One of the most important aspects of staying healthy
is with the food that we eat. The food that we eat at
each mealtime, or snack time determines the kind of
nutrients that we would be getting. The certain
amounts of these nutrients also matter as any
excessive or insufficiency may lead to complications
and eventually illness on the individual. Staying
healthy with organic food has been frowned upon by a
majority of the society as fast foods and processed
food products are made available in the groceries and
supermarkets. These processed foods are advertised
with as much flavorings as budget to keep them in the
diet of the people.

Organic food has been known to be superior in
beneficial outcomes to the body than their artificial
and processed counterparts. Better Bowel Movement

Organic food, which usually come in the form of fresh
vegetable and fruit produce, and organically fed
animals contribute to a higher stability in bowel
movement. For one, the fiber content of these fresh
produce are still intact and almost undamaged. This
high fiber content or quality is able to absorb the
fluids in the intestines and form a solid fecal mass,
good for excretion. Think if these fibers as a broom
passed through our intestines. The higher quality of
the bristles, the better efficiency there is in
sweeping away old fecal deposits in the intestinal
tract. This therefore allows better nutrient
absorption on succeeding nutrient passes.

It Reduces Health Risks

With artificially prepared market produce such as
vegetables, fruits, and meat, the individual ingesting
them are subject to all the pesticides and artificial
drug enhancers that were used. Some of these harmful
chemicals embed in the produce and may not be properly
cleansed until cooking.

Organically prepared meat and produce are grown
without the chemicals, pesticides and the like which
would have been created to kill pests thereby reducing
the risk of unwanted illness. Common illnesses that
occur with chemicals accidentally ingested are related
to the gastrointestinal tract.

Contains Higher Nutrient Levels

Organic foods retain the natural amount of nutritive
value that they should ideally be containing. As
opposed to artificially processed foods, these organic
foods have not yet been subjected to the different
processing methods which transform the original food
product into several forms. Changing its structure,
and applying heat to these organic foods, as well as
with simple slicing, would cause a part of the
nutrient value to disintegrate and be lost in the
whole process.

The biggest culprit in this manner is canned goods
which have passed through countless processing bins,
and artificial flavorings to produce the replica of a
supposed food product. Furthermore, the main harmful
ingredient of canned goods is preservatives. Simply
put, preservatives are chemical agents used to lessen
the normal process of deterioration of all organic
products.

Better Environment

With the method of growing for organic food products,
the environment is saved from chemical alteration by
the chemicals and pesticides that should have been
otherwise used. Ecological balance is helped
maintained in this method and would result to a better
living environment of the individual as well.

Patronizing the idea of staying healthy with organic
food is a good way to maximize nutritive efficiency in
a person’s body system and out of a person by the
environment and its contribution to the individual’s
well being.

The constant traveler, who tours different countries
across different time zones are faced with a lot of
stressors which may contribute to the degradation of
the optimal health status. An undetected and
unsuspected lenience on traveling across time zones
may also lead to affected psychosocial behavior
because of the new places and environmental stimuli
that are bombarded on the different senses of the
body. Staying healthy while traveling is a key factor
wherein the traveler should maintain a high state of
wellness to prevent complications towards illnesses
after his trip.

Jetlag Blues

The most common effect of constant traveling across
different time zones is the jetlag. It is defined as
the feeling of an individual of having similar
symptoms such as fatigue, insomnia, and general
irritability caused by a tired mind. The new
environment and the new culture, as well as the new
body clock system may distort the normal time for rest
of an individual. This would cause consistent stress
on the body functions, resulting to an inefficient
output of energy by the different organs which are
dependent on day and night settings.

A jetlag is commonly experienced a few days at max by
a traveler until such time that internal homeostasis
is achieved by manually calibrating sleep and dietary
patterns with the new place.

Dehydration Is One Of The Main Culprit

Another reason which causes discomfort on a traveler
such as headaches and nausea are caused by dehydration
during the flight. Even if the traveler has not done
any strenuous work inside an aircraft, the mere
duration of the flight is enough to deprive the human
body of enough water and fluids to maintain efficient
hydration. Furthermore, the different pressure changes
happening to the internal cabin also affect the body
functions and metabolic speeds, and therefore the
consumption of fluids inside the body.

