If you have a trip to the tropics like Miami Fl ,Heres My Pick of Fabulous dresses for you from SAKS FIFTH AVENUE.They are all from the SALE Rack---- CLICK HERE
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Fashion Trends 2010: Clutches
I read in other blogs the fashion trends for 2010 is going to be the Clutches. Great! I think Clutches has been always in fashion , but it depends on the type of person you are. "Who you are , and where are you going "type. Couple years back i used to sell handbags and I have sweet tooth for everything that smell like a leather.
Here is an Affordable ones
Alfani Handbag, Genova Cut Out Handle Clutch -Macy's
Orig. $68.00
Was $51.00
Now $37.99
Nedim Clutch $65.00 -NOW $39.99 at Ninewest.com
other amazing clutches
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Turquoise jewellery is always in!
Turquoise Jewelry is considered to be a sacred stone among ancient people such as the Mayans, Incas, and Egyptians. It is believed to bring good luck to anyone who wears it. It is also called the "sky stone" by native Americans because of it's beautiful colors. Turquoise unlike other gemstones is not expensive and in fact, very affordable for anyone. It is also the birthstone for Octoberians
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I am a big fan of the turquoise stone, Its one of my favorites from my jewellery collection. When i wear it, it Always makes me feel exotic.
From my collection , Email me if interested to.email.victoria@gmail.com
Celebs who love Turquoise Jewellery
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I am a big fan of the turquoise stone, Its one of my favorites from my jewellery collection. When i wear it, it Always makes me feel exotic.
From my collection , Email me if interested to.email.victoria@gmail.com
Celebs who love Turquoise Jewellery
My Amazing Eternal Rose Set
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Its all yours, One of a kind and only one of each..no repeats!!
Email me if you want to buy it to.email.victoria@gmail.com
My Home Nail Theraphy today
1.Davies Gate Warming Sea Salt Scrub from Bath and Body works
2.Burt Bees Almond Milk Beeswax Hand Creme
2.Burt Bees Almond Milk Beeswax Hand Creme
4.Barielle Nail Rebuilding Protein -They used to sell it at the Bath and Body Works
5.Nail Polish
6.True Blue spa-Shea Cashmere Hand Creme from Bath and Body works
5.Nail Polish
6.True Blue spa-Shea Cashmere Hand Creme from Bath and Body works
Monday, September 28, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
http://www.evite.com/
Hey Readers,I found this very nice web site called eVite. This web site is so amazing, i use it for my Cocktail sale parties, for Birthdays, they give you a party guides, checklist,drink calculator,and the list goes on .It allows you to even send invitations via SMS.Pretty cool eh?
give it a check http://www.evite.com/
give it a check http://www.evite.com/
SAMSARA BRACELET FROM MY COLLECTION
If you like this one of a kind hand made bracelet , you can buy it! email me at to.email.victoria@gmail.com for details.
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Create a Functional Closet
How many times have you looked into your closet and thought, “I have nothing to wear” If you hear yourself uttering this statement more often than not, you have a dysfunctional closet. It is probably missing several key pieces that allow you to easily transition from one outfit to the next. It’s time to stop the insanity and get a functional closet.
The Perfect Ten, ten classic pieces that should be in every woman’s wardrobe, is the best remedy to a dysfunctional closet. It’s truly amazing the number of outfits that can be made when these ten items rest in your wardrobe: at least 32 different combinations. Along with your signature item, the majority of your shopping dollars should be spent on classic, well made versions of these items that fit your personal style.
The Ten Things Needed for a Functional Closet
Black Suit—Purchase at least one basic two- to three-button black jacket with either matching black skirt or black pants. Make sure it’s made of a lightweight, seasonless material like gabardine or rayon and contains a small amount (no more than 5%) of spandex/lycra to ensure a quality fit.
White Dress Shirt - -This is an important closet staple and can be both trendy (wear underneath your favorite t-shirt) and classic (wear with a business suit). Head to stores like the Gap for high quality, basic cotton shirts well under $50.
Plain Black Pumps—Make sure your closet has at least one pair of 1- to 2-inch plain black pumps that takes you from the office to dinner. Use shoe jewelry from stores like Torrid to change the appearance of your shoes without breaking the bank.
