Library of Blogress: Healthy Living Information

By James Bittner

Acne occurs in children and adults. It doesn’t matter if you are young or middle age if you are going to get acne you don’t have a choice it’s just the way of life. But you don’t have to live with acne, there are things you can do to get rid of it. There are many forms of acne medicine available on the market today.

There are creams, gels, solutions some of those recently added like foam. I had acne for years up to when I was middle age. I tried many products ones that worked in the beginning and the acne came back. I was jumping with joy when I finally found an acne treatment that worked.

There are some alcohol based treatments that work on acne, but some makes your skin peel and it doesn’t make it look too good. So my warning to you is to be careful and don’t get a treatment with a very high alcohol base. If you lived with acne for a while and tried all kinds of products you are probably frustrated by now.
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With the staggering increase in the number of mesothelioma cases, it’s a wonder that more was not done earlier. Asbestos in poor working conditions is something that has been around for decades, but only recently has it been put into the media spotlight. Is it because people started dying or because the media finally shed light on this preventable disease?

Because of the increase in mesothelioma cases in industrial nation workers, it became apparent that these workers, from the miners who removed it from the ground, to the builders and others who used the finished product and all those others in between such as the wives who washed their husbands work clothes all needed some form of protection. If only those people who knew how dangerous asbestos in certain forms was, had passed their knowledge onto people working with asbestos products much of the tragedy we are watching today and will continue to see in the future would have been adverted. Although it had been known for many years that asbestos was dangerous, little was done to protect workers. I have first hand experience of this as I was an employee of James Hardie in Auckland New Zealand for three months in 1965 and I wasn’t even issued with a face mask. Read the rest of this entry »

Discover and learn more about smoking cessation programs available and their success rates.

Wondering what to do to help your smoking cessation, why do not you consider attending a stop smoking program. There is plenty of smoking cessation programs available and their success rates are reasonably good.

You can ask your doctor to refer you to a good stop smoking program. Alternatively, ask your friends or relatives who have already attended such program for advice. If none of the options works out you can search for a stop smoking program on the internet, in the newspaper ads or the yellow-pages-kind of guides.

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Light therapy and more specifically, acne blue light treatments, have proven to be very successful in treating mild to moderate inflammatory acne. Light therapy is not a new idea. The effects of color on the human body in relation to health and happiness have long been researched.

Documentation regarding the healing properties of color date as far back as 1876 when Augustus Pleasanton published his theory “Blue and Sun-lights”. He believed that colored light was effective in treating pain and disease. He was right. In 1878, Edwin Babbit corroborated Pleasanton’s theory when he published “The Principles of Light and Color”. Babbit took the theory of color to new levels. He identified the color red as a stimulant of blood and nerves prescribing it’s use for the treatment of such conditions as rheumatism, exhaustion and paralysis. Blues and violets, Babbit believed to have soothing, anti-inflammatory properties which he prescribed for treating meningitis, headaches and sunstroke.

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