Health is probably one of the most valuable and significant things a human been has. However, in our times, with poor ecology, environmental problems, constantly occurring stressing situations and other health hazards, it is extremely hard to maintain good health. And once it is lost, it is very hard or even impossible to gain it back, even with current level of medical technology development. That is why healthy way of life becomes increasingly popular nowadays as a way to stay (or become) as healthy as possible for as long as possible.
So what exactly is health? World Health Organization (WHO) states that “health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”; in many cases the ability to lead a “socially and economically productive life” is also included in the statement. Nevertheless, some people criticize WHO’s definition saying that it is an idealistic goal rather than a realistic proposition. Critics think that health can not be defined as a state at all, but must be considered as a process of continuous adjustment to the changing demands of living and of the changing meanings we give to life.
There are some alternative definitions, too. For example, Wikipedia states that “health is the functional and/or metabolic efficiency of an organism, at any moment in time, at both the cellular and global levels. All individual organisms, from the simplest to the most complex, vary between optimum health and zero health (death).” Medics usually define health as one’s ability to efficiently respond to challenges (stressors) and effectively restore and sustain “homeostasis” (the state of balance).
There are many different ways to conserve and improve your health. Exercise and maintaining fitness are very helpful and popular ones of them. Frequent and regular physical exercise helps to prevent some of the diseases of affluence such as heart disease, cancer, obesity, Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Various physical activities will help you to have healthy weight, build and maintain healthy bones, muscles, and joints, reduce surgical risks, promote physiological well-being, and strengthen your immune system. Different exercise methods and techniques can be easily found on our website.
Nutrition is at least as important for being in good health as physical activity. If you have some weight problems or want to make your body even more superior than it is, you’re going to find lots of useful information and advice on numerous diets and weight loss programs and methods on this website. In fact, diet is not such a simple thing as it can seem at first glance. Diseases such as obesity, scurvy or osteoporosis, as well as psychological and behavioral problems, can be caused by deficiencies, excesses and imbalances in diet. That’s why it is very important to get all the information possible on nutrition and diets before making any decisions; this is easily done with our website’s help.
But even if you lead healthy life, exercise, eat healthy food and don’t abuse any substances (i.e. alcohol and nicotine), there are still many various diseases out there you can be potentially exposed to. Even though current level of medicine and pharmacy development makes it possible either to prevent or to cure most of them, prevention is better than treatment, they say, so you must do all you can to avoid getting sick. Plenty of useful information on how to do it is available on this website. There are also some particular diseases that are threats to either men’s health or women’s health. Read about how to prevent and treat them in these categories of this website.
If you’re interested in alternative medicine, you can find numerous interesting things about it here. In fact, there are about 500 different techniques known around the world. There are much more somewhere out there, undoubtedly. They include practices that incorporate spiritual, metaphysical, or religious underpinnings, non-European medical traditions, or newly developed approaches to healing. Even though thought to be dangerous in some cases, sometimes alternative methods can help in a situation where conventional medical treatment can be useless. Anyhow, alternative medicine is sure interesting thing to learn about.
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