According to W.H.O, health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social health and not merely the absence of diseases or infirmities.
The shocking fact is that no one can be completely healthy. There is nothing like optimal health.
This is so because the air we breathe in also contains a certain percentage of germs, which keep accumulating in our body system for an immediate or future breakdown. What about what we eat this days?
Nevertheless, health care can be grouped into two;
Preventative health
Curative health
In an advanced study restorative health can also be included.
WHAT IS PREVENTATIVE HEALTH ?
Preventative in the actual sense means avoidance of something either good or bad, but in most cases, it is the avoidance of bad occurrence.
Preventative health is the act of avoiding bad health.
A healthy man is a living man.
True, we were told earlier that there is nothing like optimal health, that is, 100% health but maximal health is certain 50% to 99% health.
Now, how do we achieve this maximal health? Maximal health means making use of any opportunity gotten to stay healthy. A good example is choosing to stay hydrated, not just staying hydrated but you drinking drinkable(clean) water.
Preventative health is to help see and prevent future illnesses. How can you achieve this;
Do regular checkups in the hospital to detect and treat any pending illness in the body before it worsens. This helps in the early detection of cancer from its benign stage before it becomes malignant. This also helps in the early detection of HIV before it becomes AIDS.
Personal hygiene: Personal hygiene covers taking good and proper care of the eyes, nose, skin, hair, mouth, and teeth, in fact, basically the whole part of the body without neglecting any.
EATING ADEQUATE DIET:- this is quite important because you are what to eat. Evert cell in you was a product of what you consumed. Now how do you eat adequately. Honestly, is it possible for you to eat adequately? These questions and more would be answered as we progress in your health, your priority.
ENSURE A COMPLETE USAGE UF THE DOSAGE GIVEN TO YOU BY YOUR MEDICAL PERSONNEL: yes, most of us are guilty of this. True right? Most times we tend to neglect the pills/drugs /injections once we start feeling better without completing the prescribed dosage. Little do we know, that it has a side effect. Sometimes the skipped dosage causes no obvious problems. But many medications won’t work right if you don’t take them when and the way you are supposed to.
Exercise regularly. Exercise has been underrated and misconceived. Misconceived in the sense that only those that need to burn fat need to exercise. No, it is half true. You can indeed exercise to burn away fat. But exercise is divided into two namely aerobic and anaerobic exercise. Part of the importance of exercise is to keep our body and organs fit. A keynote is that whenever you are exercising always remember to have drinkable water near you. More exercise would be treated as we progress.
Boost your immune system: Our immune system is also known as the “body soldiers” in layman’s language. The importance of a soldier is to what? Yes, you got it right, thumb up. The importance of soldiers is to defend and make sure that intruders don’t gain access to their territory. So this way, God has designed and given us our body soldiers to defend us from intruders. Germs are intruders. We have a role to play in determining how strong or weak our body soldiers would be. It boils down to our eating attitude also.
Scientifically, these body soldiers are called “White blood cells”. This would also be treated as we proceed.
We have seen what preventative health is all about. We move to Curative health. What does Curative health entail.. Next week Sunday by 7pm.. we move.. keep the day and time.
YOUR HEALTH YOUR PRIORITY 