Showing posts with label healthy habits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy habits. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

My Research on Pimples

Hello Friends, today I am writing on "pimples", the suffering which is very much familiar to me!!!

Pimple: According to me a pimple is a storehouse of oil and dirt, that gets trapped in the pores of skin and causes irritating due to the formation of a jelly-like white substance, called 'Pus'. A pimple is damn irritating, and the major problem associated with it is, the re-occuring of it again and again. And of course, when a single pimple appears once on the face, it gives rise to many within a few days. Lets see how to take care of facial pimple.

What I have experienced in the last two and a half year is that, pimples are like your dearest ones. If you take care of them, they will never leave you, and if you will ignore them, they will definitely leave you. There is no scientific reason behind this, its all about my experience. Let me explain it how.

When I got pimples for the first time, I just ignored them. I didn't apply any cream or other pimple products on it, and I remember that within a week, they left. Sounds strange!!! And when I got it again on my precious skin, that time, I showed great care towards it, and applied night creams before sleeping. This became my routine, and the pimples started increasing, as if my skin is a house where I am treating it as a guest, and a pimple is calling its relatives to get the pleasure of services...! LOL

Then I tried other techniques to get rid of pimples. And each new technique was like... leading me into the dark hole of misery. I started pinching off the pimples on my skin, and they became worsened, leaving dark spots on my skin. I have these dark spots till now, and I am living with its effects. Many times, I left using facial creams, then again started reusing them... I faced various ups and downs in taking decision for my skin, and each decision of mine was wrong, I suppose. And once, like a good student of biology, I used my lessons to find a remedy for my pimples, but of no use. I did research on Net about it, but failed to find the root cause.. I asked my relatives on this subject, but failed again! I tried almost every remedy, and the result was certain, not a bit interesting.

And today, when 2 and a half years have passed living with pimples, getting revealed and concealed time and again, I have understood one thing, and that is, pimples are the result of hormonal imbalances in our body during adoloscence, and nobody can get rid of its effects, by any possible remedy. Usually our remedies are by external sources, which has nothing to do with the internal functions of our body. What we can do at most is to consult a good physician who can guide us all about our skin, the type of pimples we get, what we can do as a remedy, and suggest us what sort of care is to be kept regarding the subject.

Have a happy day, and take care... of your skin!!!

-Navdeep Priya

Note: The above article is based on the author's experience and should not be taken as an immediate factor for knowledge.

Sunday, 15 July 2012

Tips to keep your teeth clean!

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Hi friends, its long time after I am posting to this blog. And today lets talk about dental care!

Wikipedia defines Dental Floss as: "Dental floss is made of either a bundle of thin nylon filaments or a plastic (Teflon or polyethylene) or a silk ribbon used to remove food and dental plaque from teeth". It is a best method to keep your teeth neat and clean. A research has found that flossing every 48 hours, help to hinder the growth of bacteria.


Brush before Flossing: If you brush your teeth before flossing, then it adds to a plus point in keeping your teeth healthy and germ free. Flossing is beneficial only if you use the thread in each and every corner of your teeth.
Article adapted from: www.punjabkesari.in/

Additional tip: Use tooth-picks after having your meal. It keeps teeth clean adding to prevention of odours from mouth. To prevent plague and cavities, try to have limited consumption of junk foods.


Be back with more articles on health!

Thursday, 31 May 2012

Monday, 9 January 2012

Laughter is the best medicine..

Humor is infectious. The sound of roaring laughter is far more contagious than any cough, sniffle, or sneeze. When laughter is shared, it binds people together and increases happiness and intimacy. In addition to the domino effect of joy and amusement, laughter also triggers healthy physical changes in the body. Humor and laughter strengthen your immune system, boost your energy, diminish pain, and protect you from the damaging effects of stress. Best of all, this priceless medicine is fun, free, and easy to use.

Laughter is strong medicine for mind and body:

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Laughter is a powerful antidote to stress, pain, and conflict. Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh. Humor lightens your burdens, inspires hopes, connects you to others, and keeps you grounded, focused, and alert.
With so much power to heal and renew, the ability to laugh easily and frequently is a tremendous resource for surmounting problems, enhancing your relationships, and supporting both physical and emotional health.

