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Your physical health is so important. When it is not adequately maintained, you can develop symptoms and problems that make life troublesome. To stay healthy, you must keep a good routine. However, you must also consider other areas of your body that may be neglected. Including, your ears. We are exposed to great dangers of hearing on a daily basis - even hearing music on headphones or driving on a busy road can cause an accumulation of irreversible damage. But there are some simple and yet meaningful things that you should know and be careful to do to avoid hearing problems.
Irreversible noise damage can be caused in two ways - brief exposure to extreme noise, such as an explosion or gunshot, or prolonged exposure to noise above a noise level of 85-90 decibels, and especially at loud noises. From the noise of cars or trucks on a busy road, noise in factories, planes, to the most common - loud noise at parties and concerts (in both open and closed places) and listening to loud music at home, with headphones or even in the car. Overtime, the ears can become damaged and hearing loss occurs. You should always be careful when using headphones, that you don’t listen to the music too loudly, after all, it isn’t necessary to have it too loud!
Look at protecting your ears
This is when hearing protection comes into its own. We usually know in advance about situations in which we may endanger hearing - performances, parties, headphones, working with heavy tools such as a chainsaw or drill, shooting noises, etc. In work environments that require exposure to such noises, you will need to protect yourself. In any situation where we know we are about to be exposed to extreme noise, the ears must be protected by ear plugs or some other type of protection. It is recommended to purchase custom earplugs that will optimally cover your ears - they can lower noise levels by 15 to 35 decibels, which makes the ears significantly easier on your hearing. This will greatly improve your ear health and will protect you from damage.
We already briefly touched on loud music, but if you want to listen to your music a little louder than usual, then you should consider some tips to make sure you’re not inhibiting your hearing. When it comes to headphones, there is a rule of thumb that some experts recommend known as the "60:60 rule". To protect your hearing, you should listen to the music on the headphones at 60% of the maximum volume, for no more than 60 minutes a day. If this is not practical for you, also lowering the volume without limiting the duration of listening will help significantly. It doesn’t take much, but a little goes a long way and you will be surely able to protect your hearing for many years.
Also, you should consider hearing tests as you get older, to rule out any issues and to ensure that your hearing is top notch at all ages.
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When you’re travelling for a vacation or work, it’s easy to become a little careless when it comes to your diet. Intentionally or not, it’s common for travellers to adopt the mindset that what you eat doesn’t count if you’re in another country.
But if you travel regularly or you're away for a long time, you need to be careful about what you put into your body. Although there’s nothing wrong with treating yourself to an occasional ice cream or a cocktail as a treat, you should still make sure you look after your body, no matter where you are in the world.
Eating poorly can lead to all kinds of health problems over time, so if you struggle to maintain good habits when you’re on the road then this post will help you. To prevent you from gaining holiday weight or experiencing iron deficiency symptoms, here are four tips to maintain a healthy diet while travelling.
Prepare your own food
For many people, the cuisine is one of the most exciting parts of international travel. You want to sample all the exotic delights that your destination country has to offer and spend your vacation trying new things. For this reason, you are probably planning to eat out in restaurants more often than not. But when dining out it’s harder to keep track of the nutritional information and make sure you aren’t putting anything unhealthy into your body. Although there’s nothing wrong with exploring new foods, try to prepare a significant portion of your meals. It’s easy to buy healthy snacks, lunches and breakfasts in any supermarket, leaving space for a more extravagant evening meal. Foodstuffs like fruit, raw vegetables, salads, and nuts are all excellent options to keep the hunger at bay.
Do your research
No matter where you are in the world, there are always healthy dining options. But to find them, you should do your research before you travel. Use the internet or ask other travellers for advice about the best healthy restaurants and grocery stores in your destination. This will prevent you from making spur-of-the-moment decisions that are less than nutritious.
Carry a water bottle
The amount of water you drink is just as important as the food you eat, perhaps more so. You must stay hydrated throughout your trip, especially if you are travelling in a hot country so carry a water bottle with you at all times. This will keep your mind and body healthy and stave off dehydration when the weather gets too much. Most town centres have drinking water fountains, or you could ask for a top-up in a bar or restaurant.
Drink less alcohol
When you’re on holiday you no doubt want to let your hair down and have a good time. And for many people, alcohol is a big part of this. If you love an ice-cold beer on a hot summer’s day or a cocktail by the pool, then treat yourself occasionally, but don’t go overboard. Keep track of your alcohol consumption and limit yourself to a certain number of drinks.
