Keeping Healthy
Keeping healthy is not just
avoiding being ill; it's a sense of general well being, getting
physical, emotional and social factors in balance.
Living in a healthy environment
is important as is having enough income to spend on food, housing
and other essentials. Here are just some key ways of keeping
healthy.
Doing Your Bit
Reducing Stress - stress is a
part of most peoples everyday life. some stress is useful, such as
running away from a fire. the body is equipped to respond to such
emergencies but if the stress goes on for a long time, the body can
become unbalanced, with lots of signs of ill health, such as
headaches, digestive problems, emotional disturbances, etc. getting
your life in balance or coping with unavoidqable stress will help
you to keep healthy.
Stress
bustingOther lifestyle habits are ofen as a
result of stress, such as smoking and drinking
alcohol.
Healthy
Living
Diet - Eating an unbalanced
diet and not getting enough exercise can cause weight gain and poor
health, which may cause you to miss school or work.
This can put a strain on the
economy and society as well as affecting individuals , which
all undermines sustainability and quality of life.
Having a balanced diet mainly of
unprocessed starchy and high fibre foods and fruit and
vegetables, some meats, milk and milk products and a small amount
of food and drinks containing fat and sugar will help maintain a
healthy weight and may prevent some cardiac disease and forms of
cancer related to diet.
By having a varied diet,
including at least five portions of fruit and vegetables each day,
you will receive a range of micronutrient, such as vitamins,
nutrients and antioxidants. It is also possible to have a
healthy diet containing no animal products at all.
Exercise- carrying out a minimum
of thirty minutes of exercise a day will help use up extra energy
from your food which will otherwise be stored in your body as fat.
Like a balanced diet the addition of exercise can maintain a
healthy weight, help prevent some diseases and strengthen
bones.
Food- to help all aspects of
sustainable development as well as maintain a good diet and
exercise you can also
- Buy local foods which do not require as
much energy for transport,
- Buy organic food which do not cause
pollution related to fertilisers and pesticides and have less
chemicals in the actual food and
- Buy food which has the least packaging to
reduce waste.
A simple alternative to
these three useful options is to grow some food yourself,
using ideally already used water from baths
to irrigate them.
What the Council are Doing
The Health and
Social Policy Unit in the Council coordinate a number of
initiatives.
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