Improve your Health – Keep Yourself Moving
“If exercise were a pill, it would be the most widely prescribed medication in the world”
Exert yourself Gently !
Leading a physically active life can help us feel happier, think more clearly, have more energy, be more productive and, along with proper diet, control our weight. Exercise need not be painful or extreme to be effective. Regular periods of moderate exercise several times a week can be very beneficial to your Health.
Jogging, brisk walking, biking and taking part in active sports- enough both to get your heart beating faster and to cause you to warm up, not breaking out into a sweat but taking it gently – can improve your endurance and help prevent heart attacks and strokes. Combining aerobic exercise with moderate weight (light weights, even if it is filling a bottle with water!) training helps to strengthen your bones, internal muscles, and limbs. These activities also contribute to maintaining a higher metabolism, which automatically helps to control your weight. Exercise will exert a positive influence on your Health.
Use your feet
Exercise is beneficial for people of all ages, and membership in a gym is not required to get it. Simply by using your feet instead of a car or a bus is a good start. Why wait for a ride when you can walk to your destination, perhaps even arriving there faster?
No matter how old you are when you start, you can benefit from moderate physical exercise. When you are older and have health problems and have not been exercising, it is wise to consult your doctor about how to begin. But do begin! Exercise that is started gradually and not overdone can help even the oldest amongst us to maintain muscle strength and bone mass. It can also help seniors to avoid falls.
Protect Your Health
Keep yourself clean
“Hand washing is the single most important thing that you can do to help prevent the spread of infection and to stay healthy and well” reports the U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. As many as 80 percent of infections are said to be passed on by unclean hands. So wash them often throughout the day. Do so especially before eating, preparing food, or dressing or even touching a wound, and do so after touching an animal, using the toilet or changing a baby’s nappy.
Washing with soap and water is more effective than using alcohol based hand sanitizers. Children stay healthier when parents train them to wash their hands and to keep them away from their mouth and eyes. Bathing every day and keeping your clothes and bed linens fresh and clean also contribute to better health.
Keep your home clean
Make whatever extra effort is needed to keep your home clean and tidy, inside and out. Eliminate any places where water can collect and mosquitoes can breed. Litter, filth and uncovered foods and rubbish attract insects and vermin, all of which can bring in microbes and cause disease.
Avoid injuring yourself
Obey safety laws when working, riding a bicycle, motorcycle or driving a car. Make sure your vehicle is safe to drive. Use appropriate protective equipment and clothing, such as safety glasses, headgear, and footwear, as well as seatbelts and hearing protection. Avoid excessive sun exposure, which causes cancer and premature aging of the skin. If you smoke, Stop. Quitting now will significantly lower your risk of heart disease, lung cancer and stroke.
Depending on your circumstances, there maybe technology or support that is available to help improve your health. In some instances a ‘walker’ can help you to maintain movement and exercise whilst giving you a balancing aid that could prevent falling, if you are unsteady on your feet.
Motivate yourself and your family
Arming yourself with basic health information can equip and help motivate you to make needed adjustments for better personal and family health.
Keep learning
Public and private institutions provide educational programs and literature on a wide range of health topics. Take advantage of them, and educate yourself about basic ways to improve your health and to avoid endangering it. Keep an open mind, and be willing to make simple adjustments.
The good habits you learn and put into practise may well benefit your children and their children after them. When parents set a good example in regards to nutrition, cleanness, sleep habits, exercise and disease prevention their children are likely to benefit.
What more is needed?
It takes more than self-interest to establish and maintain a healthful way of life. Eliminating long-standing bad habits can be daunting, and making even simple adjustments often requires strong motivation. Even the threat of serious illness and death may not move some to do what they know is good for them.
Mates need to remain healthy and strong to continue helping each other. Parents desire to go on supporting and training their children. Grown children need to care for aging relatives. Add to this the noble desire to be a blessing to the community rather than a burden. All this involves love and concern for others.
Don’t give up!
Whatever adjustments you need to make, you may experience more success by starting gradually and not setting unreachable goals for yourself. For example try cutting down on unhealthy foods, rather than cutting them out. Try going to bed a little earlier and getting a little more exercise. Doing something is better than doing nothing. It normally takes time – weeks or months – before a new good habit becomes second nature. In the meantime, if you do not see immediate benefits from your extra efforts, do not despair. If you persist, despite setbacks, your health is likely to improve.
In line with the above Top Flight Mobility Aids has a varied selection of fitness and leisure products which can assist those with limited mobility to maintain a much healthier lifestyle. Please take a look at our website www.topflightmobilityaids.co.uk where you will be able to browse at your leisure.
For more information about who Topflight Mobility are click on the link. We are a Mobility company that helps all individuals and elderly to live a better lifestyle with more comfort and to regain or maintain freedom in and out of the home. We operate locally from many of our regional offices throughout the UK. We supply Stairlifts in Stoke on Trent and other mobility aids such as Rise and recline chairs and Electric beds in Stoke on Trent and to other areas of the UK also.
We have a helpful team on standby to support you with your mobility challenges, why not contact us FREE on 0800 093 6117.
