THE DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOUR HEALTH AND YOUR LIFE
It used to be said that health is wealth, but i will like to say here
that health is far much greather than wealth. Thus, if you have a good health you stand the better chances of accumulating wealth. On
the other hand, if you have wealth but have no good health you only end up spending your wealth in pursuit of a good health. So then think wisely.
when we talk about health, we have good health, poor health and bad health and the category of health condition you want to belong
to is based on your own personal decision but in this particular content, i will like to explore through some of the things
that can facilitate your good state of health. These i captioned - THE 7 KEYS TO HEALTHY LIVING. I hope you know
that how Healthy you are today determines how long you can achieve tomorrow and consequently how long you can enjoy life on earth.
Now, let's dive in together. The seven keys to you good healthy living are:
Eat good balanced diet
Drink good and enough water
Practice regular exercise
Take some rest
Have time to sleep
Always go for regular laboratory checkup
Observe personal and environmental cleaningness
How does the above key points affect our health towards the sustainability of our life?
The Great Benefit Of Balanced Diet For Healthy living:
So many people eat,drink,take and chop whatever they want at anytime in as much as they have the financial capacity and capability,
some do it in lack of knowledge of the health implications such actions can result to. Whereas others do it in carelessness but
nomatter which way, it is totally wrong. Atleast you can save yourself the pain of lying in the hospital by making sure that the food
you eat everyday contains the six classes of food nutrient. Infact you can take more of fruits and foods that contain enough vitamins.
NB: When a healthy balanced diet is implimented in your food, you stand the chances of enjoying the following benefits:
1. Protection against noncommunicable diseases.
2. Protection against heart diseases.
3 Protection against diabetes,cancer and other chronic diseases.
4. Maintenance of normal blood pressure.
5. It also boost your career productivity and put you on the side of success.
6. Maintenance of normal body weight.
7. It makes your bones to be strong.
8. It helps in brain development.
9. It saves you from the danger of malnutrition.
10. It enhances growth and development.
Thus, balanced diet is beneficial for all category of people. Hence, what you eat matters
whereas when and how you eat it matters more. You can start by preparing a food menu that
comprises all the six classes of food. Do this for some months and notice the changes in your health exprience.
Why Our Body Needs Enough Water For Proper Functioning:
You can be hungry and still survive and be sustained with water but nobody can be thirsty and
survive without water. This illustrates the importance of water to the body over food. Meanwhile, if our body
must function properly and consistently, we need enough water in our system. Thus, i will like you to take
note of the following importance of water to our body and to see the need to integrate water into your daily diet.
Though water is a free gift of nature but its importance supersedes its definition.
Hence, the importance of water to our body include:
(1) Water helps in the digestion of food.
(2) Water helps to speed up chemical reaction in the body.
(3) Water helps in the circulation of blood in the body.
(4) Water helps in the removal of waste products from the body.
(5) Water helps in Maintenance of body temperature.
(6) Water serves as a transportation medium for digested foods.
(7) Water helps in the lubrication of our joints which enables their regular and proper functioning.
(8) Water helps to prevent kidney damage.
(9) Water helps to prevent weight loss.
(10) Water improves our performance during physical activities.
The need for regular exercise for good health:
There are alot of people who doesn't value doing are participating in any physical
exercise. So many people from year to year never take part in one exercise or the other, even though
it cost nothing to exercise the body yet so many are too reluctant when it comes to exercise.
Any ways, this is due to ignorance and lack of knowledge that the sickness you can spend thousands
and millions to cure can just be taking care of by a little exercise. And the only exercise so many
know about is just football, but i tell you exercise is not just summarized on football.
When you leave that your car and come down and trek for about 1000m or 1500m, you have engaged on a very
powerful exercise. Similarly, when you lift some loads without depending on any mechanical assistance
that's a great exercise. The world of technology has made us to depend totally on machines in everything
we are doing that's good but technology doesn't stop you from doing some things manually because the later
will be very beneficial to your health.
Below are some benefit of exercise to our health:
1. Exercise helps to stengthen our bones, muscles and joints.
2. Exercise improves our physical strenght and agility.
3. Exercise improves blood circulation in our body.
4. Exercise improves our muscular endurance.
5. Exercise helps to reduce the sugar content in the body and brings it to normal level.
6. Exercise improves our performance in physical activities.
7. Exercise builds confidence in us during physical activities.
8. Exercise improves the functioning of the lungs.
Why we must always have time to rest for better healthy life:
Some people are ready to work through out the 24 hours.
To some when they rest it seems that they are loosing so many things
but unkown to them they are even cheating themselves. That
is why when it comes to having rest,
they doesn't care about it, some want to compete with machines, the want to show that
they are strong to work and can do what a machine can do, not knowing that machines also rest.
To this end, i will want to explore with you the need to Observe some rest and its health and life benefits:
1. When you have some rest, your body, brain and system is refreshed.
2. Rest helps you to regain the lost energy for a better performance.
3. Rest normalizes your blood pressure.
4. Rest sets you free from tension.
NB: Having some rest doesn't mean you are weak or lazy, even your creator observed rest.
The need to sleep for healthy exprience:
Sleeping is another factor that promotes good health, and this is the secret behind the creation of night.
But to some people sleeping will mean that a man or woman don't have something he/she is doing. But even when you are doing
something or about to do some work, you need to sleep for some hours say, 6 to 7 hours atleast nomatter what. The moment you understand the health
benefit of sleeping, the better for you. Hence, the following are the health benefits of having enough sleeping hours:
1. Sleep helps to restore the proper working condition of your brain.
2. Sleep helps to reduce stress.
3. Sleep restores your thinking and reasoning faculty.
4. Sleep improves the functioning of your heart and reduces the risk of heart diseases.
5. Sleep helps you to maintain a healthy body weight.
6. Sleep improves your sight and lessen the risk of road accident.
7. Sleep improves your mood.
8. Sleep helps to clear your memory.
The need for regular laboratory checkup for healthy living:
Sometimes you can be sick outside your own knowledge. There are somany viruses that hides in your
body system, these viruse can only be revealed through laboratory checkup. That is why from time to time you need
a laboratory checkup to make sure that there is no encroachment of those harmful viruses that causes sickness in your body.
Thus, laboratory test or medical checkup in regular basis will be of help to your health in the following ways:
1. It helps to detect any sudden change in your health.
2. It will help to evaluate the functioning of your body organs.
3. It will also help to monitor the treatment of such diseases in the body.
4. It helps in the identification of signs and symptoms of nutrient deficiency in your body.
5. With regular medical checkup, some disease causing bacteria can be prevented and terminated in their primary stage.
6. Proper and regular medical checkup serves as a guide for the health personnel to give a direct medical
treatment for a particular sickness.
Importance of environmental cleaningness for healthy living:
All that we have considered above goes direct to us as individual but here in this particular content we
shall be relating the environment in which we live to our health. This means that our environment
directly affect our health condition. A conducive and neat environment promotes good and healthy
living than the other wise. Then if we must be sound, healthy and free from sicknesses,
we must pay all the necessary prize to put our environment in a neat and tidy condition.
To achieve this let's put the following points into consideration:
1. Regularly sanitize your environment.
2. Beautify your environment by planting good and attractive flowers.
3. Cut down trees and clear the bushes around your environment.
4. Aviod environmental pollution.
5. Dispose refuse and sewages properly.
6. Make your environment totally free from disease causing bacteria, viruses and vectors through the use of
certain chemicals like: ethyl acetate, chlorofoam, carbon tetrachloride, carbon disulfide, sulfuryl fluoride,
methyl bromide, ethylene dichloride, etc.