1606 5 ways to look younger from ediets.com

 

 

 

Sep. 9, 2003

 

 

Look Younger: 5 Super Simple Secrets!
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by Dr. Nicholas Perricone
Special To eDiets

Searching for a fountain of youth? Well, look no further.

Dr. Nicholas Perricone is the master of turning back time when it
comes to your skin. By following the advice of the board certified
clinical and research dermatologist, you'll look years younger. The
renowned skin scientist holds dozens of U.S. and international
patents for the treatment of skin and systemic disease, and for the
use of topical anti-inflammatories for reversing and preventing
damage to skin.

Dr. Perricone shares his anti-aging beauty secrets in his bestselling
book The Perricone Prescription, A Physician's 28-Day Program for
Total Body and Face Rejuvenation (HarperCollins).

In his debut column, Dr. Perricone shares discoveries in anti-aging
skin care, science-based strategies to enhance your appearance and
tips on eating for smooth, vibrant skin and a healthier body.

Get ready to enhance your beauty, health and well being at the hand
of America's favorite dermatologist.

1. Give Up Coffee

The simple fact is that coffee raises levels of one of the stress
hormones known as cortisol. Cortisol is essential for maintaining
homeostasis during acute forms of stress, like fear, physical trauma
and extreme physical exertion. But a problem arises when cortisol is
present for long periods of time and in excess quantities.

High levels of cortisol:


Increase body fat

Thin the skin

Cause depression of the immune system

Elevate blood sugar

Cause bone loss

Are toxic to brain cells

Cortisol raises blood sugar, which in turn raises insulin --
resulting in the storage of fat in the abdominal region. In short,
when we raise our cortisol levels, we run the risk of becoming fat,
wrinkled and depressed.

2. Drink Tea -- Especially Green Tea

Green tea contains one of nature's strongest natural antioxidants
called polyphenols. To quickly recap, an antioxidant is a substance,
which fights disease by decreasing inflammation on a cellular level
that is initiated by free radicals. Inflammation can cause cancer,
heart disease and many other life-threatening ailments. Perhaps worst
of all from a dermatological standpoint, inflammation also causes
wrinkled, sagging skin.

Green tea contains high levels of polyphenols, an antioxidant with
powerful anti-inflammatory activity. Green tea has also been reported
to boost the immune system, and countries that consume large amounts
of green tea (four + cups a day) have reported much lower incidence
of cancer and heart disease.

Studies have shown that green tea can also boost weight loss by two
separate mechanisms:

1. It decreases the absorption of fats.

2. It increases our calorie burning mechanism. Theonine in tea blocks
the negative effects of caffeine while acting as a natural mood
elevator. In addition, theonine is protective to brain cells in that
it prevents a negative reaction called cytotoxicity, which can lead
to the death of brain cells. Theonine also helps block the effects of
caffeine and increase feelings of well-being.

3. Drink 8 – 10 Glasses Of Water Per Day

If I could teach my patients and students three things that would
keep them forever young, they would be to drink water, to drink water
and then to drink more water. If you do not drink water, your organs
and cells cannot function.

Water will decrease inflammation in the body. Remember this important
fact -- even a partially dehydrated person will gain one pound of
weight every six months. A special note to both women and men -- you
will not become bloated if you drink water. In fact, if you don't
drink water, you cannot metabolize fat, nor can you flush wastes out
of the cells. A dehydrated body provokes the development of aging
inflammatory compounds. And remember, the difference between a grape
and a raisin is -- you guessed it -- water.

4. Eat Adequate, High Quality Protein

In my efforts to find answers to why we age, I reasoned that if aging
and sagging skin are characterized by the breakdown of our cells, the
antidote to aging might be cellular repair. Protein is essential to
cellular repair. The building blocks of our cells are composed of
amino acids. As protein is digested, it breaks down to amino acids,
which are then utilized by the cells to repair themselves. Without
adequate protein, our bodies enter into an accelerated aging mode.

This simple fact of life can change the way you look -- beginning
during your next meal. If your cells do not have complete
availability of all the essential amino acids, cellular repair will
not only be incomplete, but it will be much slower than it should be.

5. Avoid Fat Free or Low Fat Diets

This is not a blanket endorsement to run out to the nearest quarter-
pounder with cheese. I am recommending essential fatty acids, such as
those found in wild Alaskan salmon, nuts and seeds. Make sure you
include the essential fats at every meal. Why? Because of the
following:

It takes the right fats to burn fats in our body

Essential fatty acids keep our skin soft, supple and radiant

EFA's enhance moisture retention from within

EFA's assist in the repair of the natural moisture barrier of the
skin

In addition, EFA's provide great protection to the body's major organ
systems and the immune system.

