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Face inflammation and swelling result from acne and acne related disorders in most cases. This inflammation would generally be due to collection of sebum within pores that are closed. This happens when skin generates excessive oil more than what pores can dispose at any given point in time.

Let me brief common treatments which you can try to reduce and cure face inflammation.

a) Deep Cleansing,the Simplest Way To Control Inflammation

b) Having Diet Rich In Antioxidants

c) Using Moisturizer To Regulate Sebum

Deep Cleansing, the Simplest Way To Control Face Inflammation

This is the simplest of the treatments to control face skin inflammation to an appreciable level. Go for deep cleansing face wash products made up of natural substances. Natural facial cleansers don’t produce side effects. If you are going to use more aggressive cleansers like those made from glycolic acid, it is important that you consult your dermatologist before buying one.

Having Diet Rich In Antioxidants

In most cases skin breakouts result from reduced collagen production or collagen damage. Collagen is an elastic substance that gives skin its power to withstand breakouts. Diet rich in antioxidants are known to improve collagen production and hence can prevent face skin inflammation to an appreciable extent.

Using Moisturizer To Regulate Sebum

Moisturizers are known to regulate sebum production. Whenever you wash your face, you need to follow by applying a suitable moisturizer. This can reduce the overproduction of sebum and can effectively reduce face inflammation. Using natural moisturizers can prevent side effects to a great extent.

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Our face can be considered as the most important part of our body. Not to ignore other parts, but people will easily recognize us from our face, won’t they? So it’s necessary for us keeping our face in the best and healthy condition for impressive appearance, especially when you’re working in such public fields.

For doing so, we need to do the special treatments. We can not apply the common treatment we do to other part for the face since it only has a thin layer of skin. So we need to be careful, otherwise, we will only damage it.

You can start by cleans up your face. This aims has to be the first activity prior to other ones. We have to take all the dirt on the surface of our skin faces off in order to prevent it clogging the skin pores and causing the acnes to show up. To clean it up, we have to use proper cleanser which contains rich moisturizers in order to stop the dryness happens onto our face. And then, we can follow it up with the application of the face toner liquid. This liquid is used to give extra cleansing effect by helping remove the dirt which can not be cleansed only by using the face cleanser. It also gives the soothing effect to our face.

Then we go to next step, the peeling process. Peeling is the process by which we can have our face skin exfoliated. It means that the process will contribute in renewing the old skins of ours and then we can obtain the brighter looks of face. The next further step is applying the face masker. The face masker application aims to rejuvenate our face skin. It is why we need to cleanse our face up prior to these steps since the application of face masker can last until 15 minutes – or more – we can have the dirt trapped inside our pores. Face masker also aimed to be the way we can maintain our face’s moistures since the face masker product contains a lot of nutrients that will be valuable for the health of our face skin.

By: Ricardo Lubis

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OK, you have just been diagnosed with cancer…

You have cancer is a phrase which one in five people in the United States will hear this year alone in one form or another. Too many people have cancer! Cancer rips through your life tearing its own pathway. Unfortunately, a lifetime of ignoring certain aspects of your body and you life has resulted in dis-ease.

Hearing you have cancer is earth shattering! Cancer is perhaps the most dreaded disease because we know so little about it and for many it is a death sentence.

All you can do is ask yourself… “how did I get cancer? What did I do to get this in my body? Am I going to die? What am I going to do? Where do I turn? What? What? Where? Where? Why? Why?” Confusion and fear sets in. You are a wreck!

What are you going to do? You need a plan. Prayer helps, but you also need a plan. You need a support system of friends and you need to depend on God to help you.

You question… Am I going to die? Depending on what type of cancer you have and where it is in your body, you have different questions. On the other hand, a few questions are very much the same for everyone. Will I ever get better? Will I look the same? What about insurance? Will it cover everything? What about my family? What about my job? What about business? Who will help me? What shall I do? How much is all this going to cost?

Do these words sound familiar? These words and emotions are all very normal. You are being challenged with the biggest test of your strength in your lifetime. My thoughts probably sound familiar to your thoughts. Your journey has just begun.

