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1. Jorok.
Mana ada sih pria yang betah berlama-lama dengan wanita yang tidak menjaga kebersihan tubuhnya? Jadi, jangan pernah lupa untuk selalu menjaga kebersihan tubuh, terutama bagian kewanitaan.

2. Kurang Bergairah.
Kita para wanita juga pastinya tidak suka kalau pasangan kurang bergairah saat berhubungan seks. Jadi, jangan lupa untuk tunjukkan gairah terbaik Anda ketika bercinta dengan pasangan.

3. Ungroomed Bikini Line
Bikini line yang rapih tentunya akan membuat tampilannya bersih dan menggairahkan. Jadi sudah tidak ada alasan lagi untuk tidak memperhatikan bagian ini. Ayo, mulai pupuk keberanian untuk pergi ketempat waxing. Dan buatlah bentuk bikini line yang paling oke!

4. Kurang suka Bereksperimen.
Eksperimen dalam bercinta bisa menambah gairah Anda dan pasangan. Jadi, jangan ragu untuk mencoba posisi-posisi baru.

5. Cerewet.
Wanita yang cerewet pastinya sudah dimaklumi oleh para laki-laki, kebanyakan dari mereka bilang itu adalah sifat yang umum dari seorang wanita. Tapi kalau cerewet ditempat tidur, sepertinya para pria sudah tidak bisa memakluminya lagi tuh, bisa-bisa gairahnya langsung hilang.

6. Tidak PD
Terlalu banyak mengeluh soal bentuk tubuh, misalnya selalu merasa gemuk, bentuk payudara yang kurang menarik, dsb, juga akan membuat pria jadi turn off. Percaya diri saja, pasangan Anda pasti akan lebih senang.

7. Anti Oral Seks.
Oral seks untuk sebagian besar laki-laki adalah aktivitas yang menantang dan menyenangkan. Jadi kalau pasangannya tidak suka melakukan oral seks, sepertinya mereka bisa jadi kurang bergairah untuk melanjutkan bercinta.

8. Terlalu Pendiam.
Kalau kaum wanita merasa tidak masalah dengan suasana yang sepi ketika berhubungan seks, berbeda dengan kaum pria. Suara-suara yang Anda keluarkan justru akan membuat pasangan semakin bergairah.

9. Terlalu berisik.
Yang sedang-sedang saja memang paling pas. Jadi, walaupun pria suka dengan suara-suara yang kita keluarkan, suara yang terlalu keras juga akan membuat Anda terlihat berlebihan.

10.Bermesraan setelah berhubungan seks.
Setelah berhubungan seks, para pria kurang suka untuk melanjutkan bermesra-mesraan. Mereka lebih memilih untuk tidur, atau malah melanjutkan pekerjaan lain. Jadi jangan merasa habis manis sepah dibuang kalau pasangan lebih memilih tidur setelah bercinta daripada membelai mesra Anda, karena memang kaum pria seperti itu.

Ayo, buat suami Anda tergoda dengan bagian-bagian tubuh Anda yang menjadi favoritnya. Ini dia 10 bagian tubuh wanita yang paling disukai para pria :

1. Payudara.
Rawatlah payudara Anda agar bentuknya selalu terjaga. Totok atau masker payudara adalah pilihan yang bagus. Dijamin akan membuat pasangan semakin bergairah.

2. Bokong.
Rajin-rajinlah melakukan gerakan-gerakan latihan untuk mengencangkan bagian ini. Karena bentuknya yang indah, akan membuat pasangan jadi makin penasaran.

3. Wajah.
Kerut-kerut dan juga flek hitam diwajah sepertinya akan membuat pasangan jadi sulit untuk turn on. Jadi, sudah waktunya untuk melakukan perawatan ekstra untuk bagian wajah Anda.

4. Mata.
Yang namanya cinta, bisa datang dari mata turun kehati. Begitu juga untuk urusan seks. Mata yang indah bisa membuat pasangan jadi tidak sabar untuk bercinta dengan Anda.

5. Kaki.
Sudah bukan rahasia lagi kalau kaki jenjang dan mulus selalu bisa mengundang fantasi para pria. Tapi kalau Anda merasa tidak memiliki kaki yang jenjang, jangan kecewa dulu. Asalkan terawat, bersih dan mulus pastinya bisa mengundang fantasi-fantasi erotis pasangan.

6. Jemari Kaki.
Menggoda pasangan dengan saling mengelus telapak dan jemari kaki sepertinya adalah salah satu trik foreplay yang cukup menjanjikan. Jemari kaki yang bersih dan indah, pastinya akan membuat foreplay jadi semakin menyenangkan. Jadi, weekend ini jangan lupa untuk pedicure ya.

7. Perut.
No wonder para pria berlomba-lomba membuat perutnya six pack. Ternyata bagian tubuh yang satu ini memang favorit mereka, termasuk bagian perut kita.

8. Bibir.
Banyak pria yang tergila-gila dengan bentuk bibir seorang Angelina Jolie. Nah, walaupun bentuk bibir Anda tidak sedahsyat yang dimiliki Angelina Jolie, tapi kalau selalu sehat dan tidak kering pasti juga bisa membuat pasangan tidak sabar untuk segera menyentuh dengan bibirnya.

9. Lengan.
Luangkan waktu untuk membentuk bagian lengan. Karena bagian ini juga merupakan bagian favorit para pria. Oke juga kan kalau sekali-sekali foreplay diawali dari bagian ini?

10.Rambut.
Tidak harus panjang kok, yang penting bersih dan wangi. Karena ketika pasangan mencium bagian rambut Anda yang bersih dan wangi, dijamin dia tidak sabar untuk segera meng-explore bagian tubuh yang lain.

Well. selamat mencoba! Dan semoga kehidupan seks Anda dan pasangan bisa semakin menyenangkan.

Jadi, kalau Anda hanya berharap pasangan harus bisa membuat Anda merasakan orgasme, sepertinya itu adalah sesuatu yang sia-sia. Lebih baik, belajar dari buku tentang basic idea dari respons seksual, yang bisa meng-guide Anda step by step untuk mencapai orgasme.

Pelajari juga bagaimana rasanya ketika Anda mulai merasa terangsang, yaitu ketika darah didalam tubuh serasa mengalir cepat dan berpusat di organ genital Anda. Sebenarnya, orgasme itu adalah keadaan dimana tubuh Anda mengembalikan aliran darah ke seluruh tubuh dengan cepat, dimana Anda akan merasakan kedahsyatan yang luar biasa! Nah, sekali Anda merasakan perasaan ini, maka perasaan takut akan berkurang.

Tidak perlu terlalu khawatir, karena tidak sedikit kok wanita yang butuh pertolongan dari ahlinya untuk bisa merasakan orgasme, jadi Anda tidak sendirian. Terus belajar dan bersabar, itu kuncinya.

If someone tells you, you're "not my type" or they don't want "to settle down" or they'll "never be faithful"… do you ignore their honesty, or avoid a conversation and decide to yourself "Yeah, that's what they think!" Then when they remind you that they told you this before you so gallantly gave your heart away, you're devastated and confused. but it's not their fault - it's your very own denial!

Next time you start to get involved, listen and take note of the person's actions. Don't try to conquer love… let love happen where it is willing to happen and when it makes sense! Then you can take all that energy you would expend into trying to fix someone and put it into getting to know someone, instead. That's a lot more fun and fulfilling!

Movie stars aren't perfect
Once you're in a relationship, do you look for flaws in your partner or attempt to justify why, this too, will be a failed relationship? Do you wonder, "Do they have a soul?" because of the way they mangle the toothpaste tube, the funny way their hair parts over their ears, or because they don't love to golf? You need to stop and get real with your bad self. Remember, you're not perfect either.

To stop self-sabotaging potential for finding love we need to be blatantly honest with ourselves about whether we subconsciously believe that just anyone will do, or that no one will ever do. Part of finding a relationship is accepting other's for who they are, realizing that imperfections can be beautiful, and learning to relish another's idiosyncrasies. No union is ever going to be fairy tale perfect. The point is to find a person you can honestly love, who honestly loves, respects and adores you… and together you have the great potential to live life passionately - warts and all.

If you want to enhance the intimacy in your relationship, make it a point each day to do a little fact exchange with your mate. Whether it's by text, email or IM tell your lover a little something about you that they may not have known, and they can do the same in return. It doesn't matter if it's that your favorite color is green or that as a kid you wanted to be an astronaut - the details can be tiny tidbits or huge, life-changing moments. The point is to exchange information that makes you feel like you know each other better. What you learn - and what you share - might just surprise you!

