Some Of The Best Acne Treatment Products Available Today
Finding the best treatment for acne wash, or acne body wash for that matter, can be quite a struggle because of the too many choices available in the market. A type of acne, back acne, also called "bacne" for short, is a skin condition which can be just as embarrassing as facial acne. For one, a woman who needs to attend a party may find it extremely tough to wear a truly sexy, backless dress. In addition, she may think twice about going to a beach party because she feels embarrassed about her back.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
10 Celebs Who've Been Touched By Skin Cancer
10 Celebs Who've Been Touched By Skin Cancer
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Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the U.S. In fact, the Skin Cancer Foundation estimates that one in five Americans will develop some form of the disease in their lifetime. According to the foundation's web site, "nearly 800,000 Americans are living with a history of melanoma and 13 million are living with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer, typically diagnosed as basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma."
The famous faces on the list below are amongst those ranks -- celebrities who have either had skin cancer themselves or are spreading the word after a very close call.
The good news is that even melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer, is treatable under the right circumstances.
"Melanoma is almost always curable when it is found in its very early stages," according to the American Cancer Society.
So this May, National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, take a moment to remember to protect your own skin -- seek shade during midday hours, wear protective clothing, hats and sunglasses, slather on the sunscreen and skip indoor tanning. And be vigilant about regular screenings.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
13 Celebrities Who Have Lost Weight On 'Dancing With The Stars'
13 Celebrities Who Have Lost Weight On 'Dancing With The Stars'
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Marie Osmond
The singer and actress had a troubling time in 2007 with the loss of her father and her son entering rehab, but her stint on "Dancing With The Stars" helped her stay healthy. "I'm <a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21889394/ns/today-entertainment/#.T6ApX59Ytdp" target="_hplink">down 31 pounds so far</a>," Osmond told <em>OK!</em> magazine in November, 2007. "I've lost about five inches off my hips and five inches off my waist. I've added muscle mass and I am much more toned. It's incredible."
Nancy Grace
The TV personality was sent home <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20543966,00.html" target="_hplink">25 pounds lighter</a> than she was when she started the show, she told Anderson Cooper. <br><br> After gaining weight while pregnant with twins, Grace said "I never really cared about it, or bothered to lose it. I lost it like this, so I'm happy about that."
Chaz Bono
Bono <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20524807,00.html" target="_hplink">lost five pounds</a> in his first six days of dancing, partner Lacey Schwimmer told <em>People</em>. <br><br> He continued to lose, totaling at least <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/dancing-stars-diet-contestants-lose-weight-14896427" target="_hplink">18 pounds shed</a>, ABC reported. "It's getting me into <a href="http://www.accesshollywood.com/chaz-bono-dancing-is-getting-me-into-the-best-shape-ive-ever-been-in_video_1360637" target="_hplink">the best shape I've ever been in</a>," Bono told Access Hollywood.
Kirstie Alley
The actress told "Entertainment Tonight" she <a href="http://www.organicliaison.com/videos/kirstie-alley-dramatic-weight-loss-ive-lost-100-pounds" target="_hplink">lost 100 pounds on "Dancing With The Stars"</a> and 10 dress sizes. <br><br> "I feel like I'm back in my element," she said of her transformation.
Kelly Osbourne
The TV personality (and Ozzy's daughter) discovered just how unhealthy her eating habits were, when French fries and pizza were causing her to get sick during "Dancing With The Stars" rehearsals, she told <em>SHAPE</em>. <br><br> While on the show, she made over her diet and <a href="http://www.shape.com/celebrities/interviews/kelly-osbourne-weight-lost-confidence-gained" target="_hplink">shed 20 pounds</a>. After the show, despite a few-pound setback, Osbourne lost another 30 pounds, and has kept it off.
Ricki Lake
The TV personality, famous for her weight struggles, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/nancy-grace-ricki-lake-weight-dancing-with_n_1069727.html" target="_hplink">dropped more than 20 pounds</a> during her time on "Dancing With The Stars", the AP reported. <br><br> "I've <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20537443,00.html" target="_hplink">lost a lot of inches all over</a>," she told <em>People</em>. "Definitely in my arms, and my arms were particularly one of the things I hated most about my body, so it's nice to see them slimming down."
