Archive for July, 2007:
Acne Myth No. 5
Acne Is a Hereditary Disorder – COULD BE
You’ve often heard that if your parents suffered from acne (or still suffer), you’ll get it too sooner or later. Although not in the common medical sense of the word acne can be called a hereditary disorder, unfortunately. But you shouldn’t be scared, because not everybody whose [...]
Acne Myth No. 4
Sunlight Is Good against Acne –WRONG
Many people still expose themselves to sunlight for “treating” their zits or even acne. But sunlight has not been yet proven to be a real healer for this kind of skin problems and for any skin disorders at all, in fact. It’s clear that, once again, is just a [...]
Acne Myth No. 3
Stress Is a Cause for Acne – COULD BE
You should know that the debate about whether stress does or does not cause acne still hasn’t ended. But first of all the first tip for a long life is a life without stress. That’s not a very helpful answer to the question whether stress causes acne, [...]
Acne Myth No. 2
Frequently Washing Your Face Would Help You Get Rid of Acne - WRONG
Maybe this second myth seems funny for you. But there are still a lot of people that, consciously or not, associate acne and blackheads with the lack of personal hygiene and dirt. This is, obviously, a misconception: the black color is simply compact [...]
Acne Myth No. 1
Acne Is Diet-related - WRONG
The recent studies showed that there is no relation between your diet and acne. So, sugar, chocolate, milk, oil, sausages and so on, do not represent a cause for acne. However, this doesn’t mean that you should exaggerate with eating sweets, fat and very salty foods or fast-food.
Eating properly, healthy food [...]
Ready to Battle Acne?
Well, we’ve decided that acne it’s a serious health problem, but with the right approach everything will be just fine! Now it’s time to find out what you should know about acne; what’s for real and what’s a myth, fantasy or…, how to say it?, just grandma’s sweet beliefs.
It’s time to let go of the [...]
Men Are More Likely to Suffer from Acne
Yes, it’s true! Men are more likely to suffer from acne compared to women. This a sad issue, if one considers that men are less interested in their look. When talking about acne, not being interested in your own look and your skin’s health could cost your permanent acne scars and severe forms of the [...]
Since the 6th Century till the Present
It seems that acne does not represent a disease of the modern man, as it has been first mentioned centuries ago by the physician of the emperor Justinian I. In fact Aetius Amidenus used for the first time the term of “acne” in stead of “acme” when referring to this type of skin eruptions; this [...]
Zits or Acne?
Zits, pimples, spots… there are many names for those red, purple or white pustules! Our old grandmas and grandpas are smiling elfishly when the first zit has already caused a tragedy in their grandchildren’s life. “You’ve started to love somebody!” Ridiculously or not, in the common mentality these irritating spots that cause as much suffering [...]
Rediance WP Theme
Rediance it’s a red, 3 columns, widget ready theme for Wordpress. I made some space in the right for Adsense (336×280 rectangle). You can skip the ads and add an image or a tagcloud.
Live demo is here and you can download it here.
Updates:
5 September: minor bugs involving widgets and blogroll are fixed