Did you know regular health checks can help you live a longer, healthier, and more active life? Discover which ones you shouldn’t skip!
Health Checks You Should Do Regularly for a Healthier Life
Your health is the most important thing you should be looking after (that and looking after your loved ones). The better you look after your overall health, the more likely you are to live longer and live a more active and able life.
On a regular basis, you should be eating a healthy diet, getting plenty of sleep, socialising with your friends, exercising, enjoying your hobbies and drinking plenty of water, as these all contribute to an overall healthy, active lifestyle. But on top of these, there are a few health checks that you should be doing regularly to ensure other parts of your well-being are performing as they should, for example, hearing tests, visiting the dentist and eye check-ups.
To help you, below we look into three different health checks you should regularly do.
Hearing tests
Your hearing is extremely important and should be something you are actively looking after – the last thing you want is to lose it!
Part of looking after your hearing should involve not listening to music too loud, wearing ear protection and maintaining good ear hygiene. Along with this, you should be going to hearing tests every year, to make sure your hearing is at its best and healthy. When you go to a test, there are a few effective ways to assess hearing that they will do, to conduct their assessment.
Eye tests
There are a lot of offers that you can get on eye tests which will save you some money, as an eye test is a health check you should do each year. Just like your hearing, your sight is just as important and should be something you are looking after.
Things that you should be doing on a daily basis to look after your eyesight include taking regular breaks from screens, exercising your eyes and eating a healthy diet. When it comes to exercising, try to exercise around 150 minutes a week and this can be at a moderate intensity. It can be through running, cycling or by playing a sport like football, cricket or rugby – this will help a lot with your health.
Visiting the dentist
Visiting the dentist is something that can sometimes feel like an effort, but like having an eye test and a hearing test, it’s something you should do.
You should be visiting your dentist at least once a year for a check-up. When visiting, they will do a full examination and be able to tell you if you have any issues that may occur in the coming months or future years.
Regular Health Checks: Key Steps to Stay Healthy and Active
It’s so important to look after yourself! We hope our guide has given you a couple of areas of your health to think about and regularly visit. What health checks do you do regularly and why? Do you try to visit a dentist, optician or audiologist each year? Is there anything you think we should be adding to our guide above? Let us know in the comment box below, we look forward to hearing from you.
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