When I sweat, my body does not seem to sweat as much as my armpit does. And it can be a little of excessive sweating, which can be embarrassing if you are out or at work. You don’t want to raise your arms for fear of where the wind will carry it, or you attempt to conceal the smell by maybe placing a sweater over top. Making you even warmer, which will the cause you to sweat more.

Sweat is part of the body’s natural cooling system when you hit a certain temperature. To keep you from overheating you begin to sweat. Considering that fact, if someone has excessive armpit sweating, or armpit sweating on a casual basis that is enough to be embarrassed about, then armpit sweat pads (or underarm sweating absorbent pads, to sound classy) are meant for you.

Underarm Sweating Absorbent Pad

Underarm sweating absorbent pads are self-adhesive and can be purchased of different sizes, shapes, and colors that most often vary between white and skin tone. A cotton pad that stick to the inside of your shirt, soft enough that it won’t irritate the sensitive underarm skin, absorbent and disposable. It kind of reminds me of a panty-liner, only for armpits.

These underarm sweating absorbent pads are a useful concept. Avoids having the smell and bacteria from your sweat sticking, or staining your shirt. Throw it out after using, don’t bother trying to make it last because bacteria will build, causing skin irritation and staining of your clothes.

What causes you to sweat?

-          Exercise or working out. Anything physical movement that raises your body temperature

-          Illness, it’s your body’s way to fight the infection or virus

-          Stress

Reduce Underarm Sweating Alternatives:

-          Using armpit absorbent pads are not the only way to

-          Deodorant, Antiperspirants, Talcum Powder. I use to use baby powder, gets messy at times, but if you use a cotton ball to apply it’s cleaner.

-          Shave, or wax your armpits. This helps to eliminate the build up of bacteria which causes unpleasant smells

-          Exfoliate armpits gently with pumice during a shower to get rid of dead skin cells, and bacteria.

-          Exercise. Beneath your skin there is body fat. The more overweight you are, the harder your body has to work to cool you down. Making you sweat more, and give off stronger odors

-          Eating Habits. What you eat will affect what your body releases, especially in terms of smell. Avoid spicy foods, and sadly those Indian dishes no matter how good they are.

-           Wash your clothes after every use, as the smell will stick and linger.

Underarm Sweating Absorbent Pad

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I thought this was the cutest cardio workout gadget, or cardio exercise equipment that is great for all canine lovers! A great way to lead a healthy lifestyle, with an active partner who is always ready for a walk or run. No matter how early, or how late in the day it is.

Cardio Workout: Cardio Canine

A “hands free” human harness and dog lesh, with a secure water bottle holder.  Your dog’s leash is attached to the Cardio Canine belt, which sits securely on around your waist. Now your hands are free for other things, like carrying doggy treats, or picking up droppings.

There’s nothing difficult about this cardio gadget, quite practical actually, especially if you have larger dogs. I myself am a smaller than average person, and my dog – an angel that he is, is still a bit difficult to control when he’s excited. It gives my arms a difficult, but good workout though.

Having the Cardio Canine around the waist seems better than trying to manage your dog in one hand, and doing something else with the other. If the dog is leashed at the waist, you as an owner have more power and control because power comes from your core. Your legs are the next powerhouse in helping you control your stability, and offers leverage of force when needed.

Health Benefits with dogs

Being a dog owner, and going out for routine walks are great for practicing a regular healthy lifestyle and workout. Aside from being a great companion, dogs (and other pets) offer great benefits to their owners, aside from an active lifestyle. Other health benefits with dogs include:

• Improvement of Mood – soft fur, cute animal, and fun loving nature is enough to lift anyone’s spirit. It’s also been proven that people with pets are less likely to suffer from depression
• Lower Blood Pressure – They help you relax and get your mind off of things, even if it is only for a minute. Having a pet has been proven to help a person relax and reduce tension.
• Reduce Stress Levels – They are the best listener, which also makes a dog a better supporter, compared to another human being. Mainly because pets will never judge us, but always will love us.