I welcome your comments and suggestions.

Until next time,
Nicholas Perricone, MD

To get your copy of The Perricone Prescription, click here.

Nicholas Perricone, MD, FACN, is a board certified clinical and
research dermatologist. Dr. Perricone holds dozens of U.S. and
international patents for the treatment of skin and systemic disease,
and for the use of topical anti-inflammatories for reversing and
preventing damage to the skin caused by factors such as age, the sun,
the environment and hormonal changes. He is the author of two # 1 New
York Times best sellers, The Perricone Prescription and The Wrinkle
Cure. His most recent book is The Acne Prescription (HarperCollins).

1607dreams scopes

 

 

 

Sep. 9, 2003

 

 

I dreamt about X last night, nothing I can remember too
specifically. Something about adult sorority sisters all dressed in
Jackie O chanel dresses & pillbox caps, and me taking [J, X's daughter] somewhere
and X saying something inappropriate & me saying something also
inappropriate in front of her, and her yelling at me for saying that
in front of her kid, or some crap like that.

Oh, latest X talk between me & J-Law:

Me to J-Law:

Oh. I meant to tell ya, Mom got a letter from Mike V,
Xs stepdad. He didn't mention her and [M - Xtal's husband] being
separated. So do you think she just told me that
because she thought it was what I wanted to hear? or
she's not telling Mike V? Or maybe Mike V knows but
didn't mention it to mom? Anyway...wierd. Probably
just more manipulative BS on X's part, selectively
telling different people whatever she thinks will make
them most sympathetic to her cause.

J-Law to me:

Interesting re: Mike V's letter. I wouldn't be at all surprised if
X was giving selected, edited, etc. stories to various people.
Not a'tall.

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Taurus
Horoscope (by Astrocenter.com)
Relations with people on the job today should be warm and affable,
dear Taurus, and this could do wonders for your career standing.
However, take nothing at face value; all may not be as it seems.
Someone has issues about you that render them untrustworthy. Also,
take care to avoid getting too close to anyone who may seem to be a
little under the weather. Your immune system is a bit weak and you
could well catch a bug.

Gemini
Horoscope (by Astrocenter.com)
Some new information may come your way that causes you to focus on a
new interest, dear Gemini. It'll set your mind going and have you
traveling mentally to faraway places and times. You could also meet
some new people that may be highly educated or come from foreign
lands, or both. They might have some fascinating stories to tell!
Whatever comes your way, today promises to excite your curiosity and
give your intellect some real stimulation
============================
Personalized:


Sun Sign: Taurus
Rising Sign: Sagittarius

Things may be happening fast and furiously around you today, evilE,
but this doesn't mean that you necessarily have to join this frenzied
pace. You are probably much better off sticking to your slow,
methodical approach. Take the time to collect the facts you need
before you jump right into a major decision or plan of attack. People
may be a bit jumpy, so do your best to be the stable one in the group.

Your Rising Sign
Take a more aggressive approach in your career today. You will find
that your heart is a bit more involved in the process than usual, and
you will find that the masculine and feminine sides of your being are
working together to make a positive impression on just about everyone
you come in contact with. Use the power of today's conjunction
between Mars and the Moon to bring your external actions and inner
strength together as one.

Daily Numeroscope - September 9, 2003
Life Path Number: 6
You will be supported in your love life but you will also be going
through a period of work and great responsibility, evilE. You may
have some problems with those you work with because they have some
revolutionary ideas concerning work that will generate some
conflicts. You appreciate a certain amount of change and newness but
refuse to question how things have been set up by some of the your
family and friends. You like to hang on to what you know and so find
comfort in the family nest...

1608Re: no $

 

Sep. 9, 2003

 

anhedonia

My life isn't miserable. But it increasingly seems that there are no
rewards for good behavior and no punishments for bad. No raises at
work for 2 years worth of "outstanding" performance reviews.
Occasional threats, but no removal of internet access for abuse of
work computer.

My personal life mirrors this. Despite the ongoing (admittedly,
sporadic at times) efforts towards thinness, I maintain at right
about 30lbs more than I want to have. Frumpy but not circus freaky. I
walk the border between regular stores & fat stores. Neither have
much of a selection for my size.

Despite ongoing (and yet again, sporadic) efforts, I maintain a debt
load that is about the same as it was last year, and the year before
that, and the year before that.

It's like dishes & laundry. No matter how many loads you do there are
more loads to do. And it never ends. And there are no rewards. Other
than the absence of filth in that particular area of life, perhaps.

There are things I'd like to do, but no $. There are things that need
to be done, but no $ to do them either. And of course I'd feel
obligated to do the things that need doing before the things that I
want to do.

There is no pain, opression, or abuse.

