Quick Tips for Manageable Hair

Sleek and sexy hairstyles don’t have to take hours to create. If you are comfortable working with your hair, you can design beautiful new styles for yourself in just minutes. Once you know how your hair responds to heat, humidity, rain, styling products and other factors, you can quickly and easily style your hair for any occasion. Even if you don’t know what to expect from your hair, try these unbeatable tips for a quick fix or a lasting style!

Washing and Drying Hair Tips:
Avoid over-washing your hair. If you can stand it, try not to wash your hair with shampoo every single day. For days that you do not wash your hair, apply a fragrant mist designed especially to refresh tresses.
Don’t apply shampoo directly to the top of your head. Apply shampoo from the nape of the neck first, and then work it through the rest of your hair.
Distribute cleansing and styling products evenly through your hair. When you apply conditioner, use a comb to spread the product evenly through your hair.
Lessen trauma to your hair. Try to avoid wrapping your hair in a towel and leaving it twisted up on your head for long. It may be convenient, but it can damage your hair.
Avoid blow-drying your hair everyday. Allow your hair to dry naturally whenever possible, whether you shower at night or let your hair dry over the weekend.

Hair Styling Tips:
Accessorize! On days when you just don’t have time, go for a ponytail or a headband. Realize that your hair can look really cute even if you don’t spend a long time styling it.
Experiment with color. If you find yourself constantly bored with your hair, a new color might be all you need to add some zest to your appearance. Still a little wary of dying your hair? Try a brand that washes out in eight shampoos.
Opt for a new haircut. Colors and accessories do lend a lot to a hairstyle; however, haircuts are the true standby for a new look.
Select styling tools to vary your look. Curling irons, flatirons, combs, pins, clips and an assortment of brushes offer nice diversity for hairstyles.
If all else fails, wear it straight. If you don’t feel like fighting with your hair today, wear it down. For hair that behaves rather well, consider letting your hair dry naturally. If your hair requires more maintenance, apply a gentle styling product to prevent frizzy hair. Remember, a sexy, straight hairstyle can be perfect with any outfit, for any occasion.

The fact of Human Body

1. Scientists say the higher your IQ, the more you dream
2. The largest cell in human body is female ovum and the smallest cell is the men
sperm.
3. You use 200 muscles to take one step
4. Average woman is 15 cm than the average woman
5. Your big toe have 2 bones each while the rest have 3
6. A pair of human feet contains 250.000 sweat glands
7. The acid in your stomach is strong enaough to dissolve razor blade
8. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the encyclopedia
Britannica
9. It take seven secons for food to get from your mouth to your stomach
10. The average human dream lasts 2 - 3 seconds
11. Man without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver
than men with hair
12. At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell
13. There are about ane trilion bacteria on each of your feet
14. Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to
boil
15. The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body
16. Your teeth start growing 6 months before you born
17. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the
same when you are looking at someone you hate.
18. Your thumb is the same length of your nose.

History of April Fools Day

On April 1, it is quite possible that you – or someone you know – will play an April Fools’ Day joke. April Fools’ Day (sometimes called All Fools’ Day) is a fun holiday, known for its hijinks. Tricks great and small are played on friends, family and even the world at large. Despite its widespread popularity in Western culture, though, no one truly knows how the holiday came to be. It is important to note that playing tricks on others depends on where you are: In Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom, jokes are only supposed to be played until noon. In the U.S., Russia, Japan, Ireland, Canada, France, Italy and The Netherlands, jokes can last all day.
There are a number of theories about why we have April Fools’ Day. One of the most common has to do with the switch to the Gregorian Calendar in 1582. Pope Gregory XIII effected this change, moving the start of the New Year to January 1, instead of April 1. During the Middle Ages, the Feast of Annunciation was celebrated on March 25, and festivities often lasted a full week, ending with the beginning of the New Year on April 1. Those who didn’t get the memo (or were staunch traditionalists) were called “April Fools,” and tricks were played on them, with the practice spreading throughout Europe.
As plausible as this explanation sounds, it may not be the origin of April Fools’ Day. References to “April Fools” have been around since before 1582, and the English didn’t even adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752 — and April 1 tricks were played in that country before the arrival of the change.
Another explanation is that the change of seasons from winter to spring brings out lightheartedness and a propensity for fun. Hilaria was a Roman festival of rejoicing that took place around March 25, and the Hindu Holi, as well as the Jewish Purim, are happy festivals that take place in the general vicinity of the beginning of April. Other references to April Fools’ Day origins include a misconstrued reference in Canterbury Tales (Chaucer, 1392), “April fish” from a French poet in 1539, and a story from Flemish poet Eduard de Dene about a nobleman who made up up foolish errands for his servant on April 1.
The best “theory” about April Fools’ Day’s origins was itself an April Fools’ Day joke. In 1983, the AP ran a story quoting Joseph Boskin, a history professor at Boston University. He said that April Fools’ Day originated with the emperor Constantine, who allowed a jester to run the empire for one day. While the jester, named Kugel, was emperor, he declared that each year, to commemorate the day he ruled, a day of absurdity should be held. Of course, no such thing ever happened — Boskin was pulling his own April Fools’ Day joke.

