What does a healthy way of life mean? How do you look after your health? (Olympiad Form9)

I believe it’s important to think about your health when you are young because this is the age when your body is being formed, so if you don’t care about your health, you are likely to have different diseases when you get older. So, the earlier you acquire good health habits, the better. For example, you should get used to cleaning your teeth and doing morning exercises from the very early age.

In my opinion, we are healthier today than people were fifty years ago because we are more health-conscious than they used to be. Everybody understands that good health is above wealth. To begin with, we have a better diet. In recent years eating habits have changed. People started to eat healthy food, which contains less fat and more fiber and is rich in vitamins. Salads, beans and fruit have taken the place of steak and ice cream. And people today eat more fruit and vegetables than people did many years ago. Of course, we also eat more fast food, but generally I think our diet is much better. Secondly, doctors have learned how to cure more illnesses, so we live longer.

To be healthy, it is very important to do sports or at least morning exercises as well as to spend a lot of time in the open air. In addition, we ought to avoid different bad habits that can affect our health. In my opinion, smoking and drinking too much alcohol are the worst ones. Smoking, for example, causes a number of heart and lung diseases such as pneumonia and cancer. As for me, I don’t smoke, because I don’t want to have unhealthy skin and teeth. If we want to stay healthy, we should also avoid less dangerous habits such as skipping meals, eating unhealthy food and overeating. If we eat too much, we’ll become obese, and obesity leads to serious diseases. A lot of people like drinking cola and coffee and enjoy pizzas and hamburgers. But what is tasty is not always healthy.

We should also visit the dentist regularly and brush our teeth twice a day.

Personally I believe that regularity in life promotes our health. Sleeping eight or nine hours, getting up early, regular meals, a healthy diet and going in for sports are a really good way to live.