Do you know that this long green summer fruit is not only a must for you 
salads, but a natural nourishing agent for your skin, too? You must have seen thousands of skin products ranging from face wash to scrubs and masks featuring cucumber as the main ingredient. Having a salad with cucumber is a healthy as well as delicious experience. Applying it superficially is another experience; a COOL one. Cucumber has an amazing cooling effect on the skin.
The results of another study have shown that the so-called fighting powers of different vitamins (like E, C and 
beta-carotene) prove ineffective to avoid cancer in women when used in supplement forms.
The surprising thing about the study is that is declares ineffective even to beta carotene which is a much hyped vitamin supplement to avoid cancer.
Jennifer Lin, who led the study, says in this connection: “Just taking vitamins supplements is not enough to hamper the growth of cancer.”
But consuming a good amount of different vegetables and fruit is not a bad idea in this regard, says Lin.
During the past some years, several studies have shown that different vitamins supplements like C, D, E, provide no help to avoid cancer whether they are taken alone or in combinations. The new findings oppose other studies which have suggested that vitamin supplements help to avoid cancer because of their antioxidants effect.
In today’s hectic lifestyle, almost everyone has to be the victim of stress once in a while and the sad fact is that there isn’t any surest way to avoid stress, but still some treatments and natural cures can help you a lot to manage and cure stress effectively.
Stress nags different people in different ways. It makes them feel overloaded or sleepless. When people don’t have proper sleep, their immune system gets weak and they become easy victims of many other diseases. That’s why one needs to control stressful conditions in a proper way. Your mind and body can deal with depression and stress only if they are strong enough and the thing that makes your mind and body strong is proper diet with all essential nutrients and vitamins. So, proper and balance diet is a first step to deal with stress in a right way.
Many people believe that smoking and drinking can help them to get rid of stress, but in fact, they prove quite harmful in stress as they take away some important nutrients from your body.
If you feel some signs of stress, you can use lemon balm as a natural cure to deal with stress. It has a soothing effect on nervous system and reduces stress levels instantly.
Soon after the two studies that discounted the helpfulness of vitamin B, folic acid, vitamin D and calcium supplements for cancer prevention, now U.S researchers report that even vitamin C and E supplements are not helpful to avoid cancer.
The same researchers have recently reported that vitamin C and E supplements are not beneficial to prevent even heart disease.
Dr. Howard Sesso (one of the study’s authors), who is an assistant professor of medicine in the division of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, says: “We find no compelling evidence to take vitamin E or C at least in the context of two very common outcomes i.e. cardioprotection and chemoprevention.”
As people grew older, they become anxious about looking older. The beauty industry has begun to increase their range of anti-aging products which include wrinkle cream and filler, and now anti-aging serum. Though the prime customers for anti-wrinkle products were women but men are also becoming keener in preventing wrinkles. Some anti-aging serums and other anti-aging products are also available in market especially for men.
The purpose of anti-aging serum is to provide some special ingredients to the skin tissues. Normally they are less viscous than creams, but not entirely liquid and having higher prices than creams.
Most common ingredients of anti-aging serums are retinol, vitamin C, peptides and antioxidants, all of them are used to reduce wrinkles. The accurate wrinkle-fighting action of any ingredients in an anti-aging serum varies and all of them have not been clinically proven. So far, some active ingredients, such as vitamin C and retinol have shown boost in collagen production, which decreases the wrinkles.