Below are some famous pranks on this day:
1957: The BBC runs a program about spaghetti trees. Scores of people contact the BBC, wanting information on growing their own spaghetti trees.
1962: Swedish television explains the physics behind using a nylon stocking to change black and white TV to color TV. Many call the station angry that it didn’t work.
1996: Taco Bell announces that it has bought the Liberty Bell, renaming the “Taco Liberty Bell.” When asked about, the White House press secretary responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been purchased, and was now the Lincoln Mercury Memorial.
2005: NASA’s official posts a story that there are pictures of water on Mars. When people got to look at the picture, they find an image of a glass of water balanced on top of a Mars candy bar.
2008: CBC Radio reports that Canada would replace it’s $5 coin with a $3 coin called the “threenie”.

There are, of course, countless hoaxes played on April Fools’ Day, some of the small and some quit big. And, of course, you have to be careful of almost anything you read online on April 1.

How to stop cough in 5 minutes!!! This is a must try...

We have all been kept awake by our own or someone else's cough. Try this and pass it on. The tip and not the cough. ANYTHING is better than antibiotics. Even babies could benefit from this and the parents wouldn't worry about the safety of their child. And of course, it is harmless and free from any type of side-effects.
WOW! I was raised, and raised my kids with Vicks. How come I never knew this? I can't wait for my next cough. Amazing!
READ IT ALL. It works 100 percent of the time, although the scientists at the Canada Research council (who discovered it) aren't sure why.

Treatment:
To stop night time coughing in a child (or an adult, as we found out personally), put Vicks Vapor Rub generously on the bottom of the feet at bedtime and then cover with socks.
Even persistent, heavy, deep coughing will stop in about five minutes and stay stopped for many, many hours of relief. This works 100 percent of the time, and is more effective in children than even very strong prescription cough medicines. In addition it is extremely soothing and comforting and they will sleep soundly. I heard the head of the Canada Research Council describe these findings on the part of their scientists when they were investigating the effectiveness and usage of prescription cough medicines in children, as compared to alternative therapies like acupressure. I just happened to tune in to a.m. Radio and picked up this guy talking about why cough medicines in kids often do more harm than good due to the chemical makeup of these strong drugs, so I listened. It was a surprising finding and found to be more effective than prescribed medicines for children at bedtime, and in addition to have a soothing and calming effect on sick children who then went on to sleep soundly. My wife tried it on herself when she had a very deep constant and persistent cough a few weeks ago, and it worked 100 percent! She said it felt like a warm blanket had enveloped her. The coughing stopped in a few minutes, and believe me this was a deep (incredibly annoying!) every few seconds, uncontrollable cough and she slept cough-free for hours every night she used it.
If you have children or grandchildren, pass it on. If you end up sick, try it yourself and you will be absolutely amazed.

Earthquake Survival

Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings
falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects,
leaving a void next to them. This space is what I call The TRIANGLE OF
LIFE. The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact.
The less the object compacts, the larger the void, therefore, the
greater the probability when the person using this void for safety
will not be injured.
The next time you watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the
'triangles' you see formed. They are everywhere. It is the most
common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building.

TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY
1) People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed to death.
Almost everyone who do the wrongly preached 'ducks and covers' routine
when buildings collapse, are crushed to death.
2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the fetal
position. You should too in an earthquake. It is a natural
safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a smaller void. Your can
preserve your limbs better instead of facing amputation afterwards.
Get next to an object, next to a sofa, next to a large bulky object
that will compress slightly but leave a void next to it.
3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in
during an earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with the force of the
earthquake. If the wooden building does collapse, large survivable
voids are created. Also, the wooden building has less concentrated,
crushing weight. Brick buildings will break into individual bricks.
Bricks will cause many injuries but less squashed bodies than concrete
slabs.
4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs, simply
roll off the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed. Hotels can
achieve a much greater survival rate in earthquakes, simply by posting
a sign on the back of the door of every room telling occupants to lie
down on the floor, next to the bottom of the bed duringan earthquake.
5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting
out of the door or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal
position next to a sofa, or large chair.
6) Never stand under a doorway ! Almost everyone who gets when buildings
collapse is killed. How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb
falls forward or backward you will be crushed by the ceiling above. If
the door jam falls sideways you will be cut in half by the doorway. In
either case, you will be killed!
7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different 'moment of frequency'
(they swing separately from the main part of the building). The
stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump into each other
until structural failure of the stairs takes place. The people who get
on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the stair treads horribly
mutilated. Even if the building doesn't collapse, stay away from the
stairs. The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged.
Even if the stairs are not collapsed by the earthquake, they may
collapse later when overloaded by fleeing people. They should always
be checked for safety, even when the rest of the building is not
damaged.
8) Get Near as near to an outside wall of the building as possible
(Or Outside Of Them) *** Get yourself as near to an outside wall of
the building as possible, instead of being in the interior. The
farther inside you are from the outside perimeter of the building the
greater the probability that your escape route will be blocked.
9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above
falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly
what happened with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway.
The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their
vehicles. They were all killed. Everyone killed would have survived if
they had been able to get out of their cars and sit or lie next to
them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except
for the cars that had columns fall directly across them.
10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper offices
and other offices with a lot of paper, paper do not compact. Large
voids are found surrounding stacks of paper.

Spread the word and save someone's life... The Entire world is
experiencing natural calamities, so be prepared!

Six step to protect your computer

1. Turn on automatic updates . After installing your operating system, you usually forget to pay attention on operating system updates. If your operating system is not updated for protection against loopholes and security threats found after you installed it, your computer may be vulnerable to outside world. Hackers can get access to your computer by using these loopholes and they can do anything with your computer. So, to keep you safe, turn on automatic updates. When automatic updates are turned on your operating system is updated frequently and you will be safe from unwanted trouble. You can turn on automatic updates from Control Panel => Security Center => Automatic Updates. You must be logged in as Administrator to change this setting.

2. Turn on Windows Firewall . Windows Firewall is a barrier between your computer and outside internet. It protects you by filtering incoming and outgoing traffic and allows only trusted programs to communicate through internet. You can turn on Windows Firewall from Control Panel => Windows Firewall. You must be logged in as Administrator to change this setting.

3. Install good anti-virus software . Anti-virus software protects your computer from viruses that can damage your computer. Only installing anti-virus software is not enough. Your anti-virus software must be updated regularly with latest virus definition database, as new viruses are found daily.

4. Run windows in a restricted mode . When you log in using a limited account, you are protecting your computer from various threats, as limited account runs in restricted mode and can not damage your computer by changing system files or registry. In fact, limited account can not install new programs and can not write to system files or registry, thus making you safe from unwanted programs which gets installed automatically from internet without your knowledge. Log in as Administrator only when you want to do some maintenance work or install new programs.

5. Do NOT click on untrusted links . You should not click any link received in your email, unless you trust the sender. If you click on this untrusted links, it can take you to fake websites and can steal your user name, password, credit card details, or can install unwanted programs without your knowledge. Instead of clicking on the link you received in your email, copy the link address and paste it in a new browser window. Before writing your user name, password, credit card and any other personal details, recheck the domain name in address bar.

6. Do NOT write in pop up windows . You should write your user name, password, credit card and any other personal details in main window only. If during your work, any pop up window opens asking your password or credit card details, close it immediately. DO NOT write your personal information in any pop up window.

