Roaming the streets of South Kensington last night in search of a screen to watch what was left of the open ceremony, a woman on the pavement was looking for preys: it was Janet!
She quickly sized the opportunity and shouted “y’all looking for a screen? there’s one right here but you gotta buy drinks!”
We all looked at each other and thought: we are in! so we went in. Big mistake.
We could not even finish the first round of drinks that Janet sent the young girl to our table to push for more orders, then Janet herself came to tell us we had to move our chairs closer to the table as “the bar was about to get packed and she needed space” then the boy came to give us an ultimatum: order more drinks or leave…..then the final blow: Janet raided our table saying she needed it for some customers that had just come in with a reservation.
How rude, pushy and agressive!!!!!
The bar was empty(ish) there was no sign of a crowd mobbing the place….what was she on?!!!
We stood up and left pretty angry….what an undignified way of running a tatty bar!! the older the bar, the greater the need for management to compensate the physical inadequacies…. normally!! But in this case: the tattier the business, the cockier the Janet… more like it!!!
She literally shouted: “GET OUT”….yep, that’s because some of us did not order more drinks and others were still drinking theirs. Unreal.
As we stood outside on Janet’s familiar pavement gathering our thoughts on the unfortunate encounter, a group of girls came out of the bar and having heard it all just said: “expensive plastic surgery clearly requires more maintenance!” We couldn’t agree more.
At 71 years old, Shirley Klingbeil routinely is complimented on her skin.
“everybody thinks I look about 20 years younger,” Klingbeil said, who lives in Illinois.
Klingbeil’s routine is pretty simple. she doesn’t wash her face with soap. instead, twice a day, she uses Obagi skin care products and makeup with sunscreen. she drinks a lot of water, wears a hat when she goes outside and she doesn’t smoke. That’s it.
“I think that’s the real thing that causes wrinkles is the smoking,” Klingbeil said.
never lighting up seems to have worked for Klingbeil. So has protecting herself from the harmful rays — whether outdoors or using a tanning bed. The latter, in particular, according to Springfield, Ill., dermatologist Dr. Cassandra Claman, can age a person tremendously. Plus, Claman said, they can kill you. She’d make them illegal if she could.
“Tanning beds should be completely outlawed. The end,” Claman said laughing.
Outlawed because the lights do more damage to skin than the sun –– the harmful rays penetrate the skin more deeply, Claman said.
“It’s probably the No. 1 cause of young women getting skin cancer now — melanomas and basal cell (car)cinomas,” Claman said. “they are deadly. they are absolutely deadly.”
SPF, moisturize and cream, not lotion
even if a person doesn’t use a tanning bed, too much sun exposure also can lead to cancer. And while skin cancer cases are on the rise, Claman isn’t certain if there actually are more cases or if doctors today are more aware of it.
either way, she cautions her patients to be vigilant about sun protection. she recommends wearing sunscreen every day, even if you don’t think you’ll be outside much.
“Eighty percent of our sun is just to and from the car running errands and through the windshield,” Claman said. “by being prepared every morning … at least you’ve got some coverage on.”
If you are headed for the beach, Claman suggests loading up on the heavy artillery. she advises using a waterproof sunscreen with the highest SPF available. for men who may not want to lather on a cream, using a spray works just as well, she said.
“It’s very lightweight so they don’t feel all goofy and sticky,” Claman said. “by wearing sunscreen every day, it’s remarkable how much sun damage can be reversed.”
apart from preventing skin cancer, Claman’s helps her clients find ways to look younger and to replenish what the years have taken away.
“mainly, what happens when you get older is your skin gets drier,” Claman said.
So to counteract the dryness, Claman suggests investing in a moisturizing cream — not lotion, but cream. The difference, she said, is that lotions contain a large amount of water and alcohol. Thirty minutes after applying it, skin may feel as if nothing was applied, she said. So slather on the cream.
“you put that on … over damp skin every day, and that helps tremendously in terms of keeping your skin healthy,” she said.
Other measures
Claman said two other products that can reduce the effects of aging are Retin-A and Renova. Chemical peels also can take the years off, she said.
If those products don’t yield desired results, Botox, which is more effective on younger skin, and wrinkle fillers might be good options, said Springfield, Ill., plastic surgeon Dr. Nicole Sommer.
