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MANVEET KAUR recommends six lip treatment products that will ensure luscious lips.
OKAY, so its not the worlds biggest health crisis but having a set of dry, cracked smackers is not only painful and uncomfortable, it is also unsightly. On top of that, its hard to stop yourself from chewing on the dead skin of your lips and making it look even worse. The most common causes of cracked lips are allergic reaction to cosmetics, skin infections, extreme weather conditions like excess sun and wind exposure, lip biting and sucking and riboflavin (vitamin B-2) deficiencies. Our lips are extra sensitive to the environment because the skin on our lips is actually mucous membrane which is very thin and allows moisture to evaporate from lips faster than from skin, causing lips to dry out easily.
Interview: ‘Dorm Room Diet’ author Daphne Oz
Daphne Oz, daughter of heart surgeon and author Mehmet Oz, lost weight, and went on to write a book about it, The Dorm Room Diet. We spoke with her about her book and her diet advice for college students. CalorieLab: Why did you write The Dorm Room Diet? Oz: I have a father and two grandfathers who are heart surgeons and a grandma who is a specialist in complimentary medicine. With all these medical people in my family, I grew up hearing about what I should be eating and how I should be exercising to maintain ideal health, but from the time I was seven until I was seventeen I was overweight. I was only able to lose, and keep off, the extra pounds I was lugging around once I stopped treating food as an emotional crutch and put it back into perspective as the fuel that it is.
INSIDE OUT Rejuvenate your skin
THE largest organ in the human body probably receives more punishment than any other part. Its job is to insulate and protect, as well as give the body its appealing package. Can you imagine yourself without your skin? We would die without it. So lets learn how we can improve, even rejuvenate, it. Here are some helpful ideas from the Philippine Dermatological Society (PDS): Basic truths Eos. Oxygen to regenerate and rejuvenate skin has been around for over a century. The application of oxygen to the skin reverses aging almost instantly. A clinic called Eos (after the Greek goddess of air) in Laguna designed the EO2S rejuvenation oxygen therapy. Some 300 million years ago the atmosphere was 21-percent oxygen. Today, the oxygen content of the air is 18 percent.
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