When it comes to fighting the signs of aging, the solution doesn’t always lie across the pharmacy counter or in the doctor’s office.
Some of the best ways to grow old gracefully can be found right in your very own kitchen.
Most of the nutrients that the body needs everyday to survive are found in the foods that we eat. Unfortunately, many of us are not making the proper food choices to keep our bodies, and skin, healthy. Making a few changes to our diet can make a big difference in how we feel and look.
When talking about foods to eat we’re mainly talking about the general category of antioxidants in food. How does adding foods rich in antioxidants to your diet help your skin?
The body takes on a lot of stresses in a day. One byproduct of this stress, or cellular activity, is free radicals. Free radicals are unstable substances that lack an electron so they steal it from healthy cells throughout the body. This can lead to signs of aging, disease, and pain over time. Antioxidants are natural substances that are designed to neutralize the effects of free radicals. Eating foods that contain antioxidants will lower the free radical count in your body and lessen the damage they can do.
So, what should we be eating to improve our overall health and youthful appearance? Let’s take a look at some of the foods that contain nutrients essential to fighting off the aging process:
Berries The mighty blueberry shines in this group, but other berries like blackberries, cranberries, and raspberries all play a part in neutralizing free radicals that damage your skin. You’ll notice a theme in these berries; they all are very colorful. Stick to dark colored berries for the best nutritional punch. Berries actually help the body make collagen, the substance that supports and plumps the skin, so adding a good portion of berries to your diet every day is a smart thing to do to battle wrinkles. Berries are also loaded with Vitamins C, E, and riboflavin, as well as being a good source of fiber.
Green Tea Another powerhouse in the fight against free radicals, green tea has become the go-to beverage for everything from losing weight to lowering blood pressure. Green tea is known to have anti-inflammatory properties as well as antioxidants. Not only does drinking green tea improve your overall health, but many skin creams now contain green tea extract which allows you to rub it right into your skin. Green tea is also believed to help prevent some skin cancers caused by the sun’s damaging rays. Drinking green tea daily gives you a good source of Vitamins C, D, K, and riboflavin, calcium, and iron
Nuts You need plenty of good fatty acids to help prevent skin dryness. Adding nuts to your daily diet will provide not only healthy fatty acids, but also Vitamins A, E, riboflavin, zinc, and selenium. The Brazil nut is an especially excellent source of selenium, which helps with the skin’s elasticity by producing glutathione which neutralizes free radicals in the body; the same free radicals that are destroying our skin’s collagen and elastin. Eat a variety of nuts, including almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts, and pine nuts, every day to add good fatty acids to your diet along with a host of essential vitamins and minerals.
Avocados At first glance, you may think you should stay away from avocados because they appear to be high in fat. But, most of the fat is monounsaturated and is considered a healthy fat. Avocados are rich in omega-9 fat, a powerful skin plumper which also improves dry skin, as well as Vitamin C and Vitamin E, which act together to form a strong anti-aging team. Vitamin B6 is another free radical warrior and is essential to your skin’s youthful look and healthy overall condition. Just one small avocado gives you enough B6 to meet your daily requirement.
Carrots This may not often make the top of the skin-health list, but there are good reasons it should. Carrots are an excellent source of beta-carotene. What is beta-carotene? Beta-carotene converts to vitamin A inside the body. Vitamin A is crucial for skin cell health. You may have a Vitamin A deficiency if your skin is dry. If you have light skin, eating carrots can also provide a slight SPF sun protection. Carrots also are a good source of Vitamin C which fights free radicals and promotes the creation of collagen in the skin.
Sweet Potatoes Another overlooked powerhouse in the battle against aging skin is sweet potatoes. Not only do these spuds deliver a healthy dose of beta-carotene and Vitamin C, but sweet potatoes also contain Vitamin E. What’s important about the combination of these two vitamins is that they work together. Vitamin E helps regenerate Vitamin C in the body, which maximizes the effectiveness of Vitamin C. This one-two punch becomes a very effective antioxidant and offers topnotch skin protection.
Whole Grains Vitamins A, C, and E have taken center stage in the battle against aging skin, but there’s another player in town that’s just as important; that’s the B complex group. Eating breads and cereals that are made with whole grains, as opposed to refined grains, provide B complex vitamins which are essential for healthy skin. The B Vitamins are necessary for the growth of new cells which replace the dull, dead cells. This group of vitamins also helps protect skin against stress. A shortage of B Vitamins in your diet could result in dry, rough skin; even cracking and peeling.
