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18 Things Your Feet Say About Your Health

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By Paula Spencer, Caring.com Want to make a simple, ten-second check on the state of your health? Sneak a peek at your feet. "You can detect everything from diabetes to nutritional deficiencies just by examining the feet," says Jane Andersen, DPM, president of the American Association of Women Podiatrists and a spokeswoman for the American Podiatric Medical Association. The lowly left and right provide plenty of insightful data: Together they contain a quarter of the body's bones, and each foot also has 33 joints; 100 tendons, muscles, and ligaments; and countless nerves and blood vessels that link all the way to the heart, spine, and brain. Unresolved foot problems can have unexpected consequences. Untreated pain often leads a person to move less and gain weight, for example, or to shift balance in unnatural ways, increasing the chance of falling and breaking a bone. So when the feet send one of these 18 warning messages, they mean business. 1. Red flag: Toenails with ...

10 dirty fruits and veggies

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By Ashley Macha Are the fruits and vegetables you buy clean enough to eat? The Environmental Working Group (EWG) studied 100,000 produce pesticide reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to create a list of 49 of the dirtiest and cleanest produce. So before you hit the grocery store, see how some of your favorite fruits and veggies measured up. Did one of your favorites make the list? Don't worry, the EWG recommends purchasing organic or locally grown varieties, which can lower pesticide intake by 80% versus conventionally grown produce. 1. Celery This stalky vegetable tops the dirty list. Research showed that a single celery stalk had 13 pesticides, while, on the whole, celery contained as many as 67 pesticides. Chemicals fester on this vegetable as it has no protective skin and its stems cup inward, making it difficult to wash the entire surface of the stalk. It’s not easy to find locally grown celery, so if you lik...

Types of perfume and Fragrance notes

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Fragrances are created with a mixture of essential oils and alcohol. When the scent is applied to your body, the alcohol will burn off into the air, while the essential oils will be absorbed into your skin. The difference between an eau de parfum and an eau de toilette will be in the concentration of essential oils. This means that those fragrances with a higher concentration of the oils will smell stronger, last longer, and generally come with a higher price tag. These are often the fragrances of choice for special occasions and evening wear. On the other hand, lower concentrations of the essential oils will result in a more affordable product that might be preferable for daily wear, or for fragrance layering. From highest concentration to less concentration are : Perfume extract , or simply perfume (Extrait): 15-40% (IFRA: typical 20%) aromatic compounds Esprit de Parfum  (ESdP): 15-30% aromatic compounds, a seldom used strength concentration in between EdP and pe...

Review: Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day & Night Cream

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ok review product time..hehe..this time i wanna talk about this Avon rejuvenate cream..for me this cream was not amazing as it was stated..but it was ok for my skin..i like the morning cream more than night cream because it moisturize my dry skin well..not that i don't like the night cream but because it absorbed too fast and i always on my air-cond at night and it is not great for my dry skin condition..but maybe some of you out there like that fast absorbing thing,that light texture.... what i don't really like about this cream is that it will leave some sort of layer on your skin like an oil thing..although you have wear it like hours it still there. especially when i wake up and want to wash my face yeah it still there..but if you don't wash your face it was really ok on your skin. i don't know why the cream like that..because of that my skin got breakout,pimple..arrghh..i also don't see any changes on fine line and wrinkle.. this cream really can mak...

Titipan Buat Wanita

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"Sebaik-baik wanita ialah yang tidak memandang dan tidak dipandang oleh lelaki." Aku tidak ingin dipandang cantik oleh lelaki. Biarlah aku hanya cantik di matamu.  Apa gunanya aku menjadi perhatian lelaki andai murka Allah ada di situ. Apalah gunanya aku menjadi idaman banyak lelaki sedangkan aku hanya bisa menjadi milikmu seorang. Aku tidak merasa bangga menjadi rebutan lelaki bahkan aku merasa terhina diperlakukan sebegitu seolah-olah aku ini barang yang bisa dimiliki sesuka hati. Aku juga tidak mau menjadi penyebab kejatuhan seorang lelaki yang dikecewakan lantaran terlalu mengharapkan sesuatu yang tidak dapat aku berikan. Bagaimana akan kujawab di hadapan Allah kelak andai ditanya? Adakah itu sumbanganku kepada manusia selama hidup di muka bumi? Kalau aku tidak ingin kau memandang perempuan lain, aku dululah yang perlu menundukkan pandanganku. Aku harus memperbaiki dan menghias peribadiku karena itulah yang dituntut oleh Allah. Kalau aku ingin lelaki yang baik menjadi s...