Only Irish Coffee provides all main essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. ~Unknown
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BEAUTY IDEAS
We all love beauty tips. Here you will find useful beauty ideas and guides that you can implement in your everyday life.
1. For your hair, be sure to communicate with your hairstylist. Be direct when telling your hairstylist what you want and bring photos from magazines of styles you like.
2. Brush hair from roots to ends nightly. This distributes natural oils throughout the shaft and gives hair a healthy sheen.
3. For beautiful brows, soften skin before tweezing by dabbing with a cotton ball soaked in warm water or cream.
4. Reduce puffy eyes by splashing with cold water or applying a cold compress in a wash cloth 15 seconds on, 15 seconds off.
5. To get eye shadow to stay on your lids by priming your lids with moisturizer. Also use a primer to keep your foundation from fading.
6. Get lips soft and smooth by using a damp, warm washcloth at night to rub off the flaky dry bits and then follow up with a coat of lip balm.
7. For lipstick to last longer, after applying it to your lips, let it set, then blot lips with a tissue and dust your lips with powder and then apply another layer.
8. Don’t forget to moisturize. Use a good moisturizer to balance out water and oil levels.
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BLOOD PRESSURE MAINTENANCE
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in three U.S. adults have high blood pressure. Most high blood pressure happens when arteries get plugged up by a waxy plaque.
Many factors impact high blood pressure: too much salt, stress, smoking, processed foods, obesity, and other factors. High blood pressure can lead to strokes, eye and kidney damage, and heart disease.
Here are a few ways to help lower your blood pressure.
2. Exercise more.
3. Eat less salt. Read labels and don’t add extra salt.
4. Eat fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy.
5. Reduce alcohol intake.
6. Quit smoking.
7. Cut down on caffeine.
8. Reduce stress.
9. Monitor blood pressure and discuss the results with your doctor.
10. Meditative practices such as biofeedback, breathing techniques, yoga, and mindfulness practices.
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RECIPE OF THE MONTH
IRISH SODA BREAD
INGREDIENTS:
4 cups flour
4 tablespoons white sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup butter, melted
1 cup buttermilk
1 egg
(top)
¼ cups butter
¼ cup buttermilk
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven 375. Grease large baking sheet.
In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and ½ cup melted butter. Stir in egg and one cup of buttermilk. Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead. Form dough into a round and place on prepared baking sheet. Mark an X on the top of the loaf with a knife.
In a small bowl, combine the ¼ cup butter and ¼ cup buttermilk. Brush loaf with this mixture. Continue brushing loaf with the butter mixture while it bakes.
Bake in preheated oven for about 45 to 50 minutes. After 30 minutes, insert toothpick into center of the loaf and see if it comes out clean.
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MARCH EVENTS
7 - Ides of March
8 - International Women’s Day
10 - Daylight Savings begins at 2:00 a.m. – date varies
10 - Oscar Night 2024 – the date varies
11 - Ramadan begins
17 - St. Patrick’s Day
17 - Jim Ostrosky's birthday !!
19 - Spring (Vernal) Equinox – the date varies
20 - International Earth Day – also called Sun-Earth Day
24 - Palm Sunday – the date varies
24 - Purim begins at sundown
25 - Feast of the Annunciation
29 - Good Friday – the date varies
31 - Easter Sunday – the date varies
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WATCH YOUR POSTURE
We’ve all had someone, mom, dad, ballet instructor, tell us, “Stand up straight!” But have you ever wondered WHY it is important? Good posture is more important than just looking good by standing up straight. For one thing, you immediately look about ten pounds lighter. And while slouching seems to “feel” good, it puts a lot more stress on our muscles, tendons, bones, and internal organs.
By slouching or hunching one of the first problems we experience is reduced respiration. Sure, you can still breathe enough to stay alive, but by slouching, we compress our lung area making it impossible to take deep inhalations, to properly inflate our lungs all the way to the very bottom of the organs. This causes symptoms of fear and stress because we become used to a very shallow breathing habit that usually only happens when we are faced with a “fight or flight” response. By slouching, we are training our bodies to breathe in a stressed manner, which in turn raises our normal cortisol levels.
Increased cortisol is a sign of a stressed body. Increased cortisol leads to increased belly fat deposits, increased blood pressure, and increased heart rate. We have enough stress in our lives as it is without adding to it by something as easy to fix as standing or sitting up straight.
If you’ve never experienced true lung expansion, try attending a yin/nidra yoga class where they teach you how to focus on deep breathing. Once you notice how good it feels to fully expand your lungs, you will never forget that feeling of almost euphoria that follows. In yoga, controlled breathing is called pranayama, which literally means “control of the life force.” You can influence not only your everyday stress reaction, but you can also impact diseases such as asthma, chronic pulmonary diseases, even heart failure.
Do you stand or sit up straight? An easy test is to back up against a wall to see if your shoulders and back touch the wall. if only parts of your spine touch the wall, you need to focus on slowly straightening your spine until your shoulders drop and slide back. At first, this may seem very uncomfortable. That’s because we’ve spent so many years in a perpetual slouch. This is especially true for people who work in offices. Sitting at a desk for hours has predisposed people to an earlier death, unless they consciously sit up straight, breathe from the bottom of their lungs, and get up and walk around periodically.
It would seem that Mom was right after all, wasn’t she?
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