If there is no better reason in your life than to stay ahead of the rest, these motivational quotations will help you realize all dreams and goals in quick time.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can’t buy. – Izaak Walton (1593 – 1683)

Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors. – Quentin Crisp

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength. – Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03-20-05

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease. – George Dennison Prentice

Health is not simply the absence of sickness. – Hannah Green

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. – Hippocrates (460 BC – 377 BC), Regimen in Health

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way. – Oprah Winfrey (1954 – ), O Magazine, August 2004

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. – Paul Dudley White

Pain (any pain–emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: “We would be more alive if we did more of this,” and, “Life would be more lovely if we did less of that.” Once we get the pain’s message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away. – Peter McWilliams, Life 101

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones. – Peter McWilliams, Life 101

The glow and radiance of beauty always lies in complexion of the skin. While some of us are born with fair skin, some of us are not that fortunate. Even if you have been born with fair skin, you may experience quality of skin color reducing with passing age. In this piece of information, we will talk about how to get fair skin.

1. Apply a mixture of lemon juice and honey for a period of fifteen minutes on a daily basis and see the difference in skin tone by yourself.
2. In order to get fair and glowing skin, cut slices of cucumber rub them on the skin. Thereafter, apply cucumber juice on the skin and leave it overnight & then wash your face with a natural shampoo in the morning.
3. Applying reddish juice on the skin is considered beneficial to improve complexion of the skin.
4. To get a glowing complexion, make a mixture of oat meal, tomato juice, and yogurt and apply and leave on the facial skin for 15-25 minutes.
5. If you want to change skin tone effectively, you can try out a mixture of two table spoons of gram flour and fresh homogenized milk for washing the face instead of using soaps.
6. You can even try out soaking some almonds (5-8) in water overnight. In the morning, peel and grind them and add some milk and lemon juice to this grinded paste and rub it on the face to get a glowing complexion.

Try out these home remedies for getting fair skin and feel the difference in your skin and personality.

If your child has been into drug abuse, it is high time that you take him or her to a teen drug rehab. This is because only a timely intervention can help all of you to lead a peaceful life, which is free from any chemical dependency.

Before we read any further, it is important for us to note that there are no quick fixes for drug abuse and recovery may become an ongoing process. Moreover, the family needs to understand the plight and emotions of the child and make necessary steps so that the rehabilitation treatment is integrated into everyday life without constantly reminding the child that he has committed a mistake.

A teen drug rehab center can help your teenage child receive quality and continuing care from experts so that the recovery process can be supported and monitored at all times. A drug rehabilitation treatment center provides treatment programs such as inpatient, residential, outpatient, and short-stay options that meet individual needs and can be more than just useful for bringing back your teen child into the right mood. The drug rehab will help your teen child defeat the urge to consume drugs and recover completely – mentally, physically, and emotionally. Furthermore, the individual-specific rehab programs at these centers will help in nurturing, supporting, and encouraging the teenager to overcome addiction and look at the brighter side of life.

As the parent(s) of the child, even you can seek advice on how to deal with your child’s drug abuse from a drug rehab counselor. It will also help you get out of the catastrophic revelation that your son or daughter has been struggling with drug abuse and erode thoughts of guilt, disappointment, failure, and embarrassment from your mind so that you can give your best to overcome teen drug abuse in the present and future.

Scientists have suggested that babies who are breastfed grow up to be more intelligent.

Research has revealed that just four weeks on their mothers’ milk could have a significant effect on a child’s development in primary and secondary school.

From Dailymail.co.uk:

Those who have been breastfed do better at reading, writing and maths at the ages of five, seven, 11 and 14.

While breast milk has long been known to boost babies’ immunity, helping them fight ear infections, stomach bugs and even asthma, little was known about its effects on intelligence until now.

Maria Iacovou, one of the authors of the study, said: ‘The issue was that while it looked as though breastfeeding did have an impact on cognitive development, no one knew if that was just because the type of mother more likely to breastfeed in the first place was more likely to nurture brighter children, or whether there was a true causal link.

The study was conducted by researchers from Oxford University and the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex.

Millions across the world suffer from the daily torture of anxiety but a brain mechanism that was recently identified by scientists can make them fearless.

Stimulating a brain circuit within a structure of grey matter could counter fear, according to researchers at Stanford University in California.

From Dailymail.co.uk:

Tests on mice showed triggering the mechanism with pulses of light boosted their willingness to take risks – while inhibiting it rendered them more timid.

Psychiatrist Professor Karl Deisseroth said the finding opened the possibility of improved medications to help control anxiety disorders because the human brain is structured in the same way.

The team were able to pinpoint the phenomenon by working with a technology called optogenetics, where nerve cells are rendered photo-sensitive so their action can be turned on or off by different wavelengths of light.

They targeted a circuit within the amygdala region of the brain and found dramatic changes in the behaviour of mice.

Prof Deisseroth, whose research is published in Nature online, said: ‘They suddenly became much more comfortable in situations they would ordinarily perceive as dangerous and, therefore, be quite anxious in.’

The revelation comes as a blessing for all those people who are suffering regular panic attacks or almost constant ‘nervous’ symptoms such as sweating, raised heart rate and churning stomach.

There is nothing better than a few words of inspiration and if you are looking to get and stay inspired in your quest to be healthy and fit, these motivational quotes on health and fitness are just meant for you.

I just could not stand the idea of eating meat – I really do think that it has made me calmer….  People’s general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk:  the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn’t go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn’t by, it can make you think a lot. – Kate Bush

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. – Leo Tolstoy

Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;… and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man. – James H. West

One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. – Henry David Thoreau