Healthy lifestyle

What is a healthy lifestyle?

• Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain (as in "good health" or "healthy").1 The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health in its broader sense in 1946 as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

• A lifestyle is a means of forging a sense of self and to create cultural symbols that resonate with personal identity.

Healthy lifestyle

• A healthy lifestyle is a way of life that includes:

• A healthy diet• Hobbies• Socializing • Exercise • Personal hygiene• sleep

food

• What types of foods do you think create a good diet??

Healthy foods

Unhealthy foods

drinks

exercise

• What forms of exercise are there to keep you active?

sports

Hobbies

• What are your hobbies?

• Are hobbies an effective way to spend your time?

• What hobbies could you add to your lifestyle to improve healthy?

Socializing

• Is socializing important?

• What ways are there to socialize?

• Is socializing healthy?

The human body

Male figure

Female body

Drugs

• Some people take a healthy lifestyle and become obsessed

• There are many performance enhancing drugs available to improve a sportsman's performance!

• Steroids are widely available these days and more and more people are taking them

Personal hygine

Sleep!

• Sleep is essential for a person’s health and wellbeing, according to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF). Yet millions of people do not get enough sleep and many suffer from lack of sleep. For example, surveys conducted by the NSF (1999-2004) reveal that at least 40 million Americans suffer from over 70 different sleep disorders and 60 percent of adults report having sleep problems a few nights a week or more. Most of those with these problems go undiagnosed and untreated. In addition, more than 40 percent of adults experience daytime sleepiness severe enough to interfere with their daily activities at least a few days each month - with 20 percent reporting problem sleepiness a few days a week or more. Furthermore, 69 percent of children experience one or more sleep problems a few nights or more during a week.

How much sleep is necessary?

• Everyone’s individual sleep needs vary. In general, most healthy adults are built for 16 hours of wakefulness and need an average of eight hours of sleep a night. However, some individuals are able to function without sleepiness or drowsiness after as little as six hours of sleep. Others can't perform at their peak unless they've slept ten hours. And, contrary to common myth, the need for sleep doesn't decline with age but the ability to sleep for six to eight hours at one time may be reduced.

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• Any questions?