But there is no pleasure, either.

Maybe normal people go home from a day of doing the same thing
they've been doing for years with a happy smile. Maybe normal people
put away the last of the clean laundry with a blissful sigh. To
normal people, maybe everyday things are pleasurable to an extent
that they aren't for me.

For me, the things that give pleasure are inherently harmful, so they
can't be used as rewards. No "celebration milkshake" for losing 4
pounds. No amazon.com shopping spree to celebrate NOT using my
plastic for a month. Using pathology to reward non-pathological
behavior is pathological.

Life these days is all about doing what needs to be done, what should
be done, what won't be done unless I do it. Nothing is fun.
Everything good gets put off to 'someday'.

Welcome to being an adult, E. "Virtue is its own reward," my ass.

1609pro-tiring!

• Sep. 9, 2003

  HEY! I was talking/thinking about this, like 2 yrs ago!
  =========
  http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=441620
  
  Meet the Tireds: young, wealthy and disillusioned by 30
  
  By Matthew Beard
  
  09 September 2003
  
  They started as precocious teenagers and became high-earning yuppies
  but on reaching 30, their generation has concluded that much of
  modern life is rubbish.
  
  Enter the Tired - the Thirtysomething Independent Radical Educated
  Dropout - who is prepared to leave a hard-won professional job
  because he or she feels the system has let them down. Instead of
  risking burnout by pushing body and soul to the limits - so 1980s -
  they are turning to occupations that pay less but offer more
  satisfaction and less stress.
  
  According to research by a niche marketing group, about one in 15
  people aged 30 or over has already decided to "protire" - a term
  describing a mid-life sideways move that emphasises the positive
  aspects of retirement such as the time to explore other interests.
  A further 45 per cent in a survey of 1,100 people aged 18-35 said
  they were considering taking the same route out of the "rat race"
  into jobs such as small-scale organic farming, charity work, flower-
  arranging, alternative medicine or housework.
  
  The report said that the Tired generation was a backlash against
  social changes that forced them to work harder in the past decade
  amid increasing insecurity. They have graduated with student debts
  averaging £11,000 into a flexible but increasingly "cut-throat"
  labour market with little protection from the welfare state,
  according to the report by The Fish Can Sing, which advises brands
  such as Absolut Vodka, Nike and Motorola.
  
  Howard Beale, a partner at the company, said: "A significant
  proportion of talented young people, precisely those who business are
  so keen on, are pro-tiring. Young people in a weird way have become
  older than their parents. Huge student debt means they have become
  very career-focused and worried about money. The generation perceived
  to have it all are questioning whether they want it all.''
  Authors of the report interviewed people in focus groups and
  concluded that at the age of 30, many are facing an epiphany. "The
  mid-life crisis is coming earlier and to a broader range of
  professional people. Once it was the overworked bankers aged 45-50
  but now it is happening to lawyers, journalists, teachers and doctors
  in their 30s,'' Mr Beale said.
  
  Among under 30s there is still an intense desire for money, career
  success and status. The report even claims that "Britain has never
  been a more ambitious place" and notes that in the past decade the
  number of young people who fear "dying without achieving anything"
  has doubled to 65 per cent. The most popular route to achievement is
  seen to be in the media, technology or design.
  
  The market will intervene to restore faith and aspiration to the
  generation succeeding the Tireds but things may get worse before they
  get better, the report predicts. It concludes: "It is unlikely that
  pro-retirement will become the norm. History suggests that were this
  to become the case, employers would raise pay in order to persuade
  employees to stay. It also confirms that as with the counter-cultural
  years, the socially aware drop-outs in society can represent the
  repressed feelings of a far larger social group.
  
  "Relatively few of our respondents may have pro-retired; almost half
  of them say they would like to. Tired and pro-retirees might be
  losing interest in business, but business should not lose interest in
  them."
  
  NIKKAN WOODHOUSE FROM CITY LAWYER TO FREELANCE DESIGNER
  
  Nikkan Woodhouse, 32, quit her £80,000-a-year job as a City lawyer in
  February because the work left her unfulfilled and with little time
  for outside interests.
  
  She has since set up her own business making and selling modern art,
  and speaks highly of her move into "protirement".
  
  Although she never planned to become a lawyer - falling into it as
  an "easy option" at Oxford University - it was a job with a title and
  a set career path. But it also came with a 70-hour working week.
  
  Her time with a multinational company's legal department
  was "interesting but very stressful", leaving her restless and
  wanting to do something more creative.
  
  "I never once felt that I did anything other than push words around,"
  she says, describing the City as "like living in virtual reality
  where you can earn a lot of money by contributing astonishingly
  little". The highs were the financial security, the travel and the
  involvement in high-profile business, but the level of commitment
  demanded took its toll. "This company takes massive chunks out of
  each day of you life, there's this issue of control," she said. "You
  feel like you don't really own your time, they have a hold over you
  which you can't change unless you walk away."
  