Unplug together…
Just as important as finding ways to incorporate your lover into your every day insanity, is occasionally removing that insanity from the times you spend together. What does that mean you ask (you workaholic!)? It means it's time to unplug.

Take one day (maybe Sundays) - or if that's just too much, one night - and power down the phones, disconnect the computer and, if you're brave, turn off the television. Try cooking or playing a board game or giving each other massages - anything that involves absolutely no contact with the outside world for a stated period of time (at least several hours). While you may find it tough at first (they call them crack-berries for a reason, after all), what you'll gain as a pair will far outweigh the anxiety - and give you a chance to recharge, as individuals and as a team.

Learn something together
Odds are that as a couple you have some common interests, so why not explore them together? Take a class in something that appeals to both of you. Whether it's a six-week workshop or a single Saturday event, the experience will give you common ground and a shared experience.

Of course participating in any activity as a team is a great connection booster, but the particular appeal of learning something together is that you both start from a similar place. In other words, neither of you is playing the role of teacher - you're both students (save the role switching for later in the night!). Whether it's wine tasting, tennis or a foreign language, the best part is, you can go home and practice together.

Mix it up together…
Remember the days of the mix tape? Or if you're too young for that, the mix CD? Well, it might sound old fashioned, but a personally tailored music playlist (whether via I-Tunes or burned on CD), can reveal a lot about the person who makes it - and make the person who receives it feel special. So make one!

Music is universal shorthand. And whether you create a mix that reminds you of childhood, or a sultry soundtrack specifically for a night en casa, the point is to give your mate a window into the way you experience life… What the songs you select bring out in your lover may reflect a shared experience - or open you up to a new set of experiences to share.

Celebrate each other together…
One of the smallest things that makes the biggest difference in happy, close-knit relationships is attention to detail. Paying mind to the little things in your lover's life (say a particular work project that's about to come to a close, a favorite sports event that's coming up, a sleepy Sunday spent in bed together) is what separates you from the other people in each other's lives. So why not make something that means a lot to your partner a little more special by celebrating it? Get tickets to that game - even if you're not a fan. Cook their favorite meal the night that work project wraps - and surprise them with it. Make Sunday the day for breakfast in bed when they'd planned on mowing the lawn as usual. They'll appreciate that you took the time to notice and the time you'll share will do wonders to bring you closer.

Don't say no
If a friend asks you to go to a soccer match and you don't know anything about soccer, go anyway! You may just meet the perfect person to explain the game to you - sitting in the next seat over. Go to parties or gatherings you may not have been open to in the past. Try lectures on things you know nothing about. It's the best way to open up your circle and show you're open to new things. Now that's something that's sexy and will get you noticed.

Look up!
Yup! It's just that simple. As you are trying out your alternative soulmate search lifestyle, look up and all around you. At this new grocery store that you have never shopped in before, look at the layout. Pick up items and really look at them before you toss them into your basket. People who are engaged in their task look interesting to others. In other words, get present in your space. It's all brand new and so is your outlook. Look up to remind yourself to keep your chin up and to see who else is shopping. If you do catch the eye of someone attractive, don't just shut it away in your mind. Wander a little closer, and give them a chance. Things may just be looking up.

Be intentional
Our lives are created through our intentions. We say we want to meet our soulmates, but is that our true intention? The days fill up with tasks and errands, work and obligations that without some deliberate intentions we are reduced to life as a worker bee, only focused on the task, unaware of the entirety of our efforts. So every morning, when you wake up, say this out loud so you can hear your voice and align your energy with your desire, "It is my intention to meet my soulmate within the next 30 days. Bring me to the exact right place at the exact right time and show me clearly who this is. I trust."

If meeting your soulmate were an exact science, it wouldn't be the inspirational journey that it is. And your soulmate is out there. In fact, people fall in love all over the world every day. So, start again, start fresh and let the universe hear your heart's desire. Get specific and see what the next month holds for you!

In a sense, she hasn’t. Nora has epilepsy, and as with 30 percent of those with the disorder, her seizures are not controlled by existing treatments.

She often has more than one seizure a day, mostly at night. Her seizures, called tonic-clonic (what used to be known as grand mal), cause her to lose consciousness for a full minute while her body convulses.

While some people feel an “aura” of symptoms before a seizure, Nora’s seizures happen entirely without warning. When she seized at the top of a staircase in her home in Yardley, Pa., it was plain luck that her parents were at the bottom and caught her as she fell. Though she is on the brink of adolescence, she is rarely, if ever, left alone.

Epilepsy affects 50 million people worldwide and more than 2.7 million people in the United States; half of all patients are children. Especially in its intractable form, also called refractory epilepsy, the disorder — and the side effects of epilepsy medications — can cause problems in learning, memory and behavior, and indelibly alter development. Epilepsy can also consume families, monopolizing their time, money and energy.

Despite the number of people with epilepsy — the disorder affects more Americans than do Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Lou Gehrig’s disease combined — it still carries a stigma that dates to ancient civilizations. Many patients, doctors and families say the stigma hampers care, public recognition and the ability to raise money for research.

“There is an ongoing, significant embarrassment level about it,” said Dr. Orrin Devinsky, director of the Epilepsy Center at New York University. “The feeling, for a lot of people, is that it does carry a lot worse stigma than a cancer, or an H.I.V. even. At some level, it’s society that needs to wake up and realize it’s just another neurologic disorder.”

Warren Lammert, who runs a financial firm in Boston and whose daughter has epilepsy, founded an organization in 2002 with Dr. Devinsky and two others to support research into new treatments. “It’s better today,” he said about public perceptions of the disorder. “But even among well-educated people, people don’t like to talk about epilepsy.”

While many public figures with cancer (or cancer in the family) are forthcoming about the illness, Mr. Lammert said, the same does not go for epilepsy. And though his organization, the Epilepsy Therapy Development Project, has two strong public representatives — the Olympic women’s hockey goaltender Chanda Gunn and the hip-hop artist D J Hapa — the disorder has never found an icon like Michael J. Fox, whose openness about Parkinson’s disease helps raise tens of millions of dollars a year for research.

Meanwhile, despite advances that have helped people with treatable epilepsy, the 30 percent rate for the intractable form has changed little in 40 years. “Refractory epilepsy remains an enormous problem,,” Dr. Devinsky said.

Epilepsy results from an electrical disturbance in the brain, though at various stages in history it has been thought of as evidence of a connection to the divine, a sign of demonic possession or the mark of a witch. The types of seizures vary from staring episodes or eye blinks to sudden falls or convulsions. All can be debilitating, depending on factors like frequency and the age when they start.

Comprehensive Epilepsy Centers, medical practices that specialize in treating the disorder at 50 hospitals around the nation, represent the gold standard in therapy. Treatments include anticonvulsant medications, which can have profound effects on memory, behavior and cognitive ability; the ketogenic diet, a restrictive plan that has had remarkable success in controlling seizures; an implanted stimulator that sends regular pulses of electricity to the brain; and surgery to remove an affected area of the brain.

In the last two decades, surgery has changed the landscape of epilepsy for many patients, including children. Yet Nora Leitner, like many others, is not a candidate for surgery because her seizures involve all of her brain, rather than a localized area.

For Nora, her parents, Lee and Kina Leitner, and her brother, Ethan, 7, epilepsy has become the center of the universe, governing decisions about everything from where to live to whether to go out to dinner.

“The level of frustration and the level of stress is just phenomenal,” said Ms. Leitner, 60, a resilient and energetic college professor.

Mr. Leitner, 49, also a professor, hates seeing Nora’s youth overwhelmed by the illness. “Her childhood is defined by this,” he said, “and it’s really sad.”

The Leitners’ experience is typical, Dr. Devinsky said, adding, “It involves everybody to an incredible degree.”

Looking back, the Leitners think Nora had her first seizure in utero two weeks before she was born. Her first recognized seizure happened when she was 4 ½ months old; a month later, she had five seizures in three days. The formal diagnosis came after her first birthday. Dr. Christina Bergqvist, Nora’s neurologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said Nora’s M.R.I. shows visible abnormalities in her brain.

The critical struggle in Nora’s care, as for many children with epilepsy, has been to safeguard her cognitive life. Children with intractable epilepsy display a wide range of abilities, from normal functioning to profound retardation. Nora falls somewhere in the mid-high range. Her speech is extremely slow and soft; she often frowns before answering a question, as if struggling to formulate her response. While her answers are usually accurate, her response time is slow, and she sometimes is not aware that she has been asked a question at all.

Yet beneath the layers of difficulty is a sharp mind, an avid reader in a home filled with books, a child whose favorite subject is science and who can discuss ancient Egyptian culture and identify common vertebrates and invertebrates. Despite her halting speech, she tells a reporter that her chore in the house is looking after the recyclable cans and bottles.

