Living healthy every day is something we all desire, but not everyone knows what actions to take to help themselves live healthier. It is never too late to start a positive and healthy lifestyle, so to stay healthy, you need to implement the following as soon as possible.
1. Eat healthily
Following a healthy diet is a part of helping you live healthily every day. A nutritious meal can not only help control weight but also improve your health and quality of life.
To change to a healthier diet, you can follow these eating habits:
- Cut down on sugary foods and drinks: It is easy to consume excessive sugar and calories from foods and beverages. Cakes, candies, ice cream, soft drinks, sweetened tea, fruit juices, and coffee drinks with added sugar are items you should limit. Consuming too much sugar can lead to excessive energy, and the stored energy will convert into unhealthy lipids.
- Eat low-fat or fat-free dairy products: Switching to skim milk or non-fat yogurt is another simple way to reduce calories intake without making significant changes to your diet.
- Consuming more fruits: Add fruits to cereals, salads, dinner, or make them into desserts. Fruits are also a wonderful snack after work or school.
- Add vegetables to your diet: Supplement vegetables in any dishes as possible, such as when eating sandwiches or pizza.
- Replace chips or non-nutritious snacks with nuts. Not only are they tasty, but they also provide a lot of nutrients and help limit calories intake.
2. Drink clean water
Water is essential for the body, but if it is polluted, it can lead to waterborne diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio.
3. Exercise regularly
Spending 150 minutes per week on physical activity helps reduce stress, strengthen muscles, and increase endurance, allowing your body to function more efficiently in other tasks or physical activities.
You can choose exercises such as walking, yoga, tai chi, cycling, swimming, or playing sports, etc…. Moreover, doing household chores and daily activities is also considered as a form of exercise.’
4. Maintain a suitable weight
An appropriate weight helps prevent diseases caused by being overweight or underweight. Increasing your activity level or managing your nutritious diet can help you achieve and maintain an ideal weight.
If you are currently overweight, try to focus on exercises that improve your health and don't consider too much about your weight.
5. No smoking
Smoking increases the risk of diseases such as pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and stroke. Tobacco not only kills those who smoke directly but also affects non-smokers who are exposed to passive smoke.
If you are currently a smoker, it is not too late to quit. Quitting smoking will provide you with many long-term benefits.
6. Regular health check - ups
Regularly check your blood pressure, because hypertension is often referred to as the “silent killer.” If left uncontrolled, hypertension can lead to cardiac, cerebral, renal and other diseases. Therefore, regular blood pressure checks by healthcare professionals are essential. If your blood pressure is high, it is important to consult a doctor, as this is crucial for preventing and managing the disease or its complications.
Additionally, laboratory tests are necessary to monitor and detect health issues. It is advisable to test for chronic diseases caused by viruses, such as hepatitis B and C, etc… Testing for blood lipids and blood glucose levels is also very important.
7. Full vaccination
Vaccination is one of the most effective ways to prevent disease. Vaccines work with your body's natural immunity to protect against diseases caused by microorganisms such as cholera, diphtheria, hepatitis B, influenza, measles, mumps, pneumonia, polio, rabies, rubella, tetanus, typhoid, and yellow fever…
Both children and adults need to receive all necessary vaccines to actively prevent diseases and reduce the risk of severe illness. By limiting the opportunities of getting sick, you will find that you are living healthily every day.
8. Implement safe sexual behavior
Taking care of your sexual health is crucial for your general health. Practice safe sex to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections such as HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhea and syphilis.
Safe sex contributes to a healthier lifestyle. Engaging in monogamous sexual relationships or using condoms during sexual intercourse are methods to protect yourself.
9. Prevent mosquitoes bites
Mosquitoes are one of the vectors that transmit diseases such as dengue fever, chikungunya, malaria, and lymphatic filariasis.
Therefore, preventing mosquito bites helps you avoid dangerous diseases. Measures that can be taken include using mosquito repellent, always sleeping under a mosquito net, wearing long clothing, using screens on windows and doors, and regularly cleaning the surrounding environment to eliminate mosquito breeding places.
10. Obey traffic laws
Traffic accidents have claimed the lives of more than one million people worldwide, and millions of others have been injured.
Road traffic injuries can be prevented through various objective and subjective measures. You can also avoid collisions on the road by ensuring to obey traffic laws, such as wearing seat belts for adults and children, wearing helmets when riding motorcycles or bicycles, not drinking alcohol while driving, and not using mobile phones while controlling a vehicle.
11. Children should be breastfed from 0 to 2 years old
Breastfeeding is the best way to provide ideal nutrition for infants and young children. It is crucial to breastfeed for the first six months for healthy growth.
It is recommended to continue breastfeeding for up to two years and beyond if possible. In addition to benefiting infants and young children in their healthy development, breastfeeding also brings advantages for mothers as it reduces the risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, type II diabetes, and postnatal depression.
12. Use prescription medication as instructed
Prescription medications must be taken under the guidance of specialists. In particular, one type of medication that is often abused today is antibiotics. The indiscriminate use of antibiotics is one of the greatest public health threats of our generation.
When antibiotics become ineffective, bacterial infections become more difficult to treat, leading to higher medical costs, longer hospital stays, and increased mortality rates. You should only take antibiotics if prescribed by experts, and once prescribed, you should complete the treatment course as directed. Never share antibiotics with others.
13. Attend to the quality of your sleep
One of the important methods to live healthily every day is to have a good sleep each night.
People who get enough rest not only cope better with stress but also have better control over their cravings. Researches have shown that lack of sleep can lead to overcontrolled eating, which negatively impacts health, causing overweight and obesity, and increasing the risk of chronic diseases.
14. Enhance daily laughter
Laughing more helps you to be healthier and have more positive energy. Reading comics, watching comedies, or telling jokes can increase your laughter and bring about feelings of happiness.
15. Always maintain a positive attitude in life
Maintaining a positive state of mind is another way to preserve energy. If you think positively, you will also find it easier to feel satisfied and happy with your life.
A healthy lifestyle helps you become healthier each day. You can start with small actions that you can take, and gradually get used to a healthier lifestyle day by day.
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