My friend, Laura, has been gluten-free for a few years now, and she feels better since she gave up eating foods with gluten: wheat, oat, barley, and rye. A while back, she told me that she started having the old symptoms that she used to feel when she ate gluten but couldn’t figure out why. …
Dealing with Adult Acne – The Daily Glow
Dealing with Adult Acne – Aging Skin – Skin & Beauty. Several months ago, I posted a blog post Win-Win: Eat Dark Chocolate, Look Younger. The gist of it was eating an ounce of dark chocolate per day provides health benefits: it improves cardiac health and even skin health. Some of my friends on Facebook …
Bruising and Aging
Last week I noticed I had a big bruise on my torso. I had no clue where it came from. Was it from carrying the metal-edged laundry basket against my rib cage as I brought it upstairs from the laundry room? I was trying to remember what I could have done to myself. Today, I …
Aveeno Eczema Therapy Moisturizing Cream
Every summer, I get exfoliative keratolysis, peeling of the skin on my thumbs. Like clockwork, red, dry blisters appear on my thumbs. They get hard like callouses, split, and then the skin peels off. Fortunately, it’s not painful except when the skin that pulls off goes too deep. And when I put my thumbs in …