Author: thompson stephen

I was out recently with some friends and we stopped at a fast food joint. I hate fast food joints, but sometimes everybody else wants to go there, so you just have to make the best of it and find something at least somewhat healthy. If you're forced to eat fast-food, here's a tip to make sure that you're not doing much damage to your body...ALWAYS AVOID the soda and anything deep fried including french fries, hash browns, and anything breaded like chicken nuggets, chicken patties, or breaded fish sandwiches. These are all absolutely soaked in deadly trans fats from the industrial hydrogenated vegetable oils they use to fry all of these items.

Remember, as I've said before, I've seen studies indicating that as little as 1 gram of trans fat per day can have serious degenerative internal effects in your body such as inflammation, clogging and hardening of the arteries, heart disease, various forms of cancer...not to mention packing on the ab flab. That's as little as 1 gram! Consider that a typical fast-food meal of a breaded chicken sandwich (or fish sandwich), along with an order of fries can contain as much as 10 grams of trans fat! Add on a cookie or small piece of pie for dessert (which are usually made with deadly margarine or shortening), and now you're up to about 13 grams of trans fat with that entire meal. If 1 gram a day is slowly killing you, imagine what 13 grams is doing! And that was only one meal that you ate. Some people are consuming 20-30 grams of trans fat per day, and not even realizing what they're doing to themselves internally. Please realize that nobody, I mean NOBODY, is looking out for your health, except for YOU.

Anyway, back to the topic of how to avoid this stuff and eat a reasonably healthy meal on the rare occasion that you're forced to eat fast-food. As for drinks, avoid the sodas...they're nothing but heavily processed high fructose corn syrup which will surely end up as extra belly fat. Water is always the best drink, but if you need something with flavor, try unsweetened or lightly sweetened iced tea. At breakfast, the best choice is an egg, ham, and cheese on an english muffin (not on a croissant, which is full of nasty trans!), or a fruit & nut salad. At lunch or dinner, the best choices are a grilled chicken sandwich, the chili, a grilled chicken salad without croutons (again...croutons = more trans), or even just a plain cheeseburger. The main take-away point from this little fast-food article is that the nastiest stuff at these fast food joints are the sodas and fries, and any other deep fried items.

For any of you that have seen the movie "Super-Size Me", you saw how eating fast food every day absolutely destroyed that guy's health, but did you happen to notice the one guy that was the king of eating big macs (or some kind of burger)? I don't remember what kind of burger it was, but basically this guy has eaten these fast food burgers almost every day of his life for the past 30 years or something like that. Did you notice that he stated that he almost never eats the fries or soda, even though he eats the burgers every day? And he's not necessarily overweight. Now I'm not saying that fast-food burgers made with their refined white bread and low quality beef and cheese are the healthiest thing, but the point is...it's the fries and sodas that are the real health disaster.

Alright, so next time you're out at one of these places, remember these tips and choose smart!
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Author: Elizabeth Ruby

Increasing collagen is necessary if we want to keep our skin smooth and free from wrinkles and fine lines. It has been scientifically proven that by the age of 25 we start losing collagen levels.

Collagen is a protein that is in all connective tissues. Besides seeing the effects of aging collagen loss to our skin we also can start feeling the effects of arthritis and other diseases from the loss of collagen.

Increasing collagen is vital to good health, and also for young smooth looking skin. If we begin to experience a decrease at the young age of 25, imagine how essential it is the older we get to find ways to prevent the effects from decreasing aging collagen.

There are numerous products available for increasing collagen. Don’t be fooled by the manufacturers that tell you to apply a product with collagen in it and expect to see an increase in your aging collagen. It doesn’t work that way. It is biologically impossible for collagen molecules to be absorbed into your skin, because they are too big.

Also when you use those products, which are mostly made of animal collagen, they can irritate your skin and cause redness. So they are not doing you any good, and they can possibly harm your skin instead of helping it look younger.

So you may be asking what is the best way of increasing collagen? The best and safest way is by applying a cream that will stimulate the body to produce more collagen.

Products like Cynergy TK, Nano-Lipobelle H-EQ10, and active manuka honey. You can find these ingredients in day creams, night creams, body lotions, eye gels, hydrating masks and cleansing masks. I like to use all of them listed, because they work together all day and all night to give me more protection against the fact of aging collagen decrease.

Cynergy TK is the closest thing to a miracle ingredient in skin care products. It reverses the damaging effects of poor skin. It contains Functional Keratin, which is like the protein in our skin. It is powerfully effective in regenerating the skin’s cells, forming new ones. It is also a wonderful moisturizer because it does not clog the pores and it penetrates deeply into the skin helping to heal damaged cells. It works with the body increasing collagen production by stimulating the body to produce more.

Decreasing collagen levels is one of the main reasons we wrinkle as we age. We can firm up the effects of aging collagen by producing more when we apply creams with the above listed ingredients. My website has more information about maintaining healthy skin.

Even if you are only in your mid twenties, it is not too early to be increasing your collagen levels. I wish I had been educated with this information when I was in my twenties and thirties, but even if you are like me and in your fifties or later, there is still help available. Check out my web site and find out where you can order these great products to begin increasing collagen levels and to have younger looking skin.

Elizabeth Ruby is passionate about good health and using healthy products on her skin. She does extensive research on the best products to use and what products to avoid. Visit her website at http://www.your-best-skin-care-site.com/ to find out what products she recommends.

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