Are beach holidays good for your health?
Sea air has received the general thought that it is fantastically good for you and that smell is a sign your lungs are filled with freshness, but how good is it for you? Let’s start with the good points to going on a beach holiday, and why it is good for your health, then we can make a decision later…
What’s better than going to the beach and having a good swim? It’s argued that swimming is the best form of exercise; this is because you use every muscle in your body, and you get your heart pumping at a constant rate too. Even while you swim you can have fun and in doing so you are making your heart work harder, therefore you get exercise while you enjoy yourself. Swimming in the sea is good for your skin and promotes skin healing. Clearing up acne and permanent scars is something that the high levels of salt in the sea are great at.
The sun is also good for your skin (in small doses). The sun helps us in a big way, it gives off Vitamin D in rays of light which can help fight against skin cancer and multiple sclerosis.
If anything the one thing we can all agree on (as long as you have a good holiday) is that holidays are best for reducing stress levels. Heart disease and skin problems are a cause of large amounts of stress. Stress can cause health problems, and getting this under control could really help. Being able to go on luxury holidays by the beach will relieve stress will help you to clear your head as well.
Now for the bad points, let’s say you were looking at Caribbean holidays for example. Everywhere you look there are beaches all around. There is going to be lots and lots of sun. In high amounts the sun wont be very good for you, some of us will know what it can do. You know what i mean, when we have not put enough sun tan lotion on and then skin starts to peel and we turn red, our skin just burns.
In recent studies it has been shown that the sea air isn’t actually that brilliant for you. Although the air is cleaner than that, say in a city, it contains some interesting substances. Now don’t get all paranoid it’s not serious but it is worth noting. There is a substance that is released by animals in the sea called DMS (dimethyl sulphide), this substance floats around the sea and the beaches and irritates the eyes and nose, it also has that smell you detect when your at the seaside. Another substance that was discovered was nitryl chloride which is a respiratory inhibitor but is the most of it is broken down by the sun.
So are beach holidays good for you? If you do some exercise and look after yourself then yes it is very good for you especially seeing as it relieves stress. Is this all really enough to prevent abyone going to the sea, the bad points aren’t strong enough. So if you planning weddings abroad then go for it, swim in the sea and enjoy the sun.