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This article reveals that smoking has enormous harmful effects. Smoking is dangerous for your health. It can cause many major diseases like heart attack, blood pressure, high cholesterol and cancer. Aptitude of lung diseases and lung cancer is very high among the smokers. Smoking affects your skin and teeth. It can cause infertility in men and women. It reduces the days of life as well as makes your life miserable. There are some useful tips for the smoker which can be helpful for them. Many people give different reasons for smoking like habit, addiction and for fun. To stop smoking you just plan a schedule and work on it. Consult from a doctor and ask for the tips to quit smoking. Once you think about stop smoking firmly stick to your plan. I hope these tips can be helpful for you to quit smoking.

Every body wishes a long and healthy life to spend with his love ones. But do you know that smoking is a habit which is reducing your life day by day. There are countless harmful effects of smoking but few are very much dangerous which can lead you to death before time. Almost every year thousands of people die just because of the harmful effects of smoking. Now give a brief look to the harmful effects of smoking:

Thousands of the people die in their mid age from smoking.

*Tobacco smoke contains such type of toxic elements which can cause cancer.
*Smoking slower down the flow of bloods into vessels which is the major cause of blood pressure and heart attack. Lung cancer is very common among the smokers. Initially it’s a simple bronchitis which leads into a lung cancer.
*Teeth become yellowish in color because of the tar accumulate on the teeth.
*Smoking can increase the fat deposition especially in the blood vessels so that it can block these vessels.
*One of the five persons can die from heart attack.
*Skin becomes dry and desiccant and a person lost his fresh look.
*Men who smoking can be impotent because of low blood flow in the penis. There sperm production rate minimize as compare to the normal persons. Mostly sperm are in abnormal condition.
*Women who smoke have less chance to get pregnant and have higher rate to miscarriage.
*Children whose parents smoke can suffer from asthma in their early ages.
Smoking is a great lose of money and health.

Now the question is why people smoke? A survey on smokers revealed that there are different reasons of smoking.

*People smoke because they are habitual.
*Some people smoke only for the enjoyment.
*Most of the people are addicted to the smoking.
*Some people smoke just to ease them like stress, anxiety, tension, depression and anger.

There are some useful tips which can help you to stop smoking.

*Quit smoking is a difficult task but not impossible. You should be aware of the harmful effects of smoking.
*Set a date when you start to stop smoking. You must be busy in these days.
*Consult from a doctor especially if you are suffering from a health problem like heart, lungs or weight gain.
*Change your company if your friends smoke.
*Ask the help from your family. They can be helpful for you to stop smoking.
*If you cannot quit smoking at once then day by day reduce the number of cigarettes in your daily routine.
*Try to involve in health activities like exercise, jogging and walking.
*Believe in yourself that you can quit smoking.

Authored By Saima Waqas, Pakistan 

We all love to do shopping but have you ever gave it a thought that why shopping is so much exciting… Let’s explore the joy of shopping. 

Have you ever wondered why shopping makes you feel so good?

When you are shopping to buy a gift or get something for yourself, either way it’s kind of a treat—— but why, why this feeling develops into your mind. And why you feel happy & satisfied after buying something esp. for yourself or for your loved ones…?

A growing body of brain research shows how shopping activates key areas of the brain, boosting our mood & making us feel better- atleast for a little while. Peering into a decorated holiday window or finding a hard to find toy appears to tap into the brain’s reward center, triggering the release of brain chemicals that give you a “shopping high”. Understanding the way your brain responds to shopping can help you make sense of the highs & lows of holiday shopping, avoid buyer’s remorse & lower your risk for overspending.

Much of the joy of holiday shopping can be traced to the brain chemical dopamine. Dopamine plays a crucial role in our mental & physical health. Dopamine is associated with feelings of pleasure & satisfaction, and it is released when we experience something new, exciting or challenging. And for many people, shopping is all those things.

The level of dopamine pumps up also because you are seeing things you haven’t tried on before.

But MRI studies of brain activity suggest that surges in dopamine levels are linked much more with anticipation of an experience rather than the actual experience- which may explain why people get so much pleasure out of window-shopping or hunting for bargains.

But if we see the other side of a coin, dopamine can cause someone to get caught up in the shopping moment & make bad decisions. Dopamine may help explain why someone buys shoes they never wear. You see the shoes & get this burst of dopamine which motivates you to seal the deal & buy them. It’s like a fuel injector for action, but once they are bought it’s almost a letdown. Moreover, stressful holiday crowds, poor service or the realization that you’ve spent too much can quickly eliminate the feel-good effects of shopping.

Knowing that shopping triggers real changes in our brain can help you make better shopping decisions & not overspend while in a dopamine-induced high. For instance, walking away from a purchase you want & returning the next day will eliminate the novelty of the situation & help you make a more clear-headed decision.

And beware don’t shop when you’re visiting friends or relatives. The added novelty of shopping in a new place puts you at higher risk of buying something you don’t need.