As a two-time cancer survivor I have written this book to show you that cancer does not have to be a death sentence. You will have to change many things in your life. As you read on in the book, it is written to make you stop and think. All I can do is to share my experiences and hope that because of my pain and suffering, you will find comfort and cure for your cancer.

Healing yourself, even with the help of modern medicine is a task that only you can do for yourself. Many people will try to help you and guide you, but you need to make the decision that you are going to be well and that certain changes must be made in the way you live your life. In order for you to get well and go on living many more years, you will need to make the decision to be well. Think wellness thoughts. Your mind needs to know that you are already well so that the rest of your body can catch up to such thinking. This concept might be a bit difficult to grasp at first; please read on. Cancer is perhaps the greatest challenge you have ever had to face, and it takes tremendous courage to get well. You must be strong!

Your body, designed by God, has its own self-healing power. Your body got sick by you not listening to it. When you listen to your body and your inner self, you will get well. So many people term cancer as a journey because it is a life changing event. Today, many people are facing cancer and healing themselves. Be hopeful and learn from my journey as well as the journeys and research of many others.

was diagnosed with throat cancer. The doctors were perplexed as to how I got cancer, as I was not the typical profile of the person who contracts throat cancer. I did not smoke, and did not drink to excess. When I walked into the Chemotherapy Infusion Room with a doctor for scheduling, the woman at the help desk asked “who is the patient?” The doctor said, pointing to me and replied, “It is for her.” On the outside I looked healthy, or so I thought at the time. To search the reason why I got cancer was my personal journey. Looking back, I have a different perspective.

My journey was not easy. No cancer healing is simple, however; curing yourself of cancer is not as mysterious as you might assume. Decisions must be made quickly and seriously. You will need a support system.

1. If you smoke, you need to stop immediately.

2. If you are in a home where everyone else smokes, you need to get yourself to a clean environment where you are not exposed to second-hand smoke.

3. If you are a heavy alcohol drinker, you need to stop immediately. Did you know that alcohol consumption can cause cancer? Most of us do not. Where is the “surgeon general” warning on alcohol consumption? Drinking alcohol can cause cancer.

4. If you drink soft drinks with aspartame you need to stop immediately. In fact, soft drinks are nothing but sugar and chemicals. You need to drink juices and water instead.

5. You need to decide that you want to live and that you are going to go about changing your life in order to do so.

6. Get plenty of rest. You need at least 8-10 hours of sleep each day. Naps also are recommended. While at rest, your body can do its own healing process.

7. You need to forget about FEAR. You need to get to work on healing the body that you have badly neglected for many years. Right now, you have no time for fear.

8. Have a positive attitude towards your healing. You are going to become healthy again.

9. Let go and let God!

10. Expect a miracle!

You have read that I am a two-time cancer survivor. When I first was diagnosed with cancer, I took the American Medical Association approach to the disease. I went to the University of Virginia Medical Center which has state-of-the-art cancer treatment. First, I had chemotherapy treatments for several weeks. Chemotherapy gives poison to all cells, killing both cancer cells, and at the same time, healthy cells. I also received seven weeks, five days a week, of radiation therapy. Tomotherapy Radiation equipment takes a scan of the cancer tumor daily and as the treatment progresses, the tumor size and positions change. This equipment targets the tumor and lasers it with radiation, killing the cancer cells. I almost died during the combination of these lengthy treatments. However, after the grueling treatment was over, my cancer went into remission. Recovery from the treatments took a very long time because my body was quite frail and weak. All cancer patients have anemia, and I was no exception. Cancer causes anemia and chemotherapy makes anemia even worse.

My weight went down to 80 pounds. I lost all my hair. I was depressed beyond anything I could ever imagine. I did not eat for five weeks. I had to have a stomach tube inserted so that my body could get the nutrition it needed. Everything tasted like cardboard, so why eat? It was a horrible experience. However, the cancer went into remission and I was cured, or so I thought.

