Tuesday, December 21, 2010

YOU AND YOUR SKIN


Health is life. Health care is good care. If your skin is healthy it means you do not neglect health information. It means health matters to you a lot.

There are people out there who paid no yield attention to their skin health. A thirty-old man who looks older than his age is probably paid no good attention to health matters. Such person neglects health information or health tips
 The more reason you see most men and women even in  their 60s still having shinning looks is because many of them have spent quite a fortune to maintain their skin. They didn’t just start maintaining the skin at old age, they started this during their teenage to take good and adequate care of their body and skin. Certainly, this set of people did not take the maintenance of their skins for granted.
            To look real good and shinning even at old age, it is always imperative to extra care of your skin by carefully selected those skin products that you apply to your body.
Surely, it is not a wasted energy and time to take good care of your skin as some will say it is only idle people who take time to look after their skin. Every care you take on your skin is not in vain because caring for your skin means caring for what God has been graciously given to you. Therefore, if you aim at   a beautiful skin try the following tips and see how it works.
. BE SELECTIVE
               Be selective when buying cream or body lotion(moisturizer).Make sure  you buy those made with vegetable oil(olive oil, sweet almond oil, corn oil etc)and not mineral oil which is got from petroleum and does not contain any nutrients to help nourish your skin. Vegetable oil contains fatty acid which helps you to
Moisturize and soften your skin.
.DRY SKIN
               If you have dry and blemish skin use moisturizer twice a day with products that richly contains vegetable oils that are high in essential fatty acid.
Fatty acid helps to soften and hydrate the skin. It also helps to sooth minor irritations.
Vegetable oil contains large amount of fatty acid such as sun flower seed oil, borage oil, corn oil and etc. Moisturizing cream that contains Shea butter is also good for replenish your skin barrier.
You can also get fatty acid from fishes such as salmon Mackerel and also Walnut.
.VITAMIN A
               Vitamin A also help in preventing wrinkles and pigmentation of skin, you can get this from your food intake. Vitamin A can be gotten from orange, carrot, pawpaw and others.
.VITAMIN C AND E
               Vitamin C and E which is also known as power house antioxidants also help your skin to stay healthy. Vitamin C and E can be found in good foods and produce such as sweet potatoes, citrus fruits, peppers, grapes and others.
.TONERS AND ASTRINGENTS
               If you are found of using toners and astringents make sure you use those once that are made without ethyl alcohol, rubbing alcohol or isopropyl alcohol because they are solvents that dry the skin speedily.
. YOUR FACE
               To prevent wrinkled face always wash your face first thing in the morning and before bed time.
. CAUTION: do not wash more than twice a day because too much of cleaning can cause your pores to over produce oil that will clog the pores.
. SPONGE
               Avoid using sponge to scrub your face, instead, use your fingertips or a soft cloth. 
. POLISH
               Polish your body regularly to achieve clean, smooth and radiant skin. Polishing your skin regularly will make it to shed faster and evenly.
. COSMETICS
               Make sure your choice of cosmetics contains herbs or herbal derivatives (essential oils, extracts, infusion etc) which contain natural chemicals which soothe, tone and help condition your skin.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

HEALTH IS LIVE

Health is life, living without good health conditions such a person will pray for death. Even a miser whom every household know that he can not play with his money will holistically spend his last fund to acquire or regain his health. Health is so important that human being can not do without. Therefore, you have life when there is health. No health without life and no life without health.
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What is Health?
Health is the general condition of a person in all aspects. It is therefore a level of functional and/or metabolic efficiency of an organism.
In 1948, word health organization (who) defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of diseases or infirmity.
In 1986, the WHO said that health is “a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities.
Overall health is achieved through a combination of physical, mental and social well-being, which are commonly referred to as the health triangle
FACTORS THAT DETERMINE HEALTH
Factors that determine health are physical environment, social and economic environment and person’s individual characteristics and behavior. The style in which an individual lives is of great importance on his health status.
The physical environment is the most critical factor to be considered when classifying the health status of an individual such factors as unpolluted air, clean water safe house and all others
Also the social and economic environment are key factor use to determine the health status of an individual; in the fact that those who are able to enjoy higher education are attached to higher income which linked to higher income; this is because people who have higher education are more likely to get a better job and therefore are less prone to stress compare with people with low education level
MAINTAINING HEALTH
Achieving and maintaining health is a continuous process. Effective strategies for staying healthy and improving one’s health include the following elements 
 DAILY OBSERVATION
partially personal health depends on your daily observations about your health in your everyday life. The information gleaned from observations such may be used to inculcate your personal decisions and actions (for example, "i always daze at my working place every morning, i need to change my food intake), or you observe a strange pain around your neck every morning your mind will surely reveals to you that you need to change your pillow or how you lie down on your bed. If you have not develop the habit of observing your health status everyday because you better do daily observation of one's health will prevent any aggravation of infection. 

