Following the last post here at Health Image, in which I continued the theme on using exercise to improve your overall health and fitness levels, I’m going to move into a slightly different facet to a person’s health and look at the beauty side of health. That’s right, I’m actually going to change tack to have a look atone of the healthy ways to beauty tips that you can employ to take advantage of that better looking body!

This is going to cover some very simple healthy ways to beauty here and none of them involve any products that you buy in the stores or online. Nope, not a bit of it. Its all natural, in fact, so anyone can do it!

The first of our healthy ways to beauty that absolutely everyone can use is getting sufficient sleep! That’s right, they don’t call it beauty sleep for nothing.

Getting sufficient sleep every night works wonders for your skin’s complexion and reduces your chances of getting wrinkles sooner than you ought! When you’re young, it’s considered normal to burn the candle at both ends and stay up late at night and then get up late next day, but that is the way you’ll end up looking ten years older than you would when you get to middle age.

Sure, no one listens when they’re in their twenties because they think they know it all and why should they care about healthy ways to beauty and what they’ll look like in twenty years time? That’s a lifetime away so who cares, right?

Wrong.

You’ll get to your forties and seriously regret all those late nights you spent squandering your future good looks in your younger years. You’ll look in the mirror and see an old person staring back at you with a face full of lines and deep dark bags under your eyes if you don’t believe me.

None of that needs to happen, by the way. By taking some simple healthy options, like getting to bed earlier at least during the week and if you have to stay up late, just do it at the weekends.

The old saying, “early to bed and early to rise make a man healthy, wealthy and wise” has many elements of truth to it.

Our body clocks are set to the rising and setting of the sun, so it’s natural for us to be tired and want to sleep once the sun has set and then get a good eight hours sleep and wake up feeling refreshed at dawn. There is s more scientific fact that we get the best sleep before midnight – in fact it’s been proven that one hour’s sleep before midnight is as beneficial two hours sleep after midnight. It’s all to do with the sun, the tides and the rotation of the earth.

So by staying up after midnight every night your whole life will age you quicker than if you’d gotten a couple hours sleep in before midnight at least a few times a week.

And don’t forget, I’m talking about solar time here, not necessarily the time on your watch. If your country has daylight saving, then you are an hour ahead of the sun, so you can still go to bed at eleven pm and get two hours of pre-midnight sleep!

Here in Spain, in the province of Malaga our clocks are one hour ahead of GMT even though on the earth’s timeline we are actually a few minutes behind thanks to being only 4º west of Greenwich. So that means in summer when we have daylight saving, our clocks are almost two hours ahead of the sun, so solar noon actually occurs at just before two o’clock pm, and of course solar midnight is just before two o’clock am.

So when it comes to healthy ways to beauty, every little helps, right?

Terry Didcott
Health Image

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