“Nora’s responsible for taking those out,” Ms. Leitner said. Her daughter added dryly, “Yeah, without asking.”

That child, and those submerged abilities, were what Ms. Leitner first saw clearly in 2000, when Nora went off a medication called Depakote. The side effects of anticonvulsant medications are often as disabling as seizures themselves, and Nora’s life on medication had begun at 6 months, when her doctor prescribed phenobarbital, a drug that causes cognitive and language delays.

“We were beside ourselves,” said Ms. Leitner, who teaches psychology at University of Maryland University College and who suddenly found herself putting her expertise to work for her own child. “One of my biggest concerns was, do we medicate her? I knew that the drugs they used to treat epilepsy were all cognitive depressants.”

It is the Solomon’s choice faced by parents of children with intractable epilepsy: risk the damage wrought by seizures, or the side effects of medication? Over the next five years Nora tried eight or nine medications, and in 2000, at age 6, she entered first grade taking two anticonvulsants, Depakote and Topamax, every day.

Then she caught a break. The Depakote made her so sleepy that Ms. Leitner rescheduled the lunchtime dose so she would be alert at school. After a few months, they dropped the midday dose entirely. Suddenly, a new Nora surfaced.

“It was a phenomenal change,” Ms. Leitner said. “She was awake, alert. We took away another dose; then that summer, we took the last one away and she started seizing again. But she had started talking, reading, everything she hadn’t done before; she never talked in full sentences until she was 6 years old. I wasn’t willing to go back.”

In October 2002, Nora went on the ketogenic diet. It is like the Atkins diet in overdrive: it mandates vast quantities of fats, like oil, which Nora drank from a small bottle, and almost no carbohydrates. Every morsel is weighed, and no deviations are allowed. Within weeks, Ms. Leitner said, there were pronounced changes in Nora’s abilities and attention span. Over the next 21 months, she had only two seizures.

But in the summer and fall of 2004, there were three more, and that October, while swimming at school, Nora had a seizure and nearly drowned. Within a year, she had begun to have a seizure or two a month as she entered puberty. In March 2006 she had a vagus nerve stimulator implanted, but her seizures became so frequent that the Leitners had the device turned off two months later. Since then, she has often had more than one seizure a day.

Families of children with intractable epilepsy often have a hard time getting the constellation of services they need. “Throughout the years, we’ve had to find things out for ourselves,” Ms. Leitner said. “Nobody ever said to us, ‘Nora needs speech therapy,’ or ‘Nora should see a developmental pediatrician.’ ”

Even finding the right school was a trial. The Leitners now drive Nora 30 miles each way to the Orchard Friends School in Moorestown, N.J., and they will begin home-schooling her in the fall.

Social isolation is a persistent issue. Schools may not want to include students with epilepsy on field trips; peers may not invite them for sleepovers. “A lot of it just seems to be awareness issues,” Mr. Leitner said. “Most people have never seen somebody have a seizure.”

Dr. Bergqvist agreed. “It is frightening to see a child seize,” she said. “And then based on that fright, people decide, ‘I can’t deal with that child.’ People still think it’s contagious.”

In late November 2006, the Leitners agreed to give the vagus nerve stimulator another try, but it made no difference in Nora’s seizure control. In fact, in the first half of 2007, her condition deteriorated to the point at which, on two separate days that summer, she had 19 full-blown seizures each day.

A few months earlier, in March 2007, Dr. Bergqvist had been surprised to discover that a genetic test on Nora came back positive for a mutation called SCN1A, which is linked to a variety of severe seizure disorders.

In August, Nora began taking stiripentol, a high-priced medication that has been approved in Europe, but not the United States, to treat patients with SCN1A mutations. (It is not covered by insurance plans in the United States.) In combination with two other medications, it brought her seizures completely under control at first. They have come and gone since, as Dr. Bergqvist and Ms. Leitner try to pin down the right combination of doses.

Nora typically feels best in the brief period immediately after a change in treatment, but the improvement is always fleeting.

“When we make a change to the VNS settings, she is fabulous for about two to four hours — really alert and awake and bright and on target, all there,” Ms. Leitner said. “And when we introduce a new drug, or when we change the dosing on a drug, she’ll go seizure-free for about two weeks. And then it’s like the brain finds a way of getting around the drug.”

So far, the new trio of medications has offered Nora a better level of control than almost any other treatment that the Leitners have tried over the years. In addition, last fall Nora went off the ketogenic diet and onto a less restrictive low-glycemic-index diet, freeing the Leitners to go to restaurants and travel as a family.

In the midst of all of this, Nora is having as typical a 13-year-old life as she can. She loves to swim and has taken gymnastics, piano lessons, tae kwon do, and hip-hop dance classes. Her bedroom brims with books, dolls and stuffed animals, and she eagerly shows off her huge repertoire of knock-knock jokes. She dotes on the family dog, Franklin, and the cat, Lily.

Dr. Bergqvist says Nora could experience a remission after she goes through puberty. Until then, the choices continue. But Ms. Leitner acknowledged that their approach may have to change. “At a certain point, I’m going to have to stop worrying about her ability to think and go for the seizure control,” she said.

But she knows that it will not be easy. “If she had always been the way she was before the diet, I probably wouldn’t be as dramatic about this as I am,” she said. “But I’ve seen what she can do.”

Dr. Devinsky says that families like the Leitners, torn as they may be over the correct path to take, are on the right track.

“If there’s a message, it’s not to give up,” he said. “They should do everything possible to maximize the quality of life of their child, but at the same time, never, ever give up. Because there will be other things coming down the pike.”

Surprisingly, raw and plain vegetables are not always best. In The British Journal of Nutrition next month, researchers will report a study involving 198 Germans who strictly adhered to a raw food diet, meaning that 95 percent of their total food intake came from raw food. They had normal levels of vitamin A and relatively high levels of beta carotene.

But they fell short when it came to lycopene, a carotenoid found in tomatoes and other red-pigmented vegetables that is one of the most potent antioxidants. Nearly 80 percent of them had plasma lycopene levels below average.

“There is a misperception that raw foods are always going to be better,” says Steven K. Clinton, a nutrition researcher and professor of internal medicine in the medical oncology division at Ohio State University. “For fruits and vegetables, a lot of times a little bit of cooking and a little bit of processing actually can be helpful.”

The amount and type of nutrients that eventually end up in the vegetables are affected by a number of factors before they reach the plate, including where and how they were grown, processed and stored before being bought. Then, it’s up to you. No single cooking or preparation method is best. Water-soluble nutrients like vitamins C and B and a group of nutrients called polyphenolics are often lost in processing. For instance, studies show that after six months, frozen cherries have lost as much as 50 percent of anthocyanins, the healthful compounds found in the pigment of red and blue fruits and vegetables. Fresh spinach loses 64 percent of its vitamin C after cooking. Canned peas and carrots lose 85 percent to 95 percent of their vitamin C, according to data compiled by the University of California, Davis.

Fat-soluble compounds like vitamins A, D, E and K and the antioxidant compounds called carotenoids are less likely to leach out in water. Cooking also breaks down the thick cell walls of plants, releasing the contents for the body to use. That is why processed tomato products have higher lycopene content than fresh tomatoes.

In January, a report in The Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry concluded that over all, boiling was better for carrots, zucchini and broccoli than steaming, frying or serving them raw. Frying was by far the worst..

Still, there were tradeoffs. Boiling carrots, for instance, significantly increased measurable carotenoid levels, but resulted in the complete loss of polyphenols compared with raw carrots.

That report did not look at the effects of microwaving, but a March 2007 study in The Journal of Food Science looked at the effects of boiling, steaming, microwaving and pressure cooking on the nutrients in broccoli. Steaming and boiling caused a 22 percent to 34 percent loss of vitamin C. Microwaved and pressure-cooked vegetables retained 90 percent of their vitamin C.

What accompanies the vegetables can also be important. Studies at Ohio State measured blood levels of subjects who ate servings of salsa and salads. When the salsa or salad was served with fat-rich avocados or full-fat salad dressing, the diners absorbed as much as 4 times more lycopene, 7 times more lutein and 18 times the beta carotene than those who had their vegetables plain or with low-fat dressing.

Fat can also improve the taste of vegetables, meaning that people will eat more of them. This month, The American Journal of Preventive Medicine reported on 1,500 teenagers interviewed in high school and about four years later on their eating habits. In the teenage years, many factors influenced the intake of fruits and vegetables. By the time the study subjects were 20, the sole factor that influenced fruit and vegetable consumption was taste. Young adults were not eating vegetables simply because they didn’t like the taste.

“Putting on things that make it taste better — spices, a little salt — can enhance your eating experience and make the food taste better, so you’re more likely to eat vegetables more often,” Dr. Clinton said.

