket and most of the other greens also. It’s at a great price too….FREE! Read the rest of this entry »
Brown Rice vs White Rice: Benefits and Cautions
Rice feeds the world!
Three billion people worldwide depend on rice for over half of their daily calorie intake. Most of them eat white rice.
Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.
Chinese Proverb
Could the hippies and macrobiotics, two of the biggest brown rice proponents be wrong? What are the differences between brown and white rice, and what are the benefits of each?
10 Smart Reasons to Enjoy Oatmeal
Your grandma and the Scots ate oats because its inexpensive and grows anywhere.
I eat oatmeal for its taste and nutrition and it’s many other benefits.
It’s true what the cereal TV commercials say about those ‘crunchy oat clusters’. They ARE good for you.. particularly if you make your own.
10 Reasons Why I Love Oatmeal
1. Low calorie food stops cravings.
A cup is only 130 calories! It also stays in your stomach longer making you feel full longer. You will have less hunger and cravings.
2. Provides high levels of fiber and low levels of fat.
“You have to eat oatmeal or you’ll dry up. Anyone knows that.” ~ Kay Thompson
Green Tea: The Powerfood That Rules the World
“We haven’t had any tea for a week
The bottom is out of the universe “Rudyard Kipling Natural Theology
Why is Green Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world,
second only to water itself?
Why is green tea is the most popular health drink on the planet?
How has green tea has influenced the lifestyles, politics and
temperament of world superpowers, including
United States, China, Japan and Britain.
1. Green tea is the king of teas:
There are many different kinds of tea including: green tea, black tea, white tea, and oolong. They all start out as green leaves from the Camielia sinensis plant.
The only difference is which part of the plant is used, where and how it grows and how it is processed. Oolong teas have perhaps the most extensive tastes, green tea and enhansed green tea has the most benefits for the least cost.
2. Green tea helps you lose weight.
The International Journal of Obesity cites green tea as having polyphenols which produce extra heat in the body and burn calories. Read the rest of this entry »
The Simple Approach To
Great Health
