Lose Weight By Accident: Is Coffee Good For You?

Most of us need that morning jolt of coffee and if you are going to go for it, you should know exactly what you are going for. Despite its slightly bad rep, coffee really can be good for you.

Coffee has many antioxidants which can reduce the risk of some cancers and diseases; it can also give your metabolism a quick jumpstart, hence losing weight by accident. Other benefits are that it can improve your mood, alertness and even reduce muscle pain!

BUT, the type of coffee and how you make it can nullify those effects. Here are some tips to get the most health benefits out of your coffee experience. Also, just to throw in, I recommend about 8 oz MAX of coffee a day.

1.       Go Organic – All those chemical pesticides can nullify the antioxidant benefits and for the most part organic farmers take better care of the soil, leaving you with more nutrients and flavor naturally. Also decaf organic cannot use any chemicals in the decaffeination process; they generally use the Swiss water process, using water to absorb the caffeine and carbon to filter it out. Skip the Starbucks and go for a coffee shop the sells organic coffee!

2.       Be careful of additions – Sugar substitutes and non-organic dairy can also nullify the effects; if you drink a high quality cup of coffee you should not need a lot of sugar and milk anyways as the coffee will have a sort of sweetness to it. If your coffee needs flavoring, consider a different coffee.

3.       Try espresso – A really good espresso should be bursting in flavor and should be smooth not bitter and if you drink it straight it’s usually only about 2oz so you don’t need any additions.

4.       Make it at home the easy way – If all this seems like too much or there are no organic coffee cafes near you, K-Cup machines make it very easy to make it at home and they have organic coffee too.

Enjoy your coffee and you will certainly enjoy it more knowing how much it can benefit you!

10 Tips for an Effortlessly Nutritious Life – By Joy Bauer

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Music Monday: Just Breathe

In honor of Elena Brower’s Spa Week Daily Challenge and National Relaxation Day, we asked our Twitter and Facebook friends, “What’s your favorite song for relaxing/breathing deeply?” Without further ado, here is the “Just Breathe” playlist. Even Elena joined in the fun, tweeting,

Shiny New Trend: Diamond Contact Lenses

Has anyone ever told you you’re the girl with kaleidoscope eyes? No? Well who wants to look like a child’s toy anyway when you can pierce people with eyes of shiny, big-girl bling! Thanks to the insatiably sparkly beauty desires of Indian women, for just $15,000, you can now bedazzle (not vajazzle) your eyes with gold-plated, diamond-encrusted contact lenses.

Creator Dr. Chandrashekhar Chawan, who came up with the diamond lens idea after his wife got precious jewels installed in her teeth, put much time and thought into this latest line of lenses, named La Ser Eye Jewelry. Athough he uses a special medical-grade lens to prevent the diamond chards from touching the cornea, there is much conflict among opticians as to whether these non-FDA-approved lenses are safe for your eyes.

Safety aside, my conflict about them is a bit different. I do happen to think they’re extremely sexy – I’ve always believed I was born with glitter in my veins, but never imagined it in my eye! However, if I did have $15,000 to spare, it wouldn’t be on this. (It would be on a spa vacation, probably.) Because what happens when one of these bad boys pops out at a restaurant? Or falls in the drain? And what about muggers? Can you imagine the sort of crimes taking place? Take my purse but don’t you dare touch my eyeballs!

What do you think? Read more about it on Yahoo! Shine… think you’d give it a try if you had $15,000 burning an ‘ole in your pocket?

I got a feeling Lucy in The Sky would…

Photo via Yahoo! Shine

Greetings from Strong Island

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Aesthetics: anti-wrinkle comes the transplantation of cells

Against wrinkles, is coming a new “weapon”, not just filler and botox But also to inject Needling fibroblasts drawn from the same patient when he is still young.

The fibroblasts, Are a type of cells in the dermis of skin which play an important role to produce the collagen and elastic fibers Responsible for the texture and tone of connective tissue. With advancing age, in fact, the skin becomes thinner and less turgid because of ‘cellular aging.

The new discovery Anti-aging Bioscience Institute to be developed in collaboration with university centers of Italian and European research is to be taken (through a small sample of skin) and cry preserved at -198 degrees their fibroblasts when they are still healthy and active, so they can be used when the first signs of aging. This is innovative technology skin rejuvenation, Able to leverage the natural ability of fibroblasts to produce collagen and elastin.

As Professor Nicolo Scuderi, Director of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at La Sapienza University of Rome:

Keep cells taken at an age earlier than that will be used, can have fibroblasts with characteristics of vitality and reproductive capacity higher than the patient’s biological age.

The Needling based fibroblasts Compared to the filler, present less risk to the allergy and rejection, ensuring more natural and long lasting. In addition, the time of implantation, the fibroblasts are enriched Vitamins, amino acids, minerals, Nucleic acids and co-enzymes, and are injected with needles details of only 2mm long. The injections, in fact, release the fibroblasts only in the middle layer of the skin, and without causing bruising. The results are visible after about 3 weeks and continue for 12 months. With cells preserved you can continue maintenance treatment for another 4-5 years.

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