Because nutrient content and taste can vary so widely depending on the cooking method and how a vegetable is prepared, the main lesson is to eat a variety of vegetables prepared in a variety of ways.

As Susan B. Roberts, director of the energy metabolism laboratory at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition, put it, “Eating a variety of veggies is especially important so you like them enough to eat more.”

Some brains do deteriorate with age. Alzheimer’s disease, for example, strikes 13 percent of Americans 65 and older. But for most aging adults, the authors say, much of what occurs is a gradually widening focus of attention that makes it more difficult to latch onto just one fact, like a name or a telephone number. Although that can be frustrating, it is often useful.

“It may be that distractibility is not, in fact, a bad thing,” said Shelley H. Carson, a psychology researcher at Harvard whose work was cited in the book. “It may increase the amount of information available to the conscious mind.”

For example, in studies where subjects are asked to read passages that are interrupted with unexpected words or phrases, adults 60 and older work much more slowly than college students. Although the students plow through the texts at a consistent speed regardless of what the out-of-place words mean, older people slow down even more when the words are related to the topic at hand. That indicates that they are not just stumbling over the extra information, but are taking it in and processing it.

When both groups were later asked questions for which the out-of-place words might be answers, the older adults responded much better than the students.

“For the young people, it’s as if the distraction never happened,” said an author of the review, Lynn Hasher, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute. “But for older adults, because they’ve retained all this extra data, they’re now suddenly the better problem solvers. They can transfer the information they’ve soaked up from one situation to another.”

Such tendencies can yield big advantages in the real world, where it is not always clear what information is important, or will become important. A seemingly irrelevant point or suggestion in a memo can take on new meaning if the original plan changes. Or extra details that stole your attention, like others’ yawning and fidgeting, may help you assess the speaker’s real impact.

“A broad attention span may enable older adults to ultimately know more about a situation and the indirect message of what’s going on than their younger peers,” Dr. Hasher said. “We believe that this characteristic may play a significant role in why we think of older people as wiser.”

In a 2003 study at Harvard, Dr. Carson and other researchers tested students’ ability to tune out irrelevant information when exposed to a barrage of stimuli. The more creative the students were thought to be, determined by a questionnaire on past achievements, the more trouble they had ignoring the unwanted data. A reduced ability to filter and set priorities, the scientists concluded, could contribute to original thinking.

This phenomenon, Dr. Carson said, is often linked to a decreased activity in the prefrontal cortex. Studies have found that people who suffered an injury or disease that lowered activity in that region became more interested in creative pursuits.

Jacqui Smith, a professor of psychology and research professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, who was not involved in the current research, said there was a word for what results when the mind is able to assimilate data and put it in its proper place — wisdom.

“These findings are all very consistent with the context we’re building for what wisdom is,” she said. “If older people are taking in more information from a situation, and they’re then able to combine it with their comparatively greater store of general knowledge, they’re going to have a nice advantage.”

Parents may be buying it because they believe that organic is healthier, but babies may have a reason of their own for preferring Similac Organic: it is significantly sweeter than other formulas. It is the only major brand of organic formula that is sweetened with cane sugar, or sucrose, which is much sweeter than sugars used in other formulas.

No health problems in babies have been associated with Similac Organic. But to pediatricians, there are risks in giving babies cane sugar: Sucrose can harm tooth enamel faster than other sugars; once babies get used to its sweeter taste, they might resist less sweet formulas or solid foods; and some studies suggest that they might overeat, leading to rapid weight gain in the first year, which is often a statistical predictor of childhood obesity.

Asked about these concerns, Carolyn Valek, a spokeswoman for Abbott Nutrition, the division of Abbott Laboratories that makes Similac Organic, said that sucrose had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration and was considered “safe and well established.” Ms. Valek said that Similac Organic had no more sweetener than other formulas and that prolonged contact with any kind of sugar could cause tooth decay.

In Europe, where sudden increases in childhood obesity are a pressing public health issue, sucrose-sweetened formulas will be banned by the end of 2009, except when ordered by a doctor for babies with severe allergies. The 27 countries of the European Union adopted the new rules according to the recommendations of the group’s Scientific Committee on Food, which found that sucrose provided no particular nutritional advantages, could, in rare cases, bring about a fatal metabolic disorder, and might lead to overfeeding.

The F.D.A., however, which regulates infant formula, does not specify which sugars can be used, as long as they are already classified as safe. Nor does it set the amount of sugar per serving, as it does for fats and proteins.

Still, a number of pediatricians said they were surprised by the choice of sucrose.

“I would be very concerned about this as a pediatrician,” said Dr. Benjamin Caballero, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an expert in risk factors for childhood obesity. “The issue is that sweet tastes tend to encourage consumption of excessive amounts,” Dr. Caballero said. Evidence shows that babies and children will always show a preference for the sweetest food available, he said, and they will eat more of it than they would of less-sweet food.

“This is how breakfast cereal manufacturers compete,” he said.

Ms. Valek of Abbot Nutrition said the company did not “optimize for taste” when developing infant formula. “Our primary focus is to support normal growth through optimal nutrition and quality ingredients,” she said.

Organic formula, with sales of about $20 million annually, makes up only a sliver of the $2.5 billion formula market, according to A.C. Nielsen, the market research company. Similac Organic, analysts say, is largely responsible for the nearly tenfold growth in sales of organic formula from 2005 to 2007. According to the federal Department of Agriculture, which regulates organic labeling, a product can be labeled organic when 95 percent of its ingredients are grown without the use of certain pesticides and herbicides.

All infant formulas contain added sugars, which babies need to digest the proteins in cow’s milk or soy. Other organic formulas, like Earth’s Best and Parent’s Choice, use organic lactose as the added sugar. Organic lactose must be extracted from organic milk, the global supplies of which have been severely stretched in the last three years, driving up the price of the lactose.

“The parents in my practice who would use organic formula are the same parents who would be worried about giving sweets to their babies,” said Dr. Jatinder Bhatia, a member of the nutrition committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics. “That organic formula would be sweeter might not be a health risk, but it certainly isn’t what the parents have in mind.”

Kim Kupferman, a technology consultant in San Leandro, Calif., said she tended to trust the organic label. Her 7-month-old daughter, Saige, eats Similac Organic and a few organic solid foods. “But sugar is a concern for us — that’s why we started her on vegetables rather than fruits, so she wouldn’t get used to the sweet taste first.” Ms. Kupferman said, adding that she might re-evaluate her choice of formula.

Many doctors have long believed that all sugars, from raw cane to highly processed high-fructose corn syrup, are nutritionally identical. But others disagree. Ivan de Araujo, a fellow at the John B. Pierce Laboratory at Yale University School of Medicine, a center for sensory research, said scientists were beginning to tease out the differences.

“Recent studies show that animals have a clear preference for sucrose over other sugars,” Dr. Araujo said. And eating sucrose, he said, generates future cravings for sucrose; other sugars tested, like fructose and glucose, do not have the same long-term effect.

However, Gary K. Beauchamp, director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, a nonprofit research institute, said there was no solid proof that early exposure to sweetness gave babies a greater taste for sugar later in life. “The taste for sweet may be pegged so high that it can’t go any higher,” Dr. Beauchamp said.

The overall question of whether sweeter foods are more appealing to babies has long since been resolved. “Babies love sweetness, and anyone selling a sweeter formula is going to have an advantage, because it would be harder to switch a baby to another formula once they get used to the taste,” said Dr. William J. Klish, director of the pediatric gastroenterology department at Baylor College of Medicine and a former chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ nutrition committee.

The sweeter taste of Similac Organic was observed by a professional sensory-tasting panel, commissioned by The New York Times to do a blind tasting of eight nationally available formulas, soy and dairy, organic and not. Seven of the formulas were as sweet as unsweetened apple juice, said Gail Civille, the director of Sensory Spectrum, which performed the tests. Ms. Civille said Similac Organic was the sweetest, with “the sweetness of grape juice or Country Time lemonade."

Doctors say that parents need not worry about the precise composition of formula, because the product over all has been proved safe and effective. But many questioned Similac’s choice of cane sugar, which has been gradually disappearing from infant formula since the 1950s.

“The entire enterprise of formula is the attempt is to make it as close as possible to human milk,” Dr. Beauchamp said. “Making sweeter formula so that babies like it more seems to me contrary to the ethos of organic food, as a doctor and as a grandfather.”

The study, by Dr. Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School and James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, followed thousands of smokers and nonsmokers for 32 years, from 1971 until 2003, studying them as part of a large network of relatives, co-workers, neighbors, friends and friends of friends.