“Treatments such as the fillers and Botox — those only last for a certain amount of time,” Sommer said.
If a patient doesn’t want to continue receiving treatment, some opt for plastic surgery, such as a face-lift. Sommer said, oftentimes, patients say they feel much younger than they look, so surgery may be a way to merge one’s physical appearance and how old a person actually feels.
as for Shirley Klingbeil, though she may look like it, she’s never had any “work done.” instead, she said the main key to looking decades younger might be as simple as to remember to have a good time.
“having fun,” she said, “that’s good.”
Laura Michels is a freelance writer who can be reached at features@sj-r.com.
Skin care tips
Wear a hat and long sleeves when in the sun.
Wear a strong, waterproof sunscreen.
use a moisturizing cream.
use a moisturizer with sunscreen.
Products such as Retin-A and Renova may reduce the appearance of aging.
When my husband and I go camping, he gets eaten alive by mosquitoes unless he uses a bug spray with DEET. I hardly get bitten at all. Why is that?
— Sallie M., University Heights, Ohio
We YOU Docs are sure you’ve heard all the jokes — he’s sweeter than you are, etc. — but the difference in how often you two are bitten might be all about the microbes that live on his skin. Seems that for some of these blood-sucking insects, people with a lot of the same type of bacteria on their skin are more delicious than folks with a more complex mixture of microscopic tag-alongs. so perhaps your husband’s microbe mixture is simpler than yours. But there is another possibility: your husband drinks beer, and you don’t. Mosquitoes are known to love the smell of beer as it wafts off a suds-drinker’s body — and eagerly go in for a bite.
So what’s a target of these flying vampires to do? YOU Docs are fans of oil of lemon eucalyptus (or PMD, for para-menthane-3,8-diol, the synthesized version). It’s registered with the Environmental Protection Agency, which means it is safe and effective. One application gives two hours protection, about as much as an insect repellant with a low concentration of the chemical DEET. Alpha-Keri and Skin-So-Soft also repel insects; these products are less-effective, but easy on the skin. another non-DEET choice is Bite Blocker: It’s made with oils of geranium, soybean and coconut, and offers about an hour and a half of protection. DEET is the standard insect repellant that most effectively repels mosquitoes and is now said to be safe for children, although pregnant and breastfeeding women and infants may want to avoid it. It’s available as 4.75 percent DEET for kids and 23.8 percent DEET for adults (it lasts five hours). another solution: your husband can take a different mixture of probiotics every day to diversify his skin flora (some of what we eat populates our skin after a bit); that may also repel the skeeters.
I have a slipped disc. My husband and my doctor say I should have surgery. It scares me. Is it a smart move?
— Martha W., Indianapolis
Even the perfect 10, Bo Derek, had a slipped disc. when those gel-filled pads between your vertebrae become badly damaged and you have tingling, pain or numbness in your legs, surgery may be recommended. That’s the case for about 10 percent of people who have this condition. But we YOU Docs can tell you that a recent study from the Spine Outcomes Research Trial shows that for many people with a herniated — or slipped — disc, surgery has the best outcome. and you are double lucky, because married people who have surgery recover better than single folks.
What makes married people fare better? Seems that a happy marriage can help wound healing by reducing stress (which improves immune function), encouraging you to take better care of yourself and lowering your blood pressure.
In the meantime, there are some general rules for easing back pain that may help:
Lose weight, if you need to, by following the “YOU On a Diet” plan, which can reduce pain as it reduces your waistline.
Abandon your stilettoes, and reduce inflammation with ice and alternate with heat to relax tight muscles.
Ask your doc if there are specific exercises for you. Many, but not all, people with back problems feel better after appropriate exercise.
You’ll be surprised how soon after surgery you are back in the swing of things: often in two to four weeks — or eight to 12 weeks if you have a physically demanding job.
Every year, North Americans each chug down more than 26 gallons of bottled water in a seemingly unquenchable attempt to satisfy our thirst. That amounts to millions of plastic bottles clogging up landfills, and billions of dollars spent on what’s often no more than recycled municipal water. so we YOU docs have a tip: Eat some of your daily dose of water in fruits and vegetables. You’ll not only quench your thirst, you’ll rev up your disease-fighting powers and make your RealAge younger.
