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Great Minds Drink Alike

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Are you addicted to fizzy drinks? Here's what you need to know what it does to our body. We grew up hearing that fizzy drinks destroy our health. But the teens today are living on these drinks. According to the UK Cancer Research: "British teens drinks about a bathtub of sugary drinks per year." Drinks generally have two main ingredients that have an addictive impact. Let us get a  closer look to examine the contents that make us addicted to it. High Sugar Content High sugar content is the key ingredient to get you addicted to it. One simple container of a bubbly beverage like cola containing 12 oz contains 33 grams of added sugar. Rats given high dosages of sugar in their diets revealed changes in the brain similar to those produced by cocaine, morphine, and nicotine, according to Bart Hoebel, a neuroscientist from Princeton University in the U.S The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends the maximum amount of added sugars we should consume i...
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The Big thing about Cupping and its Magic

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Ancient people used cupping (hijamah) to get healed, other than this therapy they also used fire and leech treatments. However, the other two are now obsolete, Yet cupping has again emerged as a natural healing cure in recent years. Cupping is an alternative medicine for many people and comparatively painless than surgeries. We often face deadly diseases and pains due to toxic blood blockage that is unable to reach the right part of our body. Here cupping comes to rescue us by excreting poisonous blood out of the body smoothly in a very painless way. In Arabic, cupping is famous as Hijama which means sucking. It is the method of applying cups to various focuses on the body by eliminating the air inside the containers to build a vacuum inside. A handy vacuum is attached to the cups at a predefined point. Slight incisions are made to eliminate the least volume of poisonous blood out of the body.  The suction given by cupping can help reduce high blood pressure ...
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Alzheimer's  & dementia are often confused with each other due to their similar sharing symptoms. But, both of them are named differently for their different nature. Discover the difference between the two to avoid this mistake and pass it on to your family and friends or any patient or caregiver around you. WHAT IS ALZHEIMER? Alzheimer's is an irreversible disease that destroys the brain. It is standouts among the most widely recognized reasons for dementia. Around 50-80 percent of all dementia cases are caused by Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's is a progressive disease which means its symptoms gradually worsen with passing time. It is not a normal part of aging. Yet the greatest known risk factor is increasing age, and the majority of people with Alzheimer's are 65 and older. Alzheimer’s is the seventh leading cause of death in the world. WHAT IS DEMENTIA? Dementia is the set of symptoms that occur together, it cannot be called a disease. It damages ...
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Living without cooking gas

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We often disregard people or things while we have them. But their value is acknowledged when they are gone. Before moving forward let me give you a better view of the scenario. A significant number of Pakistani people depends on Natural Gas that has a direct connection to our stoves and baking ovens.  However, all good things don't come free we have to pay a nominal charge for that. That was a super quick and brief intro for the ones who don't know how natural gas w orks. On Friday, 18 Jan 2019 I experienced one of the same kind of incident. Though it frequently came into my notice that the cooking gas goes off in many areas during winters due to massive use of gas heaters, geysers, and of course cooking.  The lunch was getting prepared and all of a sudden boom! My mum asked me to check whether the stove is working or not as it was only a couple of months old.  Life just came to a standstill. Food remained half-cooked geysers went off. Thanks to the online food ...
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5 super brain boosters you can find in your kitchen

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Mother Nature has left no stone unturned to provide us the superfoods that could keep our brains super active and boost our brain health to another level.  Our brains are the powerhouse of our bodies and imagine when the power goes off for a while the whole system goes paralyzed for that point of time. If we don't care about our brain health today, we are inviting many diseases like Alzheimer's, dementia Parkinson's,  stroke, and several different types of cancer for the future.  So invest today in a better eating habit to avoid spending in heavy treatments for the future.  We all deteriorate as time passes by. So we can slow it down by taking the right nutrition for the brain to delay the degenerative process and to get a more active and healthy brain as the age advances.  Here is a list of brain-boosting superfoods found in your kitchen  1- Extra Virgin Olive Oil  It protects memory and increases the learning capability. It has...
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