Help For Acne
Do you suffer from acne, but haven't started any acne treatments? If not what are you waiting for? You should get help for your acne as soon as you notice it. Early treatment can minimize the severity of your acne. This is important especially if one of your parents had severe acne.
Today on the market there is a wide variety of acne treatments available. You can find everything from prescription medications to face creams and washes. The market provides a solution for every individual. There is no reason why anyone has to suffer through life with blemishes, scars or low self esteem due to acne. Treatment can be undertaken by yourself or in conjunction with a dermatologist. Your individual program depends on the severity and response to your personal acne treatments.
Finding the product that works best for your skin and is key to treating acne. Not all products will work for everyone. You may run into some trial and error, but it is important that you give the products enough time to work. Whether you use over the counter or prescription treatments, you should allow a minimum of a few weeks to evaluate the product. Excessive use of any acne product can cause redness, dryness of the face and can actually cause more acne. It is important to follow the directions precisely to avoid harmful side effects and to receive the full benefits of the products.
For minor acne, over the counter products are probably strong enough to treat your acne. Try using a product with 9% benzyl peroxide and another product with 2% percent salicylic acid. Make this a daily routine and if problems still persist see your dermatologist.
If you suffer from more sever acne, and have been unsuccessful in clearing up your acne with any over the counter acne treatments, you may well find the need arises for you to consider prescribed acne medications from your dermatologist. Depending on the seriousness of your acne, your dermatologist will most likely prescribe you a course of topical acne medication treatments first and if necessary systemic acne medications (oral).
Whatever the case, don't do the worst thing you can do which is to do nothing!
A Dose Of Vitamins
A Dose of Vitamins
The word, vitamin came from Vita in Latin which means life and the –amin
suffix is short for amine, an organic compounds containing nitrogen as the
key atom in the amine functional group. Most of the time, the term Vitamin
is collectively referred to as organic molecule whose insufficiency in the
diet can result in disease thus acquiring vitamins are reduced only at diet.
From the span of several years, several vitamins along with its sources have
been discovered.
Retinol or what is commonly called vitamin A is a fat-soluble, antioxidant
vitamin that can help improve or maintain good vision and bone growth.
Vitamin A can be sourced from different foods. Cod liver oil is one of the
main sources of vitamin A. Egg, butter, whole milk, carrots, spinach,
squash, breakfast cereals and sweet potato are foods rich in Vitamin A.
Insufficiency could result to night blindness or sometimes referred to as
impaired dark adaptation. Vitamin A overdose could result to death. Regular
dietary allowance for regular adult is 900mcg a day or 3000iu.
Thiamine (thiamin) or previously called Vitamin B1 is another form of
vitamin essential to the body that is water-soluble B-complex vitamin. It is
a coenzyme that is an organic non-protein molecule that is a functional part
of an enzyme. It functions in the metabolism of carbohydrates and functions
in the pentose phosphate pathway to synthesize NADPH and the pentose sugars deoxyribose and ribose. Rich sources of this vitamin are pecans, spinach, orange, cantaloupe, milk, cooked egg, whole wheat bread, long grain white rice, and wheat germ breakfast cereal. Lack of vitamin B1 could cause Beriberi with symptoms such as eight loss, emotional disturbances, impaired sensory perception, weakness, and periods of irregular heartbeat. It affects the cardiovascular, nervous, muscular, and gastrointestinal systems.
Riboflavin or vitamin B2 is sourced from milk, cheese, leafy green vegetables, liver, yeast, almonds and mature soybeans which aids metabolism of protein, carbohydrates, and fats. Though deficiency is a rarity symptom may include ore throat, redness and swelling of the lining of the mouth and throat among others. Niacin or vitamin B3 is another form of vitamins that could be acquired in several fruits and vegetables such as broccoli, tomatoes, mushrooms and more. It can also be sourced from chicken, fish, milk and eggs, nuts and grains. Deficiency causes pallegra which often results to the four Ds: dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, and death. Other Vitamin B include: pantothenic acid or vitamin B5, vitamin B6 that comes in pyridoxine and pyridoxamine, biotin or vitamin H or B7, folic acid or vitamin B9, and Cyanocobalamin, also known as Cobalamin or vitamin B12.
Vitamin C or the ascorbic acid that can be acquired in numerous citrus
fruits like lime, lemon, orange, grapefruit, tomatoes, and potatoes,
vegetables, meat and fishes can prevent scurvy.
Vitamin D comes in many forms: Vitamin D1 or Lamisterol, Vitamin D2 or
Ergocalciferol, vitamin D3 or Calciferol, Vitamin D4 or Dihydrotachysterol,
and Vitamin D5 or 7-dehydrositosterol. All these prevent the Rickets,
Osteomalacia, muscle weakness and pain.
