Health is not only the absence of disease or weakness, but also a perfect state of physical, psychological and social adaptation. Among all the factors that affect health, lifestyle is the most controllable and influential factor. Everyone has the responsibility to maintain the health of themselves and others, and a healthy lifestyle can maintain and promote their own health.
A healthy lifestyle mainly includes four aspects: reasonable diet, moderate exercise, smoking cessation and alcohol restriction, and psychological balance, which are also the four cornerstones of a healthy lifestyle. Cultivating and adhering to healthy living habits and behaviors can effectively prevent and control chronic diseases. First of all, a reasonable diet
Reasonable selection of food can improve people's nutrition and health, thus reducing or preventing the occurrence of chronic diseases. Try to eat as many kinds of food as possible every day, mainly cereals, with different thicknesses; Eating more vegetables, fruits and potatoes plays an important role in maintaining normal intestinal function, improving immunity and reducing the risk of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension. Eat milk, soybeans or their products every day; Eat proper amount of fish, poultry, eggs and lean meat; We should reduce cooking oil and eat light and salt-free food. Second, moderate exercise.
Strengthen physical exercise, form the habit of regular exercise, and be less quiet and more active in daily life. Physical activities can include housework, transportation, work and leisure time exercise. Active physical activity has many benefits to health, including reducing the risk of premature death, reducing the risk of chronic diseases such as hypertension and stroke, and also helping to adjust psychological balance, eliminate stress, relieve symptoms such as anxiety and depression, and improve sleep. Third, quit smoking and limit alcohol.
Quit smoking: Smoking is the main risk factor for the morbidity and mortality of lung cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, coronary heart disease, stroke and other diseases. Even if you stop smoking for only 20 minutes, your body can receive corresponding health effects, such as a drop in heart rate, a drop in blood pressure and a drop in pulse rate to a normal level. Quitting smoking before the age of 35 can avoid 90% heart disease caused by smoking. Quitting smoking before the age of 59, the probability of death within 15 years is only half that of continuing smokers. Even if you quit smoking after the age of 60, the mortality rate of lung cancer is still far lower than that of continuous smokers.
Alcohol restriction: excessive drinking, especially long-term excessive drinking, has multiple hazards to health, such as increasing the risk of gout, cardiovascular disease and some cancers. Long-term excessive drinking will also lead to serious health problems such as alcohol dependence, addiction, acute and chronic alcoholism, alcoholic fatty liver and alcoholic cirrhosis. Fourth, psychological balance.
Mental health is a well-adapted life state and the core of health. Mental health and physical health influence each other, promote each other and cause and effect each other. Maslow, an American psychologist, put forward the 10 standard of mental health, which is considered to be the most classic standard: whether (1) has enough sense of self-security; (2) whether you have a full understanding of yourself and can properly evaluate your ability; (3) Whether your life ideals and goals are realistic; (4) Whether it can keep good contact with the surrounding environment; (5) Whether the integrity and harmony of personality can be maintained; (6) Whether you have and are good at learning from experience; (7) Whether proper and good interpersonal relationships can be maintained; (8) Whether you can properly express and control your emotions; (9) Whether you can give full play to your personality on the premise of satisfying the collective permission; (10) Whether the basic needs of individuals can be properly met within the scope of social norms. Based on this, we can make a self-diagnosis of mental health. If we find that there is a certain distance between our mental state and mental health standards, we should carry out targeted psychological adjustment and psychological exercise to reach the level of mental health.