Giving Plastic Surgery as a Valentine's Day Gift

Giving Plastic Surgery as a Valentine's Day Gift
With Valentine's day just around the corner, some men may
be thinking of giving their significant other a plastic
surgery procedure as a gift. While the idea of less frown
lines, fuller lips, larger breasts, or a tighter waistline
may be on a man's wish list, make sure it is something the
woman really wants, lest it be misinterpreted as
self-serving....sort of like that DVD player or home
theatre system. If the idea seems to fit, here are some
important issues to consider.

Most importantly, whomever pays the bill, nobody should
undergo plastic surgery because someone else wants them to
or because it is a gift. This is the type of gift you
should give only if you are certain she really wants it.
The desire to have the procedure should be entirely
self-motivated and she should have talked about it in the
past or in the recent present. The happiest plastic surgery
patients are those who are doing it for themselves, to
improve their self-image, and not just for you.

It is important to remember that plastic surgery is not a
retail item, like buying a watch or perfume. It is a
serious undertaking and all procedures, no matter even if
done in the office, carry risks and the potential for
complications. Make sure you acquire this gift from a
qualified, board-certified plastic surgeon. Take the
initiative in properly selecting qualified plastic
surgeons, don't just go to someone because someone else
says so or that they bought the 'gift' there so you have to
send it there, Research a doctor's education and training,
board-certification, and his/her documented experience in
cosmetic surgery and procedures. Plastic surgery is a gift
that she can't give back if you don't like it!Even
purchasing something like a consultation for a few hundred
dollars would be a good safe start or a gift card for Botox
or injectable fillers. Any plastic surgeon's office can
help guide you in what to do.

Plastic Surgery, with the exception of office-based Botox
and injectable fillers, takes planning. Make sure that you
time your 'gift' appropriately. A self-motivated,
well-informed patient who plans their procedure around work
and family is the most likely to be happy and satisfied
with their plastic surgery decision.

If any of these areas are a concern...consider a generous
spa card instead...every woman alive likes pampering...and
you'll be a certain winner!

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Dr Barry Eppley runs a private plastic surgery practice
through his hospital-based medspa locations at Clarian
Health in Indianapolis. To learn more about the latest
trends in plastic surgery, spa therapies, or skin care, go
to his daily blog, http://www.exploreplasticsurgery.com .

Nutrition and Dental Health For Kids

Nutrition and Dental Health For Kids
In this day and age of fast and processed foods it can be a
challenge to ensure a healthy diet for your family.
Everyone wants to provide good food for their families, but
how to do that when the stores are full of processed foods
and fast food chains are everywhere boggles the mind.
However, for the parent willing to look, there are good
whole food and health food stores also. Look for foods that
are high in fiber and nutrients and low in chemical
additives and sugars.

Some suggestions for finding excellent health foods and
snacks online:

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http://www.sunfood.com

Essential Nutritious Food

Children are in their growing stages and therefore require
foods from each food group to maintain proper health.
Include carbohydrates, proteins, and fats in every meal.
Normally, a child's diet has a higher concentration of
carbohydrates. Carbohydrates contain starches and sugars,
some harmful and some essential. Try to emphasize the
complex carbohydrates found in vegetables and fruits as
opposed to the starchy carbohydrates found in pasta and
breads.

All types of foods and snacks are able to cause dental
cavities. Cookies, candies, pastries, and cakes are the
obvious troublemakers. Yet, fruits, milk, peanut butter,
pretzels, chips, and juices are equally detrimental.
Regulating eating habits along with regular brushing habits
will help tremendously.

Water

Water is a subject that is so often overlooked in
discussions of nutrition that I want to give it special
attention here. If you give your child water to drink early
on in life instead of flavored drinks of any kind, they
will grow up to appreciate water and want to drink it
naturally. Most people do not get enough good water in
their bodies.

Water is a natural lubricant and cleanser. It is a
necessary catalyst for most of the essential metabolism of
the body as well as acting as a cleansing agent to flush
waste and toxic materials from the cells and body as a
whole.

Today, most water sources need extra filtering to make sure
it doesn't contain more harmful ingredients than good.
Bottled water is an alternative, though that can be
expensive. Good inexpensive water filters can be found with
a little research and well worth the effort.

Finally, just drinking water during and after eating will
wash out the mouth and help dilute any remaining food
substance left, reducing the risk of tooth decay enormously.

Tips to Maintain Good Dental Health in Children

* Avoid giving sticky food like raisins, honey, caramel,
syrups, and molasses to children. Otherwise, insist on your
children brushing their teeth immediately after eating such
foods.

* Give them raw vegetables and fruits for snacks.
Vegetables and fruits like cucumber, pear, celery, and
melon stimulate the secretion of saliva during eating. This
helps wash away sugars present in such fruits and
vegetables and prevent any buildup of food residue.

