Health: 5 Tips To Living A Healthier Lifestyle For Cheap

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Your body is a temple and needs proper maintenance for longer life and a healthier lifestyle. If you like to lounge around while others take care of themselves, then you are entirely taking the wrong direction.

In this article, we will explore tips that will help you develop a healthy lifestyle. Trust me; you do not have to spend a lot of money to live healthily.

Buy A Purifier For Your Home

Ever wondered why you have weird allergies at home. Alternatively, why do you often get sick? Well, the main reason for that is that the air inside your home is not conditioned. The best way to handle this problem is by buying an air purifier.

People usually install it near a window, or even, in their bedrooms. Their primary function is to destroy any odors and eliminate allergens that cause the air inside your home to be uncomfortable. We have so many cheap air purifiers in the market that you can buy.

Check https://www.cleanbreathing.net/find-best-cheap-air-purifier-100/ for the ideal product for your home.

Eat Healthy food

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Once you make a decision that you will pursue a healthy lifestyle, you should watch what you eat. Nutritionists advocate that one should cook their food at home. It is best to avoid eating at a food joint because you do not know the ingredients that they include in their diet, which can be poisonous to your body.

You also need to avoid sugar. Sweeteners are better alternatives for tea. Do not submit to your cravings, especially when you have to maintain your weight.

Your diet should contain minerals, vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins, and right amount of fats for the growth of your body. When buying meat, choose to buy white meat instead of red meat.

Apart from eating healthy food, you might also want to try adding supplements into your daily diet. Natural supplements like Nature’s Happiness help boost your immune system and complement your healthy diet to achieve your optimal health and wellness.

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Press Release: Asia CEO Awards + Healthway Medical Recognize Workplace Health + Wellness

Healthway Medical seeks to encourage companies to prioritize the health and well-being of their employees with this year’s “Wellness Company of the Year” award, a new category in the prestigious Asia CEO Awards.

Sponsored by Healthway, the award is open to any Philippines-based organization that successfully health and wellness in the workplace. The achievement can also come in the form of an organizational policy designed to support employee health. The overall accomplishment must demonstrate talent performance at the highest standards.

The criteria are as follows:

  • Management Achievement ~ The nominated organization must present specific health and wellness programs that improved employee health and productivity.
  • Workplace Enhancement ~ The nominated organization’s achievements must include improvements in employee health as measured by improved rates of employee engagement, attrition, retention and absenteeism.
  • International Recognition ~ The nominated organization’s accomplishments must be internationally recognized. This may involve situations where health and wellness practices developed in Philippines also enhanced processes in other countries.
  • Financial ~ The nominated organization must show how health and wellness programs reduced health care costs, increased employee motivation and diminished absenteeism.
  • Social Commitment ~ The Board of Directors must demonstrate a commitment to the development of healthy lifestyles to people outside of its organization.

The majority of the results, new activities or initiatives should have occurred within the current calendar year but may have begun earlier.

If your company is riding high on employee engagement and productivity, now is the time to nominate your healthy workplace and be recognized as the as the Wellness Company of the Year!

Nominations are accepted until August 28, 2017 only.

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ITAW: International Thyroid Awareness Week 2017

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The thyroid gland may be too small and weighs only about 18-60 grams, but it plays an essential role in our body by regulating metabolic process vital for survival. With thyroid diseases, this balance is disturbed, which may pose serious repercussions for our well-being and over-all health. There are many measures we can take to prevent this from happening, though, and this is the driving force behind the people from International Thyroid Awareness Week {ITAW} who aims to raise awareness about the thyroid gland, as well as the different disorders related to it.

The culminating event for the International Thyroid Awareness Week {ITAW} 2017 was held at the Robinsons Novaliches Trade Hall on 27 May. Sponsored by Healthway Medical, Philippine Thyroid Association, Inc, and Merch, the event was a success and was attended by hundreds of people. It was an afternoon filled with informative and educational talks about the thyroid gland, as well as relaxing and pampering treats for everyone to enjoy. It was a free event and as expected, the queue to get inside the event venue was long, and so were the lines at the different free activities lined up for that day.

Video Viewing + Thyroid quiz

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Participants of the day were each tasked to finish a set of activities, as well as a number of pampering and relaxing treats, starting with the Video Viewing, to know more about the thyroid gland and the many related diseases, and the Thyroid Quiz, meant to gauge whether a person might be at risk for thyroid diseases.

One out of 11 Filipinos are at risk for goiter and other thyroid disorders. Here is a checklist of what to watch out for in Hyperthyroidism or Hypothyroidism. If you happen to have 5 or more of these conditions, it is best to consult with your doctor to know if you have thyroid disorders.

Hyperthyroidism Symptoms:

  1. Feeling anxious and irritable a lot of the time
  2. Hands and fingers slightly trembling
  3. Skin and hair getting thinner and nails growing faster that they used to
  4. Heart rate has become quite fast
  5. Eyes appearing to be staring or bulging
  6. Sweating more than usual
  7. Feeling week often
  8. Everything in the body seems to have speeded up, including bowel functions and metabolism, and weight is going down despite increased appetite
  9. Changed menstrual cycle
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