To be well is to have a healthy lifestyle, to grasp the difference between health and wellness is to understand that health is a state of being while wellness is the state of living a healthy lifestyle.
Living a healthy lifestyle has proven to be a challenge in our daily lives, some mainly because of their upbringing as the saying “charity begins at home”. If the habit of living a healthy lifestyle isn’t inculcated at a tender age, it gets even more difficult to practice as an adult.
Growing up in an environment or home where little or no attention is paid on health has an extreme damaging effect on a person unless that habit of not caring about ones well-being is unlearned.
Most people with numerous jobs find it difficult to create a work life balance in their daily lives thereby giving a little room for sleep.
A proper and healthy sleep should take 6-8 hours at most, not getting adequate sleep will definitely cause a mental or nervous breakdown.
Deprivation of sleep may cause the body to adapt but along the line that person might need enablers (drugs) to get them to sleep which in turn can be very addictive when kept unchecked.
A person can die faster from lack of sleep than from lack of food.
How a person deals with stress can be beneficial to their health, managing stress increases awareness (alertness) and performance.
Drinking water: there’s surprisingly a great number of people whose water intake on a daily is very poor, in as much as water is very important to the ecosystem, some people drink very little quantity of water. To keep the doctor away it is advisable that a minimum of 5-8 cups of water should be taken daily.
It prevents dehydration and improve one’s mood. Water helps with constipation, its good for the kidneys as it prevents kidney stones.
Wellness is a good habit that should be practiced probably for the longevity of life.
