6 Eating Habit Tips for Senior Vegetarians

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Senior couple making vegetarian meals

Vegetarian diets have been shown to improve the quality of one’s health dramatically. A healthy diet becomes especially important in a person’s golden years, making vegetarian eating habits a great place to start. These tips will provide ways that you can enjoy this lifestyle choice, providing the potential for many more happy and healthy years to come.

1. Focus on Organic Eating

Even though organic foods tend to be a bit more expensive than conventional groceries, the lack of additives and synthetic chemicals in your food will do wonders for your body. If possible, try to select fruits and vegetables with USDA certified organic stickers on them. Organic foods outside of the produce section are also available in many grocery stores.

Organic foods aren’t treated with hormones or preservatives. This means the food is ...read more »

2 Effective Natural Home Remedies for Acne

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Natural acne remedies - virgin coconut oil or black tea

Accutane and other acne treatment products always bring along some side effects that make your skin super dry and cause rash, itching, cracking or peeling skin. Dizziness, dry eyes, joint pain etc may come along as well.

How about treating your acne without these undesirable effects? Then you got to try out these home remedies for acne. They're natural and easy to make and use.

1. Virgin Coconut Oil

Not all types of coconut oil benefit acne on the same level. Virgin coconut oil is particularly good for acne due to its stronger intrinsic antimicrobial properties and toxin-purging capability.

Make sure you get a real good quality virgin coconut oil (that smells aromatically like coconut) and you're ready to begin your natural acne treatment at home.

Each application you only need a very small amount so that a thin layer covers the affected area. Rub the oil gently until it gets absorbed into your skin. Leave it on for about 1–2 hours before you apply another layer. This is to prevent your skin from getting ...read more »

3 Steps to Relieving Constipation for Babies with Coconut Oil

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Baby constipation

Why do babies get constipated so easily nowadays?

Thanks to the infant formula that contains little or no dietary fiber and medium-chain fatty acids that are critical for infants to move their bowels regularly.

In contrast, exclusively breastfed infants are rarely constipated because breast milk has a good amount of medium-chain fatty acids that almost always help to soften stools and stimulate bowel movement for infants.

So, if you exclusively feed your baby infant formula, you need coconut oil since coconut oil has considerable amount of medium-chain fatty acids (especially lauric acid) that are also present in breast milk. Here are the 3-step guide to help your baby relieve constipation with the correct use of coconut oil.

Step 1: Choose Organic Virgin Coconut Oil

Virgin coconut oil carries the best nutritional structure for both health improvement and bowel movement. And if it's organic, that will be even better for infants since you wouldn't want to expose them to pesticides, unknown substances or artificial chemicals. So, make sure you choose only organic virgin coconut oil for your baby.

Side note: If you feel like using refined coconut oil since it costs relatively cheaper and it has no coconut odor, you can try ...read more »

3 Benefits of Coconut Oil for Acne Scars

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After clearing your acne, what's left behind are the scars. This is the next big thing you have to worry about because it still doesn't look good on your face though it's a lot better than having acne that causes not just ugliness but pain to your skin.

If you simply leave your acne scars just like that, the scars will heal by itself and fade over time because our skin has its own natural healing power. Of course, on the premise that you can withstand the sneering look from others. But if you want to expedite the healing process so that your skin will look flawlessly smooth and even in a shorter time, then you must use coconut oil for its strong benefits on acne scars.

By the way, coconut oil also benefits acne treatment. What I mean is, you can actually use coconut oil straight to treat both your acne and acne scars, rather than having to use a different treatment for acne and then use coconut oil for acne scars.

Now, let's see how coconut oil benefits acne scars.

1. Fight Germs

Do you know how much germs our skin has to deal with and keep off in just one second?

Millions of them.

While trying to fight off the bad guys, your skin will somewhat take longer to generate new cells to replace the discolored old cells that form acne scars. But if you bring coconut oil into the picture, its antimicrobial fatty acids will join ...read more »

4 Steps to Treating Acne on Your Face with Coconut Oil

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Your face is the most crucial part of skin that needs immediate attention because you need to meet people. And if you got acne on your face, the impression you leave on them will somewhat get discounted and may affect your performance bonus (if you're in the service line). Not to worry, you can use coconut oil to salvage your face. Here's the 4-step acne treatment procedure with coconut oil...

Step 1 – Open Your Skin Pores

The skin pores on your face are normally shrunk to keep away dust and other foreign micro-particles from entry. This can make absorption of coconut oil into the skin of your face difficult. So first thing first is to wash your face with warm water or cover your face with a warm washcloth to open up the pores so that they're ready to absorb coconut oil when you apply it to your face.

