There is no gainsaying in the fact that health is wealth. Many overlook the significance of living a life free of frequent illnesses. Once someone is sick, every mission and vision are put on hold. The concentration would be on how to take care of the body and get healed. This is a good reason for one not to joke with his or her health. Whatever it is that would enhance your wellbeing should be prioritized.
There are many tips that help to improve one's general well-being. I am not the kind of person that visits hospitals often. There is a habit that jeopardizes one's health overtime. It does the destruction gradually while the victim takes it as having fun or pleasure.
The habits of drinking alcohol, sugary liquids and smoking are very injurious to our health but since the injury done by them is gradual, people overlook their effects as inconsequential.
I was once a victim of these habits. In fact, I am still battling with one now which is to put a stoppage to taking excess sugar.
I started smoking as a teenager and I went on to do it for sixteen years before I was able to defeat what was becoming an addiction. Through those years, I received several warnings from friends and loved ones. Each time they showed me a global data of how tobacco is responsible for a certain percentage of death, I would counter the statistics by pointing to one or two septuagenarian or octogenarians that have been smoking for decades without dying as a result.
I lived in denial.
Each time I picked a pack of cigarettes and I saw the inscription, "smokers are liable to die young," I would just discard the statement as inconsequential whereas it is, in the actual sense of it.
After sixteen years of living in denial while I was being killed slowly, I defeated the urge and quit the habit. I wouldn't have mentioned this experience if I didn't observe a significant change in the quality of my health. Like I said before, I never fell sick due to the effects of smoking. However, when I quitted, the quality of my respiratory system improved.
Prior to that time, I used to be exhausted quickly while doing exercises. I remember getting tired and breathing fast after jogging for just a kilometer. Presently, I can jog for kilometers without getting exhausted.
Some people are still living in such denial today. They think that since no sickness is weighing them down, the hullabaloo about their habits is an exaggeration. Unfortunately, smoking, according to research and available data, causes lung disease, heart disease, stroke, cancer and many more. It's unwise to put oneself at risk of contracting any of these diseases in the name of pleasure.
Taking alcohol excessively can have its own negative effects on the body too. Alcohol can lead to mouth decay, lung dysfunction, muscle atrophy, liver damage and many more. We may not know how expensive these organs are until one is in need of one. Whatever action that poses a risk to these organs should be done away with.
Recently, my friend who is a medical doctor kept encouraging me to stop taking sugar or any sugary liquid like soft drinks and the likes. He opened his fridge for me and the contents were bottled water. No other liquid in the fridge. I was surprised.
According to him, the liquid that the body needs is water. Drinking enough of water performs many functions and it's a preventive measures against many challenges. I have reduced the level of my sugar intake but my ultimate goal is to quit totally.
My conclusion is that the health tip that I have for everyone reading this is to be intentional about the quality of what passes through your mouth into your system. If it is pleasurable to you but injurious to the body system, quit. This cuts across everything including food.
Make sure that your body is gaining from what you are giving to it and not the other way round.