Amazing Pinoy Run wearing Diadora Jersey

Diadora has always been part of my fitness regimen specially when I run

Last Saturday I got a free race kit for the Amazing Pinoy Run courtesy of barefoot runner Noy Floresca.

Before running I took some vitamins called Essentials and Coquinone 30, an organic vitamins from USANA Health Sciences. It is helping me in gaining strength and resistance for a couple of months now.

At the gathering area before the gun start I saw my fellow team mate in Diadora Philippines Running Team

Running Atom Alfred Vedarozaga and I talked about our plans with Diadora and how are we going to impart the spirit of running together.

I had a great time running this amazing run, there was no pressure at all and I just did my own pace. Thank you for the good weather, the energy and the strength. This ultimate fun run serves to be my training in preparation for this years first marathon (my second to be overall).

The good thing about running during weekends is I get to have a clear mind for the entire weekend, therefore I can easily do errands in an organize way. Without knowing that I already did a lot for the weekend which is good for me since I am so busy at weekdays.

I will definitely aim to always run during weekends!

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Amazing Pinoy Runners participated the fun on May 24 Saturday in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.

The run was not timed due to it's aim to bring back the essence of fun. There was even no stretching required because included in the race are interactive challenges where in runners experience to maximize all the body parts they include during a stretch.

Yours truly had enjoyed the race wearing the latest Diadora jersey.

Proceeds of this run goes to Clark Foundation and Filipino Children’s Needy Fund, Inc.

Join the Condura Skyway Run 2013

Are you a runner? Or a first time to join a marathon? Join the Condura Skyway Run  2013. It will be held on February 3, 2013.

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Operation Smile: Changing Lives Forever

Not many can say that they’ve changed lives for the better. Not many can claim that a life was lived well in constant service to another.

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In the 30 years that Operation Smile has been working, it has given smiles to over 24,000 surgeries in the Philippines, which is where the operation began. Now, it has given smiles and changed forever to the lives of over 200,000 children and young adults – a feat that surely not anybody can catch up to any time soon.

The impact that a facial deformity has on a child is not merely physical. Every day, children with facial deformities look at themselves and question why they are different. On top of that emotional and psychological trauma, children with facial deformities usually suffer from respiratory ailments and ear infections.

Society can be very hard to children with cleft palates and lips. They are taunted and teased for not having that same smile as everyone else.

In the Philippines, one in every 500 babies born every year has a cleft lip, palate or both. This means that roughly 4,004 Filipinos out of 2,064 million born every year have this deformity. A report from the Philippine Birth Defect Registry – a partnership of the Department of Health and the US National Institute of Health’s Institute of Human Genetics – said that cleft lip and palates are among the top 12 birth defects in the country.

An act that picks up from 30 years of constant doing, Operation Smile is at it again. On the event of their 30^th anniversary, they changed the lives of more children – this time in partnership with an expert in healing scars, Dermatix.

Scars are different among people. The body has different ways of dealing with wounds but unlike most misconceptions that scars are irreparable, scars can be healed forever with the help of effective skin products imbued with innovative technologies and skin-savvy ingredients. Dermatix is just that.

Dermatix is a formula specifically made to promote better scar healing. It is made with the innovative CPX (cyclopentasiloxane) technology for better flattening and softening of scars and Vitamin C for photoprotection and skin lightening.

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Dermatix and Operation Smile, a partnership that surely must be meant to be, will be healing scars of children who have cleft palates, lip palates, and other facial deformities that prevent them from living life as normally and as fully as they should.  This partnership’s goal is to give children a better shot in life without living with a permanent mark of pain and imperfection on their faces.

Children who are scarred for being different have the opportunity now to live life without the burden of an imperfect smile. Dermatix and Operation Smile are not only fixing smiles, they are changing lives forever.

Manage Acne with Papulex!

I am a fan of committing skincare sins, I love eating nuts, I sleep in a wrong way I love to squeeze my pimples and most of the time I am lazy of washing my face. I admit that at one point or another I am guilty of gross habits that aggravate my skin.

Kicking Out Bad Skin Habits

I admit that I am guilty of committing skincare sins and need to be aware of such habits in order to prevent acne from getting worse.

Im vain, I love eating nuts, I sleep in a wrong way and I love to squeeze my pimples. I realize that I have a lot of bad skin habits.

Here's a list of bad skin habits that should be kicked out:

Gel products on your forehead
Most people say that I have good skin, what they don't know is I often get acne on my forehead because I would always apply gel on my hair until some of it goes to my forehead. After a few days acne arises. Tip: Don't rush putting on gel.

Nuts can make you nuts
I love nuts, especially nuts sold in the bus. "Mani, mainit, may bawang, bagong luto...bili na!" vendors would shout.

I've heard advices from friend that one cause of acne is too much eating of nuts. Sometimes it's true sometimes it's nut. Tip: Try greaseless nuts

Irregular change of pillow case
I sleep before 12 midnight lying face down on my pillow every night.
what they don't know about my pillow? I seldom change it's case and it's full of my saliva. :-) Obviously bacteria goes to my face until it aggregates acne. Tip: Regularly change your pillowcase

Squeezing pimple
I love squeezing when I have pimples and I know it's tempting. The act of squeezing a pimple pushes the bacteria deeper into the pores, causing inflammation, infection, and scarring. This is the worst thing that I do. Tip: Avoid temptations

With all these bad habits I still manage to have a good skin because I use a brand that helps me prevent skin acne.

Soon to be revealed!

Weird remedies don’t work for Acne

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Problem: Acne is one of the hardest thing to manage.

When acne arises you will do everything just to clear it off. Even the most weird remedy that you can think becomes a great idea and somehow there was a time that you would like to try it .

Acne Sucks! But it is a problem that can be managed

Studies show that Acne is one of the problems that everybody would usually encounter during teenage years. It did happen to me but thank God it didn’t showed up for long. I asked some of my friends about their experiences, some of them experienced it early some of them experienced a bit late.