It is advisable to drink constantly throughout the
flight with clear water to keep the body hydrated and
supplied. As dehydration sets in, the flow of blood is
slowed down. This blood is essential to carry oxygen
to the different parts of the body, especially to the
brain. A lack of oxygen supply would result therefore
in a more irritable personality, and also a sleepy
feeling due to the lack of oxygen and increase of
carbon dioxide instead. Sleep, Sleep, And Sleep

One of the most effective ways to combat the effects
of traveling such as jetlag and disorientation is to
sleep well before the flight, during the flight, and
after the flight. It is also advisable to prioritize
this sleeping habit and start with the work itinerary
on the succeeding day. In this manner, the traveler is
not subjected to stressors that may add up to the
adjustment period and disorientation of the self due
to the new environment.

Many would say that too much sleep may not serve the
individual good. However, the more sleep and fuller
rest of the person, the better chances that he would
be able to think and function with efficiency as soon
as he is ready to work or perform the itinerary for
the day.

Staying healthy while traveling is a daunting task to
look after and maintain as there is almost no
guarantee that jetlag would not occur to some minor
extent at least. Nevertheless, prevention and
heightening of its measure to inhibit its
manifestation on travelers is vital for health
reasons.

Staying healthy while losing weight is the primary
objective of any over weight, or worse obese people to
achieve a healthier state of well being. Also, the
dilemma of being able to balance the healthy state
without compromising the rate of weight loss and vice
versa is usually confused as to how it should be done.

Starvation Misconception

Chances are, some of weight losers become desperate
and try drastic changes for losing weight that they
expose themselves to a non nutritive state, leading to
malnutrition, and complications arising from skipping
meals such as ulcers and nausea. On the other hand, a
consciously focused individual on staying healthy may
forget that his primary goal is to shed the unwanted
fat and exercise vigorously and would find himself not
losing those pounds, all because of added muscle mass.
Such confusion may eventually cause the individual to
lose interest in maintaining and enduring the current
healthy practice and resort back to unhealthy
lifestyle with a less hassle maintenance.

Overworking The Body

Another misconception regarding staying healthy while
losing weight is that it can be done faster with more
exercise per day. Though this may hold true, our body
can only take as much work before we tire out.
Intensifying it abruptly, hoping that the added jolt
in workload would hasten the shedding process, may
trigger a rebound effect on the brain, for the brain
has a survival mechanism that triggers a slow down of
metabolism if the body is subjected to a high caloric
consumption. Furthermore, complications like muscle
injuries and joint sprains may occur as these are
subjected to a load without having them adapt to it
gradually.

Muscle Atrophy

In addition to the slow down of metabolism as a
rebound effect, there is also another detrimental
outcome for the body to preserve as much energy
reserves [read: fat deposits], that instead of burning
up the fatty deposits, muscle cells are rather used up
instead. This is because protein is easier to
synthesize into smaller components for energy sourcing
than fat. Also, fat has larger energy content per unit
than a protein, therefore allowing the body to
efficiently store energy at a greater ratio. Such
phenomenon is called muscle atrophy. With Muscle
atrophy, a person is then subject to double time in
gaining back the lost weight in muscles and at the
same time keeping t he fat deposit levels low.

Couple With Exercise

Staying healthy while losing weight requires both a
lessened caloric intake calculated and intended to the
desired body weight requirement and coupled with
adequate exercise. Usually, the first two weeks will
have no significant results as the body will still
have to adapt and change its metabolic paradigm with
the new stressor. After which, significant weight
drops would occur from the start of the third week of
consistent losing weight. After which, the rate at
which the mass sheds off gradually slows down until
the desired weight is achieved.

Staying healthy while losing weight takes time to
achieve. There are neither shortcuts nor easy way outs
for this two to work harmoniously together. For a
successful healthy status while losing weight, It is
important to understand that the two should be well
balanced so that not one of the aspects try to out
hunger the other and cause a failure in the desired
objective.

