Beat Cellulite - Lite Up Your Cells / # 81, June 20, 2007

Home Spa Lady's
Tips of the Week
Issue # 82 - June 20, 2007
Publisher: Marilee Tolen RN
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In This Issue
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1. Beat Cell-u-lite: "Light Up Your Cells"

2. Water or Coke?

3. Essential Oil Tip: Cel-Lite Magic

4. Success Tip: Billie Holiday

5. Recipe of the Week: Daikon in Your Salad

6. HSL's Joke or Cute Quote of the Week


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1. Beat Cell-u-lite: "Light Up Your Cells"
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Cellulite: the age old beauty challenge.

Especially in the warmer weather when we show more of our flesh.
We would like not to show any cottage-cheesy appearances
of our body but it somehow seems to come with womanhood,
especially in those 'approaching menopause years".

Must we give in to this female issue? Are we really that
powerless in our fight to be tight?

No. No.

Here are a few tips we can do for ourselves short of having lipo:

1. Light up our cells.

This might sound like a "new-agey" type of tip, but its really
not. "Light" is important for every cell in the body. Light in
this context is about vibration as opposed to visual light
(although that is vibrational too).

Increasing vibration to a hardened fat cell that has become
joined with others like itself can be very effective in
transforming cellulite into healthier, prettier cells.

Examples of ways to increase vibration to areas of cellulite are
energy-based techniques (which you can do for yourself if
you have been trained - or even if you are just inspired and
intuitive) such as:

--Reiki
--Healing Touch
--Acupressure
--Acupuncture
--Light Therapy (with colored filters/lens)
--High Frequency Essential Oils

These techniques are examples of ways to bring more "vital force,
vitality, chi, energy, consciousness" to the stagnant areas in
the body.

2. Massage

Massage is one of the top techniques to use on areas of
cellulite. It too brings more vitality and light to the area.
The physical movements used in massage also help to:

--promote lymphatic circulation which takes the toxins out of the
area
--brings in more of a blood supply which carries oxygen to the
area
--break the encapsulated hardened fat cell that makes up
cellulite

We can massage ourselves at home on a daily basis when we
are in the bath or shower in the cellulite prone areas, but its
always so much nicer to have a massage therapist work on us!

3. Exercise

This can't be stressed enough.

Whatever we can do to move our lymph system, we should, and
exercise is the best. The lymph vessels are responsible for
carrying out many of the toxins. Some toxins don't leave our
bodies that easily and like to snuggle together and harden in fat
cells, these areas become cellulite.

There is nothing better than exercise to promote lymph movement.
Twenty minutes of aerobic movement three times a week.

By the way, moving our body is the ONLY thing that moves lymph
(along with some good deep breathing).

Our lymph system, which is a circulatory system, doesn't have a
pump like the blood circulatory system has a heart. So lymph
becomes stagnant if we don't move our bodies.

4. Body Scrubs

Whether its dry brushing the skin or doing a salt scrub in your
shower, its important to remove the dead cells off of the top
layer of the skin.

The skin is an eliminatory organ, and helping to eliminate toxins
through the skin helps to prevent buildup of them in other parts
of the body.

As we scrub the top layer of the skin to remove dead cells, we
are also promoting blood supply to the area (which brings with it
nutrients and oxygen) and we are promoting lymph circulation.

5. Eat Veggies and Fruits

It's the nutrients, the enzymes, the fiber, and water in these
types of food. This type of food loves to nourish us, hydrate
us, and move right on out of us grabbing the toxins with its
fiber.

6. Proper Elimination

This is critical. If waste doesn't leave our bodies properly the
toxins stay in us and hang out in our cells.

7. Drink Water

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Water helps to move our toxins out. It
also helps to moisten our skin so it is smoother and improves our
overall appearance.


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2. Water or Coke?
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Speaking of water (see last article) here is a great comparison
between two popular beverages - water and coke.

So it shouldn't be a question ever in your mind which to drink.


Reasons to drink WATER

--75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.
(Likely applies to half the world population.)


--In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak
that it is mistaken for hunger.


--Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as
3%.


--One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs
for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of
Washington study.


--Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.


--Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of
water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain
for up to 80% of sufferers.


--A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term
memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on
the computer screen or on a printed page.


--Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of
colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast
cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop
bladder cancer.

Are you drinking the amount of water
you should drink every day?



Reasons to reconsider drinking COKE

--In many states the highway patrol carries
two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from
the highway after a car accident.


--You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke
and it will be gone in two days.

--To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the
toilet bowl and let the 'real thing' sit for one hour, then flush
clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous
china.


--To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper
with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in
Coca-Cola.


--To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour
a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the
corrosion.


--To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola
to the rusted bolt for several minutes.


--To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into
the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake.
Thirty minutes before ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing
the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.


--To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke
into the load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run
through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen
grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your
windshield.


Points of Interest:

--The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid.
It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric
acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major
contributor to the rising increase of osteoporosis.

--To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the
commercial trucks must use a "Hazardous Material" place
card reserved for highly corrosive materials.

--The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean
engines of the trucks for about 20 years!



Thanks to Home Spa Lady reader Jan H. for forwarding this!



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3. Essential Oil Tip: Cel-Lite Magic
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Cel-Lite Magic is a Massage Oil from Young Living that has
therapeutic-grade essential oils in a combination of specially
selected vegetable oils with vitamin E. This combination is very
powerful to help tone and nourish skin.

The essential oils in this blend are:

--Grapefruit for improving skin texture

--Juniper to work as a detoxifier and cleanser

Great for cellulite ! (massage on affected areas)


Order your essential oils from your Young Living
distributor or by going to http://tinyurl.com/aenfp


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5. Success Tip: Billie Holiday
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"Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose"

--Billie Holiday

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6.Recipe of the Week: Daikon in Your Salad
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Daikon fights f.a.t in the body.

Daikon is a Japanese white radish.

Did you ever eat at a Japanese restaurant and see the almost
tasteless white shavings of unknown origin served with shavings
of a carrot? That's daikon, a white radish.

It's served in Japanese restaurants to help balance out and
breakdown the fat of the fried tempura.

You can buy this in the regular produce section - it looks like a
really big white carrot.

Adding it as another veggie in your salad is a great way to eat
daikon.

A good way to do this is to julienne the strips of daikon and
soak in water for about 30 minutes to get rid of bitterness. Then
add to your salad.


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7. HSL's Joke or Cute Quote of the Week
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"I was thrown out of NYU. On my metaphysics final, they caught me
cheating. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to
me." --Woody Allen


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