Discover some useful tips and tricks for your health in Carleton
How to choose your shoes?
Preventing any discomfort and any appearance of pain is essential.
Shoes should be neither too soft nor too stiff. Taking too large a point is not recommended, nor is wearing high heels. And especially not shoes that are too tight or too wide. Being able to put one finger inside the shoe, just behind the heel, is enough.
Your feet are the basis of your posture, so you should know that any unsuitable shoe can and will cause problems for your posture, including the famous evil of the century: I have a bad back!
The importance of posture
This is as much at home as at work or during leisure or sports activities. It's even in your sleep.
Positions to avoid
Living with diabetes, how to protect your feet?
Checking your capillary blood sugars regularly and inspecting your feet every day are essential.
Diabetes can lead to a loss of feeling in the feet over the years, it's silent and sneaky. It is a risk factor that can lead to frostbite, burns and injuries. Also, blood circulation becoming less adequate with hardening arteries, there is a risk of slowed or incurable healing in the event of wounds, which can promote gangrene, or even amputation.
chronic pain
How to learn to live with pain? Especially when it lasts more than 3 months or has been going on for years? How to learn to self-manage pain?
There is no perfect solution to chronic pain. However, it is important to know that you are an important part of the solution. For what? Because you can exercise control over the current situation. Yes, you have power, trust yourself!
Why love nutrition?
Because it is a guarantee of health and because it is the only healthy way to slow down the aging process in a natural way, through the interior of oneself.
I'm not making this up, balance on the plate is the basis. Yet so many people continue to eat junk foods like fast food and canteen meals. Where are the vitamins in these lunches? A treat once every six months to allow yourself a little pleasure is a very innocuous thing, but eating it 5 days a week is another, your arteries and your cells will tell you.
Sleep and naps, precious time for your health
40% of people suffer from a sleep disorder, of which 12% have insomnia, did you know? It is researchers from Laval University who put forward these data. A nap is therefore a great way to recover energy, alertness and feel better in general.
For some, nights vary between 4 and 12 hours of sleep, with the suggested average being 8 hours.
The benefits of physical activity
Whether it is light, moderate or intense, it all depends on your health and ability. The important thing is to move.
It can be during your morning routine before going to work, at noon if your schedule allows it, in the evening if it is better for you, during your working days or even during your holidays. Observe your preference because it is important that the chosen activity brings you pleasure, so the timing will influence your motivation.
Learn to manage your emotions, whatever they are.
How are you feeling right now? Become aware of your emotion of the moment.
Are you calm? Stress? Angry? Sad? Disappointed? Frustrated? Sleepy and unmotivated? In hypervigilance? Cheerful? Melancholy? Eager?
Inhale deeply, expand your chest and abdomen, hold for 5 seconds and exhale, slowly, completely emptying your reserve and exhale as much as you can. Now repeat this exercise 3 times, but with your eyes closed and your hands on top of each other on your stomach. Make sure you are in a calm and quiet place ideally.
Make your mind clear
Do you have the blues, everything is going too fast in your head? Even my article on time management and managing emotions leaves you confused? Clean up your thoughts.
Who are you? Give yourself a few days or hours alone to reflect with yourself as your only company. Are you a man? A woman? Single, spouse or parent? Child of parents or orphans? In the center of a large circle of friends or alone? Boss, employee or unemployed? Find out who you are. Do you like what you see?
Learn to manage your emotions, whatever they are.
How are you feeling right now? Become aware of your emotion of the moment.
Are you calm? Stress? Angry? Sad? Disappointed? Frustrated? Sleepy and unmotivated? In hypervigilance? Cheerful? Melancholy? Eager?
Inhale deeply, expand your chest and abdomen, hold for 5 seconds and exhale, slowly, completely emptying your reserve and exhale as much as you can. Now repeat this exercise 3 times, but with your eyes closed and your hands on top of each other on your stomach. Make sure you are in a calm and quiet place ideally.