It was a time when the percentage of adult smokers in the United States fell to 21 percent from 45 percent. As the investigators watched the smokers and their social networks, they saw what they said was a striking effect — smokers had formed little social clusters and, as the years went by, entire clusters of smokers were stopping en masse. So were clusters of clusters that were only loosely connected.

Dr. Christakis described watching the vanishing clusters as like lying on your back in a field, looking up at stars that were burning out. “It’s not like one little star turning off at a time,” he said. “Whole constellations are blinking off at once.”

As cluster after cluster of smokers disappeared, those that remained were pushed to the margins of society, isolated, with fewer friends, fewer social connections. “Smokers used to be the center of the party,” Dr. Fowler said, “but now they’ve become wallflowers.”

“We’ve known smoking was bad for your physical health,” he said. “But this shows it also is bad for your social health.”

Smokers, he said, “are likely to drive friends away.”

Their paper is to be published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

“There is an essential public health message,” said Richard Suzman, director of the office of behavioral and social research at the National Institute on Aging, which financed the study.

“Obviously, people have to take responsibility for their behavior,” Mr. Suzman said. But a social environment, he added, “can just overpower free will.”

With smoking, that can be a good thing, researchers noted.

But there also is a sad side. As Dr. Steven Schroeder of the University of California, San Francisco, pointed out in an editorial accompanying the paper, “a risk of the marginalization of smoking is that it further isolates the group of people with the highest rate of smoking — persons with mental illness, problems with substance abuse, or both.”

These are people, Dr. Schroeder notes, who already suffer from being stigmatized.

It is not clear how to resolve that problem, Dr. Fowler said. “What we are seeing is that there is a fundamental trade-off to having a campaign to really change people’s behavior,” he said.

Dr. Christakis and Dr. Fowler published a similar study last year on obesity, asking about the rise of a health problem.

The new study also looked at smoking initiation but, because many more adults were stopping smoking than starting in the years of the study, its main focus was on cessation. Still, Dr. Christakis said, smoking initiation followed the same patterns as cessation: people started and stopped smoking in groups.

Such studies of social networks and behavior like smoking are extremely difficult because what is needed is detailed information on people’s behavior and the behavior of their family, their relatives, their neighbors and co-workers, their friends and their friends of friends. Dr. Christakis and Dr. Fowler discovered one data set that had what they needed but, they and others say, there may not be any others.

The data were from the federal Framingham Heart Study. It was initiated after World War II to follow the population of Framingham, Mass., in order to understand the causes and consequences of heart disease. Researchers regularly examined the study participants, weighing them, doing medical exams, asking them whether they smoked. In order to keep track of the subjects over the years, even if they moved away, the investigators asked for the names and contact information of close friends, co-workers and neighbors.

That meant, though, that the data set also contained all the information that would be needed for an analysis of social networks and the spread of obesity or, in this case, for an analysis of social networks and the decline in smoking, Dr. Christakis and Dr. Fowler realized.

The researchers focused on 5,124 people in the Framingham study who had 53,228 friends, relatives and neighbors as part of their social networks.

They noticed that, on average, smokers clustered in groups of three. Over the years, as fewer and fewer Americans smoked, the number of clusters declined but the clusters that remained stayed the same size, which meant that smokers were not stopping smoking one by one. They were stopping in groups.

Education also played a role. Those with more education were more highly influenced by their friends, and their friends were more likely to influence them. And some social contacts were more influential than others. A spouse’s quitting was more powerful than a friend’s, and a friend’s quitting was more powerful than a sibling’s. If someone you name as a friend quits, that has more of an effect than if someone who names you as their friend quits. Co-workers had an influence only in small firms where everyone knew one another. The effects were greater among casual smokers than heavy smokers.

The study and the obesity study that preceded it, said Duncan Watts, principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research in New York, provide a new view of society.

“We tend to think of individuals as atomized units, and we think of policies as good or bad for individuals,” Dr. Watts said. “This reminds us that we are all connected to each other, and when we do something to one person, there are spillover effects.”

And, he added, when the same sort of effects show up in the spread of obesity as in the decline of smoking, that should be a signal.

“Something very powerful is going on here,” Dr. Watts said

Write by: NYTimes

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Sebenarnya sih hal seperti ini jarang terjadi. Karena, putus itu adalah sebuah situasi yang serius dan harus ditangani secara serius juga. Nah, kita nggak akan ngebahas gimana caranya untuk meminta maaf sama mantan, tapi lebih kepada hal-hal apa saja sih yang nggak boleh diucapkan waktu meminta maaf.

Kalau Anda membaca artikel ini, berarti Anda diasumsikan sebagai pihak yang bersalah dan sedang merasa tersiksa oleh satu hal yang tidak Anda lakukan atau katakan. Nah, kunci untuk melakukan permohonan maaf yang efektif ketika akan minta balik lagi sama mantan adalah, being a little humble. Lupain deh semua hal pernah terjadi sebelumnya, kalau Anda nggak mau semuanya jadi berakhir sia-sia.

Ego, adalah penyebab utama, karena setiap manusia adalah makhluk yang sangat individualis. Yang ada dibenak setiap orang pastinya adalah, "saya nggak pernah salah, tapi orang lain pasti berbuat salah". Selalu saja ada alasan kenapa Anda melakukan suatu hal. Tapi tenang, itu bukan kesalahan Anda kok, karena Anda hanyalah korban dari keadaan.

Let's face it, yang namanya manusia pasti ga akan pernah mau mengaku salah. Tapi, ada waktu-waktu tertentu dimana Anda perlu melakukannya. Nggak hanya mengakui kesalahan, tapi juga jujur tentang kesalahan hal itu.

Satu rahasia untuk bisa melakukan permohonan maaf yang efektif ke mantan pacar adalah kejujuran, coba anda baca disini. That's it! Nggak kurang, nggak lebih.

Coba pikir, Anda telah melakukan semua hal untuk bisa balik lagi sama mantan. Dan akhirnya, Anda mendapatkan kesempatan itu. Tapi, ada satu hal yang belum dilakukan, yaitu meminta maaf.

Lalu Anda mengatakan hal ini ke mantan..."Hubungan ini benar-benar berarti banget buat aku, you mean so much to me. Aku benar-benar minta maaf. Tapi..." atau "Hubungan ini benar-benar berarti banget buat aku, you mean so much to me. Aku bener-bener minta maaf, tapi kamu harus menyadari kalau kamu..."

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Ternyata kebiasan berpakaian perempuan yang semakin lama semakin bebas berpengaruh pada kesehatan pria, bahkan bisa membuat kaum adam terbunuh.

Dengan melihat wanita seksi dalam berpakaian, para pria harus berusaha keras untuk menahan gairahnya tanpa bisa melampiaskan hasratnya tersebut. Kondisi tersebut yang terus menerus menimbulkan berbagai penyakit pada pria. Termasuk stres dan kanker prostat.

Peneliti di Amerika Serikat telah melakukan penelitian selama 30 tahun. Hasilnya mereka menemukan bahwa 80 persen pria berumur di atas 60 tahun meninggal karena kanker prostat dan penyakit lainnya karena hasratnya yang tak tersalurkan.

Selain itu ditemukan juga, pria-pria berumur 30 tahunan memiliki gangguan impotensi karena tidak mencapai kepuasan seksual terus-menerus.

Dari total 409 bayi yang meninggal tanpa diketahui sebabnya, sebanyak 3% bayi meninggal dunia saat berada dalam posisi duduk di kursi belakang mobil.

Menurut Dokter, dengan membandingkan tingkat oksigen dalam darah bayi antara posisi duduk dan berbaring, bayi diketahui hanya boleh berada dalam posisi duduk tidak lebih dari 1 jam. Lebih dari waktu tersebut, saluran pernapas si bayi akan terganggu sehingga berkontribusi menyebabkan kematian.

Sebuah penelitian menemukan bahwa menonton televisi lebih dari dua jam per hari dapat menyebabkan masalah pada kebiasaan dan aktivitas anak. Penelitian dilakukan terhadap anak-anak usia 2,5 sampai 5,5 tahun.

Dan hasilnya menunjukkan adanya masalah kurang tidur, perhatian, dan perilaku agresif pada anak yang menonton tv lebih dari dua jam. Selain itu, penelitian juga menunjukkan pada anak-anak usia 5,5 tahun yang menonton tv lebih dari dua jam sehari memiliki kemampuan sosial yang lebih sedikit.

Kecenderungan anak ketika menonton tv adalah lupa segalanya. Anak akan terfokus pada tayangan yang sedang ia tonton, sehingga ia melupakan apa yang seharusnya ia lakukan. Ambil contoh ketika anak makan sambil menonton tv, maka ia akan membiarkan makanannya dan asyik menonton tv. Atau ketika sudah waktunya untuk tidur, biasanya anak akan menolak untuk tidur karena asyik menonton tv.