You can actually make your pores even larger for quicker and easier absorption by using slightly hotter water or washcloth, but make sure you don't scald your skin. Keep the temperature comfortable for your skin.

Step 2 – Avoid Saturation on Skin

Bear in mind not to slather too much coconut oil on your face for treating acne as our skin has a ...read more »

2 Disadvantages of Coconut Oil on Skin

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Frankly speaking, it's actually quite a challenge to list the disadvantages of coconut oil on skin especially this tropical oil has given me so much goodness and health benefits for the past 10 years. The only few so-called disadvantages I can think of are the way our skin reacts to the oil.

1. Causes Breakout on Skin

Coconut oil has created quite a hoo-ha among the acne sufferers. Because they got more breakouts than before they use it on their skin, they started to accuse coconut oil of being pore-clogging and hence, passing the verdict that coconut oil is bad for skin and causes acne. Even if you have no acne you should not apply coconut oil to your skin for fear you might get some tiny bumps popping up on your skin.

Well, that's not true.

The reason for coconut oil to break out more acne is not because it clogs pores, but because of the ...read more »

4 Natural Ways to Relieve Your Flu Symptoms

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When flu strikes, its symptoms can make you feel miserable... soreness and swell in the throat that makes you swallow even fluid painful, blocked nose that makes your breathing difficult, runny nose that flows out mucus like running tap and finally, cough that disrupts your sleep and your entire life.

Though there's no immediate cure for flu, you can actually perform some natural flu relief techniques to help relieve the symptoms so that your life won't turn out as miserable as it should.

1. Relieving Sore Throat

Feeling "sandpapery", scratchy and painful when you swallow something... these are the reasons why sore throat is unwelcome. It affects your food consumption. But usually it will go away by itself in 1 or 2 days provided you improve your health and watch your diet by refraining from eating acid-forming food like ...read more »

4 Mistakes When Using Coconut Oil for Skin Care

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It may seem easy to just put some coconut oil on your skin and your skin will become good and glow. Actually not. Some people got some "side effects" by using coconut oil the wrong way for skin care.

1. Applying Too Much in One Sitting

You should apply a thin layer and wait till this layer gets absorbed before you put on another thin layer. The reason for doing this is our skin can only absorb that much of the oil, so if you apply too much the oil will simply sit on your skin for hours and will make you feel greasy and dirty as dust in the environment sticks to you.

A small amount goes a long way.

2. Freaking out on Breakout

Even when you have a clear skin (without acne), you may experience breakouts in the form of small oily whiteheads. This is due to toxins being drawn to the surface of your skin by the detoxifying effect of coconut oil.

That is why acne sufferers who try to use coconut oil to treat their acne problems freaked out when their acne becomes ...read more »

3 Ways Coconut Oil Helps Acne

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Coconut oil helps acne mainly in 3 ways:

1. Reduce Toxic Load on Liver

What has liver got to do with acne?

Your oily skin actually stems from a weak liver. Allow me to explain.

Our liver performs 400+ functions every day. One of its functions is to help regulate the secretion of sebum (the natural oil that protects your skin) by controlling the quantity of active androgens that circulate in your bloodstream. Androgens are hormones that stimulate your sebaceous glands to secrete sebum. If your liver fails to keep these active hormones in check, your sebum will be secreted unstoppably and your skin will become excessively oily. This makes your skin extremely acne-prone.

To reverse the condition and normalize your skin oil production, you need to improve your liver's performance in regulating sebum. How?

An overload of toxins is usually the cause of a weak liver, which is why you need to "ask" coconut oil for help since coconut oil has ...read more »

4 Steps to Using Coconut Oil for Acne

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Knowing that coconut oil can help treat acne, some acne sufferers simply smear coconut oil on their pimply face and then expect their skin to clear in a couple of days. But what they normally get is an acne breakout... more severe than before they use coconut oil. Why?

This is because coconut oil is a powerful anti-toxin – it will draw toxins up to the surface of your skin as it gets deeper into the skin (our skin cells do store certain amount of toxins). And when your skin has more dead cells clogging the pores, those toxins can't find a way out and so pimples in the form of whiteheads start to pop up. What's even worse is that your existing pimples will grow even larger due to the expulsion of toxins.

Hence, you need a breakout-free method of using coconut oil for treating acne. Otherwise you'll end up like many others who freak out and then run back to using commercial products that will keep burying more toxic chemicals underneath your skin.

Here's exactly how to use coconut oil for acne... ...read more »