Friday 5 February 2010

Revealed - Learn How To Control Your Acne

Learn How To Control Your Acne
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Reports show that over ninety percent (90%) of all adolescents and almost 25 percent of all adults are acne sufferers. And although acne affects about 50 percent of all adult women, acne does affect males and females worldwide, regardless of nationality.
On this web site I have put together articles, homemade recipes and tip to help you with issues surrounding acne along with possible solutions available to help with the prevention and treatment of acne.

For example, does oily food and chocolate really cause acne? The latest reports show that although scientific evidence is not 100% accurate in this area, your diet does not directly cause acne. And by diet, this means not only chocolate and French fries, but also any other dietary combination with sugar and oil or other ingredients.

The real cause of acne may include your diet, skin care regimen, and hereditary.
Note that the contents here are not presented from a medical practitioner, and that any and all health care planning should be made under the guidance of your own medical and health practitioners. The content on this site is written by several authors with information they have gathered or used that worked for them and does not replace medical advice from a professional physician.

Acne - Science of

A few simple steps occur that cause skin blemishes.
Firstly, acne occurs when for some unknown reason or combination of reasons, hair follicles, also known as pores, becomes blocked. Although the exact combination of reasons that pores become clogged may not be fully known, many contributing elements for teenagers and adults alike can include; genetics (whether or not there is a history of acne problems and if so, to what extent), hormones, dietary and vitamin make up (or lack of /deficiency) and stress related factors.

Other causes could include factors like how your body normally rids itself of its dead skin cells and influences that may be working against this regularity (for example climate and other environmental forces or overall body health at the time) and your hormones and their effect on your own body’s sebum production (especially for females).

Secondly, the normal dead skin cells that combine with your body’s natural sebum oil as it drains through the skin’s surface become clogged in these blocked pores. This substance becomes somewhat sticky, further clogging the passageway.
Thirdly, a bacterium begins to grow around these clogged areas. As a normal reaction, your body’s white blood cells attack the bacteria, fighting it and pushing it out of the body.

And lastly, the resulting growths during this 14-21-day battle are called micro-comedones. Microcomedones turn into comedones, commonly referred to as blemishes, pimples or acne.

There are basically four types of acne; whiteheads, blackheads, pimples and nodules. Whiteheads are when the sebum (oil) and resulting bacteria are trapped below the skin’s surface and you can actually see a white head appear above (or near popping out of) the skin. Blackheads are when the sebum and resulting bacteria are only partially trapped, slowly draining out the surface and turning black because of your skin’s melanin or pigmentation. In the absence of either white or blackhead are generally (but not always) smaller pimples. And the often deeper, boil-like lesions are referred to as nodules.

All forms of acne can be mild, moderate or severe. Typically, mild acne is visible in the form of whiteheads and blackheads, sometimes pimples. With moderate acne, more pimples and pustules are present on the face; some may appear on the back or chest. And with severe acne, many nodules develop, often large and sore, over parts of the face, back, chest and other body areas. This type of acne can lead to scarring. Actually, lesser cases of acne have been followed by scarring. So for those with possible nodular acne, seeking advice from a healthcare provider as soon as possible is recommended.

A gender issue to note is that males more often have the severe form of acne rather than females, due to their hormones. And the areas where they tend to break out most frequently are unfortunately more difficult to treat, the chest and back.

Monday 12 October 2009

Want To Become a Doctor? Here is How

Want to Become a Doctor? Here's How by Jennifer Williamson

Doctors save lives, cure disease, and teach people how to develop healthy lifestyles. It's safe to say that their job is one of the most truly important in the world. But it's not easy to become a doctor.

It takes approximately eleven years to earn a medical degree. This includes four years of college, four years of medical school, and a minimum of three years in a residency training program; although this could be as long as eight years, depending on your specialty.

Your college GPA is an important part of your medical school application. Take a heavy course load in science, including biology, chemistry, and physics. In addition, take humanities courses that emphasize reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. Keep your average high, especially in science classes. Be sure to make an impression with professors; you'll need glowing recommendations later.

