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Chocolate became a favorite food for women but the development of chocolate become a dangerous threat to women. This is because at one side, chocolate can help relieve stress and on the other side it is threatening a woman because it can make obesity besides making a lot of pimples on the face. Inside chocolate, there is an anti-oxidants that able to reduce the risk for cholesterol.

Besides that, chocolate is able to reduce the incidence of cancer and hypertension. Chocolate also contains danger because of some cheap branded chocolate may not contain substances that meet the energy needs of the human body.

Entering the period of pregnancy, women should ideally gained weight between 10-18 pounds. Only, they are often having difficulties to restore the size of their body after giving birth. They argued that there was no time to go to the gym to restore the size of their body. Whereas slenderizing the body after giving birth can be easily be done at home. Here are the tips.

Step 1, consuming the foods that have high nutrients and low calories. Avoid processed meats, grilled meats, fried foods, white bread, chips and candy. Expand the consumption of foods that are rich of protein, carbohydrates and fats such as chicken breast, eggs, lean meats, grains, beans, fruits, vegetables and vegetable oil.

Step 2, consuming a lot of water. Leave the soft drinks, bottled fruit juices, alcoholic drinks and sweet tea because it offers a high calorie and lack of nutrient. These kinds of beverages are also not good for growth and development of the breastfed infants. Ideal dose, drink 8-10 glasses of water or fresh juice everyday.

Step 3, consuming high nutritious snacks every 2-3 hours to maintain the body’s metabolism. Carrot and cheese are examples of healthy snacks. Make sure that each portion of the foods has fiber that is rich of carbohydrates and complex protein. This makes you feel full and prevent overeating.

Doing these three steps alone are not enough. Healthy food consumption needs to be balanced with physical exercises that support the burning process of fat after giving birth.

Based on a report from researchers at Harvard’s Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital found that with 12 weeks addition of tai chi balance, leg strength, and flexibility are significantly more powerful and flexible than doing hurriedly walk or relax in settlement to a woman who is not active on her past days at age 70.

A research in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society reported that people who participate in the tai chi program for 15 weeks has experience decline of falling risk about 50% among those with older age. Some research also suggests that tai chi program which run and maintained for at least 1 year may reduce blood pressure and improve heart function and blood artery (heart and blood artery function).

Sleeping position apparently has enormous influence on our body especially about beauty. Today, sleeping habits can affect on health and beauty of your face. If you do not want this happening to you then you should start to change your sleeping position habits. Start to sleep with straight position and use a pillow that is not too high. This sleeping position is considered to be the perfect one, because the body is at relax position. Your body is not curve so that it can affect on the heart and blood circulation.

Sideways sleeping position was not bad at all but you should not be in that condition continuously. Good sideways position is to angle to the right because considered by the doctors this position does not suppress the flows in your heart. If you often sleep with lying flat on your stomach, this thing is the worst position. Because it can suppress the spine curvature that causes the muscles remain stiff during the sleep.

Besides lying flat on your stomach can make your face puffy and your eyes become red because your chest and your heart are suppressed. Better should avoid sleeping against the lights because it will make your face shrinking while you are sleeping. Do not forget to loosen the jewelry and underwear while sleeping, so that blood can circulate better and makes you sleep more soundly. You should pay attention to this.