A Pair of Great Fitting Jeans—Every closet must have at least one pair of great fitting jeans. Two are even better. Discount leader Target.com offers a custom jean service.
Black Dress—A closet staple, the “little black dress” should be made of a sturdy but lightweight fabric like a cotton/rayon blend. Avoid heavy wool fabrics that counteract the slimming effects of the color and limit wear during the warmer seasons.
Three Spandex T-shirts—Purchase three cotton/spandex shirts in the following colors: black, white, and another, brighter color (that suits you well). These shirts help stretch your closet and are perfect for layering as well as wearing alone. The Perfect Fit stretch t-shirts are the best.
Tote Bag—One of these bags serves double duty as a briefcase during the week and a shopping bag on the weekend.
Sneakers—You’ll need one pair of sneakers that can be worn both for workouts and casual activities like shopping.
Trench Coat/All-Weather Coat—A classic trench coat can be worn as an all-weather coat and a dress (make sure the buttons of the coat extend to at least 3 inches above your knee). Look for coats with a removable lining to increase usage.
Khakis/Chinos/Brown Pants—A weekend staple, chino-style pants add diversity to your outfits.
The Perfect Ten, ten classic pieces that should be in every woman’s wardrobe, is the best remedy to a dysfunctional closet. It’s truly amazing the number of outfits that can be made when these ten items rest in your wardrobe: at least 32 different combinations. Along with your signature item, the majority of your shopping dollars should be spent on classic, well made versions of these items that fit your personal style.
The Ten Things Needed for a Functional Closet
Black Suit—Purchase at least one basic two- to three-button black jacket with either matching black skirt or black pants. Make sure it’s made of a lightweight, seasonless material like gabardine or rayon and contains a small amount (no more than 5%) of spandex/lycra to ensure a quality fit.
White Dress Shirt - -This is an important closet staple and can be both trendy (wear underneath your favorite t-shirt) and classic (wear with a business suit). Head to stores like the Gap for high quality, basic cotton shirts well under $50.
Plain Black Pumps—Make sure your closet has at least one pair of 1- to 2-inch plain black pumps that takes you from the office to dinner. Use shoe jewelry from stores like Torrid to change the appearance of your shoes without breaking the bank.
A Pair of Great Fitting Jeans—Every closet must have at least one pair of great fitting jeans. Two are even better. Discount leader Target.com offers a custom jean service.
Black Dress—A closet staple, the “little black dress” should be made of a sturdy but lightweight fabric like a cotton/rayon blend. Avoid heavy wool fabrics that counteract the slimming effects of the color and limit wear during the warmer seasons.
Three Spandex T-shirts—Purchase three cotton/spandex shirts in the following colors: black, white, and another, brighter color (that suits you well). These shirts help stretch your closet and are perfect for layering as well as wearing alone. The Perfect Fit stretch t-shirts are the best.
Tote Bag—One of these bags serves double duty as a briefcase during the week and a shopping bag on the weekend.
Sneakers—You’ll need one pair of sneakers that can be worn both for workouts and casual activities like shopping.
Trench Coat/All-Weather Coat—A classic trench coat can be worn as an all-weather coat and a dress (make sure the buttons of the coat extend to at least 3 inches above your knee). Look for coats with a removable lining to increase usage.
Khakis/Chinos/Brown Pants—A weekend staple, chino-style pants add diversity to your outfits.
What is mercury poisoning?
Actor Jeremy Piven, best known as loudmouth talent agent Ari Gold on HBO's Entourage, has made an early exit from the Broadway play Speed the Plow, blaming a mercury-rich sushi diet and possibly use of herbal medicine. His doctor says tests revealed Piven has mercury levels five to six times higher than normal, and has ordered a fish-free diet and rest.
“I talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury,” playwright David Mamet told Variety. “So my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer.”
Piven's doctor, Carlon Colker, told the showbiz publication that “insensitive comments like that are not only unkind and unfair, they reflect a profound lack of understanding of a problem that can actually kill.”
