A healthy body and mind is something that we all wish we could achieve. However, there are several reasons why this may not be achievable. With many diet plans and other tips and tricks out there that don’t always work, but we have the perfect solution. Here we are going to look at top tips for a healthy mind and body all year round.

Exercise Regularly

When exercising regularly, there are a number of benefits. Not only does it help you to feel better mentally, but it can raise your metabolic rate and begin to help you lose weight. In addition to this, it can also help to increase blood flow around the body, helping to reduce common problems such as erectile dysfunctions. Though this is not effective for everyone, there are alternative methods such as opting to buy sildenafil online that can be used to help with the problem. This is something to consider when exercising and can help you in the long term.

Get Enough Sleep

Another way to keep your mind and body healthy is to ensure that you have enough sleep. This is vital to your overall health as sleep is at the core of every process in our body. Without sleep, the body does not function as it should, therefore leading to the potential to contract diseases as well as develop immunities and other health issues. By getting enough sleep per day, you also reduce the amount of stress that you experience as well as boost your concentration overall.

Drink Water Frequently

Believe it or not, staying hydrated has a whole number of benefits for both the mind and the body, and is an essential part of keeping yourself healthy, particularly as the weather heats up. The recommended daily amount of water that you should be drinking is around 2 litres per day – this then helps to increase the water intake as well as ensuring that you are hydrated for normal bodily function. This is particularly beneficial for the hot weather as sweating can cause you to become dehydrated much more quickly as a result.

Make Healthy Food Choices

Rather than going on a diet, it is important to adapt your eating habits and make it more of a lifestyle choice. Rather than cutting out all the things that you enjoy, enjoy them in moderation and ensure that the calories that you burn outweigh the ones that you are eating. This will enable you to lose weight gradually, helping you to maintain a healthy lifestyle also. By making it a lifestyle change, rather than a diet, you are much more likely to keep the weight off, allowing you to reap the rewards in the long term. Though this will take time to perfect, this will be highly beneficial for you in terms of overall health.

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If you live somewhere with serious summer highs, installing a pool may seem like a no-brainer, but think again. Appealing as a pool can seem in the moment, especially when you’re sweating your way through another 100-degree July, pools are more expensive than most people realize, and they may even be a barrier to selling your home down the road.

Poolside Pleasures

Besides hot weather, why do people install pools in their backyards? One of the main reasons is that people think that installing a pool, along with a deck, will serve to make their backyard an entertainment hub. What’s more, for families with kids, having a pool can ensure they stay entertained all summer. Kids don’t outgrow a pool the way that they outgrow a swing set or a trampoline, making it seem like a good investment.

The Buyer Perspective

Even if you’re happy to absorb the costs of having a backyard swimming pool, you need to consider a potential buyer’s perspective before you make a decision. That’s because, even if you plan to remain in this home for years to come, you never know when your circumstances might change and you may have to put your home for sale. And if you need to maximize your home’s value, then a pool could prove troublesome. In fact, according to the property management specialists at Green Residential, installing a pool may drive down your home’s sale price.

In addition to maintenance and repair costs, one reason that buyers often rule out homes with pools is that they’re worried about potential safety issues. While you may have older kids who are confident swimmers, other families might have young children and worry about accidental drownings. Some also worry about potential liability if neighborhood children sneak into the yard to use the pool to get hurt. Typically homes with pools carry a heavier insurance burden than comparable properties, and that’s a big extra cost to take on, especially for new homeowners who haven’t had an opportunity to save for it.

Make Better Use Of Your Space

If you’re feeling torn between installing a pool and choosing a different design strategy for your backyard, it’s worth considering just how much space you have overall. Over and above safety issues, one of the main reasons that new buyers don’t like properties with pools is that usually a pool takes up the entire yard. You may have thought that a pool would be the perfect place to entertain, but it doesn’t serve much of a purpose if there’s nowhere for your guests to sit.

Families with children would also typically prefer a backyard where their kids can run around all year to a pool that they can only use a few months out of the year. Even if you live in Florida or Texas, there are going to be entire months of the year when a pool is useless, and the kids can always go to the local swim club if they really want to go for a dip. Having a backyard to play tag and catch or to host birthday parties can be so much more useful and bring people together.

There will always be buyers who are interested in a property with a pool, whether it’s just a buyer who likes to swim laps or someone who has fond memories of growing up with a pool of their own. Still, it’s important to pause and decide whether you want to narrow your potential pool of buyers by making this improvement. If you really want a pool and your family will enjoy it, there’s no reason to deny your family this pleasure, but just know that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.  

After being injured in an accident, the first thing on most people’s minds is healing. The second is compensation.

You hear about people winning personal injury lawsuits due to negligence, but what exactly is negligence? According to the Law.com dictionary, negligence is a “failure to exercise the care toward others which a reasonable or prudent person would do in the circumstances, or taking action which such a reasonable person would not.” Negligence, by this definition, is separate from intentional acts like assault, though negligence can result in physical harm.

