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How to Get Your Feet Ready For Sandals with Baby Foot
How to get your feet ready for sandals with Baby Foot!
I did it! I finally tried Baby Foot. What is Baby Foot? It is a kind of foot mask product from Japan that promises to take layers (painlessly) of dead skin off your feet. I had already Googled and viewed a few Youtube videos and watched the amazing results, but I thought the proof is through my own experience, so I ordered it from Amazon.com. You can order it HERE.
It took about 10 days to arrive and I read the instructions.
Wash feet, put on booties supplied in the package and soak for one hour.
Before
I shoved my feet into the booties and my feet soaked for an hour in a rather jelly-like substance. I did not feel any burning and irritation. After the hour, I had a wet towel and wiped my feet off, then carefully walked to the tub where I washed my feet with soap and water to get the rest of the jelly off.
Besides being very clean my feet looked and felt the same before I had soaked in Baby Foot. The directions say that the peeling will not happen until 5-7 days after you soak your feet. By day 5 I had almost forgotten that my feet were going to peel when I was sitting at the breakfast table and looked down to see the first of the peeling. Eureka! It works!
The directions say that you are not suppose to tear or pick at the skin peeling off and to let it happen
Peeling
Some of the ingredients
naturally, but this just was too tempting. By day 6 my feet looked like a snake shedding its skin. My feet were a peeling and ugly mess. I began to peel and pick, peel and pick. I left trails of dead skin wherever I went. People who witnessed my shedding skin were totally grossed out.
What accelerated the shedding/peeling was soaking my feet in my swimming pool. I read some reviews and suggestions were given to soak your feet first in warm water before soaking your feet in Baby Foot so the product will really penetrate. Also, if you soak you feet everyday after for an hour (I don’t have that kind of time or patience.) it will speed up the process.
After day 10 my feet were smooth as a baby’s behind. I could not believe the transformation. Will I do it again? Yes! When? Probably in about 6 weeks.
After
Do not do this treatment if you are expecting to attend a wedding and will be wearing sandals. On the other hand, your feet will become a real conversation piece.
My feet are now looking great in flipflop so if you have scaly feet with cracked heels, then this is the product for you! It really works!
I should also point out that I have heard that some women report that they started peeling in 3 days so it may happen quicker for you then it did for me. Maybe soaking your feet before the applying Baby Foot may quicken the process.
The price is around $25.00 for one application but if you go through my link HERE you will pay under $22.00. That is about the same cost for a pedicure but my feet were never this smooth after a pedicure.
So I give this product a 5 star rating. Hope you give it a try.
Thanks for reading.
Terry Ryan, is a blogger and Internet Marketer
Head Off Osteoporosis
Head off osteoporosis before you break a bone.
What is Osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones. It happens when you lose too much bone, make too little bone or both. As a result, your bones become weak and may break from a minor fall or, in serious cases, even from simple actions, like sneezing or bumping into furniture.
Osteoporosis means “porous bone.” If you look at healthy bone under a microscope, you will see that parts of it look like a honeycomb. If you have osteoporosis, the holes and spaces in the honeycomb are much bigger than they are in healthy bone. This means your bones have lost density or mass and that the structure of your bone tissue has become abnormal. As your bones become less dense, they also become weaker and more likely to break. If you’re age 50 or older and have broken a bone, talk to your doctor or other healthcare provider and ask if you should have a bone density test.
What causes osteoporosis?
- Genetics
- Prescription drugs
- Drinking soda and alcohol
- Eating a diet heavy in animal protein
- Not enough sun
- Smoking
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Menopause
What osteoporosis looks like.
Genetic, well you can’t do anything about that. If you were lucky enough to be born with thin bones that look great in clothes, but in the long run and while you age, you will be at greater risk for osteoporosis.
