The best place I’ve been to for eyeglasses (A review,plus my story about my glasses)!

 

I  have to wear eyeglasses. I’m just not certain as to why I don’t have 20/20 vision.

Well, I guess I have to ask around. I had one day did something to

my glasses to cause them to look slanted or to shift. I hate that

feeling. So I tried to improve them. I tried to bend them into

an even position. But guess what? That did not work. The eyeglasses

broke. I had them for 2 years until they crack like eggs. Eyeglasses

are just so so delicate. I tried taping them with duct tape.

I know, I know, it looks tacky. Right! So I had to inform other

people that my glasses are broke. Each half of my eyeglasses

kept shifting out of the duct tape. So I had to try another idea.

I tried reading glasses. They remind me of sunglasses

and through my eyes I can tell they are blurry. So I propped my

old prescription glasses on top of the reading glasses so they

hold up onto my face. That way I could see through the prescription

glasses and have a support for them. My prescription glasses fell

off the reading glasses. (my special platform) I lost the other

half of my prescription eyeglasses and it was so irritating.

I hated having double glasses on. I felt embarassed.

I had called some places and some of the places said it

would take a week to get my glasses. Some said it would

be 2 weeks to get my glasses. Finally, I found a place that

would take my Blue Cross Complete health insurance and the

insurance fully covered the pay for my eyeglasses. And guess

what? There was no co-pay. This place is in the Westland area.

so it’s not too far from my reach. So I got my eyeglasses the very next

day and much to my delight. I got a pair of  blue

dreamy eyeglasses there. They have friendly and inviting

customer service representatives. Here is their address:

Henry Ford Optim Eyes (Eye Care Center)

Address: 35184 Central City Pkwy, Westland, MI 48185

Phone:(734) 427-5200

 

KFC’s famous bowl -a treasure inside a bowl (A review)!

Have you ever tried KFC’s famous bowl? It’s like a treasure in a bowl. Everything is set up beautifully. It consists of chicken strips, mash potatoes and gravy, shredded cheese and corn. I remember the first time I tried it. I had to have another one. I still get more than one. Those are so so so good. Every time I go to KFC, that’s what I order, their famous bowl. It’s flavorful, tasty, and a brilliant idea. It’s better than just having chicken, mash potatoes, cheese and corn separately. When they made a collage of foods in one dish, they really took charge creatively. Take a good look.  It’s very unique. If you haven’t tried it, it’s time to wake up to new flavor.

THe 6 Benefits of Sleep!

Sleep is one of the best things we can do for our body.  It makes our bodies

feel refreshed. We feel more energetic w;hen we get our sleep. It feels so good

to get enough sleep.

Well we can move on to the first benefit of sleep.

– Sleep fights weight gain. Lack of sleep can cause midnight and midday eating.

Sleep deprivation triggers higher levels of a hunger inducing molecule appetite during the afternoon  based on research at the Endocrine Society’s Annual

Meeting this year. Researchers said in the Journal Sleep that those who slept

less and later at night had a higher caloric intake than those who slept at 10pm.

-Sleep improves your ability to make decisions.

The throwing reason to the wayside has to do with a lack of impulse control induced by sleep defiency. It weakens the connection between the amygdala,

the area of the brain that regulates emotions, and the prefrontal cortex, the

part that makes most high level decisions for the body. If the amygdala is the

pedal of your emotions, then the prefrontal cortex is the break “Dr Walker

says.

-Sleep decreases anxiety.

The sleep deficient human brain actually mirrors that of a person with

a psychological disorder when faced with negative situations, according

to a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Dr. Walker says “It’s

almost as if the brain was having a disproportionately increase or an

exaggerated response to something bad when you’re sleep deprived “.

During deep REM sleep, the brain is able to “reset those emotional settings”

and refresh the mind, similar to how one might reboot a computer when

it’s acting up. Your brain needs downtime to digest all the emotions from

the day before.

-Sleep refreshes your immune system.

Not only does it reset your brain, it does the same thing to the immune system,

which fights infections by day and reorganizes itself and replaces dead cells

by night. This is because the entire body- from the smallest cell – operates

on a 24 hour clock. says Gianluigi Mazzoccoli, MD, director of the Scientific

Institute and Regional General Hospital.

-Sleep stabilizes blood sugar.

