Pop rock star Pink's astonishing weight loss

Pop star Pink recently shows off her fab body on the cover of Shape Magazine's November issue. Pink gave birth to daughter Willow Sage Hart in June last year. She gained 55 pounds during the pregnancy but has since lost the weight by working out at the gym and adhering to a mostly vegetarian diet.

Love avocados!

Avocado is the main ingredient of guacamole. Did you know that Americans eat about 8 million pounds of guacamole during the Super Bowl? That's a lot! It is also very popular in vegetarian cuisine as substitute for meats in sandwiches and salads because of its high fat content.

Avocado is a healthy food. It is a good source of fiber, potassium, and vitamins C, K, folate, and B6. Per 100g, an avocado has 160 calories, 9.80 grams of healthy monounsaturated, and only 2.13 grams of saturated fat. Recent research shows that antioxidants such as lycopene and beta-carotene are better absorbed with the healthy monounsaturated fat avocados have in abundance. High avocado intake was shown in one preliminary study to lower blood cholesterol levels.

Healthy and yummy - who wouldn't want that?

SOURCE: Wikipedia

Colorful Honey

These are so cool! Just by looking at the photo, I didn't know what to make of it. I could never have guessed it's honey. Apparently, in northeastern France, some bees produce multi-colored honey in shades of blue and green. Yahoo reports that beekeepers around the town of Ribeauville "believe residue from containers of M&M's candy processed at a nearby biogas plant is the cause" as they have "seen bees returning to their hives carrying unidentified colourful substances that have turned their honey unnatural shades". 

I wonder if they taste differently.

SOURCE: Yahoo! News

Cheese Slices (cheese food)

The individually packaged cheese slices that are called singles, contain less than the federally regulated amount of dairy to be labeled cheese. The rest of its components are oil, emulsifiers, extra salt, and food colorings which makes the product cheaper and melts faster with less flavor. 

The advantages of processed cheese includes extended shelf-life, cooks evenly, and is economical. The downside is the chemical used.

Kate Middleton Look-alike

Heidi Agan, 32, a waitress and a mom quit her waitressing job at Frankie and Bennie's in England to work full-time as a Kate Middleton look-alike. From $9.75 an hour, her pay skyrocketed to about $1,050 per appearance. Not bad!

Stress at work

REDUCE AND MANAGE WORKPLACE STRESS

Excessive stress is not only bad for your health but also bad for your career. Excessive stress can lessen your productivity and impact your physical and emotional health. You cannot control your officemates or your environment but it doesn’t mean you’re helpless in dealing with workplace stress.

There are a steps you can take to reduce both your overall stress levels and the stress you find on the job and in the workplace. These include:

*Taking responsibility for improving your physical and emotional well-being.
*Avoiding pitfalls by identifying knee jerk habits and negative attitudes that add to the stress you experience at work.
*Learning better communication skills to ease and improve your relationships with management and coworkers.   

Signs and symptoms of excessive job and workplace stress:

*Feeling anxious, irritable, or depressed
*Apathy, loss of interest in work
*Problems sleeping
*Fatigue
*Trouble concentrating
*Muscle tension or headaches
*Stomach problems
*Social withdrawal
*Loss of sex drive
*Using alcohol or drugs to cope

Here are Tips to Reduce Excessive Stress

1) Find time to exercise regularly. Regular exercise is a powerful stress reliever. If you have a sound body, you will have sound mind. Activities that raises your heart rate and makes you sweat is aneffective way to lift your mood, increase energy, sharpen focus, and relax both the mind and body.

2) Eat Healthy. Low blood sugar can make you feel anxious and irritable, while eating too much can make you lethargic. Healthy eating can help you get through stressful work days. By eating small but frequent meals, you can help your body maintain an even level of blood sugar, keep your energy up, stay focused, and avoid mood swings.

3) Drink alcohol in moderation and avoid nicotine. Alcohol can reduces anxiety and worry, but too much can cause anxiety. Nicotine may get you feeling calm but it is a powerful stimulant that may cause you higher level of anxiety.

4) Get Enough Sleep. If you're well rested, it's much easier to keep your emotional balance, a key factor in coping with job and workplace stress. So the question is how much sleep is enough? Here is the recommended amount of sleep (mayoclinic)

Age group	Recommended amount of sleep
Infants	14 to 15 hours
Toddlers	12 to 14 hours
School-age children	10 to 11 hours
Adults	7 to 9 hours

Palladio Rice Powder Blotting Papers

I have really oily skin so I'm always on the lookout for oil absorbing sheets and I just love these! Not only can you use these to soak up oils on the face but you can also use the other powdered side for touch-ups.

Palladio Natural Rice Oil-Absorbing Rice Paper Tissues

These very unique tissues are made from natural rice and provide the same, great oil-absorbing functions as our Rice Powder—in a more compact form. Use the matte side to blot away shine throughout the day and the powdered side for occasional touch-ups. Packaged in a handy component, these tissues will fit inside even in the smallest purse, so you’ll never have to leave home without them!

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