It is a common notion that exercise is one of the
standard ways of keeping a person physically fit and
physiologically efficient. It is also an avenue of
gaining muscles or losing weight. A person who is
involved in the exercise is exposed to normal
stressors which activate a response from within the
body to cope up and meet the demands of such
activities. This raises the level of output of a
person to some extent and that is a good and
beneficial thing because the body is then able to
level off with the present. However, there are times
when we are injured due to an inappropriate method, or
because of an accident, or some other reason. Staying
healthy while injured is still possible while
exercising without risking the injured body part of
further damages or complications.

There is a simple mnemonic called RICE which could aid
us how to treat any injury that we have and stay
healthy without complicating our injuries further.
This stands for Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevate.

Rest

With a body injury that we are conscious about, it may
be accompanied with pain and discomfort especially
with ambulation. Because of this, we may actually not
want to move it about and put any pressure on it with
activities or such. The only ways to stop these
feelings of discomfort and pain would be to take
painkillers or rest the injured part. Having to let
the injured body part rest is essential for that
specific part to efficiently speed up its healing
process. Staying healthy while injured may still be
accomplished by having the other body parts continue
with the exercise routines.

Ice

Right after an injury like a sprain or strain, the
affected joint or body part begins to swell as body
fluids starts to rush to the injury site. This would
prove a very uncomfortable feeling and a sensation of
numbness if the swelling would cause the impingement
of surrounding nerves as well.

This usually happens from several minutes to a few
hours after the injury. Healing also becomes a little
slower after a swell because the affected area if
already full with non-healing fluid. What is needed
after an injury that would probably cause a swelling
is to apply ice packs on the affected body part and
immediate area surrounding it. This is to prevent any
vascular vessel to openly allow the flow of fluid
towards it. Since the body is designed to normally
shut constrict vessels when cold stimuli is applied,
it would help in the slowdown and prevention of
unwanted swelling.

However, proper care should be observed as not to
totally numb the senses with the cold ice. Maintaining
a temperature of 10 to 15 degrees Celsius for not more
than 15 minutes should be safe. Any longer, and the
vascular vessels begin to take a Rebound Effect and
actually does the reverse effect for the intended
purpose.

Compress

Compression is simply the act of wrapping the injured
body part with a bandage and covering them securely
and snugly to add pressure to the injury. This is done
with a couple of hand towels or a bandage wrap. The
ice that is supposed to be applied previously could be
applied with a compressive method. Furthermore,
compression allows for the effect of the ice to be in
constant contact with the injured body part.

Elevate

Elevating the body part after securely fastening and
stabilizing the injured body part increases the level
of comfort for the person and also speeds up the
uninterrupted healing process.

Staying healthy when injured may impede a certain
level of maximum body activity efficiency, but still
allows continued exercise routine for other unaffected
body parts. Just make sure that priority on this would
be to securely prevent any other movements or
unnecessary pressure to be placed on the injury.

With the rapidly increasing call center industry, more
and more people are engaged in countless hours of
grueling training and practicing on how to handle
calls, file reports, schedule personnel and inventory
checks, and more. With globalization, the different
call centers required shifts even during the graveyard
timeframe, which means that call center agents would
have to endure the normal sleeping hours working just
to be accommodate transaction calls from halfway
around the world. Staying healthy in the call center
industry is simple and defined into three simple key
words: coffee, cigarette, and alcohol. Coffee

With the long continuous hours in which the agent
endures sitting idly talking to a headset, it would
definitely cause the body to slow down and lessen the
person’s capability to circulate the blood within.
This causes a reflex action of yawning, which
signifies a greater need of oxygen in the respiratory
- cardiovascular area. It would also manifest a sense
of sleepiness.

As a result of this common phenomenon, coffee has been
one of the mainstays of the call center agents, and
personnel’s alike to combat sleepiness and degradation
of competent performance. Even if the direct effect of
coffee to the body is to keep us awake, there are
detrimental effects of too much coffee such as
possible kidney complications and dehydration.

