International eMagazine on adolescent health: skin and muscular systems Science | Page 2

Having a good skin and exercising a lot is
really important for humans to look and
feel good. The skin has certain rules and
cares for it to be really healthy. Exercising
makes you have a healthy body so next
you’ll see some tips that will help you be a
better person.
The skin is a very important system in our
body. It’s the external layer of the human
body, the one that we see. Its basically for
protection from infection and has many
other functions as well.
Just as your skin takes care of your inside
body, it’s very important to take care of it
as well. Skin can get damaged by different
variables and by different ways. Here are
some tips to take care of it.
The sun is one of the factor that damages
your skin. It is very important to keep your
skin away from the sun. A lifetime of
exposing to the sun can cause wrinkles,
age
sports
and the most
important, it
makes
the
skin
more
vulnerable to
have
skin
cancer.
-­‐ One
of the main
ways is to
use sunscreen, at least with 15
SPF. Re-apply sunscreen every 2
hours, and if you are having
contact with water do it more Seek
for shade. From 10 am to 4 pm is
when the sun rays are stronger,
try to avoid it.
-­‐ Put on protective clothing. You
can cover your skin with
longsleves, and there are some
laundry additives that add an extra
UV-Ray cap, it also helps avoid.
Also to keep your skin healthy its very
important to not smoke. Smoking makes
your skin to look older and it makes it to
have wrinkles, It narrows the tiny blood
vessels and decreases blood flow.
Smoking also damages collagen and
elastin, those are the fibers that gives
strength and elasticity to your skin.
Having a healthy diet is a good way to
help your skin as well. Eating fruits and
vegetables of different kinds are rich of

vitamin c. This helps skin from having
acne, which is very common in teens.
Manage your stress, because stress
makes your skin sensitive to acne and
other skin problems.
Some other general tips for skin care are:
-­‐ Limit bath time. Hot water and
long baths remove oil from skin.
Try to limit the time of them and
take a shower with moderate
tempered water.
-­‐ Avoid using strong soaps. Use
mild cleansers because soaps
also remove oils from your skin.
-­‐ Shave carefully. Apply shaving
lotion and shave in the direction
that the hair grows.
-­‐ Moisture. If your skin is dry
moisture it.
Exercising is one of the human essentials
to be healthy; it can benefit you in many
different ways. For example, when you
exercise you have good shape in your
body, and that will attract the person from
your opposite sex, because since you
make your muscles bigger and better, it
will make you have a greater shape It will
help you to prevent diseases like, heart
diseases, diabetes 2 type and obesity,
because doing this makes you have a very
good health and increases life spam.
Doing exercise also helps you improve
your muscles and joints. By doing exercise
it helps you because your blood circulates
quicker and that means that you make
your heart
work faster
and better.
When you
sweat you
cause the
body
to
liberate all
the
chemicals
that aren’t
needed
anymore. If
you
run,
you make cardiovascular improvements, if
you flex your muscles, you have more
flexibility.
Finally, with this information that we stated
you can keep yourself healthy, with
exercise you can burn fats, build up
muscle, it let us liberate stress and forget