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Kamis, 02 September 2010
Women Step Into The Comfort Zone As High Heels Topple From Grace
0 komentar Diposting oleh Perfect Blog di 23.19By: Matthew Sims
ARE high heels about to topple out of favour as a footwear favourite?
The popularity of comfort shoes is growing as women spend more and more of their time on their feet � at work and at home.
Coupled with some headline-grabbing setbacks for towering slingbacks, it means that the popularity of high heels is on the wobble � quite literally.
In the current economic climate, where a record number of women are working, there has been a reported increase in demand for shoes that are both comfortable and fashionable.
The clamour is for footwear which, unlike high heels, is kind on your feet � as well as your wallet.
Rising online and High Street sales have coincided with a new study that has revealed that as many as four in every ten women have had accidents in high heels.
Even catwalk models, who are paid huge amounts to make walking in heels look easy, are having trouble staying upright. Three fell from their lofty slingbacks at the Prada show in Milan recently, and those who managed to stay upright teetered and tottered their way along the catwalk like newborn foals.
Perhaps they should enroll in the stiletto class recently launched by a New York gym. For health and safety reasons, they can only teach walking and dancing in heels for 15 minutes at a time (which tells you a lot about the problems of high heels), while the rest of the class focuses on strengthening the legs and calves to make walking in heels easier.
For the average working woman, this is not an option. It is style, comfort and value for money which form the winning formula for shoe buying this season
The study also revealed that every year thousands of women need operations as they find themselves not being able to walk properly after years of stiletto abuse!
Surgery as a result of ill-fitting shoes is currently running at a toe-curling ￡30m a year.
Common operations like bunion and corn removal, which can each cost ￡4,000, add up to ￡13.8m a year. For well-known bunion sufferers like Victoria Beckham and Naomi Campbell, the cost is hardly going to break the bank balance. But for many women, it is a depressing expense which they clearly wished they could have avoided.
More complex surgery like toe straightening, which costs around ￡1,200 per operation, adds up to ￡10.4m in a year. A further ￡3.3m a year is spent on big toe joint replacement, ￡2m removing trapped nerves, and ￡200,000 correcting ingrowing toenails, the study says.
Medical experts behind the study said that wearing high heels for prolonged periods is bad for women's health. They urged women to mix and match footwear to enable their bodies time to recover from the damage caused by high heels.
Private cosmetic surgery on feet is also on the increase, with treatments including “plumping” the ball of the foot with a dermal filler to give more cushioning.
The growing problems associated with high heels has led to the TUC (Trades Union Congress) demanding that employers drop ‘inappropriate’ requirements for workers to wear uncomfortable or dangerous footwear.
A new TUC guide Working feet and footwear found that while many employers allow employees to wear healthy and safe footwear, a number of big city institutions and upmarket shops insist female staff who deal with the public wear high heels as part of a dress code.
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber confessed that he was shocked at how many times employers’ dress codes did not permit the wearing of comfortable sensible footwear by women.
He said: “Heels may look glamorous on the catwalks and on Hollywood stars, but they’re not appropriate for day-to-day work wear. These dress codes can lead to long-term foot and back problems as women are forced to stand or walk around in high heels or ill-fitting footwear.
‘Feet bear the brunt of the daily working life and instead of worrying about what their staff look like, employers should focus on the effect that the wrong shoes and prolonged standing can have.
“Employers should look at encouraging their staff to come to work in comfortable shoes.”
The TUC believes that workers should be able to wear the footwear that is appropriate to their occupation, working environment, and feet. That means employers should ensure that the risk assessment they have to do by law includes risks to the feet as well as slipping risks.
The arguments look set to run and run � and perhaps wobble and fall. But, for the time being, women are voting with their feet and putting comfort first!
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By: Ray Ritchey
How does one dress a flower girl comfortably for a wedding? If your little girl has been chosen to shower the wedding aisle with flowers, it would be best to ensure that not only will she be pretty, but that she will be comfortable as well.
There is always a direct proportion to the comfort of children in weddings, to the comfort of adult guests. The comfort of little guests in a wedding will affect the comfort of the older guests. This does not always hold true when taken the other way around, so it is wise to carefully plan everything that may affect the disposition of our little girls in weddings.
The flower girl dress is the first concern of parents whenever the little girl is tasked to be a flower girl. Parents usually pay for the flower girl dresses. If the bride and groom does not offer to pay, parents should buy the dress. Coordinate with the bride what will be the design of her dress, and the bridesmaid dresses. The flower girl dress can then be based on the dominant design, or pick one design element and use it also for the flower girl's dress, either as the main design or an accessory in the flower girl's dress.
With the main design of the flower girl dress cleared with the bride, here are several factors to consider ensuring your little girl is comfortable and pretty on the wedding day.
