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How to apply Sunblock – For Dummies

If you are committed to talking better care of your skin, bought a full-coverage hat, UV-protective sunglasses and swimwear then you also make sure you are applying sunblock correctly.

Here are some of the crucial tips to make sure you are getting the most out of you sunblock:-

Use Enough
The adult body requires a shot glass of sunscreen, it is key to cover your entire body including ears, back of your neck, tops of your feet, and the top of a balding head.

30-minute rule
Make sure to aaply the sunblock 30 minutes before going out and apply every two hours and directly after swimming.

Spray closer
Spray blocks are an easy-to-use system but to ensure you are getting the protection spray a maximum of two to three inches (5-7.5cm) away from the body and make sure to still rub the cream in.

Keep it fresh
Do not use a sunblock after its expiration date – its ability to protect diminishes.



Chronic Insomnia may lead to Short Lifespan

According to the latest study presented by Laurel Finn at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Chronic Insomnia may lead to premature death, and other chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.

Researchers found out that there are four types of common insomnia: difficulty falling asleep, difficulty getting back to sleep, waking repeatedly and waking too early. According to the analysis proceeded from 1,872 participants. The overall mortality of these people were 3 times higher compare to people who did not have insomnia.

The risk of premature death is still under investigation. However, according to Finn, the risk of premature death is expecting to be 2 to 3 times higher among people who struggled to fall asleep, struggle get back to sleep, woek repeatedly and woke too early.

The study was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Institute on Aging; and the National Center for Research Resources.The results suggest a need for doctors to more effectively treat insomnia even if the patient does not have other chronic medical conditions.

The association between early death and chronic insomnia was independent of other self-reported chronic conditions that were taken into account, including emphysema, chronic bronchitis, heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, and depression.

Source taken from WedMD

Improve your health through Love

Latest news reported from Chile stated that experts of Cardiology from 97 countries from different continents around the world have proved that start a relationship has significant improvement to our health especially for heart.

According to Philip Poole, Cardiology expert from London’s Imperial College commented that love can help to reduce stress, depression and anxiety. Love can be an important role in preventing the heart disease and it also helps to promote optimistic in a person for effective in disease healing

Experts point out that depression and stress frustration and other emotions will affect heart health. Below are some suggestions from the experts that you may alter in your daily life for better healthy lifestyle:-


1. Enjoy favorite activities, doing more massage, spend more time with your buddies;


2. Engage in less vigorous exercise is the best way to reinvigorate yourself i.e. yoga, slow jog;


3. Consume more fruits and vegetables and whole-grain meals to avoid tension;


4. Ensure eight hours of sleep per night to maintain a pleasant mood.

Eat with Right Temperature

Everybody understands that foods are important for our body. For the sake of our health a, we always tend to consume variety of nutritious foods. However, you may not believe that (or even heard of) consuming the foods in slight different temperature may significant affect our health.

These days, with all sort of erratic eating habits (buffet / fast food), we have overlooked the correct way in eating and drinking. Bacteria, virus can easily fuse into the foods and invade our fragile body. With haste advancement in our civilization, we as human seems to neglect the antecedent of taking food – clean, fresh, fully cooked, tasty.

In fact, during old days, formal dining is not only to represent respect and character in us, it is the best way to make sure the freshly cooked foods we eat is completely digested and absorbed into every single cell in our body. During old days, foods are not being served by placing all the furnished platters and entrée on the table and allow you to feed on. Instead, foods are served dish by dish to make sure every course of meal that you’re taking is fresh and warm enough.

Recently, many modern people are having problem in poor digestion. Most of us do are highly rely on antacids in almost every diet as modern foods are highly chemically produced. Antacid is generally formed by any substance, generally a base or a basic salt, which is able to neutralizes stomach acidity. This could inhibit the concentration of gastric acid in our body, when the food is not completely digest by the acid, it might harm and injure our stomach.

Do not underestimate the aftereffect (side effect) of eating too much of cold foods. According to nutritionist, combination of stress and pressure, having too much cold foods as well as the speed of taking in foods could exponentially increase the production of acid juice in our stomach.

Furthermore, people who like cold foods tend to have higher chance in getting constipation. Theoretically, , the function gastrointestinal have cogent effect on liver function and metabolism rate, this is because liver is important in metabolizing all the nutrients into our body. Therefore, when more icy foods are taken in, it would affect the absorption of nutrients in the intestines. Some people may think that our body temperature will consequently warm up the cold foods as it passes down to the stomach. In fact, when diffusion of heat into the cold foods is occurring, it would have passed by (skipped) certain enzymes in our body i.e. amylase needs optimum temperature (37°C ) to break down the sugars. This outcomes certain substances in the foods are unable to be broken down, thus it would accumulate inside the intestine and outcomes constipation.

Scented Sachets as Natural Mosquito Deterrent

According to Traditional Chinese Herbalist, there is a saying that goes, “A good doctor is the one who emphasises on the importance of preventive measures.”

In the period Three Kingdoms in China, it was common for people to carry sachet and place them at the waist together with a piece of gemstone. According to Hua Tuo, one of the famous Chinese Doctor in 208 B.C, by carrying scented sachet it may possibly help to prevent disease from invading us.

Commonly, Calamus, Wormwood are used during the old days as they contain strong scented aroma, they are able to act as a deterrent for bugs and insects. During ancient time, insects had caused various irreversible plagues and brought death to either people or the surrounding.

Nowadays, scented sachets are more like being an aromatherapy initiator. People use it to distress, rejuvenation and also use it as air refreshe, mosquitoe deterrent.