• Unconditional Love – Dogs really are a man’s best friend, and has been found to be one of the best antidotes to loneliness.

Cardio Workout Gadget: Cardio Canine

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There is quite a suspicion these days, as to whether ab equipment, or fitness equipment will work on getting you that promised body image. We see tons of commercials and images today, enticing us to buy the workout machine that will give us the body of a god.

Considering our options, either we are suspicious as to how effective the workout machine would be; or buy it – then realize that doesn’t work, and regret the wasted investment. It is a common problem that products advertised to work, end up not working.

Why Ab workout machine don’t work…

Before you buy new home workout equipment, here are some insightful bits so you won’t end up disappointed.

Same movements – When purchasing ab fitness equipment, or workout machines, many of them drill the same repetitious workout movements. Doing only the same motion, up & down, side-to-side, over and over again. Repeating enough will have your body get use to this motion that abs will no longer form.
Tip: Repetitious exercise can work, so long as you are able to increase pressure and challenge your muscles. Similar to weight lifting, it is a repeated exercise, but you are to increase your weights as you progress and build your muscles.

Only exercise one part - When people look to tighten ab muscles, what they don’t realize is that the tummy has a lot of fat covering the abdominal muscle. Unfortunately, single, repetitious movements are not enough to burn the covering fat. To burn stomach fat requires various exercises, which a single static ab machine cannot provide.
Tip: You need variety. Purchasing more ab fitness equipment and workout machine with different movements and levels of intensity.

Why people buy ab machines …

If these exercise workout equipment don’t work, then why do people buy them? There are many answers to that question, but here are a few of the top reasons why:

Reduce chance of injury – Floor exercises like sit-ups, is hard on your back and neck. An ab exercise machine makes things much more comfortable, which is a perk for people who are physically weak and still want to exercise.

Easy to do – That’s how it was advertised, and that’s how it is. Many people who are looking to shape up want to do it the easiest and quickest way – however, the easy way is promising to an extent. Again, the easy usage doesn’t give your body much challenges as you get accustom to the repetition; but it’s great for people who are unable to do a lot.

Convenient – A reason why we buy home workout equipment in the first place. Busy schedules make it hard to find time to visit the gym. If we have workout equipment at home, we may be more inclined to fit it into our schedule. And the machines are cheaper than signing a yearly contract with a gym.

Ab machine don't work: Why?

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A new innovative eye treatment from eyeSlices, that is non-toxic and bacteria free. This is eye treatment is a gel pad for your eye, in lieu of those cucumber slice eye treatments and can be chilled for a cold eye mask. Eye slices contain aloe and bioactive ingredients to improve and soothe any eye conditions. Great if you need to rejuvenate tired eyes, soothe swollen eyes, or calm eye irritation caused by allergens.

How to use eyeSlices eye mask…

Place the gel eye mask on your eyes and gently press over your closed eye. Leave it on for at least 5 minutes, or more if you want. Eye slices can be reused about 5 times if they are tightly resealed in their casing.

Tip: Refrigerate before using for a soothing cold eye mask.

After using you can rinse the eye slices off before sealing them in the containers, but the natural anti-bacterial ingredient in the eye slices keeps this eye treatment bacteria-free!

Benefits of eyeSlices eye treatment…

Compact casing allows you to easily store it. Use it at home or even at work when you feel the need to soothe or refresh your eyes.

These eye slices contain no cucumber extract, which is great for people who are allergic to cucumbers. These eye treatment eye slices can be used to reduce eye puffiness, appearance of red eye, dark circles and wrinkles under the eye. It can also be used to help soothe eye conditions such as tired and swelling eyes, and any eye irritations.

Eye masks: Eye Slices soothing eye mask

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From the Japanese company, Mastunaga, comes a new gadget to keep awake: the Wink Glasses. A pair of lightweight, stylish looking glasses meant to help you stay awake. It is paired with a “wink sensor”, a detachable sheet of transparent liquid crystal sensor that fogs up when it senses no eye “winking” movement.

Gadget Keep Awake: Wink Glasses

Wink Glasses: how do they work?

On average, an adult male blinks three times in a second, while women average almost two blinks every four seconds. Wink Glasses is a gadget that gives a leeway of 5 seconds, if it detects no eye movement (which would constitute to a person day dreaming, or about to doze off), the glasses will begin to cloud one eye. Fogging the vision of one side of the glasses is said to stimulate the brain, to wake you up. The moment it senses eye movement it will revert back to its transparent state.

Wink Glasses are USB powered, but are also able to function wirelessly up to 8 hours. The “wink sensor” can be attached to your prescription glasses.

Gadget Keep Awake: Wink Glasses

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The most dreaded week after holidays, returning back to school or work and the attempt to get you back into a proper sleeping pattern. Days of sleeping late and sleeping in are now on hold till weekends, or until your next break. In the meantime, how can one expect to function properly during the daylight hours, with so little rest from the night before? Whether you need to stay awake in class or at work, here are some tips compiled to help you stay awake, while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Tips to stay awake…

Eat Breakfast – Having a healthy breakfast is a good way to get your metabolism and energy up and running for your day. Skipping out may leave you unfocused, and unable to concentrate or stay awake until lunch.

Cold Water – Splash your face with cold water in the morning. Not only does this wake you up, but it also helps to close your pores from the pollutant elements in the air. During the day, if you feel tired, drink or splash your face again with cold water.

Caffeine – A common solution in society today to stay awake. Coffee, tea & energy drinks have become our main options, and from a health point of view, coffee and tea are better than energy drinks; but in comparison, tea is healthier than coffee. Many people these days are making it a point to cut coffee from their diet for health reasons. While tea is a better, cheaper, and a healthier choice for a caffeine source, one cup of coffee a day is okay compared to three cups in one day.

Did you know? Oolong tea offers caffeine that can last the whole day, without the health or jittery side affects of energy drinks and coffee. The longer you steep Oolong, the more caffeine you get – careful not to have it too dark, or it may stay awake till the middle of the night. A nice rosy color, where you can still see the bottom of your cup is good enough.

Music – In the car, or in your iPod, music has been studied, and known to affect a person’s mood. We get it all the time in movies, shopping, etc. Listening to upbeat, fast-track sounds are great wake up music (avoid soft & slow music, like jazz or classical). Either between classes, transiting, or in the work place with headphones can help you stay awake, rather than silence which can be boring, then tiring.

Snacking – Healthy snacks: Granola bars, cold veggies, nuts, etc. Work that requires a lot of thinking and a lot of concentration uses a lot of brainpower. Keep the energy going and stay awake by gradual consumption of munchies.

Did you know? Eating small meals rather than big meals is better and healthier. Small meals & healthy snacking keeps your metabolism going, which produces energy to help you stay awake. Eating big meals can make you feel tired and lazy afterwards; it also slows down your metabolism as it tries to digest the large quantity.

Exercise – A bit of light cardio in the morning is a good way to get the blood pumping, and your metabolism going. Just remember to have a bite after to replenish the energy you used.

Napping – (Not mandatory) It’s not a bad thing if you have time and you need to rest your eyes. A nap 15 – 30 minutes is best for a power nap, making you feel energized and refreshed when you get up. Anything longer will make you feel even more tired and lazy.

How to stay awake: in class or at work

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Welcome to the beginning of the new year of 2010. My how time flies. To start the new year’s posting, let’s talk about essential oils. Particularly one product: Peppermint Halo, by Saje Natural Wellness.

One of the best natural headache remedies, I’ve found, that is completely safe and harmless to the body. An encouraging natural headache relief option to consider, instead of consuming drugs for those in constant need of a headache remedy. My friend introduced me to this little bottle, and I have forever been in love. Personally, I was never really firm believer in natural medicine, because not everything works for everyone. However, I have never doubted natures healing remedies as it was used long ago – before science discovered how to cram things into a pill form, with side effects.

