Can Smoking harm My Skin?Written by Wendy Owen
Skin is fed from within. The foods we eat are broken down into nutrients and waste. The nutrients are absorbed by bloodstream which transports them around body to various organs, largest of which is skin. Oxygen is also transported and delivered in same way. The cells absorb oxygen and this is vital for health of organs and life process itself. This whole process takes place automatically when we breathe........Except when we are breathing in smoke! When we inhale smoke from a cigarette carbon monoxide from smoke is absorbed by hemoglobin in blood. Carbon monoxide is a colorless odorless highly toxic gas also found in smoke from car exhausts. The blood can absorb carbon monoxide 200 times as fast as oxygen so a lot of oxygen is displaced by carbon monoxide. The organs including skin are starved of life giving oxygen and slowly poisoned by carbon monoxide. But that's not end of it. Cigarette smoke also contains following deadly cocktails of chemicals. Ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, butane, nicotine, carbolic acid, collidine, formic aldehyde, lutidine, parvoline, prussic acid, pyridine, arsenic and cadmium. This list is by no means complete.
| | Snoring- a small change can make a big differenceWritten by Kevin Meates
We all know how annoying snoring can be, both for snorer and partner. The effects and seriousness of snoring are becoming more apparent with snoring being linked to conditions like high blood pressure and coronary disease. The different types of snoring, range from a simple puff to a full on roar and there isn’t one school of thought on reasons behind snoring. Snoring, I believe, is a signal that body’s systems are out of balance. Finding which system is difficult part. But correcting balance may not take a huge change, take example of Andy.Andy was in his late 30s and had snored for several years. He’s not quite sure when it started but of late snoring had being a more regular event. He probably still wouldn’t be aware of it, except it drove his wife crazy. Andy had always being active, not a football star but he liked to throw a ball around. If you asked a passerby, they wouldn’t describe Andy as overweight but Andy freely admits putting on a pound a year over past 10 years and plans to start shedding some of it sometime soon. Every year Andy and family, his wife and two sons go camping. They always go to same camping ground every year and always get same site, or there about, near water and away from highway. Andy doesn’t believe a holiday should be hard work and family doesn’t lack for comfort with inflatable mattresses, electric cooler, color TV (just for news) and a large three room tent. Now last year shower block at Andy’s end of camp ground was under going a major renovation for two weeks of Andy’s holiday. It wasn’t a major problem; it just meant that Andy had his nightly shower at other shower block. But because Andy and his wife preferred that boys didn’t have to walk in dark they showered a couple hours earlier than normal. After a couple of days after arriving Andy’s wife Karen noted that Andy wasn’t snoring nearly as badly as he normally did. On past holidays even boys would mention how annoying dad’s snoring was. They too had noticed a more quiet night. Andy was pleased as he too had noticed that he awoke more refreshed in morning and his mouth didn’t feel like someone had left sandpaper in it. He didn’t know what change he had made that brought this unexpected and pleasant result, but he suspected it had to do with his nightly routine, as this was only thing that had changed.
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