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10 Essential Foods For a Healthy Hair Program

We Are What We Eat – Don’t Forget It

When it comes down to it, healthy hair isn’t the result of what you put on it but rather of what you feed it with.

We all know lathering & rinsing a couple of times is the regular procedure for washing your hair but shampoo and conditioner alone won’t give you the healthy hair you desire.

We are what we eat! Luxurious locks, bright, shiny hair doesn’t come out of bottles. You will need to do more FOR your hair rather than TO your hair even when using the very best shampoos & conditioners that money can buy.

Your hair grows between 5 to 12 centimeters every month, and the very basis of all of our new skin; hair & nail growth starts with the nutrients we eat. Remember, We are what we eat; if you eat healthily, stronger and healthier cells will grow throughout your entire body, both internally & externally.

Miracles wont happen just because you start to look after yourself & control what you eat, for instance: if you were born with fine, thin hair, you’ll never have thick voluminous locks, no matter what you eat, but a well-balanced diet that includes plenty of growth-promoting protein and iron should make a difference to the health & well being of your hair.

Don’t get carried away & start looking for dietary supplements for your hair, often marketed to increase the growth rate or to thicken it up. They may just backfire & are likely to leave you disappointed.

You can find beauty supplements in most stores but try to get the nutrients from the foods you eat whenever possible, spend a little more time finding out what you need & read food labels & information a little more. A care point here; excess’s of certain nutrient supplementation, such as vitamin A, has been linked to hair loss.

Healthy Eating & Quality Control Program for your beautiful hair.

1. Salmon: this high-quality protein source is filled with essential omega-3 fatty acids & Vitamin B-12 and iron. Fatty acids are needed to support scalp health. A deficiency here can result in a dry scalp, leading to dry hair, giving it a dull look. When it comes to foods that pack a beauty punch, it’s hard to beat salmon. If you are vegetarian, try one or two tablespoons of ground flaxseed, included in your daily diet, for some plant-based omega-3 fats.

2. Spinach, broccoli and Swiss chard are an excellent source of vitamins A and C, which your body needs to produce sebum. This oily substance, secreted by your hair follicles, is the body’s natural hair conditioner. Dark green vegetables also provide iron and calcium.

3. Beans & pulses are really good for your hair, as are legumes & with kidney beans and lentils, should be an important part of your hair-care diet. Not just providing plentiful protein to promote hair growth but ample iron, zinc, and biotin. While rare, biotin deficiencies can result in brittle hair. A recommended quantity of lentils etc is three or more cups of lentils or beans each week.

4. Nuts, in particular Brazil nuts are one of nature’s best sources of selenium, an important mineral for the health of your scalp. Walnuts contain alpha-linolenic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid that may help condition your hair & are also a great source of zinc as are pecans, almonds & cashew nuts. A zinc deficiency can lead to hair shedding; just ensure nuts are a regular feature on your healthy hair program.

5. Make sure poultry appears in your program, chickens and turkeys provide high-quality protein, which will help improve the health of your hair. Without adequate protein or with low-quality protein, weak or brittle hair may be experienced whilst major deficiencies in protein may lead to loss of hair color. Poultry also provides iron, which has a high degree of bioavailability, which means your body should easily gain benefits.

6. Eggs: When it comes to healthy hair, it doesn’t matter how you like your eggs, fried, boiled, scrambled or over easy. Whichever way they’re served up, eggs are one of the best sources of protein around. In addition, they also contain vitamin B-12 & biotin, important beauty nutrients.

7. Get your teeth into hearty whole grains, including whole-wheat bread and fortified whole-grain breakfast cereals. Containing zinc, iron, and B vitamins for a hair-healthy program. A whole-grain snack makes a great filler when your energy levels are waning mid-afternoon, with an absolute age to go before dinner.

8. Oysters: better known for their reputation as an aphrodisiac, but they can certainly assist in promoting healthy hair, providing zinc, a powerful antioxidant. An acquired taste & pretty expensive I think, so if you are not ready for this just yet, an ample substitute yielding zinc, is readily available in beef or lamb, in addition to the whole grains & nuts already being consumed.

9. An important mineral for hair growth is calcium, readily available in low-fat dairy products like skimmed milk and yogurt, also containing whey & casein 2 other high quality protein sources. A pot of Yogurt or cottage cheese make great mini snacks; take one to work & try stirring in a couple of teaspoons of ground flaxseed or walnuts to further boost your omega-3 fatty acids and zinc intake to your healthy hair program.

10. To help promote a healthy scalp, carrots, containing vitamin A will also help to improve your vision so that you will take even more pleasure when you see the end results of your healthy hair program. Take a couple of carrots to work, eat them as a fill in snack, and use them grated or shredded on a salad. Remember, from a healthy scalp you will see a well-conditioned, shiny head of hair.

