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What To Do If A Health Problem Puts You Out Of Work
Being out of work puts a lot of strain on your finances. Without a regular income, it’s so hard to budget properly and make sure that you’ve got enough money to pay for all of your essential living costs. There is also an emotional strain and a lot of people lose their sense of self worth because they’re sat around the house not really doing anything all day. There are a lot of different reasons that people lose their job, it might just be that the company can’t afford to pay you anymore. In that situation, you can start looking for work again straight away and hopefully, you should be…
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The Most Important Investment To Make? Improving Your Health
Pexels We often dream about how we might one day invest in real estate, a business enterprise, or perhaps simply purchasing stock in that company we feel the most interested in. But sometimes, the most fundamental aspects of our life will be that which is most important. For example, our health is always a pressing consideration that needs our maintenance and love, no matter how old we are, what culture we come from, what our political leanings are or how well we rose from bed in the morning. While it would be ideal for optimal health maintenance to be free, of course, we all know this isn’t the true case…
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5 Essential Tips for Avoiding Sports Injuries
Sports injuries are common for athletes, but they are avoidable. Getting a sports injury can completely ruin the way you play a sport for a period of time. It may even mean that you miss a whole season or don’t get to play ever again. It’s important to do all that you can to ensure you don’t get injured while playing your favourite sports. Here are a few ways to avoid injury. Pixabay Always Warm Up A warm up is the best way to prepare yourself for playing sports. It’s not just a good way to prepare your body, but it also helps to prepare your mind for sports that…
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Ways To Keep Your Teeth Looking And Feeling Healthy
Once our baby teeth have been replaced, we only have one shot at our adult teeth, and once they’re gone, they’re gone. But with, so busy lifestyles and a rise in sugary food and drinks, our teeth are more vulnerable than ever. So how can you keep your teeth looking and feeling healthy? Image Source Brush Them Properly We like to think that most of us brush our teeth properly, but in reality, we’ve probably slacked on a proper brushing routine. You should be cleaning your teeth for at least two minutes. Make sure you get into your gum area and that you’re brushing in circular motions. Invest in a…
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BAM Update #4
I haven’t done a Body & Mind, BAM, update since January so I thought it was time for another one. The focus of this update is being kind to yourself. I touched on this in the past about listening to your body, not forcing anything, Since my last update, I have taken two weeks off from the Body & Mind program. Not consecutively. One week I wasn’t feeling well and the other week I was so busy that I knew I wouldn’t be able to complete all the workouts for the week so I decided to give myself a break. Last year I would probably feel really guilty for taking…
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Some of the Most Important Lifestyle Habits for Staying Healthy
Image via Pixabay We all have different ideas of what it means to be “healthy.” For some people, the term “healthy” summons up images of 30-day juice cleanses, or 90-day intense exercise routines designed to strip away body fat. The thing is, “health” can’t be meaningfully defined in terms of things that you do for a brief period of time, or one off strenuous exercise routines. The reason for this is because the body is a constantly adapting system, that becomes better-functioning or worse-functioning, depending on a multitude of factors. Being healthy – as in, being free of disease, feeling good, and being in decent physical condition – is, therefore,…
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Looking After Your Lovely Legs
Health is a holistic thing, but sometimes it can do us good to focus on a specific part of our bodies, in this case, our legs. After all, they do some pretty amazing things each and every day, and if we are honest, how much care and attention do we actually provide this part of our body? Sadly, its likely to be not that much. In order to right this wrong, I have written the short guide below on how to look after your lovely legs as much as possible. Read on to find out more. Image source Do make sure you warm up properly before exercise Have you ever…
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The Health Hacks You Need In Your Life
Everyone needs some form of health hack. Whether it be because Google is just producing the same spot busting treatments, or the same get fit quick schemes, people are just always looking for something new. They’re always looking for a new craze to try and follow in the hope that it will somehow improve their health, but more often than not it doesn’t. The internet is full of so many different people who are trying to make money from innocent people, and it’s so easy to fall for things when you see such a huge celebrity backing. So many are promoting get skinny quick pills, or their own fitness regimes,…
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Weight Myths We Need To Kick
How much do you know about losing weight? How well do you stick to a diet when you decide to go on one? How much do you exercise per week, and do you think it’s benefiting you? Well, all in all, these questions can be hard to answer when you don’t know the first thing about how weight works! And seeing as a lot of us don’t even know nutritious and healthy foods when we’re put down in front of us, it’s no wonder we find losing weight and keeping it off a bit of an ordeal. Losing weight is something a lot of people struggle with. It’s a process…
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Balance: The Ultimate Key To A Healthy, Happy Lifestyle
If you want to live a healthy, happy lifestyle, the most important thing you can do is find a balance that works for you. If you can’t balance health and fitness with everything else going on in your life, chances are, you’re not going to stick to it. For most people, health and fitness can’t be the thing that their whole life revolves around. Unless you’re a serious competitor or athlete, it should be something you enjoy that you can easily balance with everything else you love doing and the people you like to spend time with. You may make certain sacrifices to be healthier, e.g. watching an hour less…
