No More Acne

Archive for December, 2009

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Perhaps the best acne treatment on this planet is water. Acne begins when your skin cells are abused and begin to react abnormally, and water is crucial to your skin’s health. In fact, experts say water is crucial to having soft, youthful skin.

When skin cells are deprived of water (dehydration) this leaves them struggling until replenishment arrives. If you add this to the harsh effects of sun exposure, cold or hot weather, pollution, and air-conditioning, your skin cells can react in several ways, including excess oil (sebum) production, dryness, and acne breakouts.

A typical person loses around 1.5 liters of water a day…not counting the water loss from exercise or sweating on a hot day. Therefore, the admonishment about drinking 6 to 8 glasses of water a day is really good advice.

When skin cells (and the rest of the cells in your body, for that matter) are given sufficient water, they are able to maintain healthy membranes that keep your skin hydrated. If not given sufficient water, however, your cells will not rebuild and will not be able to get rid of the waste products and toxins that accumulate in them.

This further deprives the already dehydrated cell of the oxygen and nutrients it needs to work and cleanse itself properly.

Vitamin B3
Did you know that as low as 9% of Americans eat the recommended 3 to 5 servings of vegetables each day? At best, 3 out of 10 Americans are able to consume enough vitamins to deal with the stresses and conditions that afflict people today, acne being one of the most common.

Your skin is your body’s largest organ, and when you do not consume enough nourishment it will show the first signs of this deprivation.

Experts agree that Vitamin B3 or Niacin is crucial to healthy skin. It improves circulation and helps your body metabolize fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. Acne is a symptom of Niacin deficiency. The recommended dosage for acne sufferers is 200 mg, taken three times a day.

Topical Niacinamide, a Vitamin B3 derivative, has been proven to be more effective against acne than even the popular antibiotic clindamycin. Present in the over the counter acne product, Acnessential (a 4% Niacinamide cream), the B3 derivative was used in studies at the State university of New York against mild to moderately inflammatory and comedonal acne, and found to be effective.

Natural Green Tea
Natural green tea is unfermented, unlike other types of tea. This means it is not oxidized and, therefore, it retains active substances that make it one of the best acne treatments

Green tea contains a high amount of potent antioxidants that make it beneficial in acne prevention. Antioxidants counteract the effects of free radicals in the atmosphere that threaten to damage your cells and tissues.

In studies, green tea was successfully used to:
-fight bacteria;
-reduce inflammation;
-decrease hormone activity; and
-kill staphylococcus aureus, the bacteria that causes bacterium acne.

Originally posted 2009-11-13 03:25:14.

Let’s face it, nobody wants to look old. Wrinkles, dark circles under the eyes, puffy or sagging skin – these are all signs of aging. The question many of us face as we grow older is whether we can slow the effects of time. Are plastic surgery and injections the only way to look younger?

Luckily, there are less drastic ways to keep your face from showing every year! Healthy habits, along with a proper skincare regimen, can not only slow the inevitable signs of aging, but also actually repair damage to your skin.

Skincare research benefits from the advances being made in nutrition, chemistry and biology. Some skincare companies are actually using Nobel Prize-winning discoveries in thier anti-aging formulas. Using anti-oxidants to slow the damage caused from free radicals these revolutionary creams stimulate the production of collagen and fill existing wrinkles. The ideal cream will also be a moisturizer as well.

In addition to daily cleansing and moisturizing, here are five healthy habits, which will keep you from falling victim to aging skin.

1. Protect yourself from the sun. Lying out in the sun with baby oil is no longer a thing to do. According to Doctors, a primary factor for aging in the sun is even small amounts of exposure to ultraviolet rays. Wrinkles, age spots, dryness and a leathery texture are just some of the results of getting too much sun. Try to stay out of the rays when they are at their most intense, from about 10 am until 2 pm. And be sure to use a quality sunscreen to protect against those UV rays.

2. Don’t smoke. Millions of free radicals are produced by cigarette smoke. These very small molecules attack healthy skin cells. And nicotine constricts blood flow. This means that oxygen and nutrients can’t get to your skin cells. Production of collagen and elastin will decrease, and deep wrinkles will be the result.

3. Moisturize regularly. As our skin ages, it loses moisture, a necessary component to keeping it looking young and firm. Keeping water in can be done by applying a high quality moisturizer where it is needed.

4. Drink plenty of water. Water is the basis of human life. Our bodies are made up of 70% water. It carries toxins and impurities away from our cells, and brings oxygen and nutrients in.

5. Be gentle. When washing or drying your face or applying moisturizer, use soft patting motions. Pulling at your skin or rubbing it too hard will stretch it out, causing wrinkles and sags.

