Health and Fitness

How to achieve good health?

Achieving health and maintaining healthy is a never-ending process.

To achieve good health,people should concentrate on following factors.

Physical health

The first and foremost is the physical aspect,it means maintaining the physical body.All the professional sportsmen stres on this factor a lot in order to achieve success in their career.

Well everyone should stress on this factor because its the base of the health,body is the system through which a person interacts with the external world.

As every persona interacts with the outside world differently has different climatic conditions and surroundings,this factor is very varied and depends on each person differently.

Even people with similar working conditions should maintain their body differently as it also includes the genetic factor.Each person is different from one another,and its only you who can study you own body better than a doctor.

You know the strength and the limitaions of your own body and you should try and improve your strength and decrease the limitaions.

Achieveing a good physical obviously includes good physical activities that make your body work.The human body is so made by god that its the the best thing in the world that can adapt to different situations if worked on nicely.

The human body is so made that it adapts changes in itself very easily as compared to other organisms.You wont find any other animal living in -20degrees celsius to +45 degree celsius.You must have also witnessed this with the people around you.The man who was considered an underdog 2-3 years ago is one of the strongest man around you now.

Physical fitness or good health includes cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength,stamina and flexibility.It also includes several other factors like sexual health and correct amount of sleep.

Mental health

As defined in wikipedia "Mental health is a term used to describe either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder."

The World Health Organization defines mental health as "a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community”

It includes the way the people think,handles stress,work around,find new ideas and plans for different things,as well as make good decisions and at the right time. Mental health also include the ability to cope with the problems in day to dat to life and thats how meantal health is linked to the social life of the person.

Mental health is something that no doctor can improve,you need to work for it on your own.The best ways to to have a good mental health to have a strong and healthy social life along with motivation to do what we want to do.People must be able to locate their source of motivation and should to remove their weakness i.e. their weird behaviour towards unexpected things.

Social Factor

As mentioned social factor is very much responsible in maintaing mental health.

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.

Even after being physcially and mentally fit social factor make people behave diffrently and affect their lives a lot more than personal health and mental health do.

Hygiene

It involves all the activities to keep body clean to prevent from infections and diseases.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

What is health?

Now ever wondered what is health? what is fitness? what is being healhty means?

Well if you ask the same question to 10 different people,I am sure u will get atleast 7-8 different answers and you will agree to all of them.

So now what does health includes? Are all the people correct or some of them or none?

If you ask a footballer,he will say health means being fit and active enough to play 90 mins of football and if you ask a basket ball player,he/she will say it means being fit enough to make long jumps and being quick and energetic.And if you ask some yogi of India,he will connect it to some spirituall thing and will add

some yoga excercises to it and will stress on the flexibility,and inner strength of the body.

Well health as mentioned in wikipedia is as follows,

"Health is the general condition of a person in all aspects. It is also a level of functional and/or metabolic efficiency of an organism, often implicitly human."

At the time of the creation of the World Health Organization (WHO), in 1948, health was defined as being "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity"

Now by that what do you think? does that means you should be able to run a lot or play a lot or that you stomach should protude out?

Its the general condition of the body,it includes everything of you body,an average size or fat person may not be regarded as healthy but a thin person maybe healthy.According to me a person being healthy means the body should support what a person wants to do and when he wants to do and to avoid

falling ill.Yes now that doesnt mean that you can run,walk,jump so your healthy,but it means at every point of time and place you body should be able to do every work that is required,work just doesnt include physical.It includes mental work too.Despite staying not ill it also includes managin stress also.

Overall health is achieved through a combination of physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being, which, together is commonly referred to as the Health Triangle.

Well according to me,i prefer to achieve general health more over being specific to certain areas as professionals do.The common man must maintain all the aspects of health.

What is HEALTH?

Health is not perceived the same way by all members of a community including various professional groups

giving rise to confusion about the concept of health.

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely an absence of disease

of infirmity".

Health is multidimensional i.e:

1. Physical Dimension

2. Mental Dimension

3. Social Dimensio

4. Spiritual Dimension

5. Emotional Dimension

6. Vocational Dimensional

7. Others

1. Physical Dimension

The physical dimension of health is probably the easiest to understand. The state of physical health implies

the notion of "perfect functioning" of the body.

The signs of physical health in an individual are: " a good completion, a clean skin, bright eyes, lustrous hair

with a body well clothed with firm flesh, not too fat, a sweet breath, a good appetite, sound sleep,

regular activity of Bowels and Bladder and smooth, easy, coordinated bodily movements

2. Mental Dimension

Mental health is not mere absence of mental illness. Good mental health is the ability to respond to the many

varied experiences of life with flexibility and a sense of purpose.

Pyschologists have mentioned the following charecteristics of a mentally healthy person:

a. Free from internal conflicts i.e he is not at "war" with himself.

b. Able to get along with others.

c. Searches for identity.

d. Has a strong sense of self-esteem.

e. Knows himself i.e knows his problems, goals etc.

f. Has a good self-control-balances rationality and emotionally.

g. Faces problem and tries to solve them.

3. Social Dimension

Socail wellbeing implis harmony and integration within the individual, b/w each individual and other members of society

and between individuals and the world in which they live.

Socail health is rooted in "Positive material enviornment" and "positive human enviornment" which is concerened

with the social network of the individual.

4. Spiritual Dimension

Proponents of holistic health believe that the time has come to give serious consideration to the spiritual dimension

and to the role this plays in health and disease.

Spiritual health in this context, refers to that part of the individual which reaches out and strives for meaning

and pupose in life. It include integrity, principles and ethics, the purpose in life, commitment to some higher being

and belief in concepts that are not subject to "state of the art" explanation.

5. Emotional dimension

Historically the mental and emotional dimensions have been seen as one element or as two closely related elements.

Mental health health can be seen as "knowing" or "cognition" while emotional health relates to "feeling".

Experts in Pyschobiology have been relatively successful in isolating these two seperate dimensions.

6. Vocational Dimension

The vocational aspect of life is new dimension. It is part of human existence. Te importance of this dimension is exposed

when individual suddenly lose their jobs or faced with mandatory retirement.

7. Others

A few other dimensions have also been suggested such as :

a. Philosophical Dimension

b. Cultural Dimension

c. Socio-economic Dimension

d. Enviornmental Dimension

e. Educational Dimension

f. Nutritional Dimension

g. Curative Dimension

h. Preventive Dimension