6. Do your Kegels.
Experts say that as many as 1 in 4 women over the age of 18 experience episodes of involuntary leaking urine, called urinary incontinence. It’s embarrassing and frightening, but there is something you can do about it, say experts: Keep your pelvic floor muscles strong. According to a review of studies by The Cochrane Library, the pelvic-floor strengthening exercises known as Kegels were found to be an effective way to minimize urinary incontinence issues. Proof: Women who did their Kegels were between 2.5 and 7 times more likely to experience improvement than those who did not do the exercises.
Need a quick refresher course on how to do Kegels? First, to figure out which muscles need flexing, some experts suggest women insert a tampon or a clean finger into their vagina and then try to close their vaginal muscles around it. Contract these pelvic muscles and hold for about 3 seconds; repeat 10 times. Do these as often as you like, and anywhere you like—no one will know.
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ReplyDeleteplease tell me you had been drinking when you posted this.
No. Just making hard boiled eggs.
ReplyDeleteHard boiled eggs rule. They be cheap and probably the most efficient way to consume an egg on the go. Perhaps someday I will hit the lab and try to create a complimentary deviled egg to the mightiest deviled egg in existence.
ReplyDeleteFor one spring break a bunch of my friends road tripped to florida. Jessi and I went to florida separately and met up with them for a couple days.
ReplyDeleteWhere this story fits in. I was not in the car but apparently my roommate Young(fresh off boat korean) had prepared some road snacks. They were 5 minutes into their drive to florida when Young proudly shows off his 'road snacks', which was a bag of hard boiled eggs(that apparently already smelled a little). They made him throw them out at the walmart just outside of champaign and he to this day will defend his wasted road snack.