Lessening the amount of coffee per day would also
lessen the amount of urged moments for the agent to go
to the bathroom. Furthermore, lessening of bone
density has been found on chronic coffee drinkers.

Cigarette:

Another avenue for stress release of agents in the
call center industry is by lighting up a cigarette or
two during break time or lunch hour. Many of these
agents claim that the habit of lighting up of a
cigarette during free time not only increases their
social sphere but also lessen their anxiety and work
related stressors.

However, we all know the negative effects of
cigarettes to the lungs and body of a smoker. For one,
the smoke coming from the cigarettes passes through
our respiratory system. This smoke is a combination of
impure particles which we allow to reach our lungs and
attach to our bronchioles. A gradual and significant
blocking of the smoke in the linings of the
bronchioles would lessen the amount of oxygen
exchanged between, which causes us to have difficulty
in breathing.

Alcohol

After work shift hours, one of the usual stress
release methods of agents is to go to the local
hangout place and have a round or two of alcoholic
drinks. This happens especially when salaries have
been doled out. However, when alcohol is excessively
ingested, could damage the liver. The liver is man’s
natural fat and alcohol synthesizer. An excessive
alcohol load on the liver to synthesize in frequency
may cause the liver to malfunction or lead to alcohol
induced cirrhosis.

These three things are the main culprits in lessening
the health status of call center agents. Staying
healthy in this concept would entail being able to say
no or lessen these three culprits. Staying in the call
center industry is technically a tedious and health
taxing job to undergo, especially due to the high
demand of work. Nevertheless, substitutes for these
may come on the form of healthy fruit juice, or any
other healthy food. It is a matter of initiative and
choice for one to stay healthy when faced with a
situation.

Staying healthy is a prerequisite of maintaining an
added stress-free life brought about by complications.
In the event of an illness or sickness by germs and
unhealthy living, we are then faced and served with a
level of incapability in certain levels such as not
being able to perform at our best. It is then
important to know the nature of our physiological and
psychological needs to maintain our state of staying
healthy. The hierarchy of needs which was first
defined by Abraham Maslow in 1943 as an article in his
publication Theory of Human Motivation very well
explain the steps in which we should go through to
achieve a state of well being.

Physiological

The first step in staying healthy is to be able to
obtain the basic things which our body needs to
function in the proper manner in which our body was
designed to be.

Some of the things which a person needs to start
attaining and staying healthy is by being able to
provide the self with proper breathing, food, water,
sleep, excretion, and the like.

Among all things, this is perhaps the most general and
common standard for human existence in which an
absence of these would result to outright illness and
complications on the other areas of needs of the human
being.

Safety

The next level of need which the body needs is the
safety of these physiological parts from external and
internal stimuli which may cause them to malfunction
or dysfunction. These internal factors include the
germs and bacteria which invade our bodies and wreak
havoc in our physiological processes. External forces
may be any of the environmental objects which may pose
a threat to our whole being.

Safety of the body is needed after being able to
provide the same with the necessary starter
supplements. Keeping the body safe from harm and by
keeping a proper form of hygiene would definitely help
in maintaining safety of the body.

Love

Love is the affection and concern received by the self
from the different social constructs surrounding him.
Staying healthy would also need a form of affirmation
and care from the others as we are social creatures. A
lack of proper affection may lead to complications in
the next two higher levels of needs, going towards the
psychological area of existence.

Love may not always be the romantic love that one
seeks, but rather the love of just being accepted as
an individual with a distinct personality.

Esteem

Esteem has to be the desired effect of the individual
after the immediate acquisition of the previous aspect
of love. A person with esteem may be able to do more
things beyond his known personal limit. It manifests a
person’s will to fight and the urge to carry on with
things to overcome challenges. Sometimes, esteem is
based and dependent on the people believing in him.

Self Actualization

After all the previous physiological needs have been
met, the final and most important need of self
actualization is required. The psychological need of
self-actualization is needed to finalize and solidify
the four other levels of needs of every individual. In
this aspect, the brain is the focal and controlling
factor in holding all the other four together to
achieve homeostasis. No matter how capable the body is
to do healthy tasks, if the mind is unhealthy, then
everything else will deteriorate afterwards.

