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Taking care of our Human Body. Healthy tips! Junk foods often have too much salt. There's a lot of salt already in foods such as bread, breakfast cereals biscuits and cakes. So people are getting more salt than they need when they eat junk food. Too much salt is unhealthy for our hearts. Soft drinks, biscuits, cakes, and lollipops… have LOADS of sugar. It might taste good, but too much sugar makes people fat, rots your teeth, is bad for our blood and can cause other diseases. Foods are filled with harmful carbohydrates, fats and cholesterol that do not provide any useful energy. If you consume a lot of junk food, it can cause weakness in your body. This result in formation of plaques and the heart is required to put an extra effort for pumping blood through the arteries. Presence of fat in the blood also causes reduced oxygen levels. Another harmful factor present in junk foods is excess concentration of sugars and salt. Excessive concentration of sodium ions causes an increased heart blood pressure. Even liver gets damaged due to presence of ingredients such as fat, cholesterol and salt inside the junk foods. Junk foods also cause damage to the pancreas resulting in insulin-dependant diabetes mellitus. Are you planning to start smoking or are you already smoking? Well, take a close look at this. Smoking causes cancer, emphysema, and heart disease; that it can shorten your life by 10 years or more; and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. Over all smoking affects your respiratory system and our digestive system. So how come people are still lighting up? Did you know cigarette smoking is the most important preventable cause of premature death in the United States? It accounts for more than 440,000 of the more than 2.4 million annual deaths. Your muscles, when not properly engaged in vigorous exercise, start to atrophy and become weaker without regular activity. All of that affects your body’s capacity to work efficiently. This in turn translates to the bones as well as they’re not getting enough physical activity to keep them strong and this eventually weakens them, leading to osteoporosis in older people. That’s why resistance training is important, not only in you’re younger years, but also as you age and aim to sustain strength in your bones. It’s never too late to start exercise and the benefits for you are immense, allowing you to have a better quality of life. Without exercise your cardiovascular system is diminished, especially your heart and lungs. You can greatly improve them with a proper set of exercises. Remember that your heart is a muscle; so the stronger it is the more blood it can circulate through the body and the better your body can work! BY: andrea B.