Women: Lose Fats by drinking Milk after Workouts

A latest study published in the June issue of Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise has proven that women may possibly to lose fat mass while gaining lean muscles and strength through drinking two large glasses of milk than sugar-based energy drinks after workout. According to McMaster University researchers in Canada, women who drank milk after exercise lost more fat than women who drank sugar-based energy drinks.

Most of the women misunderstand that weight-lifting helps to promote muscle building. In fact, lean muscle is very difficult to form; women naturally have less testosterone, a male hormone which plays important role in muscles building. Weight-lifting will only help to tone your lean muscle and burn all the excessive fats instead of bulking up the muscles on your body.

Building lean muscle is an important part of improving overall health and fitness. Lean muscle speeds up metabolism so you burn more calories and store less fat. Plus, the extra muscle helps give you the ability to do more exercises so you keep getting healthier.

Indeed resistance training (weight-lifting) is not a typical choice of exercise for women, but such workouts help to boost strength, bone, muscular and metabolic health in a way that other types of exercise cannot.

According to the experiment, regular workouts and milk consumption work do substantially improve women’s body composition and health. Women who drank milk barely gained any weight, however strength and conversion of lean muscle balanced out with the loss of fat.

We may become Fatter by depending too much on Air-Conditioner

Global warming has made an enormous influence to our daily routines; one of the most significant changes in our lives is the usage of air-conditioner. As the temperature of surrounding is getting warmer, for people who hate to sweat, they would take most of their time to stay inside the air-conditioned room.

According to recent release of Body Magazine in Taiwan, reported that the longer you stay in the air-conditioned room to maintain your body in the surrounding of low temperature, the higher BMI index your body could achieve. Such formation of BMI index accumulation is similar to upshot of artificial hibernation, it outcomes slow in gastrointestinal and peristalsis system, constipation, swelling (edema).

For wild animals such as bear, before they undergo hibernation, large amount of foods are to be consumed for sufficient energy to blow past the hibernation. In human, when we are in the low temperature environment, our body will utilize the storage of calories in our body to produce heat (in order to maintain optimum temperature). When such circumstances happen, our body will automatically signal our stomach to look for more foods for heat generating, and this is the reason why we tend to eat more during winter.

Indeed staying in colder environment could promote heat generating and fat burning (where fat is utilized by converting into energy and calories). Bear in mind that this causes the high level of hormone ghrelin to be produced in the gastrointestinal tract to trigger the hunger signal to the brain. This consequently provoke our appetite and induce us to consume more and more foods (take in excessive calories).

Help your mom to walk off the Menopause Bulge

Walking for 45 minutes a few times a week may help your mom to reduce the weight that often accompanies menopause, according to the latest research performed in Canada.

Pointing out that 45 minutes can be broken up into several short journeys. These short jaunts help overweight inactive women not only to shed off pounds but also to increase their lean body mass, and subsequently improve their quality of life.

To help your mom to conserve healthy lifestyle, you may try to take out 3 days in a week each for only 45 minutes to accompany your beloved mom for slow jog. Surprisingly, it could be the only chance where you can strengthen your bond with your mom.

Start to Prevent Alzheimer’s through Diet


According to the research from Columbia University in New York, a diet rich in olive oil, nuts, fish, poultry, fruits and vegetables may have a powerful effect at staving off the disease of Alzheimer.

People who ate nutrients specifically selected from brain health had a 40% lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease compare with others. Furthermore, alz.org has also stated that a brain-healthy diet is one that reduces the risk of heart disease and diabetes, encourages good blood flow to the brain, and is low in fat and cholesterol.

Following foods may reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, and appear to protect brain cells:-

1. Dark-skinned fruits and vegetables


They contain high level of antioxidant. Antioxidants are substances consumed in foods and dietary supplements which help to reduce and even prevent the formation of destructive chemicals in the body. Kale, spinach, brussels sprouts, alfalfa sprouts, broccoli, beets, red bell pepper, onion, corn and eggplant are the vegetables which contain high levels of naturally occurring antioxidant levels. Fruits with high antioxidant levels include prunes, raisins, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, plums, oranges, red grapes and cherries.

2. Cold water fish


They contain beneficial omega-3 fatty acids. It helps to support the cardiovascular system (reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and improve the vision and brain cell functions). Halibut, Mackerel, Salmon, Trout and Tuna are the fishes which contain high level of omega-3 fatty acids.

3. Nuts


Almonds, pecans and walnuts are a good source of vitamin E, they are also rich in anti-oxidant. Eating nuts can be good for your health. According to recent study from University of Loma Linda in California, nuts help to lower blood cholesterol levels and also help to prevent brain deficiency.

Essence of Chicken or Coffee? Which drink is the best for your Boyfriend during World Cup season?

Probably you will realise your darling tries to stay awake during the FIFA World Cup matches by taking coffee or other caffeinated drinks. Indeed, such way is able to decrease the fatigue and increase attentiveness. However, once the substance of caffeine is completely broken down in bloodstream, it may cause heavy side effect to the body. Frankly, Caffeine does not help to ease the fatigue in your body, it only helps to form an adjournment in your body to temporarily ditch the exhaustion.

Many people may not know that Essence of Chicken was created in 1820s by royal kitchen to enhance the health of King George IV. Research performed in Japan has proven that it is able to reduce mental fatigue. According to Dr. Nagai and Harada, Essence of Chicken is able to diminish the stress-related substance in our body named cortisol and promote recovery from mental fatigue. It is the best choice of drink for him who plans to skip his sleeping time for the football matches.

Therefore, you better make sure to place 2 bottles of Brands Essence of Chicken in the fridge before you go to bed. Or else his colleague may start to complain about his unproductivy in the office.

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