5 Promotional Products to Prevent Illness

You can do quite a few simple things to stay healthy and prevent illness. While nothing can guarantee you from getting sick, these promotional wellness products will ensure your body stays as healthy as possible giving your immune system better odds at keeping away the bugs.

Wash Your Hands

Before we get to products, first, and foremost, wash your hands with soap and water has been drilled into your head since you were a toddler, yet so many people don’t take the time to wash their hands. After you’ve been in a public place, wash your hands. After you’ve been to the bathroom, wash your hands. After blowing your nose, wash your hands. These are no-brainers, yet so many infections are passed along to others from dirty hands. Your hands touch door handles. They touch shopping carts. They touch handrails. They touch elevator buttons. Sure, you can use hand sanitizer when immediate hand-washing isn’t an option, but nothing beats good old soap and water. And the soap doesn’t need to be antibacterial. Regular soap works just fine.

Eat a Healthy Diet

Next, let’s get this straight. Diet is too often associated with losing weight when really your diet is the food that you consume. It will be no surprise to anyone reading this that eating healthier will help prevent more illness. Instead of a bag of chips, opt for some fruit or vegetables as a snack. Instead of frying food, bake it. Incorporate 2-3 vegetables into your meals. Avoid fast food whenever possible. Take a daily multi-vitamin. Remember that pill boxes aren't just for medications; they work great to plan out your vitamins for the week. Eating healthy is hard work. It requires planning and discipline. However, after a few short weeks, you’ll notice many differences such as more energy, better sleep, better complexion, and the ability to focus better on your daily activities.

Stay Well-Hydrated

Benefits of Staying Hydrated

1. Water helps your digestive system break down your food allowing more nutrients to be pulled from the food. Proper hydration helps your immune system stronger and improves the overall health of your body.
2. Water aids in the production of lymph, which is a clear fluid that means “connected to water.” Lymph is transported throughout your lymphatic system and is the first line of defense for your immune system, starting with the tonsils. From the transport of lymph in your body, the lymphatic system transports white blood cells to help remove toxins and waste. Staying well-hydrated ensures this part of your immune system stays healthy.
3. Water promotes better sleep. Your pineal gland in your brain produces melatonin, which is a naturally produced hormone that helps your sleep. Researchers have found that sleep enhances your T cells. These are the cells that are responsible for fighting pathogens such as flu and cancer cells.
4. Water serves as a protective barrier for our mouth, eyes, nose, and skin. Staying well-hydrated allows more moisture in these areas for protections from bacteria getting to our immune system. The more we keep away from our immune system, the more it can fight what your body has already been exposed to.

Water Bottles - While drinking water doesn’t guarantee the prevention of illnesses, staying properly hydrated is certainly important to boost your immunity. With your body being made up of about 60% water and your blood being 90% water, this gives you a birds-eye view of how drinking plenty of water is beneficial.Tea Mugs (Coffee Mugs) - If drinking water is too boring for you, add some tea to your routine. In addition to hydration, there are plenty of other health benefits to drinking tea (especially green tea). A few of the major benefits of drinking tea include lowering your risk for heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Additionally, many teas have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Giving away mugs stuffed with branded tea bags is a great way to promote health to your clients.

Exercise

We all know exercise is good for you, but less than 25% of Americans actually do it. That means approximately 75% of the country does not exercise. Regular exercise helps boost your immune system to help ward off illness. Exercise doesn’t need to be vigorous. A simple walk or bike ride will suffice. Or a relaxing yoga session. For strength training and toning, use a resistance band.

Sleep More, Sleep Better

Getting plenty of sleep each night is important to help keep your immune system healthy. When you sleep, your body creates cytokines, which is a protein that targets infection and inflammation. Without sleep, your body doesn’t produce or release as many cytokines, causing your body to be more susceptible to viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens. If you don’t get a good night’s sleep, make time for a 30-minute nap. It will boost your immune system and help keep you healthier! Eye masks can help enhance sleep by promoting more melatonin being produced from a dark environment.

Minimize Germ Spreading

According to the CDC, the best ways to prevent viruses are by keeping surfaces and hands clean, and not spreading germs from your hands to your face. Not touching your face can be difficult though as it is a common habit. This could become even harder if you are now working from home or just without the entertainment of going out and about. Keeping your hands busy is the best way to break that habit.