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Good Fruits and Vegetables for Your Immune System
Everyone knows that it’s important for you to eat fruits and vegetables to stay healthy because they provide you with a lot of nutrients that you need. They can help you lose weight by making you feel more full with fewer calories. Most importantly, they can help boost your immune system considerably while still being delicious and good for you. One of the best types of fruits for your immune system hands-down is citrus fruits. Citrus The most common citrus fruits you’ll find are oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruits. These were commonly eaten aboard ships hundreds of years ago to stave off scurvy. These days, they give you a great…
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Homeschooling: How to Cope with Waning Attention Spans
One of the biggest challenges that parents have been facing during the coronavirus crisis of 2020 is that they are expected to successfully home school their children while balancing their own work from home computers. A quick log onto social media (don’t do it) and you’ll likely see parents proverbially pulling their hair out over the inability to get kids to stop playing with their siblings, fighting, whining, or procrastinating so they can buckle down and get their school work completed in a timely fashion. Help Their Brains: Break It Down It may seem counterproductive, but believe it or not, the best way to get kids to focus on school…
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How to Make Journaling Work for You
Some people start journaling, and stick to it every day, for a long time. But most people don’t have this experience. It can be easy to forget about it, get lazy and not do it, or just lose interest in journaling. Maybe you aren’t seeing the benefits, or your schedule keeps changing so it is hard to create a good routine. The good news is that journaling can work for you – there are no rules or guidelines you need to follow. Journaling can become whatever you need it to be. Use Whatever Materials You Want to Write It can be easy to be swept up in all the most…
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Sunlight and Your Immune System
When you were younger, you probably got told by your parents to go spend some time in the sun, because it’s good for you. We know now that they were very much correct — sunlight has a wide variety of benefits to us, and if you don’t get enough, you’re actually putting yourself at a higher risk of getting sick and being generally unhappy compared to those who go outside more often. It’s important to remember this now with many of us sheltering in place. We need to safely get a bit of sun — while socially distancing of course. Vitamin D Production One of the important parts of getting…
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Proper Hygiene and a Healthy Immune System
Good hygiene not only keeps you looking healthy, but it actually benefits your immune system. In this age of the pandemic, we have all heard how good hygiene helps prevent the spread of diseases among other people around you. Maintaining proper hygiene is the very first thing that you can do to prevent viruses and diseases from getting into your body in the first place. By being really diligent, you can protect your immune system. Wash Your Hands Arguably the most important part of daily hygiene is washing your hands. Your hands come into contact with so much, from food at the grocery store, to the handle at the gas…
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Isolation is the Perfect Time for Journaling
As people spend more time in isolation or while quarantined, it’s the ideal time to self-reflect with things like a journal. Journaling might have been something you always thought of doing but never had the time or motivation. Why not take advantage and start your journal right now? You Have More Time to Yourself When you are in isolation or having to spend more time at home, you probably have more time to yourself. Maybe you work outside the home, so during this time, you find that you have more space to fill up with other things. Even if you don’t live alone, you probably have periods of time at…
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How Stress Sabotages Your Immune System
Many people believe that stress only affects your mental health. Since it’s a mental state, it surely must only change your other mental states. However, that’s not true. As we’ve known for years now, your mental health and physical health are closely tied to one another. Stress, Impact on Blood Cells, and the Immune System Changes in mental health can affect physical health directly. Stress can have a significant impact on your physical health, particularly when it comes to your immune system. Stress comes with a lot of adverse physical effects, and it can even contribute to compromising your immune system. One of the worst effects that it has is…
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Focus on Your Mental and Physical Health When You’re Home
Whether you are quarantined and on self-isolation or just spending more time at home, you need to focus on both your mental and physical health. They are both vital to keeping your sanity and focusing on general wellness. Give Yourself a Break During this time, try not to stress about being perfect and doing everything right. Nobody can “win” at being home and being productive. Whether you are spending more time at home because of an illness, virus, or other reason for your isolation, putting too many expectations on yourself is going to make your stress and panic worse. This will severely affect your mental health and your ability to…
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Sleep and Your Immune System
Getting an adequate amount of sleep is important for a wide variety of reasons. These range from keeping your stress levels stable to affecting your weight. It can also seriously impact your immune system. If you consistently get less sleep, you might find yourself getting sick more often and taking longer to fully recover. When you go to sleep, your body isn’t doing “nothing”. It’s actually quite active during rest, doing a lot of behind-the-scenes maintenance that’s very important for you to stay healthy. Your Body Produces Stuff in Your Sleep One important thing your body does while you’re asleep is produced and utilize something known as cytokines. These are…
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What Groceries Should You Buy While Self-Isolating?
In the middle of a quarantine, there are a lot of factors that can influence what is or isn’t available to you and other people who are trying to keep themselves free of infection. For a lot of people facing those sorts of changes for the first time, choices can be tough, and options will seem to be in short supply. In order to give you some help, this article has some solid advice on healthy groceries to buy while self- isolating. Perishable Foods The first category of your foods are perishable foods. These are foods like dairy, eggs, meat, and produce that have a shorter shelf life. While you…
