And making positive health changes such as quitting smoking, going for regular check-up, eating well and keeping fit are some of the best ways you can do to avert pitfalls that can undermine your health.
Binge Eating, Drinking
Indulging a bit here and there may not seem like a big deal, but the effects of over-eating are serious and impact multiple areas of life. Hence, there is current need for you to check what you eat and drink.
Overeating puts more than just your physical health at risk. Overeating produces emotional, psychological and physiological side effects that can dramatically compromise one’s quality of life and hope for the future.
Poor Sleep
The benefits of sleep impact nearly every area of your daily life. Lack of sleep is linked to greater risk for weight gain, depression, cancer and heart disease.
Sleep plays an important role in your physical health. For example, sleep is involved in healing and repair of your heart and blood vessels. Ongoing sleep deficiency is linked to an increased risk of heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and stroke.
Just a simple daytime nap that lasts between 15 and 60 minutes—can improve brain functions ranging from memory to focus and creativity. For some people, naps are as restorative as a whole night of sleep.
Cutting back Regular Medical Check Up
Recent studies in health care shows that more and more people cutting back on health care expenses because of worldwide recession. Experts suggest that everybody should see doctor regularly regardless of age, sex and health. Even if you are enjoying good health, visit your doctor once or twice a year for a thorough check-up and medical advice.
Snacking
Poor eating habits basically results to lower core strength, slower problem solving ability and muscle response time, and less alertness. And can be a behavioural health issue too because nutrition and diet affect how you feel, look, think and act.
Poor nutrition creates many other negative health effects as well, such as: obesity, hypertension, diabetes and gout etc.
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Fudging Regular Medical Check Up Recent studies in health care shows that more and more people cutting back on health care expenses because of worldwide recession. Experts suggest that everyone should see doctor regularly regardless of age, sex and health. Even if you are enjoying good health, visit your doctor once or twice a year for a thorough check-up and medical advice.
Addiction
You need help and psychological balance while trying to overcome an addiction, however, as summarized by the American Psychological Association, helping a family member or colleague to overcome an addiction is the best thing to do them, the process involves the following:
* Admitting that one cannot control one’s alcoholism, addiction or compulsion;
* Recognizing a higher power that can restore sanity;
* Examining past errors with the help of a sponsor (experienced member);
* Making amends for these errors
* Learning to live a new life with a new code of behaviour
* Helping others who suffer from the same alcoholism, addictions or compulsions.
Dodging Exercise
Experts say regular exercise keeps your body and heart in fit shape. You can prevent or reverse certain health issues by incorporating a regular exercise regimen into your day, which will in turn lower your blood pressure. Health professionals’ advice that adults should be getting at least 30 minutes of exercise every day for a healthy lifestyle.
Tips for home exercisers
Tips for home exercise:
* Challenge yourself and avoid boredom: At home, you won’t have the variety of equipment and classes that are available at a gym. So surf the Internet and browse fitness magazines. Pictures are everything. Use them as a guide for form and technique.
* Schedule your workouts: Have a plan, look at a planner and write out your exercise appointments one month in advance.
* Use a journal to track your progress and jot down any breakthroughs you may have.
* Set goals, like training for a race or losing 20 pounds
* Perhaps most important, make exercise as integral to your life as sleeping and eating.
Poor Planning
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power.
To get things done, remove the tasks from your brain, write them down.
Consider your setting and calculate urgency, setting plays a small role when choosing your tasks for the day and a big role in the order you complete them during the day.
Select today’s focus list, the important tasks from your list will jump out at you, but make sure you’re calculating the true importance and self-assigned urgency of your dreams
Execute, do your list one item at a time.
By: Tunde Oguntola
Leadership News
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