Fabric
The fabric of flower girl dresses varies, but it is best to match it to the season. A heavy fabric, such as velvet, is great to use for cooler weddings, and satin/ lighter dresses are better to use during weddings in the warmer months. Inappropriate fabrics may also be itchy, or worse, cause rashes for your little flower girl, so please pick the fabric carefully.
Long sleeves or short? Cap sleeves or sleeveless? Long skirt? Knee-high? Floor length?
Consider the season/weather, the church, the reception venue. Will your flower girl feel cold or too warm? Where will the wedding ceremony be held? Consider if the ceremony and reception will be held indoors or out. A sleeveless flower girl dress can be both comfortable and flexible. Sleeveless flower girl dresses let your little girl move freely. If you think it may get too cold for her, bring a dainty jacket or bolero that is appropriate for the flower girl dress.
What length is appropriate for the flower girl dress? Can my little girl carry herself well and not trip on a floor-length skirt? Smaller girls may find it easier to have the skirt of the flower girl dress above the ankles or knee-length. Bigger girls may carry themselves more confidently and easily with floor-length skirts. Also, consider the “dirt magnet” factor of the skirt if it is too long, especially if the wedding will be held outdoors.
In these days when being practical is required, it would be nice to get a pretty, neutral dress that may also be worn as a special occasion dress. Get something that can be worn during birthdays, attending other weddings, etc. It may also be used as a communion dress or church dress.
Embellishments and accessories
Flower girls are just too cute in their beautiful dresses it is easy to go overboard with other accessories and embellishments. If you are thinking of attaching a pretty flower/s or sash to her dress, please do sew it on rather than use safety pins. Ever notice how safety pins have the uncanny ability to open by itself only during the most formal occasions? Safety pins get itchy on the skin and may make your pretty flower girl fidget. Your little girl may get the safety pin open as she moves around, and injure herself, so sew on embellishments instead.
Test the length of sashes. Nothing too long, please. Your pretty flower girl may trip down the aisle if a foot gets entangled on a long sash.
Ask your little girl if she'd like to wear gloves, but keep in mind that these may get uncomfortable the longer it is worn. The flower girl's grip is also hampered with gloves, so consider carefully if these should be used. Or your little flower girl may remove these for some time and worn again later.
Shoes and footwear
It is always healthy for little girls (and “bigger adult” girls, actually) to wear flat shoes. Cute mary janes, or pretty slippers can both be appropriate and comfortable flower girl shoes. If your little girl is wearing new shoes with her formal dress, let her walk around the house days before the wedding so the new shoes will settle on her feet. Let her also wear the stockings or formal socks she will wear at the wedding to let her grow comfortable with her new footwear.
For good measure, bring along comfortable but pretty footwear on the wedding day itself so that your child may use these as back-up shoes just in case she has a hard time on her feet further along the wedding.
Makeup
Little girls love to be primped and pampered as well with hair and makeup during a wedding. Let her wear make up if you think it okay. Just keep it light to make sure it enhances your little girl's natural beauty, not hide it.
Last minute tips Try out the dress a day or two before . Let her wear it an hour or two, practice. Tell her what good behavior is expected of her for being the flower girl during the wedding. On the wedding day itself, it may be a good idea to make her up and fix her hair first in comfortable button-down clothes. Dress her up the last minute so that the flower girl dress does not get crumpled or dirty while waiting for the wedding to start.
Affirming our little girls
At each step of the wedding, affirm your pretty flower girl that she is doing a good job and that you are proud of her. If you like, reward her with a keepsake, such as a bracelet or necklace. However, it is always a parents' affirmation that will mold her character, long after the wedding has finished and the flower girl dress has been outgrown.
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Teach you the correct way to drink water, drink a good crystal clear skin
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Water is the best medicine?
Water is the best medicine, F. batman-belt-buckle/' target='_blank' class='infotextkey'>Batman, a well-known MD, exposed it in his book. Well, as long as more water will be able to let you make the facial appearance , and health all the time? Things do not as simple as that. Do not pick the time to drink, do not care about the content to drink … …
Once you have caught the errors in these drinking water, water not only can not be a tonic, and may even turned to poison!
The water accounted for about 70% in the human body, so long as lacked a little, it would cause the bad influence to the human body function. Grants our health panacea regarding the nature, certainly could not limit merely drinks enough water, if you enjoyed it by the following wrong way, similarly was disadvantageous to the health.
Drink water more is better?
To be beautiful and be healthy, drink water more is better.
Water is essential for the beauty, the skin smooth and full of moisture can not be separated from the water. But for a woman, is not drinks more better, 8 glasses of water per day is sufficient to meet the needs of the body. In addition to the 8 glasses of water, through food we can add a large number of moisture, there is no need to force yourself to drink a lot, or else extremes meet, will increase the burden on the kidneys.
In the morning drinks cup of pale salt water expulsion of toxin?
After gets out of bed in the morning, drinks a cup of pale salt water promotion body expulsion of toxin.