Staying healthy by following the Maslow’s hierarchy of
needs is an essential step by step needs assessment to
stay focused on what area’s of existence are most
important to be attained fully first before proceeding
to the next in attaining a perfect state of well
being.

There are many ways to stay young. Many resort to
cosmetic surgery at the expense of several hundred
dollars. Some ingest medication designed to eliminate
free radicals in the bodies. Some even experiment with
different cosmetics and apply these on their skin,
face and other parts of their bodies, hoping to gain
the youthful benefits of staying young. However, these
are artificially done and may pose some side effects.
Staying healthy and staying young at the same time is
hard to achieve with these artificial means. Unless
one is fortunate enough to be gifted with youthful
genes, one is posed with this dilemma.

Nevertheless, there are natural, and risk free ways
for one to slow down the effects of aging on our
body’s systems. Believe it or not, some of these
pertain to the psychological effect of a person’s
disposition. Some of the studies conducted have
revealed that the individual’s outlook result to a
more youthful appearance.

Smile The Wrinkles Away

Smiling a lot at appropriate times are beneficial to
the individual as it projects an image of positive
outlook both for the self and for those whom the
person meets. Not only does a smile projects such
positive energy, but also allows the individual to
refrain from worrying too much, as compared to when a
frown or perplexed and anxious face is made.

Furthermore, a smile in practice does not distend the
skin on the forehead which would have caused and
increase the stress folds on the skin. This skin on
the forehead causes wrinkle flaps, and frowning or
worrying defines these folds every time an individual
practices otherwise.

Laugh The Problems Away

It may be said that laughter is the best medicine, and
actually holds some truth in it. In addition to the
positive perspective which a smile can project,
actually laughing at a problem deep inside can pep up
the psyche and increase the confidence level of the
person. By not seeing the problem as a burden but
rather as a challenge to conquer, the method in which
the solution is carried out requires less effort, less
energy, and therefore better efficiency in overall
body functioning.

Ever tried a sport such as ice skating for the first
time? The effects are similar wherein the stressor of
a problem is analogous to the pure and extended effort
of the skater to try and balance on the two blades. As
soon as the individual is able to get a hold of the
stressor and accepts it as it is, the numbing of the
foot is lessened because less amount of muscles are
now needed to maintain the same output of being able
to balance on the skating shoes.

Basically, being able to laugh off problems and
stressors promote the release of endorphins which
gives a sense of simple euphoria on the person, and
therefore promotes a healthy psychological state

Run Towards Your Opponent

Normally, passive people who have no desire to be
aggressive at things would tend to shy away at the
first sign of an aggressor. They would find other
means to go around an issue and avoid conflict while
still attaining resolution. Though the idea of
avoidance of conflict may seem to be good as a means
of staying healthy and staying young by disallowing
major stressors to affect the psycho-physiological
framework of a person, there is still the risk of the
stressor to actually follow from behind. This would
cause increased risk of psychological disturbance on
the part of the person, especially if the individual
has not totally resolved the main issue.

The only way to go around a problem is to go through
it. Facing a problem does not mean that the person has
to fight head on. The virtue of facing a problem and
laughing at it to signify confidence of self would be
more long lasting. Think of it this way. A little
sailboat is caught in a storm and the waves are quite
big. The only way to survive a big oncoming wave is to
charge and slice right through it. Trying to expose
the broadside and trying to outmaneuver such a wave
would easily topple the small sailboat then.

Whenever a rush to the opponents proves as a failure
on your part, you will still have several chances to
think about how to efficiently go through him. By
practicing facing of fears, one is able to have first
hand knowledge in handling with similar situations in
the future.

Staying healthy and staying young is a simple
psychological conditioning of a person to practice
looking at life as more than problems and obstacles
and instead as challenges and conquerable events to
feed the ego and soul of an individual. A healthy mind
should then be able to handle a healthy body properly.

If there are the different tips and paradigms that are
constantly distributed in society regarding health in
general and staying healthy, there are also many false
assumptions in staying healthy. These false
assumptions pertaining to steps or practices to stay
healthy may be risky for an individual. Worse, one of
these false assumptions may lead to illness if done
improperly to a significant extent.