Drinking soda and alcohol is like drinking poison for your body. Soda contains phosphoric acid, which interferes with the body’s ability to absorb calcium and can lead to osteoporosis, cavities and bone softening. Phosphoric Acid also interacts with stomach acid, slowing digestion and blocking nutrient absorption. Yikes! Research shows that chronic heavy alcohol use, especially during adolescence and young adult years, can dramatically affect bone health and increase the risk of osteoporosis later in life.
Calcium is an essential nutrient for healthy bones, and alcohol is its enemy. “Alcohol has multiple effects on calcium,” says Primal Kaur, MD, an osteoporosis specialist at Temple University Health System in Philadelphia. “The bones deteriorate because not enough calcium is getting into bones — and the body is leaching it away from bones.”
Prescription drugs can cause havoc on your ones. I personally take Triosint for thyroid hormone replacement which puts me at a higher risk for osteoporosis. But what can I do? My thyoid is not producing anymore of the hormone, and I need it to survive. I will have to make certain not to add anymore risks and I do not drink alcohol or soda. What prescription drugs are you taking and do they cause osteoporosis?
Eating a diet high in animal protein is detrimental to your health. I don’t know where this fad of high protein diets came from. People now think they cannot survive without drinking a protein shake. What the heck for? The largest animals in the animal kingdom do not eat meat or drink protein shake. It is just another example of people falling for advertisements by companies that want to make money.
Your body needs to stay alkalized to survive. A 7.0 is the prefect level if you test with a PH test strip. When you eat protein which is acidic, your body must react by leaching your bones of calcium to alkalize your blood. Keep on eating protein in mass quantities and you will be causing osteoporosis. (Click here for a great way to keep your drinking water alkaline.)
Vitamin D is vital for strong bones. People are now scared to go out in the sun without sunscreen but you need sun daily for a good dose of Vitamin D. If you live in the northern state or above the 39th parallel you most likely need to supplement with a vitamin D3 supplement. Here is a great gel cap that uses olive oil instead of GMO soy as a filler.
Smoking is bad for bone health. Studies have shown a direct relationship between tobacco use and 
decreased bone density. Analyzing the impact of cigarette smoking on bone health is complicated. It is hard to determine whether a decrease in bone density is due to smoking itself or to other risk factors common among smokers. For example, in many cases smokers are thinner than nonsmokers, tend to drink more alcohol, may be less physically active, and have poor diets. Women who smoke also tend to have an earlier menopause than nonsmokers. These factors place many smokers at an increased risk for osteoporosis apart from their tobacco use. (Source) http://www.niams.nih.gov/health_info/bone/Osteoporosis/conditions_Behaviors/bone_smoking.asp
A sedentary lifestyle will cause an increase risk for osteoporosis. Every time you walk sends a message to your bones to build more bone. Weight bearing exercises are another way to pump up your bone mass. Laziness causes bones to weaken. A 30 minute walk a day is a good way to ward off osteoporosis.
Women have a higher incident of osteoporosis once they are postmenopausal because they are no longer producing estrogen that protects their bones from osteoporosis. The same goes for younger women that do not have periods, usually caused by chronic dieting and not eating enough calories. There are thin 30 year-olds that have the bones of an 80 year-old.
What can you do if you already have osteoporosis?
Your doctor may prescribe one of the prescription drugs such as a bisphosphonates, denosumab (Prolia), raloxifene (Evista), and teriparatide (Forteo) which can help prevent fractures in women with osteoporosis; however, they pose a risk of side effects. I met one woman that was taking an oral prescription drug for osteoporosis and it damaged her esophagus to the point that she could not eat solid food. My neighbor had an injection every year of an drug that caused severe bone loss in her jaw. I would recommend talking to your doctor about the benefits vs. the risks and determine then if it is the right prescription drug for you.