Shorter sleepers are more likely to have diabetes. When studying a small group of normal sleepers, researchers in Los Angeles found that 3 nights of catch up sleep to make up for what was lost over the week resulted in a 31% improvement in insulin sensitivity, compared to those who continued to have poor sleep schedules.

-And last? Sleep lowers your risk of disease-period. Short sleepers have higher cholesterol and blood pressure, and both of these tend to have higher rates of

increasing 10 years down the the line. alongside the elevated risk of various

cardiovascular problems, diabetes, and obesity already mentioned.’

There you have it. It’s better to get some shut eye. It’s better not to risk anything bad

happening to you. If you don’t get sleep you are taking some serious chances.

Take the time to think about it. Are you really getting enough sleep?

http://www.prevention.com/health/sleep-energy/6-reasons-why-you-need-8-hours-sleep?cm_mmc=Spotlight-_-1372918-_-07262013-_-6-Best-Reasons-To-Go-To-Bed-Early

 

Food Labels can trick buyers!

 

 

Have you ever wondered how many calories you were getting from eating a box of cookies, crackers, or whole package of candy? Sometimes you
eat before you think. You might eat the whole package of gummy bears and
realize your intake was 2.5 servings. I noticed that there was a Rock and Rye
soda at Family Dollar. I thought it was one serving. It was one dollar, but had

4 servings in that bottle . I was just thinking thank God I looked at the food label. So why is it that there is 4 servings in that size bottle? It might as well have been a quart or a gallon.

Have you  ever been duped (tricked) by the food label? It’s difficult to avoid based on the words of  the FDA and published by the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Researchers  redesigned food labels and test them against standard ones in order
to figure out which health information is the most clear. Compare and contrast makes the
difference.

In one tweak, the nutritional information was divided into two columns when a                                        package contained more than a serving. The second gave nutritional details on                                 the complete package. In another tweak, packages were labeled with the latter info                                  only.

Then researchers put these labels on a bag of chips and a frozen meal. These are foods                            that can be eating in one sitting, even though they have over 1 serving. Those who                                   participated considered a food “healthy if they only saw nutritional info on a single                                serving, which is what’s currently on labels.

Even though we as people might not be too good at decoding food labels, over 70                                     percent of American adults do read food labels. Well, at least you tried. If you were
tricked, try again.

Ingredients It’s best to read the ingredients in the food packages you consume. There were at                  many sneaky names for sugar.  PHD holder and registered dietitian Susan Shapiro                                 said “The ingredients are listed from highest, or biggest component of the product –                          to the smallest”. Some of those sneaky names for sugar are sucrose, evaporated cane  juice,         agave nectar, fruit juice concentrate, 100% fruit juice, high fructose corn syrup,  The oses (sucrose, glucose, galactose, maltose, dextrose, fructose, and lactose, blackstrap molasses, organic brown rice syrup, and barle malt, treacle, diatase, diastatic malt, and panocha. The list of sneaky sugar names comes from the following:

http://www.prevention.com/food/healthy-eating-tips/agave-glucose-and-other-names-sugar/10-and-so-many-more

Conversion:  If you thought math stopped in college, guess again. It may not be on the box, but
28 grams equals one ounce. For a serving of cheese, for example, is a single ounce–
which is the same as the end of your pointer finger.

Units- Watch out for the units on your food label. Shapiro says “They might not be consistent”. Know how much a gram, mililiter, or miligram is to prevent yourself from
overdoing it on ingredients and portions too. An adult should be getting at the most,6
grams of salt each day. Now you know why we take these classes in math and science?

Let’s get or keep that great figure, wherever you are at this point!

Now that you know this information, what are you going to do about it? What will you do with it?It’s all up to you.  But hopefully you’ll do something for the betterment of food consumption. After all, the greatest things we need to do ourselves require knowledge-driving, cooking, doing hair, eating,etc. Have a great day people!

 

10 top foods for the most desirable hair!

Picture By The Associated Press

 

What is a woman’s most loved part of her body? Her hair!  I mean

it is the most noticeable thing about women specifically and men

too. So let’s take care of it. The way you take care of your hair

starts with what you put on the inside of you. Having the hair

of your dreams is something to celebrate everyday of your life.

Every strand and all that thickness and great length is worth

celebrating. And since it’s so valuable, go ahead and eat

these foods so you can see healthy hair results.

