What Are The Great Ways To Stay Disease-Free?

For most of us who have been living either a carefree, busy, or stressed out lifestyle, we may have failed to take heed of what our bodies really need most of the time. The current pandemic served as a wake-up call for many of us to realize the importance of good health and a healthy lifestyle. It has somewhat reawakened in our consciousness the need to take preventive measures to keep ourselves away from diseases. If you are among the many people who are starting to make a change for healthy living, read on as we explore some of the great ways to stay disease-free.

Wear Protective Clothing

The Earth’s environment has changed dramatically since the start of the Industrial Age, where mankind began to utilize fossil fuels for various industrial processes. Now, more than a century later, it is no longer advisable to stay out too long without protection due to pollution and harsher elements. The need for protective clothing and equipment has only begun to be more apparent at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. As shown by the purchase trends from DMBSupply.com, there is a high demand volume for face masks, hand sanitizers, and disposable gloves among US consumers. This only goes to show that people are now concerned with keeping themselves free not only from this widespread viral disease but from other diseases that can be transmitted between humans as well. Caps, hats, umbrellas, and long-sleeved clothes can help protect you from harmful UV-ray exposure. Face masks are foreseen to find more frequent use even after the pandemic as a measure of protection against airborne diseases and air pollution.

Eating Healthily

One of the best preventive measures we can do to keep ourselves disease-free is through eating healthily. Our overall well-being and development largely depend on the food we take into our bodies. Eating unhealthily or having an unbalanced diet contributes to bad health, poor physical performance, poor immunity, and elevated risk of developing lifestyle-induced health conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and cancer.

As early as now, revise the items in your shopping list and always include unprocessed meat and poultry products, vegetables, fruits, fish, nuts, and seeds. Apples do keep you from visiting your doctor frequently because it is good for the heart and has immunity-boosting antioxidants, dietary fiber, vitamin C, and other healthy nutrients. Get rid of processed foods and junk foods and cook your own food instead of ordering from fast-food chains.

Exercise Regularly

We’d have to emphasize regularly here because exercise should not be a one-time thing or a matter of convenience. For you to reap the full benefits of exercise, you need to do it on a regular basis or at definite intervals. You can have 30-minute to 1-hour exercises for 3 to 5 days in a week. Being buff and lean doesn’t have to be your goal, but rather keeping your muscles active and well utilized and having your blood circulation working optimally should be your essential targets to accomplish. You don’t have to perform complex exercise regimens to achieve this, but regular exercise such as brisk walking, jogging, swimming, and cycling are enough to work out a good sweat. Even when you are at home, you can work out your whole body by using a suspension gym to do lifts, pulls, and stretches.

Manage Your Sleep and Stress Well

These two factors are often the most mismanaged by most people. Sleep is important for getting ourselves recharged, for our body to perform cell and tissue repairs and for our immune system to be reinforced. It’s not that we get a sufficient duration of sleep, but the quality of sleep itself matters. Learn to relax and leave out gadgets and online games when you are about to sleep and avoid foods and drinks that can interrupt your sleep and wake you up in the middle of the night.

Stress is our body’s natural reaction and coping mechanism to adverse life events. We should not totally get rid of it, nor should we nurture it to stay too long and bother us. Rather, we need to learn to constructively manage stress by not letting it disrupt our lives and our relationship with others. Improving our outlook, our social lives, and learning to be more receptive to gestures of friendship and care can help us handle stress better and resume living our lives happiness and positivity.

 

There are many ways we can find to make ourselves free from diseases. Many of them are natural, cost-effective, and preventive, which makes them more effective than medicines and therapies. The most important way to keep ourselves living healthy, long, and disease-free is to make healthy living a permanent part of our lives.