After dry brush massage it is advisable to take a shower or rub-down with a sponge or wet towel, to wash away dead skin particles. Brushing loosens up copious amounts of dead layers of skin that you can see as a dust on your body.

There are two ways to go about taking a shower. One, used mostly by the patients in European Clinics, is the alternating hot-and-cold shower, followed by dry brush massage. First, take a hot shower for 3 minutes or so, until you feel warmed up, then take a cold shower for about 10 to 20 seconds. Repeat this three times, always finishing with cold – as cold as you can stand. After this hot-and-cold shower, rub yourself dry with a coarse towel and then give yourself a brush massage that will warm you up thoroughly.

The other way, which is most suitable for relatively healthy people, is to take the dry brush massage first and finish with alternating hot-and-cold shower. Of course, if you can not tolerate the hot-and-cold shower, you can have a warm shower only. But the alternating hot-and-cold shower has an exceedingly beneficial and stimulating effect on all the vital functions of your body, particularly on the glandular system, and has a rejuvenating effect on your skin. The combination of the dry brush massage and a hot-and-cold shower is an excellent way to start and finish your day.

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Having shown that teens can learn to delay intercourse, use condoms, and have fewer sex partners, scientists must also prove that this behavior will lead to fewer cases of unwanted births and disease. In 1996 ETR and the University of California at Berkeley were evaluating Education Now and Babies Later (ENABL). This statewide program, begun in 1992 by the California Department of Health Services, included Postponing Sexual Involvement, a sex education program for 12- to 14-year-olds, and a media and public relations campaign. Researchers are comparing the behaviors of students in that age group, who were exposed to the sex education or media campaign with that of a control group of students who were not.

Sex education alone won’t halt teenage pregnancies. Much help is needed from parental involvement, community activities, and social support groups. Still, progress has been made. If research truly connects less teenage pregnancy with a change in behavior inspired by sex education, we may soon see a reduction in disease, unwanted pregnancies, and unwanted, uncared-for children.

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