How about taking fashion to a next level? Iodine bindi for Indians.

Life Saving Dot is the right name for it is the most fashion recognizable Indian accessorie. An iodine bindi came to fill a gap between the women in India and a healthy body. Watch this video to understand this great idea.

Buying local, helping the family of farmers.

Saturday Market on Greenville downtown, yeah that Greenville.

Organic Sunshine Burger review.

Amount of pressure exerted on the neck by stretching forward

We may not notice how the Electronic Era has changed the way we interact with those devices, but they sure have! Be aware how much pressure you put on your neck just for reading a message, and make sure you learn how move your eyes better.

DR. Kenneth K. Hansraj, New York Spine Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine.

Sweatshop, fashion in hell.

Português aqui.

Following the path of the movie China Blue, this TV channel send three Norwegian youths out into the world to meet the people who sew their clothes. They are fashion bloggers who spend a lot on money with this dead industry.

In Cambodia they meet young people who live - this is the exactly word - sewing the same right shoulder sleeve for 14 years.

_ "Their bodies are used to do this kind of work everyday." One of those girls saying.

_ "They never saw anything better, so for them must no be so hard." Says the youngest.

_ "After a bad sleeping, bad eating, and many hours working I'm dizzy". Explain the only boy of this group.

The workers' protest is for a $160 a month, what means 60 more they receive today, or $3  a day. It isn't enough for buying food, and I'm not talking about good quality food at all. For buying a jacket that have sewing all day long, the Cambodian lady needs to work a whole year.

Here you see all videos with English subtitles.

Ep. 1 - How many will die here every year?

Ep. 2 - Our bathroom is larger than her entire house.

Ep. 3 - I'll keep going until I faint.

Ep. 4 - The larger chain are starving their workers!

Ep. 5 - What kind of life is this?

More texts for you here.

World Cup's trophy

Why a shift in your career can work very well.

Basic style of negotiation around the World

Special gloves for arthritis hands

Great product for sensitive hands are these IMAK compression gloves.

What I love about it? The heather fabric that looks like you don't have an issue at all! That's why it was a great Christmas gift for my sufferer friend.

soft knit + beautiful heather = amazing fabric

Just keep working.

Made of cotton and spandex mixed together for a cozy heather fabric. It's breathable, comfortable, and helps all day long with gentle elasticity. The compression is just enough for your day by day working in a office or home. These gloves extend beyond the wrists to provide pain and swelling relief for your entire hand and wrist. They also have open fingers for you be able to perform your daily tasks without too much restriction.  

IMAK products

Make sure you get the right size for you.

Wash with care.

Arthritis Foundation label.

They say you can find at Wallgreens. Just you know, I didn't find at CVS.

Material content 92% cotton and 8% Spandex. For those more sensitives and allergic people, it's not made with natural rubber latex.

More post you will love.

Fibromyalgia? Must watch the end of this video.

Sometimes you need a theory.

Let's have some fun about thyroids today.

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

DISCLAIMER

All material on this CORN FREE session is intended for reference only and should not take place of medical advice from a license practitioner. Please use common sense, do your own research, and consult your physician when making decisions about your health.

Honey bee research will help us.

Bee sensors take flight to help farmers in Australia

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

DISCLAIMER

All material on this CORN FREE session is intended for reference only and should not take place of medical advice from a license practitioner. Please use common sense, do your own research, and consult your physician when making decisions about your health.

Come on science!

Posted with permission of someecards.

Want to read more about gluten? Go here.

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

DISCLAIMER

All material on this CORN FREE session is intended for reference only and should not take place of medical advice from a license practitioner. Please use common sense, do your own research, and consult your physician when making decisions about your health.

No pesticides, BUG helps the environment

Saying no to pesticides BUG helps Brazilian crops being organic. This company is one of the most innovative according Fast Company, 33th position globally. The relevance is because those two most important crops in Brazil, sugarcane and soybeans. 

Trichogramma galloi

BUG sells basically insects and mites. Trichogramma, for example, provides half of the turnover of BUG by parasitizing eggs of the caterpillar in sugarcane crops.  Their 1st trial was in 2006 when a farmer asked for a sample to recover 200 bushels. It was so effective that he called high the way to ask for enough to help thousand more bushels.

How it works? BUG creates in their labs millions of eggs to pack and send to the buyer. The package is biodegradable and full of baby wasps. Each envelope must be left in a plant around 65 feet from other pack. Less than 5 days after many the distribution many wasps will fly to find caterpillar's eggs to eat.

