Keep smiling to avoid wrinkles
TO be alive is to live, to live is to get older, and to get older is to get wrinkles. There is no way to avoid wrinkles unless death is premature, and that is the last thing most of us want.
How soon wrinkles appear for each of us, and how noticeable they become, depends on heredity and also on the natural aging process in which the skin loses its elasticity and becomes thinner and more fragile.
The natural aging process can be greatly accelerated by the way we eat, sleep speak, and exercise. It also depends on the exposure to the sun,a fact that is responsible for 90 per cent of unnatural aging of the skin, along with tobacco smoking.
One can realise this after looking at the fact that wrinkling of the face, neck, hands and arms comes much quicker than other parts of the body.
The other 10 per cent of the accelerated skin aging is due to certain disease conditions and owing to the way we use our face to express our thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Frowning, squinting and grimacing bring out wrinkles and aggravates natural furrows. A sour face is a wrinkled face. A smiling face is one whose wrinkles differ from those that are unnatural.
Cigarette smoking also causes premature wrinkles. Long-term smokers can often be identified by their face alone from the little furrows that spread out in the upper and lower lips and by the crow’s feet around the eyes as well as wrinkle lines around the cheeks and jaws. It is said that a heavy smoker at age 40 has the facial wrinkles equivalent to a person of 60.
A person can help minimise wrinkling by avoiding excessive exposure to the sun and discontinuing smoking. These are the easy ways. You can also help by keeping your facial muscles in a state of relaxation as much as possible. This can be accomplished by more smiling and less squinting, being sweet instead of sour, using natural moisturising creams and lotions, light massage and soft and gentle touching.
By Dr Mamta Arora
How soon wrinkles appear for each of us, and how noticeable they become, depends on heredity and also on the natural aging process in which the skin loses its elasticity and becomes thinner and more fragile.
The natural aging process can be greatly accelerated by the way we eat, sleep speak, and exercise. It also depends on the exposure to the sun,a fact that is responsible for 90 per cent of unnatural aging of the skin, along with tobacco smoking.
One can realise this after looking at the fact that wrinkling of the face, neck, hands and arms comes much quicker than other parts of the body.
The other 10 per cent of the accelerated skin aging is due to certain disease conditions and owing to the way we use our face to express our thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Frowning, squinting and grimacing bring out wrinkles and aggravates natural furrows. A sour face is a wrinkled face. A smiling face is one whose wrinkles differ from those that are unnatural.
Cigarette smoking also causes premature wrinkles. Long-term smokers can often be identified by their face alone from the little furrows that spread out in the upper and lower lips and by the crow’s feet around the eyes as well as wrinkle lines around the cheeks and jaws. It is said that a heavy smoker at age 40 has the facial wrinkles equivalent to a person of 60.
A person can help minimise wrinkling by avoiding excessive exposure to the sun and discontinuing smoking. These are the easy ways. You can also help by keeping your facial muscles in a state of relaxation as much as possible. This can be accomplished by more smiling and less squinting, being sweet instead of sour, using natural moisturising creams and lotions, light massage and soft and gentle touching.
By Dr Mamta Arora
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posted by Health Blog @ 2:20 AM
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