Youthful At Any Age from Mary Jane Popp

From the files of Mary Jane Popp at Poppoff.com, KAHI Radio in Sacramento, California

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Want to look years younger…like who doesn’t? Remember, your skin will be the first to give away your deep, dark secrets. Your skin will let the world know if you have been under great pressure or stress or if you have not been sleeping well because of worries.

But we don’t want to involve needles or even surgery. Holistic health and natural beauty educator, Dr. Susan Smith-Jones shared some of her secrets with me on POPPOFF.

She has six key ingredients for radiant skin. Dr. Smith has authored some 27 books including her new trio of 2016 full-color books…”Healthy, Happy and Radiant…at Any Age” “The Curative Kitchen and Lifestyle” and “Living on the Lighter Side.”

1) PROTECT FROM TOO MUCH SUN. Without sun, there is not life. Too much sun and skin is lifeless. Everything in moderation. Over exposure can break down the collagen and elastin components of the skin, causing loss of moisture, flexibility and tautness. Be wise with your sun-time.

2) EAT SKIN-ENHANCING FOODS. The diet that promotes healthy skin incorporates lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. High in water content, they keep your body hydrated. For the richest foods in water content, look in the produce isles of your grocery store. Don’t skimp on leafy greens. Stay away from too much of fatty foods, sugar, sodas, caffeine, junk foods, dairy products, and too many animal products.

3) SUPPLEMENT WITH NATURE’S PREMIER SKIN REJUVENATORS. These are her favorites. Hawaiian Astaxanthin increases collagen and elastin and improves skin moisture in six weeks. Hawaiian Spirulina is a microalgae that supplies nutrients that are lacking in most diets. Within a couple days, you will feel a difference.

4) KEEP YOUR BODY HYDRATED. Make sure you drink plenty of purified water every day…at least 6-8 large glasses…in between meals. Water moisturizes your skin from the inside out and helps eliminate toxins through the skin. Lack of moisture creates wrinkles just like plums create prunes and grapes create raisins.

5) EXERCISE YOUR WAY TO RADIANCE. Exercise is also a natural and effective way to increase the health of your skin by increasing circulation, eliminating toxins through the skin, and giving the skin that healthy glow. After aerobic exercise, such as brisk walking, jogging, cycling, swimming, or aerobic classes, the skin takes on a beautiful natural glow that no makeup artist could duplicate.

6) CATCH MORE ZZZZs. Getting adequate rest and sleep is essential for cultivating and maintaining beautiful youthful skin. Sleep is when most of the body’s repair work and maintenance are completed. In fact, there’s nothing more restorative for our bodies than getting ample sleep, night after night. Research suggests that even one or two nights of sufficient sleep (experts recommend 8 hours) can lower cortisol levels more than a number of other stress-management techniques combined. Remember that too much unmanaged stress negatively affects the quality of our skin. 

Want some other tips for making beautiful skin including natural face masks that you can make in your own kitchen?

Visit www.susansmithjones.com. Looking good and staying that way at every age!
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Life without libraries - unimaginably poorer

From the files of Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe

Exterior of the Kansas City Public Library, in downtown Kansas City, Missouri

I was A four-year-old in kindergarten the first time I remember reading in a library. The book was Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman, and I'm not sure which I found more captivating — the adventure of the hatchling that sets off to find its mother, or my own adventure of picking out a book from what seemed an endless array of enticing titles.

I was hooked early, on books and libraries both. To this day I can visualize precisely the shelves in the fiction section of my school's library, where I first discovered many of my favorite children's novels: The Twenty-One Balloons, Harriet the Spy, A Wrinkle in Time.

But the small library in my Cleveland-area day school was merely a gateway drug to the local public library a mile from my home. I spent innumerable hours there as a boy, addicted as much to the serendipitous pleasures of searching for a good book as to the satisfying relish of losing myself in its pages once I found one. My parents, raising five kids on a meager income, had little money to spare for buying books. But my library card was free, and I made heavy use of it.

The University Heights Library was my home away from home. Nothing was off-limits to a curious reader. From the Edward Eager magic books that fascinated me when I was little to Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask, which held a different fascination as I grew older, it was all available. All I had to do was choose.

I can't imagine life without libraries. And by "libraries" I mean actual books — ink on paper — to be borrowed and shared and read. I don't mean bookless digital-content centers like San Antonio's $2.3 million BiblioTech, an all-electronic reading venue that looks, in Time magazine's description "like an orange-hued Apple store" outfitted with 500 e-readers, 48 computers, and 20 iPads and laptops. I would never discourage reading in any format, but rows of iMacs do not a library make. The ability to browse goes to the essence of the library experience, along with the egalitarian access that puts books in plain sight of all comers.

Happily, that experience is alive and well. As British journalist Alex Johnson documents in a wonderful new volume, Improbable Libraries, even in the digital age readers yearn for printed books, and librarians go to amazing and creative lengths to supply them.

Johnson highlights libraries that have opened in airports, train stations, and hotels, the better to serve readers on the move in this hypermobile era. In Santiago, Chile, there are lending libraries in the subways: The Bibliometro system lends 440,000 books a year from 20 underground stations, and has effectively become the largest public library in the country. A global "tiny library" movement has blossomed in the form of honor-system book nooks on street corners, at bus stops, and even in front yards of private homes. In Great Britain, hundreds of iconic red telephone boxes, no longer needed, have been repurposed into mini-lending libraries.

Smartphones and tablets have grown ubiquitous, but reading on screens is not the same — and for many people, not nearly as satisfying — as reading in print. Clicking links on an electronic device is efficient, but it can't replace the tactile engagement of wandering the stacks, pulling a book from the shelf, reading the dust jacket, flipping through its pages.

Argentine artist Raul Lemesoff transformed a 1979 Ford Falcon into a "Weapon of Mass
Instruction," a mobile lending library that resembles a tank, but is armored with books
that he distributes to readers in Buenos Aires.

"A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of life," wrote Henry Ward Beecher. The hunger for books knows no boundary. In Laos, the Big Brother Mouse project uses elephants to carry books to remote villages for children to borrow and exchange. The Mongolian Children's Mobile Library, using camels, does the same thing in the Gobi desert. So does Luis Soriano's Biblioburro library in rural Colombia —with donkeys.

Life without books and libraries in which to discover them would be unimaginably poorer. Improbable Libraries makes that point beautifully. Then again, if you're anything like me, you've known it since you were four.

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