Hormone replacement therapy is used to replace the estrogen no longer produced in the postmenopausal woman which in turn is thought to slow down the loss of bone mass. However, there is worry about the risk in increase in cancers, particularly breast and ovarian, with hormone replacement therapy. I was in the doctor’s office and read an article that there is still an increase risk if you use hormones made from plants. (Other estrogen drugs such as Premarin are made from pregnant horse urine.) I admit, I tried a natural formula of estrogen and progesterone made at a compounding pharmacy that I applied 2x a day on my arms, but I stopped refilling the prescription due to my concerns about the risks. I think that it is a personal decision that you and your doctor should decide.
Natural treatments would be to:
- Walk everyday
- Stop smoking, limit or eliminate alcohol and soda
- Take a good D3 supplement along with calcium and magnesium
- Eat a good diet of mainly fresh vegetables and fruit
Here is my some books I recommend for healthy bones.
How to Make Your Legs Look Awesome in Shorts!
Here’s how to get your legs ready for shorts and summer season.
Okay, so have been hiding your legs under pants all winter but now is the time to get them ready to be seen in shorts. I have some little tips that the Victoria Secret models use and if it is good enough for them, then it is good enough for you. (My 83 year-old mother does this. Keep on reading.)
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First of all, shave (best to do this in the shower) with a good razor
and use Skintimate Raspberry Moisturizing shaving cream.
Next use a sea salt scrub and do your entire legs. This will remove any dry skin and make your legs super smooth. Here are some to try:
She needs this!
Alba Botanica Hawaiian, Sea Salt Body Scrub, 14.5 Ounce
Dead Sea Salt Body Scrub – Deep Hydration and Exfoliation That Lasts All Day – Exfoliates Top Layer of Dead Skin and Cleanses Deeply – with Pure Dead Sea Salt and Moisturizing Oil – Full Body Exfoliation Reveals a Moisturized New Layer of Younger Looking Skin – Dead Sea Salts Infuse Skin With Minerals and Moisture – Satisfaction Guaranteed
St. Ives Body Wash Purifying Sea Salt Exfoliating Body Wash, 24 Ounce (Pack of 2)
After you rinse the salt scrub off, your next step is to take a loofah (these work pretty good) and wash your legs with 
. Tone Body Wash, Tahitian Vanilla and Orchid, 18 Ounce. Rinse and dry off.
Now your legs will be ready for Body Butter by Victoria Secret.
It is very moisturizing but also light.
After this, apply Sally Hansen Airbrush Tan all over your legs evenly, and
you do this by spraying a couple of circles at a time then using your hands and rub evenly. Keep on doing until your legs are completely covered and glowing. Great for covering bruises and blemishes.
Now for some shine. Victoria Secret has a great product to add to some shimmer and shine to your legs called Rockin’ Body Leg Shine.
Victoria’s Secret Rockin’ Body LEG SHINE Supermodel approved 2.5 oz.
There you go! Now you have some rockin’ looking legs. Works on short legs, long legs, chubby legs and skinny legs. Now you have no reason to go out with pasty, dry legs.
If you prefer, you can make your own sea salt scrub by mixing olive oil and a little Himalayan sea salt. Warning: your tub will become very slippery from the olive oil. Clean the tub after with Comet to de-oil so the next person to use the tub/shower doesn’t slip.
If you want to use a great natural moisturizer, try using coconut oil. Or if you have really dry skin, a long lasting gel like Baby Oil Gel works great at sealing in moisture after your shower, and is non-oily.
Below are a few suggestions that you can click on and shop via Amazon.
Thanks for reading!
Terry Ryan
Terry Ryan
Gillette Venus Sensitive Skin Disposable Women’s Razor 6 Count
Where Do People Live The Longest?
Where do people live the longest? If you watched the CNN report on Sunday, March 15, 2015, you would have seen the show called The Blue Zones. It was based on the book with the same name by author Dan Buettner.
“People in the Blue Zones reach age 100 at 10 times the average rate. What’s their secret?”
- Move Naturally The world’s longest-lived people don’t pump iron or run marathons. Instead, their environments nudge them into moving without thinking about it.