Each little envelope has 2,000 eggs.

The company has already replaced pesticides in 35 thousands of bushels between all customers. For example, sugarcane in Maranhão, soybeans in the Midwest, strawberry in the Espirito Santo, flowers and peppers in Minas Gerais, melon in Rio Grande do Norte, and cotton, corn, and tomatoes.

If you think there is of an uncontrolled growth risk, don't worry. Wasps live only for 10 days, and they are natural predator of this caterpillar.

Bug's lab

Bug's lab

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

TED Global South in Rio, can't miss it!

TED GLOBAL SOUTH

TED conferences is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. More than that, they are specialized in spread the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives in less than 18 minutes.

The world is changing fast. Changing upside down with ideas coming from fresh directions from emerging geographies. TED will present the realities of tomorrow in South America.

TED GLOBAL SOUTH

In October 2014, on the beach of Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, we will be celebrating the outpouring of innovation, dynamism and creativity taking place all over Brazil.

Rio de Janeiro, October 5-10 2014.

Must like too

TED - GMOs gets owned by 11 year old boy

TEDx - The way we eat processed and unprocessed foods.

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

Guess what is the most popular app in Brazil now?

"Tell the plate license number. Check the situation."

The most popular app for mobiles and computer in Brazil is Checkplaca. The name means plate verification of car's license, and it's now the 14th most downloaded in the world in the Apple store. 400,000 downloads since it was launched in December of 2013. 

This app allows citizens to check if the vehicle is stolen. Just pushing a bunch of buttons to inform license plate's number to know from Traffic Department and Brazilian National System of Justice the situation of the car you want to buy for example.

If this app tells you something irregular, it automatically gives you the option to call the police. Everything anonymous. The police department will send a team to the exactly place to verify the issue.

Polices also are using Checkplaca, which is free for Android and iOS.

The Brazilian Justice thanks to this app for average 1 vehicle recovered per day.

Just in case you don't know, 450,000 were stolen in 2012, in the whole country.

Everyday situation in those big cities of Brazil.

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

The Role of Vaccines

Rob Schneider speaks out against vaccines here.

Read more about Dr. Campbell-McBride here.

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

Future of Nutrition

You must check the Future of Nutrition webinar, not just because you want to eat better, be vegan, be paleo, so and so. But because right now this food/nutrition subject it's sooo trendy as technology was years ago. Check their Facebook Fanpage. 

This is what I've learned so far.

"There is no ONE good diet for everybody in every place in the world.

We are unique and our diet must be specif for our body and demands."
Marc David

"If you are hit by a car, you'll need a traditional doctor,

but if you have a chronic disease the same doctor won't help you.

Because the traditional medicine doesn't know how treat you, or what causes the diseases. This is why they will calm down your symptoms with pills."
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride

"Some people don't need more exercise, or more food.

They need more sleeping, and less food."
Matt Stone


"Eating organic is not just about nutrition. It's also about not poisoning the environment, it's about soil health, saving the bee population, and more.
Laura Klein

"If you tell me you want to climb the mountain Kilimanjaro. I'll need to look not just your nutritional status, but your nutritional status relatively to the demands and training for successively climbing Kilimanjaro."
Paul Chek 

Why we say a big "YES" when a doctor give us a new powerful drug,

but we say "oh... ok... sure..." when the doctor say "let's change your diet"?
Marc David

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

DISCLAIMER

All material on this CORN FREE session is intended for reference only and should not take place of medical advice from a license practitioner. Please use common sense, do your own research, and consult your physician when making decisions about your health.

Forget Google glass, now they are working on contact lenses.

Scientists at the Google research facility in California are working on contact lenses containing tiny electronics that can constantly monitor glucose levels in the tears of people with high levels of glucose.

It may not help you much if you aren't diabetics, but is a great challenge for who does have this disease. Can you imagine have your glucose checked without the every day pain&blood process?

Of course, "It’s still early days for this technology, but we've completed multiple clinical research studies which are helping to refine our prototype," Google claimed. "We hope this could someday lead to a new way for people with diabetes to manage their disease."

A tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor that are embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material. They may be able to insert a LED light to indicate that the level is close to the thresholds. Also can communicate with smartphones or tablets for helping you to talk with your doctor. Another big difference? It's something you can wear every single minute in your day without noticing.

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

Rock Candy, just a part of my childhood

This necklace made with sugar by Greetje Van Helmond
looks exactly to those Rock Candy we used to eat.