The vitamin E or the Tocopherol is a fat-soluble vitamin that comes in eight
form: alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-, and four tocotrienols (also alpha-,
beta-, gamma- and delta-). Commonly used as skin lotions and creams, vitamin E aids skin healing and reducing scarring after injuries such as burns.
Finally, we have the Vitamin K or the Naphthoquinone that helps in
posttranslational modification of certain proteins, mostly required for
blood coagulation.
With a normal supply of these vitamins, the human is maintained healthy and
beautiful.
Joyce Dietzel writes articles for your vitamins.com a website dedicated to all your vitamin and supplement needs
Red meat consumption doubles risk of colon cancer, says study; is it time to go vegetarian yet?
Copyright 2006 Truth Publishing
A current study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows a doubling of the risk of colon cancer for people who are heavy consumers of red meat. More specifically, it shows that the risk doubles compared to those who consume smaller quantities of red meat. But how does this compare to people who consume no red meat at all?
This is conjecture, but I'm willing to bet that heavy consumers of red meat probably have quadruple the risk (or more) of colon cancer compared to vegetarians or people who consume no red meat. By the way, you don't have to be a vegetarian to boycott red meat. You can still be a consumer of other sources of animal protein (fish, seafood, etc.) while avoiding red meat.
There are plenty of health reasons to avoid eating red meat, and a higher risk of colon cancer is just one of them. The saturated animal fat found in red meat products contributes to heart disease and atherosclerosis. In addition, red meat can contain contaminants such as heavy metals, pesticides and undesirable environmental pollutants that tend to collect in the fat tissues of cows, which are absorbed into your body when you eat cow fat. And you can't eat red meat without getting some animal fat.
Then, of course, there's what I call the vibration of red meat, which concerns the homeopathy of the meat, or the environment in which the cow was raised. Was it a natural environment? Did the cow have access to open fields, sunlight and clean water? Or was this a cow raised as part of a slaughterhouse operation, produced for the sole purpose of generating profits? If you eat cows' meat that has undergone that kind of experience, you are consuming a product that is tainted with the negative experience of the animal from which it came.
There are a lot of negative effects associated with the consumption of red meat, and this is why more and more people are now giving up red meat and moving to healthier foods like fish, free-range chicken, or better yet, plant-based proteins like spirulina or soy products like soy milk and tofu. This is where you'll get your best protective effect and disease prevention, and you will be helping protect the environment at the same time. After all, it's far less stressful on the environment to produce food as plants than as animals.
It takes 10 acres to produce the same amount of red meat protein as it does to produce one acre of soy beans. And producing spirulina yields a tenfold increase over the production of soybeans. So think about it: one acre of farmland used to produce spirulina can produce 100 times as much protein as beef and red meat. That will be very important to realize as our world population grows and it becomes increasingly difficult to produce the protein required by the population.
These are all reasons to avoid an animal-based diet and pursue a plant-based diet. Many people reading this are already following a plant-based diet, but some of you who might be considering making the change probably aren't sure exactly how to do it.
Perhaps you want to merely reduce your consumption of red meat but not give it up completely yet, which is fine, since that's the way all of us ex-meat-eaters got into plant-based diets to begin with. Few people ate more meat than I did because I grew up in an environment where we had all the red meat we wanted at no charge (my grandfather was a cattle rancher). We had a freezer full of red meat at all times, and we could have as much hamburger, steak or other cuts of meat as we wanted. I consumed large quantities of red meat for nearly 30 years.
I found the transition away from red meat to be difficult at first. I started consuming less of it and eating other meat alternatives, and pretty soon I began to view red meat in a different way, because if you eat less of it, you eventually start to lose your appetite for it. And within less than a year, any time I would see red meat at the grocery store, it would gross me out. I look at it and I realize what it is: a chunk of flesh sliced off the carcass of a living creature that has been ground up and stuffed into a box. Usually there's some blood running around in the container as well. Every time I would look at that I would get grossed out and think to myself, "Gee, is this really what I want to eat for the rest of my life? This sliced up chunk of a dead cow?" And the answer was, "No." So it didn't take very long before I didn't want any red meat, and now I can't imagine eating it.
That's one way to get rid of red meat in your diet, but there are many other ways and I encourage you to experiment and see how you'd like to approach it. But the bottom line on red meat is that there is an increasing body of evidence supporting the notion that you can prevent cancer by pursuing a plant-based diet. If you want to be healthy, it's time to join the vegetarians. Maybe even join the vegans, if you have the courage.
Think about limiting or eliminating your consumption of red meat and instead nourish your body with the phytonutrients, phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals and even the living energy of plants. That's how you'll be the healthiest you can be.
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