Health and safety – Health Safety Tips https://healthsafetytips.net Tue, 28 Jun 2022 09:16:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.3 Healthy Tips for Novice Poker Players https://healthsafetytips.net/healthy-tips-for-novice-poker-players/ Thu, 20 Dec 2018 15:02:23 +0000 https://healthsafetytips.net/?p=86 Poker is one of the most popular casino games. Unfortunately, many people don’t know how to approach the game properly. They make crucial mistakes that can lead to severe losses. Here are some tips to help you improve your gameplay:

Relax at the Start of the Game

In the early stages of the game, you should focus more on holding on to your chips. This is very important for newbies. At the later parts of the game, you will have learned how the other players behave. Also, you should be able to tell with a degree of accuracy whether they are bluffing. At the same time, you need to learn how to bluff in order to get a player to fold a good hand.

Forget About Your Best Hand

It is okay to have a favourite hand, but don’t let it mess up your game. If your best option at one time is to fold, you should fold even if you have the best hand. You should also learn how to think in terms of ranges as opposed to hands. Focusing on the entire spectrum of hands that the players might have will help you make better choices.

Stick to One Strategy

Many poker players get overwhelmed and ditch their strategy when things start going well. Such people will go ahead and register tournaments at very high stakes, then they will lose all their money and start the cycle all over again. It is important to remember that poker is a game of peaks and troughs. You have to stick to your strategy in the peaks in order to survive the inevitable troughs.

Conclusion

Inexperienced poker players can make serious mistakes in the game, and that can give other players an advantage. As a newbie, you need to learn how to bluff at the right time. You should also avoid getting overconfident in peak periods. With practice, you will grow into an elite player.

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How to Stay Healthy When Playing in Online Casinos https://healthsafetytips.net/how-to-stay-healthy-when-playing-in-online-casinos/ Sat, 24 Nov 2018 10:01:32 +0000 https://healthsafetytips.net/?p=82 Online casinos have become massively popular over the last decade or so. Playing in an online casino can be fun, but you need to keep a few things in mind if you want to protect your health and bank balance. An important thing to consider when playing in an online casino is chasing losses. This is where, after losing a series of bets, you place increasingly bigger bets in an attempt to recover your losses. This nearly always ends in disaster, usually with you wasting money. The best thing to do if you hit a bad losing streak is to stop playing. Hitting a losing streak can also take its toll emotionally, which is another reason to stop when things are going badly. Getting angry and frustrated can lead to emotional problems, issues with family relationships and cause you to make poor decisions. If you feel angry and frustrated, take a break from the casino. You will feel better for it. It is also important that you use any bonuses you acquire properly and do not waste them. An important part of using bonuses properly is checking the wagering requirements. Wagering requirements are a number of conditions that you must meet before you can withdraw as cash any winnings you acquire from betting using your bonus. Wagering requirements are often very strict, and require you to bet your bonus amount up to 15 times within a specified time period. This can lead to you spending your own money in a bid to claim the bonus as cash. The best way to view a casino bonus is as a way to enjoy some free plays, rather than as a way to win big money. With matched deposit bonuses, it is often better to make a small deposit, so that the size of the bonus is smaller. This makes it simpler to turn to the bonus into real cash, meaning you spend less of your own money and have more fun.

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Staying mentally fit during recuperation https://healthsafetytips.net/staying-mentally-fit-during-recuperation/ Sat, 10 Nov 2018 08:40:07 +0000 https://healthsafetytips.net/?p=78 Whether it’s due to accident, injury or some other factor, having to set aside your normal active lifestyle for a period of recuperation can be deeply frustrating. It can be very easy to sink into despondency and bad mental habits. These tips will help you stay strong and mentally active while you recover. Visualisation: Research has shown that visualisation can be a very powerful technique for supporting your recovery. In studies, subjects who visualised themselves taking exercise or practicing their usual sport during a period of recuperation showed less muscle atrophy and were in better shape when they were able to take up their sport again. Close your eyes and imagine that you’re going through your normal exercise routine or sports practice. Do this for an hour or two a day and your recovery could be noticeably faster. Stay in touch with friends, family and collegues: When you’re recuperating, it can be tempting to shut yourself away from everything that reminds you of the activities you can’t enjoy right now. This is a bad idea, as it will tend to lower your mood. Invite friends to visit, phone a family member or use social media to stay in touch with your circle of contacts. You’ll feel less isolated and more motivated. Take up a new hobby: Something that occupies your mind and challenges you intellectually will help you stay on form while you recover. Language learning, music or a short course in a topic that interests you are all good options. Another great tactic is to take up a mentally stimulating and challenging game, preferably one with a social element. Inviting friends round for a board game or a game of poker is an excellent way to maintain your social contacts while also keeping your wits in tip-top form. If that’s not an option, you could try playing online. Chess, card games and roleplay games are just a click away.