What you do drink can include plain water and juice, nonfat milk, even coffee (the diuretic effect of caffeinated beverages goes away if we drink them regularly, and 1 cup of coffee gives you about 2/3 cup of water). and remember, drink when you want to; don’t wait until you get parched.
You also can pull down 50 percent of your daily dose of H20 with fruits and vegetables. Broccoli is 92 percent water, a tomato is 94 percent and a pear 84 percent. That means one serving of broccoli (4 ounces) gives you 3 ounces of water. get your four to five cups of fruits and vegetables a day, and you’ll take in a third to a half of the recommended intake of fluids. You’ll know you’re getting enough water when your pee is pale. so set ‘em up, Jack. We’ll take a watermelon shot and a cucumber chaser, hold the ice.
Unless you are getting paid to be gross, like talk-show host Tyra Banks and singer Kelly Rowland in their on-air burping duet, chances are you wish you could keep those air-horns of gastro distress silent. Belches can come on unexpectedly. They are typically a signal that you’re swallowing too much air too quickly — from gulping down food and drink, feeling a bit nervous, drinking through a straw, chewing gum or sucking on a hard candy.
Sometimes, though, burps could signal GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), a malady that releases stomach acid up into the esophagus. and while GERD should be treated to avoid complications, mild and occasional burps generally do little harm, except to your social standing.
But if you’re one of the 24 million or more folks in North America who feel you’re losing the battle of the burp, and want them to stop now, we YOU Docs can help you make them cease and desist. here are a few smart self-care tips:
• Slow down when you eat; chew your food completely before swallowing; don’t talk during meals or exercise right after eating.
• Try drinking a teaspoon of lemon juice added to a glass of water or a cup of peppermint or chamomile tea.
• Calm down with a bit of mindful meditation; it reduces stress and slows down your breathing, which can help quiet your noisy belly. “Ohm.” A much nicer sound.
Comedian Steven Wright once deadpanned, “I’m getting an MRI tomorrow to see if I’m claustrophobic.”
Many folks — like Jennifer love Hewitt, who gets antsy in elevators, and Paris Hilton, who spent days in the medical wing of L.A.’s Twin Towers Correctional Facility when she saw the size of her jail cell — have had a negative reaction to being closed into a tight spot with no way out.
Fortunately, the condition can be diagnosed and treated quite successfully, and many health insurance plans cover the cost. The two ways claustrophobia is best managed are through the appropriate use of medications to ease anxiety and cognitive behavioral therapy — what we YOU Docs like to call “talk therapy with a homework plan.”
This form of therapy helps you learn how to reduce your fear by changing thinking patterns and handle anxiety-provoking situations by adopting new ways of reacting to them.
So call your local medical facility; both the Cleveland Clinic and new York-Presbyterian (Dr. Mike’s and Dr. Oz’s respective hospitals) have special treatment programs for anxiety disorders. In the meantime, work on managing your phobia with meditation, yoga, a healthy diet and the support of friends and family. you may be surprised at how wonderful closeness can feel.
Dwayne Wade of the Miami Heat was recently benched for foot problems. so as you ramp up your outdoor workouts, we YOU Docs want to make sure you aren’t one more candidate for foot pain — and the performance problems that come with it.
Lots of strains, sprains and pops happen when the rubber meets the road. A pair of pricey running kicks may be Err Jordan’s for you. How come? your stride is unique, like a fingerprint — and if you don’t get your sports shoes fitted properly, you can end up with joint and muscle problems from foot to shoulder.
But you can custom-fit your sports shoes to your footfall with an orthotic insert. some shoe stores have pressure-reading footfall analyzers that customize the insole of the shoe right there.
Or start your spring training with a visit to an orthopedist or podiatrist for a mold or a 3D scan of each foot. They reveal if you need more support on your arch, or if you turn your foot in or out when you stride. This can guide your doc to create a perfectly fitted insert to protect your feet and body from injury.
Dr. Oz is a fan of stretching to avoid injury: Loosen hips and hamstrings, pecs, torso and lower back. use your body weight to gently pull your body in all directions. Hold each move for about 15 seconds.
