According to data released by the Hong Kong Department of Health in 2016, the current life expectancy of Hong Kong people has reached 81.2 years for men and 87.3 years for women, surpassing Japan and becoming the oldest region in the world.
In addition to the advanced concept of health services, the secrets of Hong Kong people’s longest life are also hidden in every detail of their daily life, such as seemingly inconspicuous daily housework, and there are also many health secrets.
Housework does not sound like heavy physical work, but it is very complicated and trivial. When you get old, you always feel overwhelmed by housework. Occasionally, you may be injured by doing housework.
In housework, there are many details, which can help us protect joints and save physical strength. It can not only make us enjoy the pleasure of doing housework, but also reduce the physical burden.
Let’s take a look at Hong Kong’s health experts. They all have what suggestions on the daily housework of the middle-aged and the elderly.
Pay attention to your posture and avoid injury.
1. When standing and working, place your feet in front or diverge to better maintain your body balance and avoid squatting, kneeling and other postures for a long time.
Osteoporosis is very common for elderly people. Once they fall down, they are prone to fracture. When standing and cleaning windows, hearths and tables, they use this posture to evenly distribute the weight of the body to both feet so as to be more balanced and reduce falls.
If you need to squat and kneel for a long time, you must pay attention to slowness when standing up, so that blood flow has sufficient buffer time to prevent temporary cerebral blood flow deficiency, resulting in dizziness, vertigo, etc. When standing up, you should also pay attention to holding the wall or table and chair to support the body and avoid falling down due to dizziness.
2. When sweeping and wiping the floor, you should try your best to use long-handled tools and not bend over for a long time.
Bend over for a long time, make lumbar spine, waist muscles are in a state of tension, easy to appear waist soreness and backache. In addition, bending down often bows for a long time, which is also very unfavorable to cervical spine.
The use of long-handled tools helps us not to bend over when sweeping and wiping the floor, making us more comfortable and relieving waist and back pain.
3. When lifting heavy objects on the ground, do not bend down directly. Squat down and keep your waist and back straight.
When bending over to lift objects, it is mainly the muscles of the waist and back that exert force, which will cause a great burden on the muscles and ligaments of the waist and back and lead to pain in the injury.
When squatting down and lifting heavy objects, the stronger leg muscles are exerting force, which can effectively burden the waist and back and reduce the damage.
Use tools skillfully to save physical strength.
According to the economic ability, some household appliances are used to replace manual labor and reduce the burden of housework, such as washing machines, dishwashers, sweeping robots, etc.
When cleaning different areas, you can choose special cleaning agents, such as special oil stain cleaning agents for kitchens and special toilet cleaning agents for toilets, so that stains can be removed more easily and manual labor can be reduced.
All kinds of tools should be placed in easy-to-take and easy-to-place positions to avoid injuries when taking tools.
Make proper arrangements and do what you can.
Daily should pay attention to keep clean and tidy at any time, try to avoid [big] cleaning to avoid doing housework for a long time;
If long-term housework is needed, different housework should be interspersed and combined with light and heavy work, which can also avoid always using the same joint and prevent strain. Or do it for a while and take a rest. For example:
After bending over to fold clothes for a long time, you can take a walk and water flowers to relieve waist strain.
If you clean the floor for a long time, you can sweep a room and rest for a while, or do some light work.
When you feel tired, you should rest in time and not finish the housework reluctantly, which will affect your health.
Enjoy the fun and avoid the burden.
Housework activities can be used as a way to relax and do light physical exercises. When doing housework, you can play some music and programs that you like to listen to to increase fun. When cleaning up, don’t bear the burden alone, let all family members participate in housework, which can not only reduce the burden of housework, but also enhance family feelings.