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Good Health: Choice Or Chance
By peace | March 28, 2007
Many different factors determine how healthy you will be. Some, such as the genes you inherit from your parents, are a matter of chance. But there 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 decision 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.
Choice
1. A varied diet of fresh food, including plenty of fruit and vegetables, is better for your health. A diet consisting predominantly of convenience food is likely to be low in fibre and high in fats and added sugars.
2. Taking any form of vigorous exercise for at least 20minutes, three times a week, improves your overall fitness. It also decreases stress and reduces the risk of becoming ill.
3. Smoking is a major risk factor for bronchitis and lung cancer as well as for other diseases including coronary heart disease, peptic ulcers, and premature aging of the skin, you should stop for the sake of your health.
4. 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.
5. Being obese greatly increases your risk of developing heart disease, stroke, arthritis, diabetes, and other diseases.
6. Persistent or recurrent symptoms could signify a disease for which prompt treatment may be more effective. See your doctor now.
7. Early detection of disease improves your chances of achieving a successful cure.
8. Practise safe sex by using condoms during sexual intercourse if you are not involved in a mutually monogamous relationship.
9. Without immunization you are at risk of a variety of serious, and potentially fatal, infectious diseases. Ask your doctor if you need to be vaccinated.
Chance
1. Life expectancy is largely determined by genetic inheritance but an unhealthy lifestyle can work against this genetic advantage by introducing behaviour-related diseases.
2. Accident rates are highest among people in this age group, but everyone should learn to prevent accidents.
3. 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.
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