HELP TALKS - Mr.Arjan Advani on Natural Weight Reduction, Health and Beauty

This video is a talk by Mr.Arjan Advani at HELP on 30th Dec,10. Topic "Natural Weight Reduction, Health and Beauty". Mr. Arjan Advani can be contacted at 022 22150043. This is part of the HELP Talk series at HELP, Health Education Library for People, the worlds largest free patient education library www.healthlibrary.com

Healthy Life

Healthy Lifestyle includes following components

1. Physical exercise
2. Healthy diet
3. Yoga
4. Spiritual Orientation
5. Transcendental meditation
6. Philanthropic activities

It is important to realize here that why this package of 6 different interventions is being advocated. In fact, it can even be more than 7, 8 activities. The number of intervention components is immaterial. It is the way we approach to heal the problem that makes the difference. So, the main issue is the way we approach our lives. Often, nowadays, much health relates research findings are published. However we should remember here, that our life is not uni-dimensional. No individual factor or intervention can operate alone,. And no body organ operates alone. So individual organ or system should not be the target of our interventions if we want to prevent development of non-communicable diseases everything should be viewed in totality. It is not fruitful to just talk about only diet. Other factors are also important for hear disease e.g. obesity, exercise, stress etc. This is why we emphasize a set of interventions to bring about lifestyle change.

Tips to maintain good health / permanent weight loss

Your morning, meals from now on will be a breeze. They will hardly ever vary. Until noon, every day you may have as much fresh fruit juice and fresh fruit as you desire. This will insure that during the length of the elimination cycle your body will be able to work fully on elimination, not digestion. Feel free to eat as much fruit as you need to feel satisfied. Of course, make sure you eat it on an empty stomach. Try to stat each day with a fresh fruit juice, if it is available: orange, apple, tangerine, melon, pineapple. Remember that it is most beneficial to make your juice yourself. Make it a top priority to own a juicer – at the very least, a simple citrus juicer.

When desired, have pieces of juicy fruit throughout the morning. Over a three to four hour period we recommend that you have several pieces of fruit. One serving of fruit is the amount that leaves you feeling comfortable. It may be the amount that leaves you feeling comfortable. It may be one orange, or it may be a bowl of four quartered oranges. It may be an apple, or it may be two peaches sliced and sprinkled with a tablespoon of currants. If you follow this to be conveniently fitted into your personal life style, you will get best results.

Health tips

1. Start your day with Fresh fruit juice if you desire. Recommended quantity is eight to fourteen ounces.

2. Throughout the morning have pieces of fruit as you feel hungry.

3. Have a minimum of two servings of fruit in any three hour period.

4. Your maximum fruit intake should be governed by your needs. Have as much as you desire. Do not over eat or under eat fruit.

5. Eat melons before other fruit.
6. Eat bananas when you are particularly hungry and are craving heavier food.

7. Eat lunch with required quantity of vegetables.

8. At night eat little and before 8 p.m.

9. Morning 20 minutes brisk walk is a must.

If you follow these tips regularly, your weight will reduce and you will have healthy body and mind.

Tips for choosing a Bridal Bindi Design

You should give importance to your bridal bindi design. A small forehead should not have big dots, and the design should be subtle and less prominent. A larger forehead can support floral, decorated dots.

If your eyes are too closely placed, the dots should start well away from the center of the forehead an from the central bindi. If they are distantly placed, these dots can be started from either side of the central bindi.

The most popular colors which are also suitable for photographic effect (colored or black and white) are red and white. You could use red and gold or red and silver, depending on your dress and the work on it. Also with diamond jewelery you could use red and silver, and the dress should have silver work on it if possible. If the wedding is to take place during the day, then dots of silver or gold will look good, but for the night they will not show up well in photographs or even otherwise.

