health

Tips To Break The Habit Of Biting Your Nails

25 octubre, 2019 by Admin

Do you often find yourself biting your nails, and can’t stop? Although this habit is due to a variety of reasons, such as stress, boredom, and even genetics. However, it’s still something we must stop doing ASAP. If you are looking for simple ways to help you out, we have prepared for you a list of tips to break the habit of biting your nails.

Think About The Consequences

First, and aesthetically speaking, biting your nails makes them look horrible. In addition, this bad habit leads to the nails growing in a weird looking shape.

Second, medically speaking, it’s unhealthy to bite your nails. Usually, nails are a hotbed for germs and bacteria, and putting your fingers in your mouth often can lead to sickness. Last but not least, bitting your nails also damages your teeth and ruins your smile.

Try Coating Them with Special Nail-Polish

It is now possible to buy special nail-polish, designed for people who bite their nails. Experts have come up with a »bitter tasting polish» that makes you disgusted when you try to bite your nails. This awful tasting formula discourages many people and helps them quit.

Keep Cutting Them Short

When you keep trimming your nails short, you don’t have anything to bite on. Therefore, make sure to keep your nails short and clean. If you are a manicures lover, you can get add the good looks to the list. This trick will definitely help you stop biting your nails.

Keep Your Mouth Busy

Most of us resort to biting our nails in uncomfortable situations. Stress, boredom and even fear. Try keeping a chewing gum for when you feel the urge to bite on something. By keeping your mouth busy, you deviate towards using another method as your »stress ball»

Listen To Your Body

It’s super important to understand your triggers. Biting your nails is a habit, urging from the issues of your inner self. Recent research therapists found out that perfectionism‘s quite a common cause. If you’re trying to stop biting your nails, give the old fashioned ways a try. Either through meditation to release the stress, or simply through understanding the psychological problems you are going through.

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These Common Mistakes Are Harming Your Vision

23 agosto, 2019 by Admin

Most of us our guilty of leaving home on a sunny day without putting on a pair of sunglasses first. However, this is just one of many common mistakes people make that can cause lifelong damage to our vision and eyes. And when it comes to eye health, prevention is key! Regardless of whether you already wear glasses and contacts, or you have 20/20 vision, these simple habits are important to kick to keep your eyes healthy!

Skipping Sunglasses

woman putting on sunglasses to protect her vision.

Most people wear sunglasses regularly during the summer time, but not wearing them in winter when sun rays can reflect off the snow also does damage. Any time we don’t wear sunglasses with UV protection, the light enters our eyes and can cause melanoma and cataracts on our eye. Meaning, our vision and health can worsen if we don’t wear shades year round! Even if you feel silly wearing sunglasses on a cloudy day, you can walk proudly knowing you are making a health conscious decision!

Showering With Contact Lenses In

person washing hair in the shower under shower head.

Water that comes from a shower head can contain a type of amoeba called acanthamoeba. If it gets on your contact lenses and stays there after you’ve finished showering, it has the potential to stay on your eye and feed on your cornea. Disgusting, we know. What’s more, this infection can lead to lifelong blindness if not taken care of. This is why it is vital to not shower with lenses in, and to also have proper eye contact solution as well. Otherwise, rinsing lenses with tap water can just as easily cause damage.

Using Anti-Redness Eye Drops

There is no harm to using anti-redness eye drops every once in a while due to allergies. However, if you start to use these drops habitually, your eyes can actually become addicted to the drops. Your eyes as a result will require more drops to have any effect. Although the drops themselves are not harmful to your vision, using the solution as a remedy could be masking the real source of the problem, like a possible infection. If your eyes seem to be abnormally red for more than two days, you should probably call the doctor to schedule an appointment to ensure your vision and eyes are okay.

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How to get a flat stomach (effortlessly)

5 noviembre, 2018 by Admin

It’s safe to say we are probably all tired of seeing impossible diets and super complicated exercises to obtain the perfect bikini body. Yet we all dream of having a flat stomach.

We bring you 10 basic tricks to achieve this successfully. Plus, with these tips it won’t be a capital sin if you skip any from time to time. What else can you ask for!

1. Leave fizzy drinks in the past

It doesn’t matter if it’s “light” or if it has a low sugar content. Fizzy drinks are straight up a no-go. They make you prone to inflammation and they don’t add anything positive to your health.

The bubbles in it can cause serious cardiovascular disease, as well as thousands of other diseases due to the toxins it contains. Refrain from these harmful drinks.

2. Chewing gum is double trouble

To constantly be chewing gum can lead to an excess of gastric juices, which can in turn lead to a build up of gases. This is what makes our abdomen swell up leaving us feeling like a balloon.

In addition, besides the secretion of gastric juices, the sole fact of chewing gum causes you to ingest air. Double trouble!

3. Replace your smoothies with fruit

Fruits are filled with healthy fibre, however, if you churn them to make a smoothie, the only thing left is glucose. This happens because we remove both the skin and the soluble fibre, getting rid of most of the vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.

4. Careful with some vegetables

The green-leaved and the cabbage-type vegetables tend to make your stomach swell up even though they are essential to your diet. So if you are one to easily feel swollen, refrain yourself from eating these types of veggies.

If you decide to eat them anyway, the best thing you can do is steam them, and mix them with spices like cumin or fennel. You should also remember that chewing your food properly really helps prevent puffiness.

5. Eat slowly

Eating calmly might not seem very important but it actually does make a difference. Not eating your food as if you were Speedy Gonzales can provide you a sense of satiation causing you to ingest a smaller quantity of food.

In addition, it helps digestion and regulates glucose levels, as well as preventing gases. This happens because when we chew slowly, we start digesting food in our mouths. So if we don’t do this, food enters our stomach without having been digested previously, and a rotting process begins. This, in turn, causes gases and swelling.

6. Drink enough water

One of the biggest bodily issues that concerns women is liquid retention: a build up of water which can cause an increase in weight of up to 4kg. The solution is increasing your water intake. Fighting liquid retention by drinking water can seem counterproductive, but it really is the best way to go.

Drinking 2 liters of water a day gets rid of toxins and cleanses your organisms. Hydration help decrease your liquid retention.

7. Sweeteners are forbidden

Though sweeteners might seem like the perfect substitute for refined sugar, they are actually very hard to digest. Substitutes like sorbitol and mannitol are also linked to inflammation of the abdomen. You can opt for more natural sweeteners like stevia, but they should not contain any added ingredients.

8. Add proteins to your diet

Proteins are in charge of repairing your muscle tissue, meaning that if you increase your protein ingest, you will be able to tone up your abs.

No matter how much you train, if your body does not have ‘material’ to work with, it won’t be of any use. You should nourish your body enough in order for it to repair its muscles after you exercise. Some examples of foods that are protein-rich are: peanuts, prawns, salmon, turkey breast, etc.

9. Say goodbye to processed foods

Processed and ultra processed foods are extremely harmful for your health, as they contain very toxic ingredients like refined sugars, damaging fats, high amounts of salt and all sorts of additives.

These types of foods are addictive, which is why we often feel the need to eat a hamburger, but never seem to crave a piece of fruit.

Processed and ultra processed foods are also the number one cause of thousands of health problems, and they are causing you to gain weight. You can say goodbye to a flat stomach if you keep eating processed foods.

10. Move your body

One of the most effective exercises to get rid of abdominal fat is the famous “plank”. An effective example of it is doing five 30 second series, with a 30 second break in between.

You should work out at least 3 times a week, mixing it up between stamina and strength trainings.

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