Archive for October 20th, 2009

A diamond studded mercedes. This is Saudi Prince Waleed Bin Talal’s 38th car, a diamond studded SL600 Mercedes and is worth $4.8 million.When you earn billions, less extravagant auto accessories would be insufficient huh??
When I checked the hungerreport.org website, it is said about 115 million people in the world are hungry. And there are some people who drive more than one car and afford to encrust their luxury cars with diamonds.

Sad eh?

I was already fed up with the occasional rash, constant dry skin and acne I suffer from for years now. So instead of trying to find for an external solution, I have decided to cure the problem from within – taking vitamin supplements.

Do you know that when your body is suffering from zinc deficiency the symtoms includes skin problems? I just found that out recently myself. Although zinc deficiency symptoms vary from one person to another but here are a list of the symptoms:

• behavioral and sleep disturbances

• dandruff

• delay in wound healing

• diarrhea

• different kinds of skin lesions such as eczema, psoriasis and acne

• growth retardation

• hair loss

• hang nails

• hyperactivity

• increased allergic sensitivity

• inflammation of your nail cuticles

• inflammatory bowel disease

• loss of appetite

• loss of senses of taste or smell

• loss of sex drive

• mild anemia

• pre-eclampsia (toxaemia) in pregnancy and post-natal depression

• pre-menstrual syndrome, disturbance in your menstrual cycle

• reduced fertility

• skin dryness and rashes

• white spots on fingernails, transverse lines and poor nail growth

I thought of taking zinc supplements after reading about this and recalling when I wanted to donate blood, they had to check the zinc level before I am allowed to donate. It is always on par, just enough.

So I’ve been taking zinc supplements for about a week now. The result is rather surprising, the itchy rash and dry skin around my neck and arms have subsided.

Sometimes people tend to try cure a problemed skin from the outside when the problem needs to cured from the inside first. So if you’ve been suffering from any of these symptoms stated above, you may want to ask your doctor whether the problem is because of zinc deficiency.

To some people, it is rather too early to go for Christmas shopping. For us, who don’t like to do last minute shopping, would rather start looking around. Since we start early, we can look for better bargains.

To be frank, it isn’t really easy for me to decide what to buy for people. Although, we use to say, it is the thought that counts, we still need to get something that would make people happy right?

Got my daughter a mp4 player.

Got my husband books.

Thinking of getting these too…

At the moment, I still haven’t a clue on what to get for my parents in law. I did thought of getting safe,diet pill that works or a slimming corset for my mother-in-law who goes under diet many times to lose weight. A new wallet for my father-in-law. Well,good thing that I’ve started early, I still have time to think.

There’s about 13 more gifts to think about now.