WHY DRINKING WATER IS IMPORTANT

1.Drinking Water Helps Maintain the Balance of Body Fluids. Your body is composed of about 60% water. The functions of these bodily fluids include digestion, absorption, circulation, creation of saliva, transportation of nutrients, and maintenance of body temperature.

Through the posterior pituitary gland, your brain communicates with your kidneys and tells it how much water to excrete as urine or hold onto for reserves.

When you're low on fluids, the brain triggers the body's thirst mechanism. And unless you are taking medications that make you thirsty, you should listen to those cues and get yourself a drink of water.

WHY BREAKFAST IS VERY IMPORTANT TO YOUR HEALTH

"Breakfast like a King, Lunch like a Prince and Dine like a Pauper"

It's a well known phrase, but do you follow it?

HOW TO HELP A BURN VICTIM

First of all, let's talk about the things you shouldn't do in the case of a burn: 

• Do not apply ointment, butter, ice, medications, fluffy cotton, adhesive bandages, cream or oil spray. These can interfere with the healing process.
• Do not allow the burn to become contaminated. Avoid coughing or breathing on the burn.
• Do not touch or peel blistered and dead skin.
• Do not give the victim anything to ingest if he/she has a severe burn.

BELLY / ABDOMINAL FAT - THE DANGERS

Belly fat is nothing to joke about.



"A big waistline puts you at increased risk for many health problems -- diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke,".

Even skinny people can have unhealthy "hidden" belly fat.

STRANGE CULTURE - TORAJA PEOPLE OF SOUTH INDONESIA

The Tana Toraja is a regency of South Sulawesi in Indonesia, a picturesque mountainous region that is home to an indigenous group known as the Torajans. For the Toraja people, life very much revolves around death, but not in a morbid sense. For them, a funeral is a great celebration of life, much like a going-away party, and is an occasion in which the entire family of the deceased, and all the members the village take part. 

WOMAN WITH THE GIANT LEG - MANDY SELLARS

    

Mandy Sellars is a woman with a rare genetic mutation that has resulted in extraordinary growth in both of her legs.

In 2006, some doctors diagnosed Sellars as having Proteus syndrome , a very rare condition thought to afflict only 120 people worldwide,but more recent diagnoses have focused on a PIK3CA gene mutation. Some reports still describe her affliction as a rare form of Proteus Syndrome.

CERVICAL EROSION

THE CERVIX is a cylinder-shaped neck of tissue that connects the vagina and uterus. The cervix is made of cartilage covered by smooth, moist tissue, and is about 1 inch across. There are two main portions of the cervix:

• The part of the cervix that can be seen from inside the vagina during a gynecologic examination is known as the ectocervix. An opening in the center of the ectocervix, known as the external os, opens to allow passage between the uterus and vagina.
• The endocervix, or endocervical canal, is a tunnel through the cervix, from the external os into the uterus. 

NOSE PLUGS - APATANI WOMEN

The Apatani, also known as the Tanni, are a tribal group of approximately 26,000, based in in Ziro, in the Apatani Plateau of Arunachal Pradesh, in India. Nowadays the plugs are mostly worn by the elderly women, but there was a time when all the women in the tribe we required to wear the bizarre accessories.