Detox Drink.

Benefits of cereal.

Cereal is a food that is made from grains. It provides a wide variety of nutrients, which can benefit your health. 

The grains or whole grains in the cereals contain vitamins and minerals, which help lower blood pressure in the body. Especially, you will find a great amount of potassium diet in many cereals. Once, this potassium is absorbed into the body, it will instantly help loosening up the muscles of the blood vessels.

Besides, cereals are full of fiber, which is very beneficial for aiding the digestive system. It can also help reducing the amount of sugar, fat, and insulin in your body. Importantly, it helps maintaining the blood system in the body. As a result, it will help the body to function better. 

Cereal is another great choice to choose for your healthy eating and healthy living!

Choose a sunscreen that suits your skin.

Why we have to protect our skin from UVA and UVB?

Ultraviolet (UVA) rays can penetrate deep into the dermis, the inner layer of the skin or the true skin, which causes changes in elastin fibers, skin colors and blood vessels that could result in the aging of the skin (wrinkles) and skin cancer. 

UVB causes burns and a black stain on the skin. 

Most sunscreens that are sold in the market can only prevent UVB. So, we should carefully choose a sunscreen that can prevent us from both UVA and UVB rays. Besides, SPF on the label is also important.

What is SPF?

SPF stands for sun protection factor. It uses to measure how much and how long of a sunscreen can prevent the skin from sunburn. For example, Sunscreen with an SPF 20 means it will protect your skin from the sunlight up to 300 minutes or 5 hours.

How to choose and use sunscreen.

1. Choose the type that protects against both ultraviolet (UVA) and (UVB) 
2. Has an SPF of at least 15 
3. Evenly and gently apply thick sunscreen, about the size of a quarter cent coin, across the face. 
4. Leave it on for 15-20 minutes before you go out in the sun. 
5. Repeat every 2-3 hours
   

TIPS: 

• If you plan to do outdoor activities, for a better and long-lasting protection, remember to choose a water resistant sunscreen. So, when you sweat or being exposed to water, it will not be washed out and still maintain the SPF to protect your skin from UVA and UVB. 
• Avoid direct exposure to the sunlight. You could bring umbrella, put on a hat, and wear clothes that cover most parts of your skin when possible.

Smooth & Clear Face With Egg White And Lemon

Whiteheads are dead skin cells, which usually causes by pore. It is when a skin surface on a face opens up and is exposed to air, liquid, dust, and dirt. As a result, those dirt and other substances get clogged up in the pore. Whiteheads often spreads out in the oily area on the face, especially, forehead, nose, and chin. However, there is a way that we can simply get rid of this annoying whiteheads by ourself with the help of basic tool and ingredients that most of us have in ours kitchens.

The Tool & Ingredients:

- Napkin paper
- Boiling water
- 2 egg whites
- 1/4 cup of lemon juice

Step 1 :  Make your facial mask by mixing together 1/4 cup of lemon juice and 2 egg whites in a bowl.

Step 2 : Wash your face thoroughly with water. Pour boiling water into a large bowl. Low your head down to the hot steam to let the pores open, which helps masking in the next step becomes more effective.

Step 3 :  Gently apply and mask a light mixture onto the area(s) that affected with whiteheads.

Step 4 : Cover the masking area(s) with the napkin paper and leave it on for 30 minutes or until you feel tight on your skin and that the paper becomes stiff.

Step 5 : Gently peel off the napkin paper. It will pull out whiteheads from your skin, which you will notice that it will be stuck onto the paper. Then, wash out your face with cold water to close those pores.

Tips: Lemon contains Alpha Hydroxy acid, which helps removing acne from the skin. To manage acne effectively. The egg white helps fortifying elastin in the skin, tightening the skin surface, and absorbing excess oil in the skin. Besides, it nourishes the skin and prevent it from aging.

Food for your skin

Dry Skin Lack of skin fatty acids that keep skin nourish and smooth.

