Health: The 12 Super Foods you should be Eating

The 12 Super Foods you should be Eating

Written by Ryan Cote

If you’re reading this than you already know how important good nutrition is. I’m a big advocate of “you are what you eat.” If you make a serious effort to improve your eating habits, you will notice a positive change in how you look and feel.

I recently came across a list of 12 “super foods” in a leading health magazine. The list is as follows:

1. Almonds and other nuts 2. Beans and legumes 3. Spinach and other green vegetables

7 Tips to Help You Avoid Buying a Destructive Soap or Cleanser if You Have a Skin Problem.

Written by Michael Hrenko

Psoriasis, dermatitis, eczema, and any other skin problems are irritated very easily by most soaps. As a former psoriasis sufferer I would estimate I tried at least 30 different soaps hoping that would cure my psoriasis. I later discovered I was wrong and my psoriasis was only irritated from soap, but soap was not repparttar

cause of it.

If you have any form of a skin problem you may have feared taking a shower or bathing because of repparttar 135385 dry, painful itch, and film left by using a commercially produced bar soap. Why is that? What causes repparttar 135386 itch left by a bar soap and is there any way to cope?

Here are some tips to buying a better soap or cleanser that may not irritate your skin:

1. Glycerin is a good moisturizer. Glycerin is known to moisturize from repparttar 135387 inside out, pulling in moisture from repparttar 135388 outside environment. It's typically found in better quality, more expensive soaps like a hand made soap or good cleanser.

Lower grade, commercially produced soaps usually remove repparttar 135389 glycerin and use more cost effective chemicals which are much more destructive to repparttar 135390 skin.

2. Avoid any soaps that are granular. Granular soaps are terribly too abrasive for repparttar 135391 skin of acne, psoriasis, eczema, and dermatitis sufferers. This abrasive soap may be okay to wash motor oil off your hands but not to scrub repparttar 135392 acne-prone skin on your face.

I had acne as a teen and believed I could scrub long enough to remove dead skin cells to let my pores "breathe". It took little time to discover this was only irritating my skin. If you have beautiful, blemish-free skin a granular soap may not be harmful. However, gentle is repparttar 135393 key for anyone who has any form of blemish or sensitive condition like psoriasis, eczema, or dermatitis.

3. Tea Tree Oil and Eucalyptus are terrific for cleansing. Tea tree oil is considered to have some of repparttar 135394 best natural antiseptic / antifungal properties in repparttar 135395 world. Eucalyptus oil has been shown to fight infection-causing bacteria, fungi, and viruses very effectively.

The reason I have found tea tree oil and eucalyptus to be so powerful in helping my psoriasis was because both were natural and complemented my skin. Far too many chemicals are added into many commercial soaps today that do their job of cleaning but strip away repparttar 135396 skins natural moisturizers as well.

Although I no longer have psoriasis, I still use a specific blend of aloe, eucalyptus, and tea tree oil in a concentrated cleanser. Email me at michael@epsoriasis.net and I will tell you what it is and where to purchase it. (I don't personally sell it but can tell you where to find it)

4. pH balance of you skin is critical. Normal skin is naturally acidic with a pH in repparttar 135397 range of 4.2 to 5.6. Most traditional soaps considered "mild" have a pH of around 9.5 - 11 which is too alkaline and may cause excessive dryness and irritation. These soaps traditionally remove repparttar 135398 natural acid protection and extract repparttar 135399 fats from repparttar 135400 skin as well.

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