Fallacy 1: Eating Too Much While Still Young Is
Reasonable

We have this common notion that as long as we are
still young, we can be lenient and just eat what we
want without moderation. We can always argue anyhow
that our young bodies can still take some sort of
nutritional punishment and would be able to rectify
the effects afterwards.

The truth about this is that though we are actually
able to rectify such situation, the damage has begun
already. Furthermore, we do not know at what age our
body starts to not be able to restore the optimal
health status at full efficiency. For example, eating
high cholesterol food would have a preemptive effect
of deposits in the arteries. Before long, this would
reach a stage wherein the process is irreversible and
may cause the life of the person.

Even if there was a reason that ageing is part of life
and that even how much we try to choose the right food
our bodies would still deteriorate anyway, the thought
of why would we hasten the process of ageing by
introducing unwanted radicals to our cells should be
enough to keep us on the right way of thinking.

Fallacy 2: Not Eating Carbohydrates Will Make You Lose
Weight Faster

Another common misconception is that we would be able
to lose weight faster if we didn’t eat any food that
is rich in carbohydrates. This would account breads,
rice, and other starchy foods. Though it is a fact
that these types of food are high in calories,
carbohydrate deprivation will not contribute to faster
weight loss. Certain parts of the body would require
some nutrients that come along with carbohydrates in
rice and other starches such as Vitamin B complex.
Furthermore, sticking to an alternative diet such as
pure protein will not help one lose weight faster.

Fallacy 3: Starving Will Help You Lose Weight

A much more drastic misconception is the notion that
skipping meals would lead to a faster weight loss.
Ideally, that should be the case if the aspect of
caloric intake is the only thing to be considered.
However, there are also some other aspects such as
ulcer developing in the gastrointestinal area, or
perhaps a retroactive effect on the body of the
starving individual wherein the body signals the brain
that there is nutritive deprivation. The latter would
cause the metabolism of the individual to slow down
significantly to cope up with the body’s current
situation.

Furthermore, if the body is further subjected to much
more food deprivation, the body will not be using the
fats right away. The surrounding muscles cells will
start to take the brunt leading to muscle atrophy.

These are just some of the most common fallacies that
are freely thought of by the people who haven’t been
properly educated about them. Nevertheless, one of the
only eternal aspect of staying healthy is of the self,
along it is self responsibility and self control.

There are many tips and ways to stay healthy. From the
television, to magazine advertisements there are
several reminders to tell us how to stay healthy.
However, there is an even easier tip to constantly
remind us how to stay healthy. Though it would not
completely answer and deliver to all the health issues
we may have, we could apply this as a paradigm of
simple measures. An equation for staying healthy could
be as easy to remember as one, plus two, plus three,
equals 6.

One

We have to start an equation for staying healthy with
the first thing to remember: our life. We only have
one body to take care of, so it should not be that
hard to monitor and maintain. Furthermore, we only
have one mind to think for ourselves. We cannot depend
on others to tell us how to stay healthy or be
healthy. We have to look for the appropriate
information ourselves and apply those learnings by
ourselves as well.

Another thing about “One” is that we only have one
shot in this life to do this. Of course we may be able
to rectify certain health practices when we stumble,
but how sure are we that we would still have that
second chance of living a normal life if the damage
has already been done?

Therefore, the “One” that is pertained to in this
equation is our self. We only have one to boot and
therefore we should focus on this.

Plus Two

“Two” in this context means that there are only two
paths that we can choose, the right and the wrong
path. The same analogy goes to a beneficial or a
destructive outcome of our bodies. In whatever life
choice that we take every single time, we are bringing
the self either closer to wellness or sickness. Think
of it as this way: we are the flag tied at the center
of a rope in a tug of war. One end leads to sickness
and eventually death, the other to wellness and
eventually longevity. Each moment that we do
something, each food choice that we make, or even each
day that we do our lifestyle routines, we have to
think “To what side are we going then?”

