The Health Blog

If you decided to apply for a life insurance, improving your health condition could considerably lower its price, which is something your life insurance broker most likely mentioned. So let’s get better!

Staying hydrated

Do you drink enough? Probably not, even if you think so. If you don’t take care of your hydration, you can end up with skin problems, trouble concentrating or even with a stroke.

Teaching most adults staying hydrated is a tough job: they usually don’t even feel the early stages of dehydration. So all you need for a proper hydration is to drink 10 fl oz (1 big glass) of water per 16 pounds of your weight per day.

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. Therefore eating smaller portions 5 or 6 times during the day should fix the problem.

Feeling tired after sleeping all night?

Always tossing and turning in bed, waiting for a dream to rescue you? 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 go to bed really late and allow yourself to sleep for only 5 hours. If you feel you fell asleep fast and was asleep until your alarm went off, you may add some extra 30 minutes the next night. Feel free to add 30 more minutes every night, but only as long as you sleep the whole night. You will soon find out that just a few hours of deep sleep are better than many hours of bad sleep.

Giving up smoking

What are the processes in you body after you put down the last cigarette? Within a day, your change of a heart attack decreases, within two days your nerve endings starts growing again. After about one month the annoying coughing will finally leave you and your lung function will increase.

Get a pet

If you have troubles with high blood pressure or/and heart rate, getting a pet might help you with it.
Why is that? The most likely reason is the increase of exercise one experience after getting a dog, but also the presence of another living soul simply have good effect and especially on those that got used to living alone.

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? According to a study at The State University of New York, middle-age women who didn’t take frequent vacations have 8x the risk of either having a heart attack or dying of heart disease.

Laugh out loud

Have you ever wondered why is laugh so good for your health? By lowering your blood pressure laugh decreases the chances of heart attack and it also reducing stress hormones.