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The bad effects of smoking to our health are typically well identified such as lung cancer, liver and heart problem, genital dysfunction etc. Furthermore, habitual smoking can also cause severe damage to your spine. Recent research shows those chain-smoker people are most likely suffer from back pain. Though tobacco is not always the cause but the unhealthy life style of a person involve in smoking can also worsen the case.

Study proved that tobacco cigarette contains more than a thousand chemical and many of those are cancer related substance. Nicotine alone can block blood circulation that will result in the delay of oxygen that normally flows to your body. If this happen the nerve in the spine will grow weaker and so it will start to injure your spine. Proper blood circulation is extremely necessary to be able for the spine to repair and heal itself if in case there was a sort of problem going on.

An extensive research made by one of the well known university in the US-- undeniably confirmed the relationship between smoking and emergent Lumbar Spondylosis or a spine degeneration, neck and back pain. In an ongoing Clinical investigation, they found out that those medical practitioners who are involved in daily smoking habit and with higher cholesterol level are evidently suffering from spine and muscular pain.

Another negative factor of smoking can be associated in building up plaques in your arteries. Plaques in your arteries can lowered the needed space for the blood to circulate properly and this is very treating to your health condition because it may lead to heart attack or much worse, stroke. Also, delayed blood flow into the abdominal arteries cause by smoking can make your spinal disk delicate (or easy to break) and truly aching, added by the research.
So the next time you want to smoke, better think first the possible bad result of smoking to your health. As the cigarette companies remind us: “Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.” Meaning smoking can lead to death. Yes folks, it causes you many diseases. So before anything else…quit smoking. Seek help from your doctor on how you can completely stop it.

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Let's Face the Foot

June 29th 2009 14:45

Many of us may encounter foot problems such as foot odor, callus or corns and ingrown toenails. These are common problems that one must given attention.

Foot odor is a unpleasant smell coming from the foot. It is caused by perspiration interacting with bacteria that cause bad odour. It can be prevented by:
• Changing socks or stockings daily.
• Washing of feet with soap and water, dry it with clean cloth can also help.
• Health workers suggest that a choice of cotton socks will also help to eliminate the problem.
• Putting foot powder, such as talc powder or deodorant sprays may reduce the problem.

Calluses are thickened epidermis caused by pressure from the shoe on bony prominences while corns are circular, raised skin caused on the feet by frictions or pressure from the shoes. One may suggest that:
• Wearing well-fitted, soft and comfortable shoes may help.
• Buying shoes after long walking, probably late in the afternoon may expand the feet size.
• Using of cream or lotion to soften the calluses.

Ingrown toenails can be inward growth of nail which causes trauma into soft tissues. To eliminate the problem:
• Trimming the nails straight across and following the contour of the nails may prevent the tissue or nail injury.
• Make it a hobby to visit your favourite salon for proper cleaning of your nails and foot spa.

Until next time….

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Beware of Orthorexia

June 23rd 2009 11:59

All of us understand the pressure of living a healthy lifestyle. For a long time, many of us have learned to become more dependent in what we called “ready made diet menu” of some well known resto and diet gurus. Some people can no longer cook up a good healthy dinner for friends as we have a varying set of ‘healthy diners’ who are very choosy on what they will eat and are unyielding that it must be what they observe as healthy.

So how do we define what exactly is healthy in terms of the food we eat? Can a diet consisting of purely vegetables really be healthy? What ever happened to eating a well balanced meals and living by the saying: ‘being moderate in everything does you good’? This excessive and compulsive ‘healthy eating is now so common in our society, that it has given mount to a new eating disorder known as Orthorexia.

According to Bratman, Orthorexia is an excessive or too much (compulsive) requirements to eat healthy food, but to such a degree that a person become riskily thin, unhealthy and gravely at risk of ending his life. Again, Bratman established a two diagnostic questions that can at least determine that a person is becoming Ortherexic. The first is: “Do you care more about the virtue of what you eat than the pleasure you receive from eating it?” The second is: “Does your diet socially isolate you?” To these, the doctor is not talking about occasional eating of healthy foods. What he is trying to say is that--Orthorexic person do not think they look fat nor have a desire to look thin, they’re just excessive and compulsive about their need to eat what they consider as healthy foods without considering the consequences of unbalance diet.

To avoid becoming Orthorexic, we should:

1. Eat healthy food in moderation
2. Avoid too much restriction on “what to eat or not to eat type of thinking”
3. Consider your doctor’s advice before going to some sort of dieting to level down your excess weights or vice versa when you want to add extra weights.
4. Lastly, maybe it will help. Better think of other things to do, rather than pampering your appetites all the time. (Do not always worry about what you will eat or drink) “We eat to live or we live to eat”. Remember folks: life is more important than food.

—cheers.

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Have A Good Night Sleep

June 19th 2009 22:11

I cant sleep

Exercise, Balance Diet…What’s next? Another interesting fact about having a healthy and physically fit body is a good night sleep. Many individual who are struggling their weight are failing to recognize that getting a good night’s sleep is crucial to staying healthy and of course slim.

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Keep Your Food Fresh

June 18th 2009 20:40

Always Fresh

Foods give the perfect blend of nutrients, not to mention the vitamins and minerals as well. The nutrients in foods start to reduce as quickly as it is pulled out and continue to decline until the food is consumed. The quicker you eat the food, the lesser amount of possibility of nutrient loss. This is somehow true especially when you are living in a certain place where there is no chance of preserving the foods you have. But on the other hand, if we are in a place where the opportunity of storing our foods and keep its nutrients is within reach, then we should know how to do it properly. And since most of us use to store up foods—here are some tips from some Nutritionist and food experts that can help us storing and or even selecting foods to preserve

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Do It Yourself Diet

June 17th 2009 20:14

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Exercising can improve your health and fitness no end as what I’ve said from my previous article. Aside from physical workout, there is another important matter I would like to share in terms of fitness and health. I just want to say right at the outset that Balance Diet make us healthy and free from possible threats of uncommon sicknesses

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What makes your Face so smooth and soft to touch?

June 11th 2009 12:44

Fruity Face

Moisturizers such as liquid cream and the like play a major role in making our skin healthy. Before anything else let me give the idea that moisturizing is no longer just “a gal thing

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Herbal – Natural Remedies

June 8th 2009 16:28

TEA

For every person there’s always a need for dieting to maintain their desire body weight and a healthy body. One good help to maintain this so called health regiment is by considering an alternative natural supplements like herbal

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Big Daddy….Big Belly!

June 6th 2009 15:04

"What A Belly"

Proud of your big belly? Being a body double for King Henry VIII increases the risk of diabetes and other diseases

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Too Little Or Too Much Fat In Diet May Lead To Gallstone Problems, Study Shows

March 17th 2009 05:27

Italian researchers found that following a diet that is too low in fat can lead to gallstone formation, but so can too much fat. Diets high in saturated fat and refined sugar and low in fiber can also contribute to gallstone problems, the study says.

Experts believe that women who go for long periods without eating like fasting or not eating breakfast may decrease gallbladder contractions. They explained that gallbladder, a pear-shaped organ at the bottom of the liver, stores and releases bile into the intestines to help digestion. During digestion, the gallbladder contracts to release bile into the intestine where the bile salts help to break down fats. If the gallbladder doesn’t contract often enough to empty out the bile, gallstones may form

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