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5 Ways To Prepare Your Body For Winter
Very often we reluctantly wait for the coldest months because the cold winter season is commonly associated with different viruses, dry skin and other nasty illnesses. By the way, when the days get shorter and the temperature gets lower, most of us start to feel rather unsatisfied and tend to forget that winter is actually a wonderful time of the year. Late November is the best time to start preparing and strengthening your body for the upcoming winter and for combating the four main winter enemies like depression, skin problems, weight gain and melancholy. Here you’ll find 5 health tips in winter season to stay happy and healthy.
- Stay Hydrated. If you really want to know how to stay healthy in winter you should realize that winter increases the risk of dehydration. So keeping yourself hydrated is a key component in maintaining a healthy body. When it gets cold outside, the lower humidity dries your skin and organs limiting the body’s normal metabolic function. It`s very important and not so difficult to provide your body (even if you feel less thirsty in winter) with the sufficient amount of fluids in order to stay healthy.
- Increase the Consumption of Vitamin-Rich Foods. Eating healthy throughout the winter months is challenging for some reasons, but important. A healthy winter diet should necessarily include Vitamin D and Vitamin A which you can get by eating fatty fish, walnuts, Chia seeds, flax seeds, legumes, whole grains and, of course, a lot of vegetables and fruit.
- Get Outside and Be Active. The most efficient way to prepare your body for winter is to find suitable winter activities that are equivalent to your summer ones. Thus, you can burn calories keeping your weight in check and don’t get depressed. So wrap yourself warm, wear a pair of good CrossFit shoes, choose the activity that will take you outside and get you active, preferably then you can get some sun on your face.
- Don’t Ignore the Power of Sunshine. Do you know that your body needs the sunlight all year round and not only during warmer months. Sun exposure stimulates the body’s production of Vitamin D (it is one of the most important nutrients for your body as it supports the assimilation of calcium) and reduces behavioral disorders. The best remedy against a cold, flu or depression in the coldest season of the year is quote ordinary! It is a short walk in the sunlight.
- Use the Right Skin Care Products. As the temperature drops, it’s getting frosty and windy outside, we always have to start the battle for healthy skin. Dry air is a root cause of such skin problems as psoriasis, severe dry skin and eczema. Keep in mind, when you change your seasonal wardrobe, you should do the same with your skin care products. In winter, it would be better to use the creams, which are typically more moisturizing, instead of lotions. Creams provide better protection against temperature and humidity extremes. Besides, avoid long, hot baths as boiling water quickly dissolves the protective layer of your skin, which is very important for making your skin supple and glowing during the cold winter months.
Winter is a beautiful and at the same time difficult time of the year. If you want to maintain your body healthy you have to get started your preparations for winter right now!
Hi there! I am Emily Evert, the owner of Emily Reviews. I am 28 and live in a small town in Michigan with my boyfriend Ryan and our two pugs. I have a large family and I adore my nieces and nephews. I love reading memoirs, and learning about child development and psychology. I love watching The Game of Thrones, Teen Mom, Sister Wives and Veep. I like listening to Jason Isbell, John Prine, and other alt-country or Americana music. I created Emily Reviews as a creative outlet to share my life and the products that I love with others.
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DJ
These are great tips! I try to drink more teas during the cooler months, for the antioxidants, to help me stay awake, and to boost my immunity. I try to consume more vitamin c as well.
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Amber Ludwig
SO much yes!! Except I take vitamin D all year round because Wisconsin never gets enough sun! My skin is always so dry all year round too lol!! So I don’t change much!
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Margot C
You would think that there isn’t much winter here in SoCal, and compared to New York where I used to live there isn’t. Still, the dryness ladies! The feet get so dry it’s criminal. I have to stay very on top of it or they crack!
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Melissa Storms
We try to spend as much time outside as possible, it is overcast most of the fall and all of winter. Everyone in my family has to take vitamin D because we all tested deficient as have most of the people around here.
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Dandi D
Winter is definitely not my favorite, so these are so great tips!
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Peggy Nunn
These are good ideas. I do not like the cold. That is why I live in the deep south. But I will think of these as the temp drops.
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Michelle S
My first thought when I read the title was – I would prepare by heading south! Just kidding, I live in the north and these are all good tips. My skin is especially dry in the winter and I switch to a heavier moisturizer for my face and body.
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Lauryn R
These are great tips for preparing your body winter, thanks for sharing! A lot of people do not realize that it is still so important to get outside and be active when it is cold out. I know that it helps the kiddos and I so much when we do! 🙂
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ellen beck
Great tips. I try and soak up the sunshine when I can . It is cold in the Midwest. Normally by now we have snow, but it has been warm. I get dry skin like no ones business and slather more oils and drink a whole lot more teas. We say pretty active outside- not so much playing as working.
As a dude, I neglect buying any skin products, but winter really lets me have it. Gotta load up on lip balm and cream.