Thanks for looking this time. See you next time. Sam.

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Volkswagen Parts: Getting the Real Deal


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The growth of the counterfeits parts industry is causing problems for motorists, suppliers, manufacturers, and governments from around the world. Just how bad is the problem? For starters, the manufacturing and distribution of counterfeit car parts is a multi billion dollar per year business. Car owners from the Kia to the Camaro and from the Geo to the Golf, and every make and model in between are all susceptible to getting hooked with fake parts. This doesn’t have to happen and I am going to share with you how you can avoid being deceived by purveyors of bogus car parts.

Read the labels. Fake parts purveyors are getting very crafty in copying logos and other important information off of product boxes. Check for typographical errors or odd sounding language on the boxes. Most counterfeiters are smart when it comes to crime, but pretty dumb when it comes to understanding the proper use of English terms, grammar, and spelling. For example, brand names spelled wrong such as Monrow for Monroe. One more point: packaging may be “correct” but sized wrong; be suspicious of any part sold to you in a package that isn’t sized according to the product it holds.

Check the part. If the texture of a part seems odd, it could be a fake. For example, that Hella headlight may not be what it appears to be especially if the element inside looks cheap or broken, or if too much plastic was used in the development of the casing.

Know your supplier. Purchasing your parts from a reliable supplier isn’t a 100% guarantee that the parts received are genuine. Still, if they back up what they sell with a guarantee you won’t get stuck should a counterfeit part get passed through them to and on to you.

Buy OEM or better. Only purchase parts that meet or exceed stringent original manufacturer requirements. Prices 70, 80, or 90% lower than retail rates should raise a warning flag. Stick with the name brands; there is a reason why products from Bosch, Covercraft, Denso, Flowmaster, Injen, K&N, and others sell so well: they are trusted names associated with well known brands. Avoid generic or no name brands.

If you think that you have been sold bogus parts, inform the local police as well as the parts supplier of the problem. If you buy from an overseas company, the chances of you receiving a refund from them are slim. When purchasing online only purchase through those retailers who have an established track record and are reachable through a toll free number. You may save money in the short run with bogus parts, but you will lose in the long run with Volkswagen or other parts that are defective or even dangerous.

Copyright 2005 — Matt Keegan is a contributing writer for Auto Parts Canada, a wholesaler of fine Volkswagen parts and Volkswagen accessories for your Volkswagen truck, van, SUV, or passenger car.

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Fuel

Fuel Great Game that just missed the mark a bit. – Phillip Hall – Texas
Fuel had a chance to be great. A post apocalyptic type setting, with a HUGE open game world you could drive anywhere, do any race you wanted. The problem was it was just not put together quite right. All the pieces just didn’t feel like they fit perfectly. When I was out in the open world driving, not doing any particular race it was awesome. Freeing. Problem is you can only drive around pointlessly for so long before you’re brain falls asleep. The races were somewhat challenging and I loved the game overall. Just seems like it could’ve been polished a bit more prior to releasing. If you catch it at a decent price it’s definitely worth picking up but not at full price in my opinion.
For me, personally, I love open world games and when I found out about this game and how big the map was I hade to rent it. I’ve played it for about 3 hours now and I am simply amazed. My only complaint is that when you run into trees, thay are like running into a giant boulders; they don’t budge. Other than that, the type of environments are incredible, especially with sunrises and sunsets. Canyons, mountains, forests, deserts, oceans, lakes, and more. If you see it, you can go to it! It took me about 30-40 minutes just to drive up the side of the moutain they have in the game (Rainier moutain). You will race on all types of terrains with some races letting you decide how you finish.
If you like structured racing games though, like dirt 2 or other racomg games like that you will be disapointed. Much paitence is requierd in this game. You have a great selection of vehicles, but only can modify the colors on them.
I love this game, but most gamers need more excitement. To sum it all up, this game is like flight simulator, but only with cars and not plains. I wish you could have a plain in this game though. You are able to telaport to different points on the map as the game progresses. Codemasters: 1000101334 Set to revolutionise multi-terrain racing with the largest environment ever created in race gaming, FUEL will present players with an astonishing no-boundaries playfield that’s over 5,000 square miles (14,000+ km²) in size. Creating the ultimate competitive go-anywhere racing experience, FUEL will have players competing across wildly different terrain and executing spectacular death-defying stunts as they race dozens of varied two and four-wheeled rides and explore this epic world on an unprecedented scale. FUEL is set in an alternate present in which whole swathes of the globe have been ravaged by the effects of climate change brought on by decades of environmental abuse. Here oil prices have rocketed and yet a new breed of racing junkie takes to the wastelands, pitting their grungy home-tuned vehicles against each other in an all-new extreme sport as they compete to win fuel supplies. To triumph means travelling the wastelands to challenge the best; from the tsunami-wrecked pacific coast through the Nevada wastelands, including the Grand Canyon, up treacherous snow-capped mountains, thick forests, arid deserts, abandoned lakeside resorts and much more. Bringing this vast, open ended landscape to life is a dynamic weather system with full day and night transitions, brilliant sunshine, torrential rain and everything in between, plus destructive tornados, sandstorms, thunderstorms, lightning strikes, and blizzards requiring mid-race strategy changes. Complete with the ability to go online to explore this massive world and compete in hundreds of multiplayer challenges.

