Manage your food intake rather than allow foods to manage you! We Indians are famously addicted to sweets and our susceptibility to diabetes is ahead of any other race in the world. The urge to put something sweet in our mouth may have something to do with the tradition of having desserts at the end of each meal. But frankly, you need to work on it, if your diet is not well-balanced. Craving for certain foods at times is not necessarily a bad thing, but a constant urge can mean that there is a problem—perhaps an imbalance in the body

New research shows that worrying and a high-pressure lifestyle can damage your dermis. Here are strategies to restore your smooth, even glow. Stress is not for the faint of heart—nor thin of skin. You know at some gut level (like when you catch the reflection of your furrowed brow in a window) that stress doesn’t help your appearance. Now science is detailing the myriad ways the stress hormone cortisol literally gets under your skin, leading to dryness and other signs of ageing (including, yes, those lovely worry lines). Most practising dermats said they noticed a correlation between skin problems and stress.

When economic times turn tough, it may seem that beauty indulgences should be the first things to go. But just because your budget calls for some belt tightening, that’s no reason not to look better than ever. the trick is to bolster your beauty routine by making no- or low-cost moves that deliver maximum impact. From hiding dark circles to boosting hair’s shine, here are experts’ top tips for trimming costs — and a few years, to boot! Pump up hair’s volume Switch to mousse: It costs the same as other styling products, but because it contains resins that lightly