Relieve headaches: Peppermint Halo

Peppermint Halo is a natural headache remedy made of essentials oils of: peppermint, eucalyptus, cajeput, rosemary, lavender & vetiver. To use, manually apply to the scalp (either with your finger, or roll-on application), following your hairline all the way around your head. This is the “halo”. Extra drops can be used to massage your temples and the area between the eyes.

Peppermint Halo: how & does it work?

The headache remedy begins to take effect almost immediately. A warm and cooling sensation helps to relieve headache pains. It’s a nice tingly feeling that sedates and relaxes the body, while the smell of lavender calms you down, and eucalyptus assists in deeper, soothing breathes.

Saje now has a policy, that if you do not like it or it didn’t work – you can return it. They understand that people avoid trying natural healing remedies, because some people consider them ineffective. What’s Saje Natural Wellness Policy? Buy it, try it, use it – don’t like it? Return it. Perfect for people who are afraid to try, in fear of losing money.

Natural Headache Relief - Peppermint Halo

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New Year’s Eve is only a day away; have you thought of a New Year resolution yet? Starting a new year it is always to reflect, and take with you the wisdom that you learned from your passing year. To kick off the learning for 2010, here are a few fun myth-busters about drinks that you may, or may not have known before. When choosing our drinks we try to consider beverages that are healthier than others, but are the choices really the healthy drink?

Wishing all you readers a healthy & happy new year!

Comparing healthy drinks…

1. Diet Pop (or Soda) is healthier than Regular Pop

A can of regular pop can have up to 135 kilocalories, whereas diet pop can contain 0-10 kilocalories. Though diet pop contains fewer calories, it is still hard to consider it healthier, as there is really nothing healthy about artificially colored and flavored water.

2. Juice is less fattening than milk

Surprisingly, juice actually contains more calories than a glass of one percent milk. Even two percent milk is less fattening at 10 kilocalories, compared to a glass of juice (120 kilocalories).  Why? Juice is mainly made up of sugar and water with some vitamins, whereas milk contains more nutrients such as protein, calcium, potassium and Vitamin D. Real fruit juice can be argued to have “healthy/natural” sugar, but in the end it’s still the sugar that makes it more fattening than milk.

3. All bottled waters (I.e. sparkling water, tonic water, flavored water, & mineral water) are WATER

Check the labels and ingredient list. Yes, plain bottled water is your regular healthy water, and is a healthy drink that is calorie-free; but tonic water has 125 kilocalories per serving. Flavored waters are flavored with artificial sweeteners or a little juice, which will also add calories.

4. Drinking wine instead of beer won’t give you a beer-belly

It is a common misconception that wine contains fewer calories than beer, when actually it is the opposite. A glass of wine (five ounces) contains about 130 kilocalories, while a bottle of beer (12 ounces) has about 150 kilocalories. Meaning that wine has more calories per ounce, compared to beer. A general rule for any drink is that the sweeter the taste, the more sugar and calories it has. This also applies to all alcoholic drinks, including hard liquor.

Beer-belly develops because calories from alcohol tend to be stored as fat in the abdomen, regardless of which kind of alcohol.

5. Coffee is the main source of caffeine

While coffee is known to contain a lot of caffeine, various amounts of caffeine can be found in many other canned drinks, and teas. Drinks such as a can of pop, or an energy drink (i.e. Red Bull) contains just as much caffeine as coffee. For those who quite drinking coffee for health reasons, having coffee in small to moderate amounts would not be harmful. However, people with high blood pressure or pregnant woman are usually advised to limit their caffeine intake.

Healthy Drink: Which one is healthier?

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I received this in an email, and while I’m not really fond of chains and junk mail, but I thought that this one in particular was very interesting. I thought I’d share it because identity theft is common these days thanks to technology, that we all know someone who had his or her information stolen before. Either we lose our wallets, or our information is not secure enough as we had thought – the whole process of reporting the identity theft, and fixing everything back can be a nightmare.

Consider this a health post to help you live a healthy lifestyle – stress free when it comes to avoiding or dealing with identity theft. Have a read, and if there’s anything else you think you can add to help prevent identity theft, please feel free to leave a comment below .

