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Belly Fat Tied to Raised Heart and Cancer Risks

Simple Tips And Technics To Keep Your Body Fit And Healthy

Simple Tips And Technics To Keep Your Body Fit And Healthy

How do you feel to be healthy? Nice! Must be wondering if there is that magic wand, I can become slim, fit and healthy. Nice to think but how to make this a reality? Takes time. Can't happen overnight.

You can follow certain simple and easy technics which will help you be fit and healthy. Have you decided to go for it! then read on.

1- Do not make a future plan for your exercise, if you have to do it, just do it now.

2- Wake up a bit early, pull your pants up and start walking out. If not like an exercise, just walk out. Go where you like, spend sometime out in the morning. You can opt to buy milk, vegetables, newspaper or whatever... just go out. Slowly increase the speed of your walk.

3- Follow the Golden Rule - Breakfast like a KING, Lunch like a Prince and Dinner like a PAUPER. Keep your dinner very light, avoid cheese, butter, curd or any other fat products.

4- Breathe in and breathe out deeply whenever your remember. Do simple stretching exercises.

5- Last of all... Don't worry.. Be happy. Stress can cause lifestyle diseases. Be away from stress. Life is short, enjoy every moment of it.

Special Health Article For Today - 4

 New Development In The Understanding Of Alzheimer's Pathology

Sleep : Restorative of Tired Body and Mind

Sleep : Restorative of Tired Body and Mind

Sleep is one of nature’s greatest inventions and blessings of life. It is a periodic rest of the body which is absolutely essential for its efficient functioning. It has been called " most cheering restorative of tired bodies. "

Sleep is the indispensable condition to the recuperation of energy. We go to bed fatigued and get up refreshed. Sleep repairs the wear and tear of the body and mind incurred during waking hours. Nothing is so restorative to the nerves as sound and uninterrupted sleep. Sleep is thus a vital element in a total way of life. It is a basic need in man’s mental as well as physical life. During sleep most of the functions of the body are carried on at the lowest level possible in health. Heat production is from 10 to 15 per cent below the basal level. The mechanism regulating the body temperature are less sensitive than in the waking state and are depressed by 0.5 to 1.0 degree F. The rate of the heart is reduced by 10 to 30 beats per minute and a decline in blood pressure of about 20 mm occurs in quiet restful sleep. The urine volume is considerably reduced, but its concentration in solids is increased. The tone of all the skeletal muscles is lessened. The eyes are usually rolled upward and the pupils constricted.

Loss of sleep exerts seriously detrimental effects upon the nervous system. Long periods of wakefulness may cause profound psychological changes such as loss of memory, irritability, hallucination and even schizophrenic manifestations. During the last World War, prisoners in Nazi concentration camps who kept awake for days by strong lights and blaring wireless sets, collapsed.Another mystery about sleep is that no two persons need the same amount of sleep. On the whole, women sleep from 45 minutes to one hour more than men. The amount of sleep required varies at different ages as follows :

New Born : 18 to 20 hours
Growing children :10 to 12 hours
Adults : 6 to 9 hours

How to prevent body Odor?

How to prevent body Odor?

What is Body Odor?
Body odor is one of those subjects that nobody really likes to talk about. It is not pleasant when there is a distinctive whiff of stale sweat in the air. Although, sweat is basically odorless, the smell can be quite awful. At some point everyone has felt a bit sweaty, especially on a hot summer’s day, after a strenuous workout or when having to speak in front of an audience.

There are two types of sweat glands in the skin and they are known as the apocrine and eccrine glands. Apocrine glands develop in areas where there is an abundance of hair follicles such as the underarms, genitals and scalp. Eccrine glands develop over most parts of the body and open directly onto the skin’s surface. Both these glands are controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, which controls most of our involuntary actions such as breathing, heartbeat and sweating.

It is a known fact that men sweat more than women. Children rarely have body odor because the glands in the armpits and genitals only become active during puberty. With the onset of puberty, the sweat glands develop under the stimulation of hormones and protein and the oil production of the skin in the armpits and genitals also increases.

Sweat is part of the body’s way to cool down. Although sweat does not smell, the bacteria that normally lives on our skin feeds on it and breaks it down into aromatic fatty acids and chemicals that cause the unpleasant odor.

Certain areas of the skin such as the armpits and genitals tend to give off more of a body odor because these glands produce oily substances and proteins that bacteria feed on. Sweat found on any other areas of the body is salty water which bacteria find difficult to flourish in.

