Food 4 Beauty

How your diet can improve your appearance. We all know the old saying ‘you are what you eat’; with so much research into food and the effects of it we can now bring it into the 21st century.

Until very recently, most of the dietary advice we were given was based around weight management or the prevention of ill health and disease.

Now it is more frequently the case that research is focusing on how we can eat to improve more than just our health, our looks are now under the microscope.

There are thought to be some key nutrients that can help us to preserve our youthful appearance

Food 4 Beauty

Vitamins A, C and E, for example, are thought to be essential to healthy skin.

Vitamin A, also known as beta-carotene, helps block UV radiation. Great sources of this complexion boosting nutrient are carrots, spinach and squash.

Vitamin C and E are both antioxidants that help to encourage skin cell rejuvenation and formation of collagen. Broccoli, citrus fruits, red peppers and strawberries are all rich in vitamin C, while almonds, avocados and dark, leafy vegetables are great sources of vitamin E.

It is generally thought to be better for us to get these important nutrients from our food rather than from supplements, the supplements may not deliver the same benefits and can even increase disease risk, according to some studies. Although getting your vitamins from somewhere is better than not getting them at all.

Other things to consider if you want to put your best face forward are;

Food 4 beauty will include good fats, such as those found in seafood and walnuts. These will help to reduce the inflammation that may lead to wrinkles.

Avoid refined carbohydrates, which can cause insulin spikes and skin breakouts.

Drink plenty of water and avoid alcohol, keep skin hydrated.

Strengthen nails by including biotin-rich foods such as eggs, soya and rice bran in your diet.

Keeping your body weight under control also helps you to look good outside. A well balanced diet of natural, whole foods like fruit and vegetables will give you more than just age-defying antioxidants, the high fiber and water content of this diet type will keep your hunger at bay. Think Food 4 beauty  at all timess for overall health.

Menopause

The frustrating thing about the menopause is that a lot of women are not sure they are going through it although experiencing the symptoms of the menopause. Is this a good thing or bad thing? This would depend on the woman. Some get on and put up with them, while others get real panicky because they don’t know what’s happening. 

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The menopause is defined as the end of menstruation and usually occurs in Western women around the age of 51 years of age, although can come earlier. The change is when the ovaries no longer respond to the controlling hormones released by the pituitary gland of the brain. Therefore resulting in the ovaries failing to release an egg each month and produce the female sex hormones oestrogen and progesterone. 

When the drop in levels of hormones in the bloodstream happens it causes menopause symptoms.

Symptoms of the menopause can start with a woman seeing her periods become erratic, leaving her not knowing whether she is coming or going with them for some time before the actual menopause has been confirmed. This part of the change is clinically known as climacteric, or ‘perimenopause’, when explained means the gradual decline in the normal function of the ovaries. The common sign of climacteric is when is when noticeable changes are seen in your monthly cycle (erratic) as well as time change in between and the amount of menstrual blood lost.

There is no way the symptoms can be ignored because they can be seriously upsetting. Because this is a first time experience for all women when coming into the change of life and don’t know what is happening, it can be scary. However menopause symptoms can be reduced and controlled.

Unlike a headache or period pains of which women become accustomed and familiar with, menopause symptoms are new, so therefore women get easily confused as to what is going on with their body. 

If you are suffering from differences and seeing changes within your body but not sure if it’s the menopause then go along to your GP where you will be more than likely given a blood test to check out your hormones levels. Usually oestrogen levels begin to drop about ten years before the menopause (last period.) Eating a healthy well balanced diet combined with exercise can help with particular menopause symptoms. 

Most women will tell you that are going through the change are that they don’t find the hot flushes (hot sweats) and mood changes as disturbing and upsetting as the depression that seems to set in duly caused by the symptoms of the menopause. Women that feel down should contact a support group for menopausal women to help them get through this time in their life. 

The menopause is a stressful time for both woman and the people around her. 

Some women find it a struggle to cope with their mood swings or understand why they lose control of their temper for no reason. The menopause is a time in a woman’s life when major changes occur and she feels helpless in doing something about them.

Menopause in a nutshell

No more children 

No more periods 

And irritating and discomforting symptoms 

There are treatments and therapies used to help control the symptoms of the menopause and ease any pains if you feel they are proving too much for you to handle. Your doctor depending on you as an individual and the state of your health in general may suggest HRT (hormone replacement therapy.) I myself did opt for this to help me get through the change that was seriously affecting my life. Did it help? Damned right it did, had it not been for HRT I often think how I would have got through this traumatic time. Remember what works and helps one woman may not be the same for the next woman.

No matter how severe your menopause symptoms never take advice or another’s medication prescribed for solely for them

Genital Warts

Are you here making queries about genital warts because you don’t know what they look like or maybe feel like. Genital warts are very much a common issue and an embarrassing one too for many sufferers. In medical terms this specific condition is referred to as “Condylomata acuminata” or “venereal warts.” A proper and usual explanation of the warts is they are small fleshy growths, bumps or skin changes in or on the genital or anal region. However no matter whatever you read or hear you should always have your GP clarify any uncertainties you have in relation to any health issue, whether it is to do with the genitals or not.

Because venereal warts are a viral condition and not one caused by bacteria, antibiotics will not rid the warts. Not to panic as there are other treatments that can do this.

Genital Warts is a viral sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the  human papilloma virus(HPV) which is usually passed on during sexual intimacy.  Genital warts grow in the moist warm tissues of the genital region like the vulva, vagina, and cervix in women, and in men, on the tip and/or shaft of the penis. They can also develop around the anus. If oral sex is initiated, the outcome usually shows warts in the mouth and the throat.

The HPV virus that is usually the cause of genital warts is not curable but the warts are. A popular remedy for ridding genital warts is cryotherapy. The warts are frozen using liquid nitrogen. The amount of liquid nitrogen used would depend on the size of the warts.

Cryotherapy is commonly done in the doctor’s surgery. The recovery period can vary-due to how many warts are rid in the process, and provided there were no setbacks when they were getting done. Healing time generally takes between 7 to 21 days. Minor discomforts after treatment includes

Irritation and slight pain, if severe tell your doctor

Swelling

Sores or blisters forming

If you have had cryotherapy for external genital warts, and experience any of the symptoms below then call your doctor as soon as because these are not good symptoms.

1. Feeling feverish 
2. Persistent bleeding 
3. Foul smelling or yellowish  discharge 
4. Prolonged  pain 

You have to be brave about this problem, not in the sense of what treatments or other etc, but more in lines if you are embarrassed that you have genital warts. You will be surprised at how common this disease is. So you are not on your own in your suffering. As with any condition early treatment secures your health so as to speak. Face up to your problem and seek medical attention.

Remember your GP is treating genital warts on a wide scale and in huge numbers, so this is nothing new to him/her. You are just another case who needs treatment, and this is how your doctor sees this. Now go along to the surgery or clinic and get yourself examined and treated so you can get on with other things in your life that you may have put on hold because of your genital warts.