Physical Wellness During COVID-19

Physical Wellness is making choices to avoid harmful habits and practice actions that support your physical body, health and safety. It includes recognizing the need for physical activity, sleep and nutrition. The abrupt changes brought on by COVID-19 may have impacted any regular physical wellness routines one had or brought on new challenges making it more difficult to make choices to best support you physical body, health and safety.  

Here are some resources for you to consider.

Use of cloth face coverings to help slow the spread of COVID-19

Facemask from a t-shirt

Physical activity:

Binghamton University Campus Recreation

Sleep:

Advice for sleeping well during the COVID-19 outbreak

Sleep Health Foundation: Getting good sleep during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nutrition:

American Society for Nutrition: Making Health and Nutrition a priority during the Coronoavirus Pandemic

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

UNICEF: Easy, affordable and healthy eating tips during the coronavirus outbreak

Harvard: Food safety, nutrition and wellness during COVID-19

If you or a loved one is sick:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: What to do if you are sick

Sex and relationships:

Popular Science: An expert guide to love and sex during a pandemic

Planned Parenthood: COVID-19 and your sexual health

Proper Handwashing Techniques:

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Handwashing to slow