My parents used to visit my mom's old relative on every Sunday afternoon. We used to, literally, cross the city in a long trip to reach her house. My younger sister and I never complained about it, and in fact, we enjoyed a lot. We knew that travel had a stop. The pit stop was in the most rich candy store in our city. I don't remember a trip without a stop at that specific store.

The store called Kopenhagen started by a couple when they left Latvia to live in Brazil because WWI. Anna and David did handmade candy for selling on the streets. Changing their lives from medicine and piano to marzipan and chocolates the sells of the couple were growing fast. By year 1930, they opened a first store in Sao Paulo downtown.

In 1990 we were lucky to have a few Kopenhagen stores in our city too. The cookie smell, the European milk chocolate with almond, the sweet visual of each heart box and those candy were a dream for everybody. It wasn't different for us. Every stop my parents bought a gift to ant, a liquor chocolate box for them and candy for us.

Kopenhagen products in 1980.

My preference always was a Rock Candy, which always also intrigued me. How is possible to make a candy like a rock?  Nowadays on youtube you find how make it. Of course I'll try, it's corn-free, gluten-free, and full of memories.

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

Can your car order a pizza for dinner?

Now you can order and pay for a pizza from your car using the Ford SYNC AppLink. Carry out or delivery, pepperoni or any other toppings you're craving.

This is what pizza-ordering program does for you. Pushing a single button, and... voilá you have pizza for your kids, or a party with friends. They say Ford is taking serious the solving dinner problem. Well, not so serious, still an American junk food though.

For Ford, the pizza-ordering program is only one of those advantage you'll have with this platform. They expect growing business after that, and more companies. Let's wait until they get a decent dinner instead.

Can I have a grass fed beef and esteemed veggies instead?

See more here.


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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

Seed, the Untold Story, Documentary Film

The Untold Story is a new documentary film that will investigate the dramatic story of seeds, the basis of life on earth. For 12,000 years man has been nurturing and cultivating seeds to form the backbone of civilization. Now, 94% of our seed varieties have been lost and many more are nearing extinction.

"If you want to rule the world you need to control the oil. All the oil. Anywhere."

Michel Collon, Monopoly

"If you wanna control people, control the food."

Go to their website and watch the whole story.

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

Why you should eat only organic foods?

Adorable Elise and the discovery about non-organic food. 

This young lady knows the importance or non-organic foods. She was trying to grown sweet potatoes, but then... check out this video.

If you don't know Bud Nip or Taterplex are the commercial name of Chlorpropham. It's a plant growth regulator and pesticide used in the US. Also a sprout suppressant for grass weeds, alfafa, lima and snap beans, blueberries, cane berries, carrots, cranberries, ladino clover, garlic, seed grass, onions, spinach, sugar beets, tomatoes, safflower, soybeans, gladioli and wood nursery stock.

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

Electric guitars, new technology and dating.

Aristides Guitar

A man who plays a musical instrument has more advantage with women. It's known they see this skill related with intellectual and genetic dominance. It seems cliche, it is cliche, but is also true.

Darwin has dedicated pages in his Evolutionary Theory to birds and human beings songs to attract a sexual partner. For him, this should be an adaptation's factor. Another recent study shows that women prefer if a man has a photo with an instrument on his profile. The difference is 28% "likes" if he has a guitar versus 10% without. It calls theory of sexual selection by music. 

however, you shouldn't just fake up a photo on Photoshop with a pretty guitar. You don't need to be a guitar, or electric guitar. Any musical instrument will tell your loved one you is one step ahead.

So let's walk and shake!

Guitar made from only one piece of composite material called Arium.

Arium is made of many resins combined and micro particles of vibro-sensitive glass.

Aristide Poort is from Nederland who started in 1995 learning how the sound moves in a guitar wood's body to get the perfect acoustics. After his understanding it, he called for designers to help giving life to his idea. Many engineers said was impossible to build, but we've hear that all day long, right?

New model for 2014, Aristides fanpage.

You may be able to see quite few Brazilians in Aristides Guitar's portfolio.

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.

How well do you see color?

The must have done test for every designer in the world, and I'm not kidding at all!

Make sure you do first thing in the morning, without coffee and after a good night of sleep.

Online Color Challenge

How well do you see color? FACT: 1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some form of color vision deficiency. Take the online color challenge, based on the Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test.

Accept the challenge here.

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Isabela: Brazilian, designer, works with automotive fabrics in the US. She did psychology college as well and had enjoyed a lot. She is living abroad for while, maybe because this she likes trends, cultures and behaviors.