My Healthy Habits

As your life insurance broker surely explained to you, the cost of your life insurance depends on many factors which like your age, the benefits or your health. While some of them are rather hard to influence, your health condition can be improved without going through too much hustle.

Keeping an eye on hydration

Do you think you know how much fluids you need during the day? Long term dehydration often leads to skin problems, loss of appetite, it influences your efficiency and can even cause a stroke.

Teaching most adults staying hydrated is a tough job: they usually don’t even feel the early stages of dehydration. If you’d like to know the exact math, 10 fl oz per 16 pounds of your body weight should do the trick.

Meal timing: are you hungry?

Only three meals per day may not be the best option since your blood sugar tend to get low in periods between these meal times, often resulting in loss of concentration. Dividing the three big meals into 6 small meals will do the trick.

Feeling tired after sleeping all night?

Always lying in bed for ages even though you feel soooo tired? Maybe all you need is to sleep less! What you need is to find out how much sleep your body actually needs. The following night sleep only for 5 hours - just go to sleep late and get up really early. You should fell asleep soon after you went to bed and keep asleep until the alarm wakes you up. If that’s true, keep adding extra half hour of sleep every night as long as you sleep the whole time. You will experience much more energy during your day if you get rid of the tossing and turning.

Quitting smoking

What actually happens inside of you when you give up smoking? In only 24 hours the chances of you suffering from heart attack decrease and your nerves starts to re-grow; within 48 hours you will be able to smell and taste properly . It takes about 30 days for the aggravating cough vamoose and for your lungs to start operating almost as if you never smoked.

Have you got a pet?

If your blood pressure is not what it used to be, why don’t you get a pet (dog or cat) - it will help to lower your blood pressure.
Because of more exercise that comes with owning a companion animal, your heart rate and blood pressure get back closer to the more healthy level.

Spend more time off

People usually take vacation in order to take a break from their every day workload. But did you know it also protects your heart? Frequent vacation decreases the risk of heart attack and you are therefore up to 8 times less likely to suffer heart attack if you go on holiday at least twice a year.

Laugh out loud

Most people guess that laughing is supposed to be good for them. But how exactly can laugh improve our health? Believe it or not, laugh could protect you from a heart attack: laughing lessens a stress hormone that has been linked to heart disease, lowers your blood pressure by expanding your blood vessels.