HYGIENE 
hygiene is the practice of keeping the body and the surrounding clean to prevent infection and illness, and avoiding one's from contacting with infectious agents. Hygiene practices include, bathing twice a day ie in the morning at night before bed, brushing teeth regularly and hand washing fruits before eating, washing food before it is eaten, washing and cleaning kitchen and cooking utensils before and after preparing meals, and many others. 
"Prevention is better than cure," therefore, proper sanitation helps prevent infection and illness. 
Social activity
partially personal health depends on the social structure of one's life. The maintenance of strong social relationships is linked to good health conditions, longevity, productivity, and a positive attitude. Because this is a positive social interaction as viewed by the participant increases many chemical levels in the brain which are linked to personality traits and intelligence.
Also volunteering can lead to a healthy life. To be a volunteer, while gaining plenty of social benefits, people also take off their mind their own troubles. Volunteering could even add years of life. According to study at university, compared with people who did not volunteer, senior citizens who volunteered showed a 67% reduced risk of dying during a seven-year period.

PHYSICAL EXERCISE
Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness  and overall health or wellness. It is performed for various reasons. These include strengthening muscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletics skills, weight loss or maintenance and for enjoyment. Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system, and helps prevent the ‘diseases of affluence’ such as heart Type2 diabetes  and obesity It also improves mental health, helps prevent depression, helps to promote or maintain positive self-esteem, and can even augment an individual's sex appeal or body image, which again is also linked with higher levels of self-esteem childhood obesity is a growing global concern and physical exercise may help decrease the effects of childhood obesity in developed countries.
PHYSICAL FITNESS
Physical fitness is ability to carry out daily tasks with vigor and alertness, without undue fatigue and still have enough energy to enjoy leisure time, pursuits and meet the above average physical stresses encountered in emergency situation.
Physical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness and specific fitness general fitness is (a state of health and well-being) and specific fitness (based on the ability to perform specific aspects of sports or occupations). Physical fitness is generally achieved through exercise correct nutrition and enough rest It is an important part of life. In previous years], fitness was commonly defined as the capacity to carry out the day’s activities without undue fatigue. However, as automation increased leisure time, changes in lifestyles following the industrial revolution rendered this definition insufficient .These days, physical fitness is considered a measure of the body’s ability to function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure activities, to be healthy, to resist hypo kinetic diseases and to meet emergency situations.
Examples of diseases of affluence include: type2 diabetes, cerebrovascular disease, coronary heart disease   obesity, certain forms ofcancer, asthma, alcoholism and depression as well as a major range of other psychiatric illnesses.
These diseases are categorized as non-communicable diseases whereas the diseases of poverty tend to be largely communicable either through infection, inadequate safety or environmental health regulations, or poor hygiene.
Diseases of affluence are predicted to become more prevalent as starvation and diseases of poverty decline, and as longevity increases.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A PHYSICALLY FIT PERSON
1) A physically fit person must be able to perform a given amount of work such work could be light, moderate or exhausting with less displacement of physiological equilibrium.
2) A physically fit person must be able to establish a steady state of high level of work.
3) He must be able to return to  a resting  level rapidly  after an exhausting work.

EXERCISE TO DEVELOP PHYSICAL FITNESS
Exercises are generally grouped into two types depending on the overall effect they have on the human body:
Aerobic exercises, such as cycling swimming, walking, skipping rope, running or playing tennis , focus on increasing cardiovascular endurance.
Anaerobic exercises such as functional training weight training increase short-term muscle strength
FACTS ABOUT PHYSICAL FITNESS
Physical fitness is one of the most important keys to a healthy body. It is also  the basic of creative activity.
Physical fitness as part of total fitness consists of social, emotional, physical and mental developments.
Physical fitness consists of various components and not a single component, each component is specific, A person can be high or low in any of the components.
COMPONENTS OF PHYSICAL FITNESS
This can be said to be of two fold and they are health related and performance related physical fitness
1) Cardiovascular
2) Strength
3) Muscular endurance
4) Power
5) Co-ordination
6) Flexibility
7) Body compos ion
8) Agility
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