Recommend: Good fatty acids(Omega 3 and Omega 6)

- Fish with high levels of fish oil (Omega-3) like salmon, mackerel, and anchovies.

• Whole grains 
• Nuts of various kinds, especially those with hardshell.

Reduce & Avoid: Margarine fat content

• Fast food and processed foods
• French fries, biscuits, and white sugar

Oily Skin 

Recommend: 

• Fresh fruits and vegetables to keep skin moist, particularly papaya, avocado , pineapple and nuts. 
• Whole grains 

Reduce & Avoid: 

• Food rich in saturated fats
• Dairy products
• Red meat 
• Anything that fried or deep-fried. 

It disturbs the balance of fats in the sensitive cell membranes of your skin. It will stimulate the skin to produce too much fat, which causes your skin to be too oily.

Sensitive Skin 

Recommend: Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and Zinc

• Carrots, mango, and  kiwi
• Meat
• Oats and hardshell nuts 

Reduce & Avoid: Spicy foods such as chili.       

Spicy foods can easily irritate digestive system in your body. It can cause Lining inflammation in your stomach. The result is that the immune system is active, which causes red rash on your face and body. Other types of food allergies can cause similar problems and lead to skin allergy, too.

Believe it or not...yogurt can help enhancing your skin.

Even when you are at home you can mask yourself in a simple and natural way, without harming your skin.

It's not hard to do at all. You can simply look for any yogurt in your fridge, the most effective would be the plain one, and use it as face mask to improve your skin.

Regular and/or oily skin

Ingredients:

1 cup of Yogurt

1 teaspoon of lemon juice

1 teaspoon of orange juice

1 teaspoon of carrot juice

How to:

1. Mix and stir all the ingredients together until smoothly blended. 
2. Mask onto your face and leave it on for 10-15 minutes 
3. Rinse with warm water and followed by cold water. 

Dry skin and/or sensitive skin. 

Ingredients:

1/2 avocado

1/2 banana

2 table spoon of yogurt

How to:

1. Mix all the ingredients together until well blended 
2. Mask it onto your face and leave it on for 10 to 15 minutes.
3. Rinse the mask with warm water and followed by cold water.

It will be most effective when you repeat this regularly, at least 2-3 times per month, along with keeping your facial skin nourish and healthy. I assure you will have a smoother and glowing skin, as well as, it will help slowing down aging skin that causes wrinkles.

If computer causes you too much pain, let us help you...

People who use computer regularly often have headaches, neck pain and shoulder pain. Do not ignore those symptoms. It could lead to chronic pain. 

"Definitely yes ! I have to do my work by using computer. I'm not just only stressed out of my work, but also my back hurts so bad. It is very frustrating me because it takes time till the pain is gone. It would be great if you can find the way to help me with this painful. : )" - Yam Sesavej

"Computer is my companion. I always enjoy spending time working on all the graphics but I just hate when I got sore eyes. It is so distracting! All I do is closing my eyes for a bit from time to time and taking beta-carotene as a vitamin for the eyes. What is the best way though?" - Narasha Patmastana

No matter who you are, student or designer, you can relieve the pain by massaging yourself from time to time. It is the way to help reducing those pains. 

For the eyes

Use the index finger, middle finger, and ring finger of both hands to press the edge of the eye socket on the brow area fairly and slowly push three fingers up toward your head, neck, and to the back of your neck for 10 to 20 times.

For the shoulders

1. Extend out your right arm forward, keep it straight, and parallel to the ground.
2. Use your left hand to hold the right elbow and pull it towards you body. 
3. Hold and slowly count 1 to 10. You will feel tight.
4. Switch back and forth between left and right arms. 

This will help relax your shoulders muscles.

For the arms and hands

1. Lift your right arm up above you head until feeling tight. 
2. Stretch your left arm to the back of your head until you can hold your right elbow. 
3. Pull the right arm to tilt to the left until feeling tight 
4. Slowly count 1-10 and gradually switch to the other sides for at least 20 times or more.