  Ms Woodhouse had always harboured artistic ambitions but buckled in
  the face of conventional career advice. She now runs a web-based
  company which specialises in printing contemporary art and designs on
  materials ranging from canvas to perspex.
  
  She said: "It was an idea I came across a year or two ago when I was
  decorating my loft apartment. I blew up a load of cool photographs,
  printing them on to perspex, and loads of people commented on them. I
  guess I just thought, 'Why not?'"
  
  Away from the office she has the time to play five-a-side football
  several nights a week and has started an evening college course.
  She said: "It's great to be able to make commitments outside of work.
  There just weren't the hours in the day to do anything like this
  before."
  
  Oliver Duff
  
  ACRONYM GENERATION
  DINKY: Double Income No Kids Yet. Origin: Eighties term for gay
  couples. Use: Affluent, childless couples
  YUPPIE: Young Urban Professional. Origin:Eighties advertising.
  Use:Ambitious career person
  SINBAD: Single Income No Boyfriend Absolutely Desperate. Origin:
  Eighties marketing. Use: Single woman in her thirties.
  SITCOM: Single Income Two Children Oppressive Marriage. Origin:
  Eighties marketing. Use: Unhappy marrieds.
  WOOPIE: Well-Off Older Person. Origin: Eighties marketing.Use:
  Affluent and active retired people.
  Melissa Sim

1637*sigh*--dreams/scopes/malaise

 

 

Sep. 19, 2003

dreams: party in some really 70's style house with Mom passing out
small shots of scotch. Every time the bottle got set on the carpet it
left a yellow stain. I was also drinking beer but I wasn't getting
very drunk or sick at all. something later, driving past a sad little
blonde boy standing on the side of the road.

Just for future reference, not that it will make a damn difference in
my eating habits or anything, but eating garbage all week has done a
number on my digestion. My intestines are in almost constant pain &
upset; bloating, gas & bad potty.

Have hit a brick wall re: what to do this weekend.

Saturday is drandmir coronation at mother neff s.p. also SA pagan
pride day, also GWNN party, also Tablerock Faire. None appeal.

Sunday is more drandmir coronation & tablerock faire. Just not
interested at all.

Possible depression, allergies, or weather-related energy drain,
possible side effect of withdrawing all my spending $ at the
beginning of the month & telling myself "this is all there is, once
it's spent, no more." I'm just trying to find a way to NOT overspend
or binge eat (haha) and not feel deprived for not bingeing.
==================================
Taurus
Horoscope (by Astrocenter.com)
With regard to communication, today should be a busy day. Letters and
phone calls to people close to you are likely to take up a lot of
your time, dear Taurus. You might be organizing a meeting or social
event of some kind. You're probably feeling especially optimistic and
enthusiastic at this time, and therefore likely to spread these
feelings to others. You're also more likely than usual to sense
intuitively what's going on with them.


Gemini
Horoscope (by Astrocenter.com)
A get-together of some kind is likely to happen sometime during the
course of your working day, dear Gemini. This should lead to some
pleasant and interesting conversations, possibly involving
philosophy, spiritual matters or the arts. Communication with those
around you should be clear and open, and as much on a subtle level as
on a verbal level. Letters and other writings should take up almost
as much time as conversations right now.
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evilE
Sun Sign: Taurus
Rising Sign: Sagittarius

People may seem a bit more stubborn than usual, and tempers will be
highly emotional. Try not to contribute to these potential volcanoes
by being vain and stubborn yourself, evilE. Now is not a time to sit
back and contemplate. You have all the information you need. Now is
the time to act. Go for it. At the same time, make sure that you are
actively getting the attention you deserve, and conversely, make sure
you are giving credit to those people who have helped you so much
along your way.

Your Rising Sign
If, for any reason, you haven't been completely candid about
something with someone today, you will find that this issue
inevitably comes up. More than likely, there will be extremely strong
forces associated with it, and it will be hard for you to escape
dealing with the powerful emotions that rise to the surface. Today's
trine between Mars and the Moon is suggesting that you will have no
choice but to take action.

Daily Numeroscope - September 19, 2003
Life Path Number: 6 You are alone before the contradictions inside
of you and it is in solitary that you will have to confront the days
to come, evilE. It's true that the current vibrations are speaking of
new contacts and professional success, but you will feel an
increasingly strong desire to share these successes with someone you
care about. Follow your own path, and don't imitate or envy anyone.
Look for what corresponds the most to your temperament, be more
involved and you will rapidly harvest the fruits of your labor...