How to keep your body and mind healthy

Some tips for the bad mood in gloomy weather

Autumn always brings up different feelings to people. Some enjoy the season, some dread it. In autumn a lot of people suffer from depression, and the rain, cold and bad weather make it even worse. The days are shorter and the body reacts to the lack of sunlight.

Here are some tips that will help you fight depression or just the bad mood during autumn:

1. Plan your winter and spring vacation ahead. Choose your destination, find out more about it – places to see, things to do.

2. Plan a weekend away from home or a short trip somewhere.

3. Shopping might also be a solution, especially for women –  walking around malls and shops often brings back the smile.

4. Change something about your appearance – clothes, haircut, perfume. Brings back a lot of positive energy – guaranteed!

5. Make sure that your working area is always well-lighted. Bright light will help your good mood and boost your efficiency.

6. Start doing something new – dances, aerobics, swimming, etc. Sport will maintain your good shape and help your body during the cold winter months.

7. Meet up with friends more often – go out for walks, have fun. Generally – avoid lonely nights.

8. Pamper your body with scented bath oils and salts.

9. Indulge in delicious food but be careful. It is not worth it to overeat with sweets as it often happens when in depression or bad mood.  Buy different kinds of fruit and prepare yourself a tasty and healthy fruit salad.

10. Wear clothes in bright and fun colors. Dark colors bring back dark and depressive mood while the bright ones fill you up with energy. This also applies to the rooms you live and work in.

11. If you can’t live without the DVD player, you don’t have to but make sure you watch funny and unengaging movies. When the days are shorter your mind needs less stress.

People that go to bed late are most likely to have an unhealthy diet.

„Good night sleep is the first step towards a beautiful and healthy body“, claim researchers in the nutrition field.

However, they pay special attention to the fact that the sleep has to be not only long and peaceful, but the time of the day that we go to sleep is also very important.

Recent study results showed that people that eat late dinners and tend to go to bed late, are more likely to gain weight because the body can’t process the food the right way. This kind of a diet is often unbalanced because most of the meals are concentrated in the late hours of the day.

Using this data, scientists from the American School of Medicine at Northwestern University Faynberg found a special relation between the time that people prefer to go to bed and the change in their weight depending on different life situations.

The test study was following the condition of 51 volunteers. 23 of them were going to bed late at night and respectively were getting up late, while the rest preferred to go to bed earlier. The scientists were recording the food preferences and the time intervals each person would normally eat. The participants were wearing special equipment that measured the different phases of their sleep during the entire experiment.

The results of the conducted experiment led to the fact that people who go to bed late have far more unhealthy diet, eat less fruits and vegetables and drink more soft drinks.

They were having dinner later than 8pm and that researchers pointed out as the main cause for the change in their body weight.