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Beauty and Your Health

Tip # 1 Skin care, beauty, fitness and health go hand in hand. For those of you who are looking to loose weight, beauty is a key factor in keeping motivated. If you don't feel beautiful, you are more inclined to not follow through any diet or exercise program. If you don't feel good about yourself you will most likely not be motivated and give up. However , on the other hand, If you look good on the outside, it tends to make you feel good on the inside; hence, giving you the motivation to follow through and complete your diet and/or exercise program and loose the weight you want to and be healthy and fit. Tip # 2 Skin care is very important to younger healthy looking skin. You should use a cleansing product that targets your specific needs and is specific to your age and skin type. Not all cleansing products are the same just as not everyone's skin is the same. The same goes for creams. You should use a product that targets your specific needs and is specific to your

All physical activity reduces Alzheimer's risk

All physical activity reduces Alzheimer's risk  An important new study shows that any physical activity, not just exercising, is linked to a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.  The finding should be considered by people in middle age, since the disease develops for years before any symptoms occur. Protective activities included washing dishes, cooking, cleaning, gardening and even playing cards.  Study subjects had no signs of dementia at the start of the study, which is part of the ongoing Memory and Aging Project at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. This is the first study to use an objective measure of physical activity in addition to self-reports. Participants wore an actigraph on their wrists to assess levels of activity.  Those in the bottom 10 percent for physical activity were almost twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's. Quoted in USA Today, study leader, physician Aron Buchman says, "The implication of this study is really astoun