Anak yang sudah 'kecanduan' menonton tv juga cenderung memilih untuk menonton tv daripada bermain dengan teman-temannya di luar. Anak-anak mudah terpesona dengan tayangan di tv dan terpaku di depannya, sehingga ia lupa akan sekelilingnya. Dan itu akan membuat kemampuan bersosialisasi anak menjadi terhambat. Reaksi emosional anak juga akan berkurang lantaran terlalu banyak menonton televisi. Efek jangka panjang ini tentu sangat berbahaya bagi si anak.

Oleh sebab itu, para orang tua perlu memerhatikan kegiatan anak di rumah. Tayangan apa yang ditonton di tv, berapa lama durasi anak menonton tv, dan intensitas anak menonton tv harus benar-benar diperhatikan. Buruknya pengaruh tv pada anak tentu harus lebih diwaspadai, agar perkembangan anak tidak terganggu.

Sebuah stasiun televisi merekomendasikan para orangtua untuk tidak menaruh televisi di kamar tidur anak. Ini untuk menghindarkan anak terlalu banyak menonton televisi dan agar orangtua tetap bisa mengontrol tayangan televisi yang ditonton anak.

Uberseksual adalah kombinasi antara sifat-sifat feminin dan maskulin, nilai-nilai tradisional klasik dan intelektualitas. Uberseksual adalah gambaran tentang lelaki ideal di masa mendatang. Uberseksual hanya bisa dilekatkan pada tipikal pria percaya diri tetapi memiliki hati. Sebuah kombinasi yang aneh sebenarnya, tapi juga merupakan sifat-sifat esensial yang diburu kaum perempuan.

Ciri-ciri yang menonjol dari pria tipe ini adalah memiliki rasa percaya diri yang kuat, cerdas, tanpa kompromi, dinamis, maskulin, atraktif, stylish, serta memiliki komitmen kuat untuk melakukan hal yang berkualitas di semua bidang kehidupan, namun tetap hangat. Pria uberseksual mengetahui mana yang baik dan buruk, dan berani mengambil keputusan tegas di tengah hujan kritik.

Jika pria metroseksual selalu terobsesi pada citra diri dan gaya hidup, maka pria uberseksual kerap terusik oleh situasi politik dan peristiwa besar di dunia. Jika pria metroseksual sibuk merawat rambut mereka, maka pria uberseksual sibuk merawat intelektualitas mereka.

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Long dress oranye berpotongan A-line tanpa lengan akan terlihat chic dengan aksen draperi di bagian depan. Cobalah anda padukan warna orange yang segar, antara rok A-line asimetris dengan blus halter neck berdetail ruffles pada leher.

Penampilan anda akan terlihat lebih elegan saat mengenakan tunik pendek berleher bulat yang dikombinasi bahan sutra polos. Padukan tunik dengan celana 7/8 orange polos agar semakin mempesona.

Atau anda bisa tampilkan busana batik dalam nuansa warna orange. Pilihlah model blouse overslagh berdetail lipit pada leher dan ujung lengan melebar. Penampilan anda akan terlihat lebih feminim saat memadukannya dengan celana palazzo berbahan sutera. Tertarik untuk tampil beda dengan warna orange?

Setelah penetrasi sempurna dilakukan, pasangan perempuan mengangkat kedua pahanya dan merapatkan kedua pahanya sejajar dengan perutnya. Tentunya, dengan posisi kaki bertekuk. Dengan posisi seperti ini, pasangan lelaki seperti mendapatkan jepitan dari liang Miss V. Kepuasan seks yang didapat lelaki pun tentunya akan sangat hebat.

Penetrasi yang dilakukan pada posisi ini tergolong cukup mendalam. Hingga akan sangat baik dilakukan bagi pasangan lelaki yang memiliki bentuk Mr P yang pendek. Tak hanya lelaki saja yang mendapatkan sensasi luar biasa. Namun pasangan perempuan akan merasakan nikmat yang terbilang cukup unik. Sebab, penetrasi yang dilakukan lelaki akan menyentuh area g-spot di dalam liang Miss V.

Selain itu, gerakan penetrasi yang dilakukan oleh Mr P akan lebih terasa pada dinding Miss V. Sebabnya, liang perempuan tentu akan semakin sempit karena kedua paha dirapatkan. Dengan begitu, perempuan akan bisa merasakan orgasmenya. Jika pasangan perempuan sulit meraih orgasme pada posisi misionaris biasa, maka dianjurkan pada perempuan untuk melakukan posisi seks Kuncup Teratai ini.

Sejak kecil ia pun sudah terbiasa memiliki banyak aktivitas dan kesibukan. Ia menyukai olahraga dan sering terlibat dalam kegiatan di gerejanya. Ia juga merupakan anggota dari National Honor Society, dan menjadi ketua murid.

Pada tahun 1969, ia masuk ke Yale Law School. Di sana ia melayani di Board of Editors of Yale Law Review and Social Action, yang menangani masalah advokasi pada anak-anak. Di sanalah ia bertemu Bill Clinton yang kemudian menjadi suaminya. Keduanya memiliki minat yang sama di bidang hukum dan politik. Dan segera mereka terlibat sebagai partner dalam persidangan, kampanye politik, dan juga hubungan asmara.

Setelah lulus, Hillary menjadi penasehat di Children's Defense Fund di Cambridge dan bergabung dengan Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives sebagai staf penasehat penyelidikan dakwaan. Setelah menunaikan tanggung jawabnya di sana, ia pun mengikuti kata hatinya untuk pergi ke Arkansas, di mana Bill Clinton memulai karir politiknya.

Mereka menikah pada tahun 1975, dan anak pertama mereka, Chelsea dilahirkan pada 1980. Di Arkansas, Hillary sempat bergabung di University of Arkansas Law School pada tahun 1975 dan Rose Law Firm pada 1976. Dan pada 1978, presiden AS saat itu, Jimmy Carter, menunjuk Hillary untuk menjadi dewan di Legal Services Corporation, dan Bill Clinton menjadi gubernur Arkansas.

Ia menjadi Arkansas's First Lady selama 12 tahun. Dalam masa-masa itu, ia berkecimpung di bidang hukum dan pelayanan publik. Ia memang banyak mengabdikan dirinya pada kepentingan masyarakat, sehingga ia diberi gelar Arkansas Woman of the Year pada 1983 dan Arkansas Mother of the Year pada tahun 1984.

Ketika ia menjadi ibu negara AS untuk pertama kalinya pada tahun 1993, ia masih tetap melakukan berbagai aktivitas yang terkadang membuat kontroversi. Ia sangat peduli akan masalah yang menyangkut perempuan dan anak-anak. Beberapa kritik masuk atas perannya sebagai ibu negara yang seringkali memainkan peran penting dalam kebijakan publik.

Dengan berbagai kesibukannya itu, ia tetap menjaga keseimbangan terhadap perannya sebagai ibu dan istri dalam keluarga. Bahkan ketika ia harus menghadapi goncangan dalam rumah tangganya, ia tetap bertahan sebagai seorang ibu dan istri. Ketika itu suaminya, Bill Clinton, terlibat perselingkuhan dengan Monica Lewinsky, dan publik pun berempati kepadanya.

Kini memasuki tahap penting dalam perjalanan karirnya di kancah politik. Ia mewakili partai demokrat menjadi kandidat presiden AS bersama dengan Barack Obama.

Bukan pekerjaan yang mudah untuk tetap menjaga idealisme dan kepentingan politik yang harus dijalani secara bersamaan. Belum lagi perannya sebagai ibu dan istri. Dan Hillary bisa dikatakan sebagai perempuan yang kuat.

1. Ciptakan kesan anggun dari gelombang besar yang berkesan ringan (light wave) dengan bantuan rol rambut dan hair dryer atau curly iron yang membentuk gelombang secara instan. Sebelumnya, awali dengan styling mouse yang dioleskan pada rambut yang agak basah.

2. Buat gelombang hanya bermula dari bawah telinga. Jangan lebih. Stressing pada bagian atas kepala yang datar dan berkesan bersih justru menciptakan tampilan memikat.

3. Tarik belahan rambut di salah satu sisi. Rapikan. Kesan innocence pun segera terlihat.

4. Setelah rol dilepas, atur gelombang dengan jemari. Kemudian rapikan dengan sisir dan semprotkan hair spray.

5. Beri sedikit wax pada bagian ujung rambut agar gelombang ikal lebih bervolume dan fantastis.

6. Terakhir, agar berkesan dramatis padukan dengan riasan porcelain. Bibir merah delima dan sapuan shimmering powder sheer ivory yang bernuansa terang.

