Lifestyle
Changes for a healthy lifestyle: Part 2
The most significant issue affecting lifestyles and contributing to ill health is that of diet. This is not just related to how much we eat (though the volume of food is a problem for many) but also to the balance of different components in the diet. The changes needed to make an unhealthy diet into [...]
Changes for a Healthy Lifestyle: Part 1
The populations of most western nations are becoming more and more unhealthy than they were 50 years ago and, at a time, in comparison, when people are much more affluent and better educated. This seems a contradiction in terms. Better educated should =more aware=healthier, but it’s not just the greater affluence that leads to unsuitable [...]
Health and Fitness
Increasing Fitness
People know that they should become more physically active but talk themselves out of doing anything by arguing to themselves that exercise is strenuous and they are not up to such exercise or that going to the gym is probably part of it. These beliefs are not reality and serve to excuse the sluggish lifestyle [...]
Electronic Aids to Health
Blood Pressure Monitor Sometimes the stress of being in the doctor’s surgery and anxiety of having your blood pressure taken in the clinical environment can cause your blood pressure to rise, so giving an entirely erroneous view of your blood pressure and consequent cardiovascular health. Readings taken at home can be more accurate than those [...]
Home
Maximise light in your home
Wonderful sunlight is provided free to use all and in some cases the way our houses are designed totally ignores the real benefits there are to having natural sunlight shining into the home. It is know that people’s spirits are lifted by good natural sunlight (which is why some many feel they get benefits from holidays in the sun), and has a real effect on health and wellbeing. It is also know that older people need more light as their eyes age and that as older people tend to have less mobility and spend more of their time indoors, then the amount and quality of light that finds its way into a home becomes a significant health issue. There are all kinds of way that new types of double glazing glass can further help heat loss and save energy and reduce those cold spots and downdraughts near the windows and increasing usable space within a room. Having a conservatory is a good way to increase natural light and warmth-especially when used as a sitting area for older people during the day but quite often the heat may well be too strong at times. Glass roofed conservatories can suffer the problems of excess heat and sun glare but the very latest glass technologies mean that there is now solar glass which will reflect and filter naturals daylight but without the glare. This means that such conservatories will be cooler during sunny periods than when fitted with other types of glass. Mind you, nowadays people are looking to fit LowE glass to retain heat – so it does depend which way your windows and conservatories face as to what kinds of glass would be suitable. It would be better to talk the issue through with a company such as SEHBAC Double Glazing to make sure.