Achieving Youthful Healthy Skin with Vitamins A, C and E

We all want healthy skin. While the main reasons for pursuing healthy skin tend to be purely shallow and cosmetic in nature, healthy skin is beautiful and keeps us looking younger than our years and there are actually some practical health benefits to maintaining the good health for our skin. The purpose of the skin is to act as a barrier. It serves to prevent bacteria, viruses and other contaminants...

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Revealed! The Secrets of Mangosteen.

Do you spend at least some time in your day thinking about your health or that of a loved one? Do you also find the subject is frustrating, mainly because there is a lot of confusing and sometimes contradictory information out there? You are not alone! My wife and I have been involved with complimentary health care for 10 years and we are sometimes confused too! So are many of our friends and clients....

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Microdermabrasion-What is it?

Microdermabrasion is a skin peeling and renewing technique that removes layers of dead cells to reveal the newer more refreshed layer of your skin. There are many ways of accomplishing this, some gentler than others and some more effective than others. The sun, pollution, stress and the years can really leave their mark on our skin, microdermabrasion, tries to remove and minimize these signs of wear and tear. Microdermabrasion is not a new anti-aging technique, it goes as far back as the Egyptians, who used to apply abrasive masks made from alabaster particles. Many methods were used to reveal...

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Osteoporosis: What Can I Do to Prevent It

Osteoporosis is a silent disease. You normally don't know it until something like a fracture occurs. In reality, your bones have been loosing strength for years. There are millions of people with osteoporosis, and the vast majority of them are women. Bone is a living tissue that consistently breaks down and rebuilds. As we enter our 40's and 50's, the rebuilding is having a hard time keeping up with the breaking down. . . thus a net loss. While some of the risk factors cannot be modified (family history, small body frame size, racial ethnic makeup, surgery (removal of ovaries) and menopause),...

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