Summer Trends In Plus-Size Fashions

Shirt dresses are so in this summer but tunics are even more versatile. Tunics are  lightweight, which means you’ll feel cooler while covering up your upper arms and midsection. Plus, there’s so many great styles to choose from. You can go bright, tribal, print or polka-dot –how great is that?!!! Here’s a few tips to help make the look work for you:

• Get Loose: Wearing your shirt dress in a slightly larger size to emphasize its loose silhouette. Accessorize your shirt dress with a scarf headband and long dangly earrings.
• Try it Belted: Be sure to belt your shirt dress to emphasize your waist. Unbelted shirt dresses can add pounds and look shapeless.
• Go for the Accessories: Try wearing your shirt dress with slim-fitting denim Bermuda shorts and jeweled sandals.

What will you be wearing for that upcoming warm weather getaway, beach vacation, or just in general this summer? Let Divabetic help you decide. The happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic talks to Divabetic Image & Style Expert, Catherine Schuller about ‘Wack or Wow’ Summer Fashions at the 10th annual Big Apple Barbecue Block Party in New York City

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Cancer Risks at The Barbecue?

Devising a summer menu these days that balances tastiness against the risk of getting heart disease, food poisoning, or cancer can seem impossible.

It’s true that some studies suggest that eating meat cooked over coals (or pan-fried or broiled, for that matter) a few times a week may slightly increase your risk of getting cancer. But precisely which cancers — and how much the risk is increased — remains fuzzy.

“We know that we’re not talking about the sort of strong link we see with cigarette smoking and cancer,” says Rashmi Sinha, a nutritional epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute who has studied the problem. “Grilling poses a many-times smaller risk.”

And there are ways to cut that risk even further.

Use leaner cuts. Reducing the fat in your steak or ground round will curb the risk to the heart, and also whittle the chances that fat dripping through the grill will hit the coals and flare up to char the meat. Scraping off the char — or preventing it from forming — decreases one family of chemicals that can cause cancer. These are called “polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons” or PAHs.

Unfortunately, eating leaner cuts won’t shield you from the second group of carcinogens, known as “heterocyclic amines” or HCAs. During prolonged cooking at high temperatures, HCAs form beneath the surface of meat, due to an interaction between free amino acids and creatine, which are reactive molecules found naturally in meat.

So add ground fruit, or soy, or potato starch to ground meat to avoid HCAs. The idea here is to use less meat.

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I Can Make You Hot!

Kelly Bensimon  from the ”The Real Housewives Of New York City,” seems to be feeling pretty good about herself during her book launch last night in Las Vegas. The reality star decided to forego actual clothing and showed up in a fringe cutout bathing suit.

“I Can Make You Hot,” Bensimon’s fourth book, is a diet and lifestyle guide for those wishing to obtain the 43-year-old supermodel’s physique. “Spend seven days with me and my expert friends and we’ll have fun with exercise, eat better, dress amazing, have more fun and smile through a life that’s too short,” Kelly said.

Now that the book’s here, the author is promoting “hot” theme, which would make her outfit at the launch pretty appropriate. Kelly posed on the red carpet in the racy swimsuit and purple stilettos with minimal makeup and beachy waves.

She does look pretty amazing for her age (or any, really), but we’re still on the fence about whether or not we’ll be giving her new book a thorough read. Does her “I Can Make You Hot” outfit  or lack of outfit make you want to buy the book?

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The Sexiest Celebrity Vegetarians for 2012

 

Woody Harrelson and Jessica Chastain have topped PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities 2012 Contest.

Woody Harrelson and Jessica Chastain have topped PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities 2012 contest.

The pair beat out more than 100 of Hollywood’s hottest vegetarians, includingMichelle Pfeiffer, Anne Hathaway, Ellen DeGeneres, Ben Stiller and Joaquin Phoenix.

Between them, Harrelson and Chastain, the two hollywood stars have followed a meat-free diet for a total of 45 years.

According to PETA, Chastain has been a vegetarian for 15 years and a vegan for five. The actress even had vegan “fried chicken” prepared for her on the set of “The Help.”

“I don’t want to torture anything,” Chastain said in a press statement. “[I]t’s about trying to live a life where I’m not contributing to the cruelty in the world … While I am on this planet, I want everyone I meet to know that I am grateful they are here.”

As for Harrelson, the “Hunger Games” star told PETA he lets his body speak for himself.

“I just let people see my energy and how strong I stay,” he said in a press statement.

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