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A Diet to Take Care of Your Liver

Your liver performs one of the most important functions of your body– cleansing. And while it is not important to follow this diet at all times, you should have this diet at least twice a year. It helps the liver get back into its natural form and function.


Of course, mother nature, like with everything else, can also help us maintain a healthy and clean liver. Fruits and vegetables can help keep your liver in proper shape. A liver that's in bad condition can bring your entire body down and lead to life-threatening medical conditions too.



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How to Maintain Proper Posture

When we talk about physical health, the first thing that comes into our mind is diet and exercise. Exercises especially have a lot to do with posture. If we don't move around much or if our body stays in the same position for long periods of time, then our posture can change for the worse.


There can be a variety of factors that lead to poor posture. It doesn't happen overnight though. Poor posture is a result of habits that have formed a routine. It is not just the looks that matter when talks about maintaining proper posture make the rounds. In fact, it has everything to do with health too. And with work making so much of the schedule in our daily lives, taking care of posture is more important now than ever.


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What medical conditions does a chiropractor treat?

Chiropractors are kind of physiotherapists that help you in aligning your bones into the right place. They are responsible for treating many medical conditions, even those that you don’t even know that you have. These conditions usually involve bones but chiropractic treatment can also help in migraines, anxiety, and fibromyalgia.


For certain medical conditions, people often turn to chiropractors. They are notorious for treating and providing relief to people with certain medical conditions. Chiropractor can align your bones, put them in the right place so that you can be relieved of all the pain that you were in. Having a single treatment from a chiropractor can help improve your posture.

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Amazon has just launched a new service dedicated to health and fitness and the company is offering it via a band called Halo. The subscription service offers a range of health metrics like activity, sleep, body fat, and tone of voice analysis. The service is already available for early access.


The band's appearance is quite similar to a Fitbit tracker. It also has temperature sensing and a microphone. It has one button and interestingly, no screen as all the data that it tracks will be available to view on the service's mobile app. 


The membership costs $65 for the first six months and $3.99 a month after that. The subscription allows access to the basic fitness band that tracks heart rate, steps, and temperature. 


The Halo band is able to do a body fat analysis via a smartphone camera. Halo focuses the body fat percentage which is less volatile as compared to weight, which can fluctuate on the basis of factors like humidity, medication, menstrual cycle, illness, etc. 


To get your body fat analyzed via Halo, all you have to do is take a photo of yourself from your phone's camera. Halo will scan the photo, calculate body fat percent based on body indicators, and generate a 3D model of your body. The app recommends taking a photo while wearing minimal form-fitting clothes. The process is fast and easy, and saves you from running to a lab to get a body composition analysis. 


Amazon also ensures that the photos taken will stay on your phone and will not be shared with anyone, including the company. As explained by Amazon, "the images are processed in the cloud, but encrypted in transit and processed within seconds, after which they're automatically deleted from Amazon's systems and databases. All scan images are fully deleted within 12 hours. The scan images aren't viewed by anyone at Amazon and aren't used for machine learning optimizations.".

All about Amazon's New Health & Fitness Device - Halo

The Soothing Effects of Yoga

 Yoga has endless benefits and these can be vouched for by those who have made it a habit every morning in their daily routines. It is a good practice to do in the morning before we get started with our daily tasks and chores, as it helps us to get rid of the negative energy in our body. There are many exercises that makeup yoga and the inhaling and exhaling activities which go along with every exercise, add up to the mindful feeling. 

 It is also known to facilitate weight loss or in the case of people who already have good body weight, yoga helps to maintain it. It's a good habit to start the day off with yoga as it helps us to realise our weaknesses and strengths, it also helps us maintain our energy levels. Due to various yoga positions, our body learns to achieve equilibrium and balance. Physical problems like back pain, neck pain, and headaches 

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How Sleep, Or Lack Thereof, Affects Your Body
COVID-19 has caused many things about people’s lives to be thrown into disarray with the wild amounts of stress and problems it has brought. One of these major problems is with sleep as, during the COVID-19 pandemic, sleep problems are at an all-time high. But even before the pandemic hit, over ¾ of American adults were not getting the proper amount of sleep.

Sleep is especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic as, during sleep, your body performs many tasks to help keep your immune system functioning smoothly. One of these functions is while sleeping, white blood cells in your body accumulate and fight off antigens that have been trapped by lymphatic tissues during the day. Cortisol, also known as the stress hormone, reduces inflammatory responses in your body. These bursts can be good in small bursts and sleep can help reduce levels of cortisol, keeping it in check.

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A Long Life: Essential Body Hacks

Fitness is essential to good living. Maintaining and being fit isn't just about going to the gym and having a good figure. It is also linked to the activities you do on a daily basis. Since everything is connected, so are your body and mind. Taking caring of your body by being mindful of other activities, can lead to both a longer and a happier life.
Regarding the connection between the body and mind, there are five key areas that need to be taken care of:

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