The Importance of Healthy Lifestyle

How important is healthy lifestyle to your health? I t is very much important. Following a healthy lifestyle will lead you away from various health problems.

I am working in a government hospital Most of our patients are people who has no capacity to pay for their hospitalization and buy their needs. It is really a nice experience working in such environment because you will really feel that you have been given a chance of helping the needy.

What makes me sad in my work is the fact that most of the patients I encountered have failed to follow a healthy lifestyle. No, status in life does not matter, it is not necessary to have lots of money to have time for an exercise, to have enough rest and a good night sleep. They have enough space on their backyards to plant  some fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes so they cannot make money a reason why they prefer to eat preserved foods than plant foods. It is as if for them fruits and other healthy foods are just for the rich people.

If you trace what really cause their illness it usually ends up to wrong choice of food, vices like alcoholism and tobacco smoking and unclean surroundings. No, I do not have an authority to tell them directly to change their lifestyle, to choose a healthy lifestyle while I’m on duty. I am a Medical Technologist, working in the laboratory and cannot function as health advocate if I am on duty. We have doctors who will cater and are responsible in educating their respective patients about healthy lifestyle.

Why it should always end up to this? Where are the Health Workers that are assigned on there areas to tell them about living healthy? Do they exist? Did they functioned well? Why is it most of our patient’s health problems (like anemia, parasitism, hypertension (due to love of fatty and salty foods), cholesterolenemia, acquired diabetes, diarrhea and alcohol related health problems, etc.) are preventable by healthy lifestyle? When will people realize the real importance of following a healthy lifestyle?

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