By Benjamin
Wusik
THE IMPORTANCE OF PHYSICAL HEALTH
What is
Physical Health?
Proper physical health can contribute to leading a
satisfying and successful life. Physical health is the overall condition of
living organisms or humans at a given time. It is the soundness of the body,
freedom from disease or abnormality, and the condition of optional well-being. It is when the body is
functioning as it was designed to function (Kurtus, 2000). The principles such
as to be physically active, be nutritional frugal, and minimize medical
invasiveness would improve your chances for a healthy life. Good health means not only a state of absence
of disease in the body but a complete physical, mental, social, and the
spiritual well being of an individual.
However, in the real world today there are several
health related events or diseases that occur due to lack of maintaining and upholding the
physical health and wellbeing activities.
Improving
Health
Physical health is essential as it can be maintained
through science and practice of medicine, but can also be improved by
individual decisions and effort. This includes decisions on physical fitness, weight loss, a
healthy diet, stress management training and stopping smoking and other
substance abuse (Kurtus, 2000).
Maintaining physical activity is essential because
physical fitness is the result of regular physical activity, proper diet and nutrition and proper rest
for physical recovery (Good Health, 2013). Physical fitness often includes the
following types or features of the physical health which your body would have
if you are physically healthy. These features body ability, balance, right body composition,
effective cardiovascular endurance, proper coordination of the body,
flexibility, have a muscular strength and endurance and the speed and stamina
(Good Health, 2013).
In today’s world, a majority of people perception on health is ‘health is
wealth” which gives a big sense to our life as health is considered the
foremost valuable and precious for every mankind. On the contrary, good health
refers not only to a state of absence of disease in the body but a complete physical, mental, social
plus spiritual well being of every individual. Further a place with facilities
may promote good health but it may be unhealthy environment because of over
population, excessive industrialization, air and water pollution (Kurtus, 2000). Kurtus said that this is
threatening the life with many harmful diseases. Consequently many people have
been wrapped up by the clutch of infection like cancer, diabetes, hypertension,
AIDS (Ron Kartus, 2000). Even though many people claimed to be relatively healthy; at the present
period, many people are suffering from various mental disorders also because
they were blindly racing towards fame and having common aim in life which is to
achieve the big status in the society.
Today’s world is really challenging and the competition in each field is so
competitive that no one is able to escape from the chaotic schedule of life. In
the past couple of decades, people used to live and work differently, enjoying
the distinct way of life. But it has changed now that people are working under stressful conditiosn
and without satisfaction, which is detrimental to their physical fitness
(Kurtus, 2000). Kurtus expressed that due to this, many people are suffering
from many lifestyle diseases. He also said that in this case physical health and fitness is very
significant for a healthy and tension free life. Nevertheless physical health
and fitness refers to proper diet, exercise and sleep. These three fundamentals
things have their own importance in each individual’s l life. Therefore everyone have to
practice these to live a healthy life (Kurtus, 2000).
Consequently our life depend entirely upon our diet,
therefore it is essential for us to know, how much to eat and when to eat.
However, one should
“eat to live and not live to eat”. Whatever is pleasing to our eyes, whatever
is pleasing to your tongue and whatever you feel good when eating would be
taken as long as your digestion, body weight, strength and activities are
normal. Further the amount of diet should be simple and light rather than heavy, but must be rich and
of quality. Fruits must be supplemented with meals.
Moreover, those who take fruit and fresh vegetables in
the diet have the chance to live longer lives, good health, and alertness in activity, spirituality of
mind and humanity of outlook, a diet rich in fruits and vegetables lowers the
incidence of disease like cancer, diabetes, cataract,
heart attack and others. Avoid all the fast food and soft drinks strictly
although everyone has their
own requirement. Further, dietary habits during childhood are often hard to
change afterwards. Therefore responsibility lies on mothers where they should
refrain from over feeding their children. Some of the significant tips of good
eating habits are
listed as follows:
·
Make breakfast the largest and dinner the lightest meal
of the day
·
Eat often in small amounts
·
Eat your salad and fruits before your meal
·
Don’t starve yourself and over eat subsequently
·
Avoid fast food and canned food as they are costly both for your pocket and heart
·
Yellow orange and green vegetables and fruits add life
to your heart and
·
As age advances eat less and exercise more.
Benjamin Wusik is a 3rd year Health Management student at the Divine Word University.
References
Georgia State University, (2013). The benefits of exercise. Retrieved 28 march 2013 from m http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwfit/benefits.html
Ron Kurtus (2012). What is Physical Health? Retrieved 24 march 2013 from http://www.school-for-champions.com/health/what_is_ health.htm
Win back your Good Health, (2013). Find out what
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