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My Skin Looks Old: Healthy Hacks To Reduce Stress, Improve Diet, Look Younger

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  My Skin Looks Old: Healthy Hacks To Reduce Stress, Improve  Diet, Look Younger                   Aging is a natural process, but with it comes the risk of wrinkles and sagging. After your 20th birthday, the body produces about 1 percent less of the scaffolding in your skin, known as collagen, each year. While you can’t help how quickly the years pass by, you can help reduce the risk of damage and old appearance to your skin. The body experiences intrinsic aging - the loss of collagen, diminishing sweat glands, and less elastin production - and there’s really nothing you can do about it. Fortunately, the body also experiences extrinsic aging, which occurs as a result of several factors that are largely within our control. If you can master the top risk factors for skin damage, your complexion and risk for skin cancer will be kept at a minimum. First,   skin protection   is k...

5 Key Poses To Nurture Your Lower Back

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<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <script>   (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({     google_ad_client: "ca-pub-7553352092706005",     enable_page_level_ads: true   }); </script> 5 Key Poses To Nurture Your Lower Back     Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Google+ StumbleUpon Email Share 2,717 Did you know that people in the UK take about 35 million working days off a year because of back pain? (Work Foundation, October 2013)  Lower back issues in particular affect around a third of the UK adult population every year. They vary in intensity and seriousness, from mild discomfort to acute or chronic pains and may be due to simple strains, poor posture or more serious conditions such as degeneration of discs. It is thus important to consult a doctor if pain persists. The great news is that yoga can help relieve stiffness a...

7 Yoga Poses for Stronger & Toned Arms and Shoulders

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Yoga can tone your arms and shoulders. Strong shoulders and arms are not just essential to get your arm balances right. They should be strong enough to tone and strengthen your core. Wondering how?   Toned, strong, flexible shoulders and arms allow you to focus on engaging the muscles of the core as you practice poses like   Chaturanga Dandasana   and   Navasana . In the absence of these, you would have the tendency to round your shoulders and keep your arms inactive, which in turn would affect the way you practice a core posture. All these yoga postures for shoulders and arms work as core toners too. 7 Yoga Poses for Stronger & Toned Arms and Shoulders Gomukhasana   – Cow Face Pose The entire pose opens the hips and groins, elongates and tones the back and spine, opens the shoulders, stretches your arms, and strengthens the core. Sit down on the floor, spine straight, legs stretched out. Bend your left knee and allow the left heel to rest c...

The New Trailer Of 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' Is A Daring, Applaudable Response To Censorship

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The New Trailer Of 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' Is A Daring, Applaudable Response To Censorship BALAJI Alankrita Shrivastava's   Lipstick Under My Burkha   has had an elaborate battle with the Indian Censor Board (or the Central Board of Film Certification - CBFC). The film, starring Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak Shah, Aahana Kumra, Plabita Borthakur and Vikrant Massey, was denied certification by the   Board for being too 'lady oriented, ' a decision that not only baffled many but was also telling of the Board's chief, Pahlaj Nihalani's, deeply regressive attitude. The makers contested the decision and took their fight to the FCAT , which directed the CBFC to clear the film with an 'A' certificate. Ever since the FCAT's decision, the makers are coming up with unique ways to rub their victory in against the Censor Board. First, they came up with a poster that had a lipstick covering the middl...