What comes in your mind when you hear about the word “Health”?
Health is a condition of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not just the lack of disease or illness.
Physical fitness is good quality bodily health, and is the result of regular exercise, proper diet and nutrition, and proper rest for physical recovery.
Mental health refers to a human individual's emotional and psychological well-being. There are four general determinants of health including human biology, environment, lifestyle, and healthcare services. Thus, health is maintained and improved not only through the advancement and application of health science, but also through the efforts and intelligent lifestyle choices of the individual and society.
An energetic course is achieving health and remaining healthy. Effective strategies for staying healthy and improving one's health include the following elements -
Nutrition -
Nutrition is the science that studies how, what people eat affects their health and performance, such as food components that cause diseases or get worse health. Such as eating too many calories, which is a major contributing factor to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
Exercises -
Exercises are generally grouped into three types depending on the overall effect they have on the human body:
- Flexibility exercises such as stretching improve the range of motion of muscles and joints.
- Aerobic exercises such as walking and running focus on increasing cardiovascular endurance and muscle density.
- Anaerobic exercises such as weight training or sprinting increase muscle mass and strength.
Exercise is the performance of movements in order to develop or maintain physical fitness and overall health. Frequent and regular physical exercise is an important component in the prevention of some of the diseases of affluence such as cancer, heart disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and back pain.
Hygiene -
Hygiene is the practice of keeping the body clean to prevent infection and illness, and the prevention of contact with infectious agents. Hygiene practices include bathing, brushing and flossing teeth, washing hands especially before eating, washing food before it is eaten, cleaning food preparation utensils and surfaces before and after preparing meals, and many others. This can help avoid infection and illness. By cleaning the body, dead skin cells are washed away with the germs, reducing their chance of entering the body.
Health Care –
Health care is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the protection of mental and physical well being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions.
According to the World Health Organization, health care embraces all the goods and services designed to promote health, including “preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations”. The organized provision of such services may constitute a health care system. This can include a specific governmental organization such as the National Health Service in the UK, or cooperation across the National Health Service and Social Services as in Shared Care.