A prime example of negligence would be a business owner who doesn’t bother fixing broken steps leading to their business, and a customer or employee trips and falls. The business owner will probably be held liable for negligence for failing to repair the steps. Being aware of a problem and not getting it fixed is usually grounds to prove negligence.

It would be different if a customer wandered into an unauthorized area of the property and got hurt. The customer could still likely collect on a personal injury claim filed against the business’ insurance company. However, it would be hard to prove negligence if the accident happened in an area the customer had to trespass to access.

The difference between settling for compensation provided through a personal injury claim and proving negligence in a lawsuit is substantial. Proving negligence in court will likely result in more compensation.

Proving negligence in court isn’t simple. To prove negligence, you must establish proof for five elements: duty, breach of duty, cause in fact, proximate cause, and damages. Let’s look at these one by one:

Duty

Did the person you’re suing have a duty toward you at the time of the accident? For example, if you were injured in a car accident when a driver ran a red light, the other driver had a duty to stop at the red light.

Breach of duty

Continuing with the same example, the next question is if the other driver breached their duty. Breach of duty is determined when a person fails to exercise reasonable care in fulfilling their duty. In this case, the driver running the red light did not exercise reasonable care when they ran the red light, and therefore, the driver was in breach of their duty.

Cause in fact

You must prove that the negligent actions you’re suing for did cause your injuries, and those injuries would not have occurred without negligence. It’s clear that crossing an intersection on a green light wouldn’t normally result in an accident from cross-traffic. Only if the cross-traffic is breaking traffic laws would an accident occur.

Proximate cause

The burden of proof lies with the victim. Using the example of a driver running a red light that caused severe injuries to another person, the driver’s negligence would be considered unreasonable. In this situation, it would be easy to prove that negligence led to the damages and injuries suffered by the victim. This type of case would be easily won.

However, there’s one caveat to filing a lawsuit when you can easily prove cause. Even when you can prove the other driver caused your injuries due to negligence, if you live in a no-fault state like New York, you can’t sue the other driver unless your injuries are permanent or severe. Each no-fault state defines the types of injuries you can sue for. When you can’t sue the driver at fault, the only recourse you have is to file a claim with your own insurance company.

Damages

In addition to proving the failure to exercise reasonable care, actual damages must be proven to exist. In the case of a car crash resulting in injury, that’s easy to prove.

Negligence can be proven even without awareness

A person doesn’t necessarily need to be aware of an unsafe situation for you to prove negligence. Negligence can be proven if the other person should have had a reasonable awareness of the situation that caused your injury. For instance, if the business owner didn’t know about the broken steps because they always come in through the back door, that’s not good enough. The business owner should be paying attention to the steps leading to their business.

When you’re injured, pursue every remedy you can

Being injured in an accident takes time, money, and energy to heal. Pursue every remedy you have access to, but consult with a lawyer before signing on any dotted lines.

We live in a world that is desperately and blindly following society’s beauty standards.

As a result, we are forced to believe that our beauty has an expiration date. The media is constantly serving us content that depicts the perfect life of celebrities. All of them have the same things in common. Beautiful, porcelain skin, amazing hair and flawless bodies.

The more we look at these gorgeous people in the magazines and the tabloids, the more obsessed we become with this notion of stopping time and preserving the youthfulness of our bodies.

But sadly, by focusing our attention on staying forever young and becoming these flawless versions of ourselves, we actually forget how it feels and looks to age gracefully.

We forget the fact that youth is not the most beautiful part of life.

Luckily, one Russian modeling agency has decided to break these stereotypes and embrace the beauty of aging in a very bold and unique way. This agency is the result of a project that photographer Igor Gavar did for his blog. He had this idea of challenging society and the fashion industry by photographing retirees.

But what started as a project ultimately turned into a full-time job for this man. That is how he created the model agency which by the way has a very appropriate and interesting name. It is called Oldushka.

The majority of the models are over 60 years old with only one male model who is 45 years old. Oldushka’s models are famous all over Russia and they’ve worked on many advertising campaigns and fashion catalogs.

If you want to see some of the amazing portraits that he has done, keep scrolling.

This is what pure beauty looks like!

