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Ingredients FROWNIES skin care products will never contain.

These are the top ten ingredients in popular anti-aging and wrinkle reducing products that can potentially cause serious harm to you the consumer. Be sure to check your medicine cabinets, drawers, and bags to see if what you are using to make yourself look better could actually be making you feel worse.
1. Parabens
They are often labeled as methyl, ethyl, propyl or butylparabens.
Studies show they may alter hormone levels and potentially cause cancer, as well as mess with fertility and/or the development of a fetus or young child.

2. Isopropyl Alcohol
It is a poisonous solvent also used in antifreeze and shellac. Studies show it may cause imbalance and actually dehydrate skin cells

3. Mineral Oil
It clogs pores prohibiting the skin from breathing and also from flushing toxins (causing skin irritations like acne and rashes).

4. PEG (polyethylene glycol)
It removes natural protective oils from the skin and puts the immune system at risk. It may also cause cancer with overexposure.

5. Propylene Glycol (PG)
Studies show it can cause brain, kidney, and liver abnormalities. PG is the active ingredient in antifreeze and the EPA requires workers using the substance to wear gloves and avoid contact with the skin.

6. Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) & Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES):
They can cause serious damage to the immune system and major irritation to the skin.

7. DEA (diethanolamine), MEA (monoethanolamine), & TEA (triethanolamine)
Why you should avoid them:
They disrupt hormones and can potentially cause cancer.

8. FD&C Color Pigments
Certain colors can block oxygen absorption into the body. Many are also considered carcinogenic.

9. Artificial Fragrances (essential oils are not artificial fragrances)
Some ingredients in synthetic fragrances can lead to cancer. Many also effect the central nervous system and can lead to depression, hyperactivity, irritability, and behavioral changes.

10. Imidazolidinyl Urea & DMDM Hydation
They release formaldehyde into the body which can cause respiratory issues, heart palpitations, skin irritations, allergies, joint pain, headaches, dizziness, chronic fatigue, coughs, ear infections, and asthma. Formaldehyde is also carcinogenic.

To fully avoid such harmful ingredients, consider purchasing all-natural cosmetics, body care products, and soap, shampoo, and toothpaste.
Unless you are already using natural body care products instead of synthetic ones, beware these toxic ingredients.

Processed foods account for more than 90 percent of the money Americans spend on their meals.
About one-quarter of the calories consumed by the average American is in the form of added sugars – the majority of which comes from high fructose corn syrup.
If you need to lose weight, or if you want to avoid diabetes and heart disease, fructose is one type of sugar you’ll want to avoid, particularly in the form of high-fructose corn syrup.

Part of what makes High Fructose Corn Syrup such a dangerous sweetener is that it is metabolized to fat in your body far more rapidly than any other sugar.

According to Dr. Elizabeth Parks, associate professor of clinical nutrition at UT Southwestern Medical Center and lead author of a study on fructose, published in the Journal of Nutrition just last year:
“Our study shows for the first time the surprising speed with which humans make body fat from fructose. Once you start the process of fat synthesis from fructose, it’s hard to slow it down. The bottom line of this study is that fructose very quickly gets made into fat in your body.”
This occurs because most fats are formed in your liver, and when sugar enters your liver, it decides whether to store it, burn it or turn it into fat. Fructose, however, bypasses this process and simply turns into fat.
There is evidence showing that refined man-made fructose like High Fructose Corn Syrup metabolizes to triglycerides and adipose tissue (fat), not blood glucose. Studies published to date on this topic found that fructose consumption leads to decreased signaling to your central nervous system from the hormones leptin and insulin.
Because insulin and leptin act as key signals in regulating how much food you eat, as well as your body weight, this suggests that dietary fructose may contribute to increased food intake and weight gain.
Decreased insulin and leptin signaling is also a main cause of diabetes and a host of other obesity-related conditions.
What is the bottom line here? For proper body weight avoid High Fructose Corn Syrup at all cost. Treat it like poison. To preserve your health you also need to focus your diet. If you do purchase packaged foods, become an avid label reader and avoid foods that contain corn syrup as a main ingredient.

A brisk 30 minute walk, 6 days a week is enough to trim waistlines and cut the risk of metabolic syndrome – an increasingly common condition that is linked to obesity and a sedentary lifestyle, a new study indicates. “Our study shows that you’ll benefit even if you don’t make any dietary changes,” study leader Johanna Johnson, a clinical researcher at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, said in a statement.

It is estimated that about one quarter of all U.S. adults have metabolic syndrome – a cluster of risk factors that raise the odds of developing heart disease, diabetes and stroke. To be diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, a person must have at least three of these five risk factors – a large waistline, high blood pressure, high levels of harmful triglycerides, low levels of “good” HDL cholesterol, and high blood sugar. According to many studies, a growing number of people have these problems.

The new findings stem from the STRRIDE study – an acronym for Studies of a Targeted Risk Reduction Intervention through Defined Exercise – in which investigators examined the effects of varying amounts of intensity of exercise on 171 middle-aged, overweight men and women. Before exercising regularly, 41 percent of the study subjects met the criteria for metabolic syndrome. At the end of the 8 month exercise program, only 27 percent did.

“That’s a significant decline in prevalence,” said Johnson. “It’s also encouraging news for sedentary, middle-aged adults who want to improve their health. It means they don’t have to go out running 4 or 5 days a week; they can get significant health benefits by simply walking around the neighborhood after dinner every night. The results of the STRRIDE study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, appear in the American Journal of Cardiology this month.

People in the study who exercised the least – walking 30 minutes 6 days a week or the equivalent of about 11 miles per week – gained significant benefit, while those who exercised the most, jogging about 17 miles per week, gained slightly more benefit in terms of lowered metabolic syndrome scores.

People who did a short period of very vigorous exercise didn’t improve their metabolic syndrome scores as much as those who performed less intensive exercise for a longer period, the researchers found. This suggests, they say, that there’s more value in doing moderate intensity exercise every day rather than more intense activity just a few days a week.

All of the exercisers lost inches around their waistline over the 8 month study period, whereas the inactive control group gained an average of about one pound and a half-inch around the waist. “That may not sound like much, but that’s just 8 months. Over a decade, that’s an additional 20 pounds and 10 inches at the belt line,” noted Duke Cardiologist Dr. William E. Kraus, the study’s principal investigator.

“The results of our study,” he added, underscore what we have known for a long time. Some exercise is better than none, more exercise is generally better than less, and no exercise can be disastrous.”