=Towards Living a Healthier Life=

Have a new idea to show you how valuable is to quit smoking. Just follow the steps below, and will check the result on christmas. 

First of all, make a preparation as shown below:

• Get an empty pack of cigarette, the one that can still be used.
• Get a picture of someone you really care about, someone most precious for you.  It can be your father or mother, your beloved soul mate, your cute little angel, or even just simply yourself.
• Attached the picture on the empty cigarette pack.

Second, after the preparation is complete, you do these steps:

• Bring the cigarette pack wherever you go.  Make sure you always have it in your pocket.
• When you are going to buy a cigarette, take the pack out of your pocket and see that lovely pictures.  Then say "I want to give my angel a little surprise". 
• After that, instead of buying cigarette, put the money that you want to use for buying cigarette inside the empty pack.
• Put the pack back to your pocket.
• Do exactly the same thing every time you are going to buy a cigarette.

Now on December 23rd, you can open the pack and I’ll give you the next step….

There are an estimated 33 million people with AIDS worldwide. AIDS has become a universal health problem. It affects every country, city, and town in the world. And, the most frightening thing about it is that is going largely unchecked and the trend is continue to rises.

Ok, we’ve talk about the importance of handwashing before.  We already knew that hand washing is the simplest and cheapest way to avoid us from being infested by various germs.  Now I’ll show you the technique of handwashing that will ensure you to get the maximum result of washing your hands.  Take a look at the picture below.

I guess the picture is quite simple and easy to understand.  All I have to do now is just underline step number 3 and number 6. 

Good hand washing must include washing all parts of your hands.  Not merely rubbing the soap to your palm and back of your hands but also the area between your finger and under  the fingernail. These are two hidden area that often forget by us.  Then, after drying your hands with either hand towel or drying machine use the towel or clean tissue to turn off the taps.  Don’t touch the tap directly with your clean hands, remember just a minute before you’ve just touch it by your dirty hands.

So be healthy, wash your hands regularly and properly.

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Do you agree if someone say smoking is a sort of wasting money?

Well, some people would agree and of course some people would not.  Whichever part you belong to I’m sure you have a good and reasonable argumentation regarding your answer.  I, myself, belong to the part that’s agreed with the statement.  Let me show you why I think smoking is such a wasting money.

First, I make a brief calculation to estimate how much money does someone spent to smoke within a month.  In my country, one piece of cigarette cost you around Rp 500,-.  If we convert it to US dollar it’s around $ 0.05. If you smoke one cigarette daily, then in a week you will spend:

7 x $ 0.05  = $ 0.35

And within a month it will be;

4 x $ 0.35  = $ 1.4

Well, I don’t think there would be many people who will consider $ 1.4 for a month is expensive.  But it’s a fact that a smoker is almost impossible to smoke only one cigarette in a day.  Average smoker smoke at least half pack of cigarette a day, some are even much more.  In my country, a pack of cigarette usually contains 12 piece of it.  So a half pack would be six pieces of cigarette.  Then the actual spending of a smoker is approximately

6 x $ 1.4  = $ 8.4

So a smoker would spend $ 8.4 a month at the very least just to buy cigarette.  And for you, what is the meaning of $ 8.4?

Now I want you to look at these pictures.

Do you think $ 8.4 also “no big deal” to them? I don’t think so.  For them $ 8.4 could mean a better food, a proper dresses, a more comfortable place to live in, or a warmer place to sleep at night.  For you $ 8.4 might only mean a crap, but for them it surely means life. You will never imagine how much difference $ 8.4 could bring to them.

What we do all these days when we are smoking is actually burning out all of that money.  We change them with ashes and smoke.  We change the $ 8.4 for some possibility of getting cancer or pulmonary disease. So instead of giving better life those money brought nothing but a brief pleasure and a last long  suffering, not only for you but also your surroundings.

SO, DOES SMOKING REALLY MEAN WASTING YOUR MONEY?

Heheh I find it from geckoandfly.com, really interest me. Well in case you did not notice, it’s condom in the right lower edge of the picture. This picture looks very straight to me, shows between who is protected and who is not.

If we related to the reality, sex transmitted disease threat are quite similar with the fire. Almost all people have already known about STD’s and what kind of damage it can cause. But how come there are still people having unsafe sex, why do people don’t want to protect themselves.

Yes I agreed with the picture, don’t be stupid. That piece of latex can protect you from a long life suffering you might get from a few minutes of pleasure. And the best dealis, CONDOM JUST WORTH A PENNY.

Remember SAFE SEX, SAVES YOU SAVES OTHERS

Attention! It’s not a pornographic guys……………………  

I don’t remember where I found this picture.  But I’m sure it’s from the internet.

Having a sexual intercourse is not only enjoyable but also risky.  If we do not take a good precaution then you might end up having what so called “Sexually Transmitted Disease”.  It’s a group of diseases that spread through sexual intercourse.  Gonorrhea, syphilis, and AIDS are the famous examples of STD. I don’t mean that we better avoid having sex.  Honestly, I love sex cause it gives pleasure, excitement, and joy.  It’s a good stress reliever also, and you can trust me about that.  Just please make sure that you’re having a safe sex.

