In order to understand this problem, we must first understand what are the main factors affecting health?
As can be seen from the picture, lifestyle is the most important factor affecting health, accounting for 60%. This lifestyle mainly includes: unreasonable eating habits, insufficient or excessive exercise, lack of sleep, psychological factors, such as anxiety and depression, smoking and drinking, which are the five cornerstones that we often say affect health.
So how do they affect our health?
First, diet. The most important thing is to ensure a balanced intake of nutrition, which is a balanced diet.
The human body needs seven kinds of nutrients, and all the nutrients it needs should be continuously supplied and supplemented through the food it eats every day. By establishing a balanced relationship between human physiological needs and dietary nutrient supply, a balanced diet is formed.
In other words, the intake of various nutrients should be relatively balanced, and only in this way can it be beneficial to the absorption and utilization of nutrients. If this balance relationship is unbalanced, that is, the diet does not meet the physiological needs of the human body, it will have a negative impact on human health and even lead to some nutritional diseases or chronic diseases.
Second, sports. Exercise requires energy, which is mainly provided by carbohydrates.
When the amount of exercise is insufficient, the energy consumption is less. If the energy intake is greater than the consumption, it will cause excess energy, which will be converted into fat and stored in various organs of the human body. Over time, it will cause a series of health problems such as obesity and dyslipidemia.
When you exercise excessively, you will consume too much energy. If the energy intake is not enough, it will cause a negative energy balance and the human body will lose weight. For obese people, the key to losing weight is to create a negative energy balance. For thinner people, if there is a negative energy balance, they will be thinner. If the energy is insufficient, they can't meet the normal life activities of the body, which is also bad for health.
Third, the psychological aspect. The brain consumes protein, vitamins and minerals, as well as cholesterol, phospholipids, DHA and EPA in lipids.
The more brains you use, the greater the demand for these nutrients. As some people say, if you don't eat meat, you always feel confused and confused. This is because the brain consumes these nutrients and the diet can't keep up, which leads to the lack of energy needed by the brain and the normal development of life activities.
Fourth, stay up late. Staying up late will consume more nutrients, such as vitamin A, vitamin B, phospholipids and protein.
Vitamins are life-sustaining elements, and many important life activities in the human body need their participation. It cannot be synthesized in the body and can only be obtained from food. And our eating habits and cooking methods often lead to vitamin deficiency.
If you often stay up late, these nutrients will be consumed more. In the long run, cells will lack these nutrients, and their body functions will not function normally, and problems will arise.
Fifth, smoking and drinking.
Smokers need more antioxidants to fight the harm of nicotine and other toxins to human body. Such as vitamin a, vitamin e, vitamin c, etc.
Drinking alcohol can damage the liver, so more nutrients are needed to repair liver cells, such as vitamin B and protein.
The above is the influence of lifestyle on our health. As can be seen from the pie chart above, besides congenital factors, lifestyle is the most important factor that determines our health and the only factor that we can control. The health problems caused by unhealthy lifestyles can only be fundamentally solved through lifestyle changes.
Therefore, health management is to maintain and improve health by developing good living habits, that is, to do the five cornerstones of health: reasonable diet (balanced diet), proper exercise, adequate sleep, psychological balance, and quitting smoking and limiting alcohol.
If you are in a healthy state, do a good job in health management and form good living habits, you can continue to stay healthy.
If you are in a sub-health state, review your bad habits that affect your health, correct them, make them return to a healthy track, do a good job in the five cornerstones of health, and supplement some nutritional supplements when necessary, so that they will not progress to a disease state, or even return to a healthy state.
If there is something wrong with your body, you should do a good job in health management, change bad habits, supplement balanced nutrition, exercise moderately, ensure daily sleep, don't stay up late, try to keep a good mood, quit smoking and drinking, and over time, so as to slow down or terminate the pace of disease development and even develop in a good direction.
Health needs management, and everyone needs health management. Health management is about your lifestyle.
Each of us is the first responsible person for our own health. Learn some health knowledge, so that every family has at least one person who really understands health management and becomes the health management goalkeeper of their own family. We do our own health management well, influence and drive our families, and more people really care about health and do health management together.
It is the responsibility to keep yourself healthy.
Helping others to be healthy is a virtue.