Healthy Lifestyle

1. Introduction Health is a state of physical, mental and emotional well-being felt by persons of any age in their personal and social life. The right to health, just as the right to good education, is one of the fundamental rights of any human being. Promotion of healthy lifestyles has been gaining popularity as a tool for developing public health. Studies indicated that healthy lifestyles enhance lifelong health, increase quality of life, and decrease morbidity and mortality ( 2007). Lifestyle choices and individuals’ behaviors have the potential to influence health and improve the quality of life (Lyons & Lungile, 2000). During the transition from childhood to adulthood, adolescents establish patterns of behavior and make lifestyle choices that affect both their current and future health. Active and health-enhancing leisure time by outdoor physical activities can significantly increase the benefits of physical activities and facilitate adoption of a healthy lifestyle in children and adolescents, and can also be combined with the school environment (Formal, 2017).
2. Lifestyle is an essential factor in a person’s health status, obviously along with biological factors and the environment. The World Health Organization defines the concept of “health” as follows: health is “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (2010)
3. Health promoting lifestyles include activities that are focused on improving the level of well-being. The focus of these activities is on the development of positive potential for physical, social, mental, intellectual or spiritual health (2007). Specialists also found a growing interest of youth for sports activities, and also presented the consequences of lack of physical activity with negative effects on human life (obesity, excess in body mass index, deformation of the spine, heart problems etc.)
4. Methods of Research
5. The method of the research used in our experiment was the questionnaire of lifestyle habits with five levels of answer on Likert scale. For the questionnaire of opinions we used the following references Dragnet, A. (2006) and Ionescu, B. (2012). We used the following types of scales in building the questionnaire: nominal scale — used for the quantitative variables, interval scale — used for measuring the level of knowledge and attitudes regarding the items of the questionnaire, and Likert scale with five levels (5 — in very big accordance with the affirmation, 4 — in big accordance with the affirmation, 3 — in relative accordance or in equal measure with the affirmation, 2 — in little accordance with the affirmation, 1 — in very little accordance with the affirmation. The questionnaire for students had 10 items that followed our research theme and had as aim to discover the lifestyle habits of students regarding sport practice.