There are multiple ways to get active physically. Walking, cycling, running errands, lifting objects, exercising, and many others. Such physical activities can have significant impacts on your overall health. And if they become a routine, you can sustain a healthy lifestyle.
While most people get excited when starting an exercise routine, it can be hard to keep up down the line. Some outside forces and distractions may limit one from sticking to such a practice. Such may include work, school, and family activities or a lack of motivation and giving in to temptations.
Therefore, it would be best to set aside at least 30 minutes to indulge in physical activities that work for your body. If it becomes hard to stick to such a routine, here are ways in which physical exercises can promote your health to motivate you.
Helps with Chronic Illness
Chronic illnesses such as heart diseases, diabetes, arthritis, depression, and urinary incontinence, to mention a few, can get reduced by regular physical exercises. For instance, if you have diabetes, exercising can boost insulin's effectiveness, which ultimately lowers your sugar levels. Exercising promotes your heart's condition reducing the risk of heart diseases.
If you experience chronic urinary incontinence, exercising your pelvic can help manage the condition. However, if symptoms persist, it would be wise to consider using a straight catheter, which effectively enables you to drain or empty your bladder conveniently.
It Promotes Your Mental Health
Most people will indulge in physical exercise to build a better body. However, physical exercises go beyond that by promoting your mental state. Various ways in which physical activities promote your mental health are reducing depression, improving your brain functionality, fostering your memory, and improving your mood.
When you engage in any physical activity, your body releases chemicals into your brain, resulting in feel-good emotions. However, not all physical exercises can promote your mental health. The most effective ones include running, yoga, resistance training, swimming, dancing, and high-intensity workouts.
Helps Maintain the Right Body Mass
Managing body weight can be daunting as many things contribute to achieving the ideal body weight. Foremost, you have to fight off hunger by identifying what foods can keep your stomach full for more extended periods. Secondly, you have to keep count of your calorie intake, plan meals, track your weight, avoid all kinds of temptations, and many others.
Fortunately, exercising regularly can lift a massive burden from such a lifestyle. If you want to maintain the ideal body weight, exercising can help you burn more calories as you build your dream body. If you look and feel good about your physical appearance, it can boost your self-esteem and confidence.
Promotes Better Sleep
A natural way to sleep better at night is by exercising your body. Research done shows that exercising can help alleviate sleep in most people who find it hard to fall asleep. And moderate physical exercises are what you need to achieve a good night's sleep.
If you get enough sleep, you can maintain a healthy weight, reduce the chances of getting chronic illnesses, reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and promote your memory.
At all costs, don't skimp on exercising regularly. Set aside time to conduct a simple workout that goes a long way in improving your overall health. Good physical health ultimately leads to a happy life.
Happy Monday friends! I hope that you had a great weekend! It was a lovely (and rainy *smiles*) weekend here in the south. I thought today would be the perfect day to update on our move back to Tennessee as I receive so many questions each day about how things are going, how teaching is going, how we are settling in, etc. In many ways it is completely surreal that this week marks two months since we moved. In some ways it seems like yesterday and in other ways it seems like it has been years.
Overall
Overall the entire move has been relatively smooth. These last eight months have been a whirlwind of getting adjusted back to teaching full time, adjusting to a much busier (and very different) schedule then the years while I was sick, still working through the loss of my daddy, and then processing the long goodbye of my precious grandmother, plus cleaning out the house in Tennessee. I would say that there are many times that I feel like we are taking one day at a time and just taking things each moment as they come, but that the move itself has been smoother than I could have imagined.
Teaching
I could go on and on and on... (and on *smiles*) about this, but I will sum it up by saying that I have the most incredible students and I am loving being back in the classroom with them each day. There has been an adjustment to a different culture (every school has its own culture) but I have been met with grace by students and parents alike and it is surreal to be living out a dream that I fought to get back for ten years. I can't believe that I am looking at less than 40 days with this group of students and if I think about it to long I will start to cry because they are just that incredible. This first year back to full-time teaching has been beyond any hopeful expectation that I dreamed about from sick days.
There has also been a lot of work. Being away from the house for 5 years and coming back to things that you haven't used in years and for me nearly a decade since I had moved into my parents home incredibly sick and just got more sick has resulted in lots and lots of hours going through things, donating items, and carefully deciding what I want to keep and get rid of. There are a lot of emotions, tons of thought processes on this and also a different kind of grief stage to work through in this process. It has been a lot of work and a lot of processing.
