Secrets and Keratin Hair Treatment Review

Okay, we all have secrets...well one about me is that I am a salt-aholic. Lately I have also added sugar addict to my list, which is all part of the evil plan of the food industry to keep us eating all the food they make, and more, thus buying more. This is what I have been reading lately from more than one source and it makes perfect sense. Supposedly our bodies are designed to crave sugar and fat from the time we were introduced to our mother's breast milk. It was a survival mechanism that helped you want more, thus drink more milk, therefore growing and thriving. Sugar, Fat, and Salt are addictive because they trigger the pleasure chemical dopamine n the brain. So, basically what you have to do is try to wean yourself off the high fat, sugar and salt foods. What will inevitably happen is you will crave them much less. That is why i hate artificial sweetners. Since i switched to splenda in the morning (I have been using a splenda sweetned syrup in my coffee, hazelnut or vanilla flavored), i have been craving more sweets throught out the day. I take that back, i was craving sweets more than i wanted to, so i cut out the sugar in my coffee, thinking i had to cut it somewhere, and that was the only sugar i actually ADDED to anything...Right now i am in a vicious cycle of salt and sugar cravings that i know just a few days of abstinence would help cure. The problem is getting through the first few days!

I should correct that last statement. Salt has always been the one constant in my life. I can remember my mother scolding me for putting too much salt on absolutely everything besides those obviously sweet things. To this day, the salt shaker is close by at every meal, and it really is not good. The ironic thing is that i have LOW blood pressure, giving me the green light to go hog wild with the salt. WRONG. I am constantly bloated in my belly and i wake up puffy a few days a week. Thank goodness i sweat a lot with teaching zumba or it would be worse.

The next few posts of this blog will discuss the negative effects of salt, and what can help. I am hoping this exercise will help me for good. It feels cathartic already. According to my source, Prevention Magazine, salt : secretly increases your weight, fills up fat cells, and spikes levels of insulin while it quietly undermines your health without any signs, until it is too late!

Foods with sodium: This surprised me. A chicken caesar salad with Grilled Chicken at a fast food place has double the sodium of an order of large fries! I would of course, order the salad, looking at the calories and fat, ignoring the sodium, which will put water weight pounds on me, probably as many pounds as eating excess calories or fat would. 3 minerals which combat sodium in the body: calcium, magnesium and potassium.

More on salt next time!

Keratin Hair Treatment. The signs are all over: Keratin smoothing here, Keratin Hair Treamtments...i had gotten the japananese hair straightening system by Liscio a few years ago and it was AMAZING, but TOXIC! They used very harsh chemicals, and although it never burned my eyes or bothered me, for my hair to get and stay that straight, they had to be using some harsh stuff. The keratin system claims to be all natural and that is great. As far as results, not so great. I spent $165 and was promised not pin straight, but much smoother hair that would only require minimal straight ironing. I have very thick, coarse hair and needed something like a relaxing. It looked good the first week and after that it was down hill. One month later, and it looks like i had no treatment. BUMMER, but you live and you learn..Perhaps it would work on a person who had thinner, less coarse hair than I have, but if your hair is thick and wavy, i would look for another option. I have mentioned Naked Naturals conditioner several times in this blog, and have to say i get better smoother results when i use that than with this treatment, and that costs $8 per bottle.