Evelyn Sharma shares a few beauty tips on how to pamper your skin and get that soft, supple look for any occasion!

Evelyn Sharma is a German model who has acted in a few Bollywood movies. She was offered five movies even before her first release! Some of her projects are Yeh jawani hai deewani , Yaariyan and Nautanki Saala.

Here are the six beauty secrets by Evelyn Sharma

Maintain a daily skincare ritual: To keep your skin healthy a good cleansing, toning and moisturizing routine is essential twice a day. Start with cleansing daily with a natural based cleanser, followed by toning, to keep your skin hydrated. The last and the most important thing is to moisturise your skin. Coconut based moisturisers are the best, since coconut contains properties similar to body oils, it gets absorbed quickly and replenishes the lost moisturizer keeping the skin nourished all day

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Millions of people suffering from arthritis can improve their health by committing themselves to do regular work-outs, according to doctors.

Earlier, patients were asked to rest their joints if they became too painful or swollen but now doctors say that the simplest way to beat the painful problem is to do regular and gentle exercise, the Daily Express reported.

Professor Mark Batt, a consultant in sport and exercise medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals, said that doing regular exercise is important to keep joints healthy and the long-term benefits of exercise far outweigh the risk of injury.

Professor Alan Silman, medical director of Arthritis Research UK, said that exercise has become increasingly relevant in the treatment of arthritis, as research has shown that the joints, bones and cartilage rely on stimulation of physical activity to repair themselves.

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An afternoon nap is always frowned upon. We’ve always been told that it makes you hazy, lazy and disoriented. However, research suggests that a quick mid-day nap or ‘power nap’ can make you alert, reduce stress, improve your cognitive functioning, refresh and stimulate you!

What is power napping?

Power nap is a short 20-minute period of sleep, usually during the day. These naps are said to provide energy and boost your right-brain activity.

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A large, multi-center study has added more evidence in support of regular exercise, eating a Mediterranean-style diet, keeping a normal weight and, most importantly, not smoking.

The study led by Johns Hopkins researchers found that adopting those four lifestyle behaviors protected against coronary heart disease as well as the early buildup of calcium deposits in heart arteries, and reduced the chance of death from all causes by 80 percent over an eight-year period.

“To our knowledge, this is the first study to find a protective association between low-risk lifestyle factors and early signs of vascular disease, coronary heart disease and death, in a single longitudinal evaluation,” said Haitham Ahmed, M.D., M.P.H., the lead author who is an internal medicine resident with the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease at Johns Hopkins.

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We know that there are many health benefits of getting enough sleep, and that the negative impacts of sleep deprivation can be severe.

But many of us have a tough time actually making it happen by following earlier-to-bed schedules.

People who are night owls and shift workers do have more medical and mental health problems, but it’s not clear if this is just the genetic makeup of night owls or that those who stay up late have these issues, Michael Breus, Ph.D., told the Huffington Post.

A reason, according to him, that works for everyone is early risers get more sunlight and that helps for Vitamin D, and resetting the biological clock.

Breus has suggested seven ways to get to bed earlier tonight and to develop a lasting early-to-bed habit.

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Getting rid of belly fat is simpler than you might have thought.

With the right plan, it’s actually easier to lose that stubborn lower-body fat or the seemingly impossible to tone back-of-the-arm flab.

Stick to a healthy diet and exercise guidelines, and you’ll be slimmer and healthier by summer.

Obviously, you want to keep your calories in a healthy range and avoid meals that are high in saturated fat.

But research has also shown that eating more of certain foods can help you burn excess visceral fat and pave the way to a smaller middle, the Huffington Post reported.

In addition to helping maintain heart health and keep inflammation levels under control, monounsaturated fatty acids, or MUFAs, may stop belly fat before it starts.

Research in the journal Diabetes Care found that people who got roughly 25 percent of their total daily calories from MUFAs gained no visceral fat over the course of the study, while those who ate less MUFAs and more carbs added fat to their midsections.

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Just a couple hours of exercise a week, of any intensity, can help prevent kidney stones from forming, a large study on women aged over 50 has found.

The study noted that even walking for a couple hours a week could cut the risk of developing this painful and common problem by about one-third, the New York Daily News reported.

Dr. Mathew Sorensen of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, who led the study, said that just getting a minimum amount of exercise could help.

The study was discussed Friday at an American Urological Association conference in San Diego.

Kidney stone problem is a little more common in men. But incidence has risen 70 percent over the last 15 years, most rapidly among women.

Obesity raises the risk, as do calcium supplements, which many women take after menopause. A government task force has recently advised against supplements for healthy older women, saying that relatively low-dose calcium pills don`t do much to keep bones strong but make kidney stones more likely.

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Often regular exercisers such as yours truly are asked by shall we say…our more sedentary brethren… ‘What is it that makes you wake up at unearthly hours, shift around your schedule just to be able to run, swim, cycle, etc..?’ Most of us would probably answer with a casual shrug… “I don’t know, I just love it I guess”, while the non exerciser shakes his/her head in disbelief and settles comfortably on the couch.

At such junctures the avid exerciser, medical and lifestyle professional and the generally pushy individual in me rises up like the proverbial hydra and I present my CASE FOR EXERCISE.

Setting aside the performance or professional athlete, the three other major
groups of exercisers are -

1) Recreational Athlete or Fitness Enthusiast - The one who exercises for enhancing his/her fitness levels.

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A few simple changes to diet and lifestyle can protect you against a string of killer diseases and add years to your life, a landmark study has shown.

Following seven golden rules not only cut the risk of dying from cancer by 20 per cent, it also slashed risks of lung disease by half and heart attacks by 44 per cent, the study of nearly 380,000 people by scientists at Imperial College London found.

The researchers noted that those who stick closely to the rules, which also govern exercise and alcohol consumption, will cut their risk of dying from any of the major circulatory or respiratory diseases, including stroke and angina, by at least 34 per cent.

The rules were drawn up six years ago by the World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, the Daily Express reported.

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Regular exercise may help reduce the chance of developing liver cancer, a study has said.

The research involved two groups of mice that were fed a control diet and a high fat diet, which were then divided into separate exercise and sedentary groups.

The exercise groups were made to run on a motorised treadmill for 60 minutes per day, five days a week.

After 32 weeks of regular exercise, 71 percent of mice on the controlled diet developed tumours larger than 10mm versus 100 percent in the sedentary group.

The mean number and volume of HCC tumours per liver was also reduced in the exercise group compared to the sedentary group.

EASL’s Educational Councillor Prof. Jean-Francois Dufour said that the data showed significant benefit of regular exercise on the development of HCC and exercise reduced the level of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in mice receiving a high-fat diet.

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