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Tatjana Nekliudova, 61 Years Old

Tatjana Nekliudova, 61 Years Old

Irina Belisheva, 70 Years Old

Valentina Yasen, 62 Years Old

Sergey Arctica (45 Years Old) And Valentina Yasen (62 Years Old)

Tatjana Nekliudova, 61 Years Old

Victor Sosnovtsev, 73 Years Old

Sergey Arctica, 45 Years Old

Tatjana Nekliudova, 61 Years Old

Valentina Yasen, 62 Years Old

Tatjana Nekliudova, 61 Years Old

Olga Kondrasheva, 72 Years Old

Nina Ivanovna, 75 Years Old

Tatjana Nekliudova, 61 Years Old

Valentina Yasen, 62 Years Old

Tatjana Nekliudova, 61 Years Old

Valentina Yasen, 62 Years Old

Tatjana Nekliudova, 61 Years Old

Tatjana Nekliudova, 61 Years Old

Irina Belisheva, 70 Years Old

Sergey Arctica, 45 Years Old

Victor Sosnovtsev, 73 Years Old

Irina Belisheva, 70 Years Old

Tatjana Nekliudova, 61 Years Old

Olga Kondrasheva, 71 Years Old

Olga Kondrasheva, 72 Years Old

Irina Belisheva, 70 Years Old

Olga Kondrasheva, 72 Years Old

Irina Denisova, 80 Years Old

Ivan Petkov, 53 Years Old

Sergey Arctica, 45 Years Old

Valentina Yasen, 62 Years Old

Olga Kondrasheva, 71 Years Old

Valentina Yasen, 62 Years Old

Valeriya, 79 Years Old

Ivan Petkov, 53 Years Old

Valeriya, 79 Years Old

Valentina Yasen, 62 Years Old

Lubmila, 62 Years Old

Olga Kondrasheva, 72 Years Old

Olga Kondrasheva, 72 Years Old

Olga Kondrasheva, 72 Years Old

Irina Belisheva, 70 Years Old

Olga Kondrasheva, 72 Years Old

Irina Belisheva, 70 Years Old

Viktor, 73 Years Old

Imagine being forced to stay outside with only a light jacket while the temperature is -20. Or, better yet, imagine not being able to take off that jacket when it’s extremely hot outside and you are sweating like crazy.

Imagine not having a warm and dry place where you can lie down and rest, or a cool shade where you can catch your breath and survive the dangerous heat wave during mid-summer. If that’s not scary enough for you, imagine not having food or water during those extreme weather temperatures.

Feeling miserable yet? Yes, I know. I’d feel that way too.

Luckily, this isn’t something most humans go through. It is something most stray dogs face on a regular basis. Yes, they have thicker fur. But that doesn’t mean that these lovely creatures can always survive the cold, harsh winter nights or long, hellish summer days.

That is exactly why Pennsylvania’s Governor, Tom Wolf worked hard to enforce the laws about protecting and sheltering the dogs that are left out in extreme temperatures.

The law is called Libre’s Law, in honor of the dog that was rescued from a horrible living situation in southern Lancaster County. This seven-weeks-old puppy had endured abuse and neglect from its owners for a very long time and it is a miracle that he even survived. However, thanks to the actions of loving and caring human beings, he was rescued and eventually made full recovery.

So, according to this new law, dogs cannot be left outside in extreme temperatures for more than 30 minutes. This basically means that it is now illegal to leave your dog chained in cold weather temperatures below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, and hot weather temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

The ones who will be caught violating these laws will be fined up to $750 or face up to 3 months of jail time. Severe violators of these laws will face felony charges and will most likely be fined up to $15,000.

I honestly hope that Libre’s Law will inspire people to keep fighting for animal’s rights and create more laws about protecting the animals in our environment.

Warmer weather is approaching us, so if you, by any chance see a dog suffering in sun, don’t hesitate to report the situation by taking note of the time, date and the location where you found the dog, contact your local animal shelters or the county sheriff’s office, and of course get expert’s advice on the subject. 

If you don’t know where to call, try contacting The Humane Society. They cannot give you a piece of legal advice, but they will gladly provide you with expert counsel on this subject.

And whatever you do, please remember. These lovely creatures, they don’t have anyone else in the world except us. Let’s take care of them the way they take care of us. Let’s fight for their rights.

Because, at the end of the day, all lives matter!

Source: OutwardHound.com

As winter was slowly approaching Brazil, the staff at Barreirinha bus terminal in Curitiba, a city in Brazil’s South Region, decided to do something wonderful for the homeless pups freezing on the streets.

The employees at the bus station provided the dogs, known as Zoinho, Pitoco, and Max, with food and water. And that’s not all. They also provided the pups with three beds made from old tires and covered them with comfy blankets so that the cute trio could stay warm throughout the cold nights.

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This act of kindness was noticed by Fabiane Rosa, a local politician and animal lover, and she posted some photos of the pups all snuggled up in the blankets on her Facebook profile, which, of course, went viral.

Besides praising the staff at the bus station for their act of generosity and love, in her post, Rosa wrote: “These communal dogs have a much more dignified life than some who are victims of maltreatment and neglect, hidden behind the walls.”

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May this story serve as an inspiration to other people and companies to open their hearts, show love to stray dogs, and follow this noble act.

Remember: Small acts of kindness and generosity have the power to make the world we live in a better place.

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