Women's Health Blog

There are a lot of things that people notice about a certain person. Some people notice that person’s smile or the eyes and sometimes, people first notice a person’s hair. Strong and shiny hair can boost the confidence of a person. Most people even say that they would rather dress badly than lose their hair. The hair is one of the most important assets of a person. This is the reason why a lot of people give so much importance to their hair in fact they even take hair vitamins for the hair. Hair vitamins are known to make hair more shiny and lustrous.

Continue reading ‘Its Possible to Prevent Hair Loss With A Healthy Diet.’ »

Healthy skin diet is the key to clear beautiful skin. Diet is a very important factor in skin care. fruits in daily diet. There should be a proper balance diet in all meals in right proportion of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrate, fats and proteins. Non-vegetarians have rich amount of protein in their diet but vegetarian diet lacks it so they need to include good amount of proteins in their diet

Here’s how the Better Skin Diet will help cleanse your skin from the inside out so you can look and feel great. For starters: Don’t be fooled by diet products, topical treatments and special food regimens that promise flawless skin as you can them in the normal food as following:

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We’ve all seen those commercials on TV that warn of “stubborn belly fat” brought on by too much stress. The pills being hawked on these programs promise to block the stress hormone, cortisol.

Ever wonder if there’s any truth to what they’re saying?

The Truth
Cortisol is a corticosteroid hormone produced by the adrenal gland in your adrenal cortex. It’s your body’s modern-day answer to the “fight or flight” responses we had to stress (back when we were true hunters and gatherers).

Cortisol:

- Increases blood pressure and blood sugar

- Breaks down lipids and proteins (in case you’d rather ‘fight’ than ‘flight’)

- Acts as a water diuretic hormone (leading to dehydration)

- Physically eats away at the pleasure centers of the brain (producers of norepinephrine, epinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine)

So cortisol DOES exist and is indeed harmful to the body if left unchecked. Continue reading ‘How Stress Makes Women Fat (and How to Get Rid of Both!)’ »