Healthy Family Lifestyle
This article discusses the influence of the family on a healthy lifestyle.
Diseases: A healthy family lifestyle always begins with a disease free lifestyle. The world is plagued with modern diseases like AIDS, obesity, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases etc. Educate your family about the diseases, and what they must do to prevent them.
Role of parents as role models: Children often look up to their parents as role models. A healthy family lifestyle is a good starting point. Healthy family lifestyle will require attention to the following areas:
1. Foods: Fundamentally important to healthy family lifestyle are foods and diets we ingest daily. Educate your family about good and bad food habits, but what better education there is than providing wholesome and nutritious foods for the family as a starting point.
o Reducing sugar intake and avoid sugary drinks, salt and salt related food products like preserved meats (bacon, ham)
2. Maintaining right body weight: This is the single most important factor in maintaining a healthy family lifestyle. Many dreaded diseases owe their origins to overweight and obesity. Foremost among them are Type 2 diabetes, thyroid problem, cardiovascular disease, hypertension and many types of cancer. 3. Exercise: Impress upon the importance of exercise. Do everything together the healthy family lifestyle way.
3. Exercise: Impress upon the importance of exercise. It is highly recommended for all of us to have half an hour of vigorous exercise or one hour of less vigorous exercise a day. Set a good example by doing it yourself.
4. Smoking: Quit smoking. Healthy family lifestyle requires serious effort and commitment from you chiefly as the head of the family and co-operation from the whole family.
What to Do If You and Your Family Are Quarantined at Home
Quarantined!
In June, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a swine flu global pandemic—a new strain of flu that spread easily and widely between people, and an outbreak occurring in at least two regions of the world.
Mexico was virtually shut down as businesses, schools, and churches closed and people stayed home in droves—a self-imposed quarantine. Governments quarantined travelers from Mexico. When discovered to be less severe than outbreaks of usual flu strains—a “moderate” outbreak in WHO terminology, folks shook their heads and pooh-poohed the global pandemic.
Lesson: don’t totally ignore doomsayers; plan for possible pandemics.
For example, the kinds of foods you store should include large amounts of easy-to-digest foods in case someone contracts the illness. The BRAT diet is one possibility: Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Toast. Water and juice are easiest to have on hand. Disposable plates, cups and tableware may be especially helpful, as are toilet paper, paper towels, and facial tissues. Save the water in other safe containers so you can continually refill the PET bottles.
General medical supplies to have are a thermometer, medical gloves, and surgical-quality face masks.
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