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Ten Ways You Can Look After Your Health: 1 to 5
Don't take your good health for granted. It is the underpinning of your work, family and leisure activities.
Here are some suggestions about how you can look after your health, to get more out of life.
1: Exercise
We may try to avoid it, but exercise gives us more energy. Even if you are always on your feet or always tired, exercise can strengthen you and give you more energy.
The recommendation is for 30 minutes a day on most days of the week, however you will benefit from any increase in your exercise level.
Walking is best to start off with, or you could hire or buy a treadmill or an exercycle. Get the advice of a personal trainer as well.
2: Lose Weight
If you are overweight, then make it a project to lose weight, and get to as near as your optimum Body Mass Index as you can.
Take advice from a dietician, or a scientific weight loss programme.
Healthy eating gives you more energy, and is easy to fit into your lifestyle.
3: Have a health checkup
Have a regular health check up. Your doctor can take your blood pressure and work out your cardiovascular risk profile. You can have tests for blood sugar and cholesterol.
It's best that you know about any potential health problems early, because then they can be treated at the optimal time, so that they cause you less problems later in life.
4: For women, have mammograms and smears
These screening programmes are there for your benefit, so make the most of them.
For men, have prostate checks
The best screening for prostate cancer is a combination of a blood test and a rectal check.
5: Pay attention to the little things
Go to the dentist, see your optician, get a skin check, have your back checked, have a therapeutic massage, and attend to any other niggling health problems.
This does not mean you are a hypochondriac. Rather, it is a way of maximizing your background health level.
6: Look after your body
Your body has amazing powers of regeneration, but there is a limit to what it can tolerate. Pay attention to any illnesses or injuries, and make the most of your health options.
Keep your body in good shape by massage, yoga or Pilates
7: Relax by doing what you love
What is it that makes your heart sing? Make sure you do that regularly.
Maybe in the future they can become part of your working life, if that is what you want. Or maybe you want these activities to be totally separate from work.
8: Spend time with family and friends
Our family and friends are our connection to the real world of love and companionship, as opposed to the world we live in when we are acting out of fear or anxiety.
Close relationships protect us against ill health, early death, poor rehabilitation after illness or accidents, and depression and other mental illness.
9: Review your goals
Yes, it's good to set goals, but set them in all areas of your life, so that you have a balance.
And don't forget the advantages of just being "in the flow".
10: There's nothing wrong with hard work
We all need to work. It challenges, motivates and energises us, and gives us a sense of self worth and achievement. We need to feel physically and mentally tired to enjoy our times of relaxation And our earnings give us freedom in deciding how we want to spend our free time.
As someone once said "Work is the solution, not the problem."