“The etiology is unclear, but his level of mercury was uncharacteristically high, one of the highest we’ve seen,” Colker, an internist at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut, told Variety. “We’re not sure if this is from his diet, which is high in fish, or Chinese herbs, which he’s been a fan of in the past, or a combination of both. He needs convalescence and rest and treatment, and this will clear his body and he will be back in action very soon."
Colker told the Wall Street Journal Health Blog that Piven's treatment would include dietary restrictions, nutritional supplements and antioxidants.
We asked Jay Schauben, director of the Florida/U.S. Virgin Islands Poison Information Center-Jacksonville, to explain mercury poisoning. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.
So, what's mercury?
There are three kinds of mercury. Depending on what the exposure is, you could have different symptoms and disease states.
Elemental, or metal mercury, is found in thermometers. The problem with that is the inhalation of fumes that come off that mercury. Playing with it and ingesting it is not as toxic. That kind of mercury causes significant amounts of neurological damage. As the exposure gets longer, there may be additional changes in the bone marrow that affect the ability to produce blood cells, infertility and problems with heart rhythm.
Mercury salts, which are basically industrial, if you breathe in or ingest them, gravitate more toward the kidney and not so much the nervous system.
The organic mercury is what gets into the food chain. It's put into the water by chemical plants that are manufacturing things and they get into shellfish and fish, or elemental mercury that gets into the water is changed into organic mercury by sea life; we eat fish or shellfish and we get mercury exposure. That organic mercury acts very similarly to the elemental form. It affects a lot of nervous system damage. If a woman is pregnant, this can also cause birth defects and loss of the fetus if the levels get high enough.
Is mercury something we need in our diets, or is no amount nutritionally safe or necessary?
No level is normal. Zero is normal. It doesn’t have a specific reason to be in our body. As long as we live on this Earth, because it's in Earth's crust and in the atmosphere, we're going to be exposed. But there is no specific function for that metal in our body.
The issue is one of looking at the total body burden: How much mercury is in the body and what's known to be a normal background? Theoretically, there's going to be a baseline level, a general population average, but depending on where you live, that level may be higher or lower. If you live near a coast, you're more up to eating seafood. Or you may be in an industrial area where mercury is put into the water or the air.
What's the difference between having mercury exposure and mercury poisoning?
A lot of this has to do with numbers versus symptoms. Just because you're exposed to a toxin doesn’t mean you get poisoned. You can build up a blood or tissue level but not yet manifest symptoms related to poisoning. Call it a threshold.
A person with no symptoms, no changes physically or chemically, we just say they've been exposed and have a high mercury level. It doesn’t become poisoning under the true definition unless someone has had physical or chemical changes in his or her body. It's a very fine distinction, but one person is symptomatic and the other asymptomatic. The person who is symptomatic is poisoned. The one who is asymptomatic has a high blood level consistent with exposure.
That doesn’t mean it's safe to have levels without symptoms. Over time, even if you're exposed at low levels, the symptoms may not manifest until weeks or months later.
A person can find out if they had a higher-than-normal exposure — the urinary level is the most specific way. Blood levels can also be used, and we plot those against your geographic area.
What are the symptoms of mercury poisoning?
Symptoms can occur in many ways. Unfortunately in mercury, symptoms can look like many disease states. When levels are building up, there could be a variety of symptoms that a physician may interpret as another illness. Only when the physician can't find a real cause or gets a toxicologist involved will they do blood tests and say, "Yes, this is probably due to mercury exposure."
It's a difficult diagnosis. You have to know by history that a person has been exposed to this and put two and two together. No specific set of symptoms will say, "Ah, this is mercury poisoning."
If it's mercuric salts the person has been poisoned by, it may just be a problem with the kidneys, issues with the ability to urinate, or they're feeling out of whack because of renal dysfunction.
If someone is inhaling fumes from elemental mercury, that can show up as an upper respiratory illness, like a flu, at first. They might find they can't concentrate well, have trouble with fine motor control or their perception of smell, eyes or touch. If it was affecting their heart, it could be palpitations or just in general not feeling well. If something is not going well with their blood cells forming, they may have issues similar to anemia, feeling very tired, easy bleeding or bruising.
With organic mercury exposure, the symptoms are pretty much the same, but probably not respiratory. The nervous system effects are what someone would see first.
