02/07/2021
A healthy lifestyle. Part 2.
Physical activity is the most important condition for a healthy lifestyle and maintaining a normal weight of a person. In the modern world, people tend to move a little. People with a sufficient level of physical fitness are less likely to suffer from chronic diseases. On the contrary, people who lead a sedentary lifestyle are prone to obesity and the acquisition of many chronic diseases. It is useful to walk up the stairs without using the elevator. According to doctors, each step gives a person 4 seconds of life, 70 steps burn 28 calories.
Hardening is a component of a healthy lifestyle. Hardening is an increase in the body's resistance to adverse environmental factors. Hardening should be constant and consistent, it should be practiced daily.
Of all the types of hardening, the simplest is hardening with air baths. They take air baths naked to the waist, combining them with gymnastics, running or other physical exercises.
The most powerful hardening effect is provided by water procedures – wiping, dousing, showering, baths,rubbing with snow and walrus. Hardening with water begins with wiping and washing part or the whole body, then proceed to pouring first with warm water (32-340C), then with water at room temperature, gradually reducing it to 15-100C. The duration of the procedure is 2 minutes.
The methods of hardening also include walking barefoot, first in the apartment on the floor, then in May-September on the ground, combining it with cold foot baths (water temperature 18-100C).
Personal hygiene is the hygiene of the regime of personal life and everyday life, work and rest of a person, an element of a healthy lifestyle. It includes a rational daily routine, body care, hygiene of clothes and shoes.Compliance with the rules of personal hygiene contributes to the preservation of health and working capacity, and consequently, an active long-term life.
Giving up bad habits (smoking, alcohol, drugs).
When smoking, colds and coughs often lead to complications.A smoker does not inhale all the harmful substances in to***co smoke — about half goes to those who are next to him. In families of smokers, children suffer from respiratory diseases much more often than in families where no one smokes. Constant and prolonged smoking leads to premature aging.
Limit the use of alcohol. Alcoholism has a destructive effect on all human systems and organs. The change in the psyche that occurs during episodic alcohol intake (agitation, depression, etc.) causes the frequency of suicides committed in a state of intoxication.
Stress prevention, positive emotional attitude-learn to relax, imagining some pleasant landscape. 30 minutes a day is enough to increase the body's resistance to various infections. If you learn to relax, you can activate the immune system.