I began to gain weight and come alive again. I had hair stubble. With my immune system being challenged by the chemotherapy, I attracted a very rare amoeba in my right eye. The amoeba ate my cornea and eye blood vessels before the problem was diagnosed correctly. The pain was excruciating and for almost nine months, I was blind in my right eye.

When the amoeba was gone, and my eye began to heal, I began to see again. At the eye doctor’s visit for the first time in almost a year, I finally saw and recognized the “BIG E.” That was a happy day! However, since my body was malnutritioned and weak, the following day I had a heart attack. On the operating room table during heart surgery, I could hear the nurses talking about me. “She is so tiny.” I weighed about 90 pounds soaking wet.

After recovering from the heart attack and gaining weight I gradually got back to my old self and went back to work. I had a new heart, I was thin and fashionable, and I was designing and traveling all over the world again. Modern medicine had cured me of the dreaded disease and surrounding complications. Happy days were here again!

I slipped back into my old bad habits. I worked hard, did not rest enough, stressed over things, and did not eat correctly. Basically I did not love myself any more after this entire ordeal than I did before the cancer. The reason being, I did not know any better. You are sitting there saying “what?” I am here to tell you that cancer is the symptom of something much deeper than just the disease of the cells. The body and the mind are much more complex than what we treat with medicine and medical treatments. In case you have forgotten, your mind is attached to your body and the mind and the brain are very much in charge of everything that goes on in your body either on a conscious or subconscious level.

Within two years, the same cancer returned. I was diagnosed with cancer a second time. This time the treatment was more complicated and severe.

After a biopsy verifying cancer, the doctors wanted to do surgery. They felt that chemotherapy and radiation had not worked. This time they would do salvage surgery which would have left me maimed for the rest of my life.

I refused salvage surgery and everything else that went along with it. The doctors had suggested I at least take another flight of chemotherapy. I went to the appointment with the Chemotherapy Physician. During the course of our conversation (I was taking notes) we discussed my previous chemotherapy treatments and how the cancer had disappeared very quickly. At that point, the doctor turned to me and said “everyone knows chemotherapy does not cure cancer.” I asked him, “then why did you put me through all of that horrendous experience nearly killing me if it could not cure me?” I did not wait for an answer.

My mind was made up that instant. Something was really wrong with this picture! After seeing several of my friends go through cancer treatment with a fatal end, I chose quality of life.

I got three different professional opinions on the second cancer diagnosis.

1. University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia where I had been treated for the first cancer treatment.

2. Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California to their Top Oncology Center.

3. Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona to check out Trans Oral Micro Laser Surgery for Throat Cancer. This is a fairly new procedure done by only two renowned doctors in the world; one of them is at Mayo Clinic.

I saw the most highly regarded Throat Cancer Oncologist in each of the above three places. I did my diligence with world-class surgeons.

All the doctors reviewed my medical history. They assessed my CT Scans, and all gave the same diagnosis. Both University of Virginia and Loma Linda would do the salvage surgery, the only difference being that Loma Linda would remove the artery from my right leg, not my right arm to replace the artery in my neck. At the Mayo Clinic, the surgeon would do a new procedure, Trans Oral Micro Laser Surgery which would involve inserting a laser down my throat surgically and using a laser as the primary cutting tool. This procedure would eliminate cutting my jaw, and removing my artery. However, I was advised the procedure “isn’t magic” and was “not minimalistic.” I would have a sizable wound, maybe some difficulty with speech, a stomach tube inserted through my nose, a very long recovery, problems swallowing, and a speech hindrance for several years, possibly forever.

I tell you this story because you will hear something similar and you have to weigh your odds. How do you want to live the rest of your life?

At that point in time, I my body weight was 112 lbs. How much more weight could I possibly lose? I also did not want to look in the mirror and see a part of my face removed. In my mind, I had no choice but to take an alternative route. Remember…Be Determined and Beat Cancer. That mantra was always in my mind. I kept beating that drum again and again.

