Be Productive — Stay Healthy (Part 2)!

We do not want to spend our time wasted recov­er­ing from minor ill­ness.  Nor do we want to spend­ing addi­tional time strug­gling with minor cold and flu.  There­fore, it is essen­tial for us to watch out for changes to our body con­di­tions.  It is always wise to lis­ten to our body, know our lim­its and get ample amount of rest when we start to feel our body “falling apart”.  Besides tak­ing our­selves at work, we need to main­tain a healthy body out­side of work as well.  Our pro­duc­tive depends on our health!  Find out more with our addi­tional tips to keep you healthy in and out of work!

1. Sleep well – Do not deprive your­self from the well-deserved sleep.  Sleep ample amount of time.  That is about 6 to 7 hours a day.  Sleep more when you feel that you are extra tired.  Sleep an aver­age of 6 hours for your body to recover itself from a day’s work.  Chances that if you deprive your­self from sleep, you get tired the next day and your body will work harder than nor­mal to keep you going.  And in this way, the more likely you will break down eas­ily if you keep hav­ing such a sleep deprived lifestyle.  Every once in a week, let your body sleep more than it should if you have been sleep deprived for the week.  Let the body have a chance to fully recover through these addi­tional hours of rest.
2. Clear the mind before you sleep – Most often, even when we lay our­selves on the bed, our mind will still be think­ing of the day’s events, hap­pen­ings and mak­ing plans for tomor­row or the week.  Through this you get insom­nia by allow­ing your­self the thoughts run­ning about in your head.  Clear those thoughts.  It’s time to let the mind rest.  Give your body the well deserved rest and for­get about the work.  You need this for you to have a qual­ity and undis­turbed sleep.  This is very much needed for your body to recover to pre­pare itself for the following’s day challenges!
3. Keep caf­feine intake low – Caf­feine has no nutri­tion ben­e­fits except to keep you alert, awake and addicted.  Keep your caf­feine low so that you won’t run into addic­tion of it.  Caf­feine can be found in var­i­ous forms such as your Espresso, coke, sweets, drugs, etc.  Caf­feine over­doses can lead to ner­vous­ness, irri­tabil­ity, anx­i­ety, tremu­lous­ness, mus­cle twitch­ing, insom­nia, headaches, res­pi­ra­tory alka­lo­sis and heart pal­pi­ta­tions.  There­fore, before you think of get­ting another Espresso over the cof­fee brew­ing machine, think again if you want to risk your health.
4. Drink lots of water – We mean plain water. No cof­fee.  No coke. No soda.  No sweet­ened drinks.  Water helps to detox­ify your body and most of our body con­sist of water which essen­tially means, we need water to for our body to func­tion prop­erly.  When you con­sume less water than nor­mal, you run the chance of get­ting ill as your body is not replen­ish­ing the required fluid for the body to func­tion well.  There­fore, take time to have a glass of water.  Make a form of log­i­cal break which you can walk to the dis­penser machine to have a drink.  You get addi­tional reward for stretch­ing and walk­ing to the dis­penser machine too!
5. Quit smok­ing – If you smoke, take the oppor­tu­nity to quit now.  Other than the long-terms effect of smok­ing (wrin­kles, yel­low teeth, can­cer), smok­ing increases the heart­beat and can cre­ate feel­ings of anx­i­ety in teens and young adults.  Get a health­ier body by quit­ting smok­ing now!  You do want to feel anx­ious all the time at work!

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