You will be rewarded with a younger and healthier look when you take care of your skin properly!

Originally posted 2009-11-03 12:32:00.

The Bible mentions Eat 617 times and the Quran 70 times.

Eat in the Bible:

The beginning was not encouraging:

Genesis 3:17

To Adam he said, “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will Eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:18

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will Eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will Eat your food

Because of Jacob hip, the tendon attached to the socket of the hip is banned

Genesis 32:32

Therefore to this day the Israelites do not Eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf devours the prey and divides the plunder.

Genesis 49:27

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

The Bible declares Racism even for food.

Exodus 12:43

No foreigner is to Eat of it.

Kill anyone who is Eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD.

Leviticus 7:20

But if anyone who is unclean Eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 7:21

If anyone touches something unclean—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean, detestable thing—and then Eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.’ “

Eat locust, katydid, cricket and/or grasshopper.

Leviticus 11:22

Of these you may Eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper.

Why they are detestable?

Leviticus 11:42

You are not to Eat any creature that moves about on the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet; it is detestable.

Kill anyone who Eats blood.

The life of every creature is its blood

Do not Eat the blood of any creature

This verse contradicts very much with the sciences. The life of every creature is not in blood. Some creatures that we Eat are bloodless e.g. the fungus(Mushroom).

Leviticus 17:14

Because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, “You must not Eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who Eats it must be cut off.”

Deuteronomy 12:23

But be sure you do not Eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not Eat the life with the meat.

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Since you Eat meat with the blood still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land?

Eat the flesh of your sons and your daughters

Eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters

Fathers will Eat their children, and children will Eat their fathers.

Leviticus 26:29

You will Eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

Numbers 23:24

The people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion that does not rest till he devours his prey and drinks the blood of his victims.”

Deuteronomy 28:53

… You will Eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters…

Numbers 24:8

They devour hostile nations and break their bones in pieces;

Deuteronomy 32:42

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

Psalm 27:2

When evil men advance against me to devour my flesh, when my enemies and my foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.

Psalm 53:4

Will the evildoers never learn— those who devour my people as men Eat bread and who do not call on God?

Proverbs 30:14

those whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth, the needy from among mankind.

Isaiah 9:20

On the right they will devour, but still be hungry; on the left they will Eat, but not be satisfied. Each will feed on the flesh of his own offspring :

Lamentations 2:20

“Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women Eat their offspring, the children they have cared for? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore in your midst fathers will Eat their children, and children will Eat their fathers. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.

Ezekiel 39:18

You will Eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls—all of them fattened animals from Bashan.

Habakkuk 3:14

With his own spear you pierced his head when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though about to devour the wretched who were in hiding.

Galatians 5:15

If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

Revelation 19:18

so that you may Eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great.”

Eat their own filth and drink their own urine

2 Kings 18:27

… who, like you, will have to Eat their own filth and drink their own urine?”

Isaiah 36:12

… who, like you, will have to Eat their own filth and drink their own urine?”

Is the stomach of the wicked (only) goes hungry?

Proverbs 13:25

The righteous Eat to their hearts’ content, but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry.

Do not Eat the food of a stingy man

Proverbs 23:6

Do not Eat the food of a stingy man, do not crave his delicacies;

The lion will Eat straw like the ox, but dust will be the serpent’s food

Here is another verse that contradicts with the sciences.

The lion does not Eat straw and the serpent’s food is not the dust.

Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will Eat straw like the ox, but dust will be the serpent’s food.

The carcasses of people are food for the birds and the beasts

Jeremiah 7:33

Then the carcasses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

Jeremiah 15:3

“I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” declares the LORD, “the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 16:4

“They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like refuse lying on the ground. They will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.”

Jeremiah 34:20

I will hand over to their enemies who seek their lives. Their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

Ezekiel 39:4

I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals.

They Eat their food in anxiety and drink their water in despair

Ezekiel 12:19

… They will Eat their food in anxiety and drink their water in despair,

Eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk.

Ezekiel 39:19

At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will Eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk.

Eat the flesh of Jesus and drink his blood.

This very important theological concept is mentioned only in John.

Matthews, Mark and Luke never said that.

John 6:53

Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you Eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

John 6:54

Whoever Eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:57

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

John 6:58

This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.”

The faith of the vegetarian is weak

Romans 14:2

One man’s faith allows him to Eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, Eats only vegetables.

If the dead are not raised, “Let us Eat and drink”

1 Corinthians 15:32

If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for merely human reasons, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, “Let us Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

The beast and the ten horns will hate the (naked) prostitute, Eat her flesh and burn her with fire

Revelation 17:16

The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will Eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

The Quran teaches us to Eat in a healthy way and not to be extravagant in Eating.

