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Your Body

Listen to your body. We often take our body for granted and don't serve it as we should. We tend to our work, bills, routines, family, car, house, appearance, our need to socialize and update our facebook status. In the middle of such crazy world that we create for ourselves, we forget our body. We often sacrifice our body for many reasons; for example skip sleep to watch movie, drink coffee to stay awake, eat unhealthy food in the name of comfort and forgo exercise to hang out with family and friends. With each such actions, we neglect our body. Then we act frustrated when we get sick. During my nursing education, I noticed a pattern for all major illnesses (except genetic abnormalities). The top three reasons for cardiac disease and cancer are obesity, stress and unhealthy diet. Obesity can result from unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle. Add smoking and drinking to them and you got the recipe for all kinds of disease. Stress, whether physical or mental, release hormones in o