Exercise Boost the Immune System

The importance of enhancing your immune system in your fight against flus and colds cannot be overstated. Kids with healthy immune symptoms simply get sick less.
Everyone knows that taking regular exercise is good for your overall health and it therefore follows that taking regular exercise also benefits your immune system too.
After all, if by taking regular exercise, you improve your energy levels and your muscle strength, it naturally follows that those improvements will be reflected throughout your body.
As an example, 30 minutes of reasonably brisk walking 3 or 4 times a week is going to strengthen your heart, lungs and all of the major muscle groups in the lower half of the body at the same time.
At the same time, exercise helps to optimize your digestive system, meaning that less harmful toxins and bacteria will lodge in your gut as the process of peristalsis (passing the food and then waste materials through your system) gradually becomes increasingly efficient.
Toxins and harmful bacteria ‘stuck' in your system can often be one of the reasons why your general, all-round health suffers and such poor health is often reflected in poor skin quality as well. Take this to its logical conclusion and with poor quality skin (and blood circulation), you have exactly the right kind of breeding ground for staph bacteria to thrive on your skin.'
one of my favorite ways of taking exercise is by taking the stairs whenever possible instead of using an elevator or even an escalator. I do this as part of my normal daily working routine, and even when there are several flights of stairs to be climbed, it never takes more than a minute or two to complete the climb.
After all, the elevator hardly ever arrives the minute you press the button so you can be halfway up the stairs by the time it does eventually make an appearance.
There is nothing sadder than a ten year old that does not have time to exercise. It's pathetic because it happens all the time. Even if you don't have 30 minutes available four times a week to go for a brisk walk, there are plenty of different ways you can find the time in any average day for enough exercise for your immune system to benefit. I make this a game with my kids when we are out.
Don't let you or your kids fall into the 'I don't have enough time for exercise' trap! What you have to change that to is 'I don't have enough time to get the flu!'

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Lancing Your Teenager’s Pimple

Sometimes it becomes time to pop that pimple. It's an ugly job but someone has to do it. However the secret is to do it without creating infection.
The secret when treating a big red cyst like pimple at home is to start the treatment process as soon as possible, preferably at the first sign of the boil developing.
At this point, there will be no white area in the middle as that develops later as your body starts to fight back, but it is at this point that you should start trying to treat the cyst on the basis that the sooner you can start, the quicker it will go away.
The first thing to know is that the application of heat to the affected area will draw out the pimple more quickly as the heat encourages your body to send the necessary white blood cells and antibodies to the boil area more effectively by improving your blood circulation. This is why at the first sign of a pimple developing; you should start to apply a hot compress to the affected area as soon as you possibly can.
One option for applying localized heat to the affected area is to buy commercially produced heat pads that generate the heat either through a chemical reaction or electricity. However, as it is extremely easy to make a highly effective hot compress at home, there really is no sensible reason why you should spend money on heat pads unless you have tried compresses before and found that they are not effective for you.
To make the compress, take a small tea towel or some other cloth and soak it with water that is as hot as you can stand.
Some people recommend adding salt or vinegar to this water as they find that this helps the process, so this may be something that you want to try, but the main thing is, applying a hot compress in this way will draw out the infection far more quickly. It is therefore something that you should do every few hours, not least because many people find that it helps to relieve the pain associated with pimples.
Keep the compress applied to the infected area until the heat has gone out of it, at which point you can either re-soak it in water or in your favored mixture, or you can heat in the microwave for 10 seconds or so, but make sure that if you do so, you don't burn yourself.
When the pimple is still red and the ‘head' (a noticeable white or off-white pustule at the top) has not yet developed, you should not be tempted to release the pressure by puncturing the boil even though it is extremely painful.
At this stage when it is still firm and relatively undeveloped, trying to drain the pus.
After a few days, the head will develop which means that the cyst is ready to be drained. By applying further hot compresses, you can often encourage the acne to burst so that the pus can start draining away without any further encouragement from you.
In this case, make sure that the infected area is completely clean afterwards by using antibacterial soap to wash your skin as a way of minimizing the risk of the infection spreading.

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