How to Keep Your Smile Whiter and Brighter After 40 By the time most people are over 40, they’re well prepared for a lot of the challenges that come with aging. They usually understand the benefits of regular exercise and maintaining a healthy, well-balanced diet. However, many people never consider how the aging process might affect their teeth until the day they notice their mega-watt smile isn’t nearly as brilliant as it used to be. Age-related yellowness doesn’t only affect those that have decades of coffee consumption or smoking behind them. The bright, white enamel on the outside of your teeth tends to wear away naturally over time, allowing the…

How to Use Your Phone to Improve Your Health By Matilda Davies Phones get a bad rap. They can become a major distraction from healthy activities like exercise and social life. They can eat into our time and kill productivity. The blue light emitted from their screens stimulates the brain and can make it difficult to fall asleep. Our ever-connectedness can mean there’s no line between work and home life. But there are plenty of ways you can use your phone to the benefit of your health. Here are four of them. Get better sleep Getting good sleep can fight stress, anxiety, and depression, it can improve your mood, help…

Photo by Unsplash Everyone knows that our sleep is vital to our health and well-being. If you aren’t regularly keeping up with seven to nine hours of sleep each night, you’ll put yourself at risk of feeling the painful effects of sleep deprivation. While the immediate effects you’ll notice may seem harmless, eventually sleep deprivation could ultimately shorten your life. But the quantity of your sleep isn’t the only thing that’s important. Even if you’re clocking in eight hours of sleep each night, it’s worthless if you aren’t experiencing a good quality of sleep. If you wake up each morning feeling like you hardly slept, have pains and aches, or…