* Give cheddar cheese as an alternative snack or for lunch.
This triggers saliva formation and helps wash down food
particles.

* Give children water instead of juices or soda. Juices and
soda have high levels of sugar. Soda also has carbolic
acid, which is extremely destructive to teeth. Diluting
fruit juices with some water is also helpful.

* Use a fluoridated toothpaste if you choose for brushing.
Fluoride helps improve the hardness of enamel and prevents
tooth decay. Flossing removes food deposits between the
teeth where brushing cannot.

* It is best to brush teeth well twice a day and preferably
also after meals and snacks. Drink lots of water!

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in Sacramento, CA. He graduated dental school in 1973 and
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How you can do medical treatment yourself

How you can do medical treatment yourself
All we from time to time are ill with this or that
illness.The main thing should be defined what the reason of
illness is and then it will be possible to make a decision
what drug to use. Someone prefers to address at once to the
doctor.Personally I for a long time am prefering not to
address to doctors as they seldom helped me and at times
even harmed.

I have decided to have medical treatment myself if it of
course is not very serious illness.I had refered little bit
to medical literature.What illnesses we collide with?

The reasons of illnesses are various and numerous.Their
consideration naturally enough leads to classification of
illnesses on following basic groups: 1) congenital defects;
2) infections; 3) infringements of a metabolism;
4)avitaminosis(vitamin insufficiency (deficiency); 5)
tumoral diseases; 6) the illnesses caused by physical or
chemical influences, poisons and an intoxication; 7)
degeneration diseases; 8) allergies.

Illnesses also classify to action on which organs or
systems of an organism they influences.So, there are
illnesses of digestive system, organs of breath or
cardiovascular system. Almost all diseases fall under such
classification. However mental frustration make a separate
category as are connected with mental or emotional changes.

There are special group of diseases of still unknown origin
(illnesses that amaze a lymph nodes, a leather,lungs, bones
and other structures of an organism).

Illnesses of infectious character are rather numerous and
often lead to fatal outcomes. Among them distinguish the
diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, the
elementary, worms and arthropods (in particular, insects).
As a whole, the majority of infectious diseases is
characterized by a number of the general attributes.

Treatment have radically changed basically with sulfamidic
preparations and antibiotics(penicillin, streptomycin,
etc.) So, absolutely differently, than earlier,it began to
treat a tuberculosis, a pneumonia and a meningitis.

Infringements of a metabolism - very important group of
diseases. Their reason can be infringement of such
processes as digestion of nutrients, interaction between
glands of internal secretion or regulation of development
and use of hormones, synthesis of enzymes. In studying the
nature of such illnesses the greater role belongs to
chemistry and biochemistry.

Deficiency illnesses happen more often from lack of the
certain vitamins B to food. Deficiency arising in an
organism is caused by specific infringements (first of all
processes of a metabolism) and the scurvy, a rickets and
gout leads to such diseases, for example.

More often reason of disease are physical influences
(warmly, a cold, a sunlight, compressed air, an electric
current).

Allergic diseases are caused by the raised sensitivity or
the certain substances, or physical factors, for example,to
a cold or a heat. The most widespread allergic diseases - a
bronchial asthma, red rash and a hay fever.

As a rule, illnesses have the certain displays (symptoms)
which the patient can notice, for example a pain, rise in
temperature, dizziness, a nausea or a short wind.

Carefully made analysis with the full description of all
symptoms serves as the best help for statement of the
diagnosis. Some symptoms happens that difficultly correctly
to interpret, for example,to define the reason of
weariness, a headache or tachycardia. It is known, that the
organic reason of some symptoms sometimes long time remains
not distinguished.

Nevertheless careful analysis,all the same, must result for
us by target.

There are many medicines and drug on a market now and It is
at times difficult to choose and it happens that it is
impossible to find the necessary drug.

I now prefer to buy medicines online.I found web site where
is good choice of the most effective drug. I recommend you
to visit this site on reference.

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Using First Aid For Broken Bones. What To Do.

Using First Aid For Broken Bones. What To Do.
First Aid for Broken Bones - Help is On the Way!

First aid for broken bones has two initial concerns. The
first is to get the person to a doctor as quickly as
possible. The second is to prevent further damage in the
fracture area due to unnecessary movement until help
arrives. When bones are broken, the surrounding tissue is
affected. This is especially true when the bone breaks
into pieces which move around. In addition, some suspected
broken bones, such as neck or back bones, require special
handling

First aid for broken bones concentrates on stabilizing the
fracture area long enough to seek emergency assistance.
The first thing you want to do is visually evaluate the
area and determine if there's bleeding. If so, the
bleeding should be stopped using compression. This will
probably be painful for the person with the broken bone
though, so only worry about serious or life threatening
bleeding.

