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Winter and Skincare – Beautiful Skin Requires Commitment Not Miracles

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Most commonly identified by the skin feeling tight and stretched or dull, slightly red, and rough, people planning on spending a lot more time outdoors particularly need to watch out for windburn... Cracking-up in Winter Winter is that time of the year when one is always willing to sip a hot beverage and munch on a warm snack or two. The warmth of the blanket is alluring and one can hardly wait to wear the carefully stored warm coats, jackets, boots, and gloves. As wonderful as this time of the year is, it’s also time for dry, flaky, and chapped skin – whether in areas that are exposed or under all that wonderful winter fashion! Winter brings in its wake a focus on keeping warm: food to keep warm from within and layers of protective clothing to deal with the biting cold outside. Getting overlooked somewhere in all this activity is what bears the brunt of the weather – the skin. Continuous exposure to cold air and hard windy weather steals the skin of its moisture resulting ...
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Five Common Mistakes That Lead to Hypertension

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Why would you wait until you find your heart in your throat? Save your health before it gets into any trouble! We often overlook the importance of our health and then regret not taking any measures to prevent it from becoming worse. This is very true in case of lifestyle-related diseases, where you enjoy your life the way you want it (minimal activity and maximum fun), slowly pushing your health to the danger zone. Only when you are diagnosed with some health condition you would realize what you have been doing all these while to yourself. Hypertension is a classical example of this. Some harmless laxity, as you may think it is, may lead to conditions like hypertension, diabetes, etc. Let’s have a look at some common lifestyle mistakes that lead to hypertension and try avoiding them. Always,   prevention is better than cure. Feeding Yourself to Overweight Do you know that your weight is related to hypertension? Yes, being overweight predispose you to hypertension. If you a...
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Let the cold not be so common anymore

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Common cold, or simply cold, is the most common condition affecting mankind every year, with an average of 2 to 5 infections annually in adults. The number of infections is much higher in children and the elderly. Complications are rare, except in the very young or old or in those with low immunity. The common cold is an upper respiratory infection caused by a virus. Its symptoms are well known and begin with tiredness, followed by sneezing, headache, runny nose and cough. The illness resolves within a week, although sometimes it can last for up to 3 weeks. How is the virus transmitted? When a person sneezes, his nasal droplets sprayed into the air contains a heavy load of the virus. This can directly infect a person in the vicinity The virus remains alive for a prolonged duration of time on tables, desks, keyboards of computers, etc., and infect a person when he touches it An infected child can spread the virus through toys, books, pencils, etc. This is common in dayca...
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