Healthy Lifestyle 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 ...
Can Refined Sugar Poison You? Daily intake of foodstuff from snacks to our main meals, every food contains sugar. Now, I hope you are thinking How? Because you eat other stuff like fats and proteins also. Let me explain. We cook meat or any other protein product like chicken curry or any vegetable dish. To enhance its taste we add different sausages. And these sausages contain added sugar. So here we go, we are just poisoning our body the whole day. In 2014 in England, a team reported that teenagers from 11–18 years old were consuming 74.2 grams of added sugar daily. Naturally, sugar is present in different fruits and vegetables. That’s good for our health. But the main problem is refined sugar. Unfortunately, we consume a lot of refined sugar daily. And this is leading us toward enormous health issues. If we take some steps to cut down sugar from our diet, it can help us to survive for a longer span. Photo by Karly Gomez on Unsplash Too Much Sugar Consump...