How would mercury toxicity or poisoning be treated, and how long would it take for someone to get well?
What is used, when, and how is decided by a doctor on case-by-case basis in consultation with a toxicologist. If you do have high levels, the first thing to do is stop the exposure.
Chelating agents make metals more water-soluble so they can be excreted by the kidneys. That works fairly well for inorganic salt forms of mercury poisoning but not so much for neurologic forms from the elemental.
There are old World War II antidotes, actually: Injectables are used when we have high levels and only when we don’t have the organic form of mercury poisoning; it's the elemental and inorganic poisonings that we use them in. British anti-Lewisite (BAL), or dimercaprol, is one of these agents: it's an antidote the British developed against lewisite gas, and it's a potent chelator used against mercury, arsenic and lead.
If it's eating too much fish, we stop them from eating the fish and get the levels to come down naturally. Otherwise, there's nothing we can do.
How long treatment takes has to do how high the level is and how chronic the exposure is. If it's somewhat low levels, chelating might happen relatively quickly. If it's exposure for many years, it may take longer for those levels to come out.
Can you recover from mercury poisoning?
Yes and no. If the symptoms just started and you haven’t been exposed for years and years, it's very possible that those symptoms will dissipate. If it's occupational — you've been exposed to this for many, many years and you've physically damaged the nervous system — that may or may not reverse. It may if the nervous system can repair itself. If not, you may end up with a residual or permanent problem.
Is it plausible to get mercury poisoning from eating sushi or other fish?
There are certain types of fish that can accumulate higher levels of mercury than others. If you exist on a diet of that fish, you can mount some very high levels.
Tuna, depending on the type, may be higher in mercury content. It doesn’t matter how you cook it; whether raw or by cooking, it's [the levels] going to be similar.
[Shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish may have high levels of mercury, according to a 2004 advisory from the FDA and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The FDA is considering relaxing its recommendations about how much fish is safe for pregnant women to eat.]
Are there herbs that could cause elevated mercury levels?
Yes. Herbal medicines made outside the country can potentially contain toxic quantities; it depends where they're coming from and how they're being made. These products aren’t controlled by the FDA and don’t need to adhere to any general standard of purity or potency so you end up with voluntary adherence to what the company says is in the bottle. You're always at risk when taking significant amounts of herbal products or remedies that have decent levels of this and other agents.
“I talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury,” playwright David Mamet told Variety. “So my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer.”
Piven's doctor, Carlon Colker, told the showbiz publication that “insensitive comments like that are not only unkind and unfair, they reflect a profound lack of understanding of a problem that can actually kill.”
“The etiology is unclear, but his level of mercury was uncharacteristically high, one of the highest we’ve seen,” Colker, an internist at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut, told Variety. “We’re not sure if this is from his diet, which is high in fish, or Chinese herbs, which he’s been a fan of in the past, or a combination of both. He needs convalescence and rest and treatment, and this will clear his body and he will be back in action very soon."
Colker told the Wall Street Journal Health Blog that Piven's treatment would include dietary restrictions, nutritional supplements and antioxidants.
We asked Jay Schauben, director of the Florida/U.S. Virgin Islands Poison Information Center-Jacksonville, to explain mercury poisoning. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.
So, what's mercury?
There are three kinds of mercury. Depending on what the exposure is, you could have different symptoms and disease states.
Elemental, or metal mercury, is found in thermometers. The problem with that is the inhalation of fumes that come off that mercury. Playing with it and ingesting it is not as toxic. That kind of mercury causes significant amounts of neurological damage. As the exposure gets longer, there may be additional changes in the bone marrow that affect the ability to produce blood cells, infertility and problems with heart rhythm.
Mercury salts, which are basically industrial, if you breathe in or ingest them, gravitate more toward the kidney and not so much the nervous system.
The organic mercury is what gets into the food chain. It's put into the water by chemical plants that are manufacturing things and they get into shellfish and fish, or elemental mercury that gets into the water is changed into organic mercury by sea life; we eat fish or shellfish and we get mercury exposure. That organic mercury acts very similarly to the elemental form. It affects a lot of nervous system damage. If a woman is pregnant, this can also cause birth defects and loss of the fetus if the levels get high enough.