What should we do have a safe sex?

Before having sexual intercourse make sure that you and your partner are both “clean”.  Of course having a long term mutual monogamous relationship is the best way to make sure that we have a clean sexual partner.  Yet, if you are a kind of person who don’t want to stuck with one sexual  partner in your life then take sometimes to make sure that nothing’s wrong with your partner.  If you think it would take too long to making it sure, or if you yourself can never be sure, then use a proper personal protective equipment.  Here’s one of greatest invention made by human, which they name it “condom”, might come in handy.  People now have made condoms in various size and flavor, and they wouldn’t invented it that far for no reason.  So please use it when having sex with someone who is not your regular sexual partner.  It may cut down some pleasure, but it surely protects you from suffering STD.

Safe sex, Saves you, saves others.

How many times do you wash your hands every day? Do you wash your hands before you eat? Do you wash your hands after going to the toilet? Do you wash your hands before feeding your child?

Hand washing is an easy and simple thing to do. Almost everyone can easily wash their hands even without thinking about it first. All you need are soap and warm water, or just simply a hand sanitizer without water at all. So you can do it almost every time and everywhere. But do you know that hand washing in an appropriate manner would become a way to avoiding you from being sick. Too bad, that not so many people make hand washing as their habit.

Why washing your hand frequently and properly is very important. Here are some reasons for us to consider.

• Throughout our daily life we made contact with almost everything around us, people, animal, walls, tables, seats, doorknobs, telephone, etc. No one can guarantee that the entire thing we touch with our hands during our daily life is free of germs. In fact, those things are actually a huge source of a large variety of germ. You will finally infect yourself when you use your hands to touch your ear, mouth, nose, or eyes. Besides that, during our life we will touch many things, one to another. So this is why you should wash your hand frequently enough. Not only to protect you from the germs, but also to avoid spreading those germs to another place or another people.
• Some infectious diseases usually spread from one person to another through hand-to-hand contact. Those diseases include common cold, influenza, and diarrhea. While common cold will relieve for a couple of days, influenza and diarrhea can cause a bigger medical problem. Some people with chronic medical problem can develop pneumonia form influenza. Babies and little kid can suffer from dehydration caused by diarrhea. Even in some developing countries those two illnesses, pneumonia and diarrhea, are still part of the common cause of death.
• Poor hand hygiene will also contribute to food related illnesses. It’s including salmonella infection that can cause typhoid, E. coli infection that can cause abdominal problems, and hepatitis A virus infection. All of it will surely bring a serious problem to your health.

So we see how much problem that we can actually avoid only by applying a simple measurement like hand washing. Then why don’t we make it as our habit, since it only takes a few times yet bring a huge advantage. Wash your hands with soap and warm water, or simply use a hand sanitizer to make it even easier.

Check out the picture guys! I find it very interesting to be shared.  It shows the do’s and don’ts habit in our live to avoid getting our backbone injured. The do’s are in the left side and the don’ts in the right side.

Back bone is a very important part of our body.  It provides support for the body.  Inside it lies the neural fiber that conduct impulses from our brain to the rest of our body part.  So if there’s any disturbance to the bone, it will also disturb our nerves.  Disturbance to nerve itself will actually result in some form of pain and disability, and trust me you don’t want to try it.

Back bone, unlike other bones in our body, consist of several smaller bones that interlocking at each other forming a structure.  This make our back bone has a wide range of flexibility.  Yet, this also makes it more vulnerable to be disrupted. There are many bad habits that can finally disrupt our back bone, since habit mean we do it almost every day.  We don’t directly feel the consequence of those bad habits.  Yet as time goes by they will disrupt our back bone, and at that time it would be too late.  Who would want to end up having back pain in their 30’s or 40’s?

You’ve seen the picture of the do’s and don’ts to keep our back bone healthy above.  Below is the short description about it.

Lifting

• Don’t bent your back when picking up or lifting something, bent your knees instead.
• Don’t lift the load higher than your shoulder.  Use some device to help you if you must put something to a higher place. (Look at the picture)
• Hold the load as close as possible to your body.
• Do not turn on your back with heavy load in your hand.

Standing and walking

• If you have to stand for quite a long time, change your position regularly. Do not stand I the same position for too long.   It’d be better if you put on leg a little bit higher than the other when standing for long period. (Look at the picture)
• Always try to walk with your back standing straight up, do not lean forward.
• Please girl, avoid using high heels as much as you can.  It may make you pretty but it surely won’t make you healthy.

Driving

• Sit straight when you drive.  Do not lean backward or sit too far from the steering wheel.

Sitting

• Do not lean forward or backward when sitting.  Sit straight with your feet on the floor and your hip are in the same line with your knee.

Sleeping

• Avoid lying flat on your stomach when you are sleeping.  If you sleep on your side, join both of your knees.  Put a pillow under your knee if you’re sleeping on your back.

Now remember you only have one back, so take a good care of it.