The entire mold remediation process was difficult beyond words and one that I still have grieved in different ways. For all of y'all who have lost things in natural disasters or because of something similar. I am so sorry for your loss. I never understood what that would feel like and my heart truly breaks for you. I hope that you were met in love like I was. My students are incredible.
I think anyone who moves understands all of the emotions that come with finding your "place" in a new space. I miss my friends from up in New York/Vermont a lot and I am grateful for grace in just giving myself time to adjust. I definitely don't have the social life that I would like to have, but again I think some of it is a mixture between moving, adjusting, work schedule, and COVID.
The past few years have seen a significant rise in lifestyle-related diseases. But this unfortunate outcome can be traced back to unhealthy choices.
It behooves to say that lifestyle diseases have become increasingly prominent in nearly every household. And the saddest part is that not many are aware of this trend of events.
And so dire are these diseases that approximately 14.2 million people die every year due to ailments like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, sleep disorders, and some forms of cancer. But why a sudden increase of lifestyle diseases, you may ask? As the name suggests, these diseases are caused by lifestyle choices and, by extension, rapid urbanization.
It cannot go without saying that the frequency of these diseases is relatively high among youth. Small children have not been let off the hook either as they’re affected by the same. Unhealthy habits like junk food, over-eating, and a sedentary lifestyle put the young at the risk of lifestyle diseases.
Be that as it may, all is not lost because you can actually cut down or prevent the likelihood of acquiring any lifestyle diseases. Read on and learn how you can live your healthiest, best life.
Healthy Food Choices
Because many people are faced with a hectic lifestyle, they have resorted to eating ultra-processed foods or packaged and canned foods. If you fall in this category, you’re subjecting yourself to unhealthy eating habits. After all, these foods are high in fats and sodium.
It’s thus imperative to have an eye and mind for what you eat and what not to eat if you harbor a dream of leading a healthy lifestyle. In essence, the key to a healthy lifestyle is coordinating your general eating habits.
Avoid Substance Abuse
Smoking and drinking rank top among the biggest impediments of a healthy being. Findings of numerous vascular center studies have shown that heart diseases are cut by one-third if you opt to shun cigarettes and alcohol.
The moment you quit smoking, you predispose yourself to better lung capacity, more energy, and better skin.
Keep an Eye On Your Weight
It’s nearly impossible to drive lifestyle diseases away without keeping your weight under control. If you’re overweight, you’re at risk of developing conditions that harm the heart.
If you’re well versed with your body weight’s impact, then a healthier, happy you is not far away. As such, always keep tabs with your Body Mass Index as you bid to shed off unhealthy body fat.
Regular Exercise
To maintain an active immune system, you should exercise religiously. And if you can’t make it to the gym, you can incorporate physical activities like avoiding lifts and elevators or walking for 30 minutes in your daily routines.
With physical exercises, what matters the most is frequency, intensity, and time. On average, you should partake in some form of physical activity for at least 30 minutes – 5 days a week.
Aside from regular exercise, this expert dentist in Park Hills MO also recommends consistent doctor visits to ensure you're always on top of your health.
Going forward, you should take note of your unhealthy eating habits and make a point of righting the wrongs. And if you adopt the above changes, it won’t take long before you see a difference in yourself.
The way you live your life is most possibly impacting your health. The way the modern world works, you may not be aware of the damaging habits that cause you issues in the long run. In fact it is highly possible that you have already come across some of the issues and are currently undergoing treatment. Life is incredibly complex and at times stressful. Stress and anxiety or some of the biggest modern health issues that impact on society today.
In fact, so many things that we do in our day-to-day lives impact uson a very physical level – and we just don’t even realise it. If you want to know how some of your lifestyle choices are impacting on your health keep reading below. Knowing the signs early on can decrease the chances of them taking over your life.
Take a moment to pause
Everybody has commitments and things that need doing every single day. Whether that’s work, running a home, or looking after your family, all of these things require you to be at your healthiest. Sometimes, the only way to realise what is causing you issues in the long run is to take a step back. Pause for a moment.
It may quickly become clear what the issues are in your life. If your job is causing you more stress than it is worth, quit your job and try and find something else. If there are people in your life who leave you nothing but negativity, reassess your relationships with those people. Life is far too short to be dealing with things and people who cause you nothing but pain.
Be kind to yourself. In modern society, we are chronic overworkers and put far too much pressure on ourselves. However, it’s really important to realise that our health comes first – everything else second. Taking the time to pause for reflection is not a sign of weakness, it’s one of the strongest things you can do to help eliminate stress from your life.
