Beauty and Personal Grooming

Some of the worst enemies of a fresh new tattoo are the sun, salt water, and sweat. It’s okay to get some of these on your new tattoo once or twice while it is still healing, but soaking in it can definitely affect the way your tattoo heals. Working out is definitely possible even after getting a new tattoo. You just have to be extremely careful and make sure to follow the tips that we will be giving out today to make sure that your tattoo’s healing process won’t be put at risk.

Getting started in the beauty industry is easier than getting started in other fields. Still, not everyone is going to go about it the same way. With multiple locations to work and several specialties within the field, each person looking to make a career for themselves in the world of beauty needs to make some important decisions. You need to set your own start to make the job the best for you.

Bones constantly take up and release calcium throughout life – in both, men and women. However, post-menopausal women are more susceptible to osteoporosis or brittle-bone disease because declining estrogen levels impair the skeleton’s calcium retaining ability. So the most common advice offered to women is to eat plenty of calcium-rich food, particularly, milk and milk-products. But, before gulping down glasses of milk in your eagerness to replenish your depleting calcium levels, have a look at these articles from  Cleveland Clinic and WebMD

May 16th is observed as National Dengue Day in India   to raise awareness about this dreaded mosquito borne disease .   Dengue fever is a viral disease, mostly spread through the bite of mosquitoes, particularly by aedes aegypti mosquito. I have already written an exhaustive post about dengue fever, it's prevention and home-remedies and measures to be followed if one contracts dengue and is recuperating. The post Convalescence - the recovery period after illness might also be helpful for anyone who's recovering from vector  borne diseases such as dengue, chikungunya , malaria or for that matter any other illness also. So do glance through that too.

Precocious Puberty or early puberty has become quite common these days and we find young girls reaching menarche before the age of 10. Myriad causes are responsible for this and we have already discussed some of it in the post " Air pollution possibly delays menarche - A surprising result of a study ." In a large study involving involving 50,000 postmenopausal women in the UK, Australia, Japan and Scandinavia, it was found that women were 31 percent more likely to go through menopause early - between the ages of 40-44 if they started menstruating before their 12th birthday.

Many of you may have heard of the " blood group diet ", a fad among celebrities, like Demi Moore, Cheryl Cole and Elizabeth Hurley. Blood group diet followers believe that different blood groups process foods differently and that eating food compatible with your blood type will make you healthier. On the other hand , eating foods that don't agree with your blood type might lead to health problems. While there seems to be little scientific evidence to support this, there certainly seems to be a correlation between blood group types, your health and overall well-being.

Some time back, I had shared how being underweight is a risk factor for early menopause . Besides body weight, the food that you eat also determines when you will enter menopause, a new research (1) has found.