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Increase Your Resilience with 3 Simple Strategies

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If you’ve been dealing with higher stress levels than usual, you’re not alone—as COVID-19 continues, countless Americans continue to navigate the impact the virus has had on their health, families, and finances. It’s been reported that over 30 percent of Americans say they’re facing negative economic impacts as a result of the pandemic—and those numbers are growing. With ongoing furloughs and layoffs, you might not realize how financial stress can impact your physical and mental health. 

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Originally posted on February 24, 2021 @ 10:47 am

3 Ways Your Desk Job Is Bad For Your Health

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With the amount of people the world over who have desk jobs, you’d think that they’d be a little healthier for someone to be a part of. However, spending hours and hours sitting each day, be it at an actual desk or in some other form, can actually end up being extremely harmful to your health. Even if you are more active during the hours you’re not at work, it takes a lot for you to counterbalance that damage that’s done during the majority of your day. So to show you just what’s being done to your body in the hopes of encouraging you to find more ways to combat these effects, here are three ways your desk job is bad for your health.

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Originally posted on October 31, 2018 @ 2:52 pm

4 Healthy Habits for Desk Workers

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It shouldn’t be an unreasonable expectation that you can be healthy even if you are primarily a worker at a desk. But, it does take some understanding of your situation and a little bit of planning. Healthy habits are good for everyone, but for desk workers particularly, there are some obstacles that you have to overcome to make sure that you are following through with all your goals.

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Originally posted on October 22, 2018 @ 8:35 pm

What To Do About Your Health If You’re Injured

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It can be tough luck if you’re ever injured somehow, particularly if it’s an accident, and especially if it’s a consistent issue that involves pain as time goes on. But rather than just focusing on the fact that you were injured, it’s important to think about what you’re going to do about your health moving forward.

Consider for a moment what some of your options may be. You need to make sure that you call an injury lawyer as soon as possible if someone else is to blame. It’s essential to start up on proper diet and exercise habits to promote your healing. You need to recognize the importance of health insurance, especially if you have medical costs associated with your injury. And, it can help to have friends and family keep you focused on getting better.

Call An Injury Lawyer

If someone else is to blame, for example in the case of negligence, it’s crucial to contact an injury lawyer as soon as possible. Especially if your injury is significant or will require a lot of medical costs, suing the negligent party may be your best course of action. You just have to make sure that your lawyer is good enough to get you the kind of compensation you deserve for the type of injury that you’ve been through and the pain you feel.

Start Up On Good Diet and Exercise Habits

After you been injured, if you want to get healthy again, you must start up on proper diet and exercise habits. Especially if you weren’t healthy before, this is the time to turn over a new leaf. Recognize what kind of balance of food you need, and figure out the best way to stay fit. This doesn’t always require an excessive amount of energy. Instead, it just needs some research and some planning regarding how you go about your day.

Recognize the Importance of Health Insurance

How familiar are you with how health insurance payments work? If you have never looked into it before, then now is the right time to research. After you are injured is not a good time to figure out what kind of coverage you have. Additionally, it’s vital that you understand things like how deductibles and premiums work, so you get the right balance of payments and care.

Have Friends and Family Help You Stay Focused

In the end, if you want to stay healthy, especially after an injury, it’s essential to have your friends and family help you stay focused. If you have a group or social element to your recovery process, you’re much more likely to start healthy habits and then stick with them. You don’t have to recover from an injury alone. You do have to open up your recovery process to the people around you though. [Read more…]

Originally posted on January 7, 2019 @ 5:38 pm