- Purpose Why do you wake up in the morning? Knowing your sense of purpose is worth up to seven years of extra life expectancy.
- Down Shift Stress leads to chronic inflammation, associated with every major age-related disease. The world’s longest-lived people have routines to shed that stress.
- 80% Rule “Hara hachi bu” – the Okinawans say this mantra before meals as a reminder to stop eating when their stomachs are 80 percent full.
- Plant Slant The cornerstone of most centenarian diets? Beans. They typically eat meat—mostly pork—only five times per month.
- Wine @ 5 Moderate drinkers outlive non-drinkers, especially if they share those drinks with friends.
- Belong Attending faith-based services four times per month – no matter the denomination – adds up to 14 years of life expectancy.
- Loved Ones First Centenarians put their families first. They keep aging parents and grandparents nearby, commit to a life partner and invest in their children.
- Right Tribe They world’s longest lived people chose or were born into social circles that support healthy behaviors.
Thank you for reading. To your health!
Terry Ryan
Protect Yourself From Lyme Disease
What is Lyme disease? Lyme disease is an infection caused by a spirochete that humans can get from the bite of an infected deer tick. The spirochete’s scientific name is Borrelia burgdorferi.
It was first discovered in Lyme, Connecticut a quaint little town with a population of around 2k. In the early 1970s a group of children and adults in Lyme, Connecticut, and the surrounding areas were suffering from some puzzling and debilitating health issues. Their symptoms included swollen knees, paralysis, skin rashes, headaches, and severe chronic fatigue. Visits with doctors and hospital stays had become all too common.
Physicians began to study the group’s symptoms and looked for several possible causes. What was causing all these debilitating symptoms? What added to the mystery were the reported skin rashes followed very quickly by arthritic conditions. Most of the people recalled being bitten by a tick in the region. Residents of Lyme began calling it Lyme disease, but they still didn’t know what caused it.
In 1981, a scientist, Willy Burgdorfer, who was studying Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (also caused by a tick bite) began to study Lyme disease. He found the connection between the deer tick and the disease and gave the bacteria causing the illness a name, Borrelia burgdorferi. Therefore, antibiotic treatment could be used to “eradicate” the disease.
This treatment is currently accepted by the medical profession and has been largely successful, especially for those with early-stage Lyme disease. However, there continues to be heavy debate on the long-term use of antibiotics for Lyme that has progressed or appears resistant to a short course of antibiotics.
In 2012, Lyme disease was included as one of the top ten notifiable diseases by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Lyme disease is one of the fastest-growing infections in the United States. The CDC estimates that there are 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease each year here in the US. While it was primarily an East Coast phenomenon in the beginning, it has since been reported in all states except Hawaii. (Note: I now live in Sarasota, FL and my veterinarian has told me we do not have Lyme disease in Sarasota, YET. This was after I ran to the veterinarian’s after finding a small tick on my dog.)
I recall when the first time I saw a person with Lyme Disease (20 years ago). I was living in Upstate NY and had met her through some friends. She was obviously physically ill, could hardly walk, and just returned from Mexico were she had undergone an experimental treatment for Lyme disease. It was sad to see, shocking really, and she was exhausted and went home as the rest of us escorted her husband to dinner. I wonder if she is still alive as that was the only time I ever saw her, and her condition was terrible.
As the years went on, I would hear of more and more friends and acquaintances having brushes with Lyme disease. Stories of picking nasty ticks off of body parts after hikes in the woods, a dentist hooked up to an IV of antibiotics as he continued to work on patient’s teeth, or a business man who could no longer run his business because of the disease, continued to send terror into our community.
Now it is 2015, and people are afraid to walk in the woods, garden in their yards, or let their kids play soccer in fear they will pick up a deer tick. And pets are not immune. My friend’s dogs have had Lyme disease, however there is now a vaccination for dogs but not available for humans.
