Teen Tips: Bad Habits that Affect Your Beauty

Just as good habits enhance your beauty, bad habits take away from your natural beauty. As you grow and develop good habits, your natural beauty will be greatly enhanced now and you'll look much better, for much longer, in the years to come. Here are a few suggestions of habits to avoid. They may not seem like much now, but over time they will make a significant impact on your natural beauty.

• Staying up late – Teenagers love to see how long they can stay up at night.  But, the body doesn’t respond well to that.  Lack of sleep can cause dark circles under your eyes.  Also, you will be grouchier when you are sleep-deprived.  This doesn’t enhance your appearance.  The average person need eight hours of sleep a night.  Teens sometimes need more. 
    
• Not drinking enough water - Every cell in your body needs water.  Water helps keep your skin and hair looking their best. You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day.  You can get some of this water through juice, milk, or non-caffeinated drinks. Caffeine actually pulls water from your body.  So, you should avoid caffeinated drinks such as colas, teas, and coffee.
    
• Smoking – Smoking is not cool.  It slowly grills your lungs from the inside out.  It causes mouth, throat, and lung cancer.  It causes premature death.  Although these problems may take some time to develop, smoking will affect your beauty now. Research shows that smoking:  

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