Every day your body is under attack from a variety of factors and this can interfere with your body’s functioning. It can affect they way you feel and be detrimental to your health.
Here are the top 10 offenders, try and find ways to cut them down and improve your overall health.
Chemical Pollution Check your cosmetics, body care products and house hold products for unnecessary chemicals and toxins and find healthy replacements. This not only benefits your health, but is better for the environment too.
Chemical Contact Hobbies such as swimming can cover you in chemicals such as chlorine, always shower immediately after swimming and rehydrate your skin with a rich moisturiser.
Air Pollution Breathing heavily polluted air has a detrimental affect on our lungs, help your body to neutralise and eliminate them harmful pollutants by ensuring that your diet is full of anti oxidants, found in fresh fruit and vegetables. Ensure that you breathe properly, by deep breathing using all of your lungs, not just shallow breathing.
Toxic Fumes Today many paints and soft furnishings are full of toxic chemicals and chemical compounds, check to see if you can find safer alternatives.
Radiation Waves We live in a world surrounded by pollution that we cannot see, from such things as radio waves, microwaves, televisions, mobile phones, computers and electricity pylons. All of these can affect our health so look at ways to cut down on your exposure to them and use air ionisers where there is electrical equipment.
Tap Water Filter your tap water as it can be contaminated by waste, pesticide and fluoride, it can also contain heavy metals, especially if your water pipes are made from lead or copper.
Caffeine If you drink more than four cups of coffee or eight cups of tea a day then you need to cut down. Excessive caffeine can contribute to health conditions such as raising your stress levels, high blood pressure and digestive problems.
Smoking It’s not just the smoker who increases their changes of ill health but their smoke also affects anyone who is around them when they are smoking their cigarettes.
Cross Contamination Before and after handling food ensure that you wash your hands to avoid cross contamination, this is particularly important when handling meat or dairy products. This also goes for any implements that you have used when preparing your food.
Food Much of the food available to us today is full of preservatives, pesticides, additives and chemicals, especially that termed ‘convenience food’. It is important to read your labels so that you become aware of what it is that you are actually eating. As many of these added ingredients could cause, skin problems, migraines and digestive complaints and actually be void of any nutritional value, not so convenient…
