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What Causes Eczema? While no one is certain of what causes eczema, it is thought to be an overactive immune response to irritants coming into contact with the skin.  Soaps, detergents, certain types of fabric, animal dander, excessive exposure to hot or cold, and other allergens may cause a flare-up.  Stress can also be a contributing factor.   Traditional Treatments for Eczema Treatments for eczema include steroid creams or orally-administered steroids, antihistamines, UV light therapy, drugs which affect the immune system, and antibiotics if open blisters become infected.  If all else fails, doctors may prescribe one of two topical creams...

It’s not about wrinkle creams, plastic surgery, or injections to make you look younger. It’s about having a positive mental attitude, staying cognitively and physically active, and having a high-quality life.How long you live and the quality of your life are, to a great extent, under your control. Apart from all the studies that show how lifestyle choices such as exercise and diet play a role in longevity, there’s also a good body of research that links positive attitude with the number of years people live. For example, one study involving 100,000 women found that women who were optimists were...

What is Quinoa? Quinoa, (say keen-wa), is a grain crop that is grown, primarily for the edible seeds. It’s not actually a cereal, because it does not come from the grass family and is strangely, actually related to the beetroot and spinach family of plants. It’s nutritional benefits, however, are very like that of a true cereal in that the seeds contain essential amino acids, protein, calcium, minerals and vitamins. Here are ten of the health benefits of quinoa:   1. Quinoa is high in fibre If you’ve been looking for a way to increase the fibre in your diet,...

Hemlines are heading north With Summer now upon us…hemlines are heading north.  So it’s time to get your pins ready for skirt season. And… there’s an easy way to do this naturally. By simply heading to the kitchen pantry you will find all you need to get your legs and skin summer worthy. To make an easy at-home exfoliator, simply mix extra virgin olive oil, together with raw sugar, for a do-it-yourself body scrub that will have your aesthetician swooning and short-shorts calling…   Why exfoliating the skin is important Why exfoliate? exfoliation removes the barrier of dead skin cells...

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