2. Whatβs health?
The World Health Organization (WHO)
defined health in its broader sense in 1946 as
βA state of complete physical, mental, and
social well-being and not merely the absence
of disease or infirmity."
3. What we must do?
To obtain a good state of health we
must practice some activities or
behaviors that help us to achieve this
state. We call these behaviors:
healthy habits
4. Healthy habits
1_ Eating a balanced diet:
These are examples to have a good balanced diet
Drink a lot of water: helps to purify the body, removes
toxins, helps us digest food better, accelerates
metabolism work
High fiber foods: helps to prevent diabetes and obesity
Reduce fat consumption:
Limit salt: we avoid developing hypertension and other
cardiovascular diseases.
Chew each mouthful 20-30 times: This is very important
to help the digestion
With adequate food cardiovascular disease, obesity,
osteoporosis, etc. are prevented
We can say that the key to a healthy diet can be
summarized in two fundamental ideas: Moderation and
variety
5. Healthy habits
2_ Maintain adequate hygienic habits, some of them
are:
Get a daily shower.
Wash our hands before and after meals
Brush our theeths after meals
Keep clean our space
It is very important to maintain proper hygiene habits, which
are intended to preserve our health.
3_ Accident prevention
With age our physical abilities as both our senses and reflexes
are reduced, leading to increased chances of accidents
increase , to avoid these accidents we must pay attention in
6. Healthy habits
4_ Enjoy the free time:
One of the key factors to enjoy life is to be able to use
your free time in a enjoyable and satisfying way, some
examples are:
Know how to enjoy with the nature.
Travel with important persons in our life or along to
meet more peopleβ¦
Found a hobbies to pass the time.
Stay with the family and friends and make activities
with them.
Although it appears that no stress impairs our mental,
emotional and physical health.
7. Healthy habits
5_ Exercise our mind:
As happens with the body, we must also exercise the mind to work
perfectly. We must known that it is also very important to do
"Mental Gymnasticsβ, with all this we will be able to maintain the
good work of our brain with some games like chess, reading booksβ¦
6_ Practice sports:
Being fit means a general fitness, which allows you to perform any type of
activity. This physical state is composed of a good cardio-respiratory
fitness, muscular fitness, flexibility and proper body composition.
To all this things we can also add some other important factors that you
obtain like:
A way to relax and forget the rest.
To have new relationship, with other players to meet new people.
To sleep and take a rest better.
Be happier
If you practice sport, you are going to feel better with yourself and your
body, and is going to help you with the rest
8. Healthy habits
7_ Sleep
Sleep is one of the most important functions of our body and
we should not live it. Itβs during sleep when our body is
getting forces again. Some motives why we have to sleep
are:
Keeps our heart healthy
Reduce the stress
Increase the memory
Reduces the risk of depression
Make us more active
When you practise sports you must do:
Sleep at least eight hours the day before.
Have breakfast/lunch one hour before the match.
Drink a lot of water during the match, before and after.
Do a general warm-up especially with the parts of our body that more are
going to work.
At the end, when you finish, stretch while the muscles to prevent injury
9. Unhealthy habits
Donβt practice sport
Being stressed
Donβt stay a lot of time
watching TVβ¦
Bad habits can be considered all behaviors that are
against good habits some of them are:
Sleep less than necessary
Donβt drink water
Smoking, alcohol and drugs
A bad diet