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Let the sun shine in https://healthsafetytips.net/let-the-sun-shine-in/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:30:09 +0000 https://healthsafetytips.net/?p=69 Research has shown a vitamin D deficiency can increase the likelihood of heart attacks, several cancers, and osteoporosis. It can also be responsible for insomnia and depression, as well as contributing to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). In the ideal world we would all get our required dosage of vitamins and minerals from a healthy, varied diet.Vitamins are nutritious traces the body itself can’t produce, so we need to ingest them as part of our diet. Vitamin D however, is not considered a true vitamin, but what is termed a pro-hormone – because the body synthesizes the natural sunlight into vitamin D when it reaches our skin. It is for this reason sunlight plays such an important part in ensuring we get our recommended levels of the vitamin.Medical research has comprehensively proved the damaging effects a lack of vitamin D can have on the body. Ongoing workplace research shows that, besides providing our required vitamin D, natural sunlight provides most of us a feel-good factor. We feel more energetic, happier, more creative and productive, and take less sick time off work.With these factors in mind, modern commercial property design includes the greater use of glass, to allow maximum natural light into the workplace. However, until recently, older office complexes relied on ‘daylight’ or ‘sunlight’ fluorescent lighting, which was a poor substitute for the real thing. Now though, these old fluorescent lighting systems are being consigned to the past.Established in 2003, the Swedish lighting company Parans has developed a system using sunlight collectors and fibre optic cables to carry the light rays deep into the farthest areas of the building. With collectors similar to solar panels on the roof, the system tracks the sun across the sky, feeding the rays into the building via fibre cables. Whether you want to maximise the natural light in your home, or improve your employees wellbeing and workplace productivity, a natural sunlight system from Parans could be just the way to do it.Getting the right amount of sunshine daily is essential. Research has shown that people who live in places that don’t get enough sunlight have a high risk of getting multiple sclerosis, high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease.Moreover, adequate sunshine helps you get good sleep. Your eyes need sunlight to set the body’s internal clock. If you are in the dark the whole time or using electricity the whole day, your brain will not know the difference between daytime and at night.Sunlight helps boost serotonin, a chemical known to give you more energy and keep you positive and happy. Therefore morning sunshine will help improve your emotional being.Regular amount of sunshine helps to prevent certain skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis. Too much ultraviolet rays from the sun can cause skin cancers. Thus, you need to get a regular amount of sunlight. Also, use sunscreen when you are basking Sunshine is important for your health, and therefore you should not avoid it.

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What adrenaline does to your body https://healthsafetytips.net/what-adrenaline-does-to-your-body/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 09:25:43 +0000 https://healthsafetytips.net/?p=64 Adrenaline is the bodies fight or flight drug and it has the responsibility to prepare the body to react to potentially dangerous situations. Adrenaline is also responsible for the fast heartbeat that you experience in exciting or stressful situations. The purpose of adrenaline is to get the body into optimal condition to either fight off an enemy or to escape from a dangerous situation as quickly as possible. To do this we need a lot of energy or glucose in our bloodstream.

Adrenaline alters our metabolism to make as much glucose as possible available for the body to use. Most of this glucose is distributed to the brain to ensure that we can process thoughts quicker and sharpen up our reaction times. Glucose is also supplied to the main muscles to give us more strength. Interestingly, we can also experience an adrenaline rush in situations such as bungee jumping, riding a rollercoaster or playing all sorts of different games, especially when something tangible like money is at stake.