TAME SPRING ALLERGIES
If it’s hard to “Have a Nice Day,” because you’re sneezing like Bon Jovi at the Meadowlands in May, listen up. With a little smarts you can turn down the volume on your nose-orchestra. we YOU Docs want to pass along the latest how-to-feel-better news:
1. Make a stay-strong grocery list. dark leafy vegetables, 100 percent whole grains, unsaturated fats and lean protein boost immune strength. and avoid pollen allergy co-conspirators: 70 percent of those with allergies to birch or alder trees also get an itchy, swollen mouth from celery, cherries and apples. and 20 percent with a grass allergy react to tomatoes, potatoes or peaches. Cooking them may quell irritants, or leave them off your menu.
2. get a great air filter. Whole-house systems with HEPA air filters are most effective. Stand-alone room filters have to pump out a lot of pollen-free air to make a difference, but do help.
3. Create a safe zone — the bedroom. Shut windows to minimize pollen on upholstered furniture and surfaces. Take shoes off at the doorway, and keep pets out — their coats can get loaded with pollen. Avoid compounding seasonal allergies with a dust mite allergy: use 1 micron allergy-proof pillow cases and mattress pads.
4. Stay fresh. Take a shower and wash your hair before bed to remove accumulated pollen.
5. get an allergy checkup to ID what’s getting you. Consider allergy shots to reduce sensitivity to specific pollens. Also consider antihistamines, if needed. then head out for a healthy dose of springtime physical activity.
(c) 2012 Michael Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Print media may be facing dire challenges, but you wouldn’t know it from romantic comedies. Hollywood still treats women’s magazines as works of Biblical importance to the American woman; take, for example, “What’s Your Number?”, in which a woman downsized from her marketing position reconceptualizes her life after flipping through a Marie Claire. Anna Faris plays Ally Darling (awww…), whose Boston subway ride is ruined when Marie Claire tells her the average number of lovers an American woman has in her lifetime is 10.5. Aghast at having nearly doubled that total — and shamed by her younger sister’s impending marriage — Ally resolves to stop sleeping with men until she finds “the one.” That’s a tall order for a girl who likes a few drinks on the town (and the sex that tends to follow), but Ally decides she won’t give “yes” for an answer. Ally bonds with her womanizing across-the-hall neighbor Colin (Chris “Captain America” Evans) when they help each other ditch dates, prompting Ally to offer a trade: her apartment as a hideout from booty calls in exchange for Colin’s help digging up her old flames. perhaps, she reasons, they’re worthy of a hookup for old time’s sake (after all, exes won’t add to her total) or even the ultimate hookup: marriage. Ally’s old boyfriends prove mostly unavailable or unmarriageable, but we learn in the process that Ally has slept with modern comedy’s B-list, including Andy Samberg, Chris Pratt, Thomas Lennon and Martin Freeman. Finally, Ally reconnects with prized bachelor Jake Adams (Dave Annable), and since this is a strictly boilerplate rom com, we’re to pretend that, like Ally, we don’t see the obvious: her true love is the man right under her nose, the confident but surprisingly sweet Colin. yes, with sex out of the equation, Ally and Colin get to know and love each other. Based on Karen Bosnak’s novel “20 Times a Lady,” “What’s Your Number?” is frothy and predictable, occasionally annoying (the persistent, pandering Facebook and Twitter jokes), but a crowd pleaser for those who don’t blanche at the term “chick flick.” Aimed at the young and restless by a TV-bred director and screenwriters, the picture doesn’t seem much to mind that it’s disposable, instead focusing on cheerily crude sex talk and getting Faris and Evans out of their clothes at every possible opportunity (we’re talking every other scene, folks). So director Mark Mylod knows which side his bread is buttered on, and he takes as much advantage of Faris’ comic chops as the script allows. It’s sad that the 34-year-old Faris seems to have resorted to face-altering plastic surgery, but she remains every inch a comedienne of the Lucy school, powering scenes like the one in which she fakes her way through a bad British accent or the one in which she pounds away at a leg that’s fallen asleep. It’s just that she and Evans deserve better than a string of rom-com cliches, including the surprise date in a closed sports arena. unless you’re Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, it couldn’t happen to you.
Rated R for sexual content and language. 1 hour, 47 minutes.
— Peter Canavese
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a Pointer Sister?! Im so excited!….lol…seriously I cant wait to see this one….last one was off the chain…..but seriously, how are they all holding up, the former patients that is?
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What is she addicted to: bad plastic surgery ? I keep hearing how good she looks for her age, I don’t see it… If I had that much money, I could afford a lifetime of plastic surgery too LOL
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GEEEZZZZZZZZZZ!! What happened to her?? She used to be gorgeous. Now she’s just…….