Is mercury something we need in our diets, or is no amount nutritionally safe or necessary?
No level is normal. Zero is normal. It doesn’t have a specific reason to be in our body. As long as we live on this Earth, because it's in Earth's crust and in the atmosphere, we're going to be exposed. But there is no specific function for that metal in our body.
The issue is one of looking at the total body burden: How much mercury is in the body and what's known to be a normal background? Theoretically, there's going to be a baseline level, a general population average, but depending on where you live, that level may be higher or lower. If you live near a coast, you're more up to eating seafood. Or you may be in an industrial area where mercury is put into the water or the air.
What's the difference between having mercury exposure and mercury poisoning?
A lot of this has to do with numbers versus symptoms. Just because you're exposed to a toxin doesn’t mean you get poisoned. You can build up a blood or tissue level but not yet manifest symptoms related to poisoning. Call it a threshold.
A person with no symptoms, no changes physically or chemically, we just say they've been exposed and have a high mercury level. It doesn’t become poisoning under the true definition unless someone has had physical or chemical changes in his or her body. It's a very fine distinction, but one person is symptomatic and the other asymptomatic. The person who is symptomatic is poisoned. The one who is asymptomatic has a high blood level consistent with exposure.
That doesn’t mean it's safe to have levels without symptoms. Over time, even if you're exposed at low levels, the symptoms may not manifest until weeks or months later.
A person can find out if they had a higher-than-normal exposure — the urinary level is the most specific way. Blood levels can also be used, and we plot those against your geographic area.
What are the symptoms of mercury poisoning?
Symptoms can occur in many ways. Unfortunately in mercury, symptoms can look like many disease states. When levels are building up, there could be a variety of symptoms that a physician may interpret as another illness. Only when the physician can't find a real cause or gets a toxicologist involved will they do blood tests and say, "Yes, this is probably due to mercury exposure."
It's a difficult diagnosis. You have to know by history that a person has been exposed to this and put two and two together. No specific set of symptoms will say, "Ah, this is mercury poisoning."
If it's mercuric salts the person has been poisoned by, it may just be a problem with the kidneys, issues with the ability to urinate, or they're feeling out of whack because of renal dysfunction.
If someone is inhaling fumes from elemental mercury, that can show up as an upper respiratory illness, like a flu, at first. They might find they can't concentrate well, have trouble with fine motor control or their perception of smell, eyes or touch. If it was affecting their heart, it could be palpitations or just in general not feeling well. If something is not going well with their blood cells forming, they may have issues similar to anemia, feeling very tired, easy bleeding or bruising.
With organic mercury exposure, the symptoms are pretty much the same, but probably not respiratory. The nervous system effects are what someone would see first.
How would mercury toxicity or poisoning be treated, and how long would it take for someone to get well?
What is used, when, and how is decided by a doctor on case-by-case basis in consultation with a toxicologist. If you do have high levels, the first thing to do is stop the exposure.
Chelating agents make metals more water-soluble so they can be excreted by the kidneys. That works fairly well for inorganic salt forms of mercury poisoning but not so much for neurologic forms from the elemental.
There are old World War II antidotes, actually: Injectables are used when we have high levels and only when we don’t have the organic form of mercury poisoning; it's the elemental and inorganic poisonings that we use them in. British anti-Lewisite (BAL), or dimercaprol, is one of these agents: it's an antidote the British developed against lewisite gas, and it's a potent chelator used against mercury, arsenic and lead.
If it's eating too much fish, we stop them from eating the fish and get the levels to come down naturally. Otherwise, there's nothing we can do.
How long treatment takes has to do how high the level is and how chronic the exposure is. If it's somewhat low levels, chelating might happen relatively quickly. If it's exposure for many years, it may take longer for those levels to come out.
Can you recover from mercury poisoning?
Yes and no. If the symptoms just started and you haven’t been exposed for years and years, it's very possible that those symptoms will dissipate. If it's occupational — you've been exposed to this for many, many years and you've physically damaged the nervous system — that may or may not reverse. It may if the nervous system can repair itself. If not, you may end up with a residual or permanent problem.
Is it plausible to get mercury poisoning from eating sushi or other fish?
