...awareness about the effects of these elements puts us on a path to optimal health and wellness. Top Three Elements Three elements we would increase in society are physical, spiritual and environmental. Although we agreed social wellness was is important we believed that taking care of our environment would impact both our physical and spiritual elements, especially if we committed ourselves to actively cleaning up our neighborhoods and communities. As we should be exercising at five days a week for at least twenty minutes a day and eating well balanced meals, learning more about taking care of our environment would produce the knowledge of creating a healthier environment to live in. Like taking on the physical aspect of walking through our neighborhoods picking up trash or going door to door letting our neighbors know of the benefits of conserving energy, recycling, etc. Helping to keep our environment healthy greatly reduces risk factors for dangerous and potentially deadly diseases. We would also be increase our spiritual element by becoming in tune with the earth, feeling like we are part of a bigger picture and that we are doing are part to claim a piece of it and the satisfaction of knowing that we are helping...
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............. 3 Understanding the immune system .............................................................................. 5 General recommendations for boosting your imune system .................................... 7 Simple ways of staying healthy ................................................................................... 21 Tricks for feeling good .................................................................................................. 25 The 5 easy steps plan to eliminate fatigue .................................................................. 29 Healthy life with healthy recipices .............................................................................. 36 Rewind and recap...........................................................................................................44 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................... 48 2 copy@eraseherpes.com 2014 Introduction You probably hear every day in the media, see in papers, at work that the secret of a happy life is that of being healthy. But most of us might get scared when hearing about living a healthy life, thinking that this means making huge changes in our lifestyle, regarding our eating habits, spending a lot of money on healthy food or exercising several hours a day. Well, that is not quite true. You don’t have to thrive yourself in order to be happy and healthy. You just have to be informed regarding...
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...A Healthy Life Brooke Williams Sci163 Kristina Worthington May 27, 2014 A Healthy Life Health and wellness is an important part of everyday life and it includes fitness and nutrition, preventing chronic disease, environmental awareness, and protecting your immune system. There are many ways that each of the topics can affect your life and the way you live it. The knowledge of these can give way to a more healthy life. Wellness is much more than merely physical health, exercise or nutrition. It is the full integration of states of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. The model used by our campus includes social, emotional, spiritual, environmental, occupational, intellectual and physical wellness. Each of the seven dimensions act and interact in a way that contributes to our own quality of life. There are many ways to implement them all into our everyday society but the three in particular that I would give more focus and put emphasis on would be environmental, emotional, and intellectual. Emotional wellness implies the ability to be aware of and accept our feelings rather than deny them, have an optimistic approach to life, express feelings freely and manage feelings effectively, express emotions appropriately, adjust to change, cope with stress in a healthy way, and enjoy life despite its occasional disappointments and frustrations. Emotional includes the “capacity to manage one’s feelings and related behaviors including the realistic assessment of one’s limitations...
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...diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Preventing awful effects in our environment and protecting the immune system is part of action plans researchers have discovered to play an important role in improved physical health and wellness. Physical Health It is important to get enough rest and sleep our body needs to rest to be able to function properly. Exercise is essential because it gives us strength, endurance, and a healthy body. That is why we should maintain a healthy weight so our body can fight other risk factors. Physical Health helps control weight and reduces the risk of Cardio-Vascular Disease (CVD) CVD disease (Donatelle, 2011). With exercise we can also reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and some cancers. But most of all it increase our chances of living longer and having better emotional health. Emotional Health People who are emotionally healthy are able to handle life's challenges, build strong relationships, and recover from setbacks from life. It requires effort stability to build and maintain emotional health. When you improve your emotional health you are rewarding yourself with enjoyment of life. With good emotional health comes a sense of contentment, a purpose for living, and a reason to laugh and have fun. You learn how to deal with stress better and the ability to learn new things, adapting to change. Also you gain self-confidence and an increased vision of your social health. Social...
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...diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Preventing awful effects in our environment and protecting the immune system is part of action plans researchers have discovered to play an important role in improved physical health and wellness. Physical Health It is important to get enough rest and sleep our body needs to rest to be able to function properly. Exercise is essential because it gives us strength, endurance, and a healthy body. That is why we should maintain a healthy weight so our body can fight other risk factors. Physical Health helps control weight and reduces the risk of Cardio-Vascular Disease (CVD) CVD disease (Donatelle, 2011). With exercise we can also reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and some cancers. But most of all it increase our chances of living longer and having better emotional health. Emotional Health People who are emotionally healthy are able to handle life's challenges, build strong relationships, and recover from setbacks from life. It requires effort stability to build and maintain emotional health. When you improve your emotional health you are rewarding yourself with enjoyment of life. With good emotional health comes a sense of contentment, a purpose for living, and a reason to laugh and have fun. You learn how to deal with stress better and the ability to learn new things, adapting to change. Also you gain self-confidence and an increased vision of your social health. Social...
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...this means is that individuals who have fibromyalgia, for example, might not be able to move freely. Another characteristic is that it affects many parts of a person’s life. For example, when you have cancer, self esteem will be affected. When self esteem is affected, other parts of your life are going to be affected. Another characteristic is that it brings uncertainty. What is the future going to hold? Will I have to deal with this forever? These are some questions that a person with a chronic illness will ask themselves everyday. The relationship between a healthy nutritional program and cardiovascular disease is simple. When it comes to eating a diet high in fats, sugars, and cholesterol, there is a higher risk for cardiovascular disease. When an individual can understand how to control the factors such as high fat foods, stress, blood pressure, etc, they will be able to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. A great way to start to control those factors would be to exercise. If you can get your heart rate up to a safe level, you will begin to burn calories. Burning calories will allow the body to start reducing fat. However, along with exercise, a proper diet needs to be in place. By eating low cholesterol foods, fresh fruits, and...
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...Action Plan Over the last few weeks our team has come up with ideas that would help improve overall health. We have looked into the areas of health and wellness, nutrition and fitness, prevention of the most prevalent chronic diseases, how the environment affects our health, and protecting and enhancing our immune systems. These simple steps can lead to optimal health and wellness. We as a team recognize the six dimensions of health in our lives, and feel society is stronger in some areas than others. Areas we would like to see improvements in our social, physical, and environmental health. We can see that it is hard for people to interact with one another in many ways. People do not seem to be able to communicate face to face or feel comfortable with anyone that is not just like themselves. We would like to see people from across the cultures and races learn how to connect in the real world, and see that when we make things better for one, we are really making it better for all. We can do our part by reaching out to others and setting an example of how to treat others and making everyone feel needed and appreciated. Our society is known as an obese nation, and this is causing many avoidable diseases. We need to educate our society on how to make healthy food choices, and how to become physically active. Society cannot achieve optimal health if the environment around us is not healthy. Protecting the planet from pollutants in our water, air or soil will help insure...
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...have studied the components for living a healthy life. Within the components we learned were six dimensions of health, which include: physical, social, emotional, environmental, intellectual, and spiritual. Utilizing technology, the six dimensions of health were presented weekly via “Game Scape” episodes. This was an informative, engaging, and hands on program that emphasized each of the six dimensions of health through weekly challenges like a common game show of today. After viewing all five episodes in Games cape, the three elements of health and wellness we would want to increase in society are: rewards of physical fitness, nutrition and health management; preventing and treating chronic diseases; and infectious diseases and environmental effects on health. Nutrition and fitness play an intricate part in our overall health management. It is wise to develop and incorporate some type of physical activity in our daily routine for at least 30 minutes. Physical activity can include a light jog, walk, or a gym regiment that fits the needs of the goals a person has set. However, prior to beginning a workout routine you must look into the physical demands and not start to extreme if you had never worked out before. Begin at a slow to moderate pace and work yourself up to more intense levels as the weeks go by and remember to warm up and cool down. Along with physical activity a person should eat foods that are healthier. Eating healthy is a way of life for some people. Some people...
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...University OF Guyana EHE 3104 Elements of Human Nutrition Names: Twana Mccalmont & June Ann Williams Lecturer’s Name :Audrey Duncan Date :November ,24th 2015 History Of HIV HIV was identified in 1983, scientist have tried to understand where it came from when it had arisen, and why it had spread. Were they too late? To answer most of their questions, they would have had to witness the virus's evolution. Scientists can track new pathogens such as SARS and avian flu because they produce obvious symptoms almost immediately. But HIV is a stealth virus that takes as many as 10 years to present symptoms; by the time researchers knew enough to wonder about its origins, those origins were in the distant past. For the last 23 years, scientists have been trying to peer into that past. Jon Cohen, a correspondent for science who has written extensively about the virus, compares the work to fossil hunting, using a few precious shreds of evidence to construct a possible history. "Everybody's always looking for certainty. It doesn't exist [in this field]," he says. "In a sense it's all theory." Nonetheless, the theory rests on facts, and at least a few of them are undisputed -- including, most significantly, HIV's family tree. There are two species of the virus, HIV-1 and HIV-2. The first evolved from a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) found in chimpanzees, while the second came from an SIV in a type of monkey called the sooty mangabey. HIV-1, which is responsible for the...
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...question of whether dieting or exercising is more likely to lose weight is vital. The purpose of my essay is to compare and contrast the expenses, health benefits, and weight loss between these two methods. Exercising to lose weight can be expensive, if you don’t do your research. Most exercise plans cause for gym equipment, memberships, video tapes, and clothing. These expenses can be lowered by finding an alternative exercise, which doesn’t cause for purchasing Items. Dancing and step aerobics can be done in your own home, avoiding membership fees. Unlike exercising, dieting doesn’t require equipment to lose weight. Dieting requires nutritious food, that’s low in calories. Dieting can get expensive, if you choose to lose weight by taking pills. Diet pills are required to be taken over a long period. To avoid these expenses, you should choose a healthy eating plan that will stick with you for the rest of your life. Exercising has its benefits. There are many exercises you can do to maintain good health. Some examples are, walking, running, aerobics, and weight training. These exercises prevent obesity; reduce the risk of dying from heart disease. Compared to dieting, if you don’t exercise; this doubles your risk of having heart disease. Exercise prevents high blood pressure and controls blood sugar levels in individuals with diabetes. One big difference in exercising to lose weight, is exercising lowers the...
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...Benefits and Risks of Healthy and Unhealthy Weight Loss In our society today, physical appearance is extremely important to people. Everybody is constantly worried about the latest trends and fashion, but when it comes to physical appearance the most common and the largest concern winds up being a person’s body size and their weight. Unfortunately, there are people who do not always take the right approach towards reaching their “ideal weight”. For some people, losing weight can become a dangerous obsession. Developing an eating disorder and being involved in proper diet and exercise will both lead you to the same result; weight loss. However, eating disorders lead to being unhealthy while proper diet and exercise generally lead to a healthy lifestyle. There really is only one long-term benefit that comes with unhealthy weight loss, which is that a person can lose a significant amount of weight. Some individuals may even say that their physical appearance after the weight loss is another benefit. On the other hand, healthy weight loss comes with several different benefits that contribute to a more positive and a healthier lifestyle. By having a healthy diet and being involved in proper physical activity, you will feel better both physically and mentally. Your body will obtain more energy and will also lower your chances of having type two diabetes, high blood pressure, heart problems, and even other health conditions such as sleep apnea which is a common disorder that...