Adrenaline is a wonder substance and has the ability to allow our bodies to perform seemingly superhuman feats. There are many stories of people who have been able to overcome staggering odds with the help of adrenaline. Surgeons often use adrenaline to aid in the restarting of the hearts of patients who have suffered cardiac arrest. The release of adrenaline is normally followed by a rush of endorphins which make us feel good about achievements like winning a slot game or achieving an important goal. This is why thrillseekers and daredevils are often branded as “adrenaline junkies”.

It is also thought that adrenaline prevents our bodies from entering a state of shock when we are critically injured which can explain why some people survive injuries like gunshot wounds and are capable of pushing through the pain barrier to reach safety. When we are safe, however, the effects of adrenaline wears off making us aware of the pain and the injuries sustained.

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How to Stay Healthy When Working Indoors https://healthsafetytips.net/how-to-stay-healthy-when-working-indoors/ Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:41:50 +0000 https://healthsafetytips.net/?p=58 One of the ways we contribute to staying healthy is through sunlight. This may come as a surprise to many of you, but sunlight is, in fact, a vital source of vitamin D, something that we need to promote the growth of bones and to absorb calcium in to our blood streams.Having a vitamin D deficiency can result in soft bones or even rickets. It is therefore important to get a good daily dose in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle. However, many of us work long hours in darkened offices hardly venturing outside until the sun has gone down. Not to worry, with some innovative technological advancement, sunlight can now be recreated indoors.Parans is an innovative indoor lighting system that effectively enhances the lighting in the indoor environment. It works by channelling natural sunlight through solar panels and then, through the use of fibre optic cables, brings the sunlight indoors. Instead of having lighting powered by simply watt light bulbs, the building is bursting with sunlight. This system brings sunlight to even the darkest and deepest recesses of a building ensuring that everyone gets a daily dose. The technology is continuing to be improved, pushing sunlight deepest recesses of buildings and eliminating the dark.The benefits of this type of lighting are already being seen. With vitamin D from the sunlight, we are able to not only feel better but it also helps us to learn and become more productive, and who doesn’t want that? Most of our lives we spend at work so the ability to be exposed to sunlight, particularly those of us who work long hours in tedious office jobs, cannot be understated.With Parans comes productivity. Bring the light inside and feel the sunshine beam through.

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Ways to Boost your Immune System https://healthsafetytips.net/ways-to-boost-your-immune-system/ Wed, 18 Feb 2015 05:23:49 +0000 https://healthsafetytips.net/?p=19 Many people find that they are prone to colds and other illnesses because their immune system is weak. This often occurs because of poor diet and other influences such as consuming alcohol and smoking cigarettes. The good news is that you can easily boost your immune system in a number of different ways to keep illness at bay.

Immune System Boosting Foods

Eating a diet that is rich in fruit and vegetables and low in processed foods can work wonders on the way you look and feel. While all fruits and vegetables can help promote good health, some such as yoghurt are particularly good at boosting the immune system. Other immune system boosting foods include garlic, oats and barley, shellfish such as oysters, crabs and clams and mushrooms.

Take Supplements

Unfortunately, most of us do not get enough vitamins and minerals from our regular diet, which can cause the immune system to crash. Consider taking a daily multivitamin every day to help give the immune system the boost that it needs. That way, even if you miss a few meals or eat junk food due to lack of time, your immune system should still be firing on all cylinders.

Healthy Drinks

Research has shown that drinking five or more cups of black tea a day can significantly boost the immune system. However, make sure that you drink plenty of water after drinking black tea to avoid becoming dehydrated.

Cut out the Coffee

Many of us resort to stimulants such as coffee and cigarettes when we are feeling stressed. Although they seem to do the job at the time, they actually significantly weaken the immune system, especially if they are consumed regularly. Give your immune system a break and reduce your caffeine and alcohol consumption to one drink a day and work on saying goodbye to that destructive smoking habit forever.

Take up Yoga or Meditation

When the body is stressed, the adrenal glands produce epinephrine. Over time, this has an impact on the immune system, causing it to become weak. It has been shown that stress can also cause illnesses such as asthma. Set aside a little time to relax and unwind so that your stress levels are reduced. Yoga and meditation are both great ways of relaxing your mind and body and both of these activities can be practiced virtually anywhere and at any time of day.

Exercise

Just 15-20 minutes of your favourite type of exercise such as swimming, cycling or jogging can have significant long term effects on the immune system.

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