Margaret Cho
The comedian admitted to <em>People</em> that she had <a href="http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2010/09/29/dancing-with-the-stars-margaret-cho-i-went-40-years-without-any-exercise/?xid=fitsugar" target="_hplink"><em>never</em> exercised before joining "Dancing With The Stars"</a>! <br><br> She said she wasn't tracking the weight loss with a scale, but could feel the difference. "I can see it in my face," she said. "I can feel it in my whole body. I have lost a lot of weight. It's the first time I've ever been there, and I feel great about it."
Gladys Knight
While already eliminated from season 14, Motown legend Knight is one of the season's biggest success. She <a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/watch_with_kristin/dancing_with_stars_backstage_scoop_alum/311183" target="_hplink">dropped 60 pounds</a> during her six-week "Dancing" stint, she told E! Online! "I feel amazing," she said. <br><br> She told reporters backstage it was a combination of <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20590125,00.html" target="_hplink">physical activity and the right diet</a> that did the trick. "You've got to eat healthy and you've got to put a little movement into it," she said, People.com reported.
Tia Carrere
The actress, who joined the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/03/03/dancing-stars-weight-loss-competition-dancing/" target="_hplink">second season of "Dancing With The Stars"</a> seems to have been the first celebrity to get attention for her dramatic slim down, reports FoxNews.com. <br><br> "Tia was not svelte at that moment," wellness coach Jackie Keller, who helped Carrere lose, told the website. She found DWTS to be a great <a href="http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20156647,00.html" target="_hplink">whole-body workout</a>, telling <em>People</em>, "The waltz works different muscles from the rumba, which works different muscles from the cha-cha, so you're getting a whole-body thing. The twisting through the midsection is quite taxing."
Katherine Jenkins
The Welsh-born singer and actress told the <em>Daily Mail </em>she'd lost a stone and a half, or about 21 pounds, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2127651/Katherine-Jenkins-loses-stone-half-Dancing-With-The-Stars-2012.html" target="_hplink">while competing on "Dancing With The Stars"</a>. "I'm burning so much energy now that it's hard to put the weight back on," she said.
Mya
The R&B singer told <em>OK!</em> magazine "Dancing With The Stars" helped her <a href="http://www.okmagazine.com/news/mya-works-it-out-gets-fit-dwts" target="_hplink">shed fat and build muscle</a>. <br><br> "I started at 138 pounds and went down to 127 within a month, then down to 121 pounds," she said. "Now, I am back at 127 because I've gained muscle from dancing."
Jane Seymour
The actress, who sticks to a diet of "fresh vegetables, fresh fruit, lean protein, no sodas or alcohol", she told <em>People</em>, <a href="http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20160674,00.html" target="_hplink">lost too much weight </a>on "Dancing With The Stars". After shedding 20 pounds, she was trying to put healthy weight back on, according to the magazine.
Lisa Rinna
While we're not sure of how many pounds she shed, the actress told CBSNews.com that her body definitely changed during her time on "Dancing With The Stars". <br><br> "I think the highlight for me was the body that I got while doing it. It was pretty nice," she said. "The byproduct of that show is you just get in the <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/20/entertainment/main6503660.shtml" target="_hplink">most amazing shape of your life</a> and you feel so good."
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Emma Gray: Is Make-Up Sex Like Cocaine?
Emma Gray: Is Make-Up Sex Like Cocaine?
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Make-up sex is just like cocaine? So wrote clinical psychologist Seth Meyers (not the one on SNL) in a recent blog for Psychology Today titled "Make-Up Sex Hurts: Why and How to Avoid It."
