Eat Apricots For Good Health

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Apricot is a succulent fruit loaded with vitamins and nutrients. You can eat it raw, dried or canned but studies show that eating dried apricots can yield more health benefits.

This fruit is rich in beta-carotene. It is also rich in potassium, iron, calcium and Vitamin C and is a good natural source of fibre. Here are some health benefits of eating apricots:

• Helps ease constipation because it can act as a mild laxative due to its cellulose and pectin content.
• Helps indigestion because it produces alkaline reaction on the body system. You can take one apricot before meal to aid digestion.
• The juice can help your body to cool down during fever.
• It helps treat skin diseases like scabies, sunburn, rashes, eczema, psoriasis and dermatitis.
• Helps in anemia because it is rich in iron.

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Fun Things To Do In Summer

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Summer can be very hot here in the U.A.E. If you happen to live in this part of the world then you will understand why summer here is a dreaded season. It is so hot and humid and the temperature reaches 49 to 50 degrees Celcius. That is not a joke! However, we have to make do of what we have and where we are because we cannot let these hot factors dampen our summer spirit.

There are so many ways to enjoy the blistering heat of the sun here and you can do it indoors or even outdoors either very early morning or during the night. Here are fun ways to enjoy summer while battling the heat of the long summer months:

1. Learn how to cook and bake with your family and friends. This is an indoor activity which can be enjoyed by everyone. You don't have to shell out a big amount of money to pay someone to teach you. Research and save some easy-to-make or easy-to-bake recipes and shop for the ingredients.

2. Do some arts and crafts project like scrapbooking and making handmade cards of various occasion. If you have small kids around, let them take part in the project by giving them simple tasks like coloring or pasting shapes or embellishments you will use in your project. Make fun stuff with them and you'll never realize how fun summer can be even while at home.

3. Go for a very early or late afternoon jog or walk around the park. If you have been delaying your weight loss goals for some time, summer is a good way to sweat it out. Be sure to bring water to cool yourself off and a handy towel to wipe away the perspiration.

4. Go to the beach in the morning or late in the afternoon and enjoy the ocean breeze.

5. Window-shop and enjoy the cool airconditioned malls. You save money by not switching your a/c at home. However, make sure you stick to your purpose of only to window-shop and walk around the mall.

6. Learn a new language, musical instrument or a new skill.

7. Have slumber party at home and invite your friends over for a nice movie-marathon night.

8. Clean your house. Re-organize and spruce your habitat.

9. Volunteer to some civic organizations and render your skills and service to help others.

10. Write a blog or start a blog.

11. Make a playlist of your favorite songs and organize them.

12. Make a smoothie! This is one of my fave to do!

13. Go to the museum or art galleries and try soaking in the culture and art.

14. Go on a vacation preferably somewhere cold :)

The list goes on. If you have other ways of enjoying the blistering heat, please feel free to share them here. Have fun this summer! Don't forget to dress lightly and wear protective SPF if you must.

Online Fun

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I love playing online. It helps me ease the tension, de-stress and forget the trivialities of life. I play mostly arcade, simulator and puzzle games. I also play slot machines and online bingo. I find them very entertaining especially the casino games since I cannot go to a casino for real.

There are several sites that offer endless fun and entertainment through games and one of the biggest social network site to play online games is in Facebook. Aside from that, famous sites like Yahoo and online bingo site Wink Bingo offers are also offering games. Some games are free while others are trial basis on a limited time then you have to buy to proceed to the next level.

I have bought licensed games in the past for myself and my daughter so we have something else to do aside from the usual activities we have regularly. The long summer months in this country leaves us cooped at home most of the time after school and work. We finish our normal activities like studying, doing the household chores, feeding our pet and preparing meals for the day before we engage in our online activities. Although my frequency of playing time has diminished significantly. I still check online games once in a while.

Online games varies in terms of genre and audience. I tend to stick to the wholesome kind and ones that do not involve shelling out money. I have to cater to my daughter's interests too so I check out the games' rating and review before I let her play for a short period of time. She likes the baking kind and timed puzzles which help develop her creativity and sharpens her logic with the puzzle-solving games. We both enjoy farming games too and creating cities because they are colorful and you can actually visit other players' cities and farms and help out in the process.

Some games can be time consuming especially the role-playing games or RPG. I do not let my daughter play any of those games because of their nature and theme. We just stick to the child-friendly ones. I do have my preference of games to play though but I try not to engage too often. I just have to know the limitations. It is a matter of self-control while having fun on the side.