Doing your own physical therapy can help ease neck pain.
Bend at the hips, allowing your arms to dangle towards your feet and your head to hang without tension. As you breathe slowly in and out, gently swing your head from side to side to loosen the neck.
You will become aware of the joy that lengthening these muscles can offer.
Bend your knees as you slowly come back to a standing position.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
SAVE YOUR SKIN
As much as half of your exposure to the UVA rays that cause sun spots and fine lines occurs while you are indoors. The main source is light coming through windows (most glass blocks only UVB rays).
To save skin:
wear a sunscreen every day even if you are staying inside.
(Prevention magazine- June 2008)
To save skin:
wear a sunscreen every day even if you are staying inside.
(Prevention magazine- June 2008)
EAT DARK CHOCOLATE
The anti-oxidants found in dark chocolate called flavonoids may safeguard your skin from the sun.
Nibble on 2 oz. of dark chocolate a day. Don't mix it with milk though because milk prevents the absorption of polyphenols.
Nibble on 2 oz. of dark chocolate a day. Don't mix it with milk though because milk prevents the absorption of polyphenols.
SUN PROTECTION
Eat Brightly Coloured Foods
Colourful foods are high in anti-oxidants, which can help protect your skin from the sun's worst effects by reducing your free-radical load.
The more colourful the plant, the higher it's protection against unwanted rays.
Some of the most colourful plants get their hue from lycopene, a naturally occurring pigment- or type of carotenoid- found in red and pink fruits. Carotenoids help people by clustering in those places most vulnerable to sunlight: the eyes and the skin.
Raw tomatoes are high in lycopene but cooked tomatoes are even better for you since cooking releases lycopene.
You can also get helpful amounts of lycopene from watermelon and pink grapefruit. Other carotenoids are easy to find. Stick to brightly coloured blueberries, strawberries and red, yellow and orange peppers.
(Natural Health Magazine May 2008)
Colourful foods are high in anti-oxidants, which can help protect your skin from the sun's worst effects by reducing your free-radical load.
The more colourful the plant, the higher it's protection against unwanted rays.
Some of the most colourful plants get their hue from lycopene, a naturally occurring pigment- or type of carotenoid- found in red and pink fruits. Carotenoids help people by clustering in those places most vulnerable to sunlight: the eyes and the skin.
Raw tomatoes are high in lycopene but cooked tomatoes are even better for you since cooking releases lycopene.
You can also get helpful amounts of lycopene from watermelon and pink grapefruit. Other carotenoids are easy to find. Stick to brightly coloured blueberries, strawberries and red, yellow and orange peppers.
(Natural Health Magazine May 2008)
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