Preventive Health: Way of Healthy Life!

By
Dr Anil Bhadoria
President IMA, Indore Br

Prevention is better than cure or

An apple a day keeps the doctor away or

After lunch, sleep a while and after dinner walk a mile or

Care is an absolute state while prevention is the ideal state or

Healthy cooking is the best preventive medicine or

Food is safest form of medicine or slowest form of poison or

When diet is wrong medicine is of no use and when diet is correct there is no need of medicine or

Let food be thy medicine, shall be thy food.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.

All these quotes indicate methods of keeping a healthy body and leading a healthful life. These quotes have been from the ancient times of Ayurveda to Hippocrates Era who armored mankind with preventive measures to lead a sound state of health until old age. Ayurveda, Charak, Sushrut, Hippocrates, and many philosophers have given an Inside Out profile of keeping oneself healthy by means of body, soul and mind. Same way diet, exercise and discipline are key factors with which society and individuals both can achieve good immunity as well as health.

Prevention incorporates more of physical schedule on daily basis to let you sweat and lose poisonous metabolites out of our body. What we are reduced now to, is not enduring to sweat at all. The human body works and runs like a factory unit requiring food as raw material, produces energetic or skillful endeavors and gets ready to discharge sweat, excreta as waste products.

Output input ratio difference causes one to become obese or thin. The metabolic rate of burning food material also plays an important role. And therefore Life Style diseases have found a foothold in every household, be it hypertension, diabetes, thyroid dysfunction, obesity, Anemia, deficiency of vitamins and lack of flexibility and slowed reflexes. Same way tropical diseases are not taking a nosedive in their incidences. Waterborne and vector Born diseases are prevailing with a good death rate across the nation all through the year. Water and insect bite borne diseases are very much preventive diseases.

It may be surprised to know that preventive health practice just requires a basic profile of disciplined life including not just good food but and a basic set up of exercises like 10000 steps daily. A set schedule of meditation with breathing exercises and little bit of sweat producing daily exercise of 60 minutes will keep on sweating and giving an exposure to sunlight while having an outdoor working or outdoor cycling.

206 bones, 640 muscles and 360 odd joints need stretching to get good enough mobility to keep good reflexes and joints to lubricate and mobilize through the range of motion to prevent any sprain, strain, tear, break or fracture in state of any fall.

The ones who keep walking daily as morning routine are known to keep a healthy profile of sugar in blood and blood pressure. Even constipation is relieved while appetite and night sleep are improved.

Human body is such an entity to perform well only when it’s properly warmed up and given physical challenges be of small or long distance walking, Jogging or Running or Cycling or even Swimming.

Yog exercises which can be practiced indoors, is equally good if done for at least 60 minutes in a religious manner. Yoga positions and Asanas provide good stretching and holding of stretched positions to give due strength in joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

Apart from these Yogic exercises help to keep enough strength in elastic recoil of your two lungs by various breathing exercises. Yog Practice is good for all age practitioners as it can be done even by Octogenarians also. Daily practice of Surya Namaskar or variety of Asanas get proper stretching to get you rid of accumulated pain factors.

Jogging, Running, brisk Walking, Cycling are easy enough to do and require no expensive club membership as you can have it on a free road. What is most important is to understand that out of 24 hours we must spare an hour for maintaining a healthy profile of this creation as human body. Only take home message is to do it on daily basis to have a healthy body where lives your mind, soul and spirit.

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