It is an incredibly common condition giving unhappiness to more than 90 percent of women worldwide. From early teenage years to elderly ageing period, cellulite is regarded by most women as a thing to get rid of from their bodies.

By nature, women are prone to formation of cellulite as female body fat accounts around 23 per cent of total body weight, while male usually has only 10-15 per cent. Moreover, most female body fat can usually be formed in the areas of buttocks and thighs.

You can modify your lifestyle including diet and exercise to ward off that cellulite.

Start with an anti-cellulite diet. Foods that can cause or worsen cellulite include fatty meal, salty food, alcohol, caffeine, etc.

Eat daily full of vegetables and fruits, which are good for nutritional balance. They have vitamins including those with anti-oxidant properties. Also choose those with fibre such as cereals, whole grains, beans, broccoli, pulses, berries, nuts and citrus fruits.

Some important symptoms of sleep deprivation are

• Frequent yawning
• Dozing off while doing some physically inactive thing, e.g. reading
• Grogginess early when waking up and almost all day
• Easily irritable mood
• Poor concentration

For better sleep on regular basis, you should

• Try to go to bed at regular time every night
• Do regular exercise especially every morning.
• Never drink coffee/alcohol nor smoke from the evening especially near bedtime.

Working Life – people who do shift work disrupt their sleep-wake cycles on a regular basis.

Environmental Factors – noisy location or snoring sleep partner can cause you lose sleep.

Lifestyle - some people’s habits are disruptive; for example, drinking coffee or smoking cigarettes close to bedtime

Illness or sleep disorders – such as sleep apnoea, snoring

Medications - some drugs used to treat disorders such as epilepsy or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can cause insomnia.

Sleep disorders include:

Sleeping is essential to our lives and it is also a natural need to human body like daily food and water. A person usually needs eight hours of sleep a night.

If sleep loss persists in a person's life for a certain time, there will be long-term problems like poor memory, less concentration, loss of motivation, aggressive mood, etc. Sleep loss cause the physiological state known as fatigue.

The colon is a portion of your digestive system, stretching from the end of your small bowel to your anus. It is around 4 feet long.

The colon has 3 main functions.
• To digest and absorb nutrients from meals
• To concentrate fecal matter by absorption of fluid and electrolytes from it
• To store and control evacuation of fecal material

The right side of your colon plays a major role in absorbing water and electrolytes, while the left side is responsible for storage and evacuation of stool.

Causes of colon cancer

Many people with colon cancer experience no symptoms in the early stages of the disease. If signs and symptoms of colon cancer do appear, they may include changes in bowel habits, blood in your stool, persistent cramping, gas or abdominal pain.

You may notice blood in your stool or bleeding from your rectum.
Signs and symptoms of colon cancer include:
• A change in your bowel habits, including diarrhea or constipation or a change in the consistency of your stool for more than a couple of weeks
• Abdominal distension

How to diagnose colon cancer?

Your doctor my perform Digital Rectal Examination, by a gloved finger into your rectum through your anus. It takes only a few seconds, painless, and con predict any abnormal changes.

You may have a test called a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy, by inserting a thin, flexible plastic tube with a tiny camera on the end into your colon via your anus.