Healthy and Beautiful Corner

Archive for March, 2009

Water is Source of life, provides ourselves with health and beauty. Helps you lose weight, serves our body to function properly and does wonders for our skin, It provides energy and harmony to our body. Water plays an important and vital role in our body. It makes up, on average, 60 percent of our body weight. Every system in our body depends on water, such as digestion, absorption and transport of nutrients and detoxification. Filters toxic and unusefull component, as well as dilutes accomodating the procedure of excretion from the body, control our body temperature accelerates the process of weight loss, helps to fight acne, cellulite, stretch marks, there are several advantages to our body through drink water.

Water prevent diseases such as:

Cancer
An insufficient intake of water raise the risk of suffering from bladder cancer and colon because fosters the concentration of toxic substances within these organs. Adequate intake of water diminishes the risk.

Infections
Drink five to eight glasses of water daily diminishes the production of kidney stones and urinary infections. In contribution, holds the mucous membranes of the respiratory system properly hydrated, and diminishes the risk of viral infections such as influenza. Water also would minimize the asthma attacks.

Gingivitis and other mouth diseases

Saliva, which consists antibacterial substances, decrease if not drink water. This favors the presence of bacteria that inflict gingivitis, cavities and other mouth diseases.

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Like members of other bodies, legs also deserve extra attention. Legs are also eligible to be pampered with a pedicure to clean up dead skin cells around the foot. A healthy and beautiful legs will surely add a sense of confidence and ready to carry the body wherever we go. Perhaps because of the many activities, health and beauty at the feet are usually neglected. Without realizing it, many problems emerged, ranging from smelly feet, dry skin foot and cracked, so that thickening of the skin called calluses or callus in medical term.

One of the causes of dry skin feet which are cracked due to dry skin types who really, congenital skin disorder, there is dehydration, exposure to air cooling, or exposure to dry weather continues, and exposure to chemicals (detergent, floor cleaner).

Tips for healthy and beautiful legs

1. Clean your feet regularly, as well as a shower or bath followed by cleaning the sidelines of the foot, then dry with a clean towel.
2. For those of you who have heavy work and direct contact with water, must be diligent in cleaning the foot.
3. Choose comfortable shoes, use shoe that fits and allows the foot to breathe.
4. Change socks periodically to avoid the appearance of fungi and bacteria that cause foot fracture. Wear cotton socks which absorb sweat thick
5. Do periodic checks of the condition of the foot to see if there are changes in the feet. Notice if your nails menbal, blanched or that could indicate a fungal infection and a cracked or torn in the skin of the feet which are the traits athlete’s foot.
6. Check with your foot to a foot doctor every time a health professional experienced leg pain.

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