There is no magic required to maintain good health in our lives. It only needs some seriousness and dedication to make your body healthy and ensure a good happy life. Below are seven guaranteed tips to help you maintain a good health.
1) Ensure good eating habits. This includes eat a balanced diet which consists of eating meals rich in vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates as well as fibres. Ensure your meals include all these nutrients in proper percentages. At the same time, make sure you eat a fruit every day. Fruits such as watermelon, avocado, guava, strawberries, among others are very rich in vitamins and minerals. Nevertheless, go for healthy fats such as peanut oil, sunflower oil, avocado, nuts, olive oil and canola oil. Supplement red meat with white meat. They improve your body’s immunity in fighting with different diseases and infections.
2) Ensure regular exercise. Make sure you do some little body exercise per day. This may include activities like jogging, walking barefooted, sports and swimming. Join your friends in classes like tennis class, aerobic classes, dance classes, etc. to do some exercise, get some sun, socialize with new friends and change from normal environment, great for your body, mind and soul. It is both healthy and fun.
3) Regularly visit your doctor. Visit your doctor for check-ups. Take standard tests such as blood tests (for sugar, vitamins and minerals), urine tests, among others are vital to identifying inner symptoms of a disease/infection. This would make you take necessary precautions and steps to address the identified issue. If no problem found, then you are great to go on with your peaceful happy life.
4) Get enough sleep. Sleeping helps you to take rest after a busy day. You should sleep for 7-9 hours every night which is recommended and deemed as healthy. Enough sleep is vital for both physical and mental health.
5) Complete the entire prescription from your doctor when medicated. Some people stop taking the drugs prescribed by their doctor(s) as soon as they feel as if they feel better. However, it’s wise to take the drugs up to the final portion of the full dosage. It helps to address the disease being treated and prevent occurrences of the same disease or others in future.
6) Drink more water. Do you drink enough water every day? Water is crucial for our bodies to function well. It helps to move oxygen and minerals though the body. It also assists to remove wastes through sweat and urine. We need to restore the water we lose through activities like urine, breathing and perspiration by drinking more water. It is healthy and also assists to losing weight.
7) Ensure deep breathe. Many people know how to breathe but rarely breathe deeply. Deep breath is one where abdomen fully expands and lungs get completely full. It is vital for higher performance (e.g. for the athletes) and helps in management of stress. It’s free and crucial to take deep slow breath to get enough oxygen for the benefit of our bodies and mind.
8) Overcome stress and avoid stressful situations. Life is full of stressful situations everyday starting from one self to family, school, work, friends, etc. Too much stress has a negative impact on our bodies such as increased blood pressure, weakened immune, etc.
The above tips are helpful and easy to integrate in our lives. They can guide us to restore and maintain a good health. Do you have a point you can add to this? Leave it in the comment form below. Be sure to share these tips with your family and friends and help them to ensure good health also.
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