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Although it’s a well known scientifically proven fact that regular exercise have several health benefits. One of them is inducing better sleep as it can promote relaxation, reduce anxiety and normalise your internal clock. People, especially health enthusiasts since older times kept believing that working out before bed can make it harder to get a good night’s rest. But recent scientific studies have proved that this may not be necessarily true. Some scientific researches have found that it’s possible to enjoy exercise close to bedtime without compromising with your sleep. • Know, what does research say? Scientific studies have challenged the notion that exercising too late daily can disrupt your sleeping habits. During a study in 2020, where 12 healthy males visited a lab on three separate nights. All of them did either 30 minutes of moderate intensity aerobic exercises or 30 minutes of moderate intensity resistance training. Every workout session just ended 90 minutes before bedtime....

Still several people ignore cool down exercises at the end of workout sessions. Seems like they are not aware that cool down exercises and stretches lower the chance of injury and promote blood flow. After intense workout session they will help in reducing stress to your heart and other muscles. Dedicating 10 minutes after a long, intense workout to cooling down exercises will surely help you to get most from your workout. So here we are presenting most common and beneficial cool down exercises and stretches. 1. Light jogging or walking. This is the most common and straight forward way to cool down your body after a workout session. Just give three to five minutes to light jogging on a treadmill. If you are not in a condition to jog just walk normally. 2. Upper body stretch. Stretching your upper body after workout session will help you to relax your muscles. There are several ways to stretch upper body. During a standing or seated position, just interlock your fingers and press your p...

Dairy products are considered as the best source of calcium, and calcium is the main mineral present in the bone. This is the main reason why health authorities recommend consuming dairy products everyday. Then also, several people wonder what is the need of adding dairy in their diets. So here we are presenting some of the scientific facts that why you should add dairy in your diet. • A natural gift for osteoporosis. Basically, osteoporosis is a progressive disease in which bones detroit or health decline, losing mass and minerals overtime. There are several other factors that are completely unrelated to nutrition that cause osteoporosis, such as exercise and hormones. Human bones serve structure role but they are also bodies main reservoirs of calcium. Lacking calcium in diet, your body pulls it from your bones to sustain other functions that are more important for immediate survival. Moreover, some amount of calcium is continuously executed in urine. So human bones will close calciu...

Several people across the world are tired of defining sprains and strains, but cannot quite identify the difference between the two. Basically, both of them are used interchangeably to describe overstretching and tearing of soft tissues around or joint. But both of them have several differences that should be kept in mind. So go through the below mentioned in formation that will help you to distinguish between sprains and strains. • Symptoms of Sprains. Basically a joint sprain is the overstretching or tearing of ligaments. These are bands of tissues that connect two bones together at a joint. Ankle joint is the most prominent location of a sprain. Common symptoms of sprains include. 1. Pain around affected joint. 2. Swelling 3. Bruising. 4. Little or no flexibility. 5. Difficulty in using the joints full range of motion. • Symptoms of Strains. Most of the times are joint strain is the overstretching or tearing of muscle or tendons. Tendons are the dense fibrous chords of tissues. That...

Basically, osteoporosis is a condition that causes weak and porous bones. More than 10 million people around the globe are facing health issues affected by osteoporosis. It is abundantly found in people above 50 years of age. Although osteoporosis is a natural part of human ageing. This bone related issue and resulting fractures are more likely to occur as body grows old. But then also after adapting several healthy habits in our daily life, we can prevent osteoporosis. Just have enough of calcium, enough of vitamin D, and exercise regularly. So now let’s burst the most popular osteoporosis or bone related myths. 1. No need to worry until you are older. It’s a scientifically proven fact that 90% of bone mass is acquired at the age of 18 in girls and at the age of 20 in boys. Health experts recommend that it’s never too early to build bone density and develop the best possible bones for rest of your life. Osteoporosis is also found people below 40 years of age. It is a bone disorder and...