Healthy Lifestyle

Well, there doesn’t seem much in the way of arguments about the detrimental effects to a person’s health when they spend all day, every day stuck in front of a computer, whether it be their job, or a way of whiling away the hours playing computer games or idly surfing the Internet for whatever.

It all adds up to a sedentary lifestyle which is definitely bad for you if you do it for a prolonged period. When weeks turn into months, then you are going to need to think of ways to counteract the lack of exercise that sitting still for several hours (or more) every day entails.

The obvious thing to do is to take regular breaks from teh computer and go out for walks if the weather is fine, or go to the local pool for a swim to shake out the cobwebs and give your muscles a reason for existing, other than to move a mouse around on its mat!

Other things you can do without even leaving the house is to take a few runs up and down the stairs until you are out of breath. Then rest until you catch your breath and try it once or twice more.  You could do the dreaded housework with some gusto, making a concerted effort to swish that broom with purpose and really force that vacuum cleaner head into the carpet! It all burns calories and forces your muscles to work, which is what you need to do to avoid the debilitating consequences that doing nothing will inevitably bring about.

So make a point of reminding yourself, next time you have a marathon go on the computer, that your body was designed to move around and go and do something!

Tiredness is something that affects the vast majority of us at one stage or another and when it does strike, it can have lots of knock on effects in our daily lives as well as our overall levels of health. So this Hhealthy Lifestyle blog is going to take a look at this and see what can be done.

It won’t surprise anyone to hear that lack of sleep is the biggest cause of tiredness, but many people still suffer this condition even though they believe they are getting enough sleep. Well, there are many reasons why that may not be true, such as disturbed sleep where a person is woken briefly several times every night, but as they go straight back to sleep again, they generally don’t remember being woken and then wonder why they feel tired and lethargic the following day.

Whatever the cause of the lack of quality, undisturbed nightly sleep, the result is a day that is difficult to get through because everything seems like such hard work when your brain feels a little fuzzy and you don’t seem to be able to concentrate properly or to have the patience to work out simple problems or deal with problematic people diplomatically.

All this can affect overall health in many ways, from the obvious lethargy and listlessness to more serious problems where the daytime tiredness persists for a long time. It begets a cycle of being tired all day and then not being able to get to sleep at night because you’re worrying about not being able to sleep!

This is where self relaxation techniques come in very useful, such as meditation to calm stress and eliminate the constant thoughts that invade the time when we need to be still, quiet and silent in mind. Yoga and other similar forms of breathing exercises also help, as does the oriental exercise routine Tai Chi.

It helps to avoid caffeine and alcohol for several hours before going to bed and instead drinking a herbal tea such as camomile, lemon balm (melissa), or valerian and hops as these are natural sleep inducements that are gentle on the system and harmless.

Pleasant dreams!