Healthy Habits (The Best Health, Fitness, Eating and
Lifestyle Habits to Stay Happy and Health Life)
How to stay healthy? While it is essential to be able to
heal, it is equally important and even a priority to play prevention.
Objective: to guard against the risk of illness by focusing on a healthy
lifestyle that can increase our life expectancy.
In health prevention, acting on the causes of diseases is
complementary to the action to treat them. Our behaviour, our habits and our
lifestyle (food, sport, alcohol or tobacco consumption) constitute a
potentially harmful basis for health.
To optimize our life expectancy in good health, we must find
the right balance between our tastes, our desires, our habits and our ability
to evolve or the risks that we accept more or less to take ... This approach to
prevention and health education is based on personal factors that influence our
health status, our physical and psychological condition and our ability to
generate "better living" in the long term.
Life expectancy in good health
If life expectancy continues to increase, we can see that
"healthy life" is coming to a plateau and is likely to decline in
some European countries.
In the world, people today live in good health on average up
to 64.2 years for women, and 63.1 years for men. This decline is directly
related to the increase in chronic diseases that affect people younger and
younger and whose development is related to environmental and behavioural
determinants (poor lifestyle, harmful habits, inadequate diet ...).
More than 3 million people suffer from cardiovascular
diseases (hypertension ...), nearly 2 million people suffer from cancer and as
much for diabetes. There is a rapid progression of neuro-degenerative diseases
(Alzheimer's, Parkinson's), respiratory diseases (asthma, chronic obstructive
pulmonary bronchitis), allergies or fertility problems (one in seven couples
are confronted with it) ...
Stay healthy thanks to a lifestyle adapted to everyone
While these health data are still impersonal averages, they
do point to a trend that affects us all by affecting each in a specific and
unique way. We are not equal and identical to the challenges of our health, so
it is important to interpret them in terms of their own existence to adopt a
lifestyle adapted. Physical and psychological characteristics (weight,
sensitivity to stress, fatigue, fragility or on the contrary special resistance
...), family history, lifestyle and behaviour (diet, physical activity,
consumption of tobacco, alcohol ...) are as many personal factors that may
influence the risks to which we are exposed. In health prevention, the good
reflex is to play the re balancing between these different factors.
Health and nutrition: the importance of adequate nutrition
The health guidelines to follow for a balanced diet can be
difficult to follow, including from a financial point of view. The food budget
embodies indeed a large and compulsory expenditure ... However, without trying
to adopt an ultra-restrictive lifestyle due to a drastic and expensive health
regime, some nutrition advice is quite easy to follow and not necessarily more
expensive than junk food ".
The good health nutrition reflexes: get used to a varied and
balanced diet by preferring fresh products rather than those already prepared,
by limiting excess sugar and salt or fat (foods already contain naturally),
avoiding "nibbling" between meals, containing the quantities ...
As in many areas, it may be useful to question the
relationship between quality and quantity: "eat less but better",
easier said than done ... but still!
Lifestyle habits and health prevention
The use of the car or public transport, the mechanisation of
work and the tertiarization of jobs, urbanisation and even the
pre-urbanisation of places of life make physical activity less natural
everyday ... These habits of life impose the integration of a physical activity
to our days. Objective: to improve our lifestyle and thus preserve our health.
Walking, physical exercises at home, regular practice of a sport, the
possibilities are varied and all valid.
Another health risk factor is the health risks associated
with our behaviour and our lifestyle. These include the use of tobacco and
alcohol, among other products whose excesses are not recommended to ensure a
healthy life expectancy worthy of the name. Without considering life from an
overly austere or ascetic point of view, being suspicious of one's behaviours
when they tend to become too frequent or even addictive can be a good bulwark
to limit the risks.
In terms of lifestyle and health prevention, the respect of
fairly regular rhythms is another essential aspect: be attentive to his own
sleep, his state of fatigue and relaxation ... conditions in close relationship
with everything else (diet, physical activity, consumption of stimulants ...)
... A whole where everything is linked!
Adopt good reflexes in prevention
Individually: after identifying our own strengths and
weaknesses in relation to our health behaviours and habits, the challenge is to
modulate them to find a global balance, physical and psychological. This health
balance will always be singular, it can also evolve over time and with changes
in habits and lifestyles ... The essential: always be able to place itself in a
position of critical questioning in relation to its behaviour and its hygiene
of life (food, sport ...), to be able to detect when they can go from
beneficial to harmful for the overall balance. This does not necessarily mean
refraining from behaviours that are pleasing to us and bring us well-being. On
the other hand, it is a question of avoiding any pathological attitude which
would cancel the benefits of these same behaviours so as to make more appear
only the misdeeds.
To improve our life expectancy in good health, we should
educate each of us on the interactions between lifestyle (diet, sport ...) and
health, well-being. This awareness of a healthier lifestyle should not be part
of a dogmatic and arbitrary approach that would set too rigid and standardised
appropriate behaviour to adopt. We are all different in health prevention, this
diversity is a wealth that must be maintained. But this wealth requires that
everyone asks the right questions and can implement the answers that are
appropriate to them, within a rather broad framework that is the one that
constitutes the law.
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