Tips to protect or prevent identity theft:

1. The next times you order checks have only your initials and last name put on them (instead of full first name). If someone takes your checkbook, they will not know if you sign your checks with just your initials or your first name, but your bank will know how you sign your checks.

2. Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put “PHOTO ID REQUIRED.”

**Some stores will argue that you should write both your signature & “Ask for ID”, or you will still be accountable – but honestly, my signatures never look the same, and cloning has yet to enter the black market – or so I hope.

3. When writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT put the complete account number on the “For” line. Instead, just put the last four numbers. The credit card company knows the rest of the number, and anyone who might be handling your check as it passes through all the check-processing channels will not have access to it.

4. Put your work phone # on your checks instead of your home phone. If you have a PO Box, use that instead of your home address. If you do not have a PO Box, use your work address. Never have your SS# printed on your checks, (DUH!). You can add it if it is necessary. However, if you have it printed, anyone can get it.

5. Photocopy contents of your wallet. Do both sides of each license, credit card, etc. You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call and cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe place. Also carry a photocopy of your passport when traveling either here or abroad. We have all heard horror stories about fraud that is committed on us in stealing a name, address, Social Security number, and credit cards.

6. Checking out of a hotel that uses cards for keys (and they all seem to do that now), do not turn the “keys” in. Take them with you and destroy them. Those little cards have on them all of the information you gave the hotel, including address and credit card numbers and expiration dates. Someone with a card reader, or employee of the hotel, can access all that information with no problem whatsoever.

**These days majority of hotels won’t even ask for the key cards, and will just let you keep it. If not, do it anyways. Digital key cards can always be made again, and again.

Identity Theft: What to do when identity stolen…

Here is some critical information to limit the damage in case theft of identity happens to you or someone you know:

1. Cancel our credit cards immediately. The key is having the toll free numbers and your card numbers handy so you know whom to call. Keep those where you can find them.

2. File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where your credit cards, etc., were stolen. This proves to credit providers you were diligent, and this is a first step toward an investigation (if there ever is one).

3. Call the three national credit-reporting organizations immediately to place a fraud alert on your name and Social Security number. The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was stolen, and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit.

Avoid Identity Theft

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Hope everyone had a happy holidays, and soon a Happy New Years. Everything suddenly got  busy, more than usual – so I had to put my series on hold for a bit. But happily, I have found a bit of time to write

Brookstone Back Stretcher & Ab Trainer

The Brookstone Back Stretcher & Ab Trainer chair is built at a curve, which is suppose to contour to the appropriate curve of your spine. It requires, and allows one type of movement, which is leaning back and sitting back, up right.

Brookstone Back Stretcher & Ab trainer: back pain relief & ab workout

How to use the Brookstone Back Stretcher & Ab Trainer…

Leaning backwards stretches your back, decompressing your spine to alleviate back pain. The gentle, and easy movement is to slowly expand your discs, helping reduce backaches. To complete the movement, lowering yourself back down to the starting position tones your abs, while realigning your spine for a better posture.

The Brookstone Back Stretcher & Ab Trainer is equipped with a seat and headrest. The backrest is a skeleton of soft foam rolls and rubber. The design and materials are meant to provide a firm support for your head, neck and spine as you lean back. The chair also supports your upper body so that you won’t strain your spine as you would during a traditional sit up.

Is the Brookstone Back Stretcher & Ab Trainer effective?

If you are looking for a fast way to tone your core, this may not be the one for you. The Brookstone Back Stretcher & Ab Trainer is firstly a back stretcher before it is an ab workout machine. Needless to say, you could progressively strengthen your core overtime, given that you contract your abs during your whole session. This will probably give you the slowest ab results out of all the ab workout machines in my series; however, it would be beneficial to those who have minor trouble with back flexibility, and needs to stretch their back out. Would not recommend for those with severe back pain in need of relief unless medical physician says otherwise.

Brookstone Back Stretcher & Ab Trainer

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