Plus Three

“Three” is relatively simple, as it would pertain to
three parts of the day: morning, afternoon, and
evening. In relation to this, a person has to plan out
the activities in their appropriate time. There are
activities that are suitable in the morning, or maybe
until the afternoon, and there are also some personal
activities that are suitable for the evening. Any
unplanned schedule and adherence therefore would
result to added stress, and therefore be detrimental
to the self.

Examples of activities that are good in the morning
are exercise, early morning sunshine, a time to
reflect and plan other activities for the rest of the
day, and breakfast. As for the afternoon, continued
work from the morning, a little bit of recreation
perhaps, and an eagerness to get home and rest.
Evenings are good for a cool down walk in the
neighborhood, spend time with the family, watch a
little television, and definitely sleep.

The exact activities that are placed into these three
different times throughout the day differ from each
person’s career and work schedule. Nevertheless, it is
always safe to assume one of these times as resting
and sleeping schedule.

Equals Six

“Six” pertains to the number of meals that one has to
eat everyday. Recent studies have shown that the
average daily caloric requirement needed per day is
best digested and assimilated if they were distributed
into six small meals instead of three large ones as
considered before. This allows the body to digest the
food at a constant rate without oversupplying and
causing the body to store excess nutrients into fat.

The one, plus two, plus three, equals six paradigm is
an equation for staying healthy which can be applied
to almost anyone, even those who are recuperating from
sickness, and those who haven’t experienced any major
illness yet.

Staying healthy requires a lot of thinking and self
reflection to be successful. With a longer life
expectancy of human beings as compared to pre-modern
age, people have been ore vigilant to think about and
create ways to even extend the lives of everyone
existing. Numerous mnemonics and acronyms have been
developed as well by nutritionists and scientists to
help people have a guide on how to stay healthy. One
of these would be the ABC’s of staying healthy, a very
simple, yet effective way of adding to the long list
of patterns to keep healthy.

A Is For Abstinence

“A” stands for abstinence. Most probably many would
already be thinking that this seems like the same ABC
tip for responsible sex. Though the keywords used in
the ABC’s of staying healthy are similar except for
the last one, the ideas are completely in a different
context as this would specifically target more of a
person’s lifestyle in everyday living.

Abstinence should be practiced by the person in
declining the things that would not make him healthy
in the process. Unless it is required such as a career
that would limit the choice to either quit the job or
to counter the effects with good health practices,
abstinence on a great level is required of the person
should he wish to start staying healthy and maintain
being healthy. Abstinence should be the basis of any
individual to serve as a disciplinary concept. Without
the discipline to know when to say no, it would prove
difficult to stay away from the things that people
have learned to love.

B Is For Be Faithful

“B” stands for “Be Faithful”. Being faithful is being
able to hold out and maintain focus on your objective
of staying healthy. It does not mean that you totally
become a no-nonsense robot who only distinguishes a
black from white, but being lenient is a risky thing
to inculcate. Though it is not really to bend the
rules from time to time because of valid reasons, it
may develop into a nasty habit of having an excuse for
every single choice that should have been for staying
healthy.

C Is For Calisthenics

Calisthenics or exercise is and has always been part
of any healthy program designed for health conscious
and health seekers alike. Calisthenics does not
necessarily mean the rigorous training that one sees
in advertisements and magazines. Those are for
bodybuilders who would want to reshape their bodies
into hard sculptured specimens of humanity.
Calisthenics are simple activities which would allow
one’s self to move about and permit the proper flow of
blood to the different parts of the body for optimal
oxygenation of the cells.

Calisthenics should be done everyday for at least
thirty to forty-five minutes which includes mainly
aerobic exercise. Not only does daily calisthenics
improve the cardiovascular flow of the body, it also
adds up to the amount of calories to be burned for the
day to maintain the desired body weight and fitness
level.

The ABC’s of staying healthy is a very elementary
concept for anyone to grasp should they wish to seek a
better health state or maintain an already good one.
It is a personal choice as it is a personal endeavor.
The extent of its success lies on the amount of effort
that the individual puts in each letter of this simple
mnemonic.