The Key to Good Health Is Lifestyle Rather Than Medicine.
Good health is very crucial and plays a very important part in one’s life span. In today’s world, it is awash in a rising tide of obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease and associated metabolic diseases such as diabetes. As prescription drugs become more common and readily available, people around the world are using more and more medications on a regular basis. When trying to prevent or manage various medical conditions, medications can be useful. However, medications are not designed to replace healthy lifestyle choices. Lifestyle is defined as the basic personal behaviors that influence health, for example, diet and exercise, sleeping habits and substance use (including smoking, alcohol), and our stress-management styles among others. In order to maintain a healthy lifestyle, one must exercise regularly, have a balanced diet, and abstain from alcohol and smoking and not rely totally on medication. Thus, I agree that the key to good health is lifestyle rather than medicine.
A healthy lifestyle such as exercising and having a balanced diet can help to improve one’s health greatly. Two generations ago, most people were struggling to get enough food to survive. Their lifestyle includes long hours of toiling in their farms or in physically demanding conditions as miners, loggers, burning thousands of calories every day. However, the industrialization of farming has made food plentiful and physical labour less of a daily necessity. Now, we eat more and move less, accumulating metabolically active fat cells which in turn results in obesity. Studies have shown that these excess fats increase the risk of heart disease, strokes, erectile dysfunction and some cancers. In other words, the poorer our lifestyle habits, the more fat cells we store and the greater our risk of disease, disability and untimely death. 'Diet and exercise' is the foundation of all diabetes management because it lowers blood sugar levels and prevents obesity. Therefore, exercising and having
A healthy lifestyle such as exercising and having a balanced diet can help to improve one’s health greatly. Two generations ago, most people were struggling to get enough food to survive. Their lifestyle includes long hours of toiling in their farms or in physically demanding conditions as miners, loggers, burning thousands of calories every day. However, the industrialization of farming has made food plentiful and physical labour less of a daily necessity. Now, we eat more and move less, accumulating metabolically active fat cells which in turn results in obesity. Studies have shown that these excess fats increase the risk of heart disease, strokes, erectile dysfunction and some cancers. In other words, the poorer our lifestyle habits, the more fat cells we store and the greater our risk of disease, disability and untimely death. 'Diet and exercise' is the foundation of all diabetes management because it lowers blood sugar levels and prevents obesity. Therefore, exercising and having