After college, the next step is to take the MCAT: a timed multiple-choice test required by all medical schools. There are four sections: biology, physical sciences, verbal reasoning, and writing.

Once you've finished the MCAT, you can apply to medical school. Most medical schools accept the AMCAS common application, which can be filled out online. You'll need to include a personal statement, recommendations, and your transcript.

You'll spend four years in medical school, where you'll take classes in the sciences and work with patients under strict supervision. Once you graduate medical school, you'll start a residency program at a hospital. At the end of your residency, you'll be a licensed doctor.

Doctors do the most important work in the world: saving lives.

It's not easy to become one, but for those who succeed, the rewards are ample.



Jennifer Williamson writes on education and careers for an organization which creates websites on distance education programs and accredited online colleges.


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Wednesday 15 July 2009

Rewards of Being a Nurse

Rewards of Being a Nurse
By Alberto Maeses


With today's challenging financial state, we are so in for a rough time. As we try to raise ourselves from these troubles we are yet confronted with another. How do we have a college degree that would assist us land a dependable job and aid ourselves and our family? The answer - Be a Nurse. With about 2.4 million jobs, the nursing profession is the biggest and most sought after employment in the health care field which directly makes nursing a top priority in hospitals and such places thus providing chance for a calling that provides a large pay with the proper benefits and a personal satisfaction only nurses would recognize.

Here are some of the benefits of being:

The nursing career renders many opportunities for career advancement. Choices like specialty in areas are open to all nurses. These opportunities are open and can be experienced well at hospitals, physicians clinics, in outpatient centers, nursing care facilities, and gerontological facilities. With these various options for career advancement, theres always a position waiting for nurses other than experiencing something new and different with the job. With this type of advantage, it is expected that these types of nurses have the edge and advantage of being globally competitive for various scenes and situations.

Another benefit of being a nurse is that nursing jobs are in demand and these requirements are infinite. There are a lot of superb job opportunities and several nursing career choices accessible. In the US alone, there are about 100,000 vacant positions and that count would triple over the next 20 years as experts would forecast.

With these types of advantages in a financially challenging situation, there has never been a better time to make a choice and that choice would have to involve choosing nursing as a career.



Written by Alberto Maeses. Learn more on nursing salariesand enroll now at nursing schools online

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Tuesday 21 April 2009

Ten Ways to Calm a Crying Baby

Sometimes newborns and babies just can’t seem to sleep.
The following suggestions may work for your baby:

1. Place your baby on her back and gently move her/his legs as if he/she’s riding a bicycle. She/he may have gas pains and the movement can help.

2. Place the baby on her stomach on a warm (not hot) hot-water bottle. Massage his/her back slowly.

3. Play tapes of music your baby likes.

4. Vacuum the room your baby is in. The sound often soothes irritated babies.

5. Give the baby a warm bath.

6. Take the baby for a ride in her stroller – the fresh air and motion may help calm her/him. Or take her/him for a car ride.

7. Hold your baby close to your chest. Research shows skin-to-skin contact has a calming effect.

8. Wrap the baby snugly in a lightweight blanket.

9. Lay the baby on her stomach across your knees. Move your knees up and down.

10. Buy a mechanical swing for your baby.


MAHJUBAH II Vol.13 No.9 (124) Sept 1994

Wednesday 4 March 2009

In the Matter of Luck

Getting Luckier II

Don’t dwell on ill fortune.

The problem with dwelling on ill fortune is that it easily leads to the development of a fatalistic attitude; the unconscious attitude of expecting the worse and resigning to fate, accepting predetermined future written in horoscopes and believing that regardless of your effort, what will happen will happen.

This leads to such people waiting for things to happen instead of making things happen. Always understand that things could have been a lot worse and be thankful.