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If she wants to deal with an alcohol problem, she should find a real professional and deal with it in private. Putting this material on television is unethical, period.
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did they really get Jeremy London? Smart if he’s behind on his mortgage, but wasn’t he trying to keep his family from talking about his issue?
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Janice should LOVE alcohol because a guy needs at least 10 drinks to find her do-able.this wrinkly old hag’s real problem is this: she’s a complete douchehole, and no amount of vodka can cure her.
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Jeremy London ? but, I thought he’s been sober for a while now… those mean guys who kidnapped him and made him do drugs must’ve caused him to have a relapse… LMAO
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I actually think she looks pretty good! I love the rehab shows, I think it’s very entertaining, and I believe everyone should get a second chance WITH the exception of animal abusers and people who harm children!!!-those sickos need to be locked up and the key needs to be thrown away!
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yikes,,she looks rough..thats definitly a face only a mother could love,,and thats only if mama is blind
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hate to admit but I do like this show. Watching “D” lister at their lowest point somehow make it entertaining…I vote for LiLo to be the next cast…
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good Luck to Dr. Drew on this one. he got his hands full with her. I give her credit for trying – though.
Of late, the e-mail has become so powerful that it can do and undo things. more than letting us do something, it often makes us feel safer to refrain from doing it.
As far as my already fading memory goes, it all started with fast food.
About a decade ago came a mail stating that a particular fast food outlet was not serving ‘real’ chicken but some artificial breed. It was claimed that they were not genetically born or reared. the mail also challenged that we would not find the word ‘chicken’ anywhere in their outlets or advertisements.
But, the inflow of customers into the outlet never appeared to reduce, despite the wide circulation of the mail.
Shortly thereafter came another mail saying that all carbonated drinks contained ‘pesticides’, only with varied percentages of composition. these drinks were more suitable for toilet cleaning, claimed the mail, and if you put an extracted tooth in the drink it would dissolve into powder form in no time.
An improvised version of this mail said that if one took a specific mint and consumed a carbonated drink together it would prove fatal.
Another mail threatened that water if heated in a microwave was harmful to health. It showed photographs of two identical plants, one green after being watered with normal water and the other slowly fading when watered with microwave heated water.
I immediately advised my better half to stop heating water in the microwave oven and use the appliance only for other solid stuff. Suddenly another blow came saying that plastic containers should not be used for heating in the microwave oven as plastic releases a toxin which reacts with the contents, and damages human organs.
The mail recommended certain special branded glassware as suitable for use in these ovens. My investigation as to whether the manufacturer of the mail was only the manufacturer of the glassware is still on.
People altogether tried to ignore food items, drinks and started peacefully concentrating on fruits which are essential for the health. all of a sudden emerged a health warning by a mail that apples were coated with wax and consuming them was detrimental to health, which forced us to conclude that an apple a day would not keep the doctor away.
Forget the foods, drinks and the like, and decide to work at the computer, but these thunderous mails will not permit you to do that, either. One mail will pop up saying that the keyboard contains bacteria 50 per cent more than what a worst toilet can ever have.
Another one will warn you that ‘If you receive a mail with the caption as ‘Olympic torch’, never open it, as the virus in it will burn your whole hard disk immediately”.
I received such a mail about three years ago (and no such Olympic torch mail came ever since), adding that ‘BBC, CNN and Microsoft have declared it as the most dangerous and incurable virus ever detected and this warning by the consortium has been released this Saturday’.
I almost decided to close my mail account when I received the same word-by-word replica mail last week, including the last three words ‘released this Saturday’.
If you have heart-related problems, a free-from-surgery treatment with only a combination of ginger, lemon, and honey is available over mails. Are you a chronic insulin-dependant diabetic? Nothing to worry — just take a mixture of cummin, barley, etc, and live happily for the rest of your life by eating all available sweets.
Mails will not allow you to keep the phone near your bed, answer the call using the right ear (it directly gets connected to the brain), or make a call when the battery is low.
And, what about other mails banning us from turning on the car air-conditioner immediately on entry, moving the car without looking left, right, back and front, and re-using the plastic bottles for water?
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Of late, the e-mail has become so powerful that it can do and undo things. more than letting us do something, it often makes us feel safer to refrain from doing it.