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Valencia, Negros Oriental - Working at home is a trend nowadays due to lockdowns out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Employers also allow this work-at-home arrangement for health and safety purposes. However, one challenge of working at home is the inability to stay fit and stretch muscles while working. There is a great tendency to overwork and eat voraciously without noticing the negative effects due to a comfortable home-work setting.
Here are some tips to stay fit while working at home:
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Bindoy, Negros Oriental - Hunger can strike at any time of the day! The ongoing quarantine period could be a bit of a challenge. Satisfying those cravings means eating whatever packaged junk is available or even trying to cook or order unhealthy options. Also, being at home constantly due to the lockdown will result to eating out of boredom.
Why don’t we try to change our cravings into a healthier option – eating fruits over junk foods! Healthy snacking improves overall health, curbs cravings, fights weight gain, regulates mood, boosts brainpower, and gives us the energy needed to keep going all day.
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Zamboanguita, Negros Oriental -- As mandated and declared through the Republic Act 10028 or the Expanded Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009, August is declared as National Breastfeeding Month.
During this month, the National Nutrition Council, the highest policymaking and coordinating body on nutrition, doubles its campaign efforts and recommends that mothers should exclusively breastfeed their babies for six months, and provide complementary foods thereafter.
Read more: What is Breastfeeding Awareness Month (August) about?
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Tayasan, Negros Oriental -- Breastfeeding is a way of feeding a baby directly with milk from a woman's breasts. Breast milk, often known as mother's milk, is a type of milk produced by mammary glands. It contains all the essential nutrients in precisely the proper amounts and is easy to digest. Aside from the nutritional advantages, there's a bonus: Breastmilk also aids in the development and maintenance of your baby's immune system.
The Colostrum (also known as “first milk”) is a special type of milk mothers’ produce for their newborns just before giving birth. Breastmilk contains antibodies that can fight infection. Those antibodies are present in high amounts in colostrum. The mother can pass on some protection from infectious illnesses she had in the past, and those she gets while breastfeeding.
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San Jose Negros Oriental – Lifestyle evolves with many factors affecting its changes. These factors include physical, social, and economic. Choosing the right lifestyle shapes a healthier future. Learning how to eat a healthy diet and exercise can help control or postpone the onset of age-related health issues. Doing small things today to improve your tomorrow can lead to big changes that can have an impact on having a healthier body.
Here are tips on how you can start a healthy diet and exercise for a healthy tomorrow according to the World Health Organization.
Read more: Observe proper diet and exercise for a healthy tomorrow
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Siquijor, Siquijor – Achieving meaningful health goals requires thoughtful planning. Our body needs the right balance of nutrition and calories to sustain us with energy throughout our daily activities. Knowing what your body needs is the key to maintaining the balance to achieve your health goals.
Most people associate diet and diet planning with short-term weight loss and food intake restrictions. But, what most of us fail to understand is that diet planning is personalized to an individual’s health status, lifestyle, and health goals. There’s no effective “one-size-fits-all” approach to dieting. A diet plan that works wonders for one person could be catastrophic to others. Diet planning is modified, there is a need to take into consideration a person’s unique health situation and lifestyle. Follow these steps to design, develop and create a diet plan that is specifically tailored to cover your nutritional necessities to maintain a healthy lifestyle:
