Fitness

You’ve read countless tips for glowing skin in magazines, blogs and brochures. You’ve dabbed toothpaste on zits, tried cleansing pads that stung, spent a fortune on wrinkle creams, used miracle oil made from special pearls, exfoliated until you were raw,  buffed massaged, and polished your cheeks, and have done embarrassing face exercises, all in the name of a younger, firmer, clearer face.   Irony is that all of us generally overlook the easiest, safest, most effective and cheapest forms of treatment which is consuming healthy foods. Healthy foods nourish your body from the inside; in order to help your skin glow on the outside. The right combinations of fruits, vegetables and vitamin rich foods can protect your skin from the damages of not just aging but also the environment. Of course, genetics, lifestyle and environmental factors play a pivotal role but diet intake is the key for healthy skin.   Here is the key for glowing skin:   Vitamin A Vitamin A st...

It is important to know how to offer our children good and quality food, avoiding any kind of exaggeration. Without depriving the children of different delicacies, we should work towards and promote a healthy diet.  Let’s have a look at 10 practical tips to help us stick to our goal: 1. Do not push your child to eat: It is a common phenomenon to chase the child around food, to eat up to the last crumb in their plate. However, children are aware of the amount of food they need, so we have to trust their decision. 2. Don’t Exclude Sweet Delicates: It is important to remember that what is forbidden automatically becomes more attractive to us. With this in mind, we should not ban any kind of food from our child’s menu. Even if we know that sugar is not healthy, we need to adjust sweet treats to the child’s diet. 3. Do not reward the child with food: One of the common mistakes made in the child’s daily routine is being rewarded for eating a non-appetizing dish with a specific meal...