Saturday, January 10, 2009

Health Maintenance

Achieving health living and remaining healthy body is an active process.

Effective strategies for staying healthy and improving one's health include the following elements:

1. Doing Physical exercise

Exercise is the performance of movements in order to develop or maintain physical fitness and overall health. It is often directed toward also honing athletic ability or skill. Frequent and regular physical exercise is an important component to prevention of some of the diseases of affluence such as cancer, heart disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetic, obesity and backpain.
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 sprinting or weight training increase muscle mass and strength.

Physical exercise is considered important for maintaining physical fitness including healthy weight; building and maintaining healthy bones, muscles, and joints; promoting physiological well-being; reducing surgical risks; and strengthening the immune system.
Proper nutrition is just as, if not more, important to health as exercise. When exercising it becomes even more important to have good diet to ensure the body has the correct ratio of macronutrients whilst providing ample micronutrients; this is to aid the body with the recovery process following strenuous exercise. When the body falls short of proper nutrition, it gets into starvation mode developed through evolution and depends onto fat content for survival. Research suggest that the production of thyroid hormones can be negatively affected by repeated bouts of dieting and calorie restriction. Proper rest and recovery is also as important to health as exercise, otherwise the body exists in a permanently injured state and will not improve or adapt adequately to the exercise.
The above two factors can be compromised by psychological compulsions (eating disorders such as exercise bulimia, anorexia, and other bulimias), misinformation, a lack of organization, or a lack of motivation. These all lead to a decreased state of health. Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness
can occur after any exercise, particularly if the body is in an unconditioned state relative to that exercise and the exercise involves repetitive eccentric contraction.

2. Make Hygiene body & environment

Hygiene is the practice of keeping the body clean to prevent infection and illness, and the avoidance 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 may help prevent infection and illness. By cleaning the body, dead skin cells are washed away with the germs, reducing their chance of entering the body.

Maintain the sleeping room clean and hygiene from the air and the dust-mite can make our sleep well. we can wake up in the morning with energise-body and mind.

3. Take Nutrition

Nutrition is the foods components (vitamins) or dietary supplements that can improve our health and performance. The field of nutrition also studies foods and dietary supplements that , promote health, and cure or prevent disease, such as eating fibrous foods to reduce the risk of colon cancer, or supplementing with vitamin C to strengthen teeth and gums and to improve the immune system.
Personal health depends partially on the social structure of one’s life. The maintenance of strong social relationships is linked to good health conditions, longevity, productivity, and a positive attitude. This is due to the fact that positive social interaction as viewed by the participant increases many chemical levels in the brain which are linked to personality and intelligence traits. Essentially this means that positive reinforcement from a third party make one more socially adept, in control, and relaxed physically and mentally, all of which are proven to affect the nervous system (UHF).


4. Give Massage to our body

Studies claim that massage is give many benefits to our body such as:
i. Improves physical, mental and emotional health by dispersing everyday stresses and bringing about a feeling of relaxation, stability and well-being
ii. The aim of massage is to relax and relieve the body (physically, mentally and emotionally).
iii. Mobilizes stiff joints, improves circulatory, muscular and nervous systems, helps the digestive system to function efficiently; encourages the disposal of waste from the body; and aids the prevention and recovery of minor soft-tissue problems.
iv. good for treating arthritis; back pain; circulation problems; cramps; exhaustion; fluid retention; foot problems; gout; headaches; neck pain; rheumatism; sciatica; sport injuries; stress; tennis elbow; and general pains or tiredness.

Besides, give hand-massage to our beloved (our child, husband or wife) is the best way to show our love.
Massage also can be a love connector for married people.
it's time to make our body health.