WHAT SMOKING DOES TO YOUR BODY!Smoking doesn't just turn your teeth black and give you bad breath – it can also lead to oral cancer. Smoking makes your veins become thinner and eventually cuts off circulation. This can ultimately lead to gangrene in your hands and feet as the blood cant reach them to supply them with enough oxygen. As your lungs feed the rest of your body with the oxygen it needs to survive, they should be smooth and shiny but smoking turns them black and fills them with tar. This in turn makes tem shrunken and shrivelled. Blood travels through your body in arteries. Blocking them up with cholesterol may lead to heart disease and a stroke. It is not just fatty food that raises cholesterol levels, smoking does too. A smokers arteries are full of fat. BACK PAINBack pain brings misery to more than 17 million people in the United Kingdom. Slumping and slouching over the television or computer certainly doesn't help so many experts recommend that to gain stronger stomach muscles (which will in turn help support your back) do some yoga or Pilate's exercise. Consider buying a new mattress as if the old one you have sleeping is over 10 years old, this could very well be the main culprit of your problem. Mattresses of this age or older will have deteriorated by up to 75 per cent according to the Sleep Council. You need a good firm mattress that supports your spine such as a 'Tempur' mattress. MYALGIC ENCEPHALOPATHY / Chronic Fatigue SyndromeAlso known as chronic fatigue syndrome, it is a chemical imbalance in your brain that causes it to become easily fatigued. It could possibly be triggered by a virus or caused by severe stress. Sufferers feel like they have not slept at all even after long periods of uninterrupted sleep. Limbs feel heavy and weak and ache to a very high degree. Some sufferers feel dizzy most of the time and complain of a constant feeling of being 'hungover'. New studies and programmes are constantly being formulated to combat this baffling condition. |