There are certain types of fish that can accumulate higher levels of mercury than others. If you exist on a diet of that fish, you can mount some very high levels.
Tuna, depending on the type, may be higher in mercury content. It doesn’t matter how you cook it; whether raw or by cooking, it's [the levels] going to be similar.
[Shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish may have high levels of mercury, according to a 2004 advisory from the FDA and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The FDA is considering relaxing its recommendations about how much fish is safe for pregnant women to eat.]
Are there herbs that could cause elevated mercury levels?
Yes. Herbal medicines made outside the country can potentially contain toxic quantities; it depends where they're coming from and how they're being made. These products aren’t controlled by the FDA and don’t need to adhere to any general standard of purity or potency so you end up with voluntary adherence to what the company says is in the bottle. You're always at risk when taking significant amounts of herbal products or remedies that have decent levels of this and other agents.
High Mercury Levels Are Found in Sushi
Mercury has been contaminating our environment for years. The two largest sources of mercury in the environment are coal-fired power plants and municipal waste incinerators which burn consumer products containing mercury (like some of the toys found in Rice Krispies). Mercury is a metallic element that cannot be broken down by any method, and it is unusual for a metal because it is liquid at room temperature and evaporates very quickly when heated. Mercury escapes readily up the smokestack and is spread widely by winds before it falls to earth. There, it is bioconcentrated in the fatty tissue of animals, just like PCBs and DDT. This is especially true in fish that are higher up in the food chain, like tuna or swordfish. Most states in the U.S. have inland fish advisories because of widespread mercury contamination. The contamination of tuna is particularly worrisome because some people eat a lot of it.
Mercury is a well-known neurological poison that causes all the symptoms of ADHD, such as hyperactivity and poor concentration. Ironically, fish oil contains essential fatty acids that are crucial for proper brain function -- deficiencies of omega-3 fatty acids have been linked with ADHD. Yet, in a catch-22, an increase in fish consumption may lead to brain damage from mercury poisoning.
What you can do: Children and women who may become pregnant or who are nursing should be very careful about what types and how much fish they eat. Consumer Reports recommends no more than 3 oz of tuna per week, based on US EPA assessments. Because of influence by the tuna industry, the U.S. Federal Government has been slow to publish tuna advisories, with the very first advisory made in the spring of 2004. That advisory recommends no more than 6 oz of tuna per week. Bear in mind that the official advisory is based on a political compromise between science and the tuna industry. I'd go with the Consumer Reports recommendation of 3 oz. They also recommend that children and pregnant women not eat Albacore at all, because it has higher levels of mercury.
If you routinely eat locally caught freshwater fish, contact your regional or state environmental protection agency to find out how safe the fish in your area are to eat, but most states in the US have some kind of advisory out. The concentration of mercury varies quite a bit by species, so that top predator species like bass will have higher levels of mercury than sunfish. Oily fish tends to have more mercury than other species, because the mercury binds to the oil, yet the oil is what makes fish otherwise very healthy to eat. Sardines and farm-raised salmon are oily fish that have lower levels of mercury and are safer to eat. The fatty acids found in fish oil are very healthy, so keep eating fish, just be sure to eat the right kinds!
Other types of fish to avoid: king mackeral, shark, swordfish and tilefish.
Consumer Reports lists alternatives to tuna that have lower levels of mercury. I'll list these in increasing order of mercury: clams, oysters, pickerel, shrimp, whiting, salmon, tilapia, sardines, freshwater trout, anchovies, catfish, flounder, mullet, scallops, sole, blue/king/snow crab, pollock, American shad, squid, and whitefish. Fish sticks and typical fish sandwiches are OK.
Mercury is a well-known neurological poison that causes all the symptoms of ADHD, such as hyperactivity and poor concentration. Ironically, fish oil contains essential fatty acids that are crucial for proper brain function -- deficiencies of omega-3 fatty acids have been linked with ADHD. Yet, in a catch-22, an increase in fish consumption may lead to brain damage from mercury poisoning.