Meyers argued:
In a healthy relationship, two people can come together after a disagreement and share physical intimacy because they feel close. However, the search for greater intimacy and trust isn't what motivates most make-up sex. The truth is that most make-up sex results from having felt and expressed extreme negative emotions during a heated argument, without any true resolution afterward. Because these individuals get sick of feeling the negative extreme end of the spectrum, they hunger to switch gears and jump to the opposite end of the spectrum -- to feel the high that comes with making up. Honestly, it's not that different from an addict who needs a hit of cocaine.
He went on to say that couples who have make-up sex inevitably use it as a band-aid for larger intimacy issues. And according to Meyers, this creates the illusion that sex can solve relationship problems that it can't -- which only leads to greater dissatisfaction and disappointment. He suggests that, should you find yourself having angry make-up sex, you "gently pull back and explain to your partner that you want to stop and try again later."
Not everyone agreed with Meyers' harsh reading of post-argument sexual activity -- especially when it comes to interrupting said sexual encounter to chat. "Talk it out before the encounter begins, by all means. Have a chat after the encounter ends. But why put your blinkers on in the middle of the autobahn?" wrote Gawker's Caity Weaver.
In a piece for Health magazine published in 2008, Jennifer Berman took on the topic of make-up sex and came to a very different conclusion than Meyers. She wrote that make-up sex is not only normal and healthy (in most cases), but it can also spice up your sex life: "It be madly pas¬sionate, but it can also sustain intimacy during tough times. Besides, it's natural to feel turned on after an argument," she writes. She does however include the caveat that couples shouldn't be sexually intimate only after a fight -- that is indicative of a larger issue.
Personally, I'm more in Berman's camp than Meyers' -- cocaine addiction strikes me as a wholly different beast than the occasional anger-fueled sexual encounter. However, encouraging couples to communicate with one another when they argue, and not just jump into bed to solve every problem, seems like a reasonable suggestion.
What do you think? Is make-up sex problematic?
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Genital Warts: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Genital warts are a common sexually transmitted disease, which inflicts approximately half of the population of sexually active people at some point. The infection affects the moist parts of the genital area. The warts have the appearance of flesh-colored bumps, but it can vary from person to person. Usually, the warts are very small and may be hard to see. There is no such thing as a genital warts cure, but the infection may go away on its own. Source
Sunday, May 6, 2012
World Laughter Day: The Healing Benefits Of Laughter Yoga
World Laughter Day: The Healing Benefits Of Laughter Yoga
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When it comes to laughter yoga, faking it ‘til you make it is just fine.
At least, that's what Vishwa Prakash said at the start of the session that HuffPost's health news editor Amanda Chan and I wandered into recently.
It was one of a few guidelines Prakash offered, as well as keeping our eyes locked on our fellow attendees, some 20 men and women dressed in street clothes and standing in a circle in his textile design company's midtown Manhattan offices.
And with that, we were off.
Prakash traded with other leaders who led us through several "exercises" -- we clapped, we milked imaginary cows, we blew up imaginary balloons, threw them on the ground, and exploded into laughter as we popped them with our feet. In between each set, we walked around clapping and chanting, "Ho Ho Ha Ha Ha!"
"It's bizarre, it's plain weird. Adults do not behave this way," said Sebastien Gendry, who founded the American School of Laughter Yoga, the country's largest laughter yoga training program.
"You laugh, you clap and you breathe," he continued. (You also drive imaginary bumper cars, pretend to be lions and hug perfect strangers.) "Suddenly you find yourself really laughing and you don't know why. It's fun, and you feel good."
The goal of laughter yoga is to breathe and to laugh, not because anyone has cracked a joke, but because laughter is a playful, social, contagious thing. The "yoga" label is a bit of a misnomer. There are no downward dogs or inversions, just people coming together, usually for free, for a short session of laughter. And it has become something of a global phenomenon.
According to Laughter Yoga International, a group led by the founder of Laughter Yoga and Mumbai-based physician Dr. Madan Kataria, there are about 6,000 laughter clubs across the globe. In the past decade, more than 400 have cropped up here in the U.S., and organizers expect a few thousand will celebrate "World Laughter Day" on Sunday.
How and why people find laughter yoga varies. Many come to connect with a community, Gendry said, others come for catharsis or to feel better physically.
