The Curious Mom

The invention of the smartphone was a beautiful thing. It reminded us that the world was still progressing and that one day we really would have Star Trek technology, even if things didn't develop on all fronts in a linear fashion. No, we don’t have teleportation devices or mind control, but we do have a plethora of exciting technologies, like real-time satellite navigation and pocket-sized supercomputers, which seemed like science fiction just twenty years ago.

But as with any significant change in our lives, there are good things and bad things. Smartphones have helped make our lives immeasurably easier in many ways, but they could also be damaging our health. Let’s take a look at how.

Increase In Sedentary Habits

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Researchers in the study of nutrition often talk about the importance of the “primordial environment.” By primordial environment, scientists don’t mean the soup in which early life supposedly evolved on Earth - they mean the context in which children spend their formative years. Activity levels and dietary habits are often cemented in the first few years of life and last a lifetime.

    

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When it comes to managing your health, the smallest of changes can be hugely significant. Below, we’ve detailed several good health habits that don’t require a massive change to your existing way of living but can offer huge benefits to your overall well-being for many years to come…

Staying up late on weekends and then enjoying a lie-in the next morning is a common pattern for many of us - but, unfortunately, it’s a tradition that research indicates you should seek to break. Numerous studies have concluded that changing your sleep schedule on weekends can greatly impact your well-being, causing a condition that has been termed social jetlag. It’s, therefore, best to try and get into the habit of maintaining a steady sleep schedule - going to bed and getting up, at the same time every day - to greatly improve your well-being.

Resisting add-on sugar - added outside of the standard recipe - is a habit worth establishing. If you struggle to eat or drink items that don’t have add-on sugar, you could consider switching to a sugar substitute or perhaps use frozen berries for an extra sweetness kick. If you believe you are suffering from low testosterone, then consulting a doctor before visiting somewhere like this TRT Palm Beach Gardens clinic is the best possible option for early and effective treatment.

When most of us hear the term “ear protection”, we imagine only those who work in industrial environments, and the need for those working with noisy pneumatic machinery have to worry about the issue. However, a surprising number of other activities can be problematic in this regard too; it’s worth spending some time seeking to learn more about the risks posed to hearing by standard, everyday activities. When you know which activities to be cautious of, you can then begin to integrate adequate ear protection into your standard routine.

Drinking hot water after a meal can help to improve digestion. Hot water by itself is ideal, but if you need a little flavor, add some peppermint leaves for an extra digestive boost.

Leafy green vegetables - such as kale, spinach, cabbage, and watercress - are nutritional powerhouses, but contain relatively few calories - making them a must-eat for anyone seeking to improve their health. The one downside of leafy greens is that many people dislike their taste; if you experience the same, then you may find juicing makes them more palatable, and thus allows you to consume more.

If you can adopt the habits described above, your health and well-being are sure to benefit, both now and for many years to come.

What do we want from our homes? First and foremost, we want them to be comfortable. Our house is more than just a place to shelter from the elements; it’s the place where we recover the energy that has been lost to the wider world, and we can’t do that if it’s not comfortable. Alas, sometimes out home doesn’t play ball. It doesn’t provide us with the level of comfort that we’d like. Below, we take a look at six such things that can derail the comfort levels: if you have a problem with any of them, then take steps to resolve them.

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Too Cold, Too Hot

A home might look inviting and cozy and all the rest, but looks can be deceiving. If the house has temperature issues, then it’s going to be difficult to fall into the deep level of comfort required to be fully at ease. Of course, it’ll depend on the time of the year whether the home is too hot or cold. The majority of problems stem from being too cold - people seem to handle the heat alright, or at least better than the cold. If your home is too cold, then take steps to bring the heat back: insulation, home-heating hacks, and more blankets that you can shake a stick at will all help.

For many families, the kitchen is a gathering location to eat, do homework, and spend time combine so it is vital that your kitchen is huge. If you have a little kitchen and want to renovate it can be a nightmare because there are lots of plan, ideas and concepts that you cannot do with a little kitchen that you can do for a big kitchen. On the bright side, a smaller kitchen renovation can have its own benefits and advantages, one of which is an affordable to renovate. When talking renovation it could mean something as little updates to a full kitchen makeover.

Today, we’re discussing a topic that has become increasingly important to many of us. Now, you may wonder – how is pain back important? Now, a sedentary lifestyle has been described as the one where a person spends a lot of time sitting, whether for work or leisure and doesn’t engage in nearly as much physical activity as they should. We feel back pain in different areas of the body, and while for some, this pain may be acute, for others it’s chronic. Therefore, today, we’re going to get to the bottom of things – why we experience back pain and where, and most importantly how to say goodbye and good riddance to it. 

Sedentary lifestyle 

They say that sitting is the new smoking – the plague of the 21st century. Now, a sedentary lifestyle has been described as a “type of lifestyle where an individual does not receive regular amounts of physical activity.” Now, aside from numerous other negative effects it can potentially have on your health, a great deal of sitting can take a toll on your spine as well. Namely, it most commonly causes both lower back pain as well as neck pain and tension in the shoulders. The reason it mostly ‘hits’ those areas is simple – most of modern-day jobs involve sitting on a chair, with a computer in front of you, and when you do this 8 or more hours a day, it’s completely normal to start feeling this kind of pain. Now, the good news is that this ‘sitting disease’ can be beaten or nipped in the bud easily – with exercise. The best part is, it doesn’t even need to be grueling exercise – as many as 10k steps will be enough to neutralize the hours of sitting, so just get up, and start walking!