When I was in my late teens, I decided to get a tattoo. I was dating a girl at the time, and I thought that we would be together forever, so I had her name tattooed on my chest. We were madly in love, and we even started to make plans for getting married, but that eventually fell through and we broke up. The tattoo was a painful memory that I wanted to have removed, so I contacted the aesthetic doctors in Singapore to see if they could do something about it.

The doctors told me that they had a laser treatment that could take the tattoo away. Since it was a simple name tattoo made of only one color, they told me that it could be erased with 5 treatments. This was good, because I had heard stories about people getting tattoos removed that took over 20 treatments. Then … Read More

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You might be surprised to learn that rugby has offers a wealth of health-benefiting attributes. If you think it’s all about tackles and injury, then think again. Whilst all sports have positive impacts on health, rugby is special in that it covers such a range of physical activity. A game consists of distance, changes in tempo, aerobic and anaerobic exercise and resistance for muscle building. No other sport offers so much in terms of exercise variety. It truly is a whole-body sport with the following benefits:

Cardiovascular Health

Aerobic-type exercise is great for your cardiovascular system. There is plenty of this kind of activity in rugby, as players run, sprint, tackle and throw the ball. This helps to get the heart and lungs functioning better, providing long-term health benefits and making future exercise easier. Studies have shown that those who regularly play rugby have lower pulse rates.

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A lot of people do not even realize that high blood pressure, or hypertension, does not have any symptoms at all. The damage can be happening slowly over a long period of time before other things start to happen because of high blood pressure. It puts you at a greater risk of stroke or a heart attack. Tiny blood vessels in your kidneys or eyes can be affected. The funny thing about kidneys and high blood pressure is that high blood pressure can cause kidney problems, and kidney problems can be caused by it. You can read more here if you like. As for your kidneys, you can have a kidney problem that will cause blood pressure issues, or you can have high blood pressure that ends up causing kidney disease. Just keep in mind that kidney damage is irreversible if it is chronic.… Read More

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