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Diet and Natural Skin Care

Natural Skin Care — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:00:35 +0000

Many times skin conditions are a result of diet, but your dermatologist won’t make any money by telling you that. Chronic acne, psoriasis, dry skin, and various skin rashes can all be due to eating the typical Western diet.

Even if you think you are eating a relatively healthy diet, processed foods by their nature contain more fat and preservatives (toxins) than they do in their raw state. If you want to nourish your skin, consider going raw.

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Raw Food Redux

Natural Skin Care — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:50:04 +0000

Sometimes the universe tries to give you hints. I’ve been thinking for a while that I need to make changes to my diet—lean more towards vegetables and away from meat. Lately I keep running into recipes for great raw vegetable dishes. I’m not even looking for them, but they just keep popping up. So I’m taking the hint. I’ve decided from Monday through Friday it’s going to be all raw all the time.

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Bacon That’s Good For You

Natural Skin Care — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:00:36 +0000

Seaweeds are remarkable for the sheer number of nutrients they contain. A more accurate term would be sea vegetable. Of course, now that we are aware of their value, they are grown commercially.

Some of the wild versions are actually in danger of being over harvested and there are laws about when and who can harvest them. Luckily, you cannot patent an entire plant and, so for not much money, you can receive amazing health dividends by consuming sea vegetables.

You’re probably aware of sea vegetables from eatng sushi, but they are useful in many other ways. There are French texts dated from the 1890s that talk about the anti -cellulite properties of sea plants. Nowadays, people in the spa industry know that the iodine in seaweed somehow stimulates the body’s own fat removal system.

It may not be scientifically proven, but clients seem to be satisfied for the last 100 years or so. The schlime that forms when sea vegetables are soaked in fresh water is aliginic acid and helps the body to eliminate toxins and increase the ability to discharge harmful substances from the body. For a detoxifying bath add fresh sea vegetables and soak away.

There have been many studies done on sea vegetables in the diet. People who have diets rich in sea vegetables have lower breast cancer rate; less obesity, heart disease, rheumatism, arthritis; lower blood pressure; less thyroid disease; and fewer gastrointestinal problem. Kelp alone has 10 vitamins, 17 amino acids, 20 trace elements, and no calories—talk about a superfood! The 5 most popular seaweeds are:

Kombu
Wakame
Dulse
Nori
Arame

You can easily get more seaweed in your diet. Substitute seaweed for salt in reciples. Of course there is sushi (rice and vegetables wrapped in Nori), but you can also crumble it over rice, potatoes or vegetables, make a broth with it, add it to beans to prevent gas, or toss it in a salad. Many supermarkets sell fresh seaweed salad which doesn’t taste fishy and is a wonderful green side dish that goes with many things.

Recently Japanese scientists have found that brown seaweed, used in many Asian soups and salads, contains a compound that appears in animal studies to promote weight loss by reducing the accumulation of fat. Researchers believe the compound, fucoxanthin, could be developed into a natural extract or drug to help fight obesity.

Unless you’re allergic to iodine, there doesn’t appear to be a down side to eating this food.

Related article: Sea Herbs and Vegetables

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Iodine and Natural Skin Care

Natural Skin Care — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:00:42 +0000

I use a leave-in hair treatment that contains iodine. As far as I know it’s the only product of its kind that contains iodine, so of course I was a little miffed when it wasn’t in stock. I looked at some of the other products in the same line and was surprised to see that while the ingredients didn’t list iodine, dulse was listed. What is dulse you ask? Gentle reader, dulse is a kind of seaweed that is rich in iodine. I figure now is a good time to talk about the benefits of iodine and sea vegetables as they relate to natural skin care.

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