What is healthy living?
Adopting healthcare practices in an individual’s daily life
Daily consumption of the major food groups
Exercising at least thrice a week to keep fit
An individual should utilize technological healthcare practices to keep fit to ensure body metabolism functions as required. For instance, regular health check-ups are vital to ensure optimal health conditions by a person. Besides, daily uptake of the major food groups such as carbohydrates, proteins, and vitamins are vital in maintaining a balanced diet thus a strong immune system (Loef and Harald, 165). For example, carbohydrates provide the energy required by the body while proteins serve as the bodybuilding block. Finally, training at least thrice a week is essential in achieving fitness goals and living a healthy life. As such, healthy living is an all-round initiative undertaken to stay fit and helps in combating depression and anxiety.
Why a healthy lifestyle
Prevents the prevalence of chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and heart diseases
Helps reduce the risks of any unremitting disease
Food intake impacts an individual’s health
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle limits the prevalence of chronic diseases caused by poor eating habits. As such, an individual eat a balanced diet and cautious of the amount consumed from each food group. For instance, eating inorganic food leads to cancer thus the amounts must be significantly reduced to maintain healthy living (Spring et al., 75). Besides, a healthy lifestyle provides pharmacological and psychological help in combating the risks posed by unremitting ailments thus reducing their impact on an individual’s body. Finally, healthy living by consuming the right proportions of food help adopt a healthy lifestyle to mitigate risks posed by chronic diseases.
Ways to achieve healthy living
Practice cardiovascular workouts to exercise your heart
Controlling body weight
Sleeping properly
Cardiovascular exercises such as swimming and cycling are vital in achieving healthy living. As such, heart-pumping aerobic exercises are recommended to ensure the heart continuously pumps blood to all body organs and helps reduce excess fats. Also, controlling body weight by building lean muscles is vital in increasing the body metabolism thus living a healthy life. Moderate body weights help reduce risks posed by excessive fats and cholesterol in the body which leads to heart-related diseases (Loef and Harald, 167). In addition, sleeping properly plays a key role in maintaining a healthy lifestyle since sleep helps heal and repair blood and heart vessels. Lack of sleep leads to increased risks of heart and kidney problems.
Benefits of healthy living
Developing a strong immune system
Reducing risks resulting from chronic diseases
Improving individual wellbeing
A healthy lifestyle is key in achieving a strong immune system to protect the body from minor ailments. A strong immune system can be achieved by eating a balanced comprising of key ingredients vital in developing a strong body system (Ford et al., 24). Besides, adopting a healthy lifestyle helps reduce the prevalence of chronic diseases such as high blood pressure. Whole plant foods are critical in preventing chronic diseases since they contain a wide range of nutrients vital for body growth. Also, healthy living is critical in improving an individual’s overall wellbeing psychologically and physically thus living a worthy life. Hence, healthy living ensures that an individual’s body is always hydrated and immune to infections.
Relationship between healthy living and quality of life
Self-image and attitude towards life
Needs satisfaction
Personal and socio-environmental factors
A healthy lifestyle helps improve an individual’s self-image and perspective towards life as a strategic approach to achieve co-existence. As such, an individual to have adopted healthy living is likely to achieve much compared to a person having poor health conditions (Ford et al., 24). Moreover, healthy living helps an individual satisfy personal needs with ease thus achieving set goals and objectives. Consequently, a healthy lifestyle helps improve the quality of life despite development barriers. Finally, healthy living helps align personal factors relative to socio-environmental factors meant to increase sustainability. Hence, set goals would be achieved with ease compared to an individual living an unhealthy life.
Works cited
Loef, Martin, and Harald Walach. “The combined effects of healthy lifestyle behaviors on all cause mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.” Preventive medicine 55.3 (2012): 163-170.
Ford, Earl S., et al. “Healthy lifestyle behaviors and all-cause mortality among adults in the United States.” Preventive medicine 55.1 (2012): 23-27.
Spring, Bonnie, et al. “Fostering multiple healthy lifestyle behaviors for primary prevention of cancer.” American Psychologist 70.2 (2015): 75.