bath body care

Talking about body care...Did you know that there is almost 22 square feet of skin that covers the body of an adult?It weighs 10-11 lb and comprises almost 16% of total body weight?
With so much skin,how do we begin providing the best body care we can?
The first thing you will hear about skin care is:Hydrate.
Inside and out!
What can water do for you?
Body cells want to maintain a balance of liquid that surrounds them. Lack of water intake can create a imbalance in which the cells start working improperly.Drinking water can help maintain that equilibrium and keep your cells hydrated,both inside and out.
Our reader Aires agrees with me on this one saying:for great skin,hair & nails:drink water and more water!"

Easy Physical Fitness Tips for Life-long Health 86

We all struggle with body image. I know that there will be days, even after I’ve reached my weight-loss goal, (I'm not there yet) when body image issues will STILL get the best of me. And I’m sure many of you, dear Shape Up! readers, feel the same way. So what can we do about it? I recently stumbled on a great list of tips from the National Eating Disorders Association that was seriously helpful. Here are the three that resonated the most for me:
1. "I will spend less and less time in front of mirrors--especially when they are making me feel uncomfortable and self-conscious about my body."
2. "I will list 5-10 good qualities that I have, such as understanding, intelligence, or creativity. I will repeat these to myself whenever I start to feel bad about my body."
3. "I will surround myself with people and things that make me feel good about myself and my abilities. When I am around people and things that support me and make me feel good, (That’s what I have you guys for!) I will be less likely to base my self-esteem on the way my body looks." (I guess the flipside of that is to not hang around with people who make me feel horrible about myself, right? (I already knew that, but it's a good reminder!)

What do you think about this body image advice? Is there one tip that resonates more with you than the others? I for one, spend WAY too much time in front of the mirror: It's just too easy to stand there and pick out my every imperfection, so I’m scaling back. How about you? Would listing some of your good qualities be helpful? Do you already surround yourself with people who make you feel good about yourself? And do you have any great body image advice of your own? Please share!

Women's Health Information

The Women's Information and Health Center of B'nei Brak is a social engineer in women's health. Through exclusive access to the Internet in an otherwise unplugged society, we forge distribution channels between modern medicine and sequestered religious women. We work within strict rabbinic mandates to service the dignity of our clientèle, while counteracting pervasive social ignorance. Through direct collaborations with top health-care providers, hospital staff, and the volunteer network of Agudah Women, we educate to promote health, prevent disease, and legitimize women's right to quality health care within the ultra-orthodox communities of Israel.
Our Mission
To forge access for ultra-orthodox women to key medical information, local resources, and health care, and to tailor comprehensive health education on women's behalf for the ultra-orthodox communities in Israel.
Take a look on our mission and activities.
To this end:
* We provide a 24 hour hot line for the women of Bnei Brak to confidentially inquire after their private health concerns, and receive prompt, up-to-date, well-researched information packages by post, pertinent to their specific needs.
* We conduct comprehensive public seminars in popular and emerging fields of women's health including heart disease, nutrition, exercise, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause and aging.
* We collect, classify, and reformat women's health information published in Hebrew. Parallel to the hot line, volunteers work to strengthen our files. Time is spent researching print and electronic sources, evaluating the long range relevance and the quality of informational presentation and content.
* And we target outreach to traditional female leaders in the community, bringing the wives of rabbis, school teachers and principles to our lectures, and into our volunteer circuit.
* We will expand our city health seminars, individualized package delivery service and adjoining telephone hot line to the national level, becoming a country-wide resource for Ultra-Orthodox women and their communities.
* We will train young female health educators with the tools necessary to infiltrate the Ultra-Orthodox primary and high schools in an effort to introduce basic provisions, and to reform health education policies for young women and girls.
* We will write specialized health-information booklets to address religious women's most frequently asked questions and concerns.
* We will broadcast a weekly radio address on the national orthodox dial, showcasing the critical medical issues raised by religious women to the hot line. Program will include a rotating focus on various aspects of women's health: exercise, nutrition, life cycles, health risk factors, and children. A brief medical news update will be followed by in depth interviews with doctors and expert guests on a specific issue within the topic of the week.