AFTER the previous few years, it’s extra necessary than ever that you just put your well being first.
The nation has needed to fight Covid, nurses’ strikes, Strep A outbreaks, the worst flu season for a very long time and record-high ready lists and ambulance response occasions.
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Ensuring you’re combating match — bodily and mentally — will help push back sicknesses and illnesses and scale back strain on the NHS.
As prevention is best than treatment, we’re launching our Well being Kick sequence that can assist you obtain a more healthy life-style in 2023.
First up, we wished to know what actually issues to you.
What are the well being considerations that maintain you up at evening and what do you want extra assist with?
We requested 860 readers to participate in our Solar Well being survey so we are able to carry the best recommendation to make your lives simpler.
We ran the outcomes previous Dr Rachel Ward, of the Woodlands Medical Centre Didcot, Oxfordshire.
She mentioned: “The ballot displays the considerations and issues I see as a GP day-after-day.
“We all know weight problems is a big well being subject because it considerably will increase your danger of many critical illnesses, together with diabetes, most cancers, strokes and coronary heart assaults.
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“It’s unsurprising 61 per cent are chubby or overweight — and this matches nationwide figures. It’s attention-grabbing that solely 48 per cent due to this fact plan to shed extra pounds in 2023.
“A worrying 37.9 per cent suppose their kids are chubby or overweight.
“Instructing your baby good consuming habits is without doubt one of the finest classes you may give them. The most effective methods of bettering your well being is to train usually.
“A 20-minute stroll exterior, shortly sufficient to extend your coronary heart charge, is a superb start line.
“Seventy-five per cent are having intercourse lower than as soon as per week. Nearly half of these blame it on being drained or lack of time.
“Growing your sexual exercise is nice for getting your coronary heart charge going and boosting endorphins and temper. It would additionally enhance your vitality ranges.
“It’s unsurprising, however unhappy, that nearly half of responders reported psychological well being points. There was a large improve on this via the pandemic and now, as we face the cost-of-living disaster.
“And greater than half of oldsters have been involved about their kids’s psychological well being. I encourage them to hunt assist for his or her kids as there are lots of organisations on the market to supply assist to you and your loved ones that you could be directed to.”
Over the following 4 weeks, Solar Well being will use the survey outcomes that can assist you make optimistic modifications.
Let’s begin by trying on the state of Solar readers’ well being . . .
- All through January, our Well being Kick sequence will likely be diving into the worlds of vitamin, health, psychological well being, household well being and sleep.
