ML asked:


I would like to use this flower for a wedding but am afraid if I use it for the centerpieces the day before the reception, they might die and look gross.

Darrin

Albrecht Bracher asked:


The best skin creams for maintaining health and longevity of youthful, sexy appearance are all-natural. And I have found some of the very best natural skin care cream to come from the Xtend Life company, which asks us to “love life, live longer”.

Why do I think these are among the best skin creams? Well, for one thing, the company refuses to use anything in its creams that isn’t so safe that you could literally eat it without getting sick or being harmed in any way (because, as they see it, whatever you put on your skin does get absorbed by your body over time and therefore you ARE eating it). Now if that alone doesn’t sound like an important trait that the very best natural skin care cream products would have, I don’t know what else does.

But you may ask, why are they so uptight about this standard in their skin creams? Well, the Xtend Life scientists did a lot of research into the already existing and big name brands of skin cream and they mostly didn’t like what they found.

What they found was a lot of stuff that they didn’t feel the best skin creams should contain. Things they found regularly used in skin creams included: acrylamide, which possibly leads to breast cancer; alcohols–and not the waxes, but the kind which do the opposite of what skin care creams should be doing and actually dry out or otherwise irritate the skin; dioxane, which is a synthetic derivative of coconut that contains high concentrations of a chemical “known to the State of California to cause cancer”; the cheap mineral oil derivative known as liquid paraffin, paraffin wax, or petrolatum which clogs the pores, interferes with skin’s ability to eliminate toxins and so encourages acne and other disorders, and can cause photosensitivity while stripping the natural oils from the skin causing chapping and dryness along with premature aging…and even more skin-harming substances.

None of these things are used in what are, as I said I believe them to be, among the very best natural skin care cream products on the market–those offered by Xtend Life. .

And here’s another reason to consider them among the best skin creams: these guys use more than 40 active ingredients in their products–all as natural as possible and proven in clinical trials to be effective.

What’s so special about that, you ask? Well, unlike many skincare companies, who use only miniscule amounts of certain active ingredient just so they can add them to the label, this company always uses the optimum amount of every ingredient–in fact, the very same amount of each ingredient as used in clinical trials to achieve measurable results. That’s what any alleged manufacturer of the best natural skin care cream products should be doing, to me.

So, you want to maintain your healthy, sexy, vigorous look? For finding the best skin creams to achieve this, my money’s on Xtend Life .

 

 



Shantel

Jeams Hinaloc asked:


AS A normal person, you would like to live for a long, long time. But how long can you expect to live? What is the limit of the human life span? Can you do anything to extend your life span? What is the secret of longevity? These are good questions, and finding the answer to them might help you to live much longer than seems possible at present.

Before looking for these answers, we have to clarify the difference between two important expressions: “life span” and “life expectancy.” Life span refers to the biological limit to the length of life. Life expectancy refers to the average number of years that a group of people born at the same time might be expected to live. Sadly, throughout history man’s life expectancy has fallen far short of his life span.

Life Expectancy at Various Times

“In a man’s length of days he may see and suffer many things that he much mislikes. For I set the limit of man’s life at seventy years.” These were the words of Solon, an Athenian statesman and Greek lawmaker who lived about 600 B.C.E. Thus, according to him, the life span was 70 years. However, according to data from burial inscriptions, about 400 B.C.E. the life expectancy in Greece was approximately 29 years.

In ancient times, apparently the life expectancy in various countries of Europe did not vary substantially from that in ancient Greece. Because of the high death rate at an early age, the average life expectancy fell far short of the life span. The box on the next page gives the average age at death in some European countries, providing a comparison of that of ancient times with the life expectancy about the year 1900 and at the present time.

Regarding the increase in life expectancy, James F. Fries and Lawrence M. Crapo wrote in their work Vitality and Aging, 1981, pages 74-6:

“The average length of life in the United States has increased from approximately 47 years at the turn of the century to over 73 years today, an increase of more than 25 years. . . . A critical look at these data, however, shows that the increase in life expectancy results from the elimination of premature death rather than by extension of the natural life span. When life expectancy is calculated from particular ages, the higher the age, the less is the increase. From age 40, life expectancy has increased relatively little. From age 75, the increase is barely perceptible. Beyond the age of 85, an increase cannot be confidently determined at all. . . . The best projections we can develop indicate that the median natural human life span is set at a maximum of 85 years.”

But what about the possibility of extending the life span significantly by diet, vitamins, drugs, and so forth? On page 18 of their work, Fries and Crapo explain:

“For hundreds of years, alchemists attempted to prepare rejuvenating elixirs, without success. Literally hundreds of substances, including herbs, drugs, vitamins, extracts of animal cells, fermented milk, and various serums and potions have been reported to have rejuvenating properties, without convincing evidence. In our own country, the traditional snake oil potions have fallen into disrepute, but we do still have our vitamins. Recently, the drug gerovital has been promoted by Aslan in Rumania as an agent to prevent aging. Gerovital, whose main ingredient is the local anesthetic Novocaine, has been used in treatment of Khrushchev [1894-1971], Sukarno [1901-1970], Ho Chi Minh [1890-1969], and other dignitaries. There exists, of course, no evidence that this agent has any such effects, and there are no a priori reasons to assume that it should. The persons cited as examples of prominent users by gerovital proponents all died, and at unremarkable ages.

“In 1974, Packer and Smith published a paper in a prestigious American scientific journal reporting experiments that seemed to show that vitamin E markedly prolonged the life span of normal human fibroblast cells cultured in a laboratory flask. Later, they retracted this claim, when neither they nor others were able to reproduce the experimental results. To date, no diets, lifestyles, vitamins, drugs, or tonics have been shown to extend the human life span. Of the 4 billion human beings who have lived and died, nearly every possible combination of diet, chemical exposure, and psychological life must have existed. The absence of super-centenarians argues strongly that there is no easy track to long life, or someone would have found it by now.”

Clearly, humans have not been capable of extending their life span, although particularly by reducing the number of deaths from childhood diseases, life expectancy has been extended somewhat. From the human standpoint, the hope of extending the life span is dim indeed. However, there is a sure hope that the human life span will be extended. By what means?



Carter