BEAUTY KLINIC

Have you ever experienced back pains? If so, you know how excruciating and bothersome the pain can be. Simple actions like squeezing a tennis ball involves the muscles of the back.

The latissimus dorsi are the muscles found on the sides of the body that shape the torso like a triangle. These are the set of muscles that tense as you clench your fists or squeeze a ball.

Any sport will require strong back muscles, for speed and coordination, for balance and movement and for providing a strong ‘pillar’ for all the limbs to move off of.

Strong back muscles are developed through exercise. Simple exercises like stretching improve these muscles. Do these exercises on a firm, not hard-surfaced, area. Listen to your body while doing the exercises. Watch out for undue pain and pressure on any part of your body. Know when to stop.

Chest-and-Knee Exercise

Lie on your back and clasp your hands behind one thigh. Pull slowly toward the chest, keeping the other leg flat on the ground. Vary the action by flexing the ankle - first pointing the toe, then pulling it back toward the knee - at the same time as you stretch the leg.

Try maintaining the position for around 5 seconds. Change legs and do the same. Make 10 repetitions of this exercise.

Rotations

With your back to the floor, raise your knees together while keeping your feet flat on the floor. Keep your arms stretched along the length of your body. Lift your feet off the ground slightly, and slowly rotate your trunk by dropping your knee to one side, then to the next.

As you improve your flexibility and become stronger, you will be able to increase the amount of motions you will be able to perform.

Alternate the action by crossing your arms over your chest, then repeat.

Pelvic Press

Lie down on your back, knees raised and feet flat on the floor. Push the small of the back into the floor, feel the tension in the lower abdominals. Vary the action by moving your feet together and performing the exercise, then slightly apart and repeat.

Keep the small of your back pressed onto the ground for 5 seconds before releasing and returning to your normal position.

Pelvic Lift

Begin as you would with the pelvic press, except this time, you must have your arms crossed above your chest. With your legs and knees kept close together, raise your buttocks off the ground slightly, and hold this position for 5 seconds. Lower it back to the floor slowly and then count 2 seconds before repeating.

It is important to keep your breathing steady throughout the entirety of this exercise.

Dog Stretches

On all fours, raise your head, eyes forward. Lower your arms and arch your back, hold 2 seconds, then resume the starting position. Slowly extend one leg, as near parallel to the floor as you can. Hold 3 seconds, then put the leg back into starting position. (If this produces back, hip, or leg pain stop immediately.)

Repeat the exercise, this time switching legs. For variations, keep your toes pointed as you raise your leg. Then slowly flex the ankle perpendicular to the leg. Maintain this position for 2 seconds. Do again, 10 repetitions for each leg.

It is important to remember that should you feel any pain from doing these exercises, you should stop immediately and talk to your doctor.

Engagement rings can be stunningly beautiful and they′re an incredibly important part of your life. However, there are lots of rings out there, and plenty of confusing terminology, making it hard to choose where to start on your quest. Here’s some basic information to help.

There are three major parts to any engagement ring - the design, the stone, and the metal. The stone is generally a diamond, and the metal is usually gold, but other options are available.

Picking The Stone One thing to be aware of is the system for grading diamonds. The four components are Cut, Carat, Color and Clarity.

You’ll need to pay close attention to diamond quality when you make your purchase, but the highest quality isn’t necessarily the best. Lower quality diamonds can look the same as the best ones, but they save you a lot when you use them.

Choosing Metals Most engagement rings have bands and settings in either gold or platinum. You can get gold in levels of quality from ten to twenty-four karats, and in many colors, ranging from yellow to white to rose.

Eighteen karat gold is probably the most popular engagement ring choice, but ten and fourteen karats are chosen by some because they′re stronger. These less pure alloys are harder to dent and scratch.

One interesting, though costly, material is platinum. It looks a lot like white gold, but is significantly harder. Look closely and you’ll be able to tell the difference.

Designing Your Engagement Ring The design for your engagement ring is an extremely personal choice, whether you choose an existing ring or have a custom one made to your own specifications. There are also semi-custom rings, where you choose the stone, band size, and other design elements, combining them into the perfect ring for you.

Remember that your engagement ring design should do four basic things, however. No matter what you choose, you need a ring that’s practical and comfortable to wear each and every day, strong enough to hold up and keep its stones, and looks good under any circumstances. What will constitute an attractive, durable, easy to wear ring depends on your lifestyle. Higher settings are pretty, but catch on things. This can be a safety hazard in some jobs.

An attractive, durable, comfortable ring depends on the way you live and work. A higher setting looks pretty, but is prone to catch on things, making it a hazard in some conditions.

This is why some people choose gold that is less pure and has been adulterated by other metals - it’s stronger. It’s also a reason why other people look for sturdier rings or choose platinum over gold as a metal.

Security of stones is determined by the setting. Four prongs is the least secure, with a six prong setting being stronger, and a bezel setting even stronger than any prong setting. Heavier, lower settings are more durable than light, high settings.

Have you ever noticed how those who are disorganized tend to spend most of their time rushing about? The sad thing is that because of their disorganized lifestyle, they also tend to rush their meals and of course, those who eat to fast tend to eat more than they need to which results in them becoming overweight.

Mess causes distress and that in turn causes people to eat too much. Are you beginning to see the picture of how having a well organized life will help you to maintain a more balanced and healthy body?