You should not try to move a person with a broken bone.
The more the injured person can remain immobile until help
arrives, the more likely there will not be additional
injury. When a bone breaks, the bone injury and damage to
surrounding tissue can cause shock. It's important to
cover the person with a blanket or some other covering if
at all possible.

Most bone fractures will not cause death. But some
fractures can cause paralysis or brain damage if not
handled properly. If you know or suspect a person has a
head, neck or back injury, first aid for broken bones
dictates using whatever you can to keep the person straight
and still. There have been many cases where paralysis
occurred only because the bones shifted when the person
with the injury moved. Broken bones can sever nerves and
cause lots of other problems.

In the case of broken arms and legs, first aid for broken
bones includes applying cold compresses or ice to the
fracture area. This reduces bruising and swelling. The
limb should also be elevated. Sometimes injuries occur in
places where help cannot be reached immediately. In that
case, first aid for broken bones would include making a
splint for the arm or leg for immobilization and finding a
way to keep weight off the leg through a makeshift crutch.

If the area below the fracture turns blue and cold, it
means the fracture has cut off the supply of blood. In
this case, first aid for broken bones focuses on
straightening the limb as much as possible in order to
restore blood flow. This should be done cautiously, gently
and slowly.

Immediate first aid for broken bones can play a crucial
role in preventing permanent damage as a result of the
injury. Keeping the injured person immobile as much as
possible is important. You should always get medical help
as soon as possible.

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Why Include Strength Training in your Fitness Routine

Why Include Strength Training in your Fitness Routine
Research has shown the weight training, weight lifting and
or strength training, has enormous effects on the muscular
skeletal system, enhances the maintenance of functional
abilities, helps prevent osteoporosis, sarcopenia (loss of
body mass), low back pain, and other disabilities

Loss of strength is one of the characteristics of aging.
This is particularly problematic for those people whose
lifestyles don't demand use of the muscles. If you are an
office jockey or are otherwise sedentary, your muscles will
atrophy lowering your metabolic rate and negatively impact
your immune system. Strength training is one of the most
effective ways to combat aging.

Strength training also contributes to muscle conditioning.
Conditioning muscles is essential to overall stability and
the strength of the body. A strong body provides many
benefits all through out life. Maintaining strong muscles
also aids in maintaining stronger, healthier bones, tendons
and connective tissues.

Your posture or the ways you sit and stand reflect the
health of the muscles and bones that keep you upright.
Strengthening those muscles and bones will enable to sit
and stand more comfortably.

Many people, particularly women, fear strength training
believing they will experience dramatic gains in muscle
size making them look more like men. This just is not so.
Men and women have different hormones that govern how
muscles respond to strength training. The male hormone
testosterone is key to building large muscles. Women simply
lack sufficient levels of testosterone to "bulk up".
Instead you'll gain longer more shapely muscles that can
also be much stronger.

Clinical studies have shown that strength training is a
keep ingredient in managing stress. A regular exercise
routine that incorporates strength training will result in
better deep sleep in addition to handling stress more
readily. The hormones that are released as result will also
lift your mood thus combating depression

Strength training like most forms of exercise raises the
metabolic rate thus burning more calories. It will aid in
maintaining the proper weight with less body fat. Be aware
though that as your routine progresses, you may not
actually lose weight, but you'll lose inches. Muscle is
denser thus heavier than fat but takes less space. Over
time you should notice decreases in waist measurements and
body fat measurement.

A little exercise is better than no exercise. Avoid feeling
that if you can't spend hours, then why bother. Every
journey starts with the first step. Be conscious of how you
carry grocery bags, babies or other objects. Make daily
chores into an impromptu workout.

Consult with your doctor if you want to make weight lifting
a daily part of your fitness regimen.

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home fitness and exercise equipment and related information.

Taking Care of Your Heart

Taking Care of Your Heart
Let's talk about heart disease and what you can do to help
lower your risk of getting a heart attack.

It is about what is called "risk reduction." No one can
promise you that if you make all the changes in the world
you will never have a heart attack (hey, you can get hit by
a car while crossing the street after buying your lowfat
soy mocha). What you need to do is work on reducing your
RISK for developing the disease.

To that end, let me tell you about the different types of
risk factors involved in heart disease.

I divide risk factors into two categories:changeable and
non-changeable; ones you can do something about, and ones
you can't.

