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Edelweiss extract comes from Edelweiss flowers, which are short lived perennials. Edelweiss is a German word which means noble and white. The Edelweiss flower is found at altitudes which range from 1,700 meters to 2,700 meters, general in areas with light soil, good drainage and southern exposure. In ancient times the Edelweiss flower was sought after by men who wished to prove their bravery. Because the flower grew at such heights and was often on cliff sides and in dangerous areas many people were known to have been injured, or even killed in pursuit of this flower, which led many men to wear it in the lapel as sort of a badge of honor. Of course, the fact that the Edelweiss flower was the favorite of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife, the Empress Elizabeth also gave it prestige.The flower became so popular among hikers that the governments of Austria, Germany and Switzerland took steps to protect it in certain parts of the Alps. Today Edelweiss is grown on many continents and is no longer in the danger it once was. It became even more popular however the 1960′s when a song called Edelweiss in the popular stage play and film The Sound of Music sang its virtues and beauty. For centuries Edelweiss extract has been believed to have positive health effects. Edelweiss teas have been popular as well as use of Edelweiss extract in hot milk, often sweetened with honey. Diarrhea and dysentery were two ailments that it was believed Edelweiss extract could cure. People also believed that it could help fight ailments such as diphtheria and tuberculosis. Today research by the pharmaceutical industry indicates that there was something to these ancient beliefs. Used in high quality anti aging and anti wrinkle cosmetics. Edelweiss extract is an ancient folk lore remedy that modern science is making popular once again. They have also discovered that the ultra violet light absorbing chemicals this plant has developed from high altitude growth makes it a good additive to sun blocks. Pharmaceutical researchers also are interested in the way some chemicals in the plant prevent amplification of oxides, which are tied to the aging process. The future of research into Edelweiss extract looks as bright as the high Alpine sun, and the popularity of Edelweiss extract as an ingredient in high quality cosmetics means the plant will remain popular for many years to come. For more information visit: http://readaboutitnow.net/anti-aging-solution.html 

Since excess carbohydrate is deposited as fat, you might think it would be forbidden in a reducing diet. All foods, however, can be converted into body fat. And you need
a certain amount of carbohydrate because fat is not properly consumed in its absence.

Fat is only half-burned unless there is carbohydrate present to fan it into a hot flame. Acid waste products accumulate with untoward results. When you reduce you are going to burn up some of the fat that annoys you and you will require a reasonable number of carbohydrate calories to keep the home fires burning-your wicks trimmed to burn without smoking.

Take some of these calories in the form of sugar for your coffee, or a lollipop, or a chocolate cream if you want to. It’s better than an even money bet that you will want to. You can still look a dessert in the face and you will be much happier about the whole thing if you wind up your meals with a modest sweet.

Modest, we said.
A second kind of calories is furnished by fats. No need to dwell long on these. You know them all too well. Outside of your personal economy, they are abundant in cream, butter, bacon, lard, egg yolk and other foods. The reason fats are abundant in you (we are assuming that you are really entitled to reduce) is that they represent the body’s storage mechanism for surplus calories- about 250 of them to each ounce of fat.
Fats are essential to normal nutrition. In animal experiments, fat-free diets produce kidney diseases and an alarming disinterest in the opposite sex. Persons who are genuinely obese can cut fats completely out of their diets, however, since they have more than adequate reserves.

Practically, fats are not forbidden in a reducing diet since they make many foods more tolerable-how many baked potatoes would you eat without butter or gravy?- and they make a meal more satisfying by causing it to linger longer in the stomach.
In passing, it may help to know that it is quite impossible for a human being to be a fathead. The brain is the only organ of the body from which true fats are conspicuously absent.

Another  kind of calorie comes from proteins. These are substances with some of the characteristics of glue- the white of egg is an example-distinguished also for their content of nitrogen. All meat, including your own, contains large amounts of protein, which is the characteristic building material of the soft tissues
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When the normal wear and tear of keeping alive breaks down your body cells, fats and carbohydrates turn a deaf ear to the cry for help. “Let George do it,” is their attitude, so along comes George Protein with a load of lath, plaster and rivets to shore up your sagging tissues.

In addition to running a building supply company, a fraction of the proteins can also be burned to yield heat. They provide the raw stuff out of which certain of your glands manufacture some pretty fascinating secretions- hormones of the thyroid and adrenal glands, for instance. Vigor and virility just don’t exist without proteins.