What you can do: Children and women who may become pregnant or who are nursing should be very careful about what types and how much fish they eat. Consumer Reports recommends no more than 3 oz of tuna per week, based on US EPA assessments. Because of influence by the tuna industry, the U.S. Federal Government has been slow to publish tuna advisories, with the very first advisory made in the spring of 2004. That advisory recommends no more than 6 oz of tuna per week. Bear in mind that the official advisory is based on a political compromise between science and the tuna industry. I'd go with the Consumer Reports recommendation of 3 oz. They also recommend that children and pregnant women not eat Albacore at all, because it has higher levels of mercury.
If you routinely eat locally caught freshwater fish, contact your regional or state environmental protection agency to find out how safe the fish in your area are to eat, but most states in the US have some kind of advisory out. The concentration of mercury varies quite a bit by species, so that top predator species like bass will have higher levels of mercury than sunfish. Oily fish tends to have more mercury than other species, because the mercury binds to the oil, yet the oil is what makes fish otherwise very healthy to eat. Sardines and farm-raised salmon are oily fish that have lower levels of mercury and are safer to eat. The fatty acids found in fish oil are very healthy, so keep eating fish, just be sure to eat the right kinds!
Other types of fish to avoid: king mackeral, shark, swordfish and tilefish.
Consumer Reports lists alternatives to tuna that have lower levels of mercury. I'll list these in increasing order of mercury: clams, oysters, pickerel, shrimp, whiting, salmon, tilapia, sardines, freshwater trout, anchovies, catfish, flounder, mullet, scallops, sole, blue/king/snow crab, pollock, American shad, squid, and whitefish. Fish sticks and typical fish sandwiches are OK.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
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Sexy Lips...
I am a very fussy person when it comes to lip products. I don’t wear lipstick every day. Usually I put on a nice color at night time when I go out .I try to wear natural made lipsticks and products that are Organic. Usually lipsticks contain lead. Here is what I have read on a yahoo discussion groups
“petroleum and EDTA are in lipstick so you should not wear it every day and you should believe that you are beautiful even without lipstick. Petroleum is a type of fish scale which may cause very bad headaches and arthritis pain when you are in your 60s and up. edta is just a chemical that is just plain bad for your body. edta may cause cancer but only if you apply too much n your lips daily. all kinds of ingredients that are bad for your body are in lipstick but if you use natural lipstick, it doesn't work as good, but it has half of the chemicals in it than the normal lipstick. The natural lipstick doesn't have micro cells in them that let you press the lip stick in to your lips and eventually you will start losing your taste buds because the normal lipstick will sink and dissolve in to your lips then to your tongue from the capillaries.”
In my makeup bag I have Burt bees chapstick, Origins, the physicians formula, c.o bigelow from Bath and Body works.
www.origins.com
www.burtsbees.com
“petroleum and EDTA are in lipstick so you should not wear it every day and you should believe that you are beautiful even without lipstick. Petroleum is a type of fish scale which may cause very bad headaches and arthritis pain when you are in your 60s and up. edta is just a chemical that is just plain bad for your body. edta may cause cancer but only if you apply too much n your lips daily. all kinds of ingredients that are bad for your body are in lipstick but if you use natural lipstick, it doesn't work as good, but it has half of the chemicals in it than the normal lipstick. The natural lipstick doesn't have micro cells in them that let you press the lip stick in to your lips and eventually you will start losing your taste buds because the normal lipstick will sink and dissolve in to your lips then to your tongue from the capillaries.”
In my makeup bag I have Burt bees chapstick, Origins, the physicians formula, c.o bigelow from Bath and Body works.
www.origins.com
www.burtsbees.com
I could never get enough from BATH AND BODY WORKS
Have you found yourself going to Bath and Body works for just couple things, and leave out with a whole bag full of items? Well ,Usually happends to me!! My whole bath look like a spa center, And i just love it. My favorite products are the mimosa and brown sugar body srub,and the true blue spa products.Ohhhh not to forget the C.O Bigelow products. I love the massage oils from the Aromatheraphy collection and their pillow mists.
Have anyone tried the David Gates hand products?All i can say is Oh la laaaaa!
Everytime i shop there, they give me 10 dollars off on 30 dollars, or 5 dollar off on 25 dollars. and coupons for month ahead.Its just a girly thing. Do you love it too?
to be continued...
Victoria
