8 dangers your apartment hides

1. Sedentary

You may not have been a regular at the gym before the quarantine. But the drive to the office, walks, and shopping helped keep the body moving. When work, communication and shopping have gone online, you need to try yourself. Indeed, without movement, even in healthy people, it increases Lack of Physical Activity risk of cardiovascular disease and chronic diseases like diabetes. Little is enough: WHO recommendsGlobal Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health do 30 minutes a day. And not necessarily in a row: you can do 10 minutes of exercise in the morning and 20 minutes of exercise in the evening.

If you are used to playing sports, do not quit training in self-isolation. Muscles beginExercise Break: How Long Does It Take to Lose Muscle Mass? lose strength and shape after three weeks of no physical activity. Exercise at home with free apps or paid courses, practice jogging on the spot, order a treadmill - after quarantine, it will come in handy to work out in winter.

2. Dust

Ipsos marketing research showedTHE COCOON OF SELF-INSULATION: HOW IS THE CONSUMER CHANGING AND HOW TO RESPOND TO THE BRANDS?that during the pandemic, Russians began to clean their homes 57% more often. This is logical: now there is time to neatly arrange things in the closet and empty out the shelves with stocks of cereals. But apart from order, it is now especially important to keep cleanliness.

House dust consists ofWhat your house dust looks like under a microscope from street dirt, dead skin epithelium, particles of hair and animal hair, bacteria and microorganisms - dust mites. Dust in the lungs can cause allergic reactions and respiratory problems. When the opportunity to breathe fresh air outdoors has become much less, make sure that the air in the apartment is clean.

3. Overeating

When working from home, every rise from the chair can end with a snack. It seems like they wanted to stretch their legs, but now you are in the kitchen making tea with cookies. In order not to chew harmful goodies all day, the first step is to stop buying them. Don't stock up months in advance: the more food you have at home, the higher the temptation to carry it around regularly.

Replace unhealthy foods such as mayonnaise with Greek yogurt, chips for whole grain crackers, soda for water, muffins, and sweets for fresh and dried fruit. For example, dates can be washed down with tea no worse than sweets. But if the latter contains only sugar and fats, dates, in addition to fructose, containDates and Your Health: the Ideal Food or a Sugary Nightmare? also vitamins of group B, A and C, potassium, calcium and magnesium.

Try not to skip breakfast, lunch and dinner. First, it disciplines and helps you plan your day. Secondly, it allows you to avoid a strong feeling of hunger, which pushes you towards the refrigerator in order to eat something immediately. Drink enough water: sometimes thirst feels like hunger.

4. Constantly staying in front of the screen

After a day of working at the computer, many reward themselves with a part of their favorite TV series behind the same screen. Or they sit on the couch to flip through the news feed of their smartphone. This lifestyle is extremely harmful.Electronic screen alert: Avoid this vision risk for eyes. First, when we look at the screen, we blink less: 5-7 times per minute instead of the usual 15. The eyes become dry and irritated. Secondly, display light leads to asthenopia - eye fatigue. Asthenopia itself is not a disease. But this is a disorder that can lead to visual pathologies and a drop in visual acuity.

There are several ways to protect your eyes.

• Pause while you work and look out the window: a few minutes every half hour or hour.
• Spend at least part of your free time without a screen. For example, alternate articles and movies with audiobooks and podcasts.
• Drop a special moisturizing solution into your eyes (it is also called artificial tears).
• Consult an optometrist for safety glasses to work at the computer.
• Do not look closely at the screen and lower the display brightness.
• Choose a larger font when you type.

5. Dry air

To work from home is safe for your health, maintain optimal humidity levels in your apartment. Dry air can worsenManage Dry Indoor Air This Winter asthma, cause breathing problems, irritation of the mucous membranes of the eyes and nose, discomfort of tight skin. Plus, when the nose gets too dry, it becomes more difficult for the inner membranes to catch bacteria that enter it. This means that you will be less protected from external threats by the body's resources. Not the most terrible, but unpleasant effect of dry air - a current discharge when it comes into contact with other surfaces.

Shower twice a day, drink water, and apply a moisturizer to your body. A humidifier will help to cope with the problem more globally. Also, don't forget about wet cleaning. When all family members are constantly at home, you need to wash the floors more often - you will notice that breathing will become easier.

If the air at home is terribly dry, but you do not want to mess with all these rags and buckets, try the Karcher electric mop. You simply fill the tank with water and run the mop across the floor. Microfiber roller brushes wash the surface and immediately channel dirty water in another compartment, which you empty at the end. A steam cleaner will help you easily wash and disinfect surfaces and upholstered furniture. It affects a jet of hot steam and allows you to achieve cleanliness and freshness without harmful detergents.

6. Household injuries

You can harm your health even in your own home. If, in a fit of culinary inspiration, you decide to bake pizza for the first time in your life, be careful with a hot oven and sharp knives. Have you started doing yoga? You should not immediately try to perform the most difficult asanas: there is a risk of pulling something or tearing your back. Promotional yoghurts that you didn’t have time to eat are best sent to the trash can and not have a crash test on your stomach.

Remember that quarantine is needed not only to prevent you from contracting coronavirus. It also helps reduce the risk of sports injuries, accident injuries, and other types of health problems. At a time when all hospitals are thrown into the fight against the cause of the pandemic, try to be attentive to yourself, including at home.

7. Procrastination and discouragement

It's easy to lose your mood when there is a lot of disturbing news around, and you can only see your friends through the screen. Under the influence of stress, people procrastinate more - they waste time aimlessly, for example, endlessly flipping through social networks. In order not to lose spirit, be kinder and more indulgent to yourself.

First, quarantine due to a previously unknown disease is a really difficult period both for the world and for each of us. If you feel anxious and confused, embrace this state and live it without trying to squeeze productivity out of you. Secondly, do not hesitate to ask for help: from friends, colleagues, a psychologist. Sometimes it's enough to just share your feelings and voice your fears. And most importantly, remember that all this will definitely be resolved. This is not the first pandemic and hardly the last, but life will certainly return to normal when a vaccine appears and the new virus becomes more understandable and controllable.

8. Lack of light

It's hard to get enough light if you have to stay at home most of the time. Try to keep the curtains open, and if it's dark and gray outside, don't skimp on lighting. Even a lack of artificial light increasesLack of light and seasonal depression — what’s the link? depressive conditions. When it's a sunny day, go out to the balcony or yard for a short walk, or at least look out the window. Sunlight is a source of vitamin D thatVitamin D and the immune system participation in the work of the immune system.

If you have to look at the world from the window now, let your windows at least be clean. This will immediately help to brighten the apartment and refresh the space. To quickly and effortlessly clean windows, get a wiper. This device makes glass and mirrors shine in an instant, and you don't have to fiddle with water, dirt and stains. A windshield wiper will be great to help you out in the off-season, when it is snowing and raining outside, and the windows get dirty quickly.

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