Eat of what is on earth, lawful and good

Eat of the good things that We have provided for you and be grateful to Allah

Eat of the things which Allah hath provided for you, lawful and good

What the Believers will Eat in the Paradise?

What the Unbelievers will Eat in the Hell?

The Policy of Eating

The Quran teaches us to Eat in a healthy way and not to be extravagant in Eating.

Excess Eating is a very bad habit that causes many medical problems.

This meaning is not found in the Bible.

7:31

O Children of Adam! Wear your beautiful apparel at every time and place of prayer: and Eat and drink and be not extravagant; surely he does not love the extravagant

The Food we are allowed to Eat:

6:121

Eat not of (meats) on which Allah’s name hath not been pronounced: that would be impiety. But the evil ones ever inspire their friends to contend with you if ye were to obey them, ye would indeed be Pagans.

16:5

And cattle He has created for you (men): from them ye derive warmth, and numerous benefits, and of their (meat) ye Eat.

16:14

It is He Who has made the sea subject, that ye may Eat thereof flesh that is fresh and tender, and that ye may extract therefrom ornaments to wear, and thou seest the ships therein that plough the waves, that ye may seek (thus) of the bounty of Allah and that ye may be grateful.

16:114

So Eat of the sustenance which Allah has provided for you, lawful and good; and be grateful for the favours of Allah, if it is He Whom ye serve.

23:21

And in cattle (too) ye have an instructive example: from within their bodies We produce (milk) for you to drink; there are, in them, (besides), numerous (other) benefits for you; and of their (meat) ye Eat;

36:33

A Sign for them is the earth that is dead; We do give it life, and produce grain therefrom, of which ye do Eat.

2:168

O ye people! Eat of what is on earth, lawful and good; and do not follow the footsteps of the Evil One, for he is to you an avowed enemy.

2:172

O ye who believe! Eat of the good things that We have provided for you and be grateful to Allah, if it is Him ye worship.

5:88

Eat of the things which Allah hath provided for you, lawful and good; but fear Allah, in Whom ye believe.

22:28

“That they may witness the benefits (provided) for them, and celebrate the name of Allah, through the Days Appointed, over the cattle which He has provided for them (for sacrifice): then Eat ye thereof and feed the distressed ones in want.

What the Believers will Eat in the Paradise?

This meaning is not found in the Bible

43:69-73

[69] (Being) those who have believed in Our Signs and bowed (their wills to Ours) in Islam.

[70] Enter ye the Garden, ye and your wives, in (beauty and) rejoicing.

[71] To them will be passed round, dishes and goblets of gold: there will be there all that the souls could desire, all that the eyes could delight in: and ye shall abide therein (for aye).

[72] Such will be the Garden of which ye are made heirs for your (good) deeds (in life).

[73] Ye shall have therein abundance of fruit, from which ye shall have satisfaction.

52:17-19

[17] As to the Righteous, they will be in Gardens, and in Happiness,

[18] Enjoying the (Bliss) which their Lord hath bestowed on them, and their Lord shall deliver them from the Penalty of the Fire.

[19] (To them will be said:) “Eat and drink ye, with profit and health, because of your (good) deeds.”

69:22-24

[22] In a Garden on high,

[23] The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.

[24] “Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the days that are gone!”

What the Unbelievers will Eat in the Hell?

This meaning is not found in the Bible.

15:3

Leave them alone, to enjoy (the good things of this life) and to please themselves: let (false) Hope amuse them: soon will knowledge (undeceive them).

2:174

Those who conceal Allah’s revelations in the Book, and purchase for them a miserable profit, they swallow into themselves Naught but Fire; Allah will not address them on the Day of Resurrection, nor purify them: grievous will be their Penalty.

56:50-56

[50] “All will certainly be gathered together for the meeting appointed for a Day well-known.

[51] “Then will ye truly, O ye that go wrong, and treat (Truth) as falsehood!

[52] “Ye will surely taste of the Tree of Zaqqum.”

[53] “Then will ye fill your insides therewith,

[54] “And drink Boiling Water on top of it:

[55] “Indeed ye shall drink like diseased camels raging with thirst!”

[56] Such will be their entertainment on the Day of Requital!

It follows that man is one of two:

47:12

Verily Allah will admit those who believe and do righteous deeds, to Gardens beneath which rivers flow; while those who reject Allah will enjoy (this world) and Eat as cattle Eat; and the Fire will be their abode.

Back to the main issue of my series of articles; this is my question to you smart readers: “Is the Quran quoted from the Bible”?

Originally posted 2009-10-26 16:54:37.

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