Antioxidants And Joint Health
Are you wondering the reason for your joint aches and thinking whether antioxidants are curling up your health? Then you are on the right page. Are you struggling with running, cycling, walking, or gardening? Then, maybe it’s time to take action. Well, there’s not a single reason behind this increasing joint pain and a variety of factors for your deteriorating…
Why Avoid Skin-Lightening Products ‘At All Costs’
Have you ever walked the aisle of make-up products and come across “skin-lightening” creams or lotions? Skin lightening or brightening, creams are aimed at and designed to lighten skin complexions. It interferes with the melanin pigment of your skin. Melanin is a pigment produced by skin cells that determines how dark or light your skin appears. Most of these products…
Toll Of Childbirth On Body Size
“It all began in the delivery ward. Reading all the possible books and having regular sessions with my gynecologists never made me at ease. Being a first-time expectant mum made me anxious. The early days with my child were extremely tough, and I suffered severe body size issues,” says Prerna, a professional model currently living in Berlin. The female body undergoes…
How To Ace Your Battle With Hormonal Acne
Ms Gautami, a teacher by profession and a fitness enthusiast by passion, talks about being bullied by classmates during her high school days. She adds, “it’s been 12 years since the moment my self-confidence was destroyed and I continuously questioned my self-worth then and now. This fact associated with my skin was discouraging and anonymity with my acne that spread…
What’s The Deal With Bras At Night
It’s time we unravel this mystery here! Is it bad to wear bras while sleeping? You must have chewed the fat with a cup of coffee with your childhood friend, whether it is okay to sleep in a bra when you first started wearing a bra. Right? Are you apprehensive about sleeping without your bra and old-school rumors about sagging breasts…
Do Deodorants Cause Breast Cancer?
It’s summer around the corner! And our sweat glands are going to be super active to keep us cool! It's a fuss with the sweaty armpits during this season. Deodorants are extensively used, especially to get away from those sweaty armpits during summers. A sizzling splash to refresh all of us, irrespective of the constituents used in them. There have…
Breastfeeding: A Site Of Objectification?
“Next station is Rajiv Chowk. Change here for the blue line. Doors will open on the right. Please mind the gap.” It was during one of my morning metro rides. As soon as the door of the metro closed, a woman came running from the general coach. She seemed in a hurry. But more than her swing of motion toward…
Placenta: The Life Supporting Organ
“A parasite upon the mother” is how the book “Life’s Vital Link,” by Y. W. Loke, a reproductive immunologist, describes the placenta. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development refers to the placenta as “the least understood human organ and arguably one of the more important, not only for the health of a woman and her fetus during pregnancy…