Preserve Your Health

Some tips on health are followed blindly by most people. They do not care about the outcome except that the fact had been highlighted to them by someone in the next cubicle or someone known to him! But all those tips are not true is the recent finding by some scientists. Here are certain myths that have been proved wrong by scientists.

Myth#1 – You get fatter by eating carbs.
Foods are fattening only if they contain cream or margarine. Carbs contain less than half the calories of fat and hence are more satisfying your appetite!

Myth#2 – Eight glasses of water are a must for all daily.
There is no single study to back this claim. Around 750 ml of water is enough for most persons. Excessive amounts can actually be dangerous.

Myth#3 – A pregnant woman has to eat for two.
Pregnant women need just 200 extra calories a day which is just equivalent to 2 slices of bread. They can have a normal diet otherwise.

Myth#4 – You can live longer if you take vitamins regularly.
Antioxidant vitamins like A, C & E do not prolong life. They may even lead to premature death according to a study!

Myth#5 – You get spots if you eat chocolate.
Acne is caused by hormones and not due to chocolates!

Just be aware of some facts to lead a healthy life.

Skin is the external layer of our body, which has direct contact to sunlight. The nature and color of skin depends on the climate of the person’s region. Skin is a very soft and thin muscle of the body. Skin is used to get dry and rough in hot climate. This is common in equatorial regions, where the exposure to sun is more when compared to tropic regions. Some people may have oily or dry skin.

Steps to avoid damage of skin are as follows,

• Use herbal health products, but avoid cosmetics (as the chemical in them are harmful to your skin),

• Make your skin wet by using natural creams made from vegetables,

• Eat the food rich in vitamin C (lemon, orange and fruits and vegetables rich in citric acids),

• Repeatedly wash your face with clean water at regular time intervals (depends on the person’s comfortable),

• Avoid non-vegetarian foods, which raise your body heat causing damage to your skin.

Similarly, secure the nature of your skin from cold and snowfall climate. Try to keep your skin wet and avoid the damage by the surrounding climate. Keep your skin away from chemical cosmetics and prefer herbal medicines made from plants. Skin shows the external appearance of a person, so keep your skin healthier from the changing external climate.

Symbols and signs represent and stand as substitutes for actual objects, experiences and activities. In this sense they cannot be confined to words and mathematical numerals and terms. Traffic lights, railways signals, school bells, badge, songs, flags, and slogans all stand for the symbolic expression. These symbols and signs stimulate and economize thinking. They at once tell us what to do or how to act. For example, the waiving of other green flag by the guard tells us that the train list about to move and we should get in the train. Similarly, the mathematical symbol for subtraction will get in the train. Similarly, the mathematical symbol for subtraction (-) tells a child what he has to do. The conclusion drawn by Boring, Lang field and Weld for emphasizing the role of symbols and signs in to the process of thinking is worth mentioning. They write “symbols and signs are thus seen to be the pawn and pieces with which the great game of thinking is played and It could not be such a remarkable and successful game without them” (1961).

Language: Language is the most efficient and developed vehicle used for carrying out the process of thinking. When one listens or reads or writes words, phrases or sentences or observes gesture In any language, one is stimulated too think. Reading and Writing is of the promoting our thinking process.