With new games consoles, you have to move around in front of the TV to control the action on-screen. When you make the same motion again and again in a confined space, the results can be quite serious
Earphones play the music directly into your ear canal. The type of music doesn't matter, but the volume on your MP3 player does. It can cause hearing loss.
Sending text messages is as easy as moving your thumb. However, too much texting can cause thumb arthritis.
A mobile phone is full of bacteria. When you press it against your face and ear, it can lead to skin problems such as acne, skin infections and rashes.
Computers are useful tools for research and entertainment. However, staring at a computer screen for an extended period of time can cause eye strain.
Garlic has a bad reputation because df its strong smell, but it's great for your immune system!
People have used vinegar natural remedy for over 6,000 years! It's great for minor cuts or itchy rashes.
Can you feel a headache coming on? Boil some water and make yourself a nice cup of tea! The caffeine in the tea will open up the constricted blood vessels that cause a headache
Do you have smelly feet? Sprinkle some baking soda in your shoes and have odour-free feet all day long
Do you have an upset stomach? You could try chewing a piece of ginger. You can also do this before a journey if you suffer from travel sickness.
Australia has some of the most dangerous spiders in the world. The dark-coloured funnel- web spider is one of the most poisonous. Its teeth are so strong that it can even bite through a shoe! If one bites you, you need Enti-venin very quickly
Watch out for Australia's many dangerous sea creatures .. especially the box jellyfish. It's almost invisible to swimmers and has caused more deaths than snakes, sharks and crocodiles put together. Each of tentacles has 500,000 needles for injecting venom into its victims
The ten most poisonous snakes in the world all live in Australia! The inland taipan is the most dangerous in the world and its venom is 50 times stronger than an Indian Cobra's
The platypus may look cute, but the males have a poisonous spike on their back legs that they use in self-defence. Victims suffer from terrible pain that can last for up to 3 months
While no one is looking, Frenchman Alain Robert jumps up an office building and starts to climb the wal. He hangs from balconies, crawls along ledges and grips the edges of the glass and concrete. There's no no safety net - he's using only his bare hands!
Alain has climbed over 85 of the tallest structures in the world, including the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia. You can watch this video on YouTube.
As the doors of the lift close, your hands start to sweat. It's only a ten-second trip to the sixth floor, but your heart is beating fast, you're shaking like a leaf and you can't catch your breathf the lift.
People can have either comm like a fear of insects, needles and the dark, or some on phobias, very strange ones indeed! Vicki Larrieux's fear of vegetables, for example -lachanophobia - makes trip to the supermarket a nightmare
To understand the reason why people have phobias, first we need to understand fear itself. When we sense danger, our brain sends signals to pump adrenalin around our body.
So what's the solution for someone who has a phobia? Well, many try to avoid the places and situations which make them afraid, but this only keeps the fear strong
Until quite recently, scientists believed that sleep was a simple, resting state, but it isn't like this at all! When we sleep, our body temperature drops, our heart rate and other bodily functions slow down, but our brains stay very active.
There are four different stages of sleep that repeat every 90 to 110 minutes. Stages N1 and N2 are light sleep and we can easily wake up. In stage N3, we sleep more deeply and it's harder to wake up
7While we sleep, our brain sorts through information, chemicals, repairs cells, and solves problems. Lack sleep seriously affects our mind and body. When rest enough, we may feel grumpy, forgetful and unable to concentrate
It's different for everyone, but on average, babies need 16 to 18 hours of sleep, teenagers about 9 and adults about 7 to 8.
Questions
1. In what ways you can use garlic?
2. What's in tea can help if you have watery eyes all summer?
3. What is claustraphobia?
4.Why some peoples has phobias?
5.What can help your body to get into routine?
6.What types of banya do you know besides Russian?
7.What clothes people wear to protect their head from intense heat?
8.Who build elaborate and expensive bathhouses in their cities all over the world?
9.Where we can see Robert's videos?
10.What can thumb artritis lead to?
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