Protect your health in your own home

Usually, the advice for people who want to protect their health is to review the lifestyle. However, the latest research finds, you also need to keep an eye on your home.

Habitat can affect your health

Skin pruritus, stress may be due to the wall color

If your home has walls painted red or orange, be wary . According to a recommendation by the British Ministry of Health regarding hospital lighting and design, these colors increase stress, anxiety and are more likely to cause itching (possibly because they remind us of redness of the skin).

Brian Wansink, an expert in eating habits at Cornell University (USA), said bright colors stimulate the brain and make us eat faster . The bright white kitchen can bring the same effect.

For bedrooms, blue seems to be the best option . A recent survey found that people who slept in a blue room seemed to have sex more often than those who slept in more neutral gray or beige rooms. And the blue bedroom also helps people get drunk longer, according to a Travelodge study.

Headaches, eye strain due to watching TV too close

For the perfect experience, modern TV equipment manufacturers recommend, the optimal viewing distance of the TV is 1.5 times the width of the screen diagonal. So, for a 32-inch television, you should sit about 1.2 meters away from the screen.

Sitting too close to watching TV can increase the risk of eye strain and headache , according to Daniel Hardiman-McCartney, clinical advisor to the College of Ophthalmology (UK). Mr. Hardiman-McCartney advises people to sit 1 - 3 meters away from the screen, regardless of the size of the TV, because this distance helps the eyes relax.

You also need to adjust the lights so that watching TV is not annoying. A study by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) found that eye strain will be more serious if the light in the room is darker than the light emitted by the television.

Difficulty sleeping, obesity because of the night light

Studies have found that leaving bright lights at night disrupts our natural sleep -wake cycle and this can affect other body functions, such as hormone production. , and are linked to health problems, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and even cancer.

According to researchers at Ohio University (USA), women often put lights on when they get enough light to see through the night at risk of owning a larger waist. Although it is unclear exactly why, but the team said, the light has upset the body's circadian clock and somehow changed the metabolic rate.

Dr. Richard Stevens, a breast cancer specialist, recommends that we use dimmer lights and more red light in the evening because they are less harmful to the human body's biological clock.

Skin may be irritated by tap water

One factor that is also important for health is that the tap water you use is "hard" water (water contains a lot of calcium cations (Ca2 +) and magnesium (Mg2 +)) or "soft " water (water contains little or no contains calcium cation (Ca2 +) and magnesium (Mg2 +)), and this depends on where you live.

Soft water is found to be associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular and liver disease , as it contains less magnesium - which helps protect the heart and liver - less. Meanwhile, studies found higher rates of skin diseases such as eczema and dermatitis in hard water areas. This may be because hard water causes drier or because it encourages us to use more foaming products (because the minerals in hard water prevent them from foaming).