Paula Begoun rocks!

Not only does she do all this exhaustive testing and research to write books about all the makeup and beauty products available, she also created a website about them. What a wonderful woman!

Here's the home page: http://www.beautypedia.com/default.aspx

Here's the Master List of all the different brands with reviews of some of their products: http://www.beautypedia.com/brandlist.aspx

If you pay a membership fee of $24.95 US per year you have access to all the individual product reviews and her list of "Best Products" as well as the latest reviews as they arrive. Or you could buy one of her books which covers the same ground but obviously goes out of date very quickly...

Great way NOT to waste money on useless beauty products as she does all the work to find out what's best for you to use- fabulous!

RealAge.com

So do you REALLY wanna know how good condition your body is in? I'm not talking about whether you look good in a swimsuit or can do 50 push ups in a minute. I am talking about your overall well-being and whether or not you are living well on a day to day basis. Do you want to know the truth?

Then go to RealAge.com.

These 2 doctors are the ones that came to fame on Oprah (yes, I admit I do watch her show a lot!) but their main aim is not to preach or lecture or dictate health rules. They want to empower you to take good care of yourself and give you a hell of a lot of information here on how to do it. From diet to exercise, illness and preventative medicine, all the way to explanations of how your body works so you can understand exactly what it's doing when it goes wrong.

The best part is when you sign up for FREE they take you through a thorough health questionnaire which can give you an indication of what your "real" age is- not the number of years you've been on this earth, but the youth of your body based on the way you treat it.

There are some technical questions like what your blood pressure level is or what your cholesterol levels are, but on the drop down lists you can choose "I don't know" so you don't need to abandon the test just because you have the numbers on hand. Next time you go to your doctor ask for your numbers and then you can always go back and update the test so it can give you a more accurate assessment.

But once you've done that you can log on to the site a few hours later and it'll give you an overview of your health and suggest how to make change and improvements that will help you to improve your health. And it's all for free!

Oh and by the way, my real age? 33.7 years old. And as I'm turning 35 next week, I'm pleased with that result!

Start counting!

I just heard on the radio that apparently people who have 100 or more moles tend to live 6-7 years longer than everyone else.

Bizarre enough fact to probably be true...