A healthy life is undoubtedly the greatest desire of all of us. After all, without health, life radically changes its meaning. The best way to feel happy, energetic and healthy in the future is to lead a happy, energetic and healthy life in the present. The benefits and pleasures produced are both immediate and long term.
We are moving more and more in a direction where people are finally realizing that being healthy is much more than not being sick.
We cannot allow life to pass us by without living it with energy and stimuli that transmit happiness to us. We have to make our lives more attractive and stimulating simply by taking a firm, active and participatory stance towards them.
Many times, we are able to stop the journey of life. Despite this, life is also the result of our attitudes and behaviors. We are, therefore, the result of our experiences.
How to have a healthy life?
“What do you have to do to be healthy”, “how to start a healthy life”, or “how to have a healthy and happy life”, are questions that people often ask themselves.
Debrucemo, first, on the question:
What does it mean to be healthy? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health is “physical, mental and social well-being, and not the mere absence of disease…”. In other words, being healthy is not only the absence of disease, but essentially the physical and mental well-being of the individual. It is no coincidence that the WHO defines health in this way, giving the word a much broader meaning than the simple antonyms of disease.
Although health seems, of course, to be associated with the word medicine, it goes far beyond the meaning that common sense often attributes to it, normally only associating it with curative medicine. However, medicine is much more than that, since its main concern is the prevention of diseases.
People’s lifestyles, poor diet, stress, among other factors, have contributed to a great extent to aggravate the problems. Examples include diabetes and high blood pressure, diseases closely related to the habits of modern populations.
Many of the problems that modern medicine helps to solve could easily be avoided by following some of the essential recommendations for practicing a healthy lifestyle.
Changing habits and behaviors is imperative and urgent. We do not mean by this that we should follow all the rules for a healthy life to the letter, as if it were a hard, painful and even castrating plan for people. Life must be lived with intensity and pleasure, so we must never become mere prisoners of attitudes/behaviors that, although healthier, would be both painful and limiting.
Life is made of choices. Become aware, find the balance between the pros and cons of your personal tastes, towards a healthier life and without forgetting that in the end it is your quality of life that you want to improve.
We talk about changing attitudes that stimulate us and lead us to happiness, and thus improve our state of health. It is not always possible, it is true, but in the vast majority of cases it is perfectly feasible.
As an example, imagine a simple walk in nature or enjoying your favorite fruit. These are two simple examples where it is completely possible to enjoy life and improve health at the same time.
diet, physical exercise
Healthy life is also in our hands. Let’s not judge that we can eat excessive amounts of sugar every day and that if one day we get diabetes it will simply be a matter of fate and bad luck. We cannot judge those who are subjected to high doses of stress every day, and we will not pay a persistently high price for it. Let’s not think that we can be smokers for years and let’s not accumulate respiratory problems and a degradation of our quality of life.
Our attitudes make us think sooner or later about our health.
Obviously, our attitude towards life is a determining factor in making it healthier. Think of life as something positive and feel good about yourself before any action.
At least two important things to keep in mind. First of all, nutrition. A good diet can do much more for your health than you think. Nutrition and healthy living are inseparable concepts.
Second, physical exercise. This, given that it will be done the right way, can greatly improve your health and well-being, thus contributing to a better quality of life.
Think of physical exercise as something positive and relaxing, not something hard and that “it has to be”. Find out which activity you like the most and perceive the benefits it can bring you.
Change just these two factors and discover a healthier life.
If you intend to delve into these and other topics, we encourage you to read articles related to nutrition and the benefits of physical exercise on our blog.
Quality of life
How many of us already feel the discomfort caused by a simple back pain. Or felt the discomfort caused by repeated infections, often caused by the weakening of our immune systems.
We could point to many examples, however, we are all aware that illness or discomfort drastically decreases our quality of life.
Today we live in an era where the time has come to dictate the rules. The lack of time leads people to live in a constant race against this precious asset.
We don’t have time to eat well, we don’t have time to exercise, we don’t have time to talk to people, we don’t have time for many things that are considered essential in our lives. These behaviors, unfortunately, generate a variety of problems, with serious consequences for our health and well-being.
In the presence of these problems, on the one hand, people are strongly affected in their health, on the other hand, their quality of life is greatly degraded.
In short, we would say that it is not possible to have a good quality of life without having healthy habits.
healthy longevity
The average life expectancy a few decades ago was substantially lower.
With improvements in living conditions and advances in medicine, it has gradually increased. Still, it is, because we all want to live better and longer.
The goal today is not just to live longer. It is having lasting health, that is, leading an active, healthy, happy and goal-oriented life. However, living longer is not synonymous with living better. The increase in life expectancy often occurs at the expense of more or less sophisticated treatments that, despite their effectiveness, greatly impair people’s quality of life. We must not only want to live longer, but live better.
Longevity is also in our hands. We evasively believe that we should focus our attention on maintaining a healthy condition, assuming that our present attitudes will have a profound impact on our future health.
If you want to live healthier and longer, start taking measures in this regard, that is, measures that are firm, healthy and at the same time contribute to your current well-being.
Benefits of a healthy life.
The benefits of a healthy life are innumerable for people. It will not be necessary to describe them with an extractor, since we all know how gratifying it is to feel healthy or, on the contrary, how painful it is to feel sick.
However, the benefits of a healthy life do not end there. The costs of health care are increasingly inconvenient for people, either directly or indirectly through their taxes that are channeled to the Public Health Service.
There are studies that clearly show that for every dollar invested in prevention, we can have a significant return in savings with curative health treatments.
In other words, the investment priority should be channeled to disease prevention. On the other hand, the social and economic costs caused by the disease, such as work absenteeism, are very significant, with increasing spending on social protection.
Health & Wellness
It is indisputable that today there is great interest in curative health, where medicine has evolved extraordinarily in recent years. As we have seen, these advances in medicine have undoubtedly given people a longer life expectancy and a better quality of life.
In the absence of health our whole life is reduced and we cannot, therefore, live it and savor it in its fullness.
Therefore, we must reflect on our future, because our quality of life will also reflect the way we live today.
Therefore, a new paradigm must emerge, in which the promotion of health and firmer attitudes on the part of people to prevent diseases, with enormous benefits for their health, improving their quality of life and well-being. In short, it is intended that each of us develop a healthier lifestyle in which health comes first.
For all these reasons, we believe, evasively, that the commitment to disease prevention and the promotion of health and well-being are of the utmost importance.