There are three non changeable risk factors for heart
disease: age, gender and genetics. You can't change the
fact that, even as you read this article, you are getting
older, and the older you are, the greater your risk for
heart disease. The idea is to put that off for as long as
possible! Males tend to have more heart attacks than women,
particularly pre menopausal women. It seems that post
menopausal women have the same risk for heart disease as
men. It is possible that there is a hormonal reason for
this, but none of the studies have been able to prove that
replacing the hormones lost during menopause (particularly
estrogen and progesterone) eliminates the risk. However,
research is ongoing, so we shall have to wait and work on
our changeable risk factors!

The third non changeable factor is genetics.
Unfortunately, you cannot pick your parents, and if your
folks had heart disease at an early age, your are at
increased risk yourself.

Which brings us to: changeable risk factors. There are many
ways you can modify your behavior to reduce your risk for
heart disease-including the following:

1-Diet. By changing the composition of your diet, you may
be able to reduce the buildup of cholesterol (actually what
is known as "plaque") on your artery walls. Reducing your
saturated fat intake is a big step. Saturated fat is found
primarily in animal foods, so try to buy lean cuts of meat,
fish, poultry. Using unsaturated fats, such as nuts,
seeds, oils may help lower your cholesterol levels as well.

2-Exercise. Increasing activity may help make your heart
stronger, and increase your blood levels of HDL, also known
as healthy cholesterol.

3-Quit smoking. While the chemicals in cigarettes may not
affect your blood cholesterol, they do act to make your
arteries less flexible-a condition known as
arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries.

4- Reduce stress. However you define stress, find a way to
deal with it! Yoga, pilates, meditation-you need to lower
your stress levels because they may be related to raising
yet another risk factor->

5-Blood Pressure. If you are overweight, unable to deal
with stress, your blood pressure may rise, increasing your
risk for heart attack and stroke. Lifestyle change and
medication may be very helpful at reducing blood pressure.

These are only a few of the ways you can modify the
changeable risk factors in your life to lower your chances
for developing heart disease. You need to decide what
you are capable of doing, working together with your health
care providers and your family. While there are no
guarantees, there are no downsides to making time to take
care of yourself.

Now get started!

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Liquid Vitamins - The Smart Choice

Liquid Vitamins - The Smart Choice
Vitamins and minerals can be absorbed by the body in a
number of ways. First, they enter thru the food that we
eat. Secondly, we can take vitamin supplements to increase
the amount of important vitamins and minerals. When taking
medications there are different methods and one of the most
common methods is absorbing them in liquid form. To find
out why the advantages of liquid vitamins far outweigh any
disadvantages they may have if any, please read on.

Better and Easier Absorption for Kids: Although liquid
vitamins may taste different than vitamins in flavored
chewable tablet forms, they are however easier to absorb.
There are numerous cases in which children have problems
with choking, breathing and swallowing simply because of
their inability to absorb medications or vitamins in pill
or tablet form.

This is the same problem as well for adults who have never
liked taking pills or tablets since they were children.
They much prefer the ease and convenience of taking liquid
vitamins and medications.

Liquid Vitamins are more Effective: Because of its form
liquid vitamins can be assimilated immediately into the
blood stream for a more systemic administration of the
vitamin and its average absorption rate is approxiamately
90 to 98%. It is also three to five times more concentrated
than vitamin pills and this leads to higher bio-activity
and greater therapeutic benefits.

The Link Between Antioxidants and Liquid Vitamins: Liquid
vitamins must in fact contain antioxidants or they will
prove to be ineffective compared to other vitamins.
Remember that the most important of all antioxidants are
Vitamins A, C and E and that they are not internally
produced by the body so they must be a regular fixture in
your diet. Antioxidants are the main defense against the
effects of damaging oxidation reactions. They are the best
weapons against the suffering of any form of cancer.
Without them we are basically weaker and less healthy.

Liquid Vitamins Versus Digestive Acids: One reason why
people refuse to acknowledge the benefits of liquid
vitamins is because of the supposed destruction by
digestive acids of any vitamin or mineral that it does not
recognize as part of the process of digestion. The opposite
is in fact true. Our digestive system actually prefers or
is able to better absorb liquid vitamins and minerals
rather than those made in pill or capsule form.

A vitamin pill or tablet has to be digested completely
before it can benefit the human body. It must be broken
down into absorbable nutrients or only up to 30% of it will
be absorbed by the body. Liquid vitamins however provide a
better and easier solution for the digestive system.
Because it does not depend in any way on mechanical
digestion an estimated 90% of it can be absorbed directly
by the body.

You Have a Choice: At the end of the day it is still up to
you whether or not you wish to take vitamins supplements in
liquid or solid form. The important thing is you need to
take vitamins and minerals in order to live and maintain a
healthy body and lifestyle. And with the new and much
better tasting liquid vitamins available on the market
today, why not try a liquid vitamin and see how it works
for you. Your body will thank you.

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