Health and Wellness

  • Health and Wellness,  Marriage,  Wedding,  Wedding Preparation,  Wedding Tips

    Having Your Dream Wedding Amid A Pandemic: Is This Possible?

    Looking around and see that the world is not what it used to be two years ago is already depressing in itself, but realizing that we may have to wait for an uncertain amount of time to get things back to normal is another cross to bear. For those lovebirds who were planning to have the wedding of the century in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic truly is a huge wrecking ball that shattered your big wall of dreams. Now, you will need to winnow down every great ideas that you have come up with for your special day.

    With the new normal, particularly the health guidelines and restrictions that you are required to comply with on every event that you are planning, having your big dream wedding seems impossible already. However, with only a few small changes, you can still pull off a wedding day to remember.

    Be Ready For Some Additional Cost For Your ‘New Normal’ Wedding Day

    As already mentioned, we have strict health guidelines in place for the community to abide so that we can curb the spread of COVID-19. As the days go by, the virus causing this dreadful disease has only become more transmissible and virulent, so we need to be more strict than ever in implementing these health and safety protocols. As for your wedding day, you must be ready for some additional notes in your to-do list. For one, you will need to prepare a bunch of health declaration forms for your guests, which will be available in an entrance booth, which will also serve as a screening  booth to check if your guests are showing signs and symptoms.

    It would be much better if you have a QR scanner at the entrance to that your guests can just use their mobile devices to flash the QR code, which will instantly give their personal details that are useful for contact tracing. That being said, you need to allot budget for this. Hopefully you hired an efficient and experienced wedding planner to help you with all the added hassle.

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  • Health and Wellness,  Relationship

    Study Underscores the Need for Young Couples to be More Health Conscious Early in Life

    When two people fall in love and feel their bliss seems endless, they’ll later decide to tie the knot and vow to be together in sickness and in health. Now here’s the thing, a recent study confirmed that most married couples encounter difficulties in committing to that particular vow once the sickness factor affects husband and wife, The findings should serve as a wake up call for young couples to give particular importance to the “in health” aspect, by keeping fit and maintaining a healthy lifestyle in order to strengthen the foundation of their marriage.

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    The study was conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Michigan College of Medicine which delved on how married couples cope in situations where both individuals are older and suffering chronic health disorders. Their findings indicated that the demands of having to care for a sick partner and at the same time attend to one’s own health issues could affect mental health. In the research study, the results showed that the related mental stress caused feelings of depression. .

    According to the study, depression symptoms tend to increase over time among married couples when both husband and wife have to deal with two or more chronic illnesses; such as heart diseases, diabetes that comes with persistent occurrences of related nerve pain. Since those situations will require different types of self-care amd medications, including the need to stay under a special diet, the limitations to lifestyle, the pain and anxieties felt, will put a great strain on their mental health.

    These new findings were gathered by the University of Michigan’s research team using data collected from a long-term study conducted between 2006 and 2014, and involving more than 1,110 older married couples comprised by opposite sexes. The research report was published in December 2019 in the Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences section of the Journals of Gerontology Series B.

    The Main Importance of the Research Report

    The main importance of the study is that it underscores the need for middle-aged and older married people to mind the factors that could affect their health as they get older. What older couples need to understand is that there are some health conditions that they can control and some that they cannot. In the event that they start feeling the symptoms of a health disorder, they also need to discuss their individual health concerns not only with each other but also to their grown children and their physician.

    It is common for some spouses to keep their health problems to themselves so as not to give their significant other and their children cause for worry. However, as this practice can only lead to both physical and mental deteriorations, the situation will make it harder for a husband or wife to cope in managing his or her illness and that of a sick spouse.

    In communicating early symptoms, the demands of caring for one another in sickness and in health will receive adequate assistance and support from other members of the family and from health care providers. Moreover, the rest of the family members will have greater awareness of any signs of depression in both or either of the two couples. Early detection, after all, can help in addressing the mental health problem before its consequences take a turn for the worse.

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