Skin And Beauty

Archive for December, 2009

Virgin coconut oil will keep your skin young-looking- It strengthens connective tissues so wrinkles and sagging of the skin is prevented. Dead cells on the outer surface of the skin are removed, making your skin glow. Virgin coconut oil prevents the sun’s damaging effects. Its antioxidant properties will prevent skin from sagging and eliminate wrinkles. Age spots and skin cancer usually caused by the sun’s harmful rays is also avoided. Coconut oil is actually an ingredient of many suntan lotions.

Virgin coconut oil has antimicrobial properties.-It helps prevent bacterial and fungal infections. The MCFA’s when broken down into free fatty acids can kill disease-causing organisms like bacteria, viruses, and fungi.

Reminders:
Apply a small amount of virgin coconut oil and reapply it as often as necessary. The skin will not be able to absorb the oil if you apply too much oil at once as the skin becomes saturated.

The best time to massage the oil on your skin is after taking a bath.Virgin coconut oil is also great for the hair. Amanda George, a hairstylist from New York says, she massage two teaspoons of warm coconut oil (submerge the bottle of virgin coconut oil in warm water) on her hair before sleeping then rinse it in the morning. It also helps control dandruff.

Virgin coconut oil helps stretch marks
Please try out virgin coconut oil to remove stretch marks it contains Vitamin E.  It has been a long time tradition here in south india to use virgin coconut oil on an expanding pregnant belly. Apply every day especially after a shower, while still wet. It is also very beneficial to hair after the beach, or before if your hair gets dried out in the salt water. I recommend using MeritVCO ,I already had stretch marks and mine have faded since using this oil.

Here is one secret you need to know. No plan or program can ever claim to be the fastest weight loss diet. And the reason no program can say this is because it ultimately depends on you. If you don’t follow the plan then you can’t expect to get the results. If you do however follow th plan, as long as you apply proper discipline in selecting and eating the right kind and amount of food, any kind of diet will work for you. Are some better than others? You bet, and I can help you with that.

To help you further, here are some tips that you can use to help jump start your diet program.

1. Getting on a fitness and diet regimen requires discipline and the first thing you need to commit to doing is making a food journal. Get a notebook and list out everything you eat and drink with their corresponding calorie amounts daily. Do this for at least a week. At the end of each day, tally up how many calories you ate, and also count up how many grams of protein, carbs, and fat you consumed. If you went overboard and consumed to many calories, you now know you need to make adjustments.

2. In terms of choosing which foods to eat, try to stay away from these three things: sweets, high fat foods, and processed foods. All of these items are not only high in calories, but are bad for your heart, cholesterol levels, and the organs responsible for breaking down and getting rid of the excess waste in your body. Your body is a temple, and we should do all that we can to give it exactly what it needs to perform at its best. So go healthy and opt to eat more fruits, vegetables, and lean meats like chicken, turkey, and tuna fish.

3. If you did nothing else and followed this simple secret you would leap way ahead of the crowed. Do your very best to eat 6 small meals throughout the day. In between those meals if you get hungry, have some carrots, or an apple, or possibly some granola. By eating small meals, more frequently your body’s metabolism will begin to rev up, which means FAT loss. So there you have it. I hope these tips are enough to help you get started. There is no “fastest weight loss diet” when ultimately it comes down to you. As a bodybuilder I’ve learned there are ways to speed up the process but ultimately it comes down to you, and whether you are willing to take the steps necessary to get where you want to go.