I turned to alternative medicine, and I began what people call the journey to wellness. I went to a Naturopathic doctor in California and changed my diet drastically to include herbs and vitamins, coupled with fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, and fish. This diet changed my life. When you have cancer, your body has been depleted of the nutrients it needs, you must give your body and your brain the nutrition it needs to get you well again.

All during my first cancer treatment, I was never given a diet or any information about how a diet can actually cure cancer. However, the truth of the matter is; I probably was not in the frame of mind to listen to anything, even if they had given me a nutritional diet. I had not passed over what my intuitive healer calls the crossroads to wellness. My old habits of living and eating were still a part of my regime. My attitude was such that “I would just take the medicine prescribed for me, do what the doctors tell me to do, and get healed through the wonders of modern medicine.” I would find the best doctor money could buy, the most famous in all the world, and beat cancer! Just take a pill and make it all go away…that was my thinking before I was challenged with cancer the second time.

It was only until I passed over the crossroads, what I call the point of no return when both my conscious and my subconscious mind were working in tandem to get me well forever. I had refused salvage surgery, and knew if I were going to be healed I had to do something major for myself; quickly. I began to study and to do research. I began investigating alternative medicine and other options for healing. I became a voracious reader and searched the Internet for information about cancer cures and healing. I needed to find an answer and heal my self.

I was given a book titled Love, Medicine and Miracles by Dr. Bernie Siegel. Dr. Siegel states that the body has an incredible power to heal itself. This is where my journey began.

Your journey will be different than mine, and only you know where to find the answers buried in your body and mind. Your body has an extremely powerful recuperative ability. You and your mind have the control to heal yourself. In this book, I will show you the tools to institute your own healing process. You must do the work and come to terms with your body.

Copyright 2010 Carol Patterson. All Rights Reserved.

By: Carol E Patterson

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Thermage is a unique cosmetic procedure that uses Capacitive Radiofrequency (CRF) technology. It safely heats the collagen in the inner and outer layers of your skin. This causes skin to tighten immediately and also improves skin’s tone and texture. You will see your skin transform over the next four to six months (due to new collagen growth).

This procedure, which is performed by a certified medical doctor, can target and tighten any trouble spot on the Body. It can give you an instant face lift or tone cellulite dimples on the buttocks. If you are looking for a non-invasive cosmetic treatment that doesn’t include lasers or injections, Thermage may be the best alternative for you.

As you age, your skin starts to sag and wrinkle due to a break down in collagen. Unlike other anti-aging products and treatments, it only hits the surface of the skin. However, this innovative technique applies heat to the second and third layers of the skin. When collagen is heated, the skin immediately tightens. You will see long lasting results–smoother, more radiant skin.

See Immediate Results with Painless, Non-Invasive Treatment

Unlike other procedures, you won’t five or six treatments to get the full benefits. Treatments are only performed in a doctor’s office. Most doctors will offer free consultations to determine if the procedure will work for you. Women who are between the ages of 35 and 65 see the fastest results. You will only need one session which can last from 20 minutes to two hours (depending on the treatment areas).

The technique is very safe and painless. You will feel a brief, heat sensation each time radiofrequency energy delivers is delivered to your skin. The only side effect is that skin may be slightly red for a few days but you can return to normal activities that day.

If you choose to target the eye and face area you will see the following results:

o Tighter, smoother skin with reduced crepiness
o Reduces hooding. Brow area is tightened which gives eyes a more refreshed look.
o Reduces bags and puffiness underneath the eyes
o Softens fine lines and crow’s feet.

If you choose to target trouble spots on the body you can expect the following results:

o Tightening and lifting
o Flatter and smoother skin
o Gets rid of unwanted bulges and dimpling

By: Ashley Jones-Decker

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One of the most prevalent skin problems that affect individuals across ages is acne. Pimples or acne are common features on the skin especially among teenagers who are prone to having them and this acne often leaves behind ugly spots or blemishes on the skin. The acne usually appears on the face and therefore they greatly affect one’s external appearance. There are various causes for the formation of acne.

