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HEALTHY BITES FOR THE HAIR

NOVUHAIR^®, the country’s leading natural hair loss solution supports the nation in highlighting the importance of healthy and balanced nutrition amidst the ongoing health crisis.

 

NOVUHAIR^® partnered with Chefy Wifey’s Kitchen and cooked up something, literally. Consistent with the brand’s advocacy, the “Food for the Hair” mini-program shall offer four (4) video demo episodes on how to prepare practical, nutritious and easy-to-do meals at home, focusing on ingredients that support healthy hair and prevent hair loss.

The initial episode features VIP Nutrition Coach Michelle Co-Huertas’ Chicken Afritada with Boiled Egg, a Filipino staple recipe loaded with nutrients and vitamins essential in achieving the best hair growth goal.


 

Chefy Wifey’s Kitchen prepared with TLC 100 packs and donated them to the hospital medical staff of the Philippine General Hospital in the city of Manila.

 

Human skin is blend of multiple layers and components coupled with each other performing their individual functions and protecting human from recognized and unidentified objects. There are different kinds of functions that our skin is engage with like protection from sunlight, sensing the body conditions and communicate with the brain, sweetening control and many others. Just like any other part of the body, skin is also an important organ and its disorder can generate severe results. Extreme level of skin diseases is skin cancer that can be life threatening.

What we need to do is take good care of our skin and an ideal condition is to take very much balanced diet. Deficiency of vitamins reduces the immunity as well as resistance power. Normally people also do not pay much attention towards small issues like itching and dryness. Often regular dryness becomes a big reason for dangerous skin disorders. It is also observed that people do not have much knowledge about different skin conditions and this unfamiliarity also creates big trouble.

It is very important to have basic knowledge of vital skin diseases and take preemptive measure well on time. Here are some very crucial skin conditions:

Vitiligo

Vitiligo is a chronic skin disorder that is often inherited genetically. In this condition, small white patches appears on different areas mostly on sun exposure parts like face, neck, hands, elbows, knee etc. usually these patches appear as a small spot (sometimes like a dot) and gradually spread over the time. Possibly but not necessarily, the disease may cover even 90% of the body. Under this condition only skin color is changed and no other internal body structured is damaged except the cells that produce the required melanin for pigmentation process. If you see any white spot, observe it carefully for few days and don’t overreact immediately. If it is not removed for couple of days and even getting enlarged, it is vitiligo.

Don’t panic but act wisely and try to find some natural remedies. Going towards allopathic is an expensive option. Try Herbal Weeds Ez Vitiligo Cure that is a natural treatment of vitiligo and removes these spots within 60 days. It is an excellent product. Vitiligo is not a contagious disease at all. It does not spread from one person to another just like other infectious diseases.

Psoriasis

This is another common skin disease that can affect to any part. It appears in the form of patches where skin becomes extra reddish capped with thick silvery scales. Patient feels extra itching, pain and stress to that area. Obviously if it is on the exposing areas, it can also cause low confidence and complex type of depression. This is another chronic condition that can reappear even after getting cured. Therefore it is very important to get a proper psoriasis treatment for vitiligo in a way that it should not reoccur.

Dryness

Dry skin is a very common problem that almost every human being faces in routine life. Although in first go, it looks pretty ordinary and we do not pay much attention but it’s an alarming fact that this dryness may lead to very serious skin diseases. In this condition skin is stretched, rough and becomes hard.

Conclusion

The role of skin is very vital and there are many skin diseases that we can face in our life. However the question is how to get rid of them and how to prepare ourselves to prevent its damages. If we can change our daily routines a little bit and control over diet plan, we can not only keep ourselves safe from skin disorders but also other diseases. Use fresh vegetables and vitamins/calories oriented fruits that will keep our body system efficient.

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Vitamins Versus Heart Disease

Do vitamins protect against heart disease? Surprisingly, to this date few well-designed studies have been done that will permit any correlation between the intake of vitamins and heart disease. Many claims have been made, especially for Vitamin E, but the data did not withstand scientific scrutiny and was mostly anecdotal. Some observations over 30 years ago have suggested that Vitamin C may be important in preventing fatty-cholesterol deposits in arteries.

Guinea pigs, one of the few laboratory animals that cannot make their own Vitamin C from carbohydrates, developed fatty-cholesterol changes when they were deficient in Vitamin C. They had scurvy.

When Vitamin C levels were restored, the fatty-cholesterol deposits regressed. There have been reports of reversal of fatty-cholesterol deposits in leg arteries after taking Vitamin C in men who were deficient in Vitamin C.

A study from the University of Edinburg, Scotland, (1991) suggests there is, in fact, a linkage between certain vitamins and coronary artery disease. The study was of the blood level of Vitamins A, C and E as well as carotene. It showed that the blood levels of vitamins C and E and carotene were significantly lower in men with angina than in those who did not have angina heart pain. There was no correlation with Vitamin A.

The study was of 100 men who had angina pectoris, and were selected from a special study group of 6,000 men for coronary artery disease. None of these men had seen a doctor for their chest discomfort and were not thought to have influenced their blood levels of vitamins because of changes in their diets. They were compared to 394 men who had no chest pain and served as controls.

One important difference in the two groups was that 29% of the controls and 46% of the men with angina smoked. There were no significant differences in the other usual risk factors for coronary artery disease: total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol and blood pressure.

Cigarette smoking did confuse the results. When the influence of cigarette smoking was taken into account, there was no significant difference in carotene levels between the two groups. The difference in Vitamin C levels was significantly decreased. But the difference in Vitamin E levels, as an independent factor, persisted.

That does not mean the differences in levels of carotene and Vitamin C are not important. It may simply mean that one way smoking increases the risk of heart disease is through its effects in lowering the level of carotene and Vitamin C in the body.

On Beta Carotene:

What can you do to use vitamins to help prevent heart disease? Keep in mind that it has not been proven that vitamins prevent coronary artery disease. It is quite important not to think that these studies mean large doses of any of these vitamins or carotene will prevent or treat coronary artery disease. Taking large doses can even be harmful. But the evidence may mean that if you have a low level or deficiency of these vitamins, then you need to improve your nutrition. The same nutritional advice that has been given to revent heart disease is what you should follow. The antioxidants are found in fresh fruits, vegetables and cereals. A great emphasis on these in the diet can help to increase antioxidant vitamins to a normal level.