7 Tips to Stay Healthy and Happy this Winter #ColdFluandYou
Now that the colder months are upon us, and not going away in the distant future, our bodies become more susceptible. During cold and flu season, it is vital that we keep our bodies happy, healthy and our immune system strong. Here are some helpful tips to keep you and your family better equipped for the dreaded cold and flu season. 
- Keep Hand Sanitizer readily available – Having a good, portable hand sanitizer in your purse or handbag is essential. This gives you the power to quickly clean your hands and your families hands of harmful bacteria and germs while you are out.
- Join a gym – While you know that it may be more populated and crowded in the winter, keeping your body and immune system strong during the colder months will help you fight off infection. Research studies have shown that the more activity you complete, you are less likely to catch a cold.
- Take a daily Multivitamin – Making sure you take your required daily doses of essential vitamins like A, B12, C and D will give your body the nutrients to stay strong and thwart off any infections that might arise.
- Get plenty of rest – The body needs a good amount of sleep each and every night. If your body is too tired, it can make it harder to fight against infection. Getting a good amount of sleep each need helps.
- Drink Water – 8-10 glasses of water is a normal, recommended amount of water needed to keep your body fluid, hydrated and healthy. The winter months can make you feel low, lethargic and just down. It is helpful to be hydrated to feel better, and fight off illness.
- Be a little stingy – Sharing little things like a pen, or even a drink with you kids, can mean exposure to germs. From the workplace, to their school, you never know what germs and bacteria anyone will encounter, so keeping your exposure low helps.
- Plenty of fruits and veggies – Increasing your daily dose of these foods can help keep your immune system stronger, especially those tasty citrus fruits like oranges and grapefruit.
While these tips are just suggestions to stay healthier, always consulting with your physician is best. All of these tips may not work consecutively, but will give you something to start with for your family.
Also, remember to keep stocked up on things you need this year, like hand sanitizer good foods, medicines to fight a cold early and more. Here are some of my favorite printable coupons to help you save on things needed.
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Whatever your needs are this cold and flu season, find special savings to stock up on the items for you and your family. Do you have some helpful tips? Share in the comments below.
We are recleaning everything again. My husband is still sick so we are treating it like we need to renew the killing of the germs again.
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I like al the terrific coupons offered. I would like to use the Save $1.25/1 Marie Callender’s Frozen Meal or Pot Pie.
I just bought some more oranges on your advise, along with some menthol salve to help with that cold.
I am making sure we do all we can to avoid getting sick. Thank you for putting all them together for us.
I definitely follow the tip to Take a daily Multivitamin. I make sure I remember each day and I also take Omega.
I will take all seven tips in consideration for the flu season. Any tips to stay healthy is a plus.
I am using some of these coupons to get stuff for my husband’s cold. Thank you for the advise and coupons.
Thats for the tips. Its hard to remember to when things get so busy with the holidays sometimes.
Hand sanitizer is definitely a must during the flu season. I keep it at work and in my car.
I just bought some more hand sanitizer. We use it after we touch public stuff.
My granddaughter started to cough over the weekend. We put menthol salve on the soles of her feet and put socks on her. We did this 24 hours a day. After 48 hours…. she was 90% better. So try this if all your good suggestions do not work on everyone.
I have also started taking extra C now that it is cold and people have the sniffles.
Drinking water is super important! Thanks for the tips 🙂
I am stingy during the winter months. If people use my things, I wipe them down.
Its always great to get new advice , thank you.
These are really good tips. I do them all except I haven’t joined a gym yet.
I am trying to drink more water… I am not good about that and I know it is good for us. Thanks for the reminder.
thank you for the good advise. i hate having a cold.
Wow, I love being able to find all kinds of cold remedies on one page. Thank you so much for sharing. I hope we all have a cold-free winter.
This fruit looks yum
Thank you for the advise and all those great coupons. i really appreciate it.