Laughter is good for your health

  • Laughter relaxes the whole body. A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after.
  • Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.
  • Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.
  • Laughter protects the heart. Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.
So keep laughing :D :D hahahaha...

Article source: http://www.helpguide.org/life/humor_laughter_health.htm

 

Thursday, 5 January 2012

Don't do this!

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Most of the people pick their bad habits from their teenage, that have effects on their health for long... Here, is a brief of some of the common bad habits seen among teenagers...

1. Watching TV for unlimited time.
2. Taking drugs through mouth or by injections.
3. Drinking and Smoking.
4. Taking junk food.
5. Irregular sleeping.
6. Showing emotions at extremes.
7. Showing insecurity physically like chewing nails, scratching on body parts unreasonably etc.

 
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To get rid of your negative habits, you must first understand what creates them.
Your habits are created by your thoughts. When you were born into this world, you have no habits. You pick up your habits from the influence from your surrounding and your own life experiences.
Your parents, your friends, your teachers, your boss, your peers… basically anyone can affect your habits by influencing your thoughts. Once you have a certain thought in your mind, your mind will start to send signals to your emotion and hence you will take a certain set of action, which is your habits, to produce a certain results.

Unless something ‘bad’ happened, you’ll keep on cycling the same pattern over and over again. if you want to change your habit, you must create a new thought and emotion in your mind to replace the existing pattern.
It is not like computer, which you can simply press on the delete button to delete away files that you don’t want. Your mind works differently in ‘deleting’ negative thoughts or habits that you don’t want. you’ll have to start by replacing your old patterns with new ones.
Some people procrastinate all the time. They choose to watch TV instead of investing their time into reading development books. They get instant gratification of feeling joy when watching TV. This will reinforce their thought pattern that watching TV is good and reading books is something they don’t like.
This cycle will keep on going until one day, something forces them to change. Such as if they did not change their habits, they’ll be in dept. When this happen, they’ll forces themselves to take different set of action that will lead to different results.

So, This is how you can change your habits and behaviors...

Article source: http://www.health24.com/






Monday, 2 January 2012

Smoking

Smoking is a very common habit, seen in most of the individuals... Do you know that SMOKING kills over 400,000 Americans each year ( as told by the site http://www.doctoryourself.com ).


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Meaning: Smoking is a practice in which a substance, most commonly tobacco or cannabis, is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled ( www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking ).

Sources: cigarettes, pipes, cigars, bidis, hookahs, vaporizers and bongs.

Danger:  The toxins from cigarette smoke can go everywhere the blood flows," said U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS. ( http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/12369.php ).

What is Addiction? A smoking addiction means a person has formed an uncontrollable dependence on cigarettes to the point where stopping smoking would cause severe emotional, mental, or physical reactions.

Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction. It is absorbed and enters the bloodstream, through the lungs when smoke is inhaled, and through the lining of the mouth (buccal mucosa) when tobacco is chewed or used as oral snuff or for non-inhaled pipe and cigar smoking. ( http://ehealthmd.com/content/what-smoking-addiction )

Direct effects: Increase in the rate of heart beat, diminishes muscle gains from exercise due to lower levels of oxygen, feeling generally less energetic than a nonsmoker ( http://www.livestrong.com/article/380495-direct-effect-of-smoking-on-muscle-gains/ ).

Indirect effects: Heart Attacks, Strokes ( brain attack ), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Lung Cancer, Cancer of the Mouth etc. ( http://www.1sthealthinsurancequotes.com/long-term-health-effects-smoking.html )



Methods of prevention: Smoking is a 100% addictive habit. Eliminating the regular fix of nicotine will cause your body to experience physical withdrawal symptoms and cravings. To successfully quit smoking, you’ll need to address both the habit and the addiction by changing your behavior and dealing with nicotine withdrawal symptoms. ( http://www.helpguide.org/mental/quit_smoking_cessation.htm )

Steps of non-smokers: Non-smokers should try to make the smokers, leave their habit of smoking by explaining all the above points to them...