WHAT TO DO TO BE FIT AND HEALTHY

Being healthy is the most important and unchangeable property of a happy life. That’s why people’s best wish is to be fit and healthy. If you’re healthy, you can be happy, and you can’t be happy without health. Doing all the things below will make you fit and healthy;

1- Eating good and healthy foods,
2- Doing sport regularly
3- Not smoking and using alcohol and drugs,
4- Avoiding stress,
5- Seeing your doctor regularly.


EATING GOOD AND HEALTHY FOODS

There are six kinds of foodstuffs; proteins, oils, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and water. All of this foodstuffs are necessary for health but you can’t get them all by eating one kind of foods. So you should eat different kinds of foods to get all the foodstuffs. If you always eat same food you will have some health problems. In the world, each year, forty million people die because of not eating good and healthy food or hunger. Also most of people who don’t eat good and healthy foods have some health problems. So you should eat to be healthy and to live. It’s wrong to eat only to be full up.


DOING SPORT REGULARLY

Doing sport is one of the necessary and important things for being healthy and fit. It’s never late to start doing sport. Doing sport makes people’s life longer although they’re in their fifties. You can develop your muscles, joints and the other parts of your body by doing sport. Doing sport makes you relaxed and it makes your body active. By doing sport you can get fit but you can’t lose weight. Also doing sport makes you self-confident. But you may have some health problems if you start doing a sport in an inappropriate age. The table below shows the appropriate ages to start doing sports.




SPORTS
APPROPRIATE AGES
Swimming
5-6
Football, ski, tennis.
7-8
Volleyball, basketball
10-11
Long jump, triple jump
12-13
Ice hockey, badminton
13-14
Weight lift, wrestling
15-16






NOT SMOKING AND USING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS

Never use cigarette if you want to be fit and healthy. Most of people use cigarette and they have very important health problems. Cigarette contains more than two thousand harmful material and because of them one cigarette makes one’s life 5,5 minutes shorter. If people who are smoking had known the harmfulness’ of cigarette they would never use cigarette. People who use cigarette live more shorter than the others. The table below shows this.




NUMBER OF CIGARETTE THAT ONE PERSON USE IN A DAY
THAT PERSON’S LIFE
0 cigarette
More than 75 years
5-10 cigarettes
72-75 years
10-15 cigarettes
69-72 years
15-20 cigarettes
66-69 years
20-25 cigarettes
63-66 years
25-30 cigarettes
60-63 years
More than 30 cigarettes
Less than 60 years



Not only does cigarette make people’s life shorter also people that are smoking have a lot of important health problems. So you can’t be fit and healthy and you can’t live long if you use cigarette.
Drugs and alcohol are as harmful as cigarette. People who use alcohol and drugs think using them is solution for their problems. When they use them they feel relaxed. But after they use drugs and alcohol they have many health problems. By using them you can’t solve your problems also you will have some health problems. So you mustn’t use them if you want to be fit and healthy.


AVOIDING STRESS

You should avoid stress for being healthy because it makes you ill and unhappy. There are three suggestions to avoid stress;
- Explain your feelings about other people to them. If you don’t do it you will be unhappy.
- Choose some small and easy aims. When you success them you will be happy.
- Make plans for the future.


SEEING YOUR DOCTOR REGULARLY

You must visit your doctor regularly because you can’t solve your health problems unless you know them. Despite feeling healthy you should visit your doctor.