On Healthy Living

Whenever I looked back at my childhood days, I still vividly recall the advice given by my mom and dad which is to practice a “Healthy living attitude”. Healthy living? At young age then, it’s a vague word that needs further explanation. It is a terminology that gave rise to a lot of questions on my innocent mind. Does eating vegetables and right foods will give an assurance that I’ll be able to practice a Healthy living attitude? Or can I acquire it by avoiding vices like cigarettes and alcoholic drinks? Questions that slowly being answered as I reach the age of maturity.

From what I learned from school coupled by experiences I had in life, I can now simply define Healthy living as an individual’s behaviour or attitude of preventing and controlling factors that will have a devastating effect on one’s health. A person on my own point of view, who does not drink or smoke but cannot be immediately considered as a Healthy living individual. This is because avoiding vices is not a sole indicator of Healthy living. It is the same thing that a person who is suffering mild illness such as high blood can’t be considered a healthy living individual.

I define a person who is practicing healthy living attitude whenever he prevent and control factors that will bring negative effect on his health. Preventing is a stage wherein you avoid to acquire negative factors for your health. Controlling on the other hand, is a stage wherein a negative factor (illness) had started to affect your health but you are doing something to reduce, minimize or totally eliminate it from your body.

Hence, we have to practice the act of preventing and controlling to have a healthy living behaviour. Let’s PREVENT illness for our body by following the food pyramid guide combine with right exercise. For those who are unfortunately carrying illness, let’s practice CONTROL by limiting (if avoiding it is impossible) intakes or acquisition of factors what will worsen the illness.

Admittedly I drink a little and smoke a little…but I considered myself as Healthy living individual because I avoid factors that will give me other illnesses. As to my drinking and smoking habit… I controlled it a lot and I am starting to eliminate them as part of my routine.

Let’s practice Healthy living because it is the best gift we can give to ourselves.

Ronel Villanueva wrote this on August 1st, 2008 and filed it under Healthy Living |