Importance of Washing Your Hands

Frequent hand-washing is one of the best ways to avoid getting sick and spreading illness. Hand-washing requires only soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, which is an antiseptic that kills 99.99% of germs without any water or towels and come in small bottles that fit in your bag or pocket.

When to wash your hands

As you touch people, surfaces and objects throughout the day, you accumulate germs on your hands. In turn, you can infect yourself with these germs by touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Although it's impossible to keep your hands germ-free, washing your hands frequently can help limit the transfer of bacteria, viruses and other microbes.

Always wash your hands before:

• Preparing food or eating
• Treating wounds, giving medicine, or caring for a sick or injured person
• Inserting or removing contact lenses

Always wash your hands after:

• Preparing food, especially raw meat or poultry
• Using the toilet or changing a diaper
• Touching an animal or animal toys, leashes, or waste
• Blowing your nose, coughing or sneezing into your hands
• Treating wounds or caring for a sick or injured person
• Handling garbage, household or garden chemicals, or anything that could be contaminated — such as a cleaning cloth or soiled shoes

How To Wash Hands?

Hands should be washed vigorously by scrubbing with warm, soapy water for at least 20 seconds. Germs can hide underneath fingernails. Thus, rub tips of fingers along the soapy palm of the alternate hand or use a fingernail brush. Rinse hands well and completely dry with a paper towel or air-dryer. Turn the faucet handle off with a paper towel to avoid recontamination.

Rooibos Tea

Rooibos Tea (Redbush) is an herbal tea that is grown only in the South African highlands. It is rich in anti oxidants and flavonoids. Infact the anti-oxidants in this tea are not found in any other tea like green tea/black tea, etc.

Benefits: 

Rooibos tea is one of the best health drink for all those who care for their health and fitness. Some of the beneficial factors related to this tea are as follows:

• Used for curing headache, hyper tension and insomnia.
• Beneficial in fever and asthma.
• Free from caffeine.
• Higher quantity of anti-oxidants as compared to green tea.
• Helps with the immune system
• Anti-aging
• This tea don't have oxalic acid. People with kidney stone can also take this tea.
• Has many minerals which is good for your body: copper, zinc, manganese, iron, potassium and calcium.
• Taking Rooibos is good for your skin.
• This tea is good for certain types of allergy. And reduce the allergy risks in the body.

Be Happy, Stay Positive & Smile :-)

Smiling, laughing, and positive thinking have been proven to have a huge number of health benefits to both the mind and body.
Stress has been linked to a number of health problems, including heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. 

A smile can…

1. Start your day pleasantly.
2. Make others understand you are in a good mood.
3. Promote positivity in a work environment.
4. Relax your face muscles.
5. Make others put a smile on their face.
6. Tell people that they are going to be okay.
7. Makes you look a lot prettier or more handsome!
8. Reduce all of that stress you might accumulate.
9. Help your immune system work a lot better.
10. Lower your blood pressure.
11. Give you a child like innocence.
12. Release serotonin, natural pain killers and endorphins thus making it a happy drug.
13. Make you look younger.
14. Fill you up with positivity and power.
15. Show your understanding side.
16. Say that you can be polite in the hardest of times.
17. Help you live longer.
18. Make you appreciate the little things in life.
19. Make you look at the brighter side of a bad situation.
20. Be contagious to all those around you.

A smile has more wonderful benefits that you could ever think about....

Did you also know....

The 17 muscles that we use when we smile works to lift our faces, thus it helps to delay the sagging of the skin on our faces as we age.  The 42 muscles that work together when we frown all cause the skin our faces to sag and make us look older than our actual age.

Quick Tips To Staying Healthy

These are a few quick and easy steps that we should follow and apply to our lives to ensure that we maintain a healthy lifestyle:

1.  Kick the smoking habit and limit alcohol intake.
2. If you are overweight, go on a sensible diet. Cut back on saturated fat intake, eat more fruits and vegetables and take a daily multi-vitamin and calcium supplement and drink lots of water!
3. Add strength and resistance training exercises to your workout routine.
4. Get plenty of rest and sleep.
5. Have an annual physical examination, with a cardiac risk profile and a base-line bone density. 

