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How Can I Protect My Heart Health During Winter Activities And Exercise?

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  Expert opinion from Dr. Alan Thomas Charly MBBS · 1 years of experience · India To keep your heart healthy during winter activities, do the following: 1. Warm-up: Warm up indoors before exercising. 2. Layer Your Clothes: Dress in layers. 3. Stay Hydrated: Drink plenty of water. 4. Know Your Limits: Be aware of your fitness level. 5. Pay Attention to Your Body: Look for symptoms of strain. 6. Proper Equipment: Use appropriate equipment. 7. Consider Exercising Indoors: Work out indoors if the weather is exceptionally chilly. 8. Be Prepared: Keep a phone with you and notify someone of your plans. 9. Learn the symptoms of hypothermia. 10. Consult a Doctor: If you have a cardiac condition, seek medical attention. Expert opinion from Dr. Himabindu Sreenivasulu MBBS · 1 years of experience · India To protect your heart health during winter activities, start with a proper warm-up, dress in layers, and stay hydrated. Choose safe exercise locations, know your limits in cold conditions, and...

Different types of earwax and what they reveal about your health

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Most people's ear wax is yellow or brown in colour and is usually sticky in consistency. This is healthy earwax. However, earwax can change its colour and texture depending on certain things going on inside your ears. Below, we've got a guide to what the differences might mean for your health and if you need to act on it. You cannot prevent earwax from building up in your ear canals. It's there to protect your ears from dirt, germs and infections. Occasionally, our ears may go into overdrive and produce a bit too much wax which might need to be cleared to avoid any hearing issues but this is no longer available on the NHS. Mostly though, you can usually leave your ears to get on with the job themselves as they are pretty efficient. According to Healthline, our ears our self-cleaning and naturally chuck out old earwax, along with dead skin cells. Below we have listed the different types of earwax and what they mean for your health. 1. Soft and yellow wax is freshly made and ...

Health Tip: Multivitamins Are Crucial For Body's Functioning, But Are There Any Cons To It's Intake?

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  Taking multivitamins is a typical practice for some people trying to guarantee they get every single fundamental supplement, particularly when dietary admission may be inadequate. The advantages of multivitamins incorporate filling wholesome holes, helping by and large wellbeing, and supporting resistant capability, particularly in populaces in danger of lacks like the older, pregnant ladies, and those with confined abstains from food. They can give fundamental nutrients and minerals that probably won't be consumed in that frame of mind through diet alone. In any case, there are likewise expected downsides. Over-dependence on multivitamins can prompt disregarding a fair eating routine wealthy in entire food sources, which offer extra medical advantages past nutrients and minerals. A few multivitamins might contain elevated degrees of specific supplements, presenting dangers of poisonousness or unfriendly cooperations with prescriptions. Also, the viability of multivitamins in for...

Health expert warns emails could be ‘interrupting your breathing’ with devastating consequences

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  A former Microsoft executive has explained an unusual breathing habit that happens when we get emails - that could be seriously bad for your health. Linda Stone is spreading awareness of screen apnea and its devastating consequences. The former Microsoft executive coined the term in 2007 after studying an unhealthy habit the vast majority of people don’t even realise they have that effects them for most of their day. Speaking to Manoush Zomorodi on the Body Electric podcast by NPR, Linda detailed how she first spotted the phenomenon when she became more 'breath-aware' due to health issues in 2007 and noticed the disturbing trend in her own work life. She explained: “Once I got to my computer I was either holding my breath for long periods of time or breathing shallowly. As the emails would stream in I would inhale, because we inhale in anticipation, but I wouldn’t exhale because so many emails would be streaming in.” Deciding to put her theory to the test, Linda ran an experi...