The most prevalent cause can be associated to the secretion of the sebaceous glands. The excess secretion of oil or sebum from the sebaceous glands is responsible for the outbreak of ace on the external surface of the skin. However, these are not the sole causes of acne. Very high levels of stress and unhealthy lifestyle together with hormonal imbalances may contribute equally to recurrent pimple formation. It is important to point out here that while it is true that it is possible to treat acne, it must be kept in mind that all forms of acne treatment usually take time and the inflammations or red pigmentations so formed on the skin will take a lot of time to be eradicated completely. At times it is also noticed that even after the acne has healed certain scars remain or picking on acnes may result in the formation of ugly scars which are difficult to remove.

While the facial skin is the most common ground for acne formation, body acne is also common and among teenagers as well. It usually becomes prevalent during the winter months when individuals sometimes sweat excessively under the scores of warm clothing. Under such conditions the sweat may clog the pores of the skin and thus result in the formation of acnes or pimples on the body. The back and the chest region are the two sections of the body which are mostly affected as a result of acne outbreak. One of the most effective means of treating body acne is by means of keeping the body clean and taking a proper bath regularly. In order to eradicate the acne which have formed on the body and to ensure its permanent removal, one may apply a salicylic acid based cleanser which is considered useful for the purpose. Alpha Hydroxy Acid is quite useful in treating acne and therefore body moisturizers containing the Alpha Hydroxy Acid may be poured on the affected regions of the body to ensure removal of body acne.

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Acne has no boundaries. Although, the face is the most affected area, the acne can occur in any part of the body. The back, chest, neck, buttocks and shoulders are not uncommon sites for acne. That’s why sometimes they are called as ‘bacne’ i.e. acne occurred on the back!

Just like acne on the face, body acne is also troublesome condition. This gives bad look and may prevent you wearing low-cut and backless shirts and tank tops. This turns embarrassing when you are wiling to put-on the swim suit!

Acne is caused by the sebaceous gland secretion. These glands lie just under the skin. The secretion is known as sebum and is secreted to keep skin moist enough. Sebum is good until it is secreted in normal quantity and doesn’t get block to the passages that open up on the outer skin. Once, the pathway choke-up with one or the other reason, the sebum starts getting collected under the skin. Top of that, this place invites bacteria to make their seat. This entire procedure results into the inflammation and elevation of the skin as a spot popularly known as acne.

Body acne can appear in the form of blackheads, white heads, pustules, cysts or pimples. The first and foremost tip to get rid of body acne is stopping wearing tight cloths. This is because the acne has tendency to ooze some secretion which could be encouraged by wearing tight cloths. Friction from these clothing will irritate body acne.

One should wash the acne-affected area with anti-bacterial soap. Keep in mind that soap with harmful chemicals will worsen the case. Hence, it is advisable to go for herbal soap having disinfecting property. Some chemicals are proven for anti-acne treatment like you can go for 5% – 10% benzoyl peroxide cream to dry out the pimples. You can also try to accutane therapy, which works with great deal.
Another precaution is to be taken that you should never squeeze the acne as that may spread to other areas of the body. If you want to take out the material which is inside the pimple, take a cotton piece and gently press on it draining material in the cotton and making sure that it is not getting spread anywhere else.

Regarding the diet, one can go for roughage with no limits. Drink plenty of water to flush out the bodily waste through the urination and sweating. Non-vegetarian diet, alcohol, smoking and stress do contribute producing the body acne. Herbal science believe that eating the strong smelled vegetables like garlic, ginger, onions etc. give rise to sweat production and hence there may be chances of getting body acne.

Many of the doctors from different branches of the medical sciences like Ayurveda, Naturopathy and Homoeopathy believe that body acne could be developed by constipation. To get rid of the body acne, one should never remain constipated. Take enough fiber in the diet by means of green leafy vegetables etc. You can also go for some mild laxative (preferably herbal) once in a week on regular basis. This will tone up your intestines and will prevent constipation therefore.

By: Ryan English

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