Health and Hygiene of Body and Mind

  SUICIDAL FUN – ADDICTION TO DRUGS A teenager may want to feel the fun of smoking a cigarette for the first time. He/ She may really feel a kind of fun so he/she would try it second time and would continue. One of his/her friends would invite him/her to share a joint, saying that it was like smoking a cigarette. So, he/she would try it and next time they try cocaine or heroin. In that way he/she would become a drug addict. On the other hand, a teenager would consume a beer at a party for the first time would end up having whiskey. Eventually they would ruin everything such as family bonds, education, reputation and good friends over drugs. Why do people tend to have drugs? 1.       Curiosity There is a saying that curiosity killed the cat. It means when you learn the lesson you are no more. Most people who want to test drugs end up as drug addicts. 2.       Depression When someone is alone and feel depression, he or she wants to get rid of it at any cost because it almost kills them

  POISON IN FAIRNESS CREAM The manufacturers of fairness creams promise to make your skin fair as fast as possible: within three days or within a week. You expect a quick result may be to attend an interview, go for a date, take photos to post into your Instagram account, whatever. Have you ever been aware about the things you apply on your skin, especially on your face? Do you know that most of commercial fairness cream contain poisonous ingredients which brings short term as well as long term damage to your skin and even on other vital organs? ·     The most harmful toxic ingredients containing in fairness creams are mercury, lead, steroid and hydroquinone. Mercury and Lead Both lead and mercury belong to metal and they are extremely toxic. They are not supposed to include in cosmetic products but they do. These both metals are used as ingredients in skin lightening products. According to dermatologists, prolonged use of mercury and lead can cause skin discoloration. They also affec

  Food and feed contamination by mycotoxins (toxic substance produced by fungi) has become a grave problem to food manufacturers. Among various types of mycotoxin fungi aflatoxins (AFs) are being regarded as highly toxic and harmful.  What is aflatoxin? Aflatoxin is a toxic substance produced by certain fungi found on agricultural crops such as wheat, cereal grains, corn, peanuts, cottonseed, tree nuts, dried fruit, and some spices such as chili and paprika. They produce this substance during metabolism. There is a range of aflatoxin named as B1, B2, G1, G2, M1 AND M2 . Which fungi produces aflatoxin? The main fungi that produce aflatoxins are  Aspergillus flavus  and  Aspergillus parasiticus , which are abundant in warm and humid regions. Aflatoxin-producing fungi can contaminate crops mainly in the field, at harvest or during storage. How are people exposed to aflatoxin? They can be exposed to aflatoxins by eating contaminated food (corn, peanut, cereal etc.) or by consuming meat or

 DEADLY C O L O R S Some people don’t want to show grey hair on their head when they get old; some don’t like the color of the hair they have got from birth; some want to change their hair color according to the characters they act. And some people want to give a different shade to their hair for fun. So, all of them tend to apply hair color or hair dye. Have you ever thought the toxic chemicals in them and their life-threatening side effects? There are four types of hair colors in the market as: 1.      Temporary hair color (nonoxidative). 2.      Semi-permanent hair color (nonoxidative). 3.      Demi-permanent hair color (oxidative). 4.      Permanent hair color (oxidative). Oxidative colors are need to be mixed with developer (hydrogen peroxide) and alkaline (ammonia) for oxidation and penetrate through hair, but nonoxidative colors do not want.  If you apply type 1) or 2) you don’t want to much worry about that, because they stick around your hair externally and wash out when yo

SHAMPOO – ARE THEY NICE AS THEY LOOK      Once I had a problem with my hair. There was some dandruff and it gave me a lot of troubles. So, I decided to get rid of it. When I went shopping, I looked for a better brand of dandruff shampoo. I found a bottle of shampoo with a popular brand and bought it. I washed my hair with it and had a bath.   After a few minutes, however, I felt like burning my scalp and also, I felt drowsiness. I thought I was going to faint. I knew that I didn’t have any issues such as high blood pressure, diabetic or something like that. Then I pondered what would be the reason for that, I mean I felt like I was going to faint. Eventually I figured out what was the reason for that drowsiness. It was because of the chemicals in the shampoo I used to wash my hair. Consequently, I decided to do a survey to find out what are the harmful ingredients contain in shampoo. After the survey I came to know that, to my amazement, almost all the ingredients in shampoo are more o