Women
Stomach vacuum, a trending exercise these days is the easiest way to get yourself thinner abs and waist. In this exercise, you simply have to make an abdominal move which targets the transversus abdominis. This muscle group acts like a corset and helps to keep the waistline tight. The best time to perform this exercise is while your stomach is empty which is probably during the morning.
Flip-flops are considered to be most comfortable footwear but are actually harmful to your health. They expose your feet to a good amount of stress. Flip flops are usually straight, hard and keep your foot entirely flat. If your foot is over flattened, it leads to a number of health conditions such inflammation of the tissue on the bottom of your feet. Hence, chose an appropriate footwear.
An antibacterial compound called triclosan is used in soaps, toothpaste, detergents as well as toys and plastics which is not really good for your health and body. Originally it was only used in hospitals but has somehow entered households as people became more germophobic. These antimicrobial chemicals are now common in every household and are interfering with the lifestyles of people.
When you just add a shot of vodka to your deep hair conditioner and apply it, it will lower your hair’s pH which helps the cuticles to close and reduce the frizz. Apart from that, just a tablespoon of vodka can be mixed with a cup of water for using it to rinse your hair after shampooing and conditioning. This eliminates product build-up from the strands and scalp, making your hair shiny and lustrous!
Though the Indian Roti is one of the variants of bread itself, they have endless differences. Indian Roti is made from unleavened flour from which the roughage has not been removed. But the current bread producers remove the roughage from the flour. Hence, Roti is said to be the healthier option. Besides, bread also contains yeast and roti are free of yeast. Hence, your consumption should see more of Roti than bread.
A health watchdog group has reportedly claimed that substantial amounts of metals were found in the products from Hershey’s, Cadbury etc. The group has tested about 50 kinds of chocolate this year and around 35 of them turned out to be positive for illegal levels of cadmium and lead. It is a fact that excess amount of both these metals can cause severe damage to kidney, bones, liver and also neurological damage.
If you are using over-the-ear headphones while keeping your hair down, it might damage and break your hair without you realizing it. A celebrity stylist named Castillo has stated this condition. This is because while you normally walk, your movement repeatedly pushes the tight headphones against your head which roughs up and breaks your strands. Hence, to maintain a healthy long hair, either use this headphone only for a short while or use in-ear headphones.
Sattu is packed with an abundance of health benefits and is considered as a poor man’s protein. The prepping process it goes through helps to retain the maximum nutritional value. It has been proved beneficial for people suffering from diabetes and is good for intestines. It provides you with good amounts of manganese, iron, and magnesium. It has a low sodium content. The commonly made dishes using sattu are parathas, sharbat, litti, upma or even porridge.
A hypnagogic jerk is that sudden twitch that you feel sometimes as you are trying to fall asleep. Normally, people fall asleep when all the muscles in your mind are in a state of relaxing, basically your mind. That particular feeling might trick your brain into thinking that you are about to fall which causes you to suddenly jump awake! Don’t be alarmed, it only signifies that you require good sleep.
It is believed that drug-resistant infections are increasing due to excessive use of medicines such as antibiotics and anti fungus for treating not-so-harmful conditions like common cold. If this continues and no immediate action is taken, it will kill about 10 million people per annum by 2050. With such an excessive use, the immune systems of the human body build up resistance due to which the conditions become incurable.