Too much stress can make you irritable and depressed. It also can increase your heart rate and raise your blood pressure. Relaxation eases your body’s response to stress. Types of relaxation include meditation, deep breathing, muscle relaxation, listening to relaxing music and picturing pleasant scenes. For best results, do one of these activities for 15 to 20 minutes once or twice a day.
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Smoking is a habit that increases many risks to health. Smoking kills around 114,000 people in the UK each year. By smoking you increase the chances of getting Cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, throat cancer and mouth cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and periodontal disease. Smoking also significantly impairs erectile function in men.
Stress in general can be healthy for us as it pushes us to keep moving forward and achieving our goals in life. Continual stress on the other hand can cause anxiety, headaches, insomnia and fatigue when left to run rampant. Stress can surface in a multiple of ways; snapping at your partner, waking at 3am every night, feeling tired after 8 hours sleep, feeling down or just plain “blah”.
Write down a list of things that you will reward yourself with for maintaining your weight. Make your reward date the day after the holiday season has officially ended for you. Your rewards can be small for example a magazine, manicure, trip to the beauty salon, or a shopping spree.
Don’t be afraid to supplement your diet with vitamins and minerals. Rare is the person who gets an adequate amount of these micronutrients in his or her diet to achieve optimum health. Due to over-farming, much of our soil has been robbed of sufficient amounts of the materials plants need to make nutrients. The RDA (recommended daily allowance) is based on how much of a nutrient it takes to avoid a deficiency disease, not on how much is required for optimum health. Folic acid, vitamin E, and magnesium are three micronutrients that are especially found lacking in the American diet. But don’t go overboard: some minerals can be toxic in high doses (especially selenium and copper). Remember, to supplement does not mean to replace. Taking a multivitamin complex including essential minerals at 100% RDA should be sufficient for most people to obtain optimum health as long as the diet is nutrient dense.
A clear complexion is a sign of good health and it is associated with our idea of beauty. Clear skin is not always easy to maintain. Sometimes, we find pimples and blemishes appearing seemingly out of nowhere and this can be very aggravating, especially for those of us who follow a strict regimen of proper diet and skincare.
Eat as much variety in your foods as possible. This will provide the wide range of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals), macronutrients (protein, fats and carbohydrates) and phytonutrients (special health-enhancing plant-based substances) necessary for optimum nutritional health. Each food has its strengths and limits. For example: blueberries have the highest ORAC value (a nutrient’s ability to fight health damaging free radicals), but they contain no ECGC (a special health-enhancing phytonutrient). Green tea has the highest amount of ECGC, but contains no lycopene, which fights certain forms of cancer. Tomatoes have the highest amount of lycopene, but contain no ECGC. You get the picture.
Stressful way of life are not just bad for your health but also can affect your relationship with your family. Pinpoint the things that you think are causing you stress and formulate a plan to prevent it from affecting your life. This can prevent you from being sick and helps make your relationships stronger and happy.
When we’re awake, natural damage occurs to our body, when we’re asleep we are healing. Without sleep our bodies cannot repair any damage that has happened throughout the day. Also, we need a bit of down time to rest our minds. It’s not just the quantity of sleep that matters but the quality. Do you fall asleep easily? Do you wake up during the night? Do you suffer from bad dreams?
