Welcome to our blog

A blog about features and articles on antiques, homes, holidays, food, gardening, fashion, and consumer advice.

Victoria Bekcham Received a Womanswear Designer of the Year

Victoria Beckham has been known to also exist in the fashion world, as a model and designer. Fashion show at New York Fashion Week some time ago was a long-awaited session. Not surprisingly, Victoria Bekcham received a Womanswear Designer of the Year from the WGSN Global Fashion Awards.

Global Fashion Awards give tribute to the achievements and brilliance of the actors in the fashion industry worldwide. GFA is the only award in the field of fashion that allows the winners to claim to be the best in the world, because they are selected by a panel of specialists in the industry.

"Within five years Victoria Beckham has grown, from fashion to create a luxury brand building is very modern and desirable. He opposes cynicism and defeat the criticisms he received during the process of designing. This year was Victoria," said the jury.

Other winners of these awards is a British photographer John "Rankin" Waddell, for his contributions in the world of fashion. Designer Kim Jones received a gift of Menswear Designer of the Year thanks to his hard work in the fashion house Louis Vuitton. While the highstreet label Topshop receives award for Womenswear Design Team.

Unfortunately, Victoria Beckham himself did not attend the award ceremony. He just send a tweet that read, "Thank you @ WGSN, thrilled to win Womenswear Designer @ GFashionAwards # GFA2012! X vb". After he posted the video for collection fashion show Spring / Summer 2013 hers.

For the first time, GFA held in England. The event was held at the Savoy Hotel in London was hosted by Cat Deeley reader event, which featured all-white dress with a dramatic feather Charlie Brear design, combined with the white suits. A number of celebrities attended this magnificent event, including Julien Macdonald, Pixie Lott, Suki Waterhouse, Charlotte Dellal, Luke Evans, Lara Bohinc, Bruno Basso and Christopher Brooke, Joanne Froggatt, and VV Brown.

10 Reasons to Reduce Consumption of Sugar

 What are the dangers excess sugar consumption? Diabetes, a disease that can be a serious problem throughout the world. Since almost every food and beverage uses sugar. Obesity and diabetes problems.

10 reasons to reduce the consumption of sugar, according to nutritionist Nancy Appleon, including the following:
  1. Increasing levels of excess glucose and insulin response, which could potentially lead to diabetes mellitus.
  2. Weakens the body to defend against bacterial infections.
  3. Making the absorption of minerals in the body into chaos, including calcium and magnesium.
  4. Weaken the power of vision.
  5. Cause low blood pressure.
  6. Lower levels of vitamin E in the blood.
  7. Increasing levels of cholesterol in the blood.
  8. Make skin wrinkles easy as changing the structure of collagen.
  9. Sugar is enemy number one for bowel activity.
  10. Can make the muscles can be easily damaged.

Often Sit Can Weaken the Heart


Too much sitting is bad for health, because it will automatically rarely indulge motion. One danger is: often sit can weaken the heart. Avoid sitting for too long. If you want to be healthy, active, and many are moving because they are a lot of sitting at high risk of fat deposits around the heart organ.

The danger caused by unhealthy fat will be hard to remove, even though a lot of people who used to sit it started diligently exercising.

In a study presented at the meeting of the American Heart Association, the research team conducted a CT scan on more than 500 elderly people who spend lots of time to sit down. Apparently they have a lot of fat deposits around the heart.

According to Britta Larsen, who led the research, even though we already exercise every day, but then we sit for 6-8 hours every day, the impact is still bad.

In these studies Larsen looking for some type of fat in the body of the respondents, namely subcutaneous fat under the skin, visceral fat are usually located around the organs inside, intramuscular fat that is in the muscle, fat and intrathoratic existing pericardial fat around the heart.

Research shows the longer we sit down every day, the vast areas of fat deposits around the heart. "Pericardial fat is associated with cardiovascular disease. Fats will interfere with heart function and clogging of blood vessels," he said.

Because exercise is less effective at removing pericardial fat, Larsen suggested that we focus on two things, namely getting enough exercise and reduce time sitting each day.

For those who because of his work should be more sedentary, it is advisable to take advantage of every opportunity to rise from a chair. For example, a short stroll every two hours, relying on a ladder to climb to the top floor, or choose a colleague approached directly rather than calling.

