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Optimize Your Health
By peace | January 5, 2007
The meaning of optimize means “to make full use of” or “make the best of”. To optimize our health is to make our health as perfect as possible. By optimizing our health, we want to ensure that it is working in a as efficient as possible. As health is our greatest assets in our life, we want to treasure our life. We want to do as much as possible to optimize our health.
Many different factors determine how healthy you will be. Some, such as the genes you inherit from your parents, are a matter of chances. But htere are many choices you can make that will help determine whether you enjoy good health or bad.
The two main choices you can make are to adopt a healthy lifestyle and to learn how to recognize the possible early warning symptoms of illness. If you do, you will reduce your chances of dying at an early age from heart disease and improve the quality of your life in later years by staying healthier longer.
The decisions you make about how much exercise you take, what food you eat, which habits such as smoking and drinking you acquire, what risks you take in your sex life, and how much effort you put into avoiding accidents at work, at home, on the road, or during your leisure time, can all directly benefit or harm your health and well being.
So here is a list of tips to help you optimize your health.
Health Optimization Tips
1. Good Nutrition
You are what you eat. What you eat can greatly affect your health. Good nutrition is important for good health. Eating the right food can help protect you from heart disease and some cancers. Eat a varied diet of fresh food, including plenty of fruit and vegetables; Reduce consumption of fats and refined carbohydrates. Consume enough fibres.
2. Exercise
Whether you are young or old, male or female, in good health or suffering from a chronic medical problem, your health would benefit from some form of regular exercise. Taking any form of vigorous exercise for at least 20 minutes, three times a week, improve your overall fitness. It also decreases stress and reduces your risk of becoming ill.
3. Reduce Health Risks
- Smoking is a major risk factor for bronchitis and lung cancer as well as other diseases including coronary heart disease, peptic ulcers and premature aging of the skin. If you smoke, you should stop for the sake of your health.
- Keep alcohol intake within recommended limits. In the long term, drinking too much can harm your health and your emotional wellbeing. Because alcohol effects your judgment, it is a major cause of accidents.
- Prevent accidents risk. Accident rates are highest among people between age 15 and 24.
- Are you overweight? Being obese greatly increases your risk of developing heart disease, stroke, arthritis, diabetes, and other diseases.
- Practise safe sex by using condoms during sexual intercourse if you are not involved in a mutually monogamous relationship.
- Without immunizations you are at risk of a variety of serious, and potentially fatal, infectious disease. Ask your doctor if you need to be vaccinated.
- Persistent or recurrent symptoms, such as headaches or breathlessness, could signify a disease for which prompt treatment may be more effective. See your doctor now.
- Have you had all the health checks and screening tests you should have? Early detection of disease improves your chances of achieving a successful cure.
- Do you live in a polluted environment? Although you can improve your local environment by recycling or switching to lead-free petrol, global pollution of the air, water, or food supply represent potential causes of ill-health beyond your control.
- Observe kitchen hygiene. Food poisoning is due to eating food or drinking water that is contaminated with bacteria, viruses, moulds, chemicals or toxins.
4. Physical Health
Physical wellbeing is not just a matter of leading a healthy lifestyle by eating well and exercising enough. You must also be sure to get the right medical care. For example, you should know how to care for your teeth, examine your skin for early signs of skin cancer, vision test, or even some information about medications.
5. Mental or Emotional Health
However physically fit and healthy you are, you will not feel your best unless you take good care of yourself emotionally too. A positive self-image and a healthy attitude to life will increase your resistance to stress-related illness. You should also learn to cope with the anxiety and stress of life.
Life expectancy is largely determined by genetic inheritance but an unhealthy lifestyle can work against this genetic advantage by introducing behaviour-related diseases. Maintaining health is not only about eating well and staying fit. It also means getting the right medical care. You need to knwo when to visit your doctor, what symptoms to report, and what questions to ask. You should also be well-informed about self-examination and how it can help you recognize the early warning signs of disease.
By taking a sensible precautions now, you may be able to avodi many future illnesses. Immunisation, accident prevention, safe sex, drinking alcohol only in moderation, and not smoking are all part of maintaining good health.
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