But that doesn’t mean you should stop shopping, after all this is your brain at the mall.

So, enjoy your shopping.

Authored By Navneet Bidani, India

HIV is proving to be smart as man is becoming difficult to work with. What other option do we have that will help us get out of this trap? Is there anyway you can help? This piece shades some light on this issue.

It really kept disturbing me why some people had doubts on the existence of God. Now, I know. The damage that HIV has done and is still doing is proving to be worse than even the two world wars. There is no part of the world where you will mention HIV and fail to get the attention of people. I mean, from the widows, the orphans, the infected and the affected everyone is just tired about this whole thing.

The question is; why isn’t a solution being found to permanently end this scourge? I mean even if you ask a child you will get to realize that they understand the ways of contracting the virus and the methods of prevention. This message has reached everyone. Yet, everyday we see more and more new infections. Has God abandoned his people? It depends on what you think and believe. God is not the type to desert you. He will always continue to demonstrate his undeserved kindness to humans.

Despite the fact that people know what should be done, not all are practicing that. That is the reason behind the increasing infections. The only thing that will save us is when we look for other preventions. There are a lot of people who are beyond the abstinence age and they have no permanent partner to be faithful to. Yet, sometimes they are forced to avoid condom use. This is the group who will benefit greatly from the HIV vaccine.

The people who have been infected have also not accepted to practice what they are told. Some of them keep behaving as though they are on some revenge mission. Even for their own health they are not supposed to be engaging themselves in unprotected sex. If they were adhering to this, there would be no much infections. At the same time, not everyone who is infected knows that they are. There is still that group who are afraid to test and know their status.

They will keep infecting those who do not know for sometime. So, the responsibility should be taken by everyone regardless of their status. You see mothers infecting their children out of ignorance. Who does not know about the prevention of mother to child transmission program that has been around since? We do, yet not all pregnant women are willing to have the test and give birth in hospitals.

Surely, it is God that will deliver us. Just the way he has helped scientists and medics to get the ART, he will help researchers get a vaccine. The vaccine will be our only help. So, when you see the call for volunteers in the trial studies, if you are not yet infected, please take the responsibility to volunteer.
 

Authored By Elmeldah Obiero, Kenya

This article is about how fads and pills do not work on losing fat and shedding the pounds. It shows the real way of losing fat, at how that is the only effective way. It also talks about the use of supplements and how they have virtually no effect on losing fat.

The world we live in is controlled by the media. Everyone is looking at things like ‘Fat-Burning Belt: Wear it and you lose 6 inches!’ and ‘Drink This Stuff: You Lose Weight Overnight!’.
And, it’s infuriating to think that at least 90% of these new fads won’t work.
How do I know?
They never stick around for much longer than a few weeks. The only ‘pills’ and ‘medicines’ that can help with fat-loss and fitness are SUPPLEMENTS.
And they do exactly what they say. They supplement. They don’t burn fat magically, or make you skinny overnight.

Even more disturbing, I saw so many diets that had EXTREMELY LOW CALORIES and EXTREMELY LOW FAT.
When you begin to starve yourself, your muscle starves too. And then, your metabolism goes into ’starvation mode’.
And then, you stop losing fat altogether. It just doesn’t work.
Actually, eating more, and exercising more actually works more effectively than the vice-versa.

So, I just thought to myself, ‘Hmm, this doesn’t look right. Maybe, just maybe, I should write about the way I lost fat.’
And it came to this.

But before you do anything, ACTUALLY WRITE DOWN YOUR GOALS.
Yes, don’t ignore this part because it sounds stupid.
If you don’t have a goal, where are you heading?
Done? Good.

So, here is what I came to: Basic Guidelines on how to REALLY burn fat.

1) Cardio, 45 Minutes, 3-5 Days a week until you reach your goal.
Once you reach your goal, only work as much as it takes to maintain your physique.

2) Muscle Building, 4 Sets of 12 Reps a day. The weight you should lift should be heavy enough to not be able to do 16, but light enough to do at least 8.
DO NOT SKIP THE PART!
Growth of muscle encourages increases of speed in metabolism, which can increase the speed of your fat-loss dramatically.

3) Balanced Diet
Contrary to popular belief, LOW-FAT DIETS and ULTRA-LOW CALORIE DIETS just don’t work.
The way, I’ve found easiest, is a LOW-CARB DIET.

Make sure you have all of these; otherwise the whole Fat-Burning will almost just disappear.
This concept relies on the idea of synergy, in which, 1+1 might not equal 2, but might be 11!

You should be able to see results in 6 weeks.

Extra Tips:

1) Try to do Cardio before breakfast - It’s far, far more efficient.
2) Eggs are good to eat, but try to avoid the Yolk. Only eat one Yolk a day, but the whites are good for as many as even 6.
3) Don’t take a day off and decide to ’skip a day’ because your feeling lazy or you don’t have time.
If you don’t have time, MAKE TIME.

Authored by Anthony Duong, United Kingdom