Yes, go  grab up some or all of these foods and put it

to work. Eat them.

 

1. Salmon- It’s loaded with protein and vitamin D and consists

of omega 3 fatty acids. Only 3% of the hair shaft is made of

these fatty actids. Omega 3’s are also in cell membranes in the

skin of your scalp and in the natural oils that keep both your

scalp and hair hydrated.

Note: If salmon is on your banned list, you can get those fatty acids

from herring, sardines, trout, and mackerel. Avocado, pumpkin

seeds, and walnuts can do the same job.

 

Walnuts- They are the only type of nuts that have a great

amount of omega 3 fatty acids. They also come loaded with

vitamin E and biotin. THis helps protect cells from DNA

damage. This comes to great use for when your hair is out

in the sun. Walnuts have copper to keep your natural

hair color rich and fresh.

Note:

You can use walnut oil for your salad dressing or stir fry

instead of canola or safflower.

 

3. Oysters have alot of zinc in them. Not getting enough

of zinc can cause hair loss as well as dry flaky scalp.

THree ounces has 493% of your daily value. Zinc is

found in fortified cereals and whole grain breads. Hair

is 97% protein.

Note: Nuts, beef, eggs give you the zinc you need.

 

4. Sweet potatoes- they are a wonderful source of antioxidant

beta carotene, which your body turns into vitamin A.

It, in addition, helps protect and make the oils that sustain

the scalp. If you are low on vitamin a, you may have

dandruff.

 

5. Eggs- They have zinc, selenium, sulfur, and iron. Iron is

very important  since it carries oxygen to the hair follicles.

Too little iron causes hair loss, especially in women.

Note: Chicken, fish, pork, and beef can boost your iron count.

 

6. SPinach- The iron, beta carotene, folate, and vitamin c in

spinach help keep hair follicles healthy and scalp oils in

motion back and forth.

Note:Dark leafy vegetables like broccoli, kale, and Swiss chard are good to try.

7. Lentils- These legumes have protein, iron, zinc, and biotin. This makes it versatile for vegetarian, vegans, and meat eaters.

Note: Toss soybeans and kidney beans into a soup or salad and chow down.

8. Greek yogurt – It’s low in fat. It is high in vitamin B5, which
is hair-friendly protein, and vitamin D.

Note: Cottage cheese, low fat cheese, and skim milk are awesome substitutes.

9. Blueberries-It is necessary for circulation to the scalp and

supports the tiny blood vessels that feed the follicles.

Note: Kiwis, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and strawberries are

great too.

 

10. Poultry- It has hair healthy zinc, iron, and B vitamins to keep

strands strong. Since hair is close to being all protein,” foods

rich in protein are literally giving you the building blocks

for hair,” says Drayer.

 

After all, isn’t life more exciting when your hair is pretty?

http://www.webmd.com/healthy-beauty/features/top-10-foods-for-healthy-hair?page=3

Chair excercises benefit the lazy, the diabetic, elderly and the stressed out in certain ways! (also great for the heart)

Grab a chair! lol And get busy!

Chair aerobics targets people in different groups. The mission
is to increase the heart rate of people and better
their cardiovascular fitness. These excercises involve
posture control, stretches for flexibility and some light
weight lifting in order to build and maintain muscular
and joint strength.

You can do excercises such as these:

Punch across the body, alternate the arms 10 times per arm.
You can do the seated jogging by lifting the feet and cycling
in the chair. You can do a neck roll while staying off
the ground, which is great for the heart. Leg lifts are
another type of good example of chair aerobic
excercises.

Now, for the benefits of chair aerobics:

Diabetes can benefit from chair aerobics? WHy? This is
a low impact workout to build up their functional capacity,
and is used for the betterment of their cardio health and
lower their blood sugar levels.

Elderly people can stay active and fit without worrying
about falling out while excercising.

You want to get rid of stress? Chair exercise is your
friend. hello! Wake up, let’s get our bodies moving!

You want your kids to stop being lazy? Put a stop to it.
Introduce them to taebo! I mean chair excercise.
Taebo is what I do, but chair exercise may be
right for someone else.

Chair excercises help pregnant women and help
speed up recovery for patients who undergo surgery.

Therefore, chair excercises doesn’t just reach to one specific
public, chair excercises are great for multiple types of
audiences. It’s great for your needs and gives you something
to do. Who don’t like that?