"Most of the seating is very harmful to heart health. Hopefully in the future more and more office employees who do not require a lot of sitting," he said.

What Kinds of Minerals and Function on The Body

Conscious or not, our bodies need minerals in very small amounts, but very important. After mengatahui difference in vitamins and minerals, so what kinds of minerals and function on the body.

In general, minerals are divided into two types, namely macro minerals and micro minerals. Macro minerals are minerals in the body is more than 0.01% of body weight and required by the body in amounts of more than 100 mg / day as Ca (calcium), P (phosphorus), Na (sodium), K (potassium), Cl (chloride), and S (sulfur).

Micro minerals present in less than 0.01% body weight, and only required in amounts less than 100 mg / day as iron (Fe), copper (Cu), iodine (I2), zinc (Zn), cobalt (Co), and Se (selenium).
Each mineral has an important function for the body. Following describes some of the functions that are important minerals in your body.

Calcium is a mineral essential for maintaining healthy bones and teeth. Calcium is also essential to the process of muscle contraction and relaxation, blood clotting, and the immune system. Consumption of 2 glasses of milk per day is sufficient to meet your calcium needs.

Magnesium (Mg) Magnesium is the fourth most makromineral in the human body. In the body, magnesium is found in the bone (60-65%) and muscle (25%) and the rest spread evenly on the body's cells and body fluids. Magnesium plays an important role for the body, especially for the relaxation of muscles and nerves.

Phosphorus (P) Phosphorus is also responsible for the mineralization of bones and teeth. In addition, phosphorus also regulates the pH balance of your blood. Mineral deficiency is causing your muscles feel weaker, while if it is too excessive, causing its happening calcification process (hardening) of the organs of the body that are not supposed to be like a kidney. Meat, fish, poultry, eggs and milk are the main sources of phosphorus.

Zinc (Zn) Zinc is one of the most important mikromineral in the body because a lot of functions of the mineral 
one. Zn is one of the components of the hormone insulin and various enzymes, genetic material, making sperm, wound healing, and immune system. Zinc also helps the growth and brain development. Zinc deficiency causes growth retardation, tertundannya sexual organ development for adolescents, and loss of appetite. Just as the minerals phosphorus, red meat, fish, poultry, and food sources of protein are also a major source of the mineral zinc.

Selenium (Se) antioxidant enzymes that function to counteract free radicals can work well in the presence of Se mineral in the body. Seafood, meat is the main source of Se. Plants were grown in soil rich in Se is also a good source of minerals Se.

In addition to the minerals mentioned above, there are many other minerals that work for your health. Although it takes a small amount, but there are many great benefits given mineral for your health.


Difference Vitamins and Minerals

Everyone needs vitamins and minerals in particular. Therefore in milk packaging has always included nutritional vitamins and minerals.So what exactly is mineral and what distinguishes vitamin with minerals?
Minerals are a group of micronutrients for the body. This means that nutrients are only needed in small amounts to support the growth and blossoms of your body.

Difference Vitamins and Minerals

- Many consider that the same vitamins with minerals. Whereas in the chemical structure of these nutrients have a different shape once did have some similar functions. Some of the differences between vitamins and minerals are:

- Minerals included in the inorganic elements. This means that minerals can retain its shape after entry into the body. If the vitamin can be damaged by heat, acid or any other process, it is not a mineral that has a strong structure and is not easily broken.

- The structure will change as vitamins into the body. The body does not absorb vitamins in its initial form, it is absorbed in the form of pro-vitamin (vitamin are not yet active). While the mineral can not be changed emjadi other elements. For example, Fe (iron) can combine with other elements to form compounds thereof, but the iron will not turn into another element.

- When it gets into the body, will carry out their duties mineral helps metabolize without going through other processes. For example, magnesium is directly absorbed for relaxation of muscles and nerves. Iron for red blood cell formation. Calcium to nourish the bones and teeth and many other essential minerals for good health.

- The process is also different from the absorption of minerals, especially vitamin treatment in terms of number and in your body. This is because the vitamin is readily soluble in water and fat, while the mineral is not water-soluble and fat.