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Showing posts with label Diet and Fitness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diet and Fitness. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Set Diets can Ageless

Increasing age was not preventable, but we still could slow the effects of aging on the body. Nature already provide it in abundance, our lives are willing to accept it or not.
There are many factors that cause the symptoms of aging, factors other than reduced growth hormone, aging effects also arise because of pollution, stress, sunlight, smoking, alcohol, lack of rest, and diet malnutrition. 
In addition to looking at the skin, such as the skin looks dull and wrinkles begin to arise, the effects of aging can also be easily hurt, decreased concentration or frequent fatigue. According to clinical nutritionist from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, dr.Inge Permadhi, Sp.GK, premature aging may be preventable by improving our diet. "The key is to eat a balanced composition of nutrients," 

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Say bye-bye to bad body image talk

The other day I tried to calculate how much of my life has been spent standing sideways to the full-length mirror, trying to determine if my stomach looks flat enough in the outfit I'm wearing so that I won't descend into crankyville.

Is it every day? Thirty seconds? More than once? With time off for good behavior when I'm backpacking, and there are no mirrors available. Oh, and yes, the tic is worse on days I feel a bit blue.
What a waste, truly. And I'm not alone in this, right? After all, there would be no Sara Blakely, queen of the Spanx empire, if I were.

I am, in case it wasn't already blindingly obvious, a woman.
In a room of 50 women the other day, I conducted a quick straw poll. "How many women here feel good about their bodies?" I asked. Only two hands went up, and they were wobbly and tentative at that. That's 4% of the women in the room. In an independent study, only 12% of women thought they looked good in a swimsuit. I guess that's three times better than my poll, but come on, both of those numbers are ridiculously low.