   -For women, include a GYN exam and mammogram. 

   -For men, see your urologist for a prostate screening.
6. Reduce Stress! Reduce stress such as meditation, joining a support group, massage therapy, aromatherapy. Be sure to take time for yourself everyday, even if it is just for fifteen minutes.
7. Immerse yourself in something that you enjoy and something that is just for you. Reward yourself with a special treat, whether it be something that you have always wanted or something that you have always wanted to do.
8. Be kind and gentle to yourself! :-)

Tone up your legs and thighs

Are you sick of your thighs rubbing together? Losing leg fat, especially in women may actually be quite a tricky job. There are some specific areas in your body like your calves and thighs which are more prone to gaining fat.

I have some steps that is pretty useful to reach your goal of getting the legs you want to have:

• Get Motivated  This is the key to everything, including losing leg fat. If you would really like to succeed, then strong motivation is something you will be in need of.Think of something that might motivate you 3 times a day – it might be pictures of celebrities with gorgeous legs, a pair of jeans you no longer fit it, etc. These thoughts are not very pleasant, on the contrary, they kind of make us feel bad, but that’s exactly what we need. We need to feel the pain, the lack of something we truly want and only that bad feeling will give us enough strength to achieve our goal.

•  Patience Patience is another key that you will need. And do not get disappointed when you do not see the results the next day, it takes time!

• Exercise. Exercise. Exercise. Obviously, you need to do exercises! There are many different types of exercise that you will be able to do in order to get rid of that leg fat. The exercises may seem a bit tough and tiring at first. However, once you get used to them, in no time, those exercises will be easy. Besides, after a couple of weeks, you will start to see the results of work you put into it. The most effective exercises are the following: Jogging, fast walking, sprint running for short distances, sit-ups, swimming, dancing, pilates, yoga, aerobics.

• Create a Routine I recommend you create a routine and stick to it. If you only do your exercises once a week, then this is not going to work. I recommend you choose at least four days a week to do the exercises. If you neglect to do them, then it will take a much longer time to get those skinny legs you have been wanting for so long.

• Ballet Squats This is a form of exercise that targets your lower body, including your thighs and legs. To start this, all you have to do is bend your knees as you are making sure your torso is upright, You should be holding your hands on your waist or out in front of you. Your knees will have to travel in line with your toes. You should lower yourself as low as you can go. Make sure you do not hurt yourself with this one and keep the back straight.

• Reverse Lunge It’s another exercise that many individuals have used in order to lose weight quickly in their legs. Start out with your feet about eight inches apart and your torso erect. Take an easy step backward. Lower your hips until your front thigh is parallel or straight to the floor. The position of your knee should be directly over your ankle and foot.

• Running This is a great exercise when it comes to losing weight not only in the legs, but in the rest of the body as well. It will increase your heart rate and it’s a good aerobic activity. Running is also going to speed up that metabolism.

• Ride a Bike Riding a bike is another important exercise to do if you are looking to lose weight. When there is nice weather outside, why not ride your bikes? You may also go to the gym and exercise on the bikes they have there.

• Playing Sports This is also a great idea and also a lot of fun! It will speed up your heart rate and help you burn fat off of your whole body, including your legs. Some good sports include volleyball, tennis, basketball, soccer, football, etc.

• Swimming If you like swimming and you have access to a pool, then look no further – it’s not only a great workout for every single muscle in your body, it’s also the greatest way to get your whole body toned and lose that leg fat that’s been bothering you for so long. And it’s also very pleasant, so you practically kill all the birds with one stone! :-)

• Drink Water Drinking water is another important factor. With that thought in mind, you need to avoid those fizzy drinks as they are no good for you. Nor they are good for those legs of yours. Start drinking 8 glasses of water a day and in just a few weeks you’ll see how much faster the weight loss is going.

• Eat Healthy By reducing your calories and eating healthy foods such as fruit, vegetables, oatmeal, white meat, whole grain foods, you will be doing your body good. And you will be shedding off those pounds by weeks. You’ll see!

• Never give up If you do not see improvements in your legs in a week, you should NEVER give up! Those improvements will start to show through in no time, if you use these tips. So don’t panic, and keep doing what you are doing!