Jody Ross, now a certified laughter yoga leader, started attending formal laughter workshops several years back to help heal herself. She had chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and depression so severe she lost her job and lived, for a time, in a homeless shelter.
"I went to a seminar on laughter yoga, and I felt elated for hours later. I didn't have any pain," Ross said. "When you combine laughter and breathing, there's healing there."
Indeed, as research probes the intricacies of the mind-body connection, investigators have developed a particular focus on the possible health benefits of laughter. Some of the more prominent work has come from the cardiovascular arena.
Dr. Michael Miller, the director of the preventive cardiology program at the University of Maryland's Medical Center, previously investigated the effect laughter can have on the vascular system. In a study presented to the American College of Cardiology, Miller and his colleagues found that showing healthy adults a funny movie scene increased blood flow by more than 20 percent.
"I can tell you that if you have active emotion, it works," Miller said. "How that parlays into reducing the risk of heart attacks is still to be determined, and to what extent passive laughing, like a simple chuckle, makes a difference remains to be established."
Other studies have suggested that laughter helps burn calories and increases one's heart rate. In another, researchers from Japan found that laughter may help lower blood sugar levels -- a boon for diabetes patients.
But while such findings show promise, experts caution that the science is not fully there.
"The science of laughter is in its early stage," said Dr. Robert Provine, author of "Laughter: A Scientific Investigation." He explained that laughter is an ancient vocalization stemming from the panting of animals' rough-and-tumble play.
"It's difficult to separate the cognitive, from the social, from the physical aspects of laughing," Provine added. "Is simply going 'ha ha ha' going to give you the same presumed benefits of genuine laughter?"
We definitely had our moments of faking it.
"I had definitely never experienced anything like it before," said Amanda, who is notably nicer and more diplomatic than myself. "I must say, though, that the experience seems to be dependent on the sort of people there. Everyone was so into it and so enthusiastic. It made me feel more comfortable about laughing, too -- even though in any other circumstance, I would've surely felt self-conscious about just laughing for a half-hour straight."
As for me, I'd been dreading the class all week (I'm shy and a little prickly), but it wasn't as bad as I'd feared. I did genuinely lose it at the end, laughing so hard I cried as we lay on the floor, stared at the ceiling and guffawed together for minutes. And minutes. I couldn't get over how weird it was. Does that somewhat judgmental laughter count? I don't know. Amanda and I hightailed it out of there before the period when people chatted about their experiences.
Of course, one session can't give you much a taste of anything and the experts agree with Amanda -- it's important to find a club that feels right.
"It's really about community," said Marlene Chertok, a registered nurse and breast cancer survivor who has seen her St. Louis-based club grow from single to double digits in the past few years. "It's just a place where people can come in and laugh, regularly. It needs to feel safe."
And that safety can come even in the least likely places.
Rebecca Foster, who works for the Prison Mindfulness Institute teaching mediation and emotional intelligence skills in Rhode Island, teaches laughter yoga in men's and women's jails.
"The aggressive energy dissipates," Foster said. "You can't be tight and laugh at the same time. Who knows how profound a difference it will make -- it may not make any difference at all. But at the very least there's a sense that in this moment, in this one place, I can be a kid again."
And for all of the promise of laughter's health benefits, many not yet scientifically proven, that may be the method's greatest strength.
"Laughter feels good while we do it," Provine said. "Isn't that enough?"
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
In Season: 7 May Superfoods
In Season: 7 May Superfoods
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Now that the weather is a wee bit warmer, many of us are thinking about getting outdoors to enjoy the spring air and sunshine.
May offers a welcome chance to get out there and be active, whether it's by taking a walk with friends (good for the body and the soul!), enjoying a bike ride or -- depending on the temperatures where you live -- taking a refreshing dip in the nearest body of water.
All of those activities require fuel, which can come from eating healthy foods -- particularly the fruits and vegetables that are at their peak this time of year.
So what are our picks for May superfoods? Take a look at our list. Then, as always, let us know if there are any in-season favorites you can't believe we overlooked.
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