Plum Island
Why were we able to play outside as children and never worried about being infected with Lyme disease? Is it the result of a scientific experiment gone haywire? According to the website http://nstarzone.com/LYME.html it was the US government that created Lyme disease. Their conspiracy theory is that a scientist was experimenting by infecting ticks with a deadly disease as part of biological warfare on Plum Island outside of Long Island and only 10 miles from Lyme, Connecticut. Hmmmm
The History of Plum Island CLICK HERE
Some scientists say that Lyme disease has been around for years and it is just taking this long to spread to your particular area. A German physician, Alfred Buchwald, first described the chronic skin rash, or erythema migrans, of what is now known to be Lyme disease more than 130 years ago.
Here are some precautions to take to prevent YOU from being infected with Lyme disease:
- Wear white clothing so you can see the ticks and tuck pants into socks when you go for hikes.
- Stay on sidewalks and roads. Ticks like grassy areas.
- Stand in front of a mirror and examine yourself front and back after being outside doing lawn care or gardening. etc.
- Consider DEET for skin and PERMETHRIN for your clothes. A single application of permethrin to your clothing can provide up to six weeks of protection, even after repeated washings. LEMON EUCALYPTUS OIL is believed to repel ticks and several all-natural organic sprays now exist on the market.
- Check your dogs and cats for ticks when they come into the house.
- You can try making your own tick repellant: (I’m not sure how well it works.)
- 12 drops lemongrass
- 6 drops eucalyptus
- 2 drops citronella
How to remove a tick:
- Use fine-tipped tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin’s surface as possible.
- Pull upward with steady, even pressure. Don’t twist or jerk the tick; this can cause the mouth-parts to break off and remain in the skin. If this happens, remove the mouth-parts with tweezers. If you are unable to remove the mouth easily with clean tweezers, leave it alone and let the skin heal.
- After removing the tick, thoroughly clean the bite area and your hands with rubbing alcohol, an iodine scrub, or soap and water.
- Dispose of a live tick by submersing it in alcohol, placing it in a sealed bag/container, wrapping it tightly in tape, or flushing it down the toilet. Never crush a tick with your fingers.
Symptoms of Lyme disease:
- A flu-like feeling
- Joint aches and pains
- Rash around the site of the tick bite
- Fever
- Sore throat
- A constant headache
- Depression
- Exhaustion
Most people that develop Lyme disease never develop the classic bulls-eyed rash.
Most people with Lyme disease never test positive for Lyme in early blood test.
A small percentage of people are NOT CURED with antibiotics.
It is important to get treatment as soon as possible if you suspect your were bitten by a deer tick. If Lyme disease is not diagnosed and treated early, the Lyme spirochetes can spread and may go into hiding in your body. Weeks, months or even years later you may have problems with your brain and nervous system, muscles and joints, heart and circulation, digestion, reproductive system, and skin. Symptoms may disappear even without treatment and different symptoms may appear at different times.
The most common 
antibiotics prescribed for Lyme Disease is amoxicillin, doxycycline, tetracycline and penicillin. The length of antibiotic treatment varies according to how bad the disease and your symptoms are, but treatment generally lasts less than 4 weeks.
What happens if you do not get better with treatment?
Chronic Lyme disease happens when a person does not seek treatment in time or does not adequately respond to standard antibiotic treatment. Usually your doctor will prescribe more antibiotics or a course of IV antibiotics. Each patient’s case is different.
In the case with the woman I met 20 years ago, she was not responding well with conventional therapy and chose an alternative medical treatment in Mexico. You can Google alternative treatment centers for more info but make sure you do your research before spending your money.
Spring is coming and that means the ticks will come out of hiding. Be careful when you are outside and stay tick-free!
Thanks for reading!
Terry Ryan
Terry Ryan, Blogger
Terry Ryan is a website designer, social media expert and blogger. She lives in Sarasota, FL. http://www.internetboomer.com
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