WORLD HEALTH DAY AND HEALTHY LIVING: 7th of April is marked as WORLD HEALTH DAY which manifests the importance of healthy living for a better world. While some people are extremely healthy and supporting other lives due to the circumstances of living, working, and age factor, some are still struggling with their meager income, poor housing conditions, and education, polluted water, and air, and unhealthy environment contribute to unwanted suffering and illness. This is why it calls up all the leaders to know the health inequities and to make sure all the people are open to quality health services whenever they are in need. Currently, the world has been combating the harshness of the covid-19 situation and so it is essential to know the quality of health of each people during this pandemic. Well, this time, it’s going to be building a fairer and healthier world.
WHAT IS CALLED HEALTHY LIVING? When it comes to “Healthy Living”, it is all about the well-being of the physical, mental, and emotional side. Since both physical and mental health is connected, a little bit of change could affect the other which is why it is indispensable to maintain good health. So, here are some tips for healthy living.
HEALTHY EATING:
SWITCH FROM SATURATED FAT TO UNSATURATED FAT: As fats play a major role in developing good health and healthy functioning of the body, they must be a part of your daily diet. But then, you should ensure to go moderate and not more than the healthy amount as too much of something is good for nothing. Similarly, too much fat intake would lead to weight gain and cardiovascular health. So, it would be better if you switch to unsaturated fats from saturated ones. This would help you have a healthy intake of fats.
LOWER THE INTAKE OF SALT AND SUGAR: When you have high-salted foods, it would directly have its impact on your blood pressure by increasing it and leads to cardiovascular disease. Parallelly, you have extremely sweet sugar and offer an amazing taste to the drinks, desserts, and others foods. It would interrupt your health when consumed beyond the moderation level.
CONSUME ADEQUATE FRUITS AND VEGGIES: You just could not ignore those nutrient-rich fruits and veggies as they are essential for healthy body development. You gotta eat at least five servings per day which would then contribute to its complete benefits for your health.
EAT REGULARLY WITHOUT SKIPPING YOUR MEALS: If you have the habit of skipping your meals, you have to avoid it by eating regularly the right portion of food at right time. When you especially skip your breakfast, it would trigger your hunger hormones and automatically leads to devouring or overeating foods. So, ensure to eat the right food and replace the snacking foods with healthy ones like nuts and dried fruits or bread with cheese or fruits or yogurt.
CONSUME PLENTY OF WATER: Most importantly, people should stay hydrated throughout the day by drinking plenty of fluid. This would help them to beat the heat and do other physical activity. Other than this, fruit juices, tea, soft drinks, milk, and other such drinks could be fine from time to time.
HEALTHY BODY MAINTENANCE:
MOVE YOUR BODY AND DEVELOP IT AS A HABIT: Physical activity is essential which you should never ignore to involve every day. It would help burn down the calories, healthy blood flow, focus, and enhances the overall health of an individual. It would also have a greater impact on your mood. You could choose to go by stairs instead of elevators, walk during the lunch breaks or during the calls from the clients and spend some good family time.
MAINTAIN HEALTHY BODY: Excessive body fat would be the result of overeating or noshing of unhealthy foods or processed foods. But physical activities would help you reduce the fat accumulated in the body and offers good energy thereby paving the path to a healthy body. So, when you are worried about your excessive body weight, all you have to do is to eat less by controlling the portion of your food and to be more active as well.