Cold water fish This group of fish includes salmon, sardines, mackerel, and fresh tuna. These may seem like a fatty bunch of fish, but the fat is the healthy kind containing omega-3 fatty acids. These fatty acids are responsible for healthy cell membranes. These stronger cell membranes are more able to keep water in which keeps the skin cells hydrated; and hydrated cells will give us skin that is supple and younger looking. Salmon is also another source that’s high in selenium, which we know helps the body in its ongoing battle against skin damaging free radicals.
All the wrinkle reducing potions in the world won’t help if you aren’t giving your skin a fighting chance from within. Start your anti-aging battle with a healthy diet filled with nutrient rich foods. These simple, and delicious, foods are some of the easiest things you can choose to fight the effects of aging.
Everyone shares two common fears as they age - looking old and feeling old. However, there really is no reason to be afraid. You can help yourself age gracefully in many ways, one of which is supplements.
Aging isnít easy on the body. We can start understanding the problems of aging when we learn about free radicals. Let’s use a simple analogy to explain a little about how free radicals affect the body. Free radicals crash around like demolition derby cars, causing very real damage to your entire body. Free radical damage has been blamed for everything from wrinkles to cancer.
How do you combat this destruction? We can begin by discussing what supplements are useful in fighting free radicals:
Supplements are typically pills, tonics, creams, or herbs that are used as a way of enhancing something, in this case, your health. There are times we donít get all the nutrition we need from the food we eat. That’s when supplements can be helpful. Here is a short list of the supplements you might want to consider to aid your body in its battle against free radical damage:
Vitamin B complex These complex vitamins are available in many foods, yet, for whatever reason, we donít always eat what we need to in order to get an optimum level. You can purchase vitamin B complex in your pharmacy or favorite health food store. Look for as many alternative sources for vitamin B as you can find; sources that include food and beverages as well as supplements.
Your external environment (pollutants) as well as your internal environment (emotions) contribute to free radical damage to your body. Stress, whether caused by external forces or internal forces, causes free radicals to wage war on your body; inside and out. Vitamin B complex helps relieve stress to reduce the damage caused by free radicals. Taking a vitamin B complex internally and applying it topically have both been widely accepted as important steps toward reducing free radical damage.
Antioxidants This is a broad category of substances used as the principle fighters in the war against free radicals. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals in the body rendering them inert so they stop causing damage.
The list of antioxidants includes vitamins A, C, D, E, and beta carotene. You’ll find these vitamins in many foods, but again, there are times and situations when people simply cannot get enough in the foods they eat. That’s when supplements come in handy. Check with your doctor to see if you could benefit from one or all of these supplements to help fight free radicals.
Omega-3 fatty acids
You have probably seen this one somewhere before because these little acids get a lot of press. Omega-3s help with heart and vascular health as well as increasing immunity and decreasing inflammation in the body. The most popular source of Omega-3 is cold water fish. Unfortunately, most of us don’t eat enough fish to get a good supply.
Taking fish oil supplements, specifically those that contain Omega-3s, can boost your chances of destroying more free radicals. While these powerhouse supplements are battling heart disease, you’ll also notice a few wrinkles smoothing out in the process. Omega-3s are often used in anti-aging skin creams with good reason. Stopping a wrinkle in its tracks is what Omega-3s do best, and most notably.
We’re all looking for ways to improve our health and appearance. Looking and feeling good as we age is not about vanity… it’s about being healthy. Supplements to help fight free radicals is a worthwhile investment in your youthful appearance and overall health. Be sure to consult your doctor before adding any supplement, even natural ones, to your daily regimen.
Omega, and antioxidants in chocolate?
To start this year of, I have some fun facts. I hope it helps you with starting the new year.
Daves’ vision is $50 mill in paid commissions this year
Anywhere between 7,000 and 11,000 blog posts are being made everyday to this domain
We are in the top 1000 websites everyday and we haven’t seen anything yet…we’ve had issues and still this is astounding and have paid out 2.4 mill in commissions in 60 days.
traffic.. yesterday over 133,000 unique visitors to the site
Current active members 13923
Ready to join and become part of this journey? Become a member of Empower Network.
Happy Solstice - Merry Christmas - Happy Holidays
We did it again. This time a bit bigger. We are seven people who got together and created in time a video. Most of us used Animoto, uploaded to Youtube yesterday and had a training so everybody was on the same page:
It took us over two hours but we had some real newbies in our group. One even just had his first Youtube channel open.
If you’ve done it for a while, you use the lingo and don’t realize that others don’t understand.
Anyway, this is my video. Please watch it and click on the link (annotation) at the end to watch the next and if you feel like it *hint hint* go ahead and do the whole round until you get to mine again. You are welcome to leave a comment here or on Youtube under the video.
I am used to getting spam to old posts here on this blog. But almost a day after I posted this post (click for a new window) I started getting spam to it. That’s new. It was a new post and suddenly I don’t get any more spam on other posts. Very funny. I guess Google has found me again.
A few weeks ago someone in the blogging support Skype room shared a website where you could check your website and see how often Google visits you. This blog has not been visited in over 90 days! And I guess the Empower Network posts got Google’s attention again, because I’m getting spam.
So, getting spam means your posts and articles are indexed, at least by google, hopefully by other search engines too. That’s a good thing, right? But then, I’d rather get nice, meaningful, honest comments than 10-20 stupid spam comments. Even nicer it would be to get “leads”, people who are really interested in what I’m doing
What if I could show you how to generate leads? How to sell your stuff? How to set up a system where you own your own leads instead of the company (or system you use)?
With one hour per day, you could earn - eventually - $5000 per month.
Wouldn’t you rather learn to have your own system, to keep your own leads than going pounding on your relatives, making warm and cold calls (I hate doing that), posting your flyers everywhere and in every mailbox?
I’ll see you on the path to success!
I did a quick video while the site was down. It’s up but they are still working on the blogging platform. Enjoy the video and let me know if you want to be part of the Empower Network.
Empower Network Rocks
For once I’m in a team with lots of leaders. They’re active in a facebook group and answer questions and give tips and uplift everybody during those daring times while the website is down and we cannot do much - other than learn.
They even got a training site already set up and plan do to a 100 day blog challenge. That sounds like fun, hu?
It rocks because the owners David Sharpe and David Woods go out of their way to solve any issues.
And Empower Network itself rocks because they pay 100% commission. It’s been a little over a week now that I got involved in this company and I’ve always gotten lots of “offers” to join other people’s business. When i drill down, ask questions (how much is the commission, where does the money come from - often it seems out of thin air, what’s the product) they all turn out to be cycle programs, no matter how they call it. You need to constantly bring in people, fill a cycle and “earn” like $100 and bring in even more people in order to earn another $100. Duh!
because every person I or someone else brings into Empower Network is an asset. And if we bring in 5 new people every month our income doubles every month. And every time someone might prevent foreclosure, end up pay off any debts or be able to ….. (fill in the blanks).
If i bring in 5 new people every month into those cycling programs my income stays the same - if those programs last several months. Besides they just don’t feel legit. But maybe I’m wrong.
Here, in Empower Network, your income just keeps on growing.
Anyway, I think David S., David W., my sponsor, my upline and all the Empower Networkers rock.
Rock on!
Their problem is that within one month 10′000 people have signed up and started their blog and started to blog and drive traffic to Empower Network. The servers were not able to handle this assault.
The owners and creators of Empower Network had reckonded with a lot of growth but not with that much, they had figured with about a 5th of the actual growth. WOW!
Growing so fast is painful as anybody knows who grew fast in their teenage years. But after the growing stopped so did the pain. We are in a painful stage right now but that’s ok because we know the pain will be over and who ever stuck it out will be rewarded. With greatness.
So, the server was one problem, they are solving now.
The other problem was the marchent account provider and the bank behind it. They litterly could not handle that many accounts. We are talking 400-500 new accounts PER DAY!!!
Imagine you have a store that’s going pretty well and suddenly you have a customer that litterly buys your shelves empty. Every day! You cannot keep up filling up those shelves. You’ve got a huge problem and need to come up with a plan - fast.
Good thing is all those problems have shown up within the first month after the launch, while still in beta testing and they are working on finding the best solution for us all.
While I sometimes feel I’m running out of time because I had hoped with Empower Network I could generate enough money to cover my expenses to my LA trip end of January, I have to tell my self there is enough time. I’m just being a little impatient but it also gives me time to do other things, like work on some blog posts, make another dent in my snail and e-mail, learn about marketing and driving traffic.
Tell me, do you wanna wait until all the growing pains are over or do you wanna start with us in Empower Network and empower as many people as possible as soon as the site is live again? Then send me a message so I can get back to you as soon as possible.
Empower on!
Since a couple of days we are not able to get into Network Marketing, the server crashed. Within 24h they had over $100′000 growth because of a promo and a new product they are working on.
Now, one could think, they raked in a lot of money and ran.
The point though is, the money, any money generated by affiliates or distributors does not go to the company. WHAT? Yes. All the money paid for any of the products goes directly to the distributors. Unheard of. So, they have not run, they’d be crazy because the only way they can earn money is doing what everybody else does: blog and tell.
So, I’m not worried. Impatient. Yes. But not worried. I wanna blog and I wanna tell others because it’s just a cool and easy system and there are a lot of people blogging already and not earning any money. And a lot of people who would like to set up a blog but cannot get it to work or don’t know how or where to start.
That’s where Empower Network comes in. You learn it all - as soon as the servers are up and everything is tested and ready
Empower Network is still in Beta testing, and it’s kinda thrilling that we’ve been so active that we crashed the server after one month. I think they need to triple their servers so we are good again for a month.
Alright. Just be patient. Leave a comment or send me a message and I’ll let you know when everything is up and running again.
I’m going to a famous Christmas market today and enjoy a day off
Battle on!
PS: Have I mentioned 100% commission?
SOCIAL SHARE PROJECT for Skypers, Bloggers, YouTube & Video Maketers and Social Sharers:
Julie Wolf and I have planned a wonderful Holiday video project you may want to participate in to build your brand and business.
… To learn an easy video making method as part of a traffic getting social share project in her YouTube Video Skype Room watch the video. Do give us a Like on YouTube while you’re at it please.
If you want to join in, just watch this video http://youtu.be/Ygih9eWXhUo …
A Holiday Video Greeting
* Nov 29th * Dec 13th * Dec 20th * Dec 24th
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1) Plan video project, whose in? make teams maybe?, answer questions, get started. Xarahs and my how to video links go here…
a) Example Video Link circle Series on Gratutude and ThanksGiving http://youtu.be/jPGybEwAuGs b) How to Join Skype Room YouTube & Animoto Video Social Share Club Link Circle Learning Project http://youtu.be/Ygih9eWXhUo c) (*) The Jing Video that shows a bit what you can do with Animoto: http://screencast.com/t/YON44rfN
The Result: http://animoto.com/play/eMtjVvFb83L3t7jrK2IbBA
(*) How to export from Animoto to Youtube, add anotation (link for Round Robin) http://screencast.com/t/fEiUsVhvbkE (there is a long pause, i had thought i had paused it but it kept running
(*) How to do a playlist on Youtube: http://screencast.com/t/imnoIQRl
Other video I put in my Animoto Skype room http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-1ipqzdB9c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO6Bkj6Jt_g just a quick test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abxetNEGY64&feature=channel_video_title this is a video mixed with photos and video clips done with a video cam
2) Make a free account with Animoto Free Animoto account give you 30 second videos. and if you dont have one yet, a YouTube account too. It’s free.
3) Share videos and how to info, how to get images, video clips, watch my how-to video, Julie’s how-to-perticipate video
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1_ start for those who blog… a draft blog post (choose tags, keywords and make an outline)
2_ Collect images into a folder for this project. Chose your main topic.
3_ Make Animoto Video
4_Optional - Finish blog posts with images and place to embed your YouTube video
1_ Make video if you haven’t and upload to YouTube (and embed in blog post), you might want to “not list” it yet until you were able to link to your Round Robin Buddy.
2_ Make Links in your videos to join the link circle togther - Anotation Notes! Link to partner and get linked to from another partner. (I guess we need 3 people teams min. to partner with). We will agree in the Skype room who will link to whom.
3_ one of 2 last chances to link into a team … who are your 2 partners?
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2_Makes video responses for those who wish to
3_ Absolute last chance to link into a team … who are your 2 partners? Last chance to link in… this is easy and powerful and creative and fun… don’t miss it!
4_ Send traffic - Holiday Greetings via internet
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Go crazy with sending traffic to your Holiday Video. Let us know about any other traffic method you use.
Skype profile : Skype Mood message next to your picture and About. Skype auto-reply for When offline or Away skype status Skype message send holiday greeting in rooms and in pms, use xsky or message magic to your permission lists! Want a Skype training webinars from for the next few weeks? When?
That’s it. Care to join in? Come to our Skype Video room!
PS: Start blogging instantly, tell others and get 100% commissions!