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...that exercising is important to stay healthy. The doctors have been saying that a mixture between unhealthy eating, stress, and most importantly not being active and exercising enough. People go through intense surgeries and thankfully they do recover. Throughout the whole recovery process the doctors kept stressing the importance of exercising and this really opened my eyes. Exercising is a great way to improve your life. Not only does regular exercise aid in weight loss but it also reduces your risk for several chronic diseases, health risks and many other benefits. Many Americans know this however the majority doesn’t take the opportunity to better their lives by exercising. The benefits resulting from exercising are numerous. Finding exercise related activities that you can enjoy and make part of your daily routine is the key to a long and healthy life. Today I am going to discuss three major benefits resulting from exercise that can greatly improve your life. Many serious illnesses are becoming more and more common in today’s society because people are becoming less concerned with the food that they eat and the condition that their body is in. Heart disease and type 2 diabetes are both conditions that can be caused by the lack of concern of the foods we eat and the shape that our bodies get in. Heart disease is the number 2 killer in America. It is a restriction of blood-flow in the heart caused by plaque build-up, which comes from eating unhealthy foods, and usually requires...
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... Healthy Eating!!! What Is Healthy eating? • You need to eat all food group in order to lead a healthy eating. • Healthy eating means eating a variety of foods that give you the nutrients you need to maintain your health, feel good, and have energy. These nutrients include protein, carbohydrates, fat, water, vitamins, and minerals. • What you eat can affect your immune system, your mood, and your energy level. • when being active it can maintain healthy weight, eating well is an excellent way to help your body stay strong and healthy. • maintain and improve your health, lower your risk with disease, have more energy, look and feel better, lastly it can develop stronger muscles and bones. • gives you energy to maintain a healthy, active lifestyle. • Food nourishes the body and gives us energy to get through each day. Benefits Of Healthy Eating • Leading a healthy lifestyle involves exercising and eating the right foods. • Before you eat, you should be aware of the facts regarding foods and also know all their benefits. You should know which food is good for your health. • If we choose a poor combination of foods, we may be missing out on some nutrients. • Our diet provides all of the nutrients and other substances we need to stay healthy. • Benefits of healthy eating are the facts that make us to stay healthy with a good range of body weight. • Healthy eating provides...
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...have similar results and benefits. They improve senses, help with weight loss, and show positive changes to hair and skin, and plenty of other healthy changes. I will talk about the benefits and how they can help lead to an overall healthier lifestyle. A detox will boost you’re energy and rid the body of excess bodily waste. Energy is boosted because the intake of sugar, caffeine, Trans fat, and saturated fat is replaced with fruits, vegetables, and water and that provides a healthier natural boost of energy. Another major advantage that detoxing provides is the purging of the body. The liver, kidneys, and colon are all flushed and removes most if not all of the toxins that were being stored. A common side effect of a backed up colon is bad breath, so cleansing the colon can also result in the loss of bad breath although results may not be the same for everyone. Detoxing can help with weight loss and boosting the strength of the immune system. Detoxing will make you lose a good portion of water weight as long as you are properly staying hydrated and will lower calorie intake and in turn you will lose some weight. But in order for the weight loss to become steady you will have to continue making healthier choices after you’re detox is complete. The immune system if highly improved after a detox because all the organs have been cleansed and flushed of toxins allowing them to consume the vitamins and nutrients needed for a healthy body. Positive hygienic changes also...
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...The Great Potato Debate This plant would make you think that it is healthy for your body. Study show, "In the early 1980's a brand new concept called the glycemic index - developed by Dr. David Jenkins at the University of Toronto had just emerged. It showed us that certain food such as potatoes caused our blood sugar levels to precipitously rise and then dramatically fall" (Cordain). Potatoes are actually really bad for your health. consequently, people start to have higher blood sugar level. "Potatoes maintain one of the highest glycemic index values of any food, they cause our blood sugar levels to rapidly rise which in turn cause our blood insulin concentrations to simultaneously increase" (Cordain). Many asked questions are, what main substance do you get from eating potatoes, Should we be eating a food that contains two known toxins, and finally, consumed food is a major source of dietary lectins. What main substance do you get from eating potatoes? One of the biggest one is glycemic. Glycemic will make your blood sugar levels to rise and then to fall rapidly. Then it will turn your blood into insulin concentrations. The next major one is it...
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