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Great Juice For Diabetics

How come I came to know the great juice for those who are suffering from diabetes or high blood sugar level? Here in our house we usually only take fresh fruit or vegetable juice as our dinner. And, for us to have variety of juices, we searched for great combination of vegetables in which we found out that it could also cure diseases. But, just like medicines, you have to have faith that it could help you in your condition and take it in moderation as well.
All you need to have is a quality made extractor and a measuring instrument for the extracted juice.You should take this in an empty stomach too(it means at least 2 hours after meal and at least 1 hour before meal) for great absorption of juice in your digestive system. Here are the great vegetable combinations for those who are suffering from


Note: These vegetable combinations and measurements are based on the booktitle: FRESH VEGETABLE AND FRUIT JUICES subtitle: what’s missing in your body?formerly titled: Raw vegetable Juicesauthor: N. W. Walker

· Carrot 10 ozspinach 6 oz

· Carrot 16 ozcelery 4 ozparsley 2 ozspinach 4 oz

· Carrot 6 ozlettuce 4 ozstring beans 3 oz

· Carrot 7 ozcelery 5 ozenpe (escarole) 3 ozparsley 3 oz

· Carrot: 9 ozcelery: 5 ozparsley: 2 oz

· Carrot: 8 ozradish 4 ozlettuce 4 oz

· Carrot: 6 ozBrus. sprouts: 5 ozstring beans: 5 oz

Now that you have 7 combinations of vegetable juices that are good for those who have high blood sugar level or diabetes, you may label them what combination to drink on sunday, monday, and so on and so forth.

I am just your concerned health advocate friend, a nobody compared to your doctor but firmly believes that what we eat and drink has great impact on our health. We are not diabetics in our house but we include this combinations in our daily juice intake for our dinner. And for those that have high sugar level “BETTER TRY IT THAN NOT AT ALL.” My friends who have this problem could testify that it is effective, better try it for you to judge if it is effective or not.

Calcium

Calcium is an essential mineral for our body. Most people think that calcium is essential for strong bones and teeth, but it is also important for many
other functions of the body.

Calcium :


· for strong bones and teeth

· minimise bone loss

· prevent osteoporosis

· for muscles

· for nerves

· blood clot

· manage weigh

· manage high blood pressure

· colon cancer

· kidney stones

· cardiovascular disease

Vitamin D helps to absorb and properly consume calcium.

Daily Calcium Requirement

Who need calcium? When you need calcium?

The optimal intake of calcium is crucial for children, men and women of all ages.
The calcium is needed throughout the lifetime and its daily intake value increases with age.
The growing children needs good amount of calcium for their growing bones.
After adulthood, the calcium is needed to keep the bones strong.

Pregnant and Lactating womenrequire more calcium.
Women after menopause also need more calcium to prevent osteoporosis.

For babies, breastfeeding is the best way to source of calcium.
Formula milk also provides adequate calcium for babies.

The recommended daily calcium intake for males and females is as under.

Age
Daily Calcium Intake
(mg)

0-6 month
210

7-12 month
270

1-3 year
500

4-8 year
800

9-18 year
1300

19,50 year
1000

Over 50 year
1200


Food Sources of Calcium
Dairy foods are very high in calcium, see the values given in the following table.

Food
Calcium
mg per serving

Calcium in Dairy Products

Skim Milk 1 cup
301

Whole Milk 1 cup
290

Plain Low fat Yogurt 1 cup
415

Cow Milk Cottage Cheese (Paneer) 1 cup
208

Baffalo Milk Cottage Cheese (Paneer) 1 cup
480

Calcium in Beans & Grains

White beans 3/4 cup
120

Navy beans 3/4 cup
94

Black Turtle beans 3/4 cup
75

Chickpeas (Chhole) 3/4 cup
58

Tofu 150g
350

Soy bean curd slab 150g
310

Cooked Soy bean 1 cup
130

Instant oats, 1 pkt
165

Calcium in Nuts

Almonds roasted 1/4 cup
93

Almonds butter 2 Tbsp
88

Sesame seeds 1/4 cup
50

Calcium in Vegetables & Fruits

Cabbage/bok choy 1/2 cup
190

Turnip greens 1/2 cup
104

Broccoli 1/2 cup
33

Okra 1/2 cup
65

Orange 1/2 cup
52

Orange juice fortified with calcium 1/2 cup
165

From the above table you can chose foods high in Calcium.

Following is a list of foods that give you more than 300 mg of Calcium per 100 gm of that food.

1. Milk and milk products

2. Cereals and Grains

3. Vegetables: Green leafy vegetables are an excellent source of calcium. Beetroot greens,Drumstick leaves, Fenugreek leaves, Turnip greens,Lotus stems, Curry leaves

4. Spices:Cumin, Coriander, Cloves, Asafoetida (Hing),Oregano (Ajwain), Mustard seeds

5. Fish