If you could bottle one feeling, what would it be?
The day you got married ? Brought home your new puppy ? What about coming home from a long day and taking your pants off?
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We can hear the relieved sigh from here!
Ditching pants doesn’t just offer ultimate comfort, it’s also good for you! Here are eight reasons to ditch the pants.
1. You’ll prevent yeast infections
There’s a reason you’re told to let your ladybits “breathe” down there. Tight-fitting garments, such as underwear and pants, keep the vaginal area moist .
This creates the perfect breeding ground for fungus to grow and turn into a yeast infection.
2. You’ll prevent “tight pants syndrome”
If you’ve ever experienced a feeling of numbness going down your thigh when wearing constricting pants, you could have “tight pants syndrome.”
While this happening every once in a while isn’t dangerous, researchers say that continuous episodes could cause permanent damage.
For instance, you might experience abdominal problems.
“When you put pressure on the abdomen, your food doesn’t digest,” Dr. John Michael Li, a neurologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, told CBS Miami .
“It risks not being able to be digested properly especially for people who have reflux esophagitis, heartburn or chronic heartburn. Tight clothing can aggravate those problems.”
3. Men can keep their testicles in tip-top shape
There’s some very scary news for men who like to wear skinny jeans: doing so could cause your testicles to die.
Dr. Nicholas Morrissey, vascular surgeon with New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center, told HealthPop that skinny jeans can cause a testicular torsion.
This is when one testicle gets twisted on itself. If left untreated, the torsion can stop circulation and cause the testicle to die.
4. You’ll smell fresher
Those skinny jeans and yoga pants may look stylish, but the odor they’re creating downstairs is anything but cute.
That’s because tight-fitting pants trap things like sweat, discharge, and dead skin. Over time, this can create an unpleasant odor that’s remedied by ditching the pants.
5. You may prevent cellulite
Orange-peel skin, cottage-cheese skin, mattress phenomenon — whatever you call it, cellulite isn’t exactly desired.
It’s characterized as dimpled flesh you find on the legs, hips, thighs, and buttocks. And one way it’s caused is by tight-fitting pants, especially skinny jeans.
That’s because the tight clothing cuts off blood circulation in the body.
With oxygen and nutrients unable to move around freely in the body, the skin’s metabolism slows down.
While cellulite is harmless, getting rid of it for aesthetic reasons comes at a hefty cost. Cellfina treatment ranges from $3,500 to $6,500, according to Healthline .
6. It could be stalling your weight loss
There’s a reason they’re called skinny jeans — they make you look skinnier! The same story goes with those expensive yoga pants. But this can backfire — big time — by working a little too well.
See, physiotherapists warn that wearing pants can make you see yourself slimmer than you are.
This is the result of these pants hiding your problem spots.
From there, you may feel as though you don’t need to exercise or be mindful of what you’re eating.
Ditching the pants, on the other hand, allows you to see the parts of your body that need some attention.
7. You may prevent leg itches
Tight-fitting pants create very close contact with different fabrics and our skin. Since many of us are allergic to different fabrics without knowing it, this can lead to itching and swelling.
According to WebMD , you’re more likely to get an allergic reaction from clothes made with synthetics such as polyester, rayon, nylon, spandex, or rubber.
8. You may prevent leg acne
If you’re the kind of person who wears your yoga pants from yoga class to brunch to your daily stroll at Target, this could be causing more harm than good .
Wearing too-tight clothing for too long makes it so your skin can’t breathe. As a result, you may be left with acne on the legs and even the butt.