To me, chair excercises is like a lap dance, but then on
the other hand if you want to do it by yourself it’s just
a chair excercise. Chair excercises can be sexy depending
on what chair exercise you do

Exercise, exercise you fill my many days,
exercise exercise you trim me in many ways,
exercise, oh exercise you are habit forming,
You highlight my life!

http://www.ayushveda.com/fitness/chair-aerobics-exercise.htm

You’ll lose more weight doing Water aerobics than regular aerobics! Plus additional benefits!

I love water. No one can duck and dive in it like Rihanna
in her video Umbrella. I love swimming, how it feels and
how elegant it looks.

Water aerobics is a great type of aerobic work out.
This is one way for you peeps to stay fit and healthy
without sweating your core out. It’s also a way to
avoid stressing your body.

Dig this, water reduces the effect that gravity has
on your body. Therefore, stretching under water
will cause little strain on your joints and give you
greater range of motion than on land.

Water gives greater resistance to your movements
than air does. Thus, you burn more calories when
doing aerobics in water. This type of resistance
will raise your muscular endurance and cardiovascular
fitness.

The buoyancy provided by water will give you better
balance, posture, and flexibility, and thus lessening
your capability for injury. Studies show that waist
deep water supports 50% of your weight and
chest deep water even more at 90% of body weight.
THis is what makes water aerobics very
beneficial for people with arthritis, osteoporosis,
joint problems or back pain.

Water has a massaging effect on your muscles. This
gives water aerobics the power to let our your tension
and stress in your muscles. So if you want to calm
and soothe that body of yours, you can always
give water aerobics a try.

Water aerobics blends body movements and dance
routines. You can put music to it. COme on
and come up people! Jazz it up!

Even if you a pregnant woman, you can benefit
from water aerobics low impact routine. This will
comfort you in your labor period and delivery. It will
help ya’ll recover and lose those additional pounds
gained during pregnancy very fast. Yet, like
any excercise, it’s always best to ask your
doctor if it’s okay to do.

Now we all know, there’s kicking, punching
and dancing on air, but how many people actually
have or want to try water aerobics? If so get
ready for a beautiful fireworks type of display.
It sounds like much fun, wanna try?

Negative emotions, emotional imbalance and Constant bad thoughts are all connected!

Negative Emotions, emotional imbalance and unwanted thoughts
are all tied together in a bow. I mean how easy is it to live in
this world thinking positive all the time? I think we all have
negative thoughts, it’s just some people think more negative
thoughts than others. We all have negative emotions, but
those things in excess can do the most damage.

My point is this:
Negative emotions don’t allow us to see life situations naturally.
They mess up the normal thinking process. When a person
continuous collection of negative emotions for a long period of
time can damage our persona and hamper our health and happiness too.

Behavioral negativities such as fear, shame, guilt, arrogance, envy,
jealously, greed, phobia are symptoms of negative emotions. On
the other hand, over enthusiasm, passions, elations, and some
forms of love can cause negative emotions.

A cold, headache, late night or missed meal are all things that can alter
our behavior.

Rage, anger, arrogance, uncontrolled desire, and violence just
like self pity, melancholy, loneliness, boredom, are types of
negative emotions.

Negative emotions take up so much energy and can take your
thinking pattern into the wrong direction.

There is a persistent wrong way of thinking like always taking
and imagining negative, thinking bad for others like scandal,
gossiping, distrust, and doubting.

Emotionally imbalanced people have a blockage in the flow of energy
through the meridian system due to constant accumulation of
negative emotions. When the blockages are comforted and
released through purging negative emotions come into balance.

Emotionally balanced people have a pragmatic attitude towards
life, you won’t get upset about the past incident.

Negative feelings cause people to be emotionally imbalanced and
many people drink.

I mean life is not easy. It wouldn’t surprise me if life stressed some people
out so much they had negative emotions more often than normal.
I mean life is supposed to be exciting and not so plagued with
sin and problems all the time. But ofcourse, we can always go to
God with our problems and ask him for help.

What tips do you have to relax? I have to admit that the things that
happen in life can be the most annoying stressful and irritating things
to go through. If there were more positive people, there may be less
negative emotions.
http://www.charminghealth.com/negative-emotions/negative-emotions.htm

The 57 benefits of Going Vegan! Check it out!