Treatment of Superfluous Hair effective method

Hair on the upper lip can normally be treated quite effectively by bleaching or waxing. But before trying to get rid of hair on the rest of the face, consult a dermatologist or a beauty specialist. Bleaching is good because this does not stimulate the root in any way, and is a surface treatment only, whereas waxing or threading involves pulling at the roots.

Bleaching: This is effective if you have just a downy growth. Bleaching at home is not advisable if the skin is very sensitive or has pimples, or if one has a sun-burnt skin. If the skin is very dry, one should refrain from bleaching till it gets normal. Bleaching at the saloon under the guidance of an experienced beauty specialist is always safe, even under the above mentioned conditions of the skin. To some extent bleaching does help the skin to get rid of its tan, and lighten the marks left behind by pimples. Besides, some acute cases of acne marks and pigmentation have benefited greatly by bleaching.

Tweezing: This is the most convenient method, which one can use to get eyebrows into shape or to pull out any odd hair on the chin or face. One cannot, however, tweeze over a large area, as it is very slow and tiring.

Tips for Hand care

During festive seasons like Deepavali, Pongal, etc. and occasions like wedding mehandi decorations are became the fashion today. Here I will give you some tips for hand care.

1. Use a good hand lotion as a matter of habit, when dressing up and going out.
2. Use a good hand cream every time you wash your hands.
3. It will be a good idea to keep your hand lotion handy in the bathroom, so that you have no excuse to make for noting using it that often.
4. Keep your nail-file, nail cutter and a pair of nail-scissors clean, to prevent any infection.
5. Keep changing nail-varnish at least once a week, and let your nails breathe for the night. Use fresh nail-varnish the next morning. Otherwise your nails will become stained permanently.
6. Give time to dry your nail-varnish, and don't put your hands in water for one hour after that.
7. Have a professional manicure at least once in a month.

Tips to reduce weight / smiple exercises

We have all read so much about dieting and losing weight but the whole thing boils down to the fact that you require determination to lose weight or maintain it, and the will power to resist overeating. So never go for a crash diet. It will spoil your complexion and affect the hair, eyes, teeth and the general tone of the body, muscles, especially of the face. Here are some simple exercises you do regularly.

1. Walk 1/2 an hour daily in the morning or evening.

2. Stand straight with hands on your waist and toes slightly apart. Bend slightly forward from you waist and make circles clockwise and anti-clock wise by keeping your waist as the center of the circles. About twenty circles once a day are good enough.

3. Sit on the ground. Keep your toes apart and touch your left toe with the right hand and then the right toe with your left hand. If done properly, you will feel the pull on your sides.

Simple exercises - bulky stomach

Here we discuss about how we can bring the protruding stomach in to normal. If we do some simple exercises

1. Sleep on your stomach.

2. Try and hold your stomach in whenever or wherever you can. This will train your muscles to remain tight always.

3. Lie on the bed with hands on the sides. Try to get up very slowly without taking any support. Then lie down again very gradually. If you are doing this exercise well you will feel the stretch on your stomach.

4. Lie down flat on the ground or on the bed, with hands on the side. Lift both your toes about 18 inches from the ground to the count of ten. Then let go gradually. Repeat this ten times only.

Beauty tips

If you are going for a function, first you decide what you are going to wear. Then what kind of jewelery is needed. It is the most important item and its correct use involves a lot of thought and at times as much care as is required for clothes, make-up and hair styles. Jewelery requires a great deal of selection and a sense of discretion. So make a correct selection of jewellery - by way of stones, pearls, gold, silver and diamonds and you will add a glowing finishing to your personality. Your beauty will get more attention if you wear the right things for the right occasion.

Colour harmony is the basis of perfection. The deciding factor for make-up, bags, footwear or jewellery are the clothes that you are getting to wear. The selection of clothes poses a great problem for most of use. Plain sarees do not offer much problem about a correct choice of stones. You could use matching, contrasting or a neutral shade of jewellery. Wear simple jewellery during day.