Ini disebabkan aktivitas harian yang terbilang menyita waktu. Apalagi jaman sekarang ini, yang kalau boleh dibilang adalah ‘jaman yang super sibuk’. Hingga membuat banyak pasangan justru kehilangan momen penting untuk sekedar bermesraan dengan pasangannya.

Rata-rata orang melakukan hubungan seksual yang ideal adalah dalam waktu sekitar setengah jam. Waktu setengah jam atau bahkan kurang dari itu, sudah cukup dikatakan ideal untuk berhubungan seksual, ini agaknya sebanding dengan pendapat para seksolog yang menyatakan bahwa, tidak perlu waktu yang lama untuk menikmati hubungan seks. Yang lebih penting adalah kepuasan dalam hubungan seksual. Bukan waktu yang lama.

Sebabnya, masih banyak pendapat orang yang menyatakan bahwa hubungan seks dalam waktu kurang dari setengah jam adalah tak baik alias tak sehat, dan tidak akan mampu memuaskan pasangan. Ternyata, justru pendapat inilah yang keliru, hubungan seks yang dilakukan kurang dari setengah jam, sudah dikatakan cukup untuk membuat masing-masing pasangan terpuaskan. Jika kepuasan seksual tak mampu diraih dalam waktu kurang dari setengah jam, maka menandakan bahwa ia mendapat masalah dalam menikmati seks.

Idealnya, tak perlu butuh waktu lama untuk menikmati hubungan seks. Dalam satu siklus hubungan seks, kurang dari setengah jam kita harus sudah bisa mendapatkan kepuasan seks dari pasangan. Kalau bagi pasangan perempuan, maka ia harus bisa mendapatkan orgasme dalam waktu kurang dari setengah jam. Jika tidak, maka ada yang salah pada dirinya atau pada hubungan seksual yang dilakukannya. Untuk itulah, khususnya bagi perempuan, cobalah nikmati hubungan seks sebaik mungkin. Raihlah orgasme anda dalam waktu kurang dari setengah jam.

Salah seorang make-up artis terkenal memberikan beberapa tips dan langkah jitu untuk membuat anda tampil menarik dalam suasana apapun:

- untuk jenis kulit berminyak:

Untuk jenis kulit ini, anda dapat memilih foundation cair. Pilihlah warna dua tone diatas warna kulit asli anda. Kulit yang berminyak cenderung melunturkan warna foundation yang anda gunakan. “Foundation cair lebih efektif dibandingkan foundation powder. Sebab foundation cair lebih rapat dan dapat membuat minyak pada wajah anda terestriksi atau berkurang.

- Untuk Jenis Kulit Kering

Untuk kulit kering ada baik nya menggunakan foundation cair, namun untuk aplikasi nya gunakan setengah sampai satu tone diatas warna kulit. Sebab kulit yang kering tidak memiliki resiko melunturkan foundation sebagaimana pemilik kulit wajah yang berminyak. “ Anda tidak perlu menggunakan pemakaian foundation terlalu tebal”, selain kulit warna tidak mudah luntur, sebab kulit yang kering juga perlu keregangan untuk bisa bernafas. Sementara itu dalam penggunaan blash on dan shading yang cerah seperti warna pastel dan shimmer hinggal dua tone diatas warna kulit. Warna ini dapat berfungsi efektif membuat anda tampak lebih segar.

- Untuk Jenis Kulit Netral

Jenis Kulit ini dapat memungkinkan untuk menggunakan foundation powder yang lengkap dengan penggunaan shading pada bagian tertentu. “ Koreksi wajah memang perlu. Foundation dan shading dapat membantu anda menutupi kekurangan pada permukaan kulit yang ber-flek atau bentuk kontur tulang yang tidak proporsional.” Beberapa saran dalam menggunakan taknik countouring dalam mengaplikasi riasan yang memiliki kulit wajah netral, yaitu dengan menaburkan foundation pada seluruh wajah, sementara blush on lebih sedikit diaplikasikan mengingat optimalisasi warna lebih ditekankan pada foundation.

Cara ini mampu mengempeskan jerawat. Sari air bayam juga mampu merangsang pertumbuhan rambut dengan sehat.
Banyak cara yang dapat dilakukan untuk memanfaatkan bayam. Selain diekstraksi, ternyata bayam juga bisa ditumbuk hingga menjadi bubur dan ditempelkan pada wajah berjerawat sebagai masker. Masker ini akan lebih baik lagi jika dicampurkan dengan madu. Untuk jus bayam, sebelum nya bayam harus di-blanching. Caranya, siapkan air mendidih kemudian matikan kompor hingga tidak mendidih lagi, lalu celupkan bayam tersebut sekitar 2-5 menit. Tiriskan kemudian di jus. “ cara ini sangat efektif untuk mendapatkan komposisi yang lengkap sehingga dapat meminimalis dampak negative dalam bayam.

Pada saat proses pembuatan dan promo film tersebut, Wulan mulai mengenal sosok Adilla. Tak lama berselang, Wulan pun beritikad untuk mengakhiri masa janda nya dengan lajang yang menjadi pendatang baru di dunia seni peran tersebut. Diakui Wulan, ia memang sudah gelisah dengan status nya. Namun untuk menuju ke jenjang pernikahan yang kedua kali nya, Wulan masih harus berpikir panjang lagi, sebab ia tidak menginginkan kegagalan dalam rumah tangga untuk yang kedua kali nya

Dan sempat terdengar kabar bahwa wulan akan menikah di tahun 2008 ini dengan Adilla, hubungan kedua pasangan ini pun mulai terjalin baik dengan keluarga kedua belah pihak, dan nampak nya ini kan menjadi akhir bagi Wulan setelah enam tahun menjanda, Selamat ya Wulan.

Kandungan lemak dan kaya air banyak terdapat pada buah pisang dan alpukat. Sehingga kedua buah ini mampu melembutkan, melembabkan serta menghaluskan kulit anda yang kering dan kasar.

Apabila anda ingin kulit tetap kencang, segar dan mengurangi kerutan pada wajah maka gunakan masker campuran dari pisang, madu dan telur. Manfaatkan khasiat dari kulit alpukat sebagai krim penghalus kulit punggung dan lutut yang kasar. Caranya adalah mencampurkan cincangan kulit alpukat dan perasan jeruk lemon, lalu oleskan ke kulit dengan sedikit ditekan.

Tapi jika anda ingin membersihkan dan melembutkan kulit yang kasar dan kusam maka anda bisa gunakan buah apel dan melon. Jadikan kedua buah ini sebagai tonik pembersih atau penyegar wajah. Caranya lumat halus kedua buah ini dan oleskan pada wajah anda. Tertarik untuk mencobanya?

Berbagai produk kosmetik sudah anda gunakan, tapi tetap saja kulit terlihat kusam. Mungkin anda bisa melakukan perawatan tradisional agar kulit anda semakin cantik. Caranya sangat mudah dan bisa dilakukan dirumah, simak beberapa hal yang perlu anda perhatikan.

Pertama-tama, siapkan setengah cangkir tepung maizena, seperempat cangkir susu, dua sendok teh baking soda, satu sendok teh minyak zaitun dan lima tetes tea-tree oil dalam sebuah mangkuk. Aduk sampai bercampur rata, lalu aplikasikan ke kulit anda.

Buktikan hasilnya, pasti kulit akan terasa lebih halus, lembut dan bercahaya. Karena kandungan susu dan minyak zaitun mampu mempertahankan kelembaban kulit serta menjaga kulit tetap cantik. Selamat mencoba.

Stocking anda pun telah meresap air dan sabun cuci. Setelah itu angkat dan bilas dengan air dingin. Pastikan anda membilasnya dengan perlahan, hingga bersih dan terangkat seluruh sisa busanya. Peras dengan perlahan untuk menghilangkan air. Lalu gantung untuk mengeringkannya.

Anda bisa memakai stocking paling tidak lima kali. Setelah itu, biasanya elastisitas stoking berkurang, sehingga kurang nyaman dipakai. Selamat mencoba

45 penelitian di 21 negara yang melibatkan 23 ribu perempuan penderita kanker ovarium dan 87 ribu perempuan sehat lainnya.

Perempuan yang menggunakan kontrasepsi oral itu terbukti mempunyai risiko lebih kecil terkena kanker ovarium daripada rekan-rekan mereka.

Selain itu, semakin lama perempuan menggunakan pil tersebut, risiko terkena kanker ovarium semakin menurun. Tim peneliti mengatakan penggunaan pil kontrasepsi selama 10 tahun akan menurunkan risiko kanker ovarium hingga sepertiganya.

