Health and Beauty – Smart Girl Consulting

Month after month we spend in the office nine hours, five days a week. And we often skip a good lunch. When you can’t leave the office to eat out so you have to snack with something from a snack vending machine or what you have in your lunch box horridly prepared at home, that doesn’t necessarily mean your snack will be unhealthy. Check out 7 super healthy foods for your snack.

1. Almond nuts

These are great! Just a handful of almond nuts can make you feel full. Almond nuts contain proteins and iron. Eat them regularly during the day and you will manage to rein in your appetite. …

Did you get your daily dose of vitamin D today?  Known as the (sunshine vitamin), vitamin D is produced by the body in response to sunlight.  It is also occurs naturally in a few foods — including fish, fish liver oils, and egg yolks and in fortified dairy and grain products.

Vitamin D is essential for strong bones because it helps the body use calcium from the diet.  Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with rickets, a disease in which the bone tissue doesn’t properly mineralize, leading to soft bones and skeletal deformities. But recently research is revealing the importance of vitamin D in protecting against many health problems. …

When the time Brits spend sitting has been calculated it amounted to 14 hours and 39 minutes for each day! This awesome figure came up as the result of a poll involving 3,000 adult Britishers.

If it may seem incredible, it’s only at the first glance, for when we start to ponder about the things that keep us sitting – including reading this article!- we will find them numerous.

Adults whose day consists of commuting to work, working away at the office desk and indulging in playing on the computer or watching TV in the evenings find themselves with little chance to employ their legs properly. …

Everyone knows we can sweat calories out in the gym. But, actually, we also burn calories when we work or have sex. Are there any other ways?

1. Drink coffee
It doesn’t matter hot or cold. Studies showed that caffeine accelerates a calorie burning rate.

2. Eat breakfast
Surely you have heard that eating breakfast is healthier than eating before bed. And here is another good thing about hearty breakfast. It helps burn more fats because a signal goes to our brain that we are not hungry anymore and our body won’t be storing anything. …

Emilio Pucci, a popular perfume brand, is ready to introduce with a new feminine perfume Miss Pucci in July 2010. This fragrance follows Pucci Vivara 2007, even the package is similar to Vivara’s motif.

Miss Pucci is the product of collaboration of three unique perfumers: François Demachy, Christine Nagel, and Benoît Lapouza. This composition captures the notes of citrus, rose, orange blossom, jasmine, cedar, …

Oscar-winning American actress Halle Berry will present her third perfume in August. However, the fragrance will not be available for worldwide sale until January 2011. Berry said that she wanted to create a floral composition when she was working on this women’s perfume, which is called Halle Berry Reveal.

Did the actress manage to create a more floral perfume this time? Experts think that despite abundant presence of floral notes in it, the fragrance can be attributed to very classic and light perfumes. Halle Berry Reveal is more of a woody-floral perfume; it was designed by perfumer Richard Herpin.

The composition contains the following notes: mimosa, honey melon, red berries, peaches, iris flowers, neroli, plum, vetiver, cashmere wood, and skin musk. Berry is very pleased with this perfume and says that presence of iris added particular softness and lightness to the fragrance. …

Summer is a season when you can forget about your hair dryer for a while. At least, when you are not pressed for time. Beauty experts and hair stylists recommend that you dry your hair naturally, without blow-drying, as often as possible. Obviously, the summer is the right time to start doing it. But the question is – What is the fastest and most effective way to dry hair naturally?

1. Blow-drying is really unhealthy because hot air dries and damages your hair. Use a towel that absorbs very well to reduce the time you need to spend for drying your hair naturally. The towel should be soft and absorbing.

2. Never rub your hair with a towel because wet hair is more fragile. You just need to pat your hair dry. …

Ever wanted to add natural highlights without the damage and expensive trips to the salon?  Here are some natural ways to add highlights using 100% natural ingredients that will add beautiful tones, highlights and lowlights to your hair color without causing any damage or unwanted brassiness what so ever.  Keep in mind, whenever you use natural herbs to color you hair, it may take several applications for noticeable results.

Blondes

Lemon Juice and Tea
Ingredients:
1 cup lemon juice
3 cups Organic Chamomile Tea (brewed & cooled) …

Couples who built close relationship can detect each other’s emotions by smell. Researchers claim that lovers can actually spot each other’s feelings of fear, happiness and sexual arousal.

Denise Chen, a psychologist from the Rice University, said that couples with close relationship are more likely to instinctively understand each other’s feelings. …