We met two extreme seasons that need special handling, summer and winter. Both seasons had a good physical preparation needed to ensure the health and fitness. Without a healthy and fit body ensure our activities are very disturbed.
Here are some tips for maintaining health and fitness, especially in winter:
1. Prepare a good body power
- Live a healthy diet by eating foods that contain adequate nutrients protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins
and minerals according to health status.
- Taking vitamin C and vitamin B complex.
- Get enough sleep (6-8 hours) and use a blanket at bedtime.
- Avoid stress.
- Drink at least eight glasses of water a day while not thirsty. Do not be afraid to urinate frequently, it is
normal due to the influence of cold air.
- The use of various spices such as ginger, cloves, lemongrass, pepper, chili in drinks and cooking
because it is warm.
- Appropriate exercise routine physical abilities even just walk away. If a healthy body, try to walk 10-15
minutes during the day despite the cold air. In addition to body shape as it moves, sun exposure adds
to the white blood cells, especially lymphocytes whose function is to attack the disease.
- Do not be lazy. Stay tuned as usual because idleness will add to the chill.
2. Maintain healthy skin and hair
Hair and skin is the most visible changes in the winter, so it must be kept in a way :
- Use moisturizing cream and do not bathe too often (just 1 time a day) and do not use water that is too
hot, to prevent dry skin.
- Using a lip moisturizer (lypgloss).
- Reduce the use of a blow dryer to dry the hair so as not to dry and cracked on the ends of hair.
For those who have heart disease, diabetes, asthma and arthritis should be treated and follow the doctor's advice in order to control the disease.
In addition to maintaining physical, we need to consider other means in the winter to help control extreme conditions :
1. Prepare equipment for winter clothing
Prepare a set of clothes that can cover the body properly. Thermal shirts, sweaters, jackets, coats, scarves, gloves, beanies hat, warm socks and boots use in accordance with the need to maintain our body heat, which is proportional to the degree of chill in the air and the body's ability to face the cold. The colder the thicker and more complete equipment used. Use hot packs if the air is too cold for people with arthritis or hand. There are also hot packs for use in the shoe.
2. Consider air circulation, lighting, temperature and humidity of the room.
Although it is very cold outside air circulation still needs to happen. Open windows at regular intervals even if only briefly, about enough to turn the air. Open curtains during the day. Sunlight can kill disease bacteria, viruses and fungi. Bacteria in the air within 10 minutes destroyed by sunlight.
3. Use space heaters, electric carpet when the temperature is cold, according to our resistance to cold.
Keep moist enough room to add a humidifier or hang one or two wet towels or put a pan of water in the room.
4. Monitor the weather every day in order to prepare well.
That's a few tips for the winter. Hopefully health is maintained and comfortably through the season.
