Adverse food reactions (what people may call “food allergies”) can cause numerous symptoms and can be the underlying reason for challenges to optimal health. These negative reactions to specific foods are more common than you might expect, and they can be surprisingly difficult to pinpoint as contributing factors to health problems. Adverse food reactions can include food allergies that start in early childhood and continue on throughout life. When we have adverse food reactions, we might be reacting to several different food components. It could be some unique food proteins that are triggering our problematic reactions. It could also be…
Author: William
Nutrients are the Body’s Ingredients for Health In this chapter, I am going to review why the nutrients, in which the World’s Healthiest Foods are so concentrated, are essential to your health. You’ll see how they provide so many great benefits and are therefore the key to healthy weight loss and optimal health. Even though most everyone is familiar with the idea of nutrition and nutrients, many people do not really know what nutrients actually do and how they work, including how they contribute to weight loss. Most people are used to thinking about nutrients in a “this cures that”…
Readers wrote to tell me that when they shifted their meals to include more of the World’s Healthiest Foods, they not only experienced enhanced health, but—without even trying—those who wanted to lose weight found that they were readily doing so. The research we did helped us to more clearly understand why Readers lost weight and why the World’s Healthiest Foods were so effective in weight loss. New evidence associates diets high in salads, vegetables, and fruits and low in processed and refined foods with healthy weight because they contain phytonutrients—beneficial compounds found exclusively in fruits and vegetables that possess the…
While excess weight in and of itself may be cosmetically undesirable its most serious harmful effects result from the fact that excess fat, particularly around the mid-section, greatly increases risk of developing a myriad of other health conditions, including high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and elevated blood sugar levels. Many Readers have reported that eating World’s Healthiest Foods not only helped them lose weight, but also alleviated weight-related health problems as well Nothing helps to make day-to-day life more enjoyable than abundant energy levels. Maintaining a healthy metabolism is key both for having plenty of energy for your daily activities…
Often, it’s the little details that turn a good layout into a great design; details such as subtle textures, shading and smooth shapes. Photoshop contains a vast array of tools for embellishing a design, but choosing the right one isn’t always easy. Being the obsessive-compulsives that we are, we’ve conducted a huge range of experiments to determine the benefits and disadvantages of each technique. Here, then, is an obsessivecompulsive’s guide to some frequently used tools and techniques for Web and UI design in Photoshop. Subtle noise or texture on UI elements can look great, but what’s the best way to…
Photoshop’s Rounded Rectangle vector tool appears like the ideal candidate for the task, until you realize that the edges it creates are blurry and inconsistent. Fortunately, there is a fairly well-hidden option that locks the Rounded Rectangle Freshwap vector tool’s output to the pixel grid. Excellent. To enable pixel-locked drawing for the Rounded Rectangle vector tool, check the “Snap to Pixels” option in the Options bar. If you have “Snap to Pixels” turned off, drawing at 100% zoom achieves the same result. The result is perfect roundrects, every time. The only downside is that the Merdb corner radius can’t be…
A more specific effect is the response to brief periods of freezing, or near-freezing, temperatures. The classical example, feared by fruit growers almost everywhere except in the tropics, is a freeze while the trees are in full bloom. This is much more drastic for deciduous fruit trees than for evergreen trees such as citrus. If the blossom-bearing wood is not damaged, such tropical or subtropical trees have a chance to replace fruit buds within the same bearing season, although yield and fruit quality may be impaired. As discussed later, this cannot happen with deciduous fruit trees. A more subtle effect,…
It’s seven steps in total and is prone to being inaccurate; plus, the radius of the corners can’t be changed on the fly. Applying levels can also be a bit fiddly. One advantage is that different levels settings can be used to obtain different degrees of antialiasing, from incredibly soft to completely aliased. Create a new layer Draw a rectangular selection Enter quick mask (Q) Gaussian blur by half the radius that you’d like for the rounded corners. (For example, a 10-pixel radius would need a 5-pixel blur.) Apply Levels (Command + L), and use about 118 for the black…
Open a photo in Camera Raw; you can do this either in Bridge, using the right mouse key and clicking “Open in Camera Raw,” or directly in Photoshop, by selecting File → Open as Smart Object. Apply basic adjustments to optimize your image (for example, with the “Recovery” and “Fill Light” slides), then switch to the “HSL/Grayscale” tab. Check “Convert to Grayscale,” and set the Blues down to around -85. Set the Greens to +90 and the Yellows to +20. Trees and bushes should now shine in the typical white, and the sky should appear almost black. If you want…
Create a Solid Color layer, convert it to a Smart Object, select Filter → Noise → Add Noise, apply a Vector Mask to match your element, set the layer blending mode to Luminosity and reduce the layer’s opacity. It’s a fairly involved process, but it can accommodate a combination of effects that can be remade if the document gets scaled. Scales: Yes, texture will be remade automatically Works with Color and Gradient layer styles: Yes Works with any texture: Start by creating a noise or repeating pattern in a new document, then choose Edit → Define Pattern. Once you’ve defined…