I had recently researched how much more weight vegetarians lose
compared to meat eaters, which was all for my advanced composition.
Well there’s more to being a vegetarian than losing weight. There are
also many health benefits one would have being a vegan. And when
I say many health benefits, it’s over 50. They might even inspire you
to become a vegan or maybe not. It takes will power to give up meat.

– Those vegans reduce saturated fats. If you are vegan you take out
the dairy products and the meats so you improve you heart health.

– Carbohydrates give your body energy. It’s best to have carbs
because if you don’t have them your body will burn muscle.

– Fiber: You should be able to eliminate food better with
high fiber diets and prevent colon cancer.

Magnesium- Vegetarian diets help you get more magnesium,
which makes you healthier.

Potassium- It is used to balance water and acidity in your body.
Diets with a lot of potassium risk cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

Folate- Folate helps to repair cells, generates red and white blood cells,
metabolizing amino acids.

Antioxidants- This protects your body against getting cancer.

Vitamin C, another benefit of being a vegan, boosts immune system.
Also, vitamin C keeps gums healthy and heals bruises faster.

Vitamin E, another benefit of being a vegan, benefits the heart,
skin, eyes, brain and prevents Alzheimer’s Disease.

Vegan diets lower high blood pressure.

There is evidence that lower BMIs come from being vegans.

Vegan diets take out unhealthy foods that cause weight gain.

Energy -You tend to have more energy when you eat a healthy
vegan diet.

Don’t you want healthy skin? Being a vegan causes this as well.

Vegans live longer than meateaters- Those who are vegan or
even vegetarian live 3-6 years longer than those who don’t.

Body odor- IT’s a very annoying thing about life. Being vegan
makes you smell better.

Bad breath- You won’t having morning breath if you go vegan.

Hair-Those who are vegan have stronger healthier with more body.

Nails- Healthy vegan diets give you stronger healthier nails.
And people who wouldn’t want healthier nails to go along with
health hair?

PMS-Those who go vegan tell about how PMS symptoms
lessen or dissintegrate all together.

Migraines- You get relief from migraines if you become vegan.

I love all these benefits, but I’m not giving up meat. Nachos
are not nachos without meat. A taco is nothing without meat.
A hamburger means nothing without meat, yet people talk
about bread with veggies. What’s the purpose?

I’m relying on meat because without it, my meals are not
as fun as they could be. Meat is the spice of life.

The Hard Effect being Heartbroken has on the heart!!!

Getting the heart broken is just one of the stages of life. How many
people can miss it? There are so many things that can break the
heart like the death of a loved one, a bad relationship, or any other
traumatic experience.

Heartaches cause cause that aching, tight feeling along with the
sadness. And I mean for people who keep going through this…
it is really depressing. On the other hand, for people with
broken heart syndrome, it can feel just as scary as a heart
attack. Most people are usually diagnosed after they get to
the emergency room.

Broken heart syndrome is called stress cardiomyopathy, which
is a weakness in the heart muscle because of a stressful
situation. It has the same symptoms as a heart attack like
difficulty breathing, chest pain, drop in blood pressure.

The difference? A heart attack permanently damages the heart.
On the other hand, broken heart syndrome’s effects are
just temporary. Heart attacks are caused by blocked
coronary arteries.

The deaths of family members, car accidents, financial woes, and
other anxiety triggers causes stress and the brain releases stress
hormones like adrenaline into the blood. This causes heart vessels
to overdo it and lessens pumping strength.

And did ya’ll know that simple things such as surprise parties and
public speaking can cause heart problems. This occurs moreso
in women than men.

Breaking up and staying a bad relationship can be detrimental to
a person’s health. Emotional stress puts more pressure on our bodies,
which in turn weakens our immune systems and increases depression.
Those people who had bad relationships have a 34% higher chance
of having heart problems than those who were positive couples.

The study observed 8,000 subjects free from heart disease over
12 years. At the completion of the study , 589 people developed
heart disease and those who talked about relationship strife.
This is especially true about people who talk with their
companions about problems made things worse.

If only people had a scanner that could scan heartbreakers? What
makes people think it’s okay to break hearts? Karma is the
worst when it comes back. If only
we knew what would happen before it did, we could prevent it.

http://www.modernghana.com/lifestyle/801/16/can-breaking-up-literally-break-our-hearts.html