Top 5 Reason You Should Quit Drinking

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Drinking alcohol affects body in many ways. The effects can lead to physical and mental changes that can put drinkers at risk of injury or death. When a person drinks, the alcohol is quickly absorbed in the blood and then carried throughout the body. A drink of alcohol stays in the body for around 2 hours after being consumed; the period of time can vary depending on the person’s weight, gender and other factors. Alcohol makes drinker feel sleepy or confused.

The effects of alcohol

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Brain Damage

Binge drinking causes blackouts, memory loss and anxiety. Long term drinking can cause permanent brain damage, serious mental health problems and alcoholism. Young people’s brain is still developing during teenage years. Alcohol can damage parts of the brain and affect oneself ability to learn and remember as well as behavior.

Cancers

Drinking alcohol is a risk factor that causes cancer. It can be especially harmful to the liver, the organ that metabolizes alcohol and other substances. Heavy drinkers may develop diseases such as liver inflammation (alcoholic hepatitis) or severe liver scarring (cirrhosis). The diseases related to alcohol can cause death.

Alcohol affects the heart in good and bad way. According to the studies, it shown that moderate drinking can lower the chances of developing heart disease. Two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women. However, long term alcohol users can result in high blood pressure, it will increase the risk of developing heart disease. The blood pressure can go back to normal within few months when a person stop drinking if there is not much damage to the heart. Excessive alcohol consumption can also lead to kidney failure.

Alcohol also affects your appearance

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Skin

Alcohol dehydrates your body including the skin, the largest organ of your body. It happens every time you drink. Excessive drinking is thought to dispose the skin of vital vitamins and nutrients. Moreover, heavy drinkers can have more permanent effects on the skin. One of the effect is Rosacea, many people with rosacea have a history of frequent blushing or flushing. This facial redness may come and go, and is often the earliest sign of the disorder.

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Beer Belly

When you drink beer, your liver has to go into overdrive to detoxify the alcohol. Beer consists average 150 calories that’s why beer makes you fat. Men after the age of 35 will easily get beer belly because the metabolism rate is getting slower in this age. Women fat stores normally go on their backside and hips.

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Smells

Long term alcohol users don’t smell good. Although the liver processes most of the alcohol you drink but some leaves the body through breath, sweat and urine.

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Excessive Sweating: How to Stay Dry

What is Hyperhidrosis?

Hyperhidrosis is a common disorder in which the person sweats excessively.

Sweating may occur on the whole body or it may occur on certain areas. It usually sweats on:

• Armpit
• Palms
• Sole of the feet
• Face
• Chest

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Although people who generally sweat excessively, day and night, it does not pose a serious threat to a person’s health. But it can be embarrassing and distressing in the daily life.

Some people with hyperhidrosis are shy to seek medical help and some believe no proper way can be done to improve this symptom.

However, help is available to improve the excessive sweating problem.

Start with daily life activities such as:

• Wear black or white clothes to minimize the sign of sweating
• Wear loose and light clothes
• Avoid spicy foods
• Avoid alcohol
• Use antiperspirant instead of deodorant

Excessive sweating is a long term condition. If lifestyle changes do not work, you may go for dermatologist for further treatments.

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Treatment 1

Botolinum Toxin Injection also known as Botox.

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Botox can be injected into the skin areas of the body which affected by hyperhidrosis. It helps to reduce sweating in these areas by blocking the signals from the brain to the sweat glands. The effect normally lasts for few months; the treatment can be repeated if necessary. Botox injection to treat hyperhidrosis takes around 30 to 45 minutes. The treatment can be done in just a lunch break.

Treatment 2

Iontophoresis may help if you have excessive sweating problem on your palms and feet. It can be used to treat armpits but it is less effective.

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Iontophoresis involves treating affected areas of skin with a weak electric current passed through water or a wet pad. This helps to block the sweat glands.

This treatment is not painful. Patient will only feel slight discomfort or skin irritation as the mild electric current pass through the palms or feet. The treatment duration is around 20 to 30 minutes. To get ideal result, 2 to 4 session of treatments are needed in a week. The symptoms will improve after a week or two.

Treatment 3

Surgery

     A dermatologist may use one or more of the following surgical techniques to remove sweat glands from the underarms:

• Excision (cut out sweat glands)
• Liposuction (remove with suction)
• Curettage (scrape out)
• Laser surgery (vaporize)                                                                                  

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Health Guide: Easy Way to Lose Weight

Sleep

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When you stay late at night everyday and eat after 8pm may be a risk factor in gaining weight. According to a study from Northwestern Medicine, the late sleepers consumed 248 more calories a day. Besides that, lack of sleep causes you to eat more throughout the day and not have enough energy for the next day. The best solution is to get enough rest for seven to nine hours every night. It is also a simple and effective way to keep your weight loss goals on the right track.

Drink loads of water

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Drink a full glass of water with your meals to fill your belly and also to drink water all the day. Avoid the high-calorie beverages that have no nutritional value such as sweet tea, alcohol, soda, flavored coffee and tea.

Eat your food slowly

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Chew your food slowly. The more time it will take you to finish a meal can prevent you from overeating. Chewing your food twice as long as normally would instantly help you to control your portion sizes and it will decrease the calorie consumption. It takes time for your brain to feel that you are full, so eating slowly can maintain your weight.

Eat breakfast

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Don’t skip your breakfast because your blood sugar will drop. Therefore, you become hungry and have less energy that will lead you to eat larger portion at your lunch or dinner. Also, people who skip breakfast compensate later in the day with more refined carbohydrates and fats. But when you eat breakfast, your body feel satisfies and full, making you less likely to overeat the rest of the day.

iLipo treatment

One of the fast and lazy ways to get efficient result is to do iLipo treatment. The iLipo lasers are released through the treatment pads that can place in specific areas of the body. The iLipo lasers trigger a chemical signal in the fat cells that break down stored triglycerides into free fatty acids and glycerol. Then, it can be released through the cell membranes. With the use of iLipo low level lasers, the machine imitates the body’s natural fat burning process and allows you to target the area for fat burning even before you begin to exercise. 

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