3 Things To Do For Your Health

As the coronavirus continues to spread all over the world, anxiety, stress, and paranoia in people are gradually increasing. Changes in everyday life due to the pandemic and an increase in the time spent at home negatively affect the psychology and physical health of people.

Let's see what advice we have today.

1) Sleep is a need that, unfortunately, is seriously ignored by many today. It is dec that an adult, on average between the ages of 18 and 50, needs between 7 and 9 hours of sleep. It is known that this need increases after periods of heavy training, illness. (NFS,2015)

Not meeting the need for sleep causes conditions such as fatigue, reluctance, depressed mood in a person during the day. At the same time, not getting enough amount of sleep also negatively affects the ability to focus and memory, and can weaken the immune system. (Cappuccio et al.2010)

How can we improve the quality?

Not just quantity, the quality of sleep matters. Sitting in a dim environment before going to bed, stopping looking at electronic gadgets if possible, ventilating your bedroom, making sure that the room you are sleeping in is cool can improve sleep quality.

2) Be the Active Version of You

We know that you are tired of being told "be active, do sports", yet this is a must for a healthy life. WHO (World Health Organization) recommends a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate-tempo exercise or 75 minutes of high-tempo exercise per week for an adult beer. (WHO,2011)

Speaking of exercise, it's as important to make it sustainable as it is to exercise. Be sure that you are doing an activity that you like. 

Sport is one of the must-haves in the sedentary world we are in, and adding it to our lives is very important for long-term health.

3) Stress Management

There is no doubt that we have been struggling with stress more than enough since the pandemic started. For the last two years, these unmanageable concerns have affected our eating behavior the most. Although this is an understandable response/situation, constantly choosing eating or drinking for emotional management purposes can negatively affect a person's weight status and health in the long run. It is crucial to strengthen our sense of stress management for long-term health.

So, the question is how to cope with stress. Behaviors that help us to cope with stress are called "coping behaviors".

• Hobbies,
• Exercising,
• Walking,
• Socializing: spending time with loved ones,
• Me-Time: "the time a person has to himself or herself, in which to do something for his or her own enjoyment" (Collins Dictionary)
• Therapy
• Meditation
• Self Care Activities
• Smoking
• Eating

...are some examples of coping behaviors.

People use one or more of these behaviors together to cope with stress. If other behaviors are neglected, people often manage their stress by eating, that is our deepest coping behavior. Hobbies, self-care, and other similar behaviors that are seen as "not necessary" by some people are crucial. Making time for these activities is necessary for our long-term health.