Sleep in the night did not drink water, but breathing, perspiration, urinary still in progress, the loss of physiological activity to a number of water consumption, drinking salt water will add to hyperosmolar dehydration, dry the mouth more. And the morning is the highest human blood viscosity time, drinking salt water will make blood pressure higher . Especially,the people in poor cardiac function or has high blood pressure are not appropriate to drink pale salt water in the morning. Experts recommend that the pale salt water suits after movement or the big perspiration drinks, to supplement the water and sodium loss of body .
Water is no need to be divided into acidic and alkaline?
Clean water is good water, no need to be divided into acidic and alkaline?
Due to the acidity of our food intake too much, so much more than the acidity of the body alkaline. Therefore, in order to health, only a natural weak alkaline water is more suited to our long-term consumption. So, how do we know which are useful to human alkaline water? Attention to the brand value of water will be marked in bottles affixed, at the time of purchase, look at the labels on the know.
Because we take in acidic food are excessively many, makes in vivo the acidity to be more than the alkalinity greatly. Therefore, for health, only a natural weak alkaline water suits us to drink for a long time. Then, how do we know that which weak basicity water is useful to the human body? Attention to the brand value of water will be marked in bottles affixed, when purchase, had a look at the label to know.
Men can drink water less?
The woman drinks more water can raise the face, men can drink water less.
From the health angle, the men needs to drink water much. The American scholars discovered through the massive research that drinks water may prevent the urinary concretion and the carcinoma of urinary bladder. And in these two kind of disease’s sick population, the male occupy approximately 3/4. In brief, one day drinks water is more than 4 cups of men compared to drink the risk which 1 cup or the less water’s male develops cancer to reduce 32%. In addition, even if the gentleman and woman drinks similarly many water, the gentleman also easy to dehydrate, because their active mass is big, likes perspiring, changes the disappearing moisture content compared to woman.
All in all, men drink more than 4 cups of water one day than men to drink 1 cup of water or less, the risk of cancer reduce 32%. In addition, even if as the same amount of water as women to drink, men are also vulnerable to dehydration, because they are active, and love sweating, loss of water more than the women.
Drink plenty of water will lead to fat?
Drink plenty of water will lead to obesity.
Said that only drinks water also puts on weight certainly is because other diets take in the quantity of heat must be more than own consumption, but the people will usually forget or simply are not willing to remember. The scientific research indicated that 1 hour before meals drink several potable waters, the quantity which each time drinks must be few, the ideal way is one 250 milliliters, more than ten minutes one time. The empty stomach drinks the water pauses only then several minutes in the stomach, enters the small intestine very quickly, is absorbed into the blood, about 1 hour may supplement that for whole body’s Cell tissue, may help the people to control the appetite, prevents overeating which eats, is advantageous in loses weight.
Not thirsty does not need to drink water?
Thirsty expression body water scarcity, not thirsty does not need to drink.
The desire of people to drink water is more less to eat. When you feel thirsty, you are a step by step towards the edge of dehydration, the body has lost a lot of water, even at this time made up the water, your body is prone to lack of concentration, excitability, fatigue, or headache symptoms, so drink plenty of water should also pay attention. You may act according to your urine’s color to determine whether to adjust the volume of water. Generally speaking, if the urine color is the deep yellow, it meats that you need to supplement some water much.
Pure water is good for the body?
The pure water eliminated the impurity, drinks for a long time is good for the body.
Natural water after distillation, filtration and treatment, although the removal of impurities, bacteria and other harmful substances, but also useful to remove trace elements in the human body, long-term drinking of purified water will also increase calcium loss. In addition, since the human body is a weakly alkaline body fluids, and purified water was subacidity, if drinks the subacidity for a long time water, the milieu intericur will be destructed, will reduce the human body immunity, will accelerate the human body to get older. Experts remind that for pure water as a drinking water supplement, but not suitable for long-term consumption.
Coffee and tea have the effect of water?
Drink more coffee, tea and drinks, also can have the effect of water!
Coffee and tea have a diuretic effect, excessive drinking will lead to excessive urination and water loss of the human body. In other words, drinking a cup of coffee you need to fill two glasses of water, a cup of coffee consumption in order to fill the water back; cola and other soft drinks and carbonated drinks contain citric acid in the majority, in the metabolism will speed up the excretion of calcium and lower blood calcium content, the body will lead to long-term consumption of calcium to induce osteoporosis.
Chinese name: 慢佳琪
Domicile: Taipei
English name: Mimi (Michelle)
Birthday: November 15
Place of Birth: Taipei
Height: 160cm
Weight: 43kg
Blood Type: O
Constellation: Scorpio
Ranking: There are a sister, a brother
Education: Berkeley College of Music graduate, majoring in production of popular music arranger
Personality: lively, good move
Pets: Cats, dogs
Expertise: Piano, Cello
Hobbies: Swimming, song writing
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