NEWS RELEASE

SIMCOE MUSKOKA DISTRICT HEALTH UNIT

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From parades, tree adorning and menorah lighting ceremonies to the New 12 months’s Eve countdown, the vacation season is right here, but it surely doesn’t need to be day without work from sustaining your well being and well-being.

As you participate in winter vacation celebrations, following some easy ideas could be a recipe for a safer and more healthy vacation season.

The vacation season is a time to have fun by gathering with family and friends and it usually includes consuming and having fun with meals. Canada’s Meals Information affords some concepts that will help you make nutritious decisions and concepts for dishes that incorporate loads of fruit, greens and entire grains.

While you purchase, put together and retailer meals over the vacations, you’ll be able to scale back the danger of sickness for your loved ones and associates by following easy meals security precautions. All the time wash your fingers and meals preparation surfaces with heat, soapy water. Be certain to separate your uncooked meals, reminiscent of meat and eggs, from cooked meals and greens to keep away from cross-contamination. You’ll want to cook dinner meals to secure inner temperatures. You possibly can verify this through the use of a digital meals thermometer.

The vacations will be busy and disturbing for a lot of. Bodily exercise refreshes the thoughts, can relieve rigidity and stress, and may launch feel-good hormones (endorphins) that make us really feel higher. Think about creating vacation traditions that emphasize being lively with the entire household.

Some individuals could select to eat alcohol and hashish whereas celebrating the vacation season. Whereas the most secure possibility is to not eat these substances, you’ll be able to scale back the danger of potential harms through the use of sparsely and understanding the well being and security dangers. Test Canada’s Steering on Alcohol and Well being and Canada’s Decrease-Danger Hashish Use Tips for info that will help you resolve when, the place, why and tips on how to eat both of those substances.

In case you do drink alcohol and/or use medication, designate a sober driver, name a taxi or use a ride-share service to guard your self and others on the highway. By no means drive when you’re impaired by alcohol and/or medication, and don’t enable your loved ones members or associates to drive whereas impaired.

When getting ready to collect with family and friends, do not forget that COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) proceed to flow into in our communities. To cut back the danger of changing into ailing and to guard these closest to us it can be crucial that everybody makes use of a number of layers of safety reminiscent of staying updated with vaccinations, staying dwelling when sick, washing your fingers usually, and think about sporting a masks in indoor public locations, particularly in case you are at larger danger of extreme an infection or are in shut contact with somebody at better danger.

For extra info on staying wholesome and secure in the course of the vacation season go to smdhu.org.

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