Natural Acne Treatment And Skin Care

I found this awesome video on YouTube last night.

It’s a video of an actual doctor who’s talking about natural skin care, and how to prevent premature aging and acne through natural treatments.

I love this video because this doctor confirms everything that I talk about with natural skin care and healing acne. And I love it even more because he talks a lot about how important nutrition is.

I can’t stress enough how important food and diet is for your skin, your body, your mind, your soul ..everything, so it’s awesome to actually hear it confirmed from someone who has a medical degree.

If you want to get serious about having clear, glowing skin long term, then you will at some point need to look at the foods you’re consuming.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been spending a lot of time researching alternative nutritional medicine, and have discovered some really quite amazing information that I’ll be writing or videoing about on my blog over the next few weeks.

It just makes me realize how holistic everything really is. The food we eat, the water we drink, the place we live, activities we choose to do, television shows we watch, even the attitude we have towards life ..it’s all connected and it all mixes together and manifests into our health and well being.

Fran

When I sat down to talk about Proactiv and why it only sometimes works at clearing acne, I had no idea that it would turn into such a big video that I had to cut it into two parts.

This is an important video series to watch if you’re considering using Proactiv, or even if you’ve used it before and are wondering why it did or didn’t work.

Part 1

Part 2

Referring links:

• My first Proactiv video
• Eat Away Your Acne, food & acne guide
• High on Health forums

Fran

I picked up a block of ‘Flame Of Chicchan’ organic raw chocolate made by E3Live yesterday.

I don’t know what E3Live was thinking when they made this product, because it has to be the worst chocolate I’ve ever eaten in my life. And I’m quite confident in stating that it will probably be the worst I’ll ever eat.

I even uttered these words after my third bite, “This tastes like disgusting!”, and I have a witness to prove it.

It’s a pity, because I was so excited about bringing this block of chocolate home from a ‘healthy’ grocery store yesterday. I found it in the refrigeration section which was a real treat. It was almost like it was hiding so I felt like I’d hit the jackpot. Even better is how this chocolate is chocked (excuse the pun) full of super foods and it’s a raw food product. I’ve been learning a lot about raw foods lately so I felt like finding it was fate.

So why do I say this chocolate taste so bad? Well, it doesn’t taste like chocolate at all. It tastes like some kind of strange health bar that forgot to add a sweetener. Then it has this chili aftertaste which burns your throat a little. So essentially it’s a chunk of bland savory stuff with a hot ‘n’ spicy chili aftertaste.

I do have to give E3Live a little bit of credit for creating something that’s so damn healthy. It does contain a few superfoods (raw cacao, raw honey, spirulina, coconut oil), and there isn’t one ingredient on the list that isn’t highly beneficial to our bodies. If this block of choco actually tasted good, I’d be buying it by the carton, that’s how healthy it is.

I’m disappointed in this chocolate for a couple of reasons. First, I had high hopes that this would be THE brand of delicious tasting healthy chocolate that I was looking for, and second because it goes against everything that I’m all about when it comes to healthy eating. Because these ingredients modified and mixed around a little can make a healthy chocolate that actually tastes good, the way healthy food should. I feel like E3Live just got it a little bit wrong somehow. Yes it’s great to make a healthy chocolate, but it’s also important to make it actually taste good too.

And it’s not impossible. Healthy food, especially raw cacao, does not need to taste bad. In fact, raw superfoods and raw cacao can be some of the tastiest foods we’ll ever eat.

Now this product is handmade and the recipe obviously would have been sampled by the people that make it, so I’m wondering if I’m missing something here. I guess it is called ‘Flame Of Chicchan’, so perhaps the chili flavor should not have been such a surprise. But I’m also wondering if my taste buds are just not aligning well with the product. Perhaps my travel buddy (who also sampled it with a similar response) and I are just not acquired enough to fully appreciate this raw taste.

In any case, I won’t be buying this product again. And unless you like your chocolate to taste like cardboard and chilis, then I’d hold off from purchasing one too.

Sorry E3Live for the very bad review, but you still get top points for being super healthy!

Fran

Sadly I couldn’t fit my yoga mat into my suitcase when I left Australia for my overseas adventure three months ago.

It was silly of me really. I should have taken something else out of my bag so that it would fit, because I like to do a lot of yoga, and I had every intention of doing a daily yoga practice, even while I was traveling.

My friend Cathy advised me in Brisbane to buy a travel yoga mat that I could easily fold up and take with me in my bag. If I’d been properly prepared for my trip I would have taken her advice and bought one. Unfortunately yoga stores are few and far between in Brisbane so I left for overseas minus a yoga mat.

It wasn’t until I was in a bookstore in Chicago two months later (and a lot of doing yoga on a borrowed mat or towel) that I stumbled across one of those fold up travel yoga mats that Cathy was talking about. It had a sticky grippable surface on one side and a nice soft surface on the other. It was a perfect size for carrying around with me while I was traveling, so I grabbed it off the shelf. Definitely worth the US$30 price tag.

If you want to check out the Gaiam travel mat I bought, you can visit the Gaiam website.

But sadly the travel mat just wasn’t good enough … Continue reading →

That’s right, my mini-course, 7 Easy Steps To Acne-Free skin, has now passed 1000 members! Well, it actually passed 1000 a while ago but it took me this long to write about it

You too can watch the High on Health members grow if you like. You may have noticed the little growing number in the right hand side box (see image, look at where the red arrow is pointing). This number tallys how many High on Health members there are. I remember when I used to have just one member, so this growing number is awesome. And of course it means there are many of us now in the High on Health community, so we can all support each other, and share what is and what isn’t working for our skin.

To celebrate I’ve given the course a bit of a face lift to make it more intuitive and easier to follow. The biggest change is the format - the lessons will now be delivered online instead of as emails.

This new format will allow you to follow the course at your own pace. So you can do the course at the recommended weekly pace if you like, or you can read the whole lot at once.

From your feedback (and I’m very grateful for that) I realized that not everyone wants to do the course at the pace that I preset. So putting it all online was a fantastic solution. The online format also gives me the freedom to ‘pretty it up’ with nicer font and a little color.

If you’re a current High on Health member and you’ve already completed the course, don’t worry about missing out! I’ll be emailing you the URL of the course so you can take a look at it online too and refer back to the content whenever you need to.

Have you taken my free mini-course?

If you haven’t yet signed up to my free mini-course, 7 Easy Steps To Acne-Free Skin, now’s your chance.

It’s a holistic plan that runs through step-by-step how you can finally get rid of your acne. The steps are a result of months of research, trial and error to cure my own severe acne that I developed almost overnight at the ripe old age of 27.

To join, all you need to do is put your first name and primary Email address in the box below and hit the join button. You’ll then receive your first Email from me. Don’t worry, you’re not selling your soul when you join up - you can unsubscribe at any time.

And thank you to all my lovely past and current members for your feedback and support!

Fran