[Lifestayle] Influence of Physical Activity as a healthy lifestyle

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What are healthy lifestyles?
Healthy lifestyles refer to a set of daily behaviors or attitudes that people perform, to maintain their body and mind in an adequate way.

Similarly, lifestyle is the basis of quality of life, a concept that the World Health Organization WHO defines as the perception that an individual has of their place in existence, in the context of culture and culture. value system in which you live and in relation to your goals, your expectations, your standards, your concerns.

Lifestyles are related to the consumption patterns of the individual in their diet, tobacco, as well as the development or not of physical activity, the risks of leisure, especially the consumption of alcohol, drugs and other related activities and the risk occupational. Which in turn are considered as risk or protection factors, depending on the behavior, of communicable and non-communicable diseases (Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases, Cancer, among others).

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What is the relationship between Quality of Life and Healthy Lifestyles?
Quality of life is related to the following aspects:

Satisfaction in daily activities.
Satisfaction of needs.
Achievement of goals in life.
Self-image and attitude towards life.
Participation of personal and socio-environmental factors.
What negative lifestyles affect health and quality of life?
Among the lifestyles that affect health and thus the quality of life of people, are the following:

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It is the key to healthy aging. What's more, older people who are physically active are less likely to develop problems such as obesity, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, diabetes, depression, colon cancer. But in addition to the above, there are many scientific tests that demonstrate the benefits of regular physical activity, among which we can highlight:

Improves mood and helps reduce stress.
Increases the degree of energy and improves the productivity of the person.
Helps to achieve and maintain a proper weight of a person.
It gives greater flexibility and improves the ability to carry out activities of daily living.
It reduces the chance of having heart disease or if you have complications.
In people with Diabetes, glucose is managed more adequately and complements medical treatment.
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Influence of Tobacco on a healthy lifestyle
It is the most preventable cause of death and disease in adults. Smoking contributes substantially to diseases such as Cancer, Cardiovascular, Chronic Respiratory (emphysema and chronic obstructive) among others.

Data from the Americas region show us that 1 in 4 older men smoke. And although some think that if you have smoked your whole life and nothing has happened to you, just quitting smoking brings a benefit to your cardiovascular and respiratory health.

Therefore, it is never too late to quit smoking and start living a healthy life.

 

Influence of Healthy Eating on the lifestyle
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Maintaining an adequate body weight is important for health. Being overweight or obese is associated with an increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease and can also worsen existing conditions such as arthritis. Similarly, being underweight is also a risk factor for death and functional loss.

One of the first suggestions is regarding the frequency and quantity of feeding, several small meals should be consumed per day, five times is ideal, with lunch being the main meal of the day and the afternoon snack and dinner are light.

The foods that should be part of daily life are fruits and vegetables, which only (natural juices or fruit) or combined (salads) should be present in each of the five meals that we eat a day. Likewise, legumes and rice due to the high content of fiber and plant nutrients they contain. And whole grains like corn, whole wheat bread and others like oats, wheat that are a great source of vitamins and fiber.

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Among the foods that are sources of protein, fish is the ideal food due to its large amount of nutrients and very little fat. Likewise, fat-free milk and dairy products (cheese, yogurt) are very good. Others such as eggs, chicken but cooked without skin and finally beef or pork but without fat, provide the necessary nutrients for a good diet.

The foods that are not recommended to eat are those that have a large amount of sugar, such as cakes, ice cream and candies, as well as those that have a lot of fat such as butter, pastries, lard or other foods that have been fried in abundant oil such as potato chips.