“Did you gain weight?”, you are asked at your customary monthly lunch with the girls. That is the question that could guarantee an instant bad day for most women. Those reproachful words will bother you until another girlfriend disagrees with the comment and follows up with a compliment or until you’ve a fool-proof plan of getting rid of those excess pounds.

Finding the right exercise of the perfect diet is almost like dating. It could take a lot of your time, you’ll need to put in some effort and at the end of the day the entire experience can leave you frustrated. When dates don’t work out, which usually happens, ideally we just learn and pick up from where we left off.
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Early morning sun is a glorious experience and  gracious benefactor to the human body, Ultraviolet rays from the sun activate the cholesterol on the skin to become Vitamin D that is transformed to the liver. This is converted to a hormone that facilitates calcium absorption in the gut and deposition in the bone for our daily sustenance and sturdy stance, respectively. This is the perfect time to bask under the sun and revel in its brilliant splendor, the pleasurable sensation and manifold health benefits.

Or so it seems.

As mid-day sun approaches, the tranquil scenario briskly changes into a tempestuous one. The serene becomes searing. Temperatures soar and the sun’s rays lash unabashedly on the hapless skin. 10 AM until 4 PM is the dangerous time to be out in the sun sans protection, the maximum intensity being 11 AM to 2 PM. Sun worshipers collect the bulk of damage, namely sunburn, heat stroke, skin pigmentation, cancer and photoaging.

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