Skin care: 5 tips for healthy skin Good skin care — including sun protection and gentle cleansing — can keep your skin healthy and glowing for years to come. 1. Protect yourself from the sun One of the most important ways to take care of your skin is to protect it from the sun. A lifetime of sun exposure can cause wrinkles, age spots and other skin problems — as well as increase the risk of skin cancer. For the most complete sun protection: Use sunscreen. Use a broad-spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of at least 15. Apply sunscreen generously, and reapply every two hours — or more often if you're swimming or perspiring. Seek shade. Avoid the sun between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., when the sun's rays are strongest. Wear protective clothing. Cover your skin with tightly woven long-sleeved shirts, long pants and wide-brimmed hats. Also consider laundry additives, which give clothing an additional layer of ultraviolet protection for a certain number of washings, or...
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“The memory performance of the participants who had a power nap was just as good as it was before sleeping, that is, immediately after completing the learning phase,” said professor Axel Mecklinger, PhD. A nap lasting between 45-60 minutes produces a five-fold improvement in information retrieval from memory, according to a new study conducted at Saarland University, Germany. The researchers focused on the role of the hippocampus, the part of the brain where memories are consolidated and transferred into long term memory storage. “We examined a particular type of brain activity, known as ‘sleep spindles,’ that plays an important role in memory consolidation during sleep,” explained Sara Studte, a graduate biologist specialising in neuropsychology. A sleep spindle is a short burst of rapid oscillations in the electroencephalogram (EEG). The greater the number of sleep spindles in a person’s brain, the better they will remember newly acquired information. The control group o...
BENIFITS OF BODYMASSAGE 1.Massage is relaxing soothing and Reduces levels of stress, anxiety, depression and blood preasure 2.Massage increase blood circulation, matabalism and results in good functioning of all internal organs 3.Massage decreases stiffness and pains in the mucle and betters the condition in people with Osteoa Arthrities. 4.Massage promotes healthy sleep and boosts the imune system. 5.Masage encourages lymphatic drinage which leads to detoxification and increases the complexion of the skin. 6.Massage also place an important role perfoming benifits to cancer patients by releaving fatigue, pain, nausea and depression.
