Are your laugh lines looking more like crow’s feet, lately? Have you noticed a few liver spots on your hands? Or do you just want to keep Father Time at bay a little longer? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions or are just concerned with aging you might find that adding apricots to your menu might be just what the doctor ordered.
Apricots have some of the highest level and greatest variety of carotenoids of any food at that you will find at the grocery store. Carotenoids are antioxidants that help your body prevent heart disease, cut down on “bad cholesterols”, and in some cases they can help to prevent cancer. Eastern medicines has also turned to apricots to restore body fluids, help detox and clines your system of impurities, and even help satisfy thirst when water is otherwise unavailable.
The kernels or seeds in Apricots also have been found to have characteristics that are helpful to a healthy system. It has been noticed that they are useful in alleviating a nagging cough and toning the respiratory system. However, moderation is key when snacking on these seeds. The seeds have very high levels of the concentrated chemical, laetrile. Too much laetrile can be very upsetting to your digestive and urinary system(s). To avoid the negative effects of laetrile while reaping the benefits of the seeds, fully remove the tips of each seed and don’t eat more than five seeds a day.
Apricots are easy to work into your daily dietary routine. You can by them fresh at the produce department of your local store. Dried apricots are also very handy; you can keep them in your desk at work, in your gym bag or in your car. Like raisin’s, dried apricots are also very complimentary to cereal and ice cream. Finally, you might want to switch from strawberry preserves or grape jelly to apricot preserves. They can be found in the jam/jellies section of your local grocery store.
Apricots, aren’t a miracle cure all but when added to a healthy daily diet, they can help you live a long, healthy, happy life.
Keeping your skin healthy in the winter is not too much different than keeping it healthy other times, it just requires more of certain things in order to help adapt to the changing weather conditions. Winter tends to bring with it low humidity which has the action of drying out your skin. During these conditions you will want to have a more aggressive moisturizing regimen. Take a hot bath to open up your pores, dry off by patting your skin and before you are totally dry, apply your moisturizer of choice, this will help lock in moisture. 
When shopping for skin cream, it is important to know exactly what you are looking for, don’t take a sales person’s advice, their job is to sell you something that is on their shelves, their responsibility ends at that point. In order for your skin to fight off cell damage, you will need to supply it with antioxidants. You can do that through the food you eat, the supplements you take and through the cream you put on.
Your skin is the largest organ of your body, the question is, why do we treat it so badly at times. We expose it to harsh conditions without protecting it. We don’t take the time to exfoliate it so new cells can come forward and we don’t nourish it properly, yet we expect it to be healthy, soft, clear and without issues. It’s easy to rub lotions and potions on our skin to make it appear softer and younger but why not nourish it from the inside.
New skin care products are constantly showing up on the market touting all sorts of different qualities and benefits. This makes deciding on what skin care product to use a very difficult and mind boggling one. 
There are many ingredients that can be found in a multitude of skin care creams however there are five that should be present no matter what the other ingredients are. Vitamin C is currently one of the most powerful anti-aging substances available on the market. It is proven to protect the collagen within skin and keep free radicals from producing aging signs. 
The acai berry is becoming more and more common, especially in anti-aging products. It’s available in such things as frozen pulp, juice, powders and many other capacities. This berry from a species of Amazonian Palm is being considered as a miracle, a wonder in the health field. 
Slowing down the aging process is not something that you have to wait until you are elderly to implement, nor is it something that has to be necessarily treated with drug or surgery. Following these ten tips to halting aging in its tracks and slowing it to a crawl is something that you can do sooner rather than later.
Most people do not realize that the loss of lean muscle mass later on in life is NOT an unavoidable effect of aging, but usually comes from simple inactivity. Most people become less physically active after the age of 30, which coincides with an increase in muscle loss. Much like the loss of sight or hearing, many accept this as a normal and unstoppable consequence of getting older even though it is not. To reduce this trend, maintain a normal level of health consciousness, with exercise and a healthy diet being the central focus.
Liver spots are a build up of the chemical melanin in the skin, resulting in a brownish or black blemish on the skin and usually afflicting people over the age of 40 with a history of prolonged exposure to the sun. Although called liver spots, this condition is a skin occurrence that has absolutely nothing to to with the liver. The main cause for liver spots is a gradual and continuous exposure to UV rays, which leads the body to react with overproduction of the main skin pigmentation causing chemical melanin. It may take years for these spots to begin appearing on the skin, and although a long lived condition in the making, removal and reduction of the effects of liver spots, though not immediate, need not take the same amount of time to treat. If you are afflicted with liver spots, there are several treatments that are popular, with the most effective being the four mentioned here:
