There are many things we can do to implement a healthy lifestyle, including:
1. Maintain a good diet
In maintaining a good diet, it starts with not skipping breakfast. Breakfast is the most important mealtime, as it provides you with energy for activities throughout the day. A healthy breakfast can also protect you from the risk of various diseases, including type 2 diabetes.
Increase consumption of natural and fresh foods, and reduce processed and fast foods.
Do not overeat. Eat healthy foods with a balanced portion. Eat in moderation and stop when you feel full. Overeating can disrupt digestion. Overeating can also increase the risk of several health disorders.
Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables are a source of fiber, vitamins, and minerals that will meet your daily needs. Fruits and vegetables are also rich in phytochemicals and antioxidants that help reduce the risk of various diseases. The content of fruits and vegetables is very good for digestion and body metabolism.
Eat regularly and on time. The body's metabolism rate can change at certain times. In the evening, for example, metabolism slows down as the body begins to rest. Therefore, it is recommended that you eat before late at night. Eating regularly can also help the body control cholesterol and reduce the risk of obesity.
2. Exercise for at least 30 minutes every day
To keep your body healthy, you need to exercise regularly for 30 minutes every day. With regular exercise, you will begin to feel positive changes in your body. Exercise is beneficial in losing weight, maintaining heart health, reducing stress, preventing diabetes, and sharpening memory.
3. Drink enough water (at least 2 liters / day)
In addition to maintaining fluid balance in the body, the benefits of drinking water also play a role in helping the body's metabolism, facilitating the digestive process, nutrient absorption, blood circulation, and maintaining body temperature.
4. Regular health check-ups
Regular health check-ups ensure that a person saves money in the long run. Regular health check-ups reduce the risk of potentially dangerous health conditions. Regular health check-ups help doctors diagnose diseases before they become more serious.
5. Recognize Disease Risk Factors
To prevent the risk of disease from becoming more severe, we need to understand and recognize various disease risk factors by regularly conducting early detection and seeking information about infectious and non-infectious disease risk factors. In addition to efforts to update knowledge related to current health issues, early detection should also be done by measuring weight and height (Body Mass Index), measuring waist circumference.
6. Maintain Ideal Body Weight
Maintaining an ideal body weight is not just about maintaining a beautiful appearance, but also about maintaining overall health. By keeping your weight normal, you can avoid various diseases. If you are overweight, you need to diet healthily. The first thing to do in a healthy diet is to calculate calorie needs, control portion sizes, create a regular eating schedule, eat slowly, eat until you don't feel hungry.
7. Avoid the use of harmful and addictive substances such as smoking, alcohol, and various types of narcotics.
8. Get enough rest
Rest and sleep play an important role in maintaining our body's health. Because adequate sleep is a basic need for the well-being and health of the body. With adequate rest and sleep, the body becomes healthier, improves mood, controls weight, improves memory and thinking, relieves fatigue, and increases the body's immune system.
9. Maintain cleanliness
Maintaining personal hygiene is very important, especially to keep ourselves healthy and clean, and reduce the risk to ourselves and our loved ones of getting sick. Especially in the Covid-19 pandemic era, which requires cleanliness and sanitation of ourselves and our environment. To prevent the spread of diseases, we need to maintain cleanliness by regularly washing hands with soap before and after eating, after defecation and urination, when bathing, after sneezing and coughing, after using public facilities, before and after caring for sick people, when returning home from outside, after touching garbage, etc. In addition, it is necessary to maintain the cleanliness of the bed and house, it is also not to open windows in the morning to maintain air circulation and so that sunlight can enter to kill bacteria in the house, regularly dispose of trash in its place, etc.
The benefits of implementing a healthy lifestyle are as a form of the process of human growth and development. Humans need a healthy lifestyle to improve self-quality in order to live longer, healthier, and more independent. If we have a healthy body, we will be able to carry out activities more productively so that we can meet our needs and live longer, healthier, and more independent lives. This is to improve the health and welfare of the Indonesian people. Some examples of benefits we can get when we do and implement a healthy lifestyle in daily life:
Can sleep more soundly
Can work and study better
Feel peaceful and calm
Can think positively
Have a vibrant life and good social interaction
Avoid various diseases
Can live happier and look younger
