Fitness

Top 10 Most Common Health Issues Physical Activity and Nutrition Overweight and Obesity Tobacco Substance Abuse HIV/AIDS Mental Health Injury and Violence Environmental Quality Immunization Access to Health Care Physical Activity and Nutrition Research indicates that staying physically active can help prevent or delay certain diseases, including some cancers, heart disease and diabetes, and also relieve depression and improve mood. Inactivity often accompanies advancing age, but it doesn't have to. Check with your local churches or synagogues, senior centers, and shopping malls for exercise and walking programs. Like exercise, your eating habits are often not good if you live and eat alone. It's important for successful aging to eat foods rich in nutrients and avoid the empty calories in candy and sweets. Overweight and Obesity Being overweight or obese increases your chances of dying from hypertension, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke,...

Water makes up about two-thirds of your body weight, and a person cannot survive without water for more than a few days. Every cell, organ and tissue in the body depends on water. It plays very important roles, for instance: It helps maintain the balance of body fluids. It regulates and maintains body temperature. It lubricates your joints and eyes. It protects your tissues, spinal cord and joints. It helps your body remove waste products and toxins. It aids digestion. It helps control calorie intake. It helps keep your skin looking good and youthful. Without water, your body would stop functioning properly. Hence, it is important to keep your body hydrated. To stay hydrated, drink fluids and eat foods rich in water content. At times, your body may lose water more than usual. This can occur due to vigorous physical activity, excessive sweating, diarrhea, vomiting, diabetes and frequent urination. This causes an electrolyte imbalance in your body...

Ears. We all have them. Sometimes attractive people have ugly ears. Sometimes ugly people have nice ears. In this sense, they are an enigma. They’re great for listening out for danger and for listening in to conversations. But it turns out that by doing something that you might’ve thought was good for your ears, you’re actually doing them harm. According to the Telegraph, every year around 7,000 people in England alone go to hospital with an injury from a cotton swab. That’s more people than are injured by razor blades. Healthcare professionals have been trying to discourage people from cleaning their ears with cotton swabs for years as it can damage the ear drum and push wax deeper into the ear. But fittingly, nobody’s listening. Using cotton swabs to clean your ears can cause ear infections as well as long term hearing damage. Simply put, you should never insert anything into your ear. Furthermore, earwax (aka cerumen) isn’t necessarily dirty. Produced by glands in your ear, ce...

1) Soothes a sore belly :- Hot water naturally relax the muscles that are  causing some of the pain. 2) Good bye fat :- The cold fat hardens and stays, the hot fat melts away. 3) Clearer skin naturally :- Water flushes out toxins and impurities from our bodies which in turn helps promote healthier clearer skin. 4) Calms a sore throat :- Drinking hot or nicely warm water is a beautiful remedy. 5) Balances your metabolism :- Up your water intake and watch your metabolism stabilize. I hope these benefits will surely force you to have warm water everytime