1. Salmon
Kandungan omega-3, vitamin B-12 dan zat besi yang terkandung di dalam Salmon sangat bermanfaat untuk kesehatan kulit kepala. Kekurangan zat-zat tersebut bisa membuat kulit kepala dan rambut menjadi kering, membuatnya tampak botak.

2. Sayur-sayuran berwarna hijau tua.
Sayur-sayuran berwarna hijau tua seperti bayam, brokoli, lobak Swiss, adalah sumber terbaik dari vitamin A, C, dan zat besi dan kalsium, yang diperlukan untuk memproduksi sebum. Sebum merupakan substansi minyak yang dihasilkan oleh folikel rambut yang merupakan pelembab rambut alami.

3. Buncis
Buncis tidak hanya mengandung banyak protein untuk mempercepat pertumbuhan rambut, tetapi juga mengandung banyak zat besi, zinc, dan biotin. Kekurangan biotin akan menyebabkan rambut mudah rusak.

4.Kacang-kacangan
Jika Anda ingin mendapatkan rambut yang berkilau, makanlah banyak kacang-kacangan. Walnut mengandung asam alpha-linolenic, sebuah asam lemak omega-3 yang dapat membantu melembabkan rambut Anda. Kacang-kacangan seperti cashew, pecans, dan almond, juga merupakan sumber zinc yang baik. Kekurangan zinc dapat menyebabkan kerontokan rambut.

5. Produk-produk unggas dan telur
Semua produk unggas merupakan sumber protein yang baik untuk Anda mendapatkan rambut yang sehat. Kekurangan atau rendahnya kualitas protein pada tubuh Anda dapat menjadikan rambut rapuh dan kehilangan warnanya. Telur juga mengandung biotin dan vitamin B-12.

6. Biji-bijian
Anda bisa mengonsumsi roti gandum dan sereal sarapan pagi yang sudah diperkaya oleh gandum, untuk mendapatkan rambut yang sehat. Biji-bijian dan gandum mengandung zinc, zat besi, dan vitamin B. Selain itu, camilan gandum juga merupakan makanan yang terbaik ketika energi Anda terkuras setengahnya di sore hari.

7. Oyster
Oyster memiliki reputasi sebagai zat aphrodisiac, yang terkenal sebagai zat cinta. Namun tidak hanya itu, oyster juga mengandung zinc, antioksidan yang hebat.

8. Produk susu yang rendah lemak
Produk susu yang rendah lemak seperti susu skim dan yoghurt merupakan sumber kalsium yang baik. Kalsium merupakan mineral yang penting untuk pertumbuhan rambut.

9. Wortel
Wortel merupakan sumber yang hebat akan vitamin A, yang baik tidak hanya untuk penglihatan, tetapi juga dapat membuat kulit kepala sehat.

Jadi, jika Anda ingin mendapatkan rambut yang sehat, maka jagalah juga pola makan Anda agar tetap seimbang. Perhatikan makanan yang mengandung zat-zat seperti kalsium, zinc, asam lemak omega-3, dan vitamin A. Dan biasanya pola makan yang rendah kalori juga memiliki kandungan yang rendah akan zat-zat yang penting untuk rambut tersebut.

Tentunya Anda menginginkan rambut yang sehat, berkilau dan bebas dari kebotakan, bukan? So, have a healthy diet, lady!

Kebanyakan penata rambut akan menyarankan Anda untuk memberikan aksen di rahang untuk memberikan kesan panjang. Hindari potongan yang pendek dan lurus, garis geometris, atau apapun yang terlalu patah.

Wajah persegi panjang, Wajah persegi panjang biasanya berbentuk panjang, kecil, dan ramping. Untuk mengakali bentuk wajah persegi panjang, seorang penata rambut harus melakukan dua hal: mengurangi kesan panjang dan memberikan kesan sedikit lebih lebar.

Potongan pendek dan sedang dengan keriting atau bervolume adalah potongan yang ideal. Model layer bob sangat bagus jika potongan rambut tidak menutupi wajah, karena kalau tidak wajah akan terlihat lebih kurus. Rambut yang panjang dan lurus sangat tidak dianjurkan untuk bentuk wajah persegi panjang.

Wajah berbentuk diamond, Bentuk wajah ini biasanya memiliki ciri dahi dan dagu yang sempit, dan lebar di bagian pipi. Untuk menormalkan bentuk ini, Anda harus memilih gaya rambut yang lebar di atas dan bawah, dan tipis di bagian wajah yang lebar. Pilihan yang bisa Anda coba adalah gaya potongan rambut yang menutupi pipi atau Anda bisa minta saran kepada para penata rambut untuk pilihan terbaik wajah diamond.

Wajah berbentuk hati, Bentuk wajah ini memiliki karakteristik dahi yang lebar dan dagu yang kecil. Gaya rambut yang tepat bisa memberikan keseimbangan di kedua bagian ini dengan membuat dahi terlihat lebih sempit dan dagu terlihat lebih lebar. Berikan kesan lebar di dagu, Anda bisa mencoba model bob sepanjang dagu. Anda juga bisa mencoba menyapukan rambut ke satu sisi wajah. Itu merupakan cara yang ideal untuk mengurangi kesan kecil dagu dan membuat dahi lebih sempit.

Wajah berbentuk segitiga, Bentuk wajah segitiga memiliki ciri-ciri sempit di dahi, agak lebar di pipi, dan semakin lebar di garis rahang. Ciptakan keseimbangan dengan memberikan volume di area yang kecil di dahi, sedikit ditipiskan di bagian pipi, dan lebih tipis si rahang. Mintalah penata rambut Anda untuk membuat tampilan layer dengan volume di bagian atas dan meruncing ke bagian bawah. Potongan rambut pendek dan sedang akan cocok untuk bentuk wajah ini.

Wajah berbentuk buah pir, Bentuk wajah ini tampak sempit di dahi dan sangat lebar di pipi dan rahang. Cobalah model simetris dengan dengan volume di bagian dahi dan di area yang kosong, dan tipiskan di bagian pipi dan rahang. Bertanya ke penata rambut sebelum Anda memotong rambut, tidak ada salahnya. Mintalah mereka memberikan saran mengenai model rambut yang sesuai untuk bentuk wajah dan jenis rambut Anda. Jangan sampai Anda menyesal ketika rambut Anda sudah dipangkas habis.

Uji coba pada tikus yang dipaksa tidak tidur, akhirnya berujung pada kematian. Itu membuktikan bahwa tanpa tidur, makhluk hidup bisa mati. Membuktikan pula bahwa tidur tidak kalah penting dengan kebutuhan yang dianggap primer seperti sandang, papan, dan pangan.

Tidur yang baik adalah tidur yang nyenyak tanpa gangguan tidur. Salah seorang dokter kejiwaan mengatakan, gangguan tidur merupakan kondisi yang sangat subjektif. Pada saat seseorang merasa terganggu dengan kondisi itu, baru bisa dikatakan sebagai gangguan. Cirinya antara lain tetap merasa lesu, meski sudah tidur lebih dari delapan jam.

Sulit tidur atau sering disebut insomnia, menurut Ashwin hanyalah satu dari sekian banyak gangguan tidur. Gangguan lain ialah hipersomnia, yakni tidur berlebihan, termasuk di siang hari. Kedua masalah itu termasuk kategori gangguan tidur primer dyssomnia.

Kualitas tidur seseorang tidak ditentukan lamanya waktu. Delapan jam memang disebut-sebut sebagai periode tidur yang paling tepat dan berkualitas. "Tapi itu persepsi, bukan penentu kualitas tidur

Setelah sekian lama tidak tidur, para partisipan diminta melihat gambar-gambar yang merangsang respons emosional mereka. Tanggapan mereka bisa sedih, marah, atau senang. Ternyata, bagian otak amygdala menunjukkan peningkatan 60% jika dibandingkan dengan orang tidur normal. Amygdala merupakan bagian otak yang terkait dengan reaksi emosional manusia. Itu berarti, kondisi kurang tidur yang dialami bisa mengakibatkan keluarnya respons-respons yang berlebihan.

Menurut salah satu ilmuwan, tanpa tidur, otak beraktivitas tidak normal, tidak mampu mengolah pengalaman emosional yang masuk ke otak untuk diproses menjadi respons yang tepat dan terkendali. Beberapa studi sebelumnya memang telah mengindikasikan pasien gangguan psike umumnya juga menderita gangguan tidur.

Nuansa modern vintage sudah dikenal, namun tetap unik. Klasik, namun kontemporer. Simple, namun mendetil. Jam tangan ini pun memiliki bahan yang alami, bentuk yang lembut, dan elegan. Jam tangan ini diperuntukkan bagi pria maupun wanita.