Many people resort to eating in the effort to handle stress and being disorganized is a surefire way of increasing levels of stress in your life.

Being organized will also ensure that you have the right food in your house and you don’t have to resort to low quality foods that you keep as a backup for those times when you run out of the nutritious food that you should be eating.

Being organized will also help you to eat at regular times throughout the day and by being regular with your eating it will help you to maintain more consistent blood sugar levels that will reduce the chance of you getting into low blood sugar and over eating to compensate.

By planning ahead with your meals you can plan to have better meals and you won’t need to resort to fast foods because you haven’t got any other food organized by the time you′re ready to eat.

Shopping lists are quite literally invaluable to everyone but especially to those who are on a weight loss program. Planning ahead as to what foods you need will ensure that you always have enough of everything in order to prepare a healthy meal.

For anyone on a weight loss program, being organized is of paramount importance. Not only will it help you maintain a healthy balanced diet, but it will also save you a considerable amount of time. Having planned your meals ahead means you won’t need to spend hours everyday worrying about what you′ll be having for your next meal and this on it’s own, can reduce stress even further.

Have you ever seen popular magazines on a newstands? Majority of them have some well thought headline on their cover - “Skinny And Toned For This Summer” or How To Lose 35Lbs With This Nutrition Bar” or “Get Ripped, Show Your Six Pack And Say Goodbye To Your Love-Handels” etc, etc…

All these are just brainwashing you, the general public, about some new fad diet craze.

I guess I will be playing the one who need to step up and say, enough! Because many fad diets will make you fatter and very, very frustrated. Plus your self-confidence will drop down if you do not succeed!

First Reason Why Fad Diets Do Not Work:

This one is just common sense. Look around you! Do you see fat people walking around? Now look at how many fad diets are out there - Zone, Atkins, South Beach Diet, Nutra-System, La Diet, Jenny Craig Diet and thousands of others.

Don’t you think there should be more healthy, muscular and fit people walking around with all these fad diets everybody can go on?

It would make sense, but the opposite is true. For which my common sense responds, that fad diets do not work! If they would, you would see skinny people all day long.

Second Reason Why Fad Diets Do Not Work:

Many of these fad diets will let you lower calories, starve yourself or remove food groups like carbs or protein or fiber foods from your diet.

I think eating this way is not healthy at all! Why? Well, if you starve yourself, your body naturally responds and your inside mechanism switch to a fat storage mode.

You cannot do much about it. Your body does it by itself. It’s a gift from evolution, where hunters needed to survive even without eating for long periods of time. I guess that time catching a Mammoth was not as easy. So for the time they were preparing for the next feast, their body had to breakdown fat for energy so they can keep going and going. When they caught something, the food digested converted to fat again.

What do you need to do now?

As you know now, fad diets do not work. So stop throwing your money out the window, save yourself the frustration and be happy.

Second, you want to make sure that you never put your body into that “unconscious starvation mode” switch.

Then just combine all the healthy eating habits with regular exercise like jogging, yoga, martial arts, or what ever you like. Only then you will see new improvements towards healthier you.

Remember: stop looking for a fad diets and change your lifestyle habits to become healthier you again.

Vitamin E or Vitamin E Oil

Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin that comes in many different forms. In addition, it’s an antioxidant that protects the cells in our body from free radicals and their effect on our skin. Free radicals cannot only damage our skin, but they can also lead to cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Research has been taking place to determine if Vitamin E can help prevent these diseases. Vitamin E usually comes in the form of capsules, gels and oils. While the capsules are ingested and swallowed, the gels and oils are applied directly to the skin like lotion.

Vitamin E oil is very good for our skin. You will find Vitamin E oil in most cosmetics, but unfortunately, most cosmetic companies add other ingredients and additives such as glycerides to the Vitamin E oil so it is only about 18-20% pure. Many of the face creams and anti-aging lotions you see on the market today are advertised as being rich in Vitamin E oil. The most natural forms of Vitamin E oil come from vegetable oils such as soy, corn or canola oils. Vitamin E oil will have a negative reaction if it is exposed to oxygen or heat. This is why most manufactures recommend keeping containers tightly closed and in a cool dry place.

Benefits of Vitamin E oil

Vitamin E oil is also known as tocopherol. Because Vitamin E oil is so good for our skin, you may have seen the word “tocopherol″ on many health and skin care products and not realized they were referring to Vitamin E oil. Vitamin E oil is excellent for or skin whether it’s ingested or applied directly to our skin. In most cases, topical use is the most common. Our skin is abused in many ways such as stretch marks, bruising and over exposure to the sun. Applying Vitamin E oil directly to our skin has been claimed to be very beneficial. It’s recommended to aid in the elasticity of our skin as well as to help remove stretch marks and discoloration. Many women that formerly suffered from stretch marks swear by the effectiveness of Vitamin E oil.

Vitamin E oil for skin care

Because Vitamin E oil neutralizes the harmful affects of free radicals in the body, it helps us to have smoother and younger looking skin. Many women take Vitamin E supplements or rub Vitamin E oil on their body daily. Many anti-aging products on the market boast of their Vitamin E or Vitamin E oil content in the product.

Although taking iron is recommended for many people, iron supplements are known to decrease the level of absorption of Vitamin E. For this reason, they should not be taken together without consulting with your doctor. This is not the case if it is Vitamin E oil you are using on your body.

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