Build yourself up slowly
Removing the negative things from your life has now left you with nothing, that is not an excuse to run headfirst into new things too quickly. The only place that’s going to take you is exactly where you were before. Take things slowly – at your own pace. Re-introduce things into your lives at a slower pace in order to make you feel the most comfortable. Never compare yourself to other people. After all, you’re the only one who knows how much you can handle.
Fuel yourself with healthy things
You are what you eat. If you feed yourself on a diet of junk food then that’s what your life will become. One of the biggest health hits is eating a poor diet. Don’t compromise your health by living on a diet of fat sugar and processed food. Treat yourself occasionally, yes- but at least 70% of what you’re eating should be nourishing, healthy foods that help to build your immunity.
The health concerns associated with eating a poor diet are very commonly known however diets that are deficient in vital vitamins and minerals are also cause for concern, even if you do not display signs of being overweight.
Try to include a piece of fruit or vegetables with every single meal. If that’s difficult, introduce those foods into your diet by blending them into a smoothie or a soup. It’s easy to make sure that you have these vital nutrients in your diet if you just take the time to look after yourself and do it. Limit sugar, and complex carbohydrates, and foods that are high in saturated fat. After a couple of weeks of eating this way, You will really begin to feel the benefits of doing so on both your physical and mental health.
Make changes to your lifestyle
In addition to eating a healthy diet, it’s also important that you make sure you get enough sleep, water, and exercise. In today's society it’s very easy for us to fall short on getting enough of any of those things. The cause of which will lead us to feeling exhausted, and draw towards drinking caffeinated beverages that dehydrator, and high sugar processed foods to give us a quick hit of energy.
Take supplements if you need to. Get a hold of a high-quality multivitamin. Or even shop on Juna CBD to browse the range of broad spectrum blends that can be used to encourage balance in your life.
You only have one body, and it deserves to be treated well.
Feeling tired or rundown can be a natural reaction to a busy lifestyle or excess stress. If your fatigue becomes excessive, however, it’s important to find out what’s causing your symptoms. When you feel unable to perform your usual day-to-day activities, for example, fatigue can begin to affect your quality of life. To find out why you’re feeling exhausted or wiped out, take a look at these common causes of extreme fatigue:
1. Allergies
Many people are surprised to learn that chronic allergies can often cause sufferers to experience feelings of extreme tiredness and fatigue. When your body is constantly reacting to an allergen, however, it can certainly take a toll. Furthermore, if your allergies prevent you from getting a good night’s sleep, this can exacerbate the issue and cause increased tiredness.
2. Anemia
Iron deficiency is common in the U.S. and fatigue is one of its most common symptoms. Due to this, a significant number of people who report symptoms of exhaustion and excessive sleepiness are found to be experiencing anemia. Fortunately, mild or even moderate iron deficiency can be relatively easy to resolve. Often, prescribed iron supplements will boost your iron levels and eradicate the symptoms you’re experiencing.
3. Depression
Although depression is a mental health condition, there’s no doubt it can have an impact on your physical well-being. For many people with depression, fatigue is an on-going symptom. Similarly, difficulty sleeping, racing thoughts, and persistent worrying can be characteristic of depression or anxiety. By accessing treatment for depression, you can combat excessive fatigue, as well as any other symptoms you may be experiencing.
Treating Excessive Fatigue
Allergies, anemia, and depression are common causes of excessive fatigue but there are many others. In order to treat your symptoms effectively, your doctor should run a variety of tests to identify potential causes. When you consult an experienced physician, such as Dr. Hooshang Poor, you can be confident that they will assess your medical history and risk factors when establishing what tests should be conducted. This can help to pinpoint the cause of your symptoms more quickly, which will enable you to access the treatment you need.
Once you know what’s causing your excessive fatigue, you can begin to take steps to resolve it. If anemia is making you feel exhausted, for example, increasing your iron reserves can boost your energy levels too.
Can Lifestyle Changes Affect Energy Levels?
Making changes to your lifestyle can certainly have an effect on your energy levels and, therefore, feelings of fatigue. If your schedule is too full, for example, or you’re having trouble sleeping, this could be contributing to feelings of exhaustion. By scaling back your responsibilities and factoring in time for rest and relaxation, you can give your body time to recharge.
Similarly, reducing your stress levels, eating a healthy diet, and exercising regularly can be an effective way to overcome feelings of fatigue. Before you begin to make changes to your lifestyle, however, be sure to consult a physician so that the underlying cause of excessive fatigue can be fully investigated.