In FUEL players race across and explore the world’s largest racing environment – over 5,000 square miles of spectacular wilderness. Set to revolutionize multi-terrain, multi-vehicle racing, FUEL is a fiercely competitive, open-world game without boundaries. On and off-road, two and four-wheeled vehicles race a massively diverse environment, from scaling the highest snowcapped mountain to racing the deepest arid canyon.

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ATV rider overlooking and expansive canyon in 'FUEL'
Expansive open-world environments.
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Forked lightening in the distance in 'FUEL'
Dramatic weather effects
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Multiple vehicle classes in a race in 'FUEL'
In-game mixing of vehicle classes.
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ATV catching air up a hill in 'FUEL'
Extreme off-road action.
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Muscle cars racing on the road in 'FUEL'
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Story
In an alternate present, vast stretches of America have become no-go areas as the devastating effects of global warming ravage the continent. Floods, storms, brush fires, tornadoes and hurricanes have driven people from towns and cities into safe zones as extreme weather wreaks havoc, creating thousands of square miles of dangerous uninhabitable areas. People turn to renewable energy in the face of the destruction caused by this catastrophe. But these danger zones have also become a playground for a new breed of racer. With a stockpile of fuel to be burned, adrenaline junkies head into the wilderness to compete against each other in spectacular races against themselves and the elements.

Vehicles
FUEL features 70 different unlockable vehicles designed to support pick up and play arcade style fun. Each of these feature aggressive styling, unique performance and surface specific handling and can compete with each other no matter how or where they are united. The six different vehicle classes include:

Bike vehicle class from 'FUEL' Bikes
Bikes are fast, quick and easy to handle, but what they have in speed they lack in durability, so ride around trees, not into them.
ATV vehicle class from 'FUEL' ATVs
ATV’s four wheels offer more stability than bikes and their size allows them to be able to sneak in very narrow spaces.
Muscle Car vehicle class from 'FUEL' Muscle Cars
Muscle cars have enough speed and strength to face extreme conditions, making them a good choice for any kind of racer.
SUV vehicle class from 'FUEL' SUVs
Powerful, stout and durable, SUVs make up for their lack of speed with all the hit that they can take before breaking down.
Buggy vehicle class from 'FUEL' Buggies
The smallest of cars and the easiest to handle, buggies are definitely fast, but durability can be an issue with them.
Truck vehicle class from 'FUEL' Trucks
The largest and strongest vehicles, trucks will not daze you with speed, but they’ll knock you out for sure with power.


Race Types and Challenges
FUEL features a wealth of race types and challenges. Races include A2B Time Trials, Checkpoint Races, Circuit Races and Raid Races; while some of the additional challenges include ‘Long Raids’–races that can last for hours–and ‘Knock Out’ events, which are checkpoint races where the last racer to cross the line is eliminated.

Never Get Lost With GPs
Each vehicle in the game comes equipped with a unique GPs system. Showing up on the game screen’s heads-up display (HUD), arrows display a route that will take advantage of the distinctive capabilities of that vehicle, always indicating that fastest, most appropriate route. Race well and players are alerted to an extra route–one that is riskier, more hazardous–but potentially quicker. Of course, you can always choose to switch the GPs off and forge your own way through the wilderness.

Key Features

  • Open-world racing – The largest open-world racing arena ever, with 14,000 square km of streaming game world and 100,000 miles of trails.
  • Vehicles Galore – Drive over 70 unique vehicles in six different classes including: bikes, ATVs, muscle cars, SUVs, buggies and trucks.
  • Weather Effects – Experience how extreme weather conditions affect the race from rain to snow to sandstorms and destructive tornadoes.
  • Race Types – Compete in multiple categories of race types including: time trials, checkpoint races, circuit races and raid races.
  • Multiplayer SupportFUEL features 2-16 player online support via PlayStation Network.
  • Online Racing – Compete against friends online in all 70 career races as well as online free rides.
  • GPs Technology – Each vehicle in FUEL features onboard GPs functionality ensuring you will never be lost.

Online Support
FUEL is a seamlessly integrated offline and online gameworld featuring hundreds of challenges across countless locations. Players can compete against friends in all of the game’s 70 career races, as well as online free rides via PlayStation Network. In addition, to these pre-designed events players can use the powerful route editor to create their own challenges set anywhere in Fuel’s world and share them online.

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