 Ways to prevent body odor

1. Wash directly after a work-out or sporting activity .

2. Use antiperspirants, deodorants and talcum powders regularly .

3. Shave or wax under your arms as this area is a fertile breeding ground for bacteria .

4. Wash clothing regularly in hot soapy water with a scented concentrate .

5. Avoid wearing the same clothing you wore the day before as it will retain the sweat smell. 

6. Change socks and undergarments daily .

7. Wear cotton or linen clothes as they are more absorbent than synthetic fabrics .

8. Avoid wearing tight fitting clothes and rather opt for loose fitting clothes .

9. Incorporate fresh fruit, vegetables and whole grains into your diet .

10. Drink lots of water to flush out toxins in the body’s system .

11. Avoid eating spicy or sharp smelling foods (such as garlic, onions, hot peppers or curries) as the odor comes through the pores .

12. Avoid drinking hot drinks such as coffee or tea.

13. Maintain good personal hygiene by washing or showering at least 2-3 times a day with hot water and anti-bacterial soap .

Simple Tips To Keep Your Body Fit And Healthy

Simple Tips To Keep Your Body Fit And Healthy

How do you feel to be healthy? Nice! Must be wondering if there is that magic wand, I can become slim, fit and healthy. Nice to think but how to make this a reality? Takes time. Can't happen overnight.

You can follow certain simple and easy technics which will help you be fit and healthy. Have you decided to go for it! then read on.

- Do not make a future plan for your exercise, if you have to do it, just do it now.

- Wake up a bit early, pull your pants up and start walking out. If not like an exercise, just walk out. Go where you like, spend sometime out in the morning. You can opt to buy milk, vegetables, newspaper or whatever... just go out. Slowly increase the speed of your walk.

- Follow the Golden Rule - Breakfast like a KING, Lunch like a Prince and Dinner like a PAUPER. Keep your dinner very light, avoid cheese, butter, curd or any other fat products.

- Breathe in and breathe out deeply whenever your remember. Do simple stretching exercises.

- Last of all... Dont worry.. Be happy. Stress can cause lifestyle diseases. Be away from stress. Life is short, enjoy every moment of it.

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT HUMAN BODY

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT HUMAN BODY

1. A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

2. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.

3. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

4. A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

5. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

6. Every person has a unique tongue print.

7. According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

8. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

9. An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

10. A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

11. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

12. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

13. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood, we only have 206 in our bodies.

14. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

15. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.

16. By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute).

17. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

18. Every human spent half an hour as a single cell.

19. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

20. Fingernails grow faster than toenails.

21. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

22. At rest, a person breathes about 14 to 16 times per minute. After exercise it could increase o over 60 times per minute.

23. New babies at rest breathe between 40 and 50 times per minute. By age five it decreases to around 25 times per minute.

24. The total surface area of the alveoli (tiny air sacs in the lungs) is the size of a tennis court.

25. The lungs are the only organ in the body that can float on water.

26. The lungs produce a detergent-like substance which reduces the surface tension of the fluid lining, allowing air in.

27. Your heart is about the same size as your fist.

28. An average adult body contains about five quarts of blood.

29. All the blood vessels in the body joined end to end would stretch 62,000 miles or two and a half times around the earth.

30. The heart circulates the body's blood supply about 1,000 times each day.


31. The right lung is slightly larger than the left.

32. Hairs in the nose help to clean the air we breathe as well as warming it.

33. The capillaries in the lungs would extend 1,600 kilometres if placed end to end.

34. We get two sets of teeth. Our 20 'Baby Teeth’ are replaced starting at around 6-7 years of age with our 32 ‘Adult Teeth’.

35. 1.5 litres of saliva are produced each day.

36. The oesophagus is approximately 25cm long.

37. Tears and mucus contain an enzyme (lysozyme) that breaks down the cell wall of many bacteria.

38. The brain looks like a giant, wrinkled walnut.

39. Unlike other body cells, brain cells can not regenerate. Once brain cells are damaged they are not replaced.

40. The brain and spinal cord are surrounded and protected by cerebrospinal fluid.

41. The longest muscle in the body is the sartorius, from the outside of the hip, down and across to the inside of the knee. It rotates the thigh outwards and bends the knee.

42. The smallest muscle in the body is the stapedius, deep in the ear. It is only 5mm long and thinner than cotton thread. It is involved in hearing.

43. The biggest muscle in the body is the gluteus maximus, in the buttock. It pulls the leg backwards powerfully for walking, running and climbing steps.

44. The largest bone is the pelvis, or hip bone. In fact it is made of six bones joined firmly together.

45. The longest bone is the 'femur', in the thigh. It makes up almost one quarter of the body's total height.

46. The smallest bone is the 'stirrup', deep in the ear. It is hardly larger than a grain of rice.

47. The ears and end of the nose do not have bones inside them. Their inner supports are cartilage or'gristle', which is lighter and more flexible than bone. This is why the nose and ears can be bent.

48. After death, cartilage rots faster than bone. This is why the skulls of skeletons have no nose or ears.