Expect the best…

People who get good fortune have a knack for expecting the best at all times and even in the face of difficulty still expect a favourable outcome. This attitude makes them more persistent that most others and this leads to even more “lucky” outcomes for them.

Take Action…

A thousand good intentions is not as good as a single action taken.

There is the story of a man who bought a racehorse and put the horse in the barn with a sign that read; “The fastest horse in the world.” The owner never exercised the horse and never trained the horse.

Then one day, he entered the horse in a race, and the horse came bottom. The man quickly changed the sign to “The fastest world for the horse”. By not taking action and not doing what should be done, ill fortune is easily attracted.

Reject superstitions because they have a way of making you ignore improving yourself. For instance, a superstitious person drives a car and gets into an accident.. then goes to blame the car as “unlucky” instead of his own driving.

Lucky people don’t rely on superstitions, instead they focus on working smarter.
As the saying goes.. “Luck Favours those who help themselves” To start getting luckier, start taking more action.


Pray…

Prayers somehow have the effect of presenting you with more favourable outcomes and lands you in more lucky positions than you can ever imagine possible. To start getting luckier, practice praying.

Create Opportunities…

Increase the chances of your getting lucky by creating opportunities for yourself. For instance, make sure you know what you want and let people around you know exactly what you want as well.

If you want a red car, let people around you know you what you want is red, then step back and watch things unfold.

Try new things. When you do the same thing over and over again, expect to get the same results you always got. Try something new, do something different and get a new set of results.

Listen To The Voice of Intuition…

It has probably happened to you more than once. You get a feeling about something and then you ignore it only to discover you could have hit gold by following that guy feeling.

The bad news is that most of our intuitive powers have been weakened by continuous disuse. The next time you get that gut feeling about something, take a closer look.

Thursday 8 January 2009

Talking About Luck

Is it possible to get luckier? Is there something you can do today that will increase your chances of being luckier today? Why do some people seem to have more luck than others? Is there really anything called luck?

First, you’ve got to understand that there is really no such thing as luck the way we understand it. Luck is basically a function of a combination of actions.

Which means each time someone gets blessed with good fortune, that person has consciously or unconsciously done something that produced that result. Aristotle in his law of causality explains that there is a relationship between one event (called cause) and another event (called effect) which is the direct consequence (result) of the first event.

In plain language, if you knew why someone else is luckier that you are and you take those same steps, you are likely to start getting the same results of good fortune. That means you can attract more luck and you can start immediately.

I am personally fascinated by this and over the years, I discovered a few basic steps to help anyone attract more luck. Note that attracting luck has nothing to do with intelligence. Infact, most of this kind of people are not as bright as you would normally expect.

Be Ready..

Have you noticed that people who we term “lucky” have the uncanny character of being ready for the luck? They seem to be programmed for it and seem to know just when it arrives. For instance, you might notice that when others are not dressed for the occasion of luck, the “lucky” chap will seem to be the only one dressed for it.

The secret is that “lucky” people are always prepared for lucky encounters. They are always ready. They do work place research and know where and how to get what and what, they are always dressed for luck etc

Like the wise saying goes “Faith will move mountains but you better bring along your shovel and be prepared to help with the work.”

Look On The Bright Side..

I want you to think back to the luckiest person you ever met or knew. One distinct character is the fact that these set of people always seem happy and they seem to fall in line with the dictionary’s definition of happy – which goes good fortune, happy outcome etc

The lucky person is mostly the guy with a positive attitude.

A simple way to improve your attitude starting immediately is to think about lucky, happy and positive things that has happened in your life and keep those thoughts in your mind. When things start to go wrong and your attitude begins to go down hill, simply think back to your good fortunes and tell yourself, it will happen again.

Much Much Later on getting luckier…

culled from an article by a mentor.

Tuesday 6 January 2009

Welcome To my Blog Site

Hi everyone,

I well come all to my blog site.
The site promises to be fun.
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education, information and entertainment.
Watchout for the posts.
With best regards to all visitors.

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