Lifestyle- 3 points that prove lifestyle is the best medicine.
Lifestyle — It is said that the way that you live is the best medicine because the values, ideas we add up to our lives affect our overall health. Lifestyle includes our routine, habits, gestures towards ourselves and others. It includes our health behavior, socioeconomic factors, and impact on the physical environment. A research proved that most of our income spend is on sick care, to cure heart diseases, diabetes, and other harmful diseases. It will shock you that this disease occurs by people’s choice and not from their genes.
3 benefits that prove lifestyle is the best medicine
Less morbidity and long life
A researched data proved that the top ten causes of human death include 9 health causes, and the remaining one is an accident. The first two causes are cardiovascular/heart diseases, and diabetes. Now, do you know no medicine can cure hypertension/high blood pressure and diabetes? Medicines are available to control the vital values but do not cure them completely. People who suffer from diseases become dependent and live a very stressful life. It actually makes our life short. But, you can prevent and cure any diseases easily.
Want to know how? Read the 4 lifestyle factors below.
Healthy and happy life
We all crave happiness, do a lot of things, but a lot of luxurious things. Although we all know that things can not buy us happiness. Things are to utilize we can not find happiness in it. The only thing that can lead to our happiness is our mind, our thoughts, the satisfaction inside us. A healthy lifestyle will satisfy your mind in every way. It will help you to gain confidence, strength, and the ability to use all your potential. A healthy body and healthy mind will directly lead to a happy you, a satisfied you, a confident, active you.
A peaceful mind and high confidence
Imagine, you are having a tough day in your work, and when you are back home completely exhausted and you find it messy. You are finding it difficult to get anything, do not have a mind that will get devasted, and are full of stress. Likewise, when you are following a non-healthy lifestyle and a very non-organized schedule you will become unsatisfied with yourself. This kind of dissatisfaction when you know you are treating yourself badly will lead to depression and stressful life.
Stop, doing this kind of careless harassment to your body and mind. I know, it is difficult to follow a completely healthy lifestyle in your busy schedule but, it is not impossible. Read further to know the simple tips that will help you.
4 main factors of a healthy lifestyle
There are 4 main points to assess the lifestyle or the 4 main points that purely do impact on our life. They are:-
BMI (Body mass index)
BMI Weight Status
Below 18.5 Underweight
18.5–24.9 Normal
25.0–29.9 Overweight
30.0 and Above Obese
Body mass index is a way to assess body fitness status. It can be assessed very easily by just dividing your height and weight. Check-in which category you are falling. If you are underweight or overweight. You should change your lifestyle and maintain your BMI to the normal value. Everyone should have a BMI value between 18 to 30. Watch that to not exceed the BMI value above 30 as it will lead to many disorders and diseases.
Smoking
Smoking affects us a lot to our health. It invites many harmful, life-threatening diseases as you all know it has nicotine in it. The nicotine that goes into our blood and organs causes cancer and many respiratory diseases. To maintain a healthy lifestyle quitting smoking is the most important thing.
Physical activity
Physical activity is the important thing that can improve your health. When I say to do physical activity, I do not mean to run a marathon but to move your body as much as possible. You can just take the stairs rather than the lift or can add 30–45 minutes of sports, exercise, walking in your daily life. Physical activity will help you to gain a healthy heart as it improves the blood circulation to your organs.
Dietary habits
Diet is the most important part of our life, we get energy and all-important nutrients from our diet. It does the main impact on the physiology of our body and mind. It is said that our diet is 80% responsible and exercise is 20% responsible for our overall health and fitness.
The 5 tips for a healthy lifestyle
Most of us take our lives for granted and honesty is undoubtedly our choice. Sometimes, we feel hard to make good decisions for ourselves. It feels like so much pressure to control or follow some healthy values. But, no worries because I have 5 tips to make good and worthy decisions for your life.
Surround yourself with positive people
The socio-economic factors and impact of the physical environment play a vital role to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Negative people, the negative environment will lead you to fall into the deep well of bad habits. The more positive and happy environment you are surrounded by, the more positivity you can gain from it. Make a partner
Start with small
Yes, change is not a one-night game, it takes a lot of dedication, discipline, and most importantly, consistency. It is difficult to change a lifestyle completely but, you can surely add one good habit first and then follow another. Start with your favorite healthy habit and then stick to it assess the result and consistently add another and another habit further.
Write down your things
Writing is the best way to plan, implement and then assess your habits. It not only makes things to remember easily but also makes you organized. Schedule, planning makes time management quite simple and adaptable in your life. Try writing now, you will feel the positivity and dedication within you.
Most importantly, believe that today is everything you have
We always plan to follow good habits or take new year resolutions but, We fail to stick to them. This inconsistency happens because we think that oh I got a lot of time to start with the planning. And, once you forget to follow your schedule you lack to restart it. Now, I have an easy way to deal with this, believe that today is everything, every time you have to do your best. To do the goods to yourself and enjoy loving and caring for yourself. Procrastinate the procrastination, it will surely take you to the success you dreamt for.
Final words
If we force our body or mind to do anything, it will not do us good but bad. So, do what you enjoy, love yourself, and stay healthy forever.
Originally published at https://www.joinhealthyplanet.com on August 12, 2021.