Radiant Smile

If you want to look beautiful, follow the tips. Freshness, charm and elegance go together. It is wonderful if one can remain fresh on whole day. If your heart feels joy, it will reflect in your face.

One of the important thing is to keep your teeth clean. If is a very good habit to brush your teeth regularly in morning and before going to bed. Nothing can be more unpleasant than bad odour from the mouth. You should have your teeth checked regularly twice a year. This will keep you trouble-free teeth and gums. Gums should be healthy and your teeth should sparkle and look fresh and clean. Every time you eat, make it a point to wash your mouth thoroughly with a little water. These little things will go a long way in keeping your teeth in good condition.

Tips How to make face masks

Here I will give you some tips to prepare face masks at home. It will give your face a bright look.

SANDALWOOD PASTE PACK: Take a piece of sandalwood and rub it on a clean stone adding rose water. You will get a fine paste. Apply this paste on your face for 1/2 an hour. It will give you fresh feeling and discourage pimples also.

FOR NORMAL SKIN: Take 2 tablespoons of gram flour and add drops of milk and apply in your face, leaving the areas around lips and eyes. After 1/2 an hour wash with water. This is an excellent face pack.

FOR DRY SKIN: Take a teaspoon of almond oil, milk cream and yolk of an egg. Mix them and apply on your face. This is an excellent face pack for dry skin.

FOR TANNED SKIN: Take 10 almonds and grind them to paste and mix this paste with curd. Apply it on your face. This is an excellent face pack to remove a bit of your tan and also soften the skin.

BEAUTY TIPS

BEAUTY TIPS

Body Care | Eye care | Lip care | Hair care | Skin care

Body care

Mix six-teaspoon petroleum jelly, two-teaspoon glycerin and two-teaspoon lemon juice. Apply this moisturizing lotion at least twice a week if you have dry and flaky, arms and legs

Peel and grate a cucumber. Squeeze the juice to this, mix half-a-teaspoon glycerin and half-a-teaspoon rose water. Apply this on sunburns, leave it for some time.

If you have cracked heels, melt paraffin wax; mix it with little mustard oil and apply on the affected area. Leave it overnight. After 10 or 15 days, your heels will become smooth.

Massage your body with a mixture of coconut oil and any of your favourite scented oils like lavender or rosemary. 

For rough palms, use a mixture of glycerin and limejuice in equal proportion.

For cracked heals, massage the foot with coconut oil and keep the foot in warm water for some time. Wipe the water off the feet and apply a mixture of hibiscus flower(10), Henna (1 handful) and juice of half a lemon. when dry wash it off.

Remove scars on your hands and feet by rubbing them with lemon peel. 

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Eye care

Dip wads of cotton in a chilled mixture of cucumber and potato juice. Keep this on your eyelids for 15 to 20 minutes and gently wash it off. Apply a little baby oil.

For long eyelashes.., apply a thin coat of castor oil every night. It strengthens lashes and cools your eyes.

Massage a few drops of coconut oil around the eyes to get rid off dark circles. 

To reduce puffiness of your eyes, grate a potato; tie in a cloth and place the cloth over your eyes for about 15 minutes.

Add a small pinch of salt in water and wash for bright and sparkling eyes.

Mix tomato juice and lemon juice in equal quantity and apply around the eyes. After 30 minutes wash it off with cold and hot water alternatively.

Make a paste of sandal wood and nutmeg. Apply the paste around the eyes before sleeping and wash it off in the morning.

Crush a cucumber and take the juice. Add a little rose water and apply around the eyes and wash it after 30 minutes.

Place cotton wool swabs dipped in cold milk on closed eyes for removing dark circles.

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Lip Care

You can mix one-tablespoon cranberry sauce juice with two tablespoons Vaseline for a delicious home made lip balm.

Apply the juice of lemon skin for avoiding black colour of lips

Massage your lips with coriander leaf juice for soft and rosy lips