What Are Healthy Life Secrets?

What was the secret of the people of old that made them live long as they did?

Why is the life expectancy of the average person today continually declining?

Is there something those people knew or did right which we do not know or are not doing right?

Is healthy life attainable?

Are the secrets to healthy living?

If there are, can they be learned and put to practice?

This and many more are the questions we will be dealing with in this blog in the next few days and months.

Healthy Life Secrets is a personal health maintenance and management activity of an individual, family or community, with the intention of improving or restoring health, or treating or preventing disease.

Healthy life includes all health decisions people (as individuals or consumers) make for themselves and their families to get and stay physically and mentally fit. Healthy life is exercising to maintain physical fitness and good mental health. It is also eating well, practicing good hygiene and avoiding health hazards such as smoking and drinking to prevent ill health. Healthy life is also taking care of minor ailments, long term conditions, or one’s own health after discharge from secondary and tertiary health care.

Life is an absolutely FREE Gift from God to us but the responsibility of managing and maintaining it and determining its quality rests solely with us. The lifestyles and health decisions and choices we make every day of our lives determine how long we live and the quality of health we have as individuals, families and communities.  This therefore make the subject healthy life very critical to every individual.

The size of government budget that goes into health care every year in almost every country that cares for its citizens should suggest to us the enormity of the needs of mankind in the area of health. Many of the diseases that plague man today that baffle medical science are mostly as a result of poor or bad health habits. Bad foods and eating habits, non-physical activities, alcohol and tobacco, drug and substance abuse, just to mention a few, are all sending many people into their early graves.

Healthy life secrets is a blog dedicated to educating, informing and warning individuals about health tips that are helpful and those that could be detrimental to their health. The human body was originally created to be self healing through natural processes but due to our unguided and insatiable desires, overwhelming and unchecked appetite for all manner of things, the life of man has been deteriorating and life expectancy of the average person is continually on the decline. It is time to wake up to health consciousness and take our health seriously by adopting healthy lifestyles.