6 Tips to Staying Healthy While Seasons Change
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Staying healthy during a change of seasons can be a challenge. It’s important to remember that as we watch the world around us changing, our bodies are changing too. It’s a time of stress. But what can you do to avoid being a sickness statistic?
1. Simply eat right. That means lay off the junk food and learn to love fruits and vegetables. Raw food is real food.
2. Exercise, exercise, exercise. The benefits of exercise on robust health are too numerous to mention here. It’s not an option, it’s something that you have to do. If you’re just starting out, begin walking and work up to 30 minutes sessions, 3- 5 days a week.
3. Get some sun. Vitamin D is made when our skin comes in contact with sunlight. That’s a problem because this vitamin is vital to the immune system. Using sun block interferes with that process. 20 minutes of sunlight can produce quite a bit of Vitamin D. If you remain unconvinced, take a Vitamin D3 supplement.
4. Take an Omega 3 supplement. We get plenty of Omega 6 oils. Our diet is overrun with them. Vegetable oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil the list goes on forever. You get Omega 3 from fish and flax. Omega 3 is good for your whole body including your heart, brain and immune system.
5. Detoxify. Face it, most of us are walking garbage cans. We’ve been eating bad food, breathing bad air and drinking polluted water for years. Eating right and drinking plenty of water help. There are also many supplements that stimulate the liver and help cleanse the colon. That’s a subject for another article.
6. A good night’s sleep. There are studies that demonstrate the importance of sleep. When you sleep less, production of the immune systems T-Cell becomes depressed. No wonder college kids get sick after pulling all-nighters before finals!
As we move one season to the next, put these 7 tips to work for you.
Dr. Richard Fink is both a chiropractor and acupuncturist. Are